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Bhaskar_Regmi's avatar
16 years ago

bpbrm error - Cannot execute cmd on client

Backup is failing with status client/server handshaking failed. As the master server and client are in the same subnet, it's not firewall issue. bpbrm log on master server is showing I/O error.   1...
  • dami's avatar
    16 years ago

    Could be lots of things. A very good check is with bpclntcmd, using the -self, -server <master server> options from both client and master server. You will usually find that one of the options in a particular direction does not resolve. Also check hosts file (and if you have DNS temporarily rename the hosts file on the Master server to run a quick test backup)

     


    E:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin>bpclntcmd -?
    bpclntcmd: unrecognized option -?
    bpclntcmd: -sv
    bpclntcmd: -pn
    bpclntcmd: -self
    bpclntcmd: -hn <hostname>
    bpclntcmd: -server <NBU master>
    bpclntcmd: -ip <ipaddress>
    bpclntcmd: -gethostname
    bpclntcmd: -is_local_host <hostname>
    bpclntcmd: -check_vxss
    bpclntcmd: -check_vxss_with_host <hostname>
    bpclntcmd: -get_pbx_port [<hostname>]
    bpclntcmd: -get_remote_host_version <hostname>
    bpclntcmd: -get_local_client_patch_version
    bpclntcmd: -get_local_server_patch_version
    bpclntcmd: -sanclient <0|1>