06-20-2016 12:59 PM
I just set up a NAS using iSCSI and connected it with a Windows Server 2008 R2. The connection is working. I can copy files to the iSCSI drive. BE2010 sees the iSCSI drive. I have created a Device in BE2010 which successfully completed. BE2010 successfully creates a Back-up-disk-Folder on the iSCSI drive. I created a simple backup job to test everything. It just backups some Word and Excel files. I have run the credential check in the job creation successfully. Domain Admin account is used for BE2010.
When the job is submitted to run, it sits at "Queued" forever and won't actually run the job. I have waited for the job to start over night (10+ hours) to backup less than 200mb of data and it never runs. In the Back-up-to-disk-Folder, BE2010 seems to have started because it created a "Changer.cfg" and a "Folder.cfg" file. But then it also created another file labeled "@@@@@@@@.bkf" which ought to be the backup file right? I need some help. What is going on?
06-20-2016 11:21 PM
Some things to check:
1. right-click the job and choose Respond to Alert and see what the issue is;
2. Make sure any installed AV isn't actively scanning the B2D folder, and if it is, put in exclusions for this.
Thanks!
06-21-2016 06:15 AM
Respond to Alert is greyed out.
AV isn't set to scan the iSCSI folders but I checked and the AV engine wasn't running a scan at all.
From another thread, I read that Pausing/Unpausing the folder under the Devices tab might work. I tried that but it didn't make a difference. There was some advice to try Disenabling/Enabling it in a like manner. Tried and no effect.
I know BE2010 can access the folder because if I run an Inventory job, it completes successfully in under 10 seconds. It's as if BE2010 cannot handle dealing with an empty, clean, new folder for the first time. Like it expects some kind of file or data to already be there or something and then just waits as a Queued job. (Not saying that is actually the case, just what it seems like.)
I'm going to create a blank text file in one of the new folders I made on iSCSI drive and then rename it something like "B2D0000001.bkf" AND then try running the test backup job so see if that helps.
06-22-2016 06:56 AM
So the jobs ran over night with fake .bkf files and after 10 hours they failed with "User Cancelled the Job" which wasn't true as I never did. I looked into the job logs and found that they failed either because a user canceled OR the device was offline and the job had timed out. OK, 10 hours is a ridiculously long time for BE2010 to decide a device is offline but ok fine that's some more info to work out. The log also listed " V-79-57344-33039 - Error - Mount failed. User canceled a Physical Volume Library operation." Clicking on the link sent me to the article: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000095243" Reading there listed:
The backup job fails with the above error message and at the same time shows an alert in Backup Exec:
06-23-2016 12:42 AM
If that is BE 2010 and NOT BE 2010 R3 I would suggest you update. (as it might be somethign we have address (and 2010R3 wil work with yoru existing licenses)
With regards the allocate max size - it can take time to allocate the max size and this can look like a hang (and depends on the write speeds etc)
I hope you are not allocate all of the size of the disk to the BKF file as this very likely will cause a hang - the intention of this setting is for you to still use sensible BKF sizes but reduce fragmentaion on the disk. As such whilst whatever the default size is might be too small (especially for BE 2010) and you can increase the size you should not increase it too far.
Finally we have enhanced the pre-allocation in the newer versison of Backup Exec to be configurable in such a way that you can pre-allocate part of the file size etc. I think we have also made sure that white space in the pre-allocation that is not used when the job ends is recovered and not left as used on the file system. As such (after checking our compatibility lists carefully) if you want to use pre-allocation but want more control then you would need to upgrade to BE 15.