[Veritas-bu] Puredisk client - cluster
Hi to all, Has anyone installed a puredisk client on a cluster system? I cannot find any information. My thoughts are: How to install the client at the cluster nodes and how to backup the cluster resources. Any info I can get will be useful. Thanks Stefanos ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
Tom If the San Media, is going to talk to the Master Robot, then you will need an SSO (Shared Storage Option) license as well. Essentially, its the license file that is different. When you install the software and prompted for the license key, enter this, then choose MEDIA SERVER and follow the normal installation prompts. Run Device Configuration Wizard once all the update or updates are applied to your system and you should be good to go! Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:28 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
Hi, Yes the configuration is same as ordinary media server only the license differ.by enabling this license you can create the storage unit for the particular media server and take its SAN backup. thanks regards, Monalisa Kundu Greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:58 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
Hi Brian We average around 98% success rate on our production servers. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 08:30 AM To VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates (PHI). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such communications. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
Hi, My side success rate is about +98%. As of now we are only on Solaris/Redhat, Oracle and Oracle Applications only. With Warm Regards =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harpreet Singh Chana Phone : (O) 6895 - 4326 Fax :(O) 6895 - 4991 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Notice The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying or distribution of the message, or any action taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and contact the sender immediately. Thank you. briandi...@north westernmutual.com To Sent by: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU veritas-bu-bounce cc s...@mailman.eng.aub urn.edu Subject [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate 01/12/2010 09:27 PM I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ForwardSourceID:NT0012F166 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
One of my customers has about 7,000 jobs per day and his failed jobs are 100 jobs/day. 85% success is very bad ratio. Unless you have known problems to your environment (bad servers or infrastructure) stefanos -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:27 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ 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] Any companies that restore legacy platforms andsoftware?
I used these folks years ago to get data off a corrupt hard drive and send it to me on tape. Looking at their site today and a few times in the past when the question has come up indicates they still do this kind of work though I've not had the need in a long time. The site has a fair amount of detail on formats and softwares they work with. http://pivar.com/ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:03 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any companies that restore legacy platforms andsoftware? You don't say where you are looking for this service. I used these folks in Melbourne, Australia to recover some data off an old DLT tape that was backed up with Arcserve. The data was delivered to me on a series of DVDs. The service provided was exactly as described, and the cost was reasonable. http://www.techneticsdata.com.au/ Cheers Dean On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM, TTharp netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I'm looking for a company that is able to do legacy platform restores of old operating systems and software versions. I knew of 1 or 2 companies many years ago that use to provide a service of restoring your older backups if you couldn't anymore. Some examples would be restoring from older DLT, LTO or even 9840 media that contains backups of Solaris 7 or 8 hosts running older version of Oracle. You can't even buy a SUN server anymore that doesn't require Solaris 10 as a minimum. A similar thing can apply for legacy Exchange backups from versions such as 2000 and even 5.5. Anyone know any companies still around that offer a service such as this? Thanks! +-- |This was sent by gth...@transunion.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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] Backup Success Rate
I aim for 99% - In almost all cases, the system is setup to self behave and re-try jobs if it has failed after a certain amount of hours. I have left a backup system for weeks, and it has been problem free. Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of cksteh...@pepco.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:46 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate Hi Brian We average around 98% success rate on our production servers. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 08:30 AM To VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates (PHI). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such communications. This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration
Hello, Is it supported to move netbackup catalog on SPARC processor (Soalris 10) to AMD Opteron processor (Solaris 10 X64) with the same hostname? Regards ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Asiye Yigit asiye.yi...@gantek.com wrote: Is it supported to move netbackup catalog on SPARC processor (Soalris 10) to AMD Opteron processor (Solaris 10 X64) with the same hostname? Cross-platform catalog moves are not supported. In this case you're going from SPARC to x64. I can't comment on whether or not it will work, but I'm pretty sure it's unsupported. You can/should open a case with Symantec to verify. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Any companies that restore legacy platforms and software?
I have also heard good things and have had one or two extensive discussions with their engineers, they seem (have not tried them yet) but from talking to them, they know all things netbackup and have tools to do things you can't do with the regular NBU suite. Justin. On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: Try dataSPAN (Formerly known as Media Recovery) My salesman name is Doug Waterman 713-554-9301 (cell 713-516-8567) I am in Texas but I know they do work elsewhere in the country. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of TTharp Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 10:08 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Any companies that restore legacy platforms andsoftware? I'm looking for a company that is able to do legacy platform restores of old operating systems and software versions. I knew of 1 or 2 companies many years ago that use to provide a service of restoring your older backups if you couldn't anymore. Some examples would be restoring from older DLT, LTO or even 9840 media that contains backups of Solaris 7 or 8 hosts running older version of Oracle. You can't even buy a SUN server anymore that doesn't require Solaris 10 as a minimum. A similar thing can apply for legacy Exchange backups from versions such as 2000 and even 5.5. Anyone know any companies still around that offer a service such as this? Thanks! +-- |This was sent by gth...@transunion.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration
You may find its not supported (I think they refer to Symantec Consultancy for this), but I had done one before on a Windows environment, and although not supported at the time, it had worked for me. Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Asiye Yigit Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:46 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration Hello, Is it supported to move netbackup catalog on SPARC processor (Soalris 10) to AMD Opteron processor (Solaris 10 X64) with the same hostname? Regards This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ 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] Robot vendors
We are in the process of replacing our STK 9310 (PowderHorn). Does anybody have any experience (good AND bad) with large (+700 slots) robots from following vendors: HP IBM Spectra-Logic Quantum SUN (SL3000 in particular) Thx. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Backup Admin Systems Applications Management Support Specialist ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
You don't specify if your query is about all backups or about NetBackup backups. My average is about 95% - failures due to Change Controls on the servers - but the Netbackup retry configuration means that most of the time the second try works. Some failures due to not getting it configured correctly the first time. -- Now this is with my new library - and the reason I have a new library is because my old one was failing too much - at that time my backup average may have been 80 to 85 % -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ 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] Robot vendors
Hi, Exp. w/ Sun SL8500s here, all redundant parts for the most part, works very well (w/ dual ACSLS hosts HA). Although people have noted on this list before that the ADIC i2000's work well too. The Sun SL3000 is good but if you have two robots and one of them gets stuck pulling or putting in a tape _AND_ the other robot cannot push the stuck one out of the way (into the service bay) then you may end up with an inoperable robot. We looked at the same thing.. With the SL8500 you have four LSMs, (8 bots total) so if one LSM has a problem, it will not affect the other 3. For the SL3000 it is one robot that controls all the levels of the robot. Justin. On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: We are in the process of replacing our STK 9310 (PowderHorn). Does anybody have any experience (good AND bad) with large (+700 slots) robots from following vendors: HP IBM Spectra-Logic Quantum SUN (SL3000 in particular) Thx. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Backup Admin Systems Applications Management Support Specialist ___ 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] Backup Success Rate
We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
HI Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate? Thanks and Rgds Nitin -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:03 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients. Strangely it could restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client restores...just not backups. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25 To: thomas.e...@gmail.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ 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 --- This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. --- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of William Brown Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients. Strangely it could restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client restores...just not backups. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25 To: thomas.e...@gmail.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely -- Thomas H. Espe ___ 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 --- This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. --- ___ 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] I inherited a mess.
I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname and catalog this was decommissioned about 3 years ago. Now I have a couple requests to retrieve data off some of the LT0-1 media and the old catalog is no where to be found. I have an LTo-3 Drive but its standalone and won't integrate with the robot. How would you all proceed? +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
I believe most people on the list are using a backup reporting tool. I use Aptare, but there are others and you can also script it to provide you success rates. Those who are watching their success rates are in the 90's. Those who are not think their rate is better than what it really is. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. nitin.giz...@wipro.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 10:35 AM To steve.hud...@ironmountain.com, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com, VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate HI Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate? Thanks and Rgds Nitin -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:03 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
The standalone tape drives does not need to integrate with the robot. If the drive is attached to the master or media server you can add it to netbackup as a standalone drive. Your real problem is do you know what tape your data is on? If you do then you can use the standalone drive to import the tape into netbackup, then you can do the restore. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sagz Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:48 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname and catalog this was decommissioned about 3 years ago. Now I have a couple requests to retrieve data off some of the LT0-1 media and the old catalog is no where to be found. I have an LTo-3 Drive but its standalone and won't integrate with the robot. How would you all proceed? +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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] Backup Success Rate
Maybe he wanted to know the math. Find out how many jobs you run (good and bad) How many of those fail. 1000 jobs run 10 of those fail Giving you 990 good jobs 990/1000 = 99% From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rusty.ma...@sungard.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:51 AM To: nitin.giz...@wipro.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; steve.hud...@ironmountain.com Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I believe most people on the list are using a backup reporting tool. I use Aptare, but there are others and you can also script it to provide you success rates. Those who are watching their success rates are in the 90's. Those who are not think their rate is better than what it really is. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. nitin.giz...@wipro.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 10:35 AM To steve.hud...@ironmountain.com, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com, VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate HI Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate? Thanks and Rgds Nitin -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:03 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not
Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
You can import the LTO1 media (using the LTO3 drives, obviously) into the new catalogs. Hopefully you know which tapes the data is on, otherwise you have to import each tape until you find what you need. Before you insert these tapes into the drive, make sure you write protect them, and have them put in a volume pool that NBU will not use for backups. Importing is a 2 phase process. You have to read the headers of the backup image off the tape first, then actually read the contents of the image to populate the metadata into the catalog. It's pretty simple, and you can read the details about how to do it in the Admin Guide. You'll have to manually switch the tapes out since you don't have a robot, so you'll have to watch NBU for when it's ready for the next one. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Sagz netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 10:48 AM Please respond to VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU To VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU cc Subject [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname and catalog this was decommissioned about 3 years ago. Now I have a couple requests to retrieve data off some of the LT0-1 media and the old catalog is no where to be found. I have an LTo-3 Drive but its standalone and won't integrate with the robot. How would you all proceed? +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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] Backup Success Rate
Number of successful jobs / number of jobs run is a good start but everyone’s metric is going to be different here. For example, do you want full and incremental jobs? Restore jobs? How about large / multi-stream backups? If I backup a 4TB oracle database 99% in 20 backup sets, do I get credit for 19 successful jobs and 1 failure or should I consider the entire backup and all 20 jobs failures? How about if my robot runs out of scratch media and I go 18 hours at some remote site with hundreds of DSSU de-staging jobs failing with error 96s? Do you consider status 1s a success or only status 0? Depending on your answers to these questions (and many more) your success rate could vary significantly. -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:55 AM To: rusty.ma...@sungard.com; nitin.giz...@wipro.com Cc: steve.hud...@ironmountain.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate Maybe he wanted to know the math. Find out how many jobs you run (good and bad) How many of those fail. 1000 jobs run 10 of those fail Giving you 990 good jobs 990/1000 = 99% From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rusty.ma...@sungard.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:51 AM To: nitin.giz...@wipro.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; steve.hud...@ironmountain.com Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I believe most people on the list are using a backup reporting tool. I use Aptare, but there are others and you can also script it to provide you success rates. Those who are watching their success rates are in the 90's. Those who are not think their rate is better than what it really is. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. nitin.giz...@wipro.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 10:35 AM To steve.hud...@ironmountain.com, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com, VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate HI Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate? Thanks and Rgds Nitin -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:03 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications
Re: [Veritas-bu] Robot vendors
Bart, We have i2000s, SL8500s and SL3000s, all over 700 slots. All are good libraries, but the SL libraries have capability of redundant robots. The SL8500 is a huge beast of a library, but that's nothing new to you with a Powerderhorn. The SL libraries can also be hooked up with ACS (the 8500 must use it, and the 3000 is optional), which might be something you could continue to take advantage of. The bad I have noticed with the 8500s is that we have had a few robots hands fail over the last 3 or so years we've had them. Not really a big deal as each hand is only 25% of the library since we don't have redundant hands yet. My point is that even though it's redundant capable, the failure rate is higher than I'd like. I can't recall the last time we had a bad hand in an i2000. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. WALLEBROEK Bart bart.wallebr...@swift.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 09:25 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Robot vendors We are in the process of replacing our STK 9310 (PowderHorn). Does anybody have any experience (good AND bad) with large (+700 slots) robots from following vendors: HP IBM Spectra-Logic Quantum SUN (SL3000 in particular) Thx. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Backup Admin Systems Applications Management Support Specialist ___ 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] Robot Vendors
I have used both Sun and SpectraLogic. Both work quite well. My latest Spectra library I have had to reboot every couple of Months but other than that it is working very well. My Sun Library was setup and ignore. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
I must be missing something... I don't understand why you would want to install a SAN media server but not configure it to send data over the SAN. What are the benefits of backing up client X via a SAN media server, but sending data over the LAN, versus backing up client X through a traditional master/media server where the same data goes over the same LAN? I thought the whole point of a SAN media server was to get the data off of the LAN and onto the higher-throughput SAN... Neil On 1/12/10 8:40 AM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of William Brown Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients. Strangely it could restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client restores...just not backups. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25 To: thomas.e...@gmail.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
Load, I have two servers with large data. To have my normal media server do the backup would put a big load on it. So you add more media servers But media servers cost money San media servers cost a little less. So I put the load of backing up those two big servers on themselves. While letting my normal media servers backup everything else. -Original Message- From: Conner, Neil [mailto:n...@mbari.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:47 PM To: Judy Hinchcliffe; william.d.br...@gsk.com; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server I must be missing something... I don't understand why you would want to install a SAN media server but not configure it to send data over the SAN. What are the benefits of backing up client X via a SAN media server, but sending data over the LAN, versus backing up client X through a traditional master/media server where the same data goes over the same LAN? I thought the whole point of a SAN media server was to get the data off of the LAN and onto the higher-throughput SAN... Neil On 1/12/10 8:40 AM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of William Brown Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients. Strangely it could restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client restores...just not backups. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25 To: thomas.e...@gmail.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license that is different? Sincerely ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. We actually do have a need to have the data travel the SAN because we have to backup a considerable amount of data in 30 min. or less. So that mean that we need FT as well? This is an extra license? -- Thomas H. Espe ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
The Fiber Transport media server (which has a FC target mode driver so it can receive data across the SAN) is ONLY required when you want to use a SAN Client to transfer data to a media server. The data then goes across the SAN vs. the LAN. A SAN media server, because it only backs up itself, not other clients, only uses FC for disk and/or tape access, so an FT media server is not applicable. Don Peterson Principal Product Manager, NetBackup Information Management Group Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com _ Email: don_peter...@symantec.com -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:48 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 45, Issue 7 Send Veritas-bu mailing list submissions to veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at veritas-bu-ow...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Veritas-bu digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Netbackup migration (Ed Wilts) 2. Re: Netbackup migration (Asiye Yigit) 3. Re: Any companies that restore legacy platforms and software? (judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com) 4. Re: Any companies that restore legacy platforms and software? (Justin Piszcz) 5. Robot vendors (WALLEBROEK Bart) 6. Re: Netbackup migration (WEAVER, Simon (external)) 7. Re: Netbackup SAN Media Server (judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com) 8. Re: Backup Success Rate (judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com) 9. Re: Robot vendors (Justin Piszcz) 10. Re: Backup Success Rate (Hudson, Steve) 11. Re: Backup Success Rate (nitin.giz...@wipro.com) 12. Re: Netbackup SAN Media Server (William Brown) 13. Re: Netbackup SAN Media Server (judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com) 14. I inherited a mess. (Sagz) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:53:47 -0600 From: Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration To: Asiye Yigit asiye.yi...@gantek.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: 995e39b61001120653v34b46ecrb25e5bfe59f84...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Asiye Yigit asiye.yi...@gantek.com wrote: Is it supported to move netbackup catalog on SPARC processor (Soalris 10) to AMD Opteron processor (Solaris 10 X64) with the same hostname? Cross-platform catalog moves are not supported. In this case you're going from SPARC to x64. I can't comment on whether or not it will work, but I'm pretty sure it's unsupported. You can/should open a case with Symantec to verify. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20100112/940bc94c/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:56:00 +0200 From: Asiye Yigit asiye.yi...@gantek.com Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration To: Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: ec79c5a11a89a54fa0896e9513c30b2a02807...@ganexch.gantek.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, However, hw contains same OS. I mean both os is Solaris 10. I will open a case to Symantec. In fact, I opened for moving the catalog from linux to solaris. They said moving operation is supported between any kind of unix type. It really worked in my test environment from linux to solaris. Regards, From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:54 PM To: Asiye Yigit Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Asiye Yigit asiye.yi...@gantek.com wrote: Is it supported to move netbackup catalog on SPARC processor (Soalris 10) to AMD Opteron processor (Solaris 10 X64) with the same hostname? Cross-platform catalog moves are not supported. In this case you're going from SPARC to x64. I can't comment on whether or not it will work, but I'm pretty sure it's unsupported. You can/should open a case with Symantec to verify. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
Don't confuse the confusing names Symantec uses! A SAN Media Server backs up it's own disks (only) and sends the data over the SAN to SAN-attached tape drives (commonly) A normal Media Server (licence is double the list price) also send data to storage just the same as a SAN Media Server, but can pull data in from LAN clients, or (with a very limited support matrix for target HBAs) can pull data from SAN Clients. So you cannot backing up client X via a SAN media server, but sending data over the LAN unless your SAN Media Server is using network-attached storage like NAS or OST. The name SAN Media Server is very confusing, especially since they introduced the SAN Client, and even more so since they share a licence (Enterprise Client). The SAN Media Server is just a Media Server that cannot support remote clients. If you look at the detail of the licence you'll see the 'remote client' option is missing. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: 12 January 2010 20:07 To: n...@mbari.org; William Brown; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server Load, I have two servers with large data. To have my normal media server do the backup would put a big load on it. So you add more media servers But media servers cost money San media servers cost a little less. So I put the load of backing up those two big servers on themselves. While letting my normal media servers backup everything else. -Original Message- From: Conner, Neil [mailto:n...@mbari.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:47 PM To: Judy Hinchcliffe; william.d.br...@gsk.com; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server I must be missing something... I don't understand why you would want to install a SAN media server but not configure it to send data over the SAN. What are the benefits of backing up client X via a SAN media server, but sending data over the LAN, versus backing up client X through a traditional master/media server where the same data goes over the same LAN? I thought the whole point of a SAN media server was to get the data off of the LAN and onto the higher-throughput SAN... Neil On 1/12/10 8:40 AM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of William Brown Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients. Strangely it could restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client restores...just not backups. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25 To: thomas.e...@gmail.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server. As such it can only back itself up. If you have direct attached drives you issue. If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives in the library) If you want your normal media server and your SAN media server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO license so they can all share the same drives. Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport - you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific hardware. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give the system direct access to tape drives due to high throughput requirements. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and set up this. Is it so that we should perform an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only the license
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
If you need the throughput of backup from the client to the Media Server (not SAN Media Server) of fibre channel, then the Client needs an 'Enterprise Client' licence. This is actually the same licence now as SAN Media Server, and if your client was licensed before as SAN Media Server (e.g. at 5.n) you can trade the licence for a 6.n Enterprise Client licence. See you sales rep as they say. The actual SAN Client licence must be installed on the Master Server to enable the capability. There is no extra licence for the FT Media Server function, any full Media Server that meets the compatibility list can be used. Of course the FT Media Server must be able to store that data fast enough, e.g. through to tape (6.5.4 and above) or to fast staging disk. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hemmingby Espe Sent: 12 January 2010 20:13 To: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN. I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant by default that it backed up over the SAN. We actually do have a need to have the data travel the SAN because we have to backup a considerable amount of data in 30 min. or less. So that mean that we need FT as well? This is an extra license? -- Thomas H. Espe ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu --- This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. --- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: Importing is a 2 phase process. You have to read the headers of the backup image off the tape first, then actually read the contents of the image to populate the metadata into the catalog. It's pretty simple, and you can read the details about how to do it in the Admin Guide. You'll have to manually switch the tapes out since you don't have a robot, so you'll have to watch NBU for when it's ready for the next one. Also remember that as you import tapes (images), your images directory will grow accordingly. If you import 200 tapes and the catalog at that time was 100GB, your images directory (and catalog) will grow by 100GB. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
Our goal is 99%, Lat year we upgraded to 6.5.4 and added Data Domain with OST which caused some problems to get all the connections and workload set correctly. Things have settled down and we are getting 99+ percent. We run around 8,000 backups per day. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 WEAVER, Simon \(external\) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net 01/12/2010 09:36 AM To cksteh...@pepco.com, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com cc VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu, veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I aim for 99% - In almost all cases, the system is setup to self behave and re-try jobs if it has failed after a certain amount of hours. I have left a backup system for weeks, and it has been problem free. Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of cksteh...@pepco.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:46 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate Hi Brian We average around 98% success rate on our production servers. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 08:30 AM To VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates (PHI). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such communications. This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates (PHI). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
We are running Aptare, It has reports that show the success rate. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 nitin.giz...@wipro.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 01/12/2010 11:35 AM To steve.hud...@ironmountain.com, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com, VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate HI Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate? Thanks and Rgds Nitin -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:03 PM To: briandi...@northwesternmutual.com; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate We have consistently been in the 90% plus. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of briandi...@northwesternmutual.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? TIA Brian This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates (PHI). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this
[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
Update: I actually found the old server but it won't boot (redhat 7.1) I was able to mount the filesystems to try and grab the catalog. Where could I look? i have access to /usr/openv/netbackup thanks +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
Hi Brian, Because we backup machines that will be unavailable for periods of time, the % isn't very interesting for us. Items I find interesting: - On Monday morning, what servers have not had a successful full backup over the weekend (I want a reason for every client failing backups) - On Friday morning, what servers are failing backups (notify client owners) - Other days, client owners can work on the problem of failing backups, if they have interest (they have the ability/resources) - How much of my time is due to backup infrastructure problems. - How much of my time is due to client problems. Over the years, this keeps us reasonably protected and focus with the owners (responsible parties). Others may have wildly different perspectives! Cheers, Wayne On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, briandi...@northwesternmutual.com wrote: I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ... What do you believe this to be? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Success Rate
Not sure which OS you're running but on Unix/Linux try running...
bpdbjobs -summary -U | tail -1 | awk '{ s = $5/$11*100} END {print s%,
Backup success rate}'
And if you count partial successes as a success run
bpdbjobs -summary -U | tail -1 | awk '{ s = ($5+$6)/$11*100} END {print s%,
Backup success rate}'
Mark
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HI
Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate?
Thanks and Rgds
Nitin
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We have consistently been in the 90% plus.
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I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup
success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ...
What do you believe this to be?
TIA
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Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/client_name (where client_name is the name of the host you are trying to restore data from) In there will be directories based on the ctime the backup was originally taken. The directory names will by something like 123400, where 1234 are the first 4 digits of the ctime. In that directory will be a *FULL file for each backup image taken in that perioud (that hasn't since expired). The FRAG records in that file will tell you what tape/s the backup is on. Asssuming you have another running NBU system, you can import that tape. However, I find it easier just to copy the *FULL and *.f or *.f.Z file across to the new server. If you elect to just copy the catalog files over, you'll need the following line in bp.conf FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = old new (where old is the old media server name which is listed in the *FULL file mentioned above, and new is the new server with access to the LTO3 tape drive). Having said all that, if the expiration date of the backup has passed, these catalog files will probably be gone. Good luck! Dean On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Sagz netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Update: I actually found the old server but it won't boot (redhat 7.1) I was able to mount the filesystems to try and grab the catalog. Where could I look? i have access to /usr/openv/netbackup thanks +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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] I inherited a mess.
I'm out at dinner right now, and I'm therefore not near my NetBackup documentation, but I believe you'll want to check /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/lt;clientname When I get home I'll check my notes to see if I'm correct. Good luck! - Heathe Kyle Yeakley -- Sent from my Palm Prē Sagz wrote: Update: I actually found the old server but it won't boot (redhat 7.1) I was able to mount the filesystems to try and grab the catalog. Where could I look? i have access to /usr/openv/netbackup thanks +-- |This was sent by brad.sagow...@noaa.gov via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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
