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Manish_Bhatia
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11 years ago
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Netbackup cluster passive node

Hi,

In my environment, netbackup is running on vcs two node cluster. On passive node, netbackup services were stopped by mistake.

 

Now, if i try to run command netbackup start on passive node, what would be the imapct? will it effect the running netbackup on active node, or it will simply start the stand alone services (vnetd-standalone and bpcd-standalone).

 

Or if the failover happens to this 2nd node, will it be successful, if the (vnetd-standalone and bpcd-standalone) are not running.

Please respond.

 

Thanks & Regards

Manish

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    11 years ago

    Can we assume that you are referring to a clustered NBU master server?

    Failover will be successful, even with vnetd and bpcd not running.

    I will not recommend running 'netbackup start' as it may try to start all processes.
    Rather just start vnetd and bpcd standalone processes manually.

    Check that PBX is running. It should always be running, as pbx is not normally part of the processes managed and monitored by VCS and will not be started at the time of failover.

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Can we assume that you are referring to a clustered NBU master server?

    Failover will be successful, even with vnetd and bpcd not running.

    I will not recommend running 'netbackup start' as it may try to start all processes.
    Rather just start vnetd and bpcd standalone processes manually.

    Check that PBX is running. It should always be running, as pbx is not normally part of the processes managed and monitored by VCS and will not be started at the time of failover.

  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    You will get a concurrency violation and VCS will stop Netbackup on the secondary node or OS panic (reboot) the inactive node.

    On a cluster always use the VCS command to star and stop netbackup. On cluster I usally remove the netbackup start script from /etc/init.d

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH9074

     

  • Manish_Bhatia's avatar
    Manish_Bhatia
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    Thanks Marianne and Nicolai. Starting particular service manually, was just out of my mind. Thanks for making me recall this step.

    both services are now on passive node.

     

    Kind Regards

    Manish