NB 6.0 MP3: error 71 when backuping empty directory

[Zapmin]

Hello,

Here is my environment:

- Netbackup 6.0 Server on Windows 2003 RC2 (master / media on the same machine),

- This machine used as a client to backup a network path on a NAS,

- backup selection as an UNC path, uses wilcards ( \\nas_name\vol0$\~snapshot\nightly.0\* )

Netbackup generates 10 jobs (multistreaming / multiplexing enable)
I got a code 71 error (none of the files in the file list exist) when backuping an empty directory. Other jobs are working perfectly.

Is it a known bug ? Any Idea ?

On Netbackup 5.1, I could have checked the /Netbackup/db/client/[client_name]/STREAM and removed the file to force the reprocessing of the streams but it's different on Netbackup 6.0 with EMM and I don't know how to do that.

Thanks.

 

[Kipnep70]

I think this is a normal function of NB.

I have always got 71 errors on empty directories too..

 

[northy45]

Yes this is normal for Netbackup, basically means that the files you have asked it to backup do not exist.

Lots of details of Netbackup error messages can be found here -

http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NBUESVR_view_EMR.htm

Northy.

 

[Zapmin]

Thanks guys for your answers.

Actually, I use multiple Netbackup environment.

On my Netbackup 5.1 environment, empty directories don't give a 71 error message.

I've just started another NB6 environment on a new site today and I got 71 errors on empty directories as well.

Seems to be a new... hum... feature in Netbackup 6.0.