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rizwan84tx
Level 6
14 years ago

Ghost Jobs - NBU 6.5.6 Windows

Hi Team,

Its been for long time, we are experiancing GHOST JOBs in the activity monitor. The Job state is "unknown" and shows sign of a "failed job". Cancelling the job from GUI never helped, so we do the below steps as workaround. But this never resolved the problem and its reoccurs again.

1. stop NetBackup
2. bpps , kill the remaining processes
3. cd to veritas\netbackup\db\jobs
4. delete the bpjobd.act.db file
5. cd up to the restart folder
6. delete all files
7. cd..\trylogs
8. delete all files
9. cd..\ffilelogs
10. delete all files

Server : Windows 2003 x64 EE | NBU 6.5.6

Can anyone share your fixes for this problem if you had encountered.

 

Regards,

Rizwan

  • Symantec has FINALLY acknowledged this problem as a bug:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146990

    4 possible reasons with workarounds are described in this TN.

  • Symantec has FINALLY acknowledged this problem as a bug:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146990

    4 possible reasons with workarounds are described in this TN.

  • Hi Marianne,

    Thank you, we will try out these bug fixes and update you soon!!!!

  • Hi Marianne,

    It appears to be "Item 1" in the posted link causing the issue in our setup. We haven't applied the binary patch yet for this NetBackup bug number ET2155673; but advised our team to not delete the failed job after resuming.

    Thank you! I appreciate your prompt response for all posts in this forum.