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NetBackup jobs fail status 196 while backup window is open

Jeff_Foglietta
Level 5
Partner Accredited Certified

Anybody ever see this before? This occurs only with Enterprise vault policies and only after I changed the start windows to be more efficient. There is literally plenty of time to start the jobs yet when the backup window opens and the job kicks off it fails with a status 196 within a matter of seconds. The following is from the job details:

9/29/2013 7:00:06 PM - end Enterprise Vault Resolver, Persist Discovery; elapsed time: 00:00:00
9/29/2013 7:00:06 PM - begin Enterprise Vault Resolver, Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed
Status 196

The backup window opens at 7 PM

I don't see anything within NBU that would cause this to happen. Can't see the EV side being an issue. Manual backups run fine. The Master server has been rebooted and the clock is in sync between the Master, Media and client..

Any thoughts?

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Corruption can occur but quite often it is just that the way NetBackup now works is to set timers for when a job is due to kick off

If you edit a job but it does not get picked up to re-set the timers the job can kick in at the wrong time only to find it does not think it has a valid window

It is always good practice to run the nbpemreq -updatepolicies when ever you make any policy or schedule changes

I dont see anything wrong with the schedules so either the timers have not been reset / policy read correctly or corruption has crept in

Hopefully after you re-created the schedules you ran the nbpemreq command, although a deletion and re-add may have forced the re-read anyway

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Will_Restore
Level 6

Please attach Policy attributes 

bppllist <policy_name> -U

GV89
Level 4
Partner Accredited Certified

Jeff,

Please collet the logs for vxlogview.

And upload them...

Jeff_Foglietta
Level 5
Partner Accredited Certified

Policy Name:       Enterprise_vault_closedpartitions_tice

  Policy Type:         Enterprise-Vault
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      08/05/2013 10:59:41
  Mult. Data Streams:  yes
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     0
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    no
  Residence:           stu_disk_ticsnbapd1
  Volume Pool:         NetBackup
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       -
  Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    no
  Application Discovery:      no
  Discovery Lifetime:      28800 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-x86   Windows2003   parev01

  Include:  EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS=JournalVaultStore
            EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS=MailboxVaultStore

  Schedule:              EV_ClosedPar_Full
    Type:                Automatic Backup
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Retention Level:     9 (infinity)
    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)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
      Allowed to retry after run day
      Day 1 of month
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         0
    Schedule indexing:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Sunday     19:00:00  -->  Sunday     22:00:00
          Monday     19:00:00  -->  Monday     22:00:00
          Tuesday    19:00:00  -->  Tuesday    22:00:00
          Wednesday  19:00:00  -->  Wednesday  22:00:00
          Thursday   19:00:00  -->  Thursday   22:00:00
          Friday     19:00:00  -->  Friday     22:00:00
          Saturday   19:00:00  -->  Saturday   22:00:00

  Schedule:              EV_ClosedPar_Daily
    Type:                Automatic Backup
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Retention Level:     2 (5 weeks)
    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)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
      Day 2 of month
      Day 3 of month
      Day 4 of month
      Day 5 of month
      Day 6 of month
      Day 7 of month
      Day 8 of month
      Day 9 of month
      Day 10 of month
      Day 11 of month
      Day 12 of month
      Day 13 of month
      Day 14 of month
      Day 15 of month
      Day 16 of month
      Day 17 of month
      Day 18 of month
      Day 19 of month
      Day 20 of month
      Day 21 of month
      Day 22 of month
      Day 23 of month
      Day 24 of month
      Day 25 of month
      Day 26 of month
      Day 27 of month
      Day 28 of month
      Day 29 of month
      Day 30 of month
      Day 31 of month
      Last day of month
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         0
    Schedule indexing:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Sunday     19:00:00  -->  Sunday     22:00:00
          Monday     19:00:00  -->  Monday     22:00:00
          Tuesday    19:00:00  -->  Tuesday    22:00:00
          Wednesday  19:00:00  -->  Wednesday  22:00:00
          Thursday   19:00:00  -->  Thursday   22:00:00
          Friday     19:00:00  -->  Friday     22:00:00
          Saturday   19:00:00  -->  Saturday   22:00:00

Will_Restore
Level 6

Above, backup begins at 7PM and your Schedules show 11AM-1PM. 

So your backup is outside the window.

 

* edit *

I see you changed that to 1900-2200.  After modifying the Policy, run

nbpemreq -updatepolicies

Jeff_Foglietta
Level 5
Partner Accredited Certified

Yea, posted the wrong policy output initially. cool I do have the same issue with a few different EV policies. I saw a thread from a while back where Mark thought there could be policy corruption and suggested the deletion and re-creation of the policy. Now I don't know that it needs to be that extreme in this case When I run the backups manually they run fine... Since that bypasses the scheduler I would think if there is an issue at all here its with the schedules, (which btw have been modified often in the last few weeks). I have just deleted the schedules, saved the policy then went back in and added fresh schedules back. I'll keep you posted on the outcome tomorrow.

Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Corruption can occur but quite often it is just that the way NetBackup now works is to set timers for when a job is due to kick off

If you edit a job but it does not get picked up to re-set the timers the job can kick in at the wrong time only to find it does not think it has a valid window

It is always good practice to run the nbpemreq -updatepolicies when ever you make any policy or schedule changes

I dont see anything wrong with the schedules so either the timers have not been reset / policy read correctly or corruption has crept in

Hopefully after you re-created the schedules you ran the nbpemreq command, although a deletion and re-add may have forced the re-read anyway