If I understand your question the answer is yes. 

 

That is to say that NBU builds the list of files to backup at the beginning of the backup.  If you change something after the backup has started it isn’t unusual to see an error.  Since you say the engineer admitted to making the change after the backup started it would explain why you got the 71 error AND why you didn’t backup what he created – the newly created directory wasn’t there at the time it created the list for backup.

 

Have you attempted to run the backup since the original 71 error?  If the above was the issue then it should work this time (assuming he doesn’t again change something in mid-stream).

 

 

Jeff,
        No worries man. I have the same problem from time to time without a drink ;-) I do appreciate your reply! I new it was right because all the other 493 vmx files had backed up without error. I have to admit I'm a newbee to NBU. I'm way more comfortable with Legato. That said, does NBU create a file list it keeps in memory on the client, media or master server of the files it knows it needs to backup before actually executing the backup? I sort of put the engineer up on the stand a bit yesterday and dug into our VMWare Virtual Center logs a little deeper and found he actually deleted the VM within minutes after the policy started. I think this explains why NBU thought the file was suppose to be in the original path. The backups for this ESX client had no errors last night and the vmx file in question got backed up in the new path.

"Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com> 04/02/2008 03:50 PM

To <Norman_Ellis AT discovery DOT com>, <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu> cc   Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding (71) none of the files in the filelist exist

My apologies.
 
It has been pointed out that I missed the first / after QAVOL3 or QAVOL4.  Your selection was correct.
 
Apparently I need new glasses – looked at it multiple times before sending.
 

 

From: Jeff Lightner
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:50 PM
To: 'Norman_Ellis AT discovery DOT com'; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding (71) none of the files in the filelist exist
 
Your pattern shouldn’t have matched the old path or the new path
 
/vmfs/volumes/ on both and explicit in your selection so matches the literal.
QAVOL4/DCTZIQPVIEW02/ (old) and QAVOL3/DCTZIQPVIEW02/ (new) would match your [a-zA-Z]*/
The DCTZIQPVIEW02.vmx at end would be matched by the *
Leaving NOTHING to be matched by the *.vmx at the end.
 
However, since your selection specifies there MUST be a *.vmx at the end the above pattern would NOT match because it is expecting it to be AFTER the item that already has the *.vmx in its name.
 
Your pattern should be:
/vmfs/volumes/[a-zA-Z]*/*.vmx  (that is you need to. lose the middle * and /)
 
I suspect that if this was working before your “old” path isn’t what you listed but had another subdirectory before the file name.
 

 

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Norman_Ellis AT discovery DOT com
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:59 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding (71) none of the files in the filelist exist
 

We use this wild card in our backup selection /vmfs/volumes/[a-zA-Z]*/*/*.vmx to backup just the vmx files from a single ESX host. In troubleshooting why I received this error, I learned that between the backup window for the ESX client, an engineer deleted the original VM (DCTZIQPVIEW02) and then re-provisioned a new VM on a different LUN using the same server name. Anyone have a clue as to why would I get this error? I would've thought by using the wild card that NBU wouldn't care where the file existed from one backup to the next of a specific file.

Old path to the file which the error 71 was generated.
/vmfs/volumes/QAVOL4/DCTZIQPVIEW02/DCTZIQPVIEW02.vmx

New path to the file where the re-provisioned VM was created.
/vmfs/volumes/QAVOL3/DCTZIQPVIEW02/DCTZIQPVIEW02.vmx




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