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Lylex's avatar
Lylex
Level 3
14 years ago

"backup partially successful" with status code 1

Regularly, some of our backups complete with status code 1.  The email message I receive says "Backup on client ... for user root by server ... was partially successful"

Right after this "incomplete" job, another job runs for the same client & policy.  This time it succeeds.

I don't believe there's anything wrong, I'm just trying to understand what's going on. 

Please forgive the newbee question.  And if you want to point me to an area in the DocSet, that's fine.

 

Thanks....Lyle

7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
  • oleg_rebrov's avatar
    oleg_rebrov
    14 years ago
    Does the job actually restart or is it a child job that succeeds with a parent job being incomplete? I have seen that at times when BMR is selected in a policy without BMr being fully configured the parent BMr job partially succeeds and the child job which does the actual file system backup succeeds just fine.
  • pikachu's avatar
    pikachu
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Probably an open file issue.

    Also always include your version of NBU, which you are running.

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    What type of backup for which Client type? MS-Windows or Standard backup? Database backup perhaps? OS on Client? NBU version?

    Please post all info in Details tab of the backup job. Also check 'Problems Report' for this client.

  • Lylex's avatar
    Lylex
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    Yes, of course, I forgot to give more info.  Sorry.

    NetBackup 7.0 Server running on Solaris 10

    Clients include: Solaris 10, Centos 5.x, and Windows 2008.  I'm not sure how to query the NetBackup client versions on each.

    Open files could be the problem.  Would this give the symptom I get, where the backup is listed as "incomplete", but seems to start up again and succeed?

     

    Thanks...Lyle

  • oleg_rebrov's avatar
    oleg_rebrov
    Level 3
    14 years ago
    Does the job actually restart or is it a child job that succeeds with a parent job being incomplete? I have seen that at times when BMR is selected in a policy without BMr being fully configured the parent BMr job partially succeeds and the child job which does the actual file system backup succeeds just fine.
  • Lylex's avatar
    Lylex
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    By golly, that's it!

    A backup job starts, sends me an email saying it's "incomplete", then a child backup job starts and runs to completion.

    It doesn't make a lot of sense, though.  And sure can throw off a SysAdmin off when seeing it for the first time.

    Thanks...Lyle