Hi Doug,

I'm not holding my breath for MP5 either. I'm waiting for my bpdbm binary
before I install MP5 and then I don't expect the pempersist issue to be
fixed. I also have some binaries to fix nbpem issues but will eed to make
sure I can use them in MP5 as I've been told they are not included until
MP6!!!

I logged a call saying pempersist was broken in MP4 back in Feb this year
and they still could not fix it in time !

Pempersist lives in the below dir on UNIX:

/usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs

I have not noticed any relation between size and scheduler issues. My pem
files have been broken when they are as small as 125K to 700K in size.
Currently I am running OK with a 700K pem file.

But it's fairly straight forward to see when it's broken. You start to see
clients not being backed up, DSUs not being de-staged and as you mentioned
the 41s.

I wish they would fix it because it's my major gripe with Netbackup right
now, otherwise I am actually happy with it now.

Cheers,

Dom


-----Original Message-----
From: Eagle, Kent [mailto:KEagle AT wilmingtontrust DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2007 10:42 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on Catalog Backup using NBU 6.0MP4?

Doug,

We have also seen these errors occur in the manner you describe. We
traced it to the "Pempersist" issue, which Veritas support confirmed WAS
NOT fixed in MP3 OR MP4 as they originally posted in the MP4 notes. Each
maintenance pack claimed the next was going to fix the issue. Sigh...
See the following Tech Notes for more info:
MP1 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281780.htm
MP2 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/283180.htm
MP3 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285529.htm
MP4 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285941.htm
It is supposedly fixed in MP5, but I've yet to get confirmation on this
from anyone out in the field that had experienced the issue
MP5 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290387.htm


If you are running anything below MP5: and, if you pempersist file,
which is in the following directory in a windows environment, Install
Path\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\, gets above about
260K in size, you'll likely start to see odd behavior/errors from the
scheduler; not all of which readily appear related to the scheduler. A
prime example is the status 41 errors.


Good luck.

Kent Eagle
MTS Infrastructure Engineer II, MCP, MCSE
Tech Services / SMSS



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