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andrich
Level 4

Hello everybody!!!

I have a Netbackup Catalog Police running in three diferents schedules - DIARY, HOURLY and WEEKLY.

My DIARY schedule starts at 09h AM and keep for more than 24 hours running and don´t finish. So, I have to kill it.

Does anybody see something similar in your NB Catalog ?

Thanks

 

 

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Marianne
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Look at your schedules - seems Inline Tape Copy is configured. I would remove NFS destination as a start.

Please post your catalog policy config:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist <policy-name> -U

 

bptm and bpbkar log files are correct ones, but you need to allow it to finish in order to find useful info.

The bpbkar test suggested by revaroo will start a local backup of the folder that you specify in the command and write the backup to /dev/null. This is how we test local read speed of the disk/filesystem where the folder is located.
The command will run in the background.
'ps -ef' or 'bpps' will show the bpbkar process.
Once finished, you can check result in bpbkar log.
See this TN for more info:
Measuring disk performance with bpbkar
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO56131

 

 

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mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

How big is the catalog ?

If it is large, this could be 'normal' .

If it is not large, then it could be simply poor backup performance.

To get the size, how big are the contents of these two directories (and everything under them)

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin

/usr/openv/db

Thanks,

 

Martin

revarooo
Level 6
Employee

mph, think you meant /usr/openv/netbackup/db not /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

andrich
Level 4

Martin

These are my directories that you mentioned. Are you sure they contain my catalog?

-bash-3.00# cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin
-bash-3.00# du -h .
   1K   ./bprd_child
   1K   ./bprd_parent
 1.8M   ./driver
 2.5M   ./goodies/support
 948K   ./goodies/man
  96K   ./goodies/misc/Linux/RedHat2.4
  98K   ./goodies/misc/Linux
 518K   ./goodies/misc/ALPHA/OSF1_V5
 520K   ./goodies/misc/ALPHA
 644K   ./goodies/misc/PC-IA64/WindowsXP
 645K   ./goodies/misc/PC-IA64
 157K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000/AIX5
 157K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000/AIX4.3.3
 315K   ./goodies/misc/RS6000
 180K   ./goodies/misc/SGI/IRIX65
 182K   ./goodies/misc/SGI
 518K   ./goodies/misc/PC/WindowsNT
 520K   ./goodies/misc/PC
 104K   ./goodies/misc/Solaris/Solaris7
 106K   ./goodies/misc/Solaris
  98K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800/HP-UX11.11
  98K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800/HP-UX11.00
 198K   ./goodies/misc/HP9000-800
 2.5M   ./goodies/misc
  17K   ./goodies/mediascripts
  11M   ./goodies
   2K   ./bprd.d
   4K   ./bpsched.d
  12M   ./support
 188K   ./private
 101K   ./cluster/suncluster
  66K   ./cluster/vcs
 924K   ./cluster/util
 1.2M   ./cluster
   1K   ./bpdbm_parent
 116M   ./admincmd
   1K   ./bpdbm_child
 453M   .
-bash-3.00# cd /usr/openv/db/
-bash-3.00# du -h .
   1K   ./staging
   8K   ./tix
 132K   ./scripts/wdata
 4.1M   ./scripts
   1K   ./shared
 2.5M   ./charsets/unicode
 2.5M   ./charsets
 3.9M   ./log
  47K   ./help/dbadm
  49K   ./help
  37M   ./bin
  19M   ./lib
 192M   ./data
 1.0M   ./res
 260M   .
 

 

andrich
Level 4

Thanks for replying. Thats my /usr/openv/netbackup/db output.

How can I check if the Catalog backup is runnig ok?

And how can I see how much bytes has it backup up?

 

 11K   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000/tmp
  34M   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000/catstore
  34M   ./images/svapldesenv/1342000000
   9K   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/tmp/catstore
  11K   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/tmp
  17M   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000/catstore
  17M   ./images/svapldesenv/1344000000
  68M   ./images/svapldesenv
  97G   ./images
 

revarooo
Level 6
Employee

Do you have bpbkar log (on the master) and bptm log (on the media server that is backing up the catalog) setup? If so, post the logs that match the time of the backup.

 

andrich
Level 4

Here are the files....

revarooo
Level 6
Employee

bpbkar seems to have stopped here:

08:23:51.802 [27863] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/schedule/

 

Run at the unix command prompt (logged in as root):

bpbkar -nocont /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/ > /dev/null 2>&1

It should return to the command prompt, if it doesn't check the bpbkar log, is it stuck on the file above?

 

andrich
Level 4

That´s the output:

-bash-3.00# bpbkar -nocont /opt/openv/netbackup/db/class/_svts2-files/ > /dev/null 2>&1
-bash-3.00#
 

It returned to the prompt. What does this comand do ?

mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

Opps, yes I did - thank you for correcting this

 

jim_dalton
Level 6

It destroys your catalog and policies...it'll run much faster now, just you see.

jim_dalton
Level 6

Only joking,,,it backs up that directory and below and throws the backup in the bin, ie it just read the data, a test to see if it can read the data.And it can.

mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

Wonder if this is relevant - not quite the same, but closeish ...

 

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH71176

BTLOMS
Level 5

what speed does it run at? Running to tape or Disk ?

andrich
Level 4

mph, thanks for the link.

Sajeev, my netbackup runs two copies. The first one in LTO2 tape and the second to a NFS mounted in the netbakup server.

Take a look in my rate transfer. Its ridiculous.

Marianne
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Have you tried to just run to one destination at a time?

with Inline tape copy backup speed will be limited to the speed of the slowest device.

It is probably the NFS destination that is so slow.

LTO2 destination (cannot believe these old devices are still in use) - locally attached to the master or to a media server?

andrich
Level 4

Marianne

My master and media server are the same machine (Sun Fire V490).

How can I run the Catalog for just one destination?

Where are the Catalog logs that can show me if its running ok ?

Thanks a lot.

Andrich

 

Marianne
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Look at your schedules - seems Inline Tape Copy is configured. I would remove NFS destination as a start.

Please post your catalog policy config:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist <policy-name> -U

 

bptm and bpbkar log files are correct ones, but you need to allow it to finish in order to find useful info.

The bpbkar test suggested by revaroo will start a local backup of the folder that you specify in the command and write the backup to /dev/null. This is how we test local read speed of the disk/filesystem where the folder is located.
The command will run in the background.
'ps -ef' or 'bpps' will show the bpbkar process.
Once finished, you can check result in bpbkar log.
See this TN for more info:
Measuring disk performance with bpbkar
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO56131

 

 

andrich
Level 4

Thanks everybody

Reading all the posts, the correct decision is changing my LTO destination to a LTO4 and make the Catalog DISK copy to a local disk and not a NFS.

Andrich