11-15-2011 11:48 PM
I have a monster backup that is about 600 Gigs, and seems to work about twice a year....The latest error is
db_FLISTsend failed: network read failed (42)
Now reading http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH56033 This seems to suggest an issue between the media server and the master server. Now what to do when these are on the same server?
I added another media server yesterday whilst this was in the middle of its backup, could this be a problem?
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11-21-2011 09:12 AM
bpimagelist.exe -idonly -d 11/01/2011 -policy grub-bak_san
Use level 9 for infinity and keep the rest (10-24) for customized levels (e.g. 5 years, 7 years, etc...)
11-16-2011 12:06 AM
This look like a timing issue. Set CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT on both the client and master/media server to 3600 (1 hour). Re-try the operation.
11-16-2011 02:56 AM
Have kicked it off again - It will take 3 days. Ill let you know How it goes, going sooo slowly at present.
I also disabled open file support, as its backing up a drive snapshot
11-16-2011 06:39 AM
Hope you have Checkpoint restart enabled in the policy!
You did not mention OS or NBU version? Have a look at this TN and see if it is relevant to your environment:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH154382
You can also try to split the filesystem into different streams, e.g.
NEW_STREAM
X:\folder\folder1
X:\folder\folder2
NEW_STREAM
X:\folder\folder3
X:\folder\folder4
X:\folder\folder5
NEW_STREAM
X:\folder\folder6
.....
in conjunction with Allow Multiple Data Streams in the policy attributes.
This will give you an additional level of checkpoint restart. Reading 2 streams (or more) at the same speed as the single stream will get backups to run twice as fast as single stream.
We have seen a customer's F&P data backing up in a couple of hours running 4 streams. Previously it ran from Friday night into Monday morning.
11-16-2011 05:36 PM
I suppose there millions of files placed on the drive. Target is snapshot drive, so you can use raw partition backup for it. Consider other options listed below.
Marrianne's multi-streaming suggestion is useful if you can assign multiple streams(jobs) from storage unit for this backup.
11-21-2011 08:44 AM
Windows Server 2003 - Netbackup v7 - backing up a 3 SAN drives that are mounted at backup time. Windows sees them as local drives.
Argh failed again - This time with three streams. But only the monthly that I started manually. The weekly ran just fine, how very odd.
Right now I really need to convert the retention of the successful weekly backup into a "infinite" like level 24.
I have been using bpimagelist and I can find the three streams listed, but I need to find the backupid !
11-21-2011 09:12 AM
bpimagelist.exe -idonly -d 11/01/2011 -policy grub-bak_san
Use level 9 for infinity and keep the rest (10-24) for customized levels (e.g. 5 years, 7 years, etc...)
11-21-2011 09:52 AM