The NBU 7 VMware guide has a troubleshooting section that discusses how to 
remove locks/failed snapshots also.

Kevin

On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Nic Solomons <Nic.Solomons AT attenda DOT net> 
wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> As others have said, bpfis looks after any snapshot/frozen image processing, 
> and interacts pretty heavily with VCB (you will actually see all the relevant 
> VCB logging in the bpfis legacy log).
> 
> Those bpfis processes will stay in place until either the VCB resources (or 
> VSS/VSP resources for the local machine backup) they are interacting with on 
> the local system are released, independent of the usual Netbackup processes.
> 
> Hmm. Although you mention you are using NBU7 - are you still using VCB, or 
> have you moved across to vStorage based backups?
> 
> For VCB there is a touch file lock that is created in the Netbackup 
> somewhere, but I can't remember precisely where.
> I think its in <install>\NetBackup\online_util\fs_cntl ; but i don't have any 
> outstanding locks on any of my environments, so can't confirm.
> Check for those files, as well as residual image structure in your VCB 
> snapshot volumes; also still running vmounter.exe processes (or is it 
> vmmount? Something like that).
> 
> Cheers,
> Nic
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi,
> I'm running NBU 7 for Windows. I am getting problems first of all with backup 
> jobs completing but the parent job stays active, this is just on a few VM 
> servers using VCB. Secondly, when i look at the processes using bpps there 
> are loads of bpfis processes sitting there. Ending netbackup doesn't clear 
> them so I just wondered if anyone had come across this before?
> Thanks,
> Chris
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