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MSDP Failover Storage Unit group

rbkguy
Level 4

Hi Everyone,

I am looking to see if anyone else is having issues using Failover Storage Unit groups with MSDP? I am running Windows 2008 R2 on my Master server and two media servers with Netbackup 7.6.0.1.

Instead of the jobs queuing when I hit the Maxium concurrent jobs it just moves to the second media server which I do not want unless my primary media server fails or goes offline. I understand that storage unit groups does not work with optimized duplication but I am not using this in my step up.

Has anyone else seen this?

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trv
Level 4
Certified

Working as expected if you have maximum concurrent jobs set I am afraid. From the documentation:

The following are some reasons why a storage unit can be considered unavailable:
■ The storage unit is busy.
■ The storage unit is down.
■ The storage unit is out of media.
■ The storage unit has no available space.
■ The storage unit has reached the Maximum concurrent jobs setting.

Check the last item in the list ...

This is the reason it's almost impossible to use failover storage unit group with OST devices or other disk based STUs as you should have set maximum concurrent jobs to not overload the disk/box/device :(

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SymTerry
Level 6
Employee Accredited

Failover mode shouldn't send jobs to secondary STUs unless the primary STU is down, not simply "unavailable".  See p. 571 of the 7.6 Admin Guide .

If the Failover option is selected, when a job must queue for a storage unit, the job queues rather than try another storage unit in the group.

Please reply with the policy and STU configs.

rbkguy
Level 4

Here is a sample of a policy I am working with:

 

Policy Name:       ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Policy Type:         MS-Windows
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      11/15/2007 10:32:33
  Backup network drvs: no
  Collect TIR info:    yes, with move detection
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     30
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    yes
  Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
  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:  yes
  Enable Metadata Indexing:  no
  Index server name:  NULL
  Use Accelerator:  no
  Optimized Backup:  no
  HW/OS/Client:

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Manual
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS
    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:

  Schedule:              Monthly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        Saturday, Week 2
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_MONTHLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     09:00:00

  Schedule:              Weekly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        Saturday, Week 1
        Saturday, Week 3
        Saturday, Week 4
        Saturday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_WEEKLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     08:00:00

  Schedule:              Daily_Cumulative_Schedule
    Type:                Cumulative Incremental Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
        Tuesday, Week 1
        Wednesday, Week 1
        Thursday, Week 1
        Friday, Week 1
        Tuesday, Week 2
        Wednesday, Week 2
        Thursday, Week 2
        Friday, Week 2
        Tuesday, Week 3
        Wednesday, Week 3
        Thursday, Week 3
        Friday, Week 3
        Tuesday, Week 4
        Wednesday, Week 4
        Thursday, Week 4
        Friday, Week 4
        Tuesday, Week 5
        Wednesday, Week 5
        Thursday, Week 5
        Friday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_DAILY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Tuesday    02:00:00  -->  Tuesday    08:00:00
          Wednesday  02:00:00  -->  Wednesday  08:00:00
          Thursday   02:00:00  -->  Thursday   08:00:00
          Friday     02:00:00  -->  Friday     08:00:00

  Schedule:              USER_BACKUPS
    Type:                User Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS
    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     00:00:00  -->  Sunday     24:00:00
          Monday     00:00:00  -->  Monday     24:00:00
          Tuesday    06:00:00  -->  Tuesday    23:00:00
          Wednesday  06:00:00  -->  Wednesday  23:00:00
          Thursday   06:00:00  -->  Thursday   23:00:00
          Friday     06:00:00  -->  Friday     23:00:00

 

And my Storage config is as follows:

STORE_DEDUP_LOCAL 3 PUREDISK_LOCAL_BK2 PUREDISK_LOCAL_BK3

rbkguy
Level 4

My Storage unit group config:

STORE_DEDUP_LOCAL 3 PUREDISK_LOCAL_BK2 PUREDISK_LOCAL_BK3

 

Policy Config:

Policy Name:       ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Policy Type:         MS-Windows
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      11/15/2007 10:32:33
  Backup network drvs: no
  Collect TIR info:    yes, with move detection
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     30
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    yes
  Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
  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:  yes
  Enable Metadata Indexing:  no
  Index server name:  NULL
  Use Accelerator:  no
  Optimized Backup:  no
  HW/OS/Client:

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Manual
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS
    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:

  Schedule:              Monthly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        Saturday, Week 2
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_MONTHLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     09:00:00

  Schedule:              Weekly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        Saturday, Week 1
        Saturday, Week 3
        Saturday, Week 4
        Saturday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_WEEKLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     08:00:00

  Schedule:              Daily_Cumulative_Schedule
    Type:                Cumulative Incremental Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
        Tuesday, Week 1
        Wednesday, Week 1
        Thursday, Week 1
        Friday, Week 1
        Tuesday, Week 2
        Wednesday, Week 2
        Thursday, Week 2
        Friday, Week 2
        Tuesday, Week 3
        Wednesday, Week 3
        Thursday, Week 3
        Friday, Week 3
        Tuesday, Week 4
        Wednesday, Week 4
        Thursday, Week 4
        Friday, Week 4
        Tuesday, Week 5
        Wednesday, Week 5
        Thursday, Week 5
        Friday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_DAILY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Tuesday    02:00:00  -->  Tuesday    08:00:00
          Wednesday  02:00:00  -->  Wednesday  08:00:00
          Thursday   02:00:00  -->  Thursday   08:00:00
          Friday     02:00:00  -->  Friday     08:00:00

  Schedule:              USER_BACKUPS
    Type:                User Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS
    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     00:00:00  -->  Sunday     24:00:00
          Monday     00:00:00  -->  Monday     24:00:00
          Tuesday    06:00:00  -->  Tuesday    23:00:00
          Wednesday  06:00:00  -->  Wednesday  23:00:00
          Thursday   06:00:00  -->  Thursday   23:00:00
          Friday     06:00:00  -->  Friday     23:00:00

------------------------------------------------------------

Policy Name:       ACO_EXCHG_FS_E2K10

  Policy Type:         MS-Windows
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      11/15/2007 10:32:33
  Backup network drvs: no
  Collect TIR info:    yes, with move detection
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     150
  Max Jobs/Policy:     3
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    yes
  Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
  Volume Pool:         NetBackup
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       Silver
  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
  Optimized Backup:  no
  HW/OS/Client:  Windows-x64   Windows2008   EXCHG-D1-MBX1
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   EXCHG-HUB1
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   EXCHG-CAS1
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   EXCHG-D1-MBX2
                 Windows-x64   Windows2008   EXCHG-D1-MBX3

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Monthly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        Saturday, Week 2
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_MONTHLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     09:00:00

  Schedule:              Weekly_Full_Schedule
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/08/2013
        Saturday, Week 1
        Saturday, Week 3
        Saturday, Week 4
        Saturday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/15/2013
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_WEEKLY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   02:00:00  -->  Monday     08:00:00

  Schedule:              Daily_Cumulative_Schedule
    Type:                Cumulative Incremental Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
        Tuesday, Week 1
        Wednesday, Week 1
        Thursday, Week 1
        Friday, Week 1
        Tuesday, Week 2
        Wednesday, Week 2
        Thursday, Week 2
        Friday, Week 2
        Tuesday, Week 3
        Wednesday, Week 3
        Thursday, Week 3
        Friday, Week 3
        Tuesday, Week 4
        Wednesday, Week 4
        Thursday, Week 4
        Friday, Week 4
        Tuesday, Week 5
        Wednesday, Week 5
        Thursday, Week 5
        Friday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    Synthetic:           0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           HQ_DAILY
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Tuesday    02:00:00  -->  Tuesday    09:00:00
          Wednesday  02:00:00  -->  Wednesday  09:00:00
          Thursday   02:00:00  -->  Thursday   09:00:00
          Friday     02:00:00  -->  Friday     09:00:00

  Schedule:              USER_BACKUPS
    Type:                User Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates-----------
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS
    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     00:00:00  -->  Sunday     24:00:00
          Monday     00:00:00  -->  Monday     24:00:00
          Tuesday    06:00:00  -->  Tuesday    23:00:00
          Wednesday  06:00:00  -->  Wednesday  23:00:00
          Thursday   06:00:00  -->  Thursday   23:00:00
          Friday     06:00:00  -->  Friday     23:00:00

Marianne
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Please show us STU and STUG config as well, please:

bpstulist -L -g

Marianne
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More than 2 months later....

You showed us STUG config for STORE_DEDUP_LOCAL

but the policies specify these STUG/STU's: HQ_MONTHLY, HQ_WEEKLY, HQ_DAILY,  STORE_GRP_USER_BACKUPS

trv
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Working as expected if you have maximum concurrent jobs set I am afraid. From the documentation:

The following are some reasons why a storage unit can be considered unavailable:
■ The storage unit is busy.
■ The storage unit is down.
■ The storage unit is out of media.
■ The storage unit has no available space.
■ The storage unit has reached the Maximum concurrent jobs setting.

Check the last item in the list ...

This is the reason it's almost impossible to use failover storage unit group with OST devices or other disk based STUs as you should have set maximum concurrent jobs to not overload the disk/box/device :(