VMware Backup failed with Bpstart notify failed 73 after BLIP enabled in Vmware policy

[Ramkumar_S]

Hi All,

I have issue after enabled BLIP in VMware policy. All the Jobs are getting failed with Bpstart notify failed 73.

Master Server - Widows server 2008R2 - NetBackup 7.5.0.6

Media Server - SuSe Linux - NetBackup 7.5.0.5

Please Help on this.

[RamNagalla]

please provide more details.

1) what is the backup host

2) what is the Vcenter and VMware hardware version for the VMs that are failing..?

also provide the failed job detail status.

[sri_vani]

Hello Ram,

Please provide the details as requetsed above. Also ref the below link and get back to us

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH182631

[Ramkumar_S]

We are facing the issue for nearly 150 VM clients.

Vcenter version - 5.0.0

VM Version : 8 and 7

Note : If we uncheck the "Enable Block Level Incremental" option, the Backup gets successful.

And we are have two Media servers using for VM Backup one is windows and another is SuSe Linux.

We are facing this issue with only on SuSe Linux media server.

[Marianne]

Have you had a look at TECH182631 yet? Link in above post.........

[Ramkumar_S]

Hi,

I gone through above link.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

Pls clarify me, where the BPSTART_RES file will be exist or need to be created, whether in Master server or media server?

[Marianne]

According to the TN, check on the VMware backup host.

[sri_vani · Accepted solution]

If the error occurs and no BPSTART_RES file exists, on the VMware backup host or the NetBackup client, copy a blank bpstart_notify script from /netbackup/bin/goodies into the /netbackup/bin folder and rename it to be specific to the NetBackup policy with BLIB enabled.

[Ramkumar_S]

Hi all,

Backup gets succeeded after copied the script of bpstart_notify.policyname in off host server /netbackup/bin directory.

Whether we should add bpstart_notify script for every individual policy, since we have more than 50 Backup policies configured in our Backup domain. Is any other way to add this script commonly for all the policies.