Hello,

I have a problem with netbackup 6.5.6 running on hp-ux (pa-risc) 11.11 (running oracle 7.3.4)

I am aware that almost everything I've jsut described is old and unsupported, and please don't suggest upgrading, unfortunately this is not possible.

Background (kind of long-winded, but I want to tell you as much as I can to forestall  unrelated questions):

I have a database that is currently running on an EMC cx3-80 backend. It is being backed up via snapshots which are then mounted on another hp-ux 11.11 system running netbackup 6.5. The database files (snapshot) are then backed up using a standard filesystem-type backup scheduled through the normal netbackup policies, etc. (oh - btw - the netbackup master server is 7.6.1)

This all works reasonably well.

We need to junk the cx3-80 in favor of a NetApp. The NetApp will not do the same snapshotting that the cx does, so generally we have moved most of our databases to RMAN backups, which is working pretty well.

However we can't run rman on the 7.3.4 database, and we can't go past 6.5.6 on hp-ux 11. 

So the plan is to go to hot backup for this one database.

We have all sorts of hot backup scripts that we have run over the years and all work well, except in this case. I've burrowed down to the problem being that the bpbackup command, which is being called directly from the hot backup script, is returning a 

"EXIT STATUS 29: failed trying to exec a command".

We've chased this a bit. I've run "bp' to backup some files and that works fine. I've captured the arguments that bp uses to call bpbackup and tried to use the exact same command and arguments calling bpbackup directly. bp works, bpbackup does not, even though they are running the exact same bpbackup command.

I've tried the bpbackup command on various other systems: aix 7.2, hp-ux 11.31 - all work correctly. It is only on hp-ux 11.11 and 11.0 that I'm seeing the problem.

symantec says error 29 indicates a permission and/or resource problem. Obviously that is not the case if bp calling bpbackup works and calling bpbackup directly does not. There is something else going on.

btw - the command I'm trying is "bpbackup  -S herhxp03 /etc/passwd" - I don't think I can get much more basic that that.

I'm hoping that someone who has been around netbackup for a while might have some thoughts of either things to try or places to look or something!

Help!

Thanks

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