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Strange backup job policy starting with __

snarayanaswamy
Level 3

Hi VOX,

 I recently did a test upgrade of Netbackup Master Server from 7.7.1 to 8.1.

I see in Activity Monitor some jobs are in failed status from job policy starting with __DSSU_POLICY_tape-med00x-dsu, We don't have a backup policy of this type.

Any idea from where this job policy is getting triggered.

We donot see the policy listed in bppllist as well.

# ./bppllist
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs013
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs014
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs019
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs022
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs027
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs031_fs033
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs034_fs036
SB2_offsite_arcs_fs035
SC9-GFS6-BIGHORN-SNAPSHOT
hot_catalog_backup
hot_catalog_backup_disk_oneoff
med005_test
med005_test_2
med005_test_6
med005_test_61
nr_15m_tape-med001x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_15m_tape-med002x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_15m_tape-med003x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_15m_tape-med004x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_15m_tape-med005x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_15m_tape-med006x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med001x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med002x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med003x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med004x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med005x.adm.svale.netledger.com
nr_3m_tape-med006x.adm.svale.netledger.com
one-off_TT-88119_11gSignup
payroll_a
payroll_b
prod_offsite_arcs_fs10
prod_offsite_arcs_fs3
prod_offsite_other
prod_offsite_salt_source_code
signup_fs002
test_BKP2
test_BKP3
test_nr_3m_tape-med005x.adm.svale.netledger.com

I have tried disabling all of the above policy, We are still seeing jobs been run with this job policy __DSSU_POLICY_tape-med00x-dsu

Let us know if any one has faced similar issue.

Regards

Sreedhar Narayanaswamy

 

 

2 REPLIES 2

RiaanBadenhorst
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That job is coming from a disk storage unit trying to duplicate images to tape. Disk staging storage unit i.e DSSU. Check the properties of your disk storage units and you’ll probably find one or more that have a schedule with an associate tape storage unit.

It might have been reactivated by/after the upgrade.

Thanks for the update will check it.