I have not had your issue.

I do not bounce NB all the time.  And can run months with it up before I do something that requires me to bounce it.

I also do not bounce my AIX much at all.

You say vmquery is still running when you see this issue.

You have anything else that happens once a month? In NB or out of it.

Thoughts of: does image cleanup happened the same time

Do you have any special jobs that run once a month in NB?

How about cron – do you have a mksysb run once a month?  ( I run a mksysb twice a month on weekends but have not issue)

My current AIX is 5.3.8 (was upgraded from 5.3.6 last month)

I am still running NB 6.5.5

 

 

 

 

Judy,

I am curious as to what our differences may be, in regard why I am experiencing this issue and you are not.  It happened again over the weekend, and I was able to determine that it happens every 28 days, provided that I leave NBU up that long (which I normally do).  I was wondering if you stop and start NBU at shorter intervals.

Naturally, I uploaded my obligatory 182MB of logs to support, and turned off logging (yeah!).  I will keep everybody posted as to the results of the case.  

I did notice, on a side note, that a vmquery is still running when this happens.  Murphy's law dictates that it happens very early on Sunday mornings, when my thinking isn't quite as sharp.  If I have to stretch this out for one more iteration, I am going to write a checklist of things to look at before I perform my restart.  

Scott

From:	<judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com>
To:	<scott.george AT parker DOT com>
Date:	06/07/2010 12:33 PM
Subject:	RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 on AIX

 

I agree the 6.5.3.1 was a solid release.
 
Strange issue, and just because it ran through my head – have you verified that the previous run finishes completely before the next one starts?
 
I have not heard of any issue like that – good luck with the upgrade.
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All that I have right now is a symptom.  We have a hourly script that utilizes vmquery to count the amount of scratch tapes, and sent the results to a mailbox.  If I leave the master server up for more than 2 weeks (I haven't determined the exact amount of time), my hourly e-mail shows 0 scratch tapes, and all of the running backups fail for lack of tapes.  If I stop and restart NBU, everything is fine until the next iteration of the unknown period of time.  I didn't have this in 6.5.3.1, which was rock-solid IMHO, by the way.  

From:	<judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com>
To:	<scott.george AT parker DOT com>
Date:	06/07/2010 11:55 AM
Subject:	RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 on AIX

 

 

What is your issue?  As I am planning the upgrade and I am currently on 6.5.5 – I would really like to know what problem you have, that you think 7.0 will fix.  Please share with me.
 
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To: Veritas
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 on AIX
 
It may, but I want to go to 7.0.  I am dealing with a ~2 week recurring problem on 6.5.5, and nobody can tell me if it is addressed in 6.5.6.  I have come to realize that AIX seems to lag behind in support, and wanted to know if there was anybody else running 7.0 on it.  

From:	"Baumann, Kevin" <kbaumann AT akamai DOT com>
To:	<scott.george AT parker DOT com>
Date:	06/07/2010 10:48 AM
Subject:	RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 on AIX

 

 

Does 6.5.6 offer 2008 support?  I think it does but I might be mistaken.

From: scott.george AT parker DOT com [mailto:scott.george AT parker DOT com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:47 AM
To: Veritas
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 on AIX

I was just wondering if there is anybody running 7.0 in production on an AIX master server.  We need it mostly for the 2008 support.  We are currently running 6.5.5.

Thank you,

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