Paul,

As far as avoiding it in the future...

We had a similar problem here after upgrading to 341_2 and P0836 using a
Windows 2000 master, where backups would not kick off at all and we'd see a
number of bpsched processes running.  We've also encountered a couple of
instances where backups on one media server would be completely hung, but
the other media servers seemed to be running fine.

Veritas just released a new version of patch P0836 on 2/25 called P0836A.
We've applied it and it seems to resolve the problem (although we are
working through some other issues).  At the time we opened a ticket with
Veritas on Monday their support representative was not even aware of it.

Try applying this patch to the master and see if it helps.

-Cris

To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
From: "Paul Sobey" <Paul.Sobey AT aleagroup DOT com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:21:47 +0000
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hung Backups - Help!

Hello everyone,

I just logged onto my backup server to find ten active jobs that appeared to
be hung, and another 100 or so in the queue. There were around 12 bpsched
and bprd processes that had been started at intervals throughout the night.
By killing all the processes and restarting the NB daemons, then issuing a
bpjobs -kill_all, all the previously queued jobs were restarted, and the
'hung' jobs marked as complete (status 0).

Can anyone offer advice on:

a) whether the hung jobs really did complete successfully (the amount of
data backed up seems about right in each case)
b) the cause of the hung jobs and how I might avoid it in the future?

Using NB 3.4, with 341_2 and 341_P0836 installed in that order, on NT4.
Backing up to a HP 2/20 LTO autoloader.

Cheers,
Paul