Vertica Backup Failure

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Vertica backup is failing due to manifest file corruption.

Error: Missing critical file: rsync://[xxxxxxxxxxxx]:50000/opt/CA/pm_backup/Snapshots/backup_snapshot_20190910_090402/v_drdata_node0001/backup_snapshot.manifest
Backup FAILED

Environment

DX NetOps - Support releases

Cause

/opt/CA/pm_backup/Snapshots/backup_snapshot_20190910_090402/v_drdata_node0001/backup_snapshot.manifest is corrupted.

Resolution

Run the following command to rebuild the manifest file on all the vertica hosts.

Locate the ini file used for backup snapshots.

[xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx pm_backup]$ /opt/vertica/bin/vbr.py -t quick-repair -c <location of your backup ini file>/backup_snapshot.ini

Example:

Rebuilding backup manifest
Regenerating backup manifest for location rsync://[xxxxxxxxx]:50000/opt/CA/pm_backup
Regenerating backup manifest for location rsync://[xxxxxxxxx]:50000/opt/CA/pm_backup
Regenerating backup manifest for location rsync://[xxxxxxxxx]:50000/opt/CA/pm_backup
Backup manifest rebuilt

Run the backup script again for a successful vertica backup.