Am i right in assuming you are using multiple data streams?

Only reason i ask if if you are not, as long as one of the directories 
exist on at least one of the servers then you shouldn't get a status 71 
when the file list is done sequentially.

e.g

box1 has /data1
box2 has /data2
box3 has /data3

If the file list is

/data1
/data2
/data3

NBU (afaik) will backup /data1 on box1 and then simple miss out /data2 
and /data3 giving a WRN messages somewhere without updating the end job 
status to be 71. I think its just if none of the files in the file list 
exist you get the 71.

Of course if you are using multiple data streams then each dir will be 
counted as a job and i would totally expect your results.

It may just help others :)

Cheers

Mark Glazerman wrote:
>
> Incase anyone is considering implementing any ZFS in their environment 
> which they want to back up using NetBackup we found out yesterday that 
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES as the backup selection does NOT cover ZFS filesystems. 
>
>  
>
> We have a number of Sun boxes which have various test and development 
> oracle instances which are housed inside ZFS file systems.  We blew 
> away one of these test instances the other day (after doing a full OS 
> backup and the required RMAN backups) but when we went to restore the 
> data from the ZFS filesystems, NBU didn’t have anything under the 
> uppermost directory.  A quick check of other systems with ZFS showed 
> the same issue.We spent the better part of 2 days playing around with 
> the include_list’s and exclude_list’s but nothing worked.
>
>  
>
> In order to backup ZFS file systems you must explicitly add the ZFS 
> directories into the backup selections of the backup policy.  This 
> “fix” was also confirmed by Symantec support who were also happy to 
> tell me that ZFS isn’t officially supported by NBU yet.
>
>  
>
> This on its own should work great if you have a single policy backing 
> up a single server with all it’s ZFS under the same parent directory.  
> However, if like us, you have a backup policy which backs up multiple 
> servers, each with their own uniquely named ZFS file systems, you need 
> to get a bit creative. 
>
>  
>
> The policy in question backs up 15 Sun boxes  with a total of 6 
> differently named ZFS file systems spread amongst them.  If you just 
> list the file systems in the backup selections, NBU looks for each of 
> those different filesystems on each server and spits out an error code 
> 71 (None of the files in the file list exist) for every directory it 
> can’t find.  The only way we could work out to avoid these errors (and 
> there were a lot of them) was to create every missing directory on 
> every server and then touch a tiny file inside each of these 
> directories.  Now when the policy runs, it sees each directory (as 
> listed in the backup selection) on each server and doesn’t moan about 
> anything.  Perhaps not the neatest of fixes but it works.
>
>  
>
> Apologies for the wordy post, just thought I’d put this info out there 
> in case anyone else is moving towards ZFS.
>
>  
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