Staduts 10. Allocation failed

[Carlos_V]

Hello everyone

We need to backup a big FS on AIX 5.3, this FS has a size around 400GB. My question is What can i do to backup this files?

Please help me whit this issue.

Regards.

[J_H_Is_gone]

You just be able to do just a normal backup on it.

So are you having issues?  is it a jfs or jfs2 files system or something else?

(also give us your os type of master server, and what version of netbackup you are using)

[Carlos_V]

Yes I have issues, I can't backup those files . We use jfs2. The os type of master server is AIX 5.3 and the version of NB is 6.5.6.

Regards

[Marianne]

JFS and JFS2 filesystems are supported, but not Extended Attributes or Named Data Streams.

Could you please post bpbkar log for this client as well as policy output (bppllist <policy-name> -U).

Also post contents of Activity Monitor Details tab (just to give us a bit more info).

Please post bpbkar log as attachment.

[Carlos_V]

Ok, I attached the required information.

Regards

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Apologies Carlos - I totally missed your reply...

Have a look at this TN: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76719

GENERAL ERROR : Status 10 on AIX client, the bpbkar process produces "bpbkar read_and_sort_dir_entries: FTL - dir_list_rec malloc failed. Errno = 12:" messages in the log when backing up a file system that contains too many small files

CAUSE:
 

Root cause of this issue was caused by lack of program data memory on AIX system. In AIX, 32-bit applications may access one segment(256MB) of program data memory by default.
 

SOLUTION:
 

Increased the amount of the memory to 2 gig using the command below and the filesystem backup in the production enviernment completed successfully without any memory issue.
 

 #  ldedit -b maxdata:0x80000000 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar
 

Note: The command above should be executed when no bpbkar process runs on the system otherwise it won't be changed to 2GB.
 

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You seem to be using Client Compression in your policy?

As a start, turn it off, as this features increases memory usage on the client.

[Carlos_V]

Hi Marinne, don´t worry.

When we make the change I´ll comment you. Thank you very much.

Take care.