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andrich's avatar
andrich
Level 4
12 years ago

Netbakup Catalog

Hello everybody!!!

I have a Netbackup Catalog Police running in three diferents schedules - DIARY, HOURLY and WEEKLY.

My DIARY schedule starts at 09h AM and keep for more than 24 hours running and don´t finish. So, I have to kill it.

Does anybody see something similar in your NB Catalog ?

Thanks

 

 

7.1.x and Earlier
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    12 years ago

    Look at your schedules - seems Inline Tape Copy is configured. I would remove NFS destination as a start.

    Please post your catalog policy config:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist <policy-name> -U

     

    bptm and bpbkar log files are correct ones, but you need to allow it to finish in order to find useful info.

    The bpbkar test suggested by revaroo will start a local backup of the folder that you specify in the command and write the backup to /dev/null. This is how we test local read speed of the disk/filesystem where the folder is located.
    The command will run in the background.
    'ps -ef' or 'bpps' will show the bpbkar process.
    Once finished, you can check result in bpbkar log.
    See this TN for more info:
    Measuring disk performance with bpbkar
    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO56131

     

     

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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    How big is the catalog ?

    If it is large, this could be 'normal' .

    If it is not large, then it could be simply poor backup performance.

    To get the size, how big are the contents of these two directories (and everything under them)

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

    /usr/openv/db

    Thanks,

     

    Martin

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    mph, think you meant /usr/openv/netbackup/db not /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

  • andrich's avatar
    andrich
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    Martin

    These are my directories that you mentioned. Are you sure they contain my catalog?

    -bash-3.00# cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin
    -bash-3.00# du -h .
       1K   ./bprd_child
       1K   ./bprd_parent
     1.8M   ./driver
     2.5M   ./goodies/support
     948K   ./goodies/man
      96K   ./goodies/misc/Linux/RedHat2.4
      98K   ./goodies/misc/Linux
     518K   ./goodies/misc/ALPHA/OSF1_V5
     520K   ./goodies/misc/ALPHA
     644K   ./goodies/misc/PC-IA64/WindowsXP
     645K   ./goodies/misc/PC-IA64
     157K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000/AIX5
     157K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000/AIX4.3.3
     315K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000
     180K   ./goodies/misc/SGI/IRIX65
     182K   ./goodies/misc/SGI
     518K   ./goodies/misc/PC/WindowsNT
     520K   ./goodies/misc/PC
     104K   ./goodies/misc/Solaris/Solaris7
     106K   ./goodies/misc/Solaris
      98K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800/HP-UX11.11
      98K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800/HP-UX11.00
     198K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800
     2.5M   ./goodies/misc
      17K   ./goodies/mediascripts
      11M   ./goodies
       2K   ./bprd.d
       4K   ./bpsched.d
      12M   ./support
     188K   ./private
     101K   ./cluster/suncluster
      66K   ./cluster/vcs
     924K   ./cluster/util
     1.2M   ./cluster
       1K   ./bpdbm_parent
     116M   ./admincmd
       1K   ./bpdbm_child
     453M   .
    -bash-3.00# cd /usr/openv/db/
    -bash-3.00# du -h .
       1K   ./staging
       8K   ./tix
     132K   ./scripts/wdata
     4.1M   ./scripts
       1K   ./shared
     2.5M   ./charsets/unicode
     2.5M   ./charsets
     3.9M   ./log
      47K   ./help/dbadm
      49K   ./help
      37M   ./bin
      19M   ./lib
     192M   ./data
     1.0M   ./res
     260M   .
     

     

  • andrich's avatar
    andrich
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    Thanks for replying. Thats my /usr/openv/netbackup/db output.

    How can I check if the Catalog backup is runnig ok?

    And how can I see how much bytes has it backup up?

     

     11K   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000/tmp
      34M   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000/catstore
      34M   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000
       9K   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/tmp/catstore
      11K   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/tmp
      17M   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/catstore
      17M   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000
      68M   ./images/svapldesenv
      97G   ./images
     

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    Do you have bpbkar log (on the master) and bptm log (on the media server that is backing up the catalog) setup? If so, post the logs that match the time of the backup.

     

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    bpbkar seems to have stopped here:

    08:23:51.802 [27863] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/schedule/

     

    Run at the unix command prompt (logged in as root):

    bpbkar -nocont /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/ > /dev/null 2>&1

    It should return to the command prompt, if it doesn't check the bpbkar log, is it stuck on the file above?

     

  • andrich's avatar
    andrich
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    That´s the output:

    -bash-3.00# bpbkar -nocont /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/ > /dev/null 2>&1
    -bash-3.00#
     

    It returned to the prompt. What does this comand do ?

  • jim_dalton's avatar
    jim_dalton
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    It destroys your catalog and policies...it'll run much faster now, just you see.