Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
I had this problem in one of my OS policies -- for me cross mount points was not checked when it should have been. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jeff Lightner Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I guess you've ruled out an exclude list in your installpath/netbackup directory for this specific policy? Here we have some default exclude lists we push out and I'm wondering if maybe you have one that is excluding this because it is an NFS mount somewhere else? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Is it a mountpoint or just a simple directory under /opt? Can you post the output of df -k? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:13 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up sorry.. Yes directory. All operating systems but some more than others.. No it is not a link. That was the first thing I checked. Non of the directories under /opt are links... Just makes no sense why a slective backup of just the missing directory works. Even using same policy just modifying the file selection from ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to /opt./(directory name) works.. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 12:48 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Oh - another idea? Is the directory under /opt a link? ls -ld /opt/skippped name Netbackup does not follow links. My thinking this is an error in perception, rather than a technical problem. Your use of the word folder rather than directory for solaris makes me think you are perhaps a Windows person with Unix as your second language? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007
Ok. I'm doing a Full backup of mailstore, with Status 0. We are running Exchange CCR and take backup of the active node. I have heard that the backup have to be done by the passive node for the LOG files to be deleted. Can anyone confirm this? +-- |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] Remote Online Backups
Performing backups at every remote site is complicated, expensive and risky too. Doing backup across the WAN is easier, reliable, and more secure. Have you experimented Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU)? It would be a great fit. By overcoming bandwidth limitations and reducing network latency, Riverbeds WDS facilitates network-based backup approaches in most of the customer environments. Riverbed technology optimizes: 1. Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines in remote offices 2. Replication of centralized data repositories between data centers in your distributed enterprise for backing up large amounts of data. RCU for disaster recovery can also be used for your remote backup solution just as effectively. http://www.wdsforum.org/forum/index.php?act=attachtype=postid=10 +-- |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] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm almost positive that 6.5 supports DSU cascading in a single job, just like tape and virtual tape. DSUs do span. DSSUs don't. Symantec got it half right. .../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
[Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a Master and Media Server.
All, I'm looking for guidance on using Linux in our NetBackup environment. We are getting ready to update our current infrastructure. If we go with Linux we will use the Dell hardware but I need to know from you is how the systems should be sized, what HBA's do you recommend, what OS, does it matter if it is RedHat or SLES? I backup about 300 TB a month in my production environment running around 1500 jobs per day, with a lot of it being Oracle backups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Randy K. Zimmer Sr. Unix System Administrator Office: 314-694-3109 Cell: 314-960-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This e-mail message may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and is intended to be received only by persons entitled to receive such information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately. Please delete it and all attachments from any servers, hard drives or any other media. Other use of this e-mail by you is strictly prohibited. All e-mails and attachments sent and received are subject to monitoring, reading and archival by Monsanto, including its subsidiaries. The recipient of this e-mail is solely responsible for checking for the presence of Viruses or other Malware. Monsanto, along with its subsidiaries, accepts no liability for any damage caused by any such code transmitted by or accompanying this e-mail or any attachment. - ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a Master and Media Server.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000] wrote: All, I'm looking for guidance on using Linux in our NetBackup environment. We are getting ready to update our current infrastructure. If we go with Linux we will use the Dell hardware but I need to know from you is how the systems should be sized, what HBA's do you recommend, what OS, does it matter if it is RedHat or SLES? I backup about 300 TB a month in my production environment running around 1500 jobs per day, with a lot of it being Oracle backups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Go with latest supported RedHat Enterpise Linux. Go with 4gbps HBAs, we've been using qlogic HBAs with no problems. Make sure you have enough bandwidth on the system board (mobo) for the type of drives you are placing on each server. e.g., low-end server should not have more than 1 LTO-3/4 drive if its 1gbps but for 10gbps you obviously want a beefier box for 10gbps card and maybe 2 dual port cards for 4 LTO-3 drives, but if LTO-4, then 3 of those. etc.. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a MasterandMedia Server.
We had problems with qlogic cards in redhat a couple releases ago, went with emulex and haven't looked back. We've got 6.5.1 installed on RH-ES5 on AMD processors and it kicks butt. It's the fastest media server I've got. We had lots of problems with combinations of earlier releases of RH NB but I can certify this one as working well in our environment. It's, without a doubt, sensitve to version combinations but the latest versions seem to work well with the latest versions. -M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:36 AM To: ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a MasterandMedia Server. We don't use Linux for Master or Media server but do use it for quite a bit including a couple of Oracle RAC installations. My recommendation would to use RedHat if you're doing Linux. There are far more commercial packages for RHEL than SLES. (Also from a Linux purist viewpoint Novell/Suse is shunned because of the agreement they signed with M$.) Haven't worked on SLES so don't know that it is better or worse technically but haven't seen any reason to go to it either. The fibre HBAs we use are the ones made by Qlogic. I had an issue with Emulex in a test environment once but it may be that was because I was trying to setup a test environment to look like the Production one that already had. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:01 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a Master andMedia Server. All, I'm looking for guidance on using Linux in our NetBackup environment. We are getting ready to update our current infrastructure. If we go with Linux we will use the Dell hardware but I need to know from you is how the systems should be sized, what HBA's do you recommend, what OS, does it matter if it is RedHat or SLES? I backup about 300 TB a month in my production environment running around 1500 jobs per day, with a lot of it being Oracle backups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Randy K. Zimmer Sr. Unix System Administrator Office: 314-694-3109 Cell: 314-960-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail message may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and is intended to be received only by persons entitled to receive such information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately. Please delete it and all attachments from any servers, hard drives or any other media. Other use of this e-mail by you is strictly prohibited. All e-mails and attachments sent and received are subject to monitoring, reading and archival by Monsanto, including its subsidiaries. The recipient of this e-mail is solely responsible for checking for the presence of Viruses or other Malware. Monsanto, along with its subsidiaries, accepts no liability for any damage caused by any such code transmitted by or accompanying this e-mail or any attachment. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups
FYI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notified, management at Riverbed Technologies notified. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rubbyfiller Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:59 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups Performing backups at every remote site is complicated, expensive and risky too. Doing backup across the WAN is easier, reliable, and more secure. Have you experimented Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU)? It would be a great fit. By overcoming bandwidth limitations and reducing network latency, Riverbed's WDS facilitates network-based backup approaches in most of the customer environments. Riverbed technology optimizes: 1. Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines in remote offices 2. Replication of centralized data repositories between data centers in your distributed enterprise for backing up large amounts of data. RCU for disaster recovery can also be used for your remote backup solution just as effectively. http://www.wdsforum.org/forum/index.php?act=attachtype=postid=10 +-- |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] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007
We are backing up only the active node and it truncates the log files. - Monte -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:03 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007 Ok. I'm doing a Full backup of mailstore, with Status 0. We are running Exchange CCR and take backup of the active node. I have heard that the backup have to be done by the passive node for the LOG files to be deleted. Can anyone confirm this? +-- |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] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)
Bob, Curtis, David, Ed, Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I will follow David's suggestion to melt all my small drives into a big Volume using Solstice or Veritas VM. Thank you On 3/24/08, bob944 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Many users (myself included) somehow assumed that DSUs would work that way when they were introduced. They don't. DSUs and STUG[roup]s get smarter every release, though; this is the default setting for 6.5 STUGs: Prioritized NetBackup chooses the first storage unit in the list that is not busy, down, or out of media. Also, the storage unit must not have reached the maximum concurrent jobs setting. When one of the specified conditions occurs, the next storage unit in the list is examined until NetBackup finds an available storage unit. If one is not available or if one does not have enough available space, the job fails and is not queued. (Default.) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? If you're expecting a job, a stream, to start on one STU, then continue on another, that's not going to happen (unless it's a new 6.5 thing and someone will correct me if that's the case)--you aren't going to write a 40GB backup to 34GB STUs, no matter how many you have. You may need to adjust your understanding of what a storage unit is. As [EMAIL PROTECTED] points out in his reply, combining your 34GB disks into larger volumes makes them both more usable and more robust. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Master Server hangs...many bpdbm process running
Master Server : Netbackup 6.0 MP5 Solaris 10 on a SunFire v440 with 4x 1593 Mhz UltraSparc IIIi CPU's and 16 GB of RAM. I do have roughly 55 Media Servers, and a couple dozen clients on my Netbackup Domain. All are Netbackup 6.0 MP5. What I'm seeing is that my Master server will have many bpdbm processes running. All four of my CPU's get pegged out and the system hangs. Ultimately it becomes unresponsive and it needs to be shut down. All of my Media Servers run Oracle, and I have to do hourly Oracle Archive Log backups (contractual agreement). Why would so many bpdbm processes be running, and why would they need to suck up all of the processing power? Does each backup spawn a bpdbm process? I have 70 Active backup jobs running right now, and 40 bpdbm processes running. Is it normal for that many bpdbm processes to be running? -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman Information Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for opinions on that version. Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backup Exec
I'm sure this is not the right forum, but perhaps someon can point me in the right direction as I am a complete novice with Backup Exec. How, from the windows command line, can I execute the bemcmd command on a remote server? If someone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. I have tried rsh and rexec. Regards, Patrick Whelan ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a Master andMedia Server.
We're running SLES9SP4 (I'd like to get up to 10SP1, but haven't yet) We had some issues with init scripts starting on 6.0, but with 6.5 it's been addressed. It's on a Dell 2650 and is using a QLogic 2342 dual channel fiber card. It's been really solid. ~ Robin ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/25/2008 6:00 AM All, I'm looking for guidance on using Linux in our NetBackup environment. We are getting ready to update our current infrastructure. If we go with Linux we will use the Dell hardware but I need to know from you is how the systems should be sized, what HBA's do you recommend, what OS, does it matter if it is RedHat or SLES? I backup about 300 TB a month in my production environment running around 1500 jobs per day, with a lot of it being Oracle backups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Randy K. Zimmer Sr. Unix System Administrator Office: 314-694-3109 Cell: 314-960-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This e-mail message may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and is intended to be received only by persons entitled to receive such information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately. Please delete it and all attachments from any servers, hard drives or any other media. Other use of this e-mail by you is strictly prohibited. All e-mails and attachments sent and received are subject to monitoring, reading and archival by Monsanto, including its subsidiaries. The recipient of this e-mail is solely responsible for checking for the presence of Viruses or other Malware. Monsanto, along with its subsidiaries, accepts no liability for any damage caused by any such code transmitted by or accompanying this e-mail or any attachment. - ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups
Message and poster dealt with. I don't normally post my personal opinions about products, but for some reason right now I feel inspired. I don't get the whole Riverbed thing. I don't see any advantages in the backup arena over using a more standard dedupe appliance or dedupe backup software, and I see a few disadvantages. Riverbed, if you're listening, you haven't made a friend today by using my website to post SPAM, but I am willing to listen if you want to convince me otherwise. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:57 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups FYI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notified, management at Riverbed Technologies notified. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rubbyfiller Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:59 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups Performing backups at every remote site is complicated, expensive and risky too. Doing backup across the WAN is easier, reliable, and more secure. Have you experimented Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU)? It would be a great fit. By overcoming bandwidth limitations and reducing network latency, Riverbed's WDS facilitates network-based backup approaches in most of the customer environments. Riverbed technology optimizes: 1.Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines in remote offices 2.Replication of centralized data repositories between data centers in your distributed enterprise for backing up large amounts of data. RCU for disaster recovery can also be used for your remote backup solution just as effectively. http://www.wdsforum.org/forum/index.php?act=attachtype=postid=10 +-- |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
