Jeffrey Krueger wrote:

Moshe: You can create the directory "ndmp" in your netbackup logs directory (ours is /usr/openv/netbackup/logs, not sure about yours) on the NBU server to cause it to create the debug logs Steve mentioned. Be forewarned that they get big fast, and that simultaneous dump processes output is intermixed forcing you to match the PID on each line to the bptm process for the backup you are interested in. NBU NDMP debug info is also intermixed, so you'll want to look for lines that match this:

<date> <time> [<bptm PID>]-Log:<dump/restore output from filer>

By default the ndmp logs should only have error messages. But avrd polls all UP and free devices every 15 seconds or so and not having a NDMP tape mounted results in NDMP_IO_ERR for that.

To get more info in there you need a numeric value in the file /usr/openv/volmgr/database/ndmp_debug

If you use 65535 it will fill your disk quickly with lots of stuff you aren't interested in. (Not to mention slow things down.)

The value is actually a mask constructed of the bits defined in the ndmp.org SDK. I have never tried it but you might get a value of 8192 to put log entries in there without adding a lot of other stuff. If it doesn't do that... like I said, this is an undocumented/unsupported log :)

__________________________________________________________________________ Steve Kappel steve.kappel@veritas.com VERITAS Software steve.kappel@iname.com (Personal)