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James_Perry · 04-01-2011

I just installed NB 7.1 on a shiny new RHEL 6.0 box. This morning I was having issues and found the nbemm and nbrb were not running, so started them manually. Seems after a reboot they did not come up on their own. Doing a vxlogview on all of the l...

James_Perry · 12-05-2008

I have an NFS mounted disk backup appliance on Gig-E, I have a backup setup to do 3 streams to split up 3 TB of data to be backed up. When I run tape against against these streams I get about 20-23 MB/s for each stream to LTO-1 drives. When I run ...

James_Perry · 02-26-2010

I found that this worked like a charm on my Linux servers without needing to reconfigure OS level logging. Just adding the one line into /etc/xinetd.d/vnetd removed the tons of messages. Now my message logs will be a lot cleaner going forward.

James_Perry · 02-22-2010

Under the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm on Unix/Linux there are daily logs, provides the directory exists to tell NetBackup to use that log directory, that track the status of tape and simple disk backups. Below is the information I found in the...

James_Perry · 02-22-2010

Not sure this is the issue you are having but since you are doing a Differential Incremental Backup then it may be that you are facing some processing and/or preprocessing delays as NetBackup scans all of the files looking for the archive bit on the ...

James_Perry · 02-22-2010

HP provides a free product called HP Library and Tape Tools that is free to download and use for HP OEM libraries. It will allow you to do various levels of testing to ensure that you can read/write to the tape drives as well as pull diagnostic logs...

James_Perry · 02-22-2010

I had a similar problem in the past when we changed from 5 to 6 due to some changes in BP Vault. My master runs on Unix but you should still be able to do this on about any host type, just how depends on your platform (I am not completely sure of Wi...

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Multiple stream disk backup runs at an avg 25 MB/s but once down to 1 stream speed drops to 1-2MB/s.

This did the trick very well for Linux!

Look at the BPTM logs

Turn up logging and look for processing delays

Use HP Utilities to test the tape drive / library.

Quick clear for Catalog Tape