Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line to list netbackup Policy information
bpplinfo policy_name if you want to list or modify something On Nov 20, 2007 3:26 PM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, DLew97 wrote: Does anyone know the command line to list the netbackup policy information on a Windows platform? Dan, Looks like it has not changed from UNIX: bppllist should list the polices then loop through them bppllist policyname bppllist NAME bppllist -List policy information. SYNOPSIS install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist [policyname] [-L | -l | -U] [-allpolicies] [-M master_server,...,master_server] [-hwos] [-byclient client] [-keyword keyword phrase][-verbose] DESCRIPTION bppllistlists policies within the NetBackup database. This command can be executed by any authorized users. For more information about NetBackup authorization, refer to Enhanced Authorization and Authentication in the NetBackup System Administrator's Guide. OPTIONS -allpolicies Lists all policies. -hwos Lists possible hardware and the operating system. -L Displays a full listing. -l Displays information in raw output mode. -M master_server,...,master_server Lists policy information for a specific master server(s). -U Displays information in the style used by xbpadm. -byclient client Lists policy information for all policies containing the client indicated. -keyword keyword phrase The value will be associated with all backups created using this policy. The keyword phrase can be used to link related policies. It can also be used during restores to search only for backups that have the keyword phrase associated with them. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs
Isn't that a 5.X limitation? I think 6.X can run multiple jobs at the same time. A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker Sent: 20. november 2007 15:40 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs You can not have multiple vault jobs under the same robot run at the same time. Only 1 at a time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dy018 Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:41 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs Hi, I've recently divided 1 vault job into 4 due to new drives coming in. Altogther, i've 4 virtuals per media server and 8 physcial drives shared by 4 media servers In the past, i've assign one media server to do the vault job, The configuration on the vault profile was 2 read drives (virtual) and 2 write drives (physical drive). After when i configure 4 media servers, it seems not what i've expected When all 4 policies are triggered, i realised 3 vault policy will wait in queue until the active vault job ends. There are sufficient write drive available but i'm puzzled how come the vault job is flagging out awaiting for resources, will retry logical later. I've allocated just nice 2 physical drive per vault policy. Anyone knows what wrong with my configuration??? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs
yes, i'm using NBU 6.0 but not very sure abt this limitation tho. The job is running but no duplicate jobs trigger. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
Command you want is bpimmedia. Flags would probably be -policy, -client, -d and -e, so something like this: bpimmedia -policy [policy_name] -client [client_name] -d [start_date] -e [end_date]. Use -L or -l depending on how you want to parse your output. Ken Zufall Technical Analyst D660C The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company GTN 446.0592 or 330.796.0592 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/2007 07:15 AM Please respond to veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup? Hello. Is there an easy way to get a report showing which media were used for a certain backup? Preferably in the Java GUI of NetBackup 6.0MP4 on Solaris? I could of course go to the Activity Monitor, double click a backup and go to the Detailed Status tab. And there, I'd have to grep for mounting . That's not what I'd call easy :) What I'd like to have, is a table showing DatePolicy Schedule Client Media Or something like this :) Can I find this in the Java Admin GUI? If so, where? Or would I have to script that? Why would I need that? I'd like to see which media have been used by a certain backup job, so that I can determine, which tapes should be moved from the library to offsite-storage. Thanks, Alexander ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. Is there an easy way to get a report showing which media were used for a certain backup? Preferably in the Java GUI of NetBackup 6.0MP4 on Solaris? Looks like images on Media give you most of what you want. But then I'd rather use the CLI. What I'd like to have, is a table showing DatePolicy ScheduleClient Media Or something like this :) Images on Media has all of that *except* for date (which seems an odd one to leave out). You can however calculate the date of the original backup from the backup ID. Can I find this in the Java Admin GUI? If so, where? Have you looked at all the reports that are available? Or would I have to script that? Scripting may give you better output and make it more easily repetable. The biggie for this task is 'bpimagelist'. You give it criteria to match, it gives you a list of images, including the tapes those images are on. Why would I need that? I'd like to see which media have been used by a certain backup job, so that I can determine, which tapes should be moved from the library to offsite-storage. This is also a feature of vault. Of course you can replicate the features of vault yourself with scripting other existing tools, but the time it takes to do that may be more than the cost of running vault in some environments. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line to list netbackup Policy information
Try C:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist --help Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DLew97 Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:09 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Command line to list netbackup Policy information Does anyone know the command line to list the netbackup policy information on a Windows platform? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs
Check this setting(P58 in the vault admin guide): To set the maximum number of Vault jobs 1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management. 2. Expand Host Properties. 3. Select Master Server. 4. In the right pane, select the master server and then Actions Properties. 5. Select Global Attributes Properties. 6. Specify the maximum number of vault jobs that can be active on the master server. The greater the maximum number of vault jobs, the more system resources are used. A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dy018 Sent: 20. november 2007 16:23 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs yes, i'm using NBU 6.0 but not very sure abt this limitation tho. The job is running but no duplicate jobs trigger. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Command you want is bpimmedia. So that readily information is not available in the GUI? Best regards, Alexander Skwar -- Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] T2000 vaulting performance with VTL/LTO3
Chris, To me it looks like there's a 1Gb bottleneck somewhere (90MB/s is about all we ever got out of 1Gb fibre back in the day). Are there any ISL's between your tape drive, your switch, and your server's HBA? Also, have you verified that your tape drives have negotiated onto the fabric as 2Gb and not 1Gb? When we had 2Gb LTO-3 drives on our T2000's, throughput to a single drive toped out around 160MB/s. When we upgraded the drives to 4Gb LTO-3, throughput to a single drive went up to 260MB/s. Our data is very compressible, and these numbers are what I assume to be the limitation of the IBM tape drives. Regarding buffer settings, my experience may not apply directly since we're doing disk (filesystems on fast storge) to tape backups, rather than VTL to tape. With our setup we see the best performance with a buffer size of 1048576 and 512 buffers. For us these buffer sizes are mostly related to the filesystem performance, since we get better disk throughput with 1MB I/O's than with smaller ones... I'm also curious if anyone knows whether the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE parameter is used when doing duplications? I would assume it is, but I don't know for sure. If it is, then the bptm process reading from the VTL would be using the default 16 (?) buffers, and you might see better performance by using a larger number. -devon - Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:00:18 -0800 From: Chris_Millet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] T2000 vaulting performance with VTL/LTO3 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm starting to experiment with the use of T2000 for media servers. The backup server is a T2000 8 core, 18GB system. There is a Qlogic QLE2462 PCI-E dual port 4Gb adapter in the system that plugs into a Qlogic 5602 switch. From there, one port is zoned to a EMC CDL 4400 (VTL) and a few HP LTO3 tape drives. The connectivity is 4Gb from host to switch, and from switch to the VTL. The tape drive is 2Gb. So when using Netbackup Vault to copy a backup done to the VTL to a real tape drive, the backup performance tops out at about 90MB/sec. If I spin up two jobs to two tape drives, they both go about 45MB/sec. It seems I've hit a 90MB/sec bottleneck somehow. I have v240s performing better! Write performance to the VTL from incoming client backups over the WAN exceeds the vault performance. My next step is to zone the tape drives on one of the HBA ports, and the VTL zoned on the other port. I'm using: SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 64 Any other suggestions? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Excessive Windows incrementals (Robert Griffin)
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Excessive Windows incrementals
Thanks, it looks like the new policy worked. On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:25, Brooks, Jason wrote: I've had a client do the same lather-rinse-repeat combo on a night or two in the past. What I ended up doing was disabling the policy, creating a new copy from scratch and running it. It would work fine, the old would still do the same thing. This was under 6.0, but I have forgotten which MP release, but likely 3 or 4. HTH, Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Griffin Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:05 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Excessive Windows incrementals I recently added a Windows client to a stable Solaris NetBackup installation. During the window for nightly incrementals, it's performing the incrementals over and over, unlike all the other clients, and I'm wondering how to get it not to do that. Master: 6.0MP4 / Solaris 10 / SL500 with LTO3 drives Most clients are 6.0MP4 / Solaris 9 or 10. Problem client: 6.0MP4 / Windows XP Problem client is also listed as a SERVER in everyone's bp.conf so it can run the admin console. At first, a full backup was unable to complete in reasonable time, while the client ground to a halt, so I had to disable open-file backups / VSP. Backup selection on the policy is ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, but the exclude list contains * and a couple of directories are in the include list (C:\Documents and Settings and D:\something). The idea being that other clients added to the policy in future could have different areas they need backed up. No files are ever backed up from System_State:\ because of the exclude list, but including part of it didn't change the behavior either. The schedule is frequency-based, every 1 days, with 1 month retention. Another schedule in the same policy does weekly full backups. Have tried all combinations of Differential Cumulative, date-based archive-bit-based, all producing repetitive incrementals about every 14 minutes during the nightly start windows. Incrementals usually finish in about 4 minutes, so I can only assume the master's 10-minute job retry delay is being added onto that. The master also has Schedule backup attempts set to 2 tries per 12 hours. Have restarted NBU on the master, no change. Usually the job status on the parent job and all three streams (C:\, D:\, and System_State:\) is status 0. Occasionally C:\ produces status 1 due to a Firefox lock file, etc. There is also usually a warning on the C:\ backup, even when it returns status 0: 11/20/07 00:02:29 - Warning bpbrm(pid=21835) from client PROBLEM_CLIENT: WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database (WIN32 21: The device is not ready. ) Could this warning be related to the repeated incrementals? I think we can try disabling Removable Storage but don't know if that will break anything else. The client has no direct access to tape drives but may have a zip drive and legacy backups that need to work, independent of NBU. Other ideas appreciated. Robert Griffin Unix Systems Administrator OIT, Enterprise Technology The University of Alabama [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 205-348-0177 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Tape Drive Disk sharing HBAs - revisited
Hi We all know that people have been telling us for years that you should never share tape drives and disk on the HBAs. These days the idea that the HBA could become the bottle neck for data transmission are becoming less. That leaves the other reason of tape FC-SCSI commands have adverse affects upon the SAN operations of disks. The has been sparsely and vaguely documented to the point where it may be more mythology than reality with modern SAN, disk and tape technology. Anybody attempted sharing emterprise grade disk [arrays] LTO3 tape. OS not important but Windows 2003 would be interesting. Anybody come across anything more definitive that these references ? . 1. IBM Redbook sg246268 Implementing IBM Tape in Linux Widows p201+. I queried IBM to provide more infono reply form them. 2. The following came from X-Info [Qlogic OEM] Qlogic weren't interested but flipped my questions to two of their OEMs to answer (no referecne cited) : Tape resets can affect other devices on the SAN because when a tape does its reset, it will also reset its FC connection (logs out and logs back into the fabric nameserver of the switch). When a device logs out and back into the switch, the switch will send out an RSCN (registered state change notification) to the rest of the ports on the switch letting other FC devices know that there was a change in the fabric. When the RSCN is received by the initiators (servers and workstations), they in turn must log out and back in to see what has changed on the nameserver. This process of logging out and in can cause issues with the host OS (particularly with Windows) because of the delays incurred during this logout/in. During periods of high IO, the OS may just loose connection to the drives, or it may kernel panic/blue screen the OS. Qlogic switches have a feature called IOStreamguard that prevents RSCN's from going to initiators that don't need to see them (i.e., the server does not have an active connection to the tape, or the tape is not in its zone). Other vendors switches can use zoning to restrict this as much as possible, but RSCN's can still propagate outside the zones affected. Also, tape resets are not as prevalent now as they used to be. The older SCSI tape drives that were connected to the SAN via SCSI to FC Bridge were more of a problem that the newer native FC tape drives. The native FC drives are kinder to the fabric, and do not do resets unless they are actually needed. Despite the advances made with the native FC tape drives, there still can be issues, and that is why there is the recommendation of using a separate fabric for the tape subsystem. Regards Jim veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 6.5 restoring legacy 5.1 NDMP backup issue?
Has anyone that's upgraded to 6.5 from 5.1 (Specifically MP3AS2) run into an issue restoring NDMP backups? I have discovered that the status of the NDMP restore is successful, but it will not restore anything in a sub-directory unless each file/directory in the sub-directory(ies) is/are manually selected. I have not yet tried to restore an NDMP backup made under 6.5. No case yet with Veritas, but that will be opened tomorrow. Thanks, Rusty ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Media Manager error 109, pool does not exist in pool database
Hi, All my backup policies are suddenly failing with a similar message like this: Error bptm (pid=3191) Media Manager error 109, pool does not exist in pool database, host=ferrisbkup Error bptm (pid=3191) Media Manager volume pool PDMB2B has no more unassigned media in robotic device TLD(1) I have verified that all the policy volume pools do not have Frozen or Full media in them. Any ideals? [This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
Hello. On Nov 20, 2007 9:03 PM, A Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:12:00PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: But then I'd rather use the CLI. Not if it can be avoided. If possible, I'd like not to do everything by myself - especially not with such a high price product as NetBackup... Unfortunately you're then at the mercy of what the GUI has programmed. You can't create your own reports in it. Depends on how well that's made. But you're of course right, that the CLI offers you a lot more flexibility. That's for sure! So what specifically are your criteria for choosing a backup (backupid? client and date range?) Backup Job ID, as shown in the activity monitor. Put in another way: What backup ran when on what client. Alexander ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
Hello. On Nov 20, 2007 9:30 PM, Marianne Van Den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cmd line is so much easier and faster than the GUI! Not always, no. I use this: bpimagelist -media -hoursago 12 -client client_name -U That's what I currently use as well, but it doesn't provide the information I asked for :) I wanted to know, which tapes were used by a certain backup. bpimagelist -media -hoursago 12 -client client_name -U answers the question, which media were used in the last 12 hours to backup a certain client. But I think I'm quite happy with the Catalog search functionality. Thanks a lot, Alexander ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
Hello. On Nov 20, 2007 8:33 PM, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enter the client name and date range in the appropriate fields on the Catalog screen and click Search now. Oh, that seems to be a good one! Thanks a lot, Paul! Best regards, Alexander ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
On Nov 20, 2007 4:53 PM, A Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. Is there an easy way to get a report showing which media were used for a certain backup? Preferably in the Java GUI of NetBackup 6.0MP4 on Solaris? Looks like images on Media give you most of what you want. There's another problem with Images on Media - it doesn't show to what Backup Job an Image belongs. Sure enough, it shows the Backup ID - but what do I do with this Backup ID in the GUI? In the activity monitor, only a Job ID is shown. I knew I forgot something yesterday evening, when I first replied to your mail :) But then I'd rather use the CLI. What I'd like to have, is a table showing DatePolicy ScheduleClient Media Or something like this :) Images on Media has all of that Yes, it does. But it lacks the date and/or Backup Job ID. And it would also be nice, if there were a way to collapse all the different fragments into just one fragment. This is also a feature of vault. Of course you can replicate the features of vault yourself with scripting other existing tools, but the time it takes to do that may be more than the cost of running vault in some environments. Anyone familiar with HP OmniBack/DataProtectorManager around here? If I remember correctly, DPM easily presents the information I'm looking for, doesn't it? But it may very well be, that memory is failing me... Alexander ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
