Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
  1. About using the Troubleshooting Guide
    1.  
      About this guide
    2.  
      About the intended audience
    3.  
      About contacting Technical Support
    4.  
      About troubleshooting the NetBackup Appliance
  2. Best practices
    1.  
      About best practices
    2.  
      Determining the NetBackup Appliance serial number
    3.  
      About Fibre Channel HBA card configuration verification
    4.  
      About Notification settings
    5.  
      About IPMI configuration
    6.  
      About password management and recovery
    7.  
      About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
    8.  
      About enabling BMR options
    9.  
      About deleting users
  3. About troubleshooting tools
    1.  
      Tools for troubleshooting the NetBackup Appliance
    2.  
      About hardware monitoring
    3.  
      Troubleshooting and tuning appliance from the Appliance Diagnostics Center
    4. About NetBackup support utilities
      1.  
        NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
      2.  
        NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
  4. Working with log files
    1.  
      About NetBackup Appliance log files
    2.  
      About the Collect Log files wizard
    3.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    4.  
      Where to find NetBackup Appliance log files using the Browse command
    5.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command
    6.  
      About gathering information for NetBackup-Java applications
    7.  
      Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
  5. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      About disaster recovery
    2.  
      Disaster recovery best practices
    3. Disaster recovery scenarios
      1. Appliance sustained power interruption
        1.  
          Restoring operation to a NetBackup Appliance following a power outage
        2.  
          Restoring operation to a NetBackup Appliance with external storage following a power outage
      2. Appliance hardware failure
        1.  
          Removing and replacing hardware components
        2.  
          Setting a NetBackup 5330 storage shelf component to the Service Allowed mode
      3.  
        Complete loss of appliance with recoverable operating system drives and attached storage disks
      4. Complete loss of appliance with recoverable attached storage disks
        1.  
          Reimaging a NetBackup appliance from the USB drive
        2.  
          Reconfiguring a 52xx master server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
        3.  
          Configuring a master server to communicate with an appliance media server
        4.  
          Reconfiguring a 52xx or 5330 media server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
        5.  
          About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on NetBackup appliances
      5.  
        Complete loss of appliance and attached storage disks
      6.  
        NetBackup Appliance software corruption
      7. NetBackup Appliance database corruption
        1.  
          Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
        2.  
          About appliance rollback validation
      8. NetBackup Appliance catalog corruption
        1.  
          Starting a factory reset from the appliance shell menu
      9.  
        NetBackup Appliance operating system corruption
  6. NetBackup Appliance error messages
    1.  
      About NetBackup Appliance error messages
    2.  
      Error messages displayed during initial configuration
    3.  
      Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
    4.  
      Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    5.  
      NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Appliance

NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Appliance

This section lists the NetBackup error that can occur while, working with a NetBackup Appliance. It helps you to resolve the issues based on the corresponding error messages:

Table: NetBackup status codes

NetBackup status code

Message

Explanation

13

file read failed

A read of a file or socket failed.

48

client host name cannot be found

The system function gethostbyname() failed to find the client's host name.

83

media open error

The tape manager (bptm) or disk manager (bpdm) did not open the device or file that the backup or restore must use.

84

media write error

The system's device driver returned an I/O error while NetBackup wrote to removable media or a disk file.

89

problems encountered during setup of shared memory

The NetBackup processes use shared memory for some operations. This status is returned when an error is encountered in the initialization of the shared memory by the operating system's APIs.

213

no storage units available for use

The NetBackup resource broker (nbrb) did not find any storage units available for use. Either all storage units are unavailable or all storage units are configured for On demand only. In addition, the policy and schedule does not require a specific storage unit.

242

operation would cause an illegal duplication

If the request is processed, it causes a duplicate entry (for example, in the catalog or the configuration database). A duplicate catalog entry is usually due to a mistake in the specification of media IDs for NetBackup catalog backups.

1500

Invalid storage unit

The storage unit or storage unit group specified for one or more destinations in storage lifecycle policy is not valid.

For more information on NetBackup status codes, refer to NetBackup™ Status Codes Reference Guide.

More Information

NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Appliance

Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console

Error messages displayed during initial configuration