OnLineBackup: SSdbsave failed during an On-line Backup in CA Spectrum
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OnLineBackup: SSdbsave failed during an On-line Backup in CA Spectrum

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Article ID: 118550

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Spectrum Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

The OnLineBackup is failing, the following message is displayed: 

"PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED WHILE RUNNING SSDBSAVE"

The following error is found in the VNM.OUT after enabling the OnLineBackup in debug mode:

out 25 12:03:42 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(3955): Online Backup Debugging Enabled

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(908): DB Backup operation triggered on Primary SpectroServer.

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(946): Creating thread for Backup

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(963): Sending a message

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(3873): Performing Backup

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(3878): Model Handle - 0x100008

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1574): Initializing temporary database directory

out 25 12:04:12 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:14 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1688): Directory name - D:/CA/Spectrum/SS-DB-Backup/db_MLS_20181025_1204.SSdb.tmpdir

out 25 12:04:14 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1689): File name name - D:/CA/Spectrum/SS-DB-Backup/db_MLS_20181025_1204.SSdb

out 25 12:04:14 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1703): Done initializing temporary database directory - 0

out 25 12:04:14 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1742): Copying the database

out 25 12:04:14 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1768): Pausing VNM operations

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1788): Copying database files

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1821): Continuing VNM operations

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1847): VNM was paused for 0 minutes,3  seconds

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1869): Compress value set for backup DBs : 1

out 25 12:04:17 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:19 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(2077): Creating SSdb file

out 25 12:04:19 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(2091): Command to be executed : 000000007A61F168

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(2099): start_process_return_ticket return value : 0000000034B85388

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(2118): SSdbsave return bad exit code - -1073741819

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(2139): Done reading SSdb file - 6

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(1898): Done copying the database - 6

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:37 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(883): One of the OLB attributes(BackupNow, NextBackupDateTime, AutomaticBackups) change has triggered OLB. 

out 25 12:04:39 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(3900): Done performing backup

out 25 12:08:04 OLB TRACE at CsIHOB.cc(3950): Online Backup Debugging Disabled

Environment

CA Spectrum 10.2.x

Cause

When trying to stop the SpectroSERVER, it got Terminated improperly resulting SSdb corruption.

Resolution

Restore a previous healthy SSdb backup. You can do this from either the Spectrum Control Panel (SCP) or via the command line as per:

  1. Go CLI (bash –login) as Spectrum install user and

    cd $SPECROOT/SS  


    (you must be in the SS directory for this to work as running from other directories will result in an error)

  2. Copy the saved backup of the SSDb (usually <db_name_datestamp.SSdb.gz>) to the $SPECROOT/SS directory and then uncompress it.

  3. Run the following command from the SS directory:

    ../SS-Tools/SSdbload.exe –il <db_name_datestamp.SSdb>

  4. Restart the SpectroSERVER.

Additional Information

To turn on OLB debug, see the following KB article:

KB : How to enable debug for Spectrum Online Backup