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horly · 12-14-2009

Hi Folks, I have been getting a lot of backup jobs failed with error code 52 i.e bptm timout. Upon going thru logs/bptm/log.<mmddyy> , i noticed the part where bptm gave up was 15:59:47.618 [21913] <2> write_backup: media id W425L2 mounted on dr...

horly · 12-14-2009

Hi All, not sure if this question has been posted before, but my netbackup server only seems to stick to one drive i.e drive index 2 ( /dev/rmt/3cbn) , for all its backup job. When that drive is in use, the other scheduled jobs will be "queued" . ...

horly · 03-03-2009

Hi Guys, thanks to SunBird and Stumpr for helping out previously with the error 96 with my netbackup. Is that a way to just restore the tape meta information from the catalog ? I want to be able to restore the files from 2 tapes, which I am brought ...

horly · 02-12-2009

Hi All,A netbackup newbie here.The SUN veritas netbackup support is crap, so as a last resort i'm turning to this Forum . I think that my netbackup is writing ot the wrong volume pool The problematic client is subctuxs1 and the policy name is TEST_SU...

horly · 12-16-2009

Hi Guys, I am fairly convinced that I should do a device reconfigure now : ) Before I do that, here's some stumbling blocks i forsee 1) I think i am using the SSO option in netbackup, because my L100 tape lib is shared by 5 media servers. 2) On...

horly · 12-16-2009

Hi Nicolai, It's is possible. If there is no End of Data marker (EOD) of a tape you will get similar error. A missing EOD marker could be a result of SAN or power failure during write operation. A LTO tape have a index at the beginning of tape, that...

horly · 12-15-2009

Hi Nicolai, thanks for posting. But I did a positive control on the tape drive, i.e by using a different tape drive. It also gave the same error. Seems to me that the tape/media is somehow "corrupted" . Is this possible ?

horly · 12-14-2009

Hi Andy, just checked out on the 'Max Jobs/Policy' . its set to 'Unlimited' for ALL my policies. So we have ruled that out for now. I have also manually ran 2 jobs at the time, which use different volume pools. The 2nd job ends up being Que'ed ...

horly · 12-14-2009

Hi Andy, The way you have it set up I would expect 3 jobs to run at any one time (one to each drive) with the remainder Q'ing. Unless you have a max jobs per policy set to one which is another area you could check. Any idea where can i check that se...

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"io_position_for_write" failing causing error code 52 ( bptm timeout ), any clues ?

netbackup seems to use only 1 drive, when there is total of 3 drives

Is it possible to just restore the tape meta information from the catalog ?

SUN Netbkup Support is Crap ! Need help on why policy is using the wrong volume pool .

Hi Guys, I am fairly

Hi Nicolai, It's is possible.

Hi Nicolai, thanks for

Hi Andy,just check on the

Hi Andy, The way you have it