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BPCD is not terminating after backup in OPEN VMS CLEINT

Nayab_Rasool
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Hi All,

 

I have been facing an issue that after the backup of my OPEN VMS client the bpcd process was not terminating as the OPEN VMS client machine has a limit of running only 50 process due to which we are facing huge performance issue on that particular client.

Thanks,

Nayab

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Marianne
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bpcd is a background process that needs to be running in order to listen for incoming backup requests.

If bpcd is not running, backups will fail with staus 57.

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bperror -S 57
client connection refused
The client refused a connection on the port number for bpcd.
 
bpcd only uses a small amount of memory to run in the background. 

 

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Marianne
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bpcd is a background process that needs to be running in order to listen for incoming backup requests.

If bpcd is not running, backups will fail with staus 57.

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bperror -S 57
client connection refused
The client refused a connection on the port number for bpcd.
 
bpcd only uses a small amount of memory to run in the background. 

 

Nayab_Rasool
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But My OS admin saying that its occupying most of the memory.

Nayab_Rasool
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If that is the case what can be done to fix this issue

 

Marianne
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bpcd is using so little resources that other processes should be investigated. Seems client does not have enough resources for applications (other than NBU) running on it.

A customer at my previous company had about 5 OpenVMS clients. There were no issues with NBU client software.

Nayab_Rasool
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Hi Maria,

 

Do we have any technote or previous cases for this ?

 

Thanks,

Nayab

Marianne
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I cannot think of any TN or case or why that would be necessary.

It is common knowledge that bpcd should be 'listening' on a client and has been like that for as long as I've known NBU.

Status code 57 troubleshooting info should be enough? You can add '-r' to my bperror command above for 'recommendation' (also documented in NBU Status Code manual).

 

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Try contacting Symanetc Support. They may have internal information regarding this matter. OpenVMS is not widely used so the community has not much to offer other than general advise.