It looks like the cause of this problem was the catalog had grown to be
too big for the DLT IV tape. The strange thing is that it would report
status code 84, instead of reporting that it ran out of tape, or
something similar.
I got around it by making one of my media servers that has superDlt (110
gigs) tape drives attached do the catalog backups. That's, configure
the netbackup DB attributes on the master server, specifying one of the
media servers as the backup server, and changing the file list to
reflect the network path to the master server; i.e, change it to
master:/usr/openv/whatever instead of /usr/openv/whatever. You
literally have to run the bpbackupdb process on the media server, and
I've been doing my catalog manually. I have not tried running the
catalog automatically with this setting.
robert
Len Boyle wrote:
>
> Hello Robert
>
> We just ran into this problem on one of our servers.
> If you are failing with just over 35 gig, you might want to check if you have
> hardware compression set for your tape drive when using netbackup. This could
> keep you under the bar.
>
> If not you will have to look at the veritas two tape (could be more then two)
> backup and restore process as listed in the admin guide. Or backup to disk
> which is the option that we picked.
>
> Good luck len
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Johannes [mailto:robert_johannes AT udlp DOT com]
> Sent: Tue 8/13/2002 12:09 PM
> To: nb
> Cc:
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] lots of status 84 for catalog backups
>
>
>
> I've been running into alot of status code 84 errors when performing
> catalog backups. I'm using Solaris 8, with DLT 7k drives on NB 34_1.
> The size of /usr/openv is at 35.7 gigs. At times I run into this
> error
> even if I use 3 or 4 brandnew tapes in a row. What's the 'real'
> problem
> causing this? Can it be the fact that the catalog is slightly more
> than
> the 35gig natively supported by dlt IV tape? I usually put in two
> tapes
> at a time to be used for catalog backups, and I assume it should be
> able
> to use both if it runs out of space on the first one.
>
> thanks
> robert
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