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ColinDawson's avatar
15 years ago

Netbackup with Informix


After getting Netbackup to work on my 'local' (in same location) database. I switch the DB to the inactive node to test the backups on that server but it fails...... A filesystem backup work s fine. The script to execute onbar works and an entry appears in the log. The bar_act.log file has the following in it

 2010-08-24 15:09:16 12202  12200 Working with veritas-netbackup as generic storage manager.
 2010-08-24 15:09:16 12202  12200 Archive started on rootdbs, monitordbs, sadbs, llogdbs1, llogdbs2, plogdbs (Requested Level 0).
 2010-08-24 15:09:16 12202  12200 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs.
 2010-08-24 15:09:30 12202  12200 XBSA Error: (BSAInit) A system error occurred. Aborting XBSA session.
 2010-08-24 15:09:45 12202  12200 XBSA Error: (BSAInit) A system error occurred. Aborting XBSA session.
 2010-08-24 15:09:46 12202  12200 Archive on rootdbs, monitordbs, sadbs, llogdbs1, llogdbs2, plogdbs ABORTED (Requested Level 0).
 2010-08-24 15:09:46 12202  12200 /opt/informixSA/bin/onbar_d complete, returning 3 (0x03)

Everything points to a correct installation

System is a Zone running Solaris10, Informix 11.50.FC7, Netbackup 6.5.1

The master and media servers are in a different location and different network topology (layer3).

bptestclnt is successful from both master and media servers and a telnet to port 13724 on both Master & Media servers works. A debug of the network show no denied port/server access.

Any clues?



  • I finally found the problem and backups now run successfully.

    As suggested above we had a problem with name resolution. The Master & Media servers didn't appear to resolve the name through DNS so we added an entry to the hosts file. In future I need to make sure I run bptestbpcd -host <hostname> -verbose on Master & Media servers as well as running bpclntcmd on client server. I also had to add REQUIRED_NETWORK to bp,conf on client server as it is on a different network to the Netbackup servers which means they were unable to send messages back.

    Thanks for all assistance is gettingt this resolved.