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rocker65
Level 4
14 years ago

listxattr() failed message

Hello all.   NB 7 server (Windows), NB 6.5 Linux client (32 bit). I have one schedule that handles only NFS shares, none NDMP. The schedule always fails with this error message in the client bpbk...
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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    14 years ago

    If the NFS share has huge amount of small files the backup may die because of timeouts. Try to run the backup of the nfs share manual like this:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar  -nocont -nofileinfo -nokeepalives  /qtrees/nfs_storage/ > /dev/null 2> /tmp/file.out 

    This command will read all files but don't send the data to the Netbackup Master/media server.

    Remember to add VERBOSE to bp.conf and create the touch file bpbkar_path_tr on the client in /usr/openv/netbackup. Inspect the log in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbkar/ while the command is running. It should list every files it reads. If the backup stop, re-run to see if it stop on the same path.

    Just watch out for thesapce used by the bpbkar debug log. It will grow very quick.

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rocker65
Level 4
14 years ago

Here's the whole entry

11:55:31.396 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - BACKUP START
11:55:31.396 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - Estimate:-1 -1
11:55:31.399 [15141] <2> bpbkar add_to_filelist: starting sizeof(filelistrec) <68>
11:55:31.399 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - Processing /qtrees/nfs_storage
11:55:31.439 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - listxattr() failed on '/qtrees/nfs_storage/'. Errno = 95: Operation not supported
12:17:24.475 [15141] <16> bpbkar: ERR - Cannot write to STDOUT. Errno = 104: Connection reset by peer
12:17:24.690 [15141] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 24: socket write failed
12:17:24.691 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 24: socket write failed
12:17:24.691 [15141] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv FINISHED=0

 

Looking at the entry above, I assumed the listxattr failed causing the exit status 24... but maybe it's not the case because the listxattr() error is an info leve message. <didn't know about that>, quite handy.  So I guess maybe that isn't my problem?

Can you point me to a document to enable MPX on the storage unit? I can't find one anywhere, all I can find is documents that explain what it does. Sighh..

 

Many thanks

 

Re. Windows, it's a windows server, linux client.