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NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide

About troubleshooting procedures

These procedures for finding the cause of NetBackup errors are general in nature and do not try to cover every problem that can occur. They do, however, recommend the methods that usually result in successful problem resolution.

The Cohesity Technical Support site has a wealth of information that can help you solve NetBackup problems.

When you perform these procedures, try each step in sequence. If you already performed the action or it does not apply, skip to the next step. If it branches to another topic, use the solutions that are suggested there. If you still have a problem, go to the next step in the procedure. Also, alter your approach according to your configuration and what you have already tried.

Troubleshooting procedures can be divided into the following categories:

Preliminary troubleshooting

The following procedures describe what to check first. They branch off to other procedures as appropriate.

See Troubleshooting NetBackup problems.

See Verifying that all processes are running on UNIX or Linux servers.

See Verifying that all processes are running on Windows servers.

Installation troubleshooting

Problems that apply specifically to installation.

See Troubleshooting installation problems.

Configuration troubleshooting

Problems that apply specifically to configuration.

See Troubleshooting configuration problems.

General test and troubleshooting

These procedures define general methods for finding server and client problems and should be used last.

See Testing the primary server and clients.

See Testing the media server and clients.

See Resolving network communication problems with UNIX clients.

See Resolving network communication problems with Windows clients.

See Verifying host name and service entries in NetBackup.

See About the bpclntcmd utility.

See Verifying host name and service entries in NetBackup.

Other troubleshooting procedures

See Resolving full disk problems.

See Frozen media troubleshooting considerations.

See About the conditions that cause media to freeze.

See Troubleshooting network interface card performance.

A set of examples is also available that shows host name and service entries for UNIX systems.

  • See Example of host name and service entries on UNIX primary server and client.

  • See Example of host name and service entries on UNIX primary server and media server.

  • See Example of host name and service entries on UNIX PC clients.

  • See Example of host name and service entries on UNIX server that connects to multiple networks.

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