About recovering the netbackup media server disk for unix 153. The netbackup services are not running on the media server with msdp configured spoold. However, the pool is not behaving as we expected for fail over. The disk pool is mounted on the mediaserver and without errors. When the disk is reattached, it will get the correct open mode normalndelay on the partitions that exist after label change. When a drive pool is created using multiple drives, a single virtual device pool 1 in this case is formed. Netbackup status code 219 indicates that the storage unit is unavailable.
Modifying netbackup catalogs when the server that wrote the media is unavailable. Netbackup jobs still read from and write to a disk pool that has a downed volume, but the downed volume is unavailable. After reboot, you can add the released letter for your drive. Veritas netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide. Install netbackup server software on each netbackup server that has a peripheral that you want to.
Code was fixed to reset normal mode open when the dmp disk is detached from the ldom. Sign in to myqnapcloud to securely access your remote qnap devices, manage your nas from anywhere, and share files easily. Windows msdp disk pool is down, backups and duplications. Another option to deal with limited disk space is to add more disk storage and move images to the new location, followed. Disk storage volume is intermittently being marked.
Downloading the device mapping files about configuring robots and tape drives in netbackup. Backup jobs to ost disk storage are queuing reporting the. When making a udfs disk pool unavailable using ibm navigator for i, messages might be generated that require a response in the characterbased interface. This state means that zfs was unable to open the device when the pool was first accessed, or the device has since become unavailable. Select your product to download operating system, utility, applications, document and check compatibility. Netbackup 5020 can also be used as a deduplicated storage target for netbackup backups, if source deduplication is not preferred on specific clients. I had this problem on 3 netbackup 5220 appliance that version 2.
If suse 10 osbased bmr boot server is not available, please contact symantec. The jobs are queuing as netbackup calculates the size of all the jobs that are active based on their raw size not the deduplicated size and determines any new backup jobs would potentially overcommit or fill the storage. Pdf veritas netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide. Netbackup selects disk volumes based on available capacity and predicted size of the backup. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. Start the netbackup administration console and click configure disk storage servers. Netbackup tries to write backup data to a single volume. See configuring a cifs disk volume for advanceddisk encryption on page 29. Be question 10 the symantec netbackup administrator is concerned that the media server deduplication pool is using more space than estimated.
In the production system, not recommended to create msdp on master server. Symantec netbackup openstoragesolutionsguide for disk. Unix or linux msdp disk pool is down, backups and duplications failing with status 2, no storage units available for use. Ensure that the storage server points to a valid resource pool in the datafabric manager server.
If a device cannot be opened, it displays the unavail state in the zpool status output. Master server marking media server disk pool as of. When you have the storage array assembled, use the storage management software to group a collection of drives into one or more disk pools, volume groups, or a mix of disk pools and volume groups. Optionally, configure cifs disk volumes step 6 see configuring an advanceddisk disk pool on page 30. External storage connected to the windows server through a dedicated hba. On the additional disk pool information page, select disk pool name 1, high water mark 2 and low water mark 3.
Once set up, the appliance simply appears as a disk pool within netbackup and can be controlled via netbackup. Next, rightclick the drive letter that you want and choose rename from the rightclick menu to change the letter to any other unused letter, which will free up the selected one. Symantec netbackup 7 incorrect disk pool available space. Volume naming and groups for netbackup world history wiki. On the volume selection page, select storage server volumes to add to the disk pool. Netbackup saves the new properties of the disk pool. A puredisk pddo or msdp disk pool is in a down internaldown state causing backups to fail with a status code 2 or 2074 or 191 article. The issues has occured when trying to remove a msdp storage server, either because the filesystem where it resides has been corrupted or for other reasons have gone missing, or where the. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. A disk pool is a collection of 11 or more drives in a storage array that have the same spindle speed, the same security level, and preferably the same capacity to make the most efficient use of the drives. If you believe that the disk is too full that should be more than normally.
Targeting a job to this drive pool pool1 rather than targeting the job to an individual device will provide fault tolerance and maximize hardware efficiency. Either correct the command or verify that all netbackup view all courses register for this course this course covers the general principles of using netbackup to develop and implement a storage management strategy. Install netbackup server software on each netbackup server that has a peripheral that you. You can select an independent disk pool to make it unavailable vary it off. Netbackup job fails because of unavailable resource. Home directory plugins backup and recovery netbackup check netbackup media volume pool size. This article describes how to install veritas netbackup 8. The disk pools available space isnt being reported correctly, so netbackup thinks that the disk pool is full and backups to that disk pool results in status 129 errors disk pool full, insufficent disk space. Inventorying a netbackup disk pool veritas netbackup. Since the ost storage deduplicates the data the jobs would only. How to configure netbackup media server deduplication pool. The following errors appear in disk pool logs several times. Symantec netbackup openstoragesolutionsguide for disk unix, windows, linux release 7. Netbackup compatibility lists and checkers compatibility list, database, operating system.
The netbackup msdp media server is so busy that that the disk pool gets marked as down. For instance, this weekend, zdrive hit its low disk threshold of 100 gigs, and the backup job froze, even though it was backing up to the pool that combines ydrive and zdrive. You cannot access any of the disk units or objects in the independent disk pool or its corresponding database until it is made available varied on again. An ost plugin that you install on each media server.
Through the cloud storage wizard, once you create the bucket, the bucket isnt listed in the wizard, and therefore you cannot go on to create the disk pool. Disk pools and volume groups can coexist on the same storage array, but cannot share the same set of drives. You can start using a variety of qnap member services. If you share the volumes in an advanceddisk disk pool with other users, netbackup cannot manage disk pool capacity or storage lifecycle policies correctly. Select vary off from the context menu of the independent disk pool that you want to make unavailable. Symantec netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide. Backups to a disk storage unit dsu intermittent fails with status code 2074 and an emm status. Jul 19, 2012 a vtl presents a storage component usually hard disk storage as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software. Aug 05, 2010 it will also be included in netbackup v7. When the disk pool is marked as down the server does not seem to be under any great load and communication and networking between the master and media servers is also ok. Next, lets see the fourth reason for losing drive letters. To accept the disk pool changes, click ok in the change disk pool dialog box. A progress panel is displayed that shows the current step in the process.
Some netbackup jobs are affected by the failure of a disk in an advanceddisk pool, but the jobs are unavailable to view in the activity monitor. Netbackup future platform and feature plans view the future plans for netbackup. Netbackup cloud storage server and amazon s3 nine productions. If you choose mastermedia, you get the following warning. Which statement applies to a netbackup calendar based schedule in a windows policy type. On the disk pool configuration summary page, verify the. Yesterday, i noticed quite a few errors being reported by 1 disk in 1 vdev. How to create storage unit stu on netbackup advanced disk. Click configure disk pool to create pools of disk volumes for backup by one or more media servers.
The physical size is the disk pool raw size in netbackup. Jan 19, 2016 how to use disk pools with multiple hosts, including best practices for identifying which hosts should use each disk pool and which hosts should not have access. Enable tracing and check if netapp plugin for symantec netbackup takes more than 60 seconds to respond to the api request. The pool can be made available again on the same system or another system in the recovery domain of the cluster resource group. If the map is not available or the f file does not contain this entry. Change the trace option value to true in the g file. Symantec netbackup administrators guide, volume ii zedat.
In which two places can the administrator view netbackup jobs affected by the disk failure. Lately i have run into some issues with netbackup and mediaserver deduplication. Before you install or use netbackup on a linux client, verify that the bpcd. You can have only one scratch volume pool per netbackup environment. Once the file is in place, please restart netbackup daemonsservices. In the change disk pool dialog box, select one of the following two choices. Setting up a cde for the netbackup interfaces on unix. Aug 17, 2010 a drive pool is a collection of multiple tape drives in a single pool. We are trying out a device pool that combines ydrive and zdrive. In the main window of the netbackup administrator console, click configure disk pools to launch the disk pool configuration wizard. If necessary, backup images span disk volumes in a disk pool. Jul 22, 20 if you believe that the disk is too full that should be more than normally.
About configuring disk pool storage inventorying a netbackup disk pool. Troubleshooting msdp with disk pool regularly goin. Symantec netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide unix, windows, linux release 7. Logging in to the netbackup administration console.
Check netbackup media volume pool size nagios exchange. Which two are used to change the status of a disk pool. Im trying this with netbackup enterprise on windows 2008 r2 ent. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Downloading the device mapping files about configuring robots and tape drives in. The disk pool configuration wizard page is displayed, which is where you define media servers for use in a disk pool. After startup of netbackup on a server with media server. Carrom disc pool is an easytoplay multiplayer board game. Netbackup can use the disk pool, but it may no longer match the intended purpose of the storage unit or storage lifecycle policy. Netbackup hotfix and eeb release auditor find out the releases which the eebs are included in. Nagios live webinars let our experts show you how nagios can help your organization.
Symantec netbackup administrators guide, volume ii. Aug 31, 2018 this article describes how to install veritas netbackup 8. Normally, this is quickly reached after the startup of the process but if for example there area large number transaction logs tlogs outstanding this can take an extended length of time. Security services at and az are installed as part of the netbackup install. Hitachi protection platform netbackup ost best practices. I have a toplevel pool that consists of 3 vdevs, each of which is a raidz1 pool, so up to 3 disks can fail assuming that they all belong to different vdevs and data integrity is intact. Exclude macafee from scanning the netbackup images files in the dsu area. For example below, the disk pool was unavailable for over an hour after a restart of netbackup on the media server. For more information, see the netbackup cloud administrators guide. On the disk pool configuration summary page, verify the disk pool configuration. Cloud storage server configuration wizard disk pool configuration wizard click configure cloud storage servers to add or configure a cloud provider. Step 7 configure a disk pool configuring advanceddisk configuring the advanceddisk option 14. With this fix, dmp disk will have to reattached to the ldom only once after the disk labels change.