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SLP POLICIES ARE NOT RUNNING, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ACTIVE

sunday_fagbuaro
Level 2

Dear All,

Please i am having a challenge with my SLP policies. My backup jobs are running to disk but duplication to tape is not starting. I have been on this issue for over a week. I have 4 SLP policies apart from the one i created for the catalog. It is only the catalog SLP that runs from the disk to tape. The other 4 are not starting the duplication jobs.

I have restarted the Storage Lifecycle Policy service, i have restarted the backup servers, both the master and the media but the issue is still there steering at me in the face.

I need help please.

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MartinR1
Level 3

might be a silly question to start with but are secondary operations suspended on the SLPs?

GUI - storage - SLPs - they will have a red x on the name if it is suspended.

Marianne
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@sunday_fagbuaro

We need more info please...

Did you remember to change the Storage Unit in backup policies (Attributes or in Schedules) to SLP?

Can you give us one example of a policy (bppllist <policy-name> -U) and one SLP (nbstl <slp_name> -all_versions -L) ?

Have you tried to check SLP processing list? 
nbstlutil stlilist -image_incomplete -U

Thank you Martin for the prompt response.

All the concerns polices are active, they are not suspended.

One thing i don't understand is that Catalog SLP is running and the other ones are not.

 

@Marianne,

All the scheduled jobs are pointing to different SLPs. This is not  a new setup. Everything has been running smoothly until about a week ago that the issue surfaced.

Output of (bppllist <policy-name> -U)
C:\Windows\System32>bppllist BPR-001_VM -U
------------------------------------------------------------

Policy Name:       BPR-001_VM

  Policy Type:         VMware
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      03/03/2017 09:43:46
  File Restore Raw:    yes
  Application Consistent:    yes
  Block Incremental:   yes
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     0
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    no
  Residence:           BPR
  Volume Pool:         NetBackup
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       -
  Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    yes
  Application Discovery:      no
  Discovery Lifetime:      28800000 seconds
  ASC Application and attributes: (none defined)

  Granular Restore Info:  no
  Ignore Client Direct:  no
  Use Accelerator:  no
  HW/OS/Client:  vmx-08        windows8Serve 502f2931-bdf2-008b-461c-d37b9acb634c

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Full
    Type:                Full Backup
    Frequency:           every 7 days
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (2 days)
    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
    Daily Windows:
          Friday     21:07:30  -->  Friday     23:15:00

  Schedule:              Incremental
    Type:                Cumulative Incremental Backup
    Frequency:           every 1 day
     Excluded Dates----------
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Retention Level:     0 (2 days)
    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
    Daily Windows:
          Monday     20:57:30  -->  Monday     23:15:00
          Tuesday    20:57:30  -->  Tuesday    23:15:00
          Wednesday  20:57:30  -->  Wednesday  23:15:00
          Thursday   20:57:30  -->  Thursday   23:15:00
          Saturday   20:57:30  -->  Saturday   23:15:00

................................................................................................................................................................................................

 Output of (nbstl <slp_name> -all_versions -L)

C:\Windows\System32>nbstl BPR -all_versions -L
                                Name: BPR
                 Data Classification: (none specified)
            Duplication Job Priority: 151
                               State: active
                             Version: 2
 Operation  1                Use for: 0 (backup)
                             Storage: EBS-002_Additiona_Storage-stu
                         Volume Pool: (none specified)
                        Server Group: (none specified)
                      Retention Type: 0 (Fixed)
                     Retention Level: 23 (1 week)
               Alternate Read Server: (none specified)
               Preserve Multiplexing: false
      Enable Automatic Remote Import: false
                               State: active
                              Source: 0 (client)
                        Operation ID: (none specified)
                     Operation Index: 1
                         Window Name: --
                 Window Close Option: --
                Deferred Duplication: no
 Operation  2                Use for: 1 (duplication)
                             Storage: ebs-002-hcart3-robot-tld-0
                         Volume Pool: BPR
                        Server Group: Any
                      Retention Type: 0 (Fixed)
                     Retention Level: 52 (infinity)
               Alternate Read Server: ebs-002
               Preserve Multiplexing: false
      Enable Automatic Remote Import: false
                               State: active
                              Source: Operation 1 (backup:EBS-002_Additiona_Storage-stu)
                        Operation ID: (none specified)
                     Operation Index: 2
                         Window Name: Default_24x7_Window
                 Window Close Option: SFN
                Deferred Duplication: no

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As regards nbstlutil stlilist -image_incomplete -U, i have checked the SLP processing list, there are so many jobs that showing not started. See the sample output below

Image 502f2931-bdf2-008b-461c-d37b9acb634c_1525951817 for Lifecycle BPR is IN_PROCESS
  Copy to ebs-002-hcart3-robot-tld-0 of type DUPLICATE is NOT_STARTED

Thank you

Marianne
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The nbstl shows 'version 2' of the SLP. Are there previous versions in the output? 
When was the SLP changed recently? 

You may want to check a particular image-id for more details, e.g. 
nbstlutil -list -backupid <image-id> -U