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thesunlover
Level 4
13 years ago

Staging Schedule Setup

Hi, After I set the Staging Schedule's Start Window to 7 days, I've got more 129 errors. The staging feature seems disabled. Why?

Does 7 days mean any time staging is allowed? What does the 'blue area' indicate? If I want staging being allowed any time, what schedule should I set?

Please help and thank you in advance!

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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    13 years ago

    If you want it to be really efficient set it to every hour during the full week window - drag the mouse from top left to bottom right in the window so that the whole schedule page is illuminated as blue

    In that way it will check for completed jobs every hour

    If there is not anything to duplicate it will just finish with status 0, if there is it will put them in the queue and, just like a policy, wont actually try again until the current queue has finished

    This makes it almost, but not quite, as good as a SLP

    Hope this helps

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    What did you select in the Attributes tab of the Disk staging Schedule?

    Frequency or Calendar?  The default here is Frequency - every 1 week.
    This is needed to tell NBU WHEN to automatically start the staging (similar to normal NBU policy schedules). The backup window (blue area) simply specify when automatic staging will be allowed.

    See p. 249 of NBU 6.5 Admin Guide I for UNIX/Linux http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH52801

  • thesunlover's avatar
    thesunlover
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    I want to let staging work any time as needed. What start window should I a set? 7 days?

    Thank you!

  • Will_Restore's avatar
    Will_Restore
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Frequency: 1 day

    Start Window: Sunday 0000 - Saturday 2359

     

    then it will run any time it needs to

  • thesunlover's avatar
    thesunlover
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Thanks a lot. Please confirm this setting:

    Frequency 1 days

    Modify day:Sunday
    Start time:00:00:00

    End day: Saturday
    End time: 23:59:00

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    If you want it to be really efficient set it to every hour during the full week window - drag the mouse from top left to bottom right in the window so that the whole schedule page is illuminated as blue

    In that way it will check for completed jobs every hour

    If there is not anything to duplicate it will just finish with status 0, if there is it will put them in the queue and, just like a policy, wont actually try again until the current queue has finished

    This makes it almost, but not quite, as good as a SLP

    Hope this helps

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    "Frequency 1 days" will kick off duplications once every 24 hours.

    As per Mark's post, a frequency of '1 hour' will check once every hour during the backup window (24x7).

  • thesunlover's avatar
    thesunlover
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Thank you both!

    After I made the following changes, there were more 129 errors appearing. Staging seems stop working and no backup can be done. Please help!

    Frequency 1 days

    Modify day:Sunday
    Start time:00:00:00

    End day: Saturday
    End time: 23:59:00

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Your frequency is still  1 days".

    Which means that staging will happen only once in 24 hours (every 1 day).

    Have you tried to change to "1 hour"?

    When last did a staging job run? Cleanup can only take place after successful duplication.

    What are your high and low water marks set to?

    Please also try to run manual relocation to ensure that staging is successful (right-click on STU -> Manual Relocation to Final Destination).

  • thesunlover's avatar
    thesunlover
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Changed the frequency to 1 hour and run relocation yesterday, but still got lots of 129 erros this morning. The high and low water marks are 95% and 5%.

    Sorry I don't understand these:"When last did a staging job run? Cleanup can only take place after successful duplication." How can I check last staging job? What are cleanup and duplication?

    Thank you!

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Your 5% is still way too low - NetBackup is unlikely to be able to clear it down that far!

    Make it about 85%

    Run manual relocation on the Staging units to make sure everything is duplicated up to date

    If things still wont clear down then look for orphaned processes that may be locking it out - or reboot the Master and Media Server for a clean start.

    You can run a catalog verify against copy 1 and then against copy 2 to see if everything that was backed up has been duplicated