STATUS CODE 49: The backup job fails with the error message "Client did not start (49)", but all the services/daemons are running fine, and it can communicate with other NetBackup systems without any issues.

Article: 100016886
Last Published: 2007-01-02
Ratings: 5 2
Product(s): NetBackup

Problem

STATUS CODE 49:The backup job fails with the error message "Client did not start (49)", but all the services/daemons are running fine, and it can communicate with other NetBackup systems without any issues.

Error Message

Client did not start (49) Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)

Solution

Overview:
Bbackup job fails the with error message Client did not start (49) when the bpbkar log file size is near 2GByte (2147483647Byte)

Troubleshooting:
This can be verified by running the bpbkar command, from the command line prompt as follows:

nbuserver# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar

Resolution:
If running the bpbkar commands results in a core-dumps and comes back to the command prompt with the following error message:,

Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)

check the size of the bpbkar log in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbkar directory. If the size of the log file ( log.mmddyy) is near 2GByte, renaming and/or deleting the log file may resolve the issue.
 

 

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