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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. Troubleshooting CloudCatalyst issues
  5. Restarting the vxesfsd process
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Restarting the vxesfsd process

To restart the Veritas NetBackup Extendable Storage File System Service (vxesfsd), the process must first be stopped.

  • Before stopping the vxesfsdcommand, verify that vxesfsd is not in use by any other process, including the current working directory of any user.

    The NetBackup Deduplication Manager (spad) and the NetBackup Deduplication Engine (spoold) use vxesfsd, so they need to be stopped if either is running.

  • Before starting the vxesfsd command, verify that no data exists in the mount point. If data exists in the mount point, vxesfsd fails to restart.

The following methods assume that no jobs are running.

Using the Activity Monitor to stop and start processes specific to vxesfsd

Using the Activity Monitor to stop the processes specific to vxesfsd

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, click Activity Monitor.
  2. On the Daemons tab, select the spoold.
  3. On the Actions menu, select Stop Daemon.
  4. Stop spad and stop spoold.
  5. Stop vxesfsd.

Using the Activity Monitor to start the processes specific to vxesfsd

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, click Activity Monitor.
  2. On the Daemons tab, select vxesfsd.
  3. On the Actions menu, select Start Daemon.
  4. Start spoold.
  5. Start spad.
Using the command line to stop and start processes specific to vxesfsd

To stop and start the processes that are specific to vxesfsd (and to avoid stopping all NetBackup processes), run:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsvcmon -terminate
/usr/openv/pdde/pdconfigure/pdde stop
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/vxesfsd stop

To start these processes:

  • To start vxesfsd, run:

    /usr/openv/esfs/bin/vxesfsd start
    /usr/openv/pdde/pdconfigure/pdde start
  • To start nbsvcmon, run:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsvcmon &
Stopping and starting all NetBackup processes

To stop and start all processes, run the following command on the CloudCatalyst storage server:

/etc/init.d/NetBackup stop
/etc/init.d/NetBackup start

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