Re: [Veritas-bu] sg_install problem with P3000 robot
Gary, The robot will show up as a LUN on the WWN for the bridge. What drivers are you using? It looks like you are using emulex, are you using lpfc to configure it or the SUN drivers? If you are using SUN then you can use cfgadm to configure the devices. If you are using emulex you will have to configure a lpfc.conf file to get persistent bindings. Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 - Original Message From: Gary sperano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 8:37:48 AM Subject: [Veritas-bu] sg_install problem with P3000 robot Environment: ATL P3000 (robot/drives) connected to a bridge Bridge connected to switch-A Switch-A connected to NeoScale device Neo Scale connected to Switch-B Switch-B connets to host HBA NB Hardware System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire V890 System clock frequency: 150 MHz Memory size: 32768 Megabytes Problem: The above NB master server is working fine. It can connect to the drives and the robot with no issues. What has changed is that we have built a new master server. This new master server has the same name as the original master server but a different ip address. New zones have been set up so that the new master server is zoned to see the P3000 and its tape drives, just like the original master server. Both masters are online until we can get the new master (sgscan) to see the changer. Once the new master is situated, we will then migrate from the existing master to the new master. The existing master will be decommissioned and shutdown. When we run sg_build and sg_install, all is fine.for the drives, but we continue to receive the following error for the robot # /usr/sbin/luxadm -e create_fabric_device -f /etc/cfg/fp/fabric_WWN_map ID[luxadm.create_fabric_device.2316] configuration failed for line (/devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:fc::210100e08baad429) in file: /etc/cfg/fp/fabric_WWN_map. I/O error when we run sgscan, sgscan see's the tape devices but does not see the changer (The above message is also produced in the /var/adm/messages log when we initiate sg_install Any and all help is appreciated Thanks Gary __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 57 - Resolutions?
Did You try running bptestbpcd to determine if the ports were open? --- Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ran that with success. The host can resolve the master and they're on the same subnet. For the Windows folks, the client is in a child domain of the master. None of the troubleshooting steps for the 57s have produced anything - i.e., all the steps have succeeded. That's why I'm wondering about the next step, which I thought was bpbkar, but produced no logs at all. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:22 AM To: Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 57 - Resolutions? Run bpclntcmd -pn on the client. I would suspect that the client can't resolve the master. Can you view the host properties via the GUI? Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Status 57 - Resolutions? I've been getting Status 57s on a host since we added it to the NBU environment. Here's the setup: Master server: Windows2K3, SP2 with NBU 6.0MP4 Client: Windows2K3 Enterprise, R2 SP2 with 6.0MP4 client Anytime a backup is initiated, it ends with a 57. Looking at the BPCD logs, here's what I see: 10:31:38.505 [3152.1472] 2 logconnections: BPCD ACCEPT FROM 192.168.64.169.1952 TO 192.168.64.206.13724 10:31:38.505 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: setup_sockopts complete 10:31:38.521 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd peer_hostname: Connection from host master.longwood.edu (192.168.64.169) port 1952 10:31:38.521 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd valid_server: comparing master and master.longwood.edu 10:31:38.521 [3152.1472] 4 bpcd valid_server: hostname comparison succeeded 10:31:38.708 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: output socket port number = 1 10:31:39.021 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: Duplicated vnetd socket on stderr 10:31:39.021 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: NetBackup 6.0 0 initiated 10:31:39.021 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: Not using VxSS authentication with master.longwood.edu 10:31:39.177 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_VERSION_RQST 10:31:39.458 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_NB_VERSION_RQST 10:31:39.458 [3152.1472] 4 bpcd main: Version string is NetBackup 6.0 60C:\ProgramFiles\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin 10:31:39.677 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_BE_VERSION_RQST 10:31:39.677 [3152.1472] 4 bpcd main: Backup Exec Config key not found. 10:31:39.677 [3152.1472] 4 bpcd main: Version string is NetBackup 6.0 60C:\ProgramFiles\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin 10:31:39.942 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_VERSION_RQST 10:31:40.271 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_READ_HOST_CONFIG_RQST 10:31:40.880 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_VERSION_RQST 10:31:41.114 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_PRIVILEGES_RQST 10:31:41.427 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_PLATFORM_RQST 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_GET_UNAME_RQST 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: UNAME_SYSNAME = WindowsNET 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: UNAME_NODENAME = CLIENT1 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: UNAME_RELEASE = 5 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: UNAME_VERSION = 2 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: UNAME_MACHINE = Intel x86 - Unknown - Revision x403 10:31:41.755 [3152.1472] 2 getUnameInfo: END 10:31:41.989 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd main: BPCD_DISCONNECT_RQST 10:31:41.989 [3152.1472] 2 bpcd exit_bpcd: exit status ---exiting By this, I can't see that it fails. Is it dumping to another service and failing there? The only other thing I have logging is bpbkar and vnetd, and there's nothing there. I've retried with loglevel at 5, but still nothing. The firewall isn't turned on on the client, so I'm at a loss. Suggestions? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2034 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers
Re: [Veritas-bu] )([EMAIL PROTECTED])*(@# Symantec Support
You need to ask for the duty manager. --- Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be a good time to ask for his supervisor. There is no magic preventing tickets from being reopened - he's just trying to palm you off which wouldn't be bad for you since he sounds like a putz but you ought to make sure his boss knows it. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:02 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] )([EMAIL PROTECTED])*(@# Symantec Support /rant on So I'm working a Netbackup / Oracle support issue whereby we're having trouble restoring an Oracle database from a full backup (RMAN keeps asking for incremental tapes we don't have.) The Support guy suggests we backup the control file, database and archive logs in a different order to solve the problem. My DBA Runs this by Oracle and they agree so we make the configuration change, run the backup, and then that restore hangs after restoring the control files. The Symantec tech tells me now I've got a new issue and that I need to open a new ticket because he's closed the original one! I can't believe I pay for this as support! _(*[EMAIL PROTECTED]%_#@%)@% mailto:*[EMAIL PROTECTED]%_#@%)@% # /rant off -Jonathan ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape
Steve is dimbcv2 the EMM server? --- Hudson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I get no entity found when I use it but I know there is a 300 GB file on the tape. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bpimmedia -L -mediaid D00650 -client dimbcv2 no entity was found [/usr/openv/scripts] Any other suggestions ? From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:54 PM To: Hudson, Steve; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape bpimmedia -L -mediaid ## -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:56 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape Hello All, I am having a brain cramp. I need to list images on several tapes without mounting them. I thought that bpimmedia or bpmedialist would do it but I can't find the correct set of Flags/Parameters for these commands. Any help would be appreciated 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 or 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 Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape
Your best bet is to read the tape or do a bpimport and see what is there in the first stage. Then import the images you want. --- Hudson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I should have said we are still on 5.1 MP5 so no EMM server yet -Original Message- From: Blaine Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:09 PM To: Hudson, Steve; Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape Steve is dimbcv2 the EMM server? --- Hudson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I get no entity found when I use it but I know there is a 300 GB file on the tape. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bpimmedia -L -mediaid D00650 -client dimbcv2 no entity was found [/usr/openv/scripts] Any other suggestions ? From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:54 PM To: Hudson, Steve; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape bpimmedia -L -mediaid ## -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:56 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape Hello All, I am having a brain cramp. I need to list images on several tapes without mounting them. I thought that bpimmedia or bpmedialist would do it but I can't find the correct set of Flags/Parameters for these commands. Any help would be appreciated 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 or 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 Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC - 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 or 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 Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Reducing Netbackup reserved ports on the master server
Why not use vnetd. If it is 6.0 or above a 6.0 client and server use port 13724 ( vnetd ) to communicate. In 5.1 you have to configure it. --- Anders Thome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Anyone know what the impact of reducing the number of reserved ports on at netbackup master server is? The Default is 512-1023. If we reduce it to ie. 512-600 Will that mean that we get lesser bandwidth for clients? This customer has about 60 NBU clients. The reason for this question is that this is going thru a firewall and the customer wants as few ports open as possible. Regards Anders Thome ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?
I am using it in some of my smaller environments. so far no issues it looks like 6.0 except for some improvements in the Vault Management area. Pretty stable so far. Upgrade from 6.0 was pretty painless. Upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5 has the same pain as 6.0 to 5.1. --- Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty new to the whole NBU environment, pretty much got involved w/ 6.0MP4 so I missed the fun of the 6.0 roll-out. What is the consensus w/ 6.5? Even thought it was just released, what is the comfort level within the NBU environment? Do you guys think this release will be minimal with bugs or are we to prepare for a disaster rolling it out without waiting for MP1? I know that is a shot in the dark question and guess a little of trying to predict the future, but I simply trying to determine if we roll it out or hang tight for a while. Feels like going to the Dentist, you know you have to go to get something fix, but you know there is a possibility of pain involved...:-) Thanks Dan From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:06 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it? Ed Wilts wrote: MP1 probably won't be out until the end of the year and if nobody upgrades to 6.5, we won't see many fixes in MP1 - that's the problem that made 6.0MP3 still a rotten release. Once users upgraded to MP3, some of the critical bug reports rolling in got the executive's attention and 6.0 didn't stabilize until MP4. You illustrate a good point. In my not-so-humble opinion, Symantec has relied way too much on RD in the field by their customers. I get that where there's software, there may be bugs, but this product was released in a broken state. Their QA really dropped the ball with this release. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- === Steven L. Sesar Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst UNIX Application Services R101 The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road - MS K101 Bedford, MA 01730 tel: (781) 271-7702 fax: (781) 271-2600 mobile: (617) 519-8933 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server
I have read the posts, and I see the throughput numbers for ttcp. I am curious how close the ttcp numbers come to the actual performance of the backups. what sort of write performance are you getting? thanks --- sauderd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spoke with our Network guys and got the following: 1. the IOS version is 12.2, revision 18, sfx 7 native 2. there is no minimum hardware version 3. we are running on a Catalyst WS-X6748-GE-TX 4. they configured LCP ports in active mode Being a Unix guy and knowing virtually nothing about Cisco gear, I haven't the foggiest idea what any of that means. But that's the best I can relate their info. Paul Keating wrote: Is anything particular required on the Switch? Minimum IOS version? Minimum hardware version? Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sauderd Sent: May 8, 2007 11:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server It was driver code to get the dladm command to work properly with the Cisco switch. La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ 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 Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie to Netbackup using VTL
I understand that VTL able to create multiple tape libraries and tape drives. Yes this is correct. There is a limit depending on the manufacturer. If i'm cloning data that already backup in VTL to the actual tape library, what is the common practice? script? netbackup? Common practice is to use vault. You can create a script using bpduplicate. Let's say if i have 100 clients and i do not use multiplexing and instead creating 100 virtual tape drives, does it mean that i need 100 LTO3 tape when i do cloning? Will the activity monitor display backup failure from VTL to the normal tape library? If you are limiting retentions to 1 retention per tape and you have 100 retention periods then yes. If you have only 10 retention periods, you will utilize your tapes more efficiently when you clone. Yes, It will look just like a tape library to tape Library duplicate failure. --- dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new using VTL with netbackup. I was hoping anyone here already implemented such a setup in their current environment and hope share your general setup plan? I'm now planing for such a setup and only have experience using normal tape libraries. I understand that VTL able to create multiple tape libraries and tape drives. If i'm cloning data that already backup in VTL to the actual tape library, what is the common practice? script? netbackup? Let's say if i have 100 clients and i do not use multiplexing and instead creating 100 virtual tape drives, does it mean that i need 100 LTO3 tape when i do cloning? Will the activity monitor display backup failure from VTL to the normal tape library? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server
I am curious as to what the total throughput of these T2000 servers are. How many LTO3 drives can you run. And how much data is moving through the network to tape via the T2000. I have heard lots of people talk about them but never numbers. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly, you shouldn't have to do much. As long as the media server is gigE and your tape drives are working properly (FC ones are pretty easy) I would just make sure you got the buffers set something higher than the default: /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS Solaris 10 defaults to 25% of system memory for shared memory. As long as you have more than a couple GB I recommend you use 64 and 262144 respectively. Your mpx settings also calculate into how much max shared mem will get used by buffers. We've had great success with our T2000 servers that use FC LTO3. In our environment, some higher end linux/solaris clients over the network can write 70-80MB/sec cumulatively via a couple jobs multiplexed to a single LTO3 drive. We have the 8 core 8GB T2000 systems and they don't even break a sweat (load .5 0% iowait, etc). We usually load em up with lots of other tasks. Windows clients just don't backup very fast over the network, even tuned. You'll have to mpx several of those clients to a single drive just to meet the native write speed. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot configure fibre san on Sun V880
Mike, Can you run a luxadm probe this will tell you what is logging in to the fabric. Send the output. --- Sponsler, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Master Server: Sol 10 on Sun v440, Netbackup 6.0 MP4 connected to PX506 via fibre San Media Server: Sol 8 on Sun v880, Netbackup 6.0 MP4 connected to (same) PX506 via fibre San. I cannot get my Sol 8 Sun v880 netbackup media server to create the /dev/rmt device nodes. The /devices/st* files do not exist either. I ran through the sg.build on everything. Doing an sgscan on the Sol 8 media server: /dev/sg/c0tw10e002233aafl0: Changer: Quantum PX500 /dev/sg/c0tw10e002233aafl1: Tape (???): Qauntum SDLT600 /dev/sg/c0tw10e002233aafl2: Tape (???): Qauntum SDLT600 No /dev/rmt devices exist for my PX506 drives. I do have a stand alone SDLT600 shoebox connected via scisi local on the v880 that does have /dev/rmt/0* devices. When doing a devfsadm -vc tape I get invalid st_rdev A reconfiguration reboot doesn't do anything either. The PX506 fibre setup works with my Sol 10 master server, and various other Sol 8 Media Servers. I'm using a QLA 2310 fibre card, and yes it has the Sun F-Code on it. Any ideas? -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL
Advantage on Data domain is very fast restores. You can also configure it with SSO. and share between media servers. So you can backup and duplicate from the same VTL on multiple media servers. --- Jim Horalek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately no one has answered Juan's question. Any Data Domain, Reo, Septon, Falcon Stor users out there? Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL Some VTL products' de-duplication technology is eons beyond compression, with low level pattern matching, etc, etc, enabling upt to 25:1 effective compression. VTL allows you to pool disk on a single VTL that can be shared to multiple media servers as virtual tape drives, whereas DSSU cannot be shared, so you must pre determine how many jobs per storage unit/media server you will run in a given night, and allocate the appropriate amount of disk per media server. if you have an operations group that is accustomed to tape, it maintains the tape paradigm they're familiar with. VTLs can be clustered, so you can have a second VTL at a second site, replicated over IP, without getting into duplication, vaulting, or any sort of DR copy within the backup app. other stuff, but I'm outta here for the day, and that's all that on the top of my mind at the moment. :o) Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 1, 2006 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL I guess this begs the question to the audience and the people that have put in VTL's ... what problems does a VTL solve that D2D can not? I think the list so far is: 1. Administration is easier 2. Possibly performance 3. Compression (1/2 the disk of D2D) 4. I can use it to stress test a new NBU release Anything else? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ATL DX30
does anyone have experience with ATL DX30 on a Sun Solaris server with Leadville drivers. Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] drives going down on media servers
thanks for your input, I have already disabled the RSM on the master. Let me give the entire rundown of the system. Master Server win 2000 NBU 5.1 MP4 Media Servers 2 Sun 480 Sol9 qlogic cards with Leadville drivers. Master and media servers are on their own internal Gb network. they are SAN attaced to the tape drives using Brocade switches. the drives are IBM and HP LTO2. when i run the backups on 1 media server the backups run fine. When I try to share the drives and run both master servers I get Permission denied in the messages files then 84,85 errors. In the bptm log I see the external event caused rewind. After talking with STK they told me the drive was getting inquiries from another system during the backup. I am lead to believe that the SCSI reserve is not being handled properly between the servers. since the SCSI reserve is supposed to be initiated when the drive is opened I would think it would not except any inquiries or SCSI commands until it was closed. My conclusion is the Leadville HBA drivers are not handling the SCSI reserve properly. But Sun says there is no problem call Veritas. Veritas tells me the error is given by io_ctl in the OS call Sun. thanks for your input it is nice not to be all alone in this. --- Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unbelievably i have seen this yesterday as a windows guy asked me if i knew about it seeing as i support Netbackup on solaris. The fix he got which worked was to disable the Removable storage manager service. The errors are no more. That was on a windows 2003 setup with netbackmup 5.1 mp4 Roger Dombrowski wrote: Hi Blaine, I have been looking to try and solve this problem for two sites that I'm working with right now and we're not having much luck either. In my travels I've talked to a few folks that have seen this External Event issue caused by monitoring software. One client in particular found that one of Sun's monitoring tools was sending out scsi inquiries and causing the external event rewinds. I also ran across a post on this mailing list that documents about 30 such applications that have been known to cause this type of behaviour. Try searching this list for external event. If a get a chance, I'll try and dig it up and send you the post I'm thinking of. Through the course of my research I've basically found that two things are trying to communicate with the drive and most folks check out the data path (hba's, switches, bridges,...) to look for problems. Maybe the upgrade stepped on some scsi reservation setting. If I find anything else, I'll post to the list... Blaine Robison wrote: I am having a similar issue. I have a windows 2000 master and a pair of sun 480's with 8 LTO2 drives shared between them. I get External Event caused rewind error and the tapes get frozen or the drives go down. I didn't have the problem unti lI upgraded to 5.1 MP4. I have gone over the entire configuration and cannot find a problem. Has anyone else seen this and found a resolution? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried /var/adm/messages (Solaris) or the equivalent log ? Regards Michael On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:00:24 +, Dave Markham wrote I have 1 master server, and 2 media servers connected over fiber to an L700. Im not sure what the switch in the middle is as didnt install the system or have any info on it. There are 5 drives in the L700 and 3 of them are shared with sso option to the master, and both media servers. People i have had an issue lately with drives being not visible to one of my media servers. I have fixed this by unloading the fibre hba using cfgadm and loading it again. It then can see the devices under sgscan and has seen them under /dev/rmt I also noticed the customer had removed a /etc/hosts entry for the media servers to talk to each other by the correct name so i put that back in and can now talk on port 13701 to each machine in the nbu setup. Whats happening now though is drives just keep going down on the media servers and backups are not working. I have ITC enabled so each media server needs to lock 2 drives. I have looked the bptm logs and cant see anything jumping out apart from many request medias of different tape ids. I have looked in /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/ltid/ and the logs in their show successfully on communicating shared drive info to the master. Therefore i am now stuck and have no idea whats going wrong :( Anyone any advice/pointers? Is ether anything specific i should be looking for in the logs or are there other important logs im not checking. Thanks ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Cybercity Webhosting (http
Re: [Veritas-bu] drives going down on media servers
I am having a similar issue. I have a windows 2000 master and a pair of sun 480's with 8 LTO2 drives shared between them. I get External Event caused rewind error and the tapes get frozen or the drives go down. I didn't have the problem unti lI upgraded to 5.1 MP4. I have gone over the entire configuration and cannot find a problem. Has anyone else seen this and found a resolution? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried /var/adm/messages (Solaris) or the equivalent log ? Regards Michael On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:00:24 +, Dave Markham wrote I have 1 master server, and 2 media servers connected over fiber to an L700. Im not sure what the switch in the middle is as didnt install the system or have any info on it. There are 5 drives in the L700 and 3 of them are shared with sso option to the master, and both media servers. People i have had an issue lately with drives being not visible to one of my media servers. I have fixed this by unloading the fibre hba using cfgadm and loading it again. It then can see the devices under sgscan and has seen them under /dev/rmt I also noticed the customer had removed a /etc/hosts entry for the media servers to talk to each other by the correct name so i put that back in and can now talk on port 13701 to each machine in the nbu setup. Whats happening now though is drives just keep going down on the media servers and backups are not working. I have ITC enabled so each media server needs to lock 2 drives. I have looked the bptm logs and cant see anything jumping out apart from many request medias of different tape ids. I have looked in /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/ltid/ and the logs in their show successfully on communicating shared drive info to the master. Therefore i am now stuck and have no idea whats going wrong :( Anyone any advice/pointers? Is ether anything specific i should be looking for in the logs or are there other important logs im not checking. Thanks ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN 10g and Flash Recovery Area
Does anyone have practical experience with 10g and staging to tape using the Flash back functions? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NBU 5.1 mp2 running on Win2k sp4, Redhat 3 client running Oracle 10G database. Investigating if NBU will support integrated backup and recovery of Oracle Flash Recovery Area with RMAN. The DBA team is requesting storage to create the FRA and now I need to figure out a way, if possible to, manage staging the snapshots to tape. Flash Recovery Area defined by Oracle: Flash Recovery Area The Automatic Disk-Based Backup and Recovery feature simplifies managing disk space and files related to backup and recovery, by managing all backup and recovery related files in a flash recovery area. You set the flash recovery area size and location, using the DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST and DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE initialization parameters. You also specify a retention policy that dictates when backups may be discarded. RMAN then manages your backup storage, deleting obsolete backups and backups already copied to tape when space is needed, but keeping as many backups on disk as space permits. This minimizes restores from tape during data recovery operations to shorten restore and recovery times. Thanks in Advance Vincent Mase The information contained in this email message and any attachments may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message without saving, copying or disclosing it. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] How to troubleshoot a Firewall Client Backup with Clustered Netbackup Server
From the looks of your error and description of your environment, it appears you are still communicating on the Client reserved ports 512 to 1023. Have the FW admin open these ports going from the client to the master and media servers, and see if it runs, if so then look at your vnetd configuration. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two rather basic things to check, but they're worth looking into: - Do you have access to firewall logs to verify that you're seeing the traffic reach the firewall and make it through? - Are either the NBU servers and/or clients sitting behind a NAT for some reason? Marshall Skare ATIS - Unix Engineering (612) 277-4434 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kilpatrick, Mark Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:11 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to troubleshoot a Firewall Client Backup with Clustered Netbackup Server Hi, I am attempting to backup two Solaris NBU5.1 clients through a firewall and they are unsuccessful. I would like some pointers on troubleshooting this procedure. The firewall rules have been set up for bpcd (13782) going out to the client from the master server and media servers. The firewall rules have been set up for vnetd (13724) going into the server. The client attribute of vnetd port has been selected from the master server properties for each of the clients. When selecting the client properties from the NBU admin interface the error of cannot connect on socket (status 25) returns immediately When running a test backup the error of (58) can't connect to client returns almost immediately. I have run the bpclient -client -nameofclient -L command on each of the firewalled clients and the No call back connections is set to yes. But the IP address returned is 0.0.0.0 I have checked the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf on each client I have checked the bp.conf on each client and server and media server names are present I have checked /etc/hosts on server and client I have enabled logging of bpcd and vnetd on the clients but there are no log files created - indicating no communication with the clients from the master I have enabled logging of bpcd on the master How can I determine if the problem lies with the firewall rules created by the firewall admin team or with netbackup (version 5.1 HP-UX running on a VCS cluster). Could the issue be related to the fact that I have a netbackup clustered server. The firewall rules only specify the virtual server hostname. Addition of physical name and IP to firewall rules is not possible. Regards, Mark K Due to continued expansion Sabeo Technologies have moved office - to The Courtyard, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. Our telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged. A location map is available on our website www.sabeo.com. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify Sabeo Technologies. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. ** This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. Blaine Robison Solaris Ceritfied System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Veritas Certified Professional 972-853-2459 214-578-5391 __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
