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Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for Windows?

2011-04-29 14:34:58
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for Windows?
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Jim VandeVegt <Jim.Vandevegt AT physiciansmutual DOT com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:34:53 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,

Thanks, I will give this a try, but I also opened a case w/Symantec as the 
internals have changed, previously, yes, with multiple streams it would 
just backup (virtually nothing) for the excluded drives and exit with 0 
status.

Justin.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Jim VandeVegt wrote:

> You probably have multi-streaming turned on for this policy. The 
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES creates a stream for each drive letter, and usually one for 
> system state or shadow copy components. The streams are created regardless of 
> exclude list contents.
>
> The stream that performs the backup of C: produces no output because the 
> whole thing is excluded.
>
> I have two possible solutions:
> 1) turn off multi-streaming for this policy. I'm not sure what effect this 
> has on the system state backup.
> 2) have the administrators include *something* on the C:\ drive, even if it 
> is an empty directory.
> ------------------
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> Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131
> 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | Jim.VandeVegt AT PhysiciansMutual DOT 
> com
>
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> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [veritas-bu-bounces AT 
> mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz [jpiszcz AT 
> lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 13:02
> To: Chapman, Scott
> Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for 
> Windows?
>
> Hi,
>
> Please disregard, the actual example is:
>
> Exclude Lists:
> C:\
> D:\
>
> Include Lists:\
> D:\Mydata
>
> Where mydata is the only path we want to backup and nothing else on D:\
> (potentially TB of live DB, where, we only want the dumps, for example).
>
> Justin.
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Chapman, Scott wrote:
>
>> That doesn't make any sense to me... why not just use all local drives and 
>> exclude C:\ from that... Having and "exception to the exclude list" of D:\ 
>> doesn't make sense... D:\ isn't part of C:\...
>>
>> I would just use all local drives and exclude C:\...
>>
>> Scott Chapman
>> Senior Technical Specialist
>> Storage and Database Administration
>> ICBC - Victoria
>> Ph:  250.414.7650  Cell:  250.213.9295
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
>> Justin Piszcz
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:52 AM
>> To: Patrick
>> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for 
>> Windows?
>>
>> Hi Patrick,
>>
>> The ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified on the server, and then the team who
>> handles windows can setup the includes and excludes locally on their
>> client, that allows the user to configure the backups as they please and
>> not require any intervention from the server-side of things other than
>> adding the client properly.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Exclude Lists:
>> <<All Policies>>
>>  << All schedules>>
>> C:\
>>
>> Exceptions to the exclude list:
>> <<All schedules>>
>> D:\
>>
>> Therefore, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backs up D:\ and System State and excludes
>> C:\, this is how it has always worked and no errors and the data has been
>> backed up successfully and tested via restore with no issues, the problem
>> is with 7.0.1 and (maybe 7.0?) that it gets an error 90 for C:\ instead of
>> just skipping it and exiting with a status 0, I think there was a tech
>> note on this somewhere.
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Patrick wrote:
>>
>>> Why would you do that?! Are you trying to see how many errors you can cause
>>> by using non-sense combinations? Either
>>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and exclude C: \
>>> or
>>> specify D: only in the file section.
>>> You are including the D:\ drive which should be included when you said
>>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Patrick Whelan
>>> VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX.
>>> VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows.
>>>
>>> netbackup AT whelan-consulting.co DOT uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
>>> Justin
>>> Piszcz
>>> Sent: 29 April 2011 18:22
>>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for
>>> Windows?
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this?
>>>
>>> Windows 2008 clients:
>>>
>>> CLIENT:
>>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
>>>
>>> On the client,
>>> EXCLUDE C:\
>>> INCLUDE D:\
>>>
>>> For the C:\ backup it will get the following error:
>>>
>>> Apr 29, 2011 10:09:22 AM - mounting TAPE01 Apr 29, 2011 10:09:24 AM -
>>> connecting Apr 29, 2011 10:09:24 AM - connected; connect time: 0:00:00 Apr
>>> 29, 2011 10:09:59 AM - mounted TAPE01; mount time: 0:00:37 Apr 29, 2011
>>> 10:09:59 AM - positioning TAPE01 to file 59 Apr 29, 2011 10:10:31 AM -
>>> positioned TAPE01; position time: 0:00:32 Apr 29, 2011 10:10:31 AM - begin
>>> writing Apr 29, 2011 10:11:31 AM - end writing; write time: 0:01:00 media
>>> manager received no data for backup image  (90)
>>>
>>> With < 7.0 this never happened, is this a bug?
>>> The data in D:\ does get backed up however.
>>>
>>> Justin.
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