Re: [Veritas-bu] Checking Drive Configuration on Unix
If you know the serial numbers of the drives, the following command should help: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan On 1/13/06, Major, Rusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In one of our environments, we have one Master with one Media, both Solaris. I believe that the tape configuration has changed and is causing the normal strangeness that goes on when this happens (abandoned tapes, tapes mounting forever, etc). Being more familiar with Windows, I could check and resolve this issue without a problem. But since we are Solaris, I'm having trouble verifying the device file is pointing to the right drive/serial number. Veritas has a technote here: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/193280.htm but that is the extremely lengthy way to do it. Can anyone offer suggestions on a quicker way to verify the configuration is properly setup via command line? Thanks, Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP Data Assurance Engineer (281) 584-4693 VeriCenter, Inc.
[Veritas-bu] Backup of Universe database?
Hi all... This is a long shot, but does anyone on the list have an experience backing up Universe databases with NBU? (universe is an ancient pick database derivative that is now owned by IBM). We just migrated it from an HP-UX os over to Suse Linux Enterprise. Performance is much better, but I am not sure that all the db files are backing up properly. We are doing a manually scripted split mirror just prior to backup, and are backing up the part that has been split off. I am not sure that the db files are consistent enough to ensure a good restore in a disaster situation. Any recommendations would be appreciated... Andrew ArmstrongNetwork EngineerT S Brass and Bronze Works[EMAIL PROTECTED](864) 834-6785
RE: [Veritas-bu] snapshot errors 156 etc..
Title: Message If I'm not mistaken, unless you specify that you DONT want to use VSP, NBU uses it. You have to add the client in the master server properties - Client attributes and then select the client in that list and on the second tab de-select "Windows open file backup" option Regards, Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yosifovski, TammySent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:51 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] snapshot errors 156 etc.. Master: Windows 2000, Netbackup 5.1 MP3. Client: Windows 2003 - DFS server I have tried disabling VSP in the Netbackup GUI and I have tried the commands below (on Windows) but each time I run bpclient -client client name -L I still see VSP_USE = YES. I am not seeing this parameter when I look in the registry on the client can anyone tell me where it is at? I am looking under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, VERITAS, Netbackup, CurrentVersion, Config. It is not there. If I search the registry it does not come up. Where is bpclient pulling it from? Thanks for your help!! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul KeatingSent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:59 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] snapshot errors 156 etc.. I had the same issues. "disabling" Open File Backups it from the GUI didn't work. or rather "not enabling it" from the GUI didn't work. So.from the CLI of my Solaris NBU Master, I did the following: bash-2.03# bpclient -client client_name -update -WOFB_enabled 0 bash-2.03# echo "VSP_USE = NO" |bpsetconfig -hclient_name Then to verify. bash-2.03# bpclient -client client_name -LClient Name: client_nameCurrent Host: Hostname: client_name IP Address: 0.0.0.0Connect on non-reserved port: noNo call-back connections: noDynamic Address: noFree Browse: AllowList Restore: Not SpecifiedMax Jobs This Client: Not SpecifiedWOFB Enabled: noWOFB FIM: VSPWOFB Usage: Individual Drive SnapshotWOFB Error Control: Disable and Continue bash-2.03# bpgetconfig -M client_name|grep VSPVSP_CacheVols = DVSP_ExcludeVSP_Cache_Size_Init = 30VSP_Cache_Size_Max = 95VSP_Error_Control = 0VSP_Logging = 0VSP_Quiescent_Wait = 5VSP_Quiescent_Timeout = 300VSP_Current = YESVSP_Sync_Timeout = 60VSP_Use = NOVSP_Auto_Size = YESVSP_Cache_Percentage = YESVSP_Max_Percentage = YES -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R WindleSent: January 11, 2006 10:44 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] snapshot errors 156 etc..Anyone have the problem of not being able to disable VSS snapshot on windows clients? I have nothing selected in the master server client properties or the client side but it still wants to use it on the client backups. Get no answers from Veritas on how to disable this. Seems another part of Veritas that is broken. My jobs randomly blow up. BTW. Plenty of free space on client system drive etc.. How do we disable this? Bobby Windle ( Data backup Recovery )W.L. Gore associates, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED]cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred)office: (302) 292-4026 -Thise-mailistheexclusive,privateandconfidentialpropertyofthesender.Theinformationcontainedinitisintendedsolelyfortheuseofthesenderandtheintendedrecipient.Ifyouarenottheintendedrecipientyouareherebyadvisedthatanyunauthorizeddisclosure,copying,distributionorthetakingofanyactioninrelianceonthecontentsofthismessageisstrictlyprohibited.Ifyouhavereceivedthise-mailinerror,pleasenotifyusimmediatelybytelephone(calltheTechnicalSupportCenterat1-888-873-8721)andthendestroythisdocumentandanycopiesinanyformimmediately.Finally,therecipientshouldcheckthisemailandanyattachmentsforthepresenceofviruses.YRCRegionalTransportationacceptsnoliabilityforanydamagecausedbyanyvirustransmittedbythisemail.-
RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
Title: Message Diskeeper may be worth a look, HOWEVER, I haev had MAJOR issues with this product trying to run after a backup as it appeared to clear the archive attribute. Fragmentation is an issue, so where poss, try to defrag when backups are not required or may JUST before a FULL Backup (that way keeps the archive bit !) Good Luck Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 20:11To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files. However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10% of our reason for slow backups and that 90% pertained to network configuration. I guess what I'm getting at is that, if you mean the backup used to take 5 hours and now it takes 6, then likely fragmentation is an issue. However, if your backup times are 20 hours and they should be five, then you've got bigger issues than running scandisk on your hard drives. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:23 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
Title: Message KArl Yes - its a problem for most OS File / Application servers. Obtaining a product will help and may improve backup performance too :-) Good Luck Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 17:23To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Windows File FragmentationI have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished
Title: Message jim After much tedious excercises, I have excluded it :-) Thank you ever so much for the reply! Trend just dont seem to like backups touching their products ! :( Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Jim Peppas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2006 14:19To: WEAVER, Simon; 'Paul Keating'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished You could disable "Allow multiple data streams" if your time window allows it. This will cause only one stream to appear instead of many, and the notify scripts will work OK Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:13 AMTo: 'Paul Keating'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished Hi All Ok I got the script to work, which is great - only one problem I see - the client has multiple paritions and is being backed up using ALL LOCAL DRIVES - although the services stop fine, it appears that as soon as one of the stream finishes, the services are bought back up, therefore when it comes to backing up the partition where Trend lives, the files are being skipped! I could use a sleep command to delay things, but is there a command to add to tell NBU to use the script when the final stream ends? Thanks Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2006 13:37To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished I've done it both ways.called an external script and/or commands in the bpstart_notify.bat. put some debug commands in the script, simple logging stuff, then make sure the commands i the script work if you run them at the CLI, then verify that you can run the bpstart_notify.bat from the CLI. Paul -Original Message-From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 10, 2006 7:07 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished Thanks Bob apprecaited! Now, I am still unable to get this script to work - can anyone tell me if I am doing it right or wrong? Am I right to place the command to stop the services in this file or should I be telling this file to run C:\stop.bat or something? Any help really apprecaited - sysadmin guide doesnt give a clear definition on this, but it has to work? This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client
Title: Message Thanks Jim, Looks like this is exactly the case..I am all set now... Thanks all of u guys for your help -Original Message-From: Jim Peppas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:37 AMTo: Pillapalem, Smitha; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client Have you verified that the dirs are really been backed up? If you have "Allow Multiple Data Streams" enabled, NBU will create the stream, but then backup nothing (usually the backup size is 32K). I have seen this more that once. Regards, Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pillapalem, SmithaSent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:01 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduCc: Pillapalem, SmithaSubject: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client Hi all, I'm on NB 5.1 - I have 2 Linux clients(util1 and util2 )under a policy and with the following filelist /export /root /home /etc /var /u/d01 /usr /lib All I need is to exclude /u/d01 , /usr and /lib from one of the clients (util2) - I created a exclude list on util2 as follows - [EMAIL PROTECTED] netbackup]# cat exclude_list/usr/lib/u/d01But NB still is backing up the above 3 dir's on util2 - Any idea y? Thanks in advance.. Smitha -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:00 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Log I'm on NB 5.1 MP4 and I'm looking for a way to bring up a log of every time my drives have been cleaned for the last 6 months?! Is there an entry in some type of log file? Thanks, Jonathan Martin Intersil Corporation Server and Security Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] (321) 724-7314
RE: [Veritas-bu] URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help
Yeah - what they all said. Backupid's have individual expiration dates, the
media's expiration date should be the latest image expiration date on that
tape.
Also - most likely he wants the backups for a particular client for a
particular date range to be have their expiration dates extended.
To do this, first lookup the backup-ids you need to extend:
bpimagelist -client clientname -d start_date -e end_date -idonly | awk
'{print $8}' | tee /tmp/bpidlist
now /tmp/bpidlist has a list of backupids for this client date range. Now
extend them:
for id in `cat /tmp/bpidlist`
do
echo Extending $id
bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid $id -d new_date -force
done
HTH - M
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 6:39 AM
To: 'Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help
Guys
I wonder if you can help clarify something for me
I have been asked to ensure a backup SESSION does not expire on the 17th Jan
06 - Today is the 13th Jan 06
Now, when I checked this policy, there are 2 tapes in a volume pool - the
guy asking me the question keeps referring to retaining a SESSION !!! Now, I
can see the tape is due to expire in 2 weeks time, but this is not
acceptable!
Is it possible, he is seeing something different to what I am? He truly
beleives that a backup will expire on the 17th!
I checked BPEXPDATE and you can specify a date for media and / or backup id
- I wonder if backup id is related to images?
Can I have an image that will expire BEFORE a tape? I guess it could?? If I
could have clarification, would truly apprecaite it
Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
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[Veritas-bu] seleclt statement for client version
Hi,I was wondering is there a way to run a select statement or other so that you can grep or query every client on a master node for the client version and have it produce an output oir similar with the client node name and version or something close? Thanks. Tux242
RE: [Veritas-bu] RE: URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help (WEAVER, Simon)
Title: [Veritas-bu] RE: URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help (WEAVER, Simon) use volmgr deasignbyid From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Drunen van, MarcelSent: Fri 1/13/2006 8:11 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help (WEAVER, Simon) Simon,The algorithm is as such: every image on a tape has an expiration date.After the last image on the tape has expired, the tape becomes availableagain.With BPEXPDATE you can expire all the images on a tape, therewithexpiring the complete tape.If you use BPEXPDATE to set the expiration date to infinite, or anythingelse then expire now, you will do this for all the images on the tape.To my knowledge you cannot set the expiration for a specific image,which would not make too much sense anyway.CU,Marcel___Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
The server i'm having high fragmentation is a Lotus Domino server. I talked to lotus and they do not recommend defragmentation while domino is running. I'd probably need a 4 to 8hr outage window to defrag the drive. Today i had a small outage window on the server so i upgraded the Raid Controller Firmware, Server Bios and Upgraded the broadcom GB drivers. For the time being the backup server isn't having slow backup performance since the updates. Yeah! So i have some breathing room until i can get a long outage window. In the past, slow performance has shown up after two weeks. At anyrate, i still need to defrag the drive. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/13/2006 09:32:56 AM: Diskeeper may be worth a look, HOWEVER, I haev had MAJOR issues with this product trying to run after a backup as it appeared to clear the archive attribute. Fragmentation is an issue, so where poss, try to defrag when backups are not required or may JUST before a FULL Backup (that way keeps the archive bit !) Good Luck Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 20:11 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files. However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10% of our reason for slow backups and that 90% pertained to network configuration. I guess what I'm getting at is that, if you mean the backup used to take 5 hours and now it takes 6, then likely fragmentation is an issue. However, if your backup times are 20 hours and they should be five, then you've got bigger issues than running scandisk on your hard drives. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:23 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
Re: [Veritas-bu] seleclt statement for client version
* Trask Ent [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-13 18:17]: Hi, I was wondering is there a way to run a select statement or other so that you can grep or query every client on a master node for the client version and have it produce an output oir similar with the client node name and version or something close? Thanks. Tux242 You can get a list of clients with bpplclients and then use bpcoverage to query each client and ask it for its version info. That is the most accurate way to get the information. Data stored on the Master server could be inaccurate. -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] seleclt statement for client version
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:56:39PM -0600, David Rock wrote: * Trask Ent [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-13 18:17]: I was wondering is there a way to run a select statement or other so that you can grep or query every client on a master node for the client version and have it produce an output oir similar with the client node name and version or something close? Thanks. Tux242 You can get a list of clients with bpplclients and then use bpcoverage to query each client and ask it for its version info. That is the most accurate way to get the information. Data stored on the Master server could be inaccurate. This will not produce accurate information for Windows clients. The only way to get Windows version information is to extract it out of the registry. Not only that, but bpcoverage is unsupported, undocumented, and Veritas broke it with the last set of maintenance patches. Sigh... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
