3 job id's

[e_win]

Hi All,

We encountered 3 job id's but same policy, client, schedule, files, kb, all the same.

We thought its 3 different processes that's why I cancel the 2 other jobs, but what happened is all 3 jobs are cancelled.

We're thinking that its eating up resources. Can you enlighten me with this?

[Dyneshia]

Can you upload a screen shot of what you are seeing ? 

Are you stating that there are 3 jobs with the same job ID ?   Are they retrying ?

What version of Netbackup are you running ?

Do you use OpsCenter ?

[Deeps]

What type of policy was that  ( Windows / Standard / NDMP/ Catalog/Vault) ?? What was the MPX settings in the policy ? What was he parents job id for those 3 jobs ?

[e_win]

I append screenshot, NBU is 6.5, there are 3 different job id's but same details.

[e_win]

Hi Deeps,

its MS-Windows-NT..what is MPX setting?where can I found it?

[Dyneshia]

Please copy and paste the job detail status.

MPX is in the policy attributes.  Is it checked marked ?

[e_win]

these are the outputs for the three jobs, all the same:

04/22/2013 00:00:01 - requesting resource zfs_weeklyfull
04/22/2013 00:00:01 - requesting resource disk_windows-wbcc-amds
04/22/2013 00:00:01 - requesting resource atp3backupsp01.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.p3cimfs01
04/22/2013 00:00:01 - requesting resource atp3backupsp01.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.WINDOWS-WBCC-AMDS
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  atp3backupsp01.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.p3cimfs01
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  atp3backupsp01.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.WINDOWS-WBCC-AMDS
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  MediaID=@aaaa9;Path=/zfs-nbuB/weeklyfull;MediaServer=atp3backupsp01
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  zfs_weeklyfull
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  MediaID=@aaaal;Path=/p1_nbu_copy/windows-wbcc-amds;MediaServer=atp3backupsp01
04/22/2013 00:00:05 - granted resource  disk_windows-wbcc-amds
04/22/2013 00:00:06 - estimated 212355915 kbytes needed
04/22/2013 00:00:06 - estimated 212355915 kbytes needed
04/22/2013 00:00:07 - started process bpbrm (pid=23389)
04/22/2013 00:00:12 - connecting
04/22/2013 00:00:13 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
04/22/2013 00:00:25 - begin writing
04/23/2013 07:44:16 - Error bptm (pid=23432) media manager terminated by parent process
04/23/2013 07:45:03 - end writing; write time: 31:44:38
termination requested by administrator (150)
 

Allow multiple data streams is not enabled

[Marianne]

You say that job details are the same for all three jobs - have a look at the PID for bpbrm and bptm - exactly the same or different?

Does this happen for this job only or all jobs?

PS: 
NBU 6.5 reached EOSL in Oct last year - please upgrade ASAP.

[e_win]

Yes, pids are different, i overlook that,thanks. I already recommend to them the NBU upgrade.

Eye opener for me, Under Schedule attributes, Multiple Copies is enabled, and are set to two different STU.

I think 1 job is the parent job and the other 2 is for two different STU.

I have some question, Is this setup, eat lots of resources? because most of our backups encounter 196s

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

That would be my next question - if different PIDs it looks like Multiple Copies.

Multiple copies are good and saves time to run duplications afterwards, but yes, it consumes double the amount of resources (bptm especially). The other factor to consider is that the backup will be as fast or as slow as the slowest device that the media server is writing to.

Multiple copies is something that should be introduced gradually, accompanied by monitoring resources on the media server.