Backup is active but byte count is not increasing

[Sharad_Singh7]

Hello All,

Backup of one client stucks at begin writing but byte count is not increasing, it remains stuck forever.

10/15/2014 20:37:17 - Info bptm (pid=31784) start
10/15/2014 20:37:17 - Info bptm (pid=31784) using 262144 data buffer size
10/15/2014 20:37:17 - Info bptm (pid=31784) setting receive network buffer to 65536 bytes
10/15/2014 20:37:17 - Info bptm (pid=31784) using 256 data buffers
10/15/2014 20:37:18 - Info bptm (pid=31784) start backup
10/15/2014 20:37:18 - Info bptm (pid=31784) backup child process is pid 31806
10/15/2014 20:37:18 - begin writing

Master Server ---Linux,Netbackup Version--7.1.0.4

Media Server----Linux, Netbackup Version--7.1.0.4

Client Server----Linux, Netbackup Version--6.5.3

[RonCaplinger · Accepted solution]

This can happen when there is a large number of files (millions) that must be checked to see which ones need to be backed up.  How many files are in the filesystem of this backup?

[Sharad_Singh7]

Thanks Ron for the reply.

Server is having some hardware issues as confirmed bt OS team.