#87 Issue closed: NBU and xinetd issue¶

Labels: bug

gdha opened issue at 2012-05-31 10:12:¶

From: Steve Mitchell
I too had the bprestore start, the job would get queued on our netbackup server but nothing would ever restore.

I tracked it down to an issue on how the code for NBU was implemented in ReaR.

The code assumes that netbackup is started from xinetd.

We use Netbackup 7 on RHEL 5 and RHEL6 and we do not have xinetd installed. On our servers it’s started with /etc/init.d/netbackup script and rc links.

With Netbackup 7 and above it does not need xinetd.

See the official doc by Symantec : http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH135628

So I did a work around to manually run the vnetd and bpcd commands and now the restores work fine.

In the /usr/share/rear/rescue/NBU/default/45_prepare_xinetd.sh file right after the xinetd (line 9) I added the following :

if [ ! -f /etc/xinetd.d/vnetd ]; then

        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/vnetd -standalone

fi

if [ ! -f /etc/xinetd.d/bpcd ]; then

        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpcd -standalone

fi

The other small issue is that bpcd would not start for us because of a missing directory /usr/openv/var/vnetd.
So to fix this simply do a “mkdir /usr/share/rear/skel/NBU/usr/openv/var/vnetd” on your server.

Now do a new “rear mkrescue” and try that iso. It worked for us.

Steve

gdha commented at 2012-06-14 13:57:¶

let's close it - if needed customer can re-open the issue

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