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Lotus Domino Transaction Logs backup not recycling

LIMRA
Level 4

Dear Experts

The servers are setup with Transaction logs to be 'Archived' and servers are also having successful backup (although some .nsf files are not getting backed up due to file corruptions).
 

The question I have is , if the backup is happening successfully (we assume that the .TXN files are getting backed up) then why are the transaction log files (.TXN) not being marked for reuse which should happen after a successful backup.

Since the files are not being marked correctly the domino server is having to create new instances of .TXN and this is causing the drive to fill up. Please advise

 

Client details

 

PLATFORM = win_x64
PATCH_VERSION = 7.5.0.1
SERVER_PATCH_VERSION = 7.5.0.1

 

Master server & Media Servers are 7.5.0.7

 

 

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Michael_G_Ander
Level 6
Certified

If Lotus Notes is like other systems, you need a successfulll backup with status 0 of the main database, for the transaction logs to be recycled/truncated.

I would try to exclude the corrupted nsf files to see if they were the issue.

 

The standard questions: Have you checked: 1) What has changed. 2) The manual 3) If there are any tech notes or VOX posts regarding the issue

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Michael_G_Ander
Level 6
Certified

If Lotus Notes is like other systems, you need a successfulll backup with status 0 of the main database, for the transaction logs to be recycled/truncated.

I would try to exclude the corrupted nsf files to see if they were the issue.

 

The standard questions: Have you checked: 1) What has changed. 2) The manual 3) If there are any tech notes or VOX posts regarding the issue

Jim-90
Level 6

Could you please post the the policy details [ bppllist <policy> -U  ]

RonCaplinger
Level 6

Are these backup jobs scheduled, or user-directed?

LIMRA
Level 4

Hi Guys

These are scheduled

 

sudo bppllist t2-core-em-lno-3m-01 -U
------------------------------------------------------------
 
Policy Name:       t2-core-em-lno-3m-01
 
  Policy Type:         Lotus-Notes
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      11/21/2013 17:20:00
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     50
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    no
  Residence:           TT_PP_INT
  Volume Pool:         NetBackup
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       -
  Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    no
  Application Discovery:      no
  Discovery Lifetime:      0 seconds
ASC Application and attributes: (none defined)
 
  Granular Restore Info:  no
  Ignore Client Direct:  no
Enable Metadata Indexing:  no
Index server name:  NULL
  Use Accelerator:  no
  HW/OS/Client:  Windows-x64   Windows2008   dominohost1
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   dominohost2
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   dominohost3


  Include:  BACKUP_TRANSACTION_LOGS
            NEW_STREAM
            NOTES_INI_PATH=C:\Program Files\Lotus\Domino\notes.ini
            E:\Domino\Data\
 
  Schedule:              Full
    Type:                Automatic Backup
    Frequency:           every 6 days
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Retention Level:     5 (3 months)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         0
    Schedule indexing:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Friday     18:00:00  -->  Saturday   02:00:00
 
  Schedule:              Diff
    Type:                Differential Incremental Backup
    Frequency:           every 20 hours
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Retention Level:     3 (1 month)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         0
    Schedule indexing:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Sunday     18:00:00  -->  Monday     02:00:00
          Monday     18:00:00  -->  Tuesday    02:00:00
          Tuesday    18:00:00  -->  Wednesday  02:00:00
          Wednesday  18:00:00  -->  Thursday   02:00:00
          Thursday   18:00:00  -->  Friday     02:00:00

 

Marianne
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Seems nobody saw your reply on 10 Oct...

Back to Michael's reply above - can you confirm that backups exit with status 0?

1st step to troubleshoot will be to look at bpbkar on the Notes server.

Create bpbkar folder under ..\netbackup\logs and increase logging level to 3.
After next backup, copy log to bpbkar.txt and upload as File attachment.