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William_Brown
Level 3
12 years ago

Cannot duplicate SLP controlled images (TECH60675)

Not sure if this is a duplicate post...tried earlier but it disappeared.

I need to duplicate to tape images that are under an SLP that failed.  Fits the situation in TECH60675, nothing in the output of nbstlutil, but any attempt to manually duplicate gets the message "it is a lifecycle image that cannot be manually duplicated"

Tech60675 says "the NetBackup administrator has the ability via the Command Line Interface to release the lock on the image by changing the state to "Lifecycle Complete" in the catalog. The Catalog functions can now be used to run the duplications manually to the other storage destinations.", but it does not say how.  I looked at bpimage and bpstlutil, including any hidden options.

This is NetBackup 6.5.6 on Solaris.

 

Anyone know how to change the image state to 'LifeCycle Complete' (state 3)?

7.1.x and Earlier
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  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    A "state 3" means COMPLETE, so SLP is not going to process the image anymore.

    You can do it by:  nbstlutil cancel -backupid <backupID>

    This is like taking the image out of SLP operation then you can proceed with your manaul duplicaton of the image. 

  • William_Brown's avatar
    William_Brown
    Level 3
    12 years ago

    These images are not known to 'nbstlutil', if you try to list them they are not there.  I tried what you suggested, it gives no error but if I use bpimagelist -L it still shows  'STL_Completed:      1' and it still refuses to manually duplicate the images.

    Interestingly bpimagelist -stl_incomplete does not list these images, but I still cannot manually duplicate them.  The only thing that seems to work is to use bpimage -recalculate to set the expiration to someting less than 'infinite', but I have not found a way to make a copy so that I can free up the disk space they take.

    It seems to relate to the different EMM tables used but I need a way to set that 'STL_Completed' field.

  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    Have these images been processed by SLP before?  If it can't be checked by nbstlutil, I doubt it's not a SLP image. If it was, surely some inconsistency exists in the EMM database, might need to log a support call.

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    I agree with Yasuhisa - PLEASE upgrade!

    TECH60675 is a Bug Report for 6.5.x and says that a fix will be included in a 'future release'. It does not say which future release.

    LOTS of SLP fixes and enhancements have been included in 7.1 and 7.5.
    NBU 6.x has reached EOSL in Oct last year.

  • William_Brown's avatar
    William_Brown
    Level 3
    12 years ago

    I would upgrade if I could but unfortunately that is not an option for this system.  Thanks for the advice anyhow. I'll keep looking for that 'command line'.

  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    I suspect there is a mis-match somewhere in the image, image copy and/or image fragment tables in the database.

    TBH, only way to resolve this is via a support call.

    If it fails to duplicate, and you have already run nbstlutil cancel -backupid <backupid> then there are not any commands left.

    Log a call, send in

    nbdb_unload <some dir>   (dir will be auto created)

    nbdb_backup -online <someother dir>  (need to create the dir first)

    nbsu -c -t output

    And ... 

    A very clear description of theissue, including an example of the commands run.

    Martin

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    You may have edited your SLP at some point and so your image relates to an earlier version of the SLP itself

    First do a nbstlutil list -backupid ***

    against one of your backups - see what version it says it relates to ... then try the cancel -backupid with the -version x switch