See...that's the thing. Symantec is not straight forward with the proper Master Server hardware recommendations. It's side stepped answers and vague responses. I guess the fact is, they don't really know what to recommend with your Netbackup domain reaches a certain size, and load. We didn't have the same issues under Netbackup 6.0 MP4. But at the same time, we've ran Netbackup 6.0 MP5 for some time before we actually saw serious system performance issues. All four of the v440's 1.5Ghz CPU's get pegged out with dozens of bpdbm processes running. Considering the problems many people have talked about concerning bpdbm and 6.0 MP5, I'm moving to Netbackup 6.5.1. Until I exhaust "software patches and upgrades" I will be unable to get management to swing for a shiny new server. -- Mike Sponsler ________________________________
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:43 PM To: Jeff Lightner Cc: Tharp, Trey; Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbm acting wacky -- NB 6.0 MP5 On 4/29/08, Jeff Lightner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uh oh - you've dared to say something negative about Aptare - that simply is NOT done in this forum. :-) It certainly is. If there's something we don't like about them, we should be open to discussing it here (or on their own forums, although this is more independent). Let's just say they're not on my favorite vendor list with their 6.5 upgrade... And yeah, I know they're listening/reading but I'm not telling them anything they don't already know. As for StorageConsole creating load on the master, of course that's going to be true. You can't do the work any other way. Getting back to the original poster, a v440 with 16GB of RAM managing 60 media/SAN media servers sounds like it's way underpowered to me. I believe this server was released over 5 years ago... You'd probably be able to roll in a T2000 with way more power and pay for it on the first year maintenance costs alone. .../Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tharp, Trey Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:49 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbm acting wacky -- NB 6.0 MP5 The bpdbm parent process spawns a child for just about everything it does. So, if you have script or reporting tools that are running bpimagelist, bpmedialist, bpmedia, bpexpdate, etc. it will create child bpdbm processes for all of those. Aptare is infamous for creating lots of these and driving load up on a master server. -Trey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:05 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpdbm acting wacky -- NB 6.0 MP5 Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP5 Master server. My bpdbm process is acting wacky (I think...I've never noticed this behavior before). I've actually got 14 bpdbm processes running, but also 38 active jobs currently. The logs for my in netbackup/logs/bpdbm are very large...around 2 gigs per day's log file. I'm seeing such inforation in there as: image_by_file: processing file /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/1157000000/<hostname>-Oracle-B ackup_1157475027_UBAK expdate: no match for /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/12030000000/<hoststname>-Oracl e-Backup_1203468053_INCR by bp.conf file has: VERBOSE = 1 ENABLE_ROBUST_LOGGING = NO But the thing is, I've noticed some information in my bpdbm logs talking about Informix backups that we haven't done in almost 2 years since we've moved to Oracle. The backups are long since expired...so why is Netbackup processing those files? On my master server, I'm running Solaris 10 on a v440 w/ 16 gigs of RAM, 4 CPU's running @ 1593 Mhz. I do have a large netbackup domain...60 Media & SAN Media servers, ~30 clients...but my Master server sees constant 100% cpu utilization. The Server slows down, and locks up. Could this be related to bpdbm checking all the files in the catalog, and spawning so many bpdbm processes? -- Mike Sponsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If I've helped you, please make a donation to my favorite charity at http://firstgiving.com/edwilts
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