[Veritas-bu] Vault Deferred Eject Problem
Folks, My set-up is NBU 6.5.2A on Windows 2003. We use Vault for ejecting off-site media and use the deferred eject option. Unfortunately, our library has developed a fault on its Import/Export mechanism and the eject job has stalled. If I remove the tapes manually by opening up the library, is there a way I can also update Vault so the database remains consistent in terms of media location, etc? Otherwise I am at the mercy of our hardware maintenance contract! Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: paul.es...@redstor.com Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR At BETT 2009 Redstor will be previewing NEW data security services for Schools, CentraStage device management developments with the Remote Backup Service for Schools (RBUSS) Our stand will be busy - to avoid disappointment book an appointment with our team now and get details of our stand party!! Stand (U23) 14th -17th January 2009 Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP7 update on Clustered Media Servers help
Dave, I have done some work on a 6.5 VCS cluster and additionally touched a frozen file in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cluster on the active node to disable the NetBackup agent monitor after freezing the service group. This process is detailed in the 6.5 HA Admin Guide. Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 October 2008 14:00 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP7 update on Clustered Media Servers help Guys im updating a NBU 6Mp4 Solaris environment to Mp7. I have Master (solaris9 MP4) Performing it on the Master first obviously and then was going to remotely install on 3 SSO Media servers (part of an oracle RAC). It says this is possible in the patch readme but i haven't performed a remote mp pack install before (apart from network based clients using update_clients). Is it just an option when you run the mp install script? If this remote upgrade works fine then i want to adopt the approach on 2 further SSO Media servers (both at nbu6 mp4) which have a clustered nbu install using VCS. I don't have root access to the machines see (dont' ask), but i can freeze the netbackup resource group under VCS as the role access i have allows me access to do that. My question is can this be done as follows :- 1. Install mp7 on master (clt + solaris) 2. Connect to inactive cluster media server 3. Freeze netbackup cluster resource 4. Remote install from the master to the inactive cluster node 5. Remote install from the master to the active cluster node 6. Unfreeze cluster resource. Anything else i need to do? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disc Staging Area Full
Jonathan, Could you share your scripts? I have little scripting knowledge at the moment but am learning and some reference scripts would be of use. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor LTD -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2008 13:41 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disc Staging Area Full I run several scripts that manually prune my DSSUs and DSUs of unwanted images. Forget the catalog, just run bpexpdate with the image switch and use the server_image num directly on any file you find on the drive. Make sure you drop the extension. All my scripts parse the directory directly, I don't even bother querying the catalog first. You will get an error something like entry does not exist if you try to expire an image that does not exist in the catalog. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crowey Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disc Staging Area Full Thanks fellas. I tried the catalogue method first - and while it did return some images, nowhere near as many as I know are in the disc staging areas. But nonetheless, I expired those. As I mentioned earlier, this came about through a synthetic backup snafu - and first stage of fixing the problem I just cancelled the differential job writing to disc; this couldn't have orphaned the images on disc could it? Or do I have to now manually find/identify the old images and use bpexpdate as suggested? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Most recent stable release?
Bart, Did you do the catalog migration yourself? We are looking at a similar migration from dissimilar OS platforms and expected to get Symantec involved. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited -Original Message- From: WALLEBROEK Bart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2008 15:22 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Most recent stable release? 2 weeks ago we moved over from 5.1 on HP-UX to 6.5.2a on a clustered Windows 2003 R2 32-bit server, 30 Media Servers all migrated as well (in one go) with a mix of Windows, Solaris and HP-UX Media Servers). To be honest I have to say that all went well (catalog migration included) wihout any major issues. First step was to move 5.1 from HP-UX to the Win cluster and I have to say the admin console was somewhat slow afterwards. However once we moved to 6.5.2a the admin console was lighting fast (Windows cluster has 2 Xeon Quad cores with 16GB memory / each node). Last step (next week) is to upgrade to Windows 2003 64-bit. We did not had to install any engineering patch so from my point of view I must say that this version is stable. Bart Wallebroek SWIFT Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:11:21 -0400 From: Rice, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Most recent stable release? To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Just wondering what the consensus is on the most recent stable release of NBU for Solaris 10 using LTO4? Thanks in advance, Bob ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] robtest
Folks, NetBackup 6.5.2 Solaris 10 Master Server, Solaris 10 Medias, EMC Disk Library + Quantum Scalar i2000 Tape Library Anybody out there know robtest well? I have an issue with a robot where I can't inventory it. I don't get an error, just no information on slots at all - it's as if the library thinks it has no media. This all stems from when I had to change the robotic control path on two VTLs. I made the same change on both, in terms of changing the HBA target ports used for robotic control, one has been fine and one has had the above error ever since. When I run sgscan the problem VTL is detected and NetBackup seems to identify it correctly in terms of serial number etc. I can use robtest to show drives, move media from slots to drives and check drive status at the OS level with the Solaris mt command and see media loaded in drives. However, when I try to show slots I get the following error: Robot Selection --- 1) TLD 1 2) TLD 2 3) TLD 3 4) TLD 4 5) TLD 5 6) TLD 6 7) none/quit Enter choice: 2 Robot selected: TLD(2) robotic path = /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 Invoking robotic test utility: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tldtest -rn 2 -r /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 Opening /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 MODE_SENSE complete Enter tld commands (? returns help information) s s user command failed, may be timeout, scsi_pkt.us_reason = 3 read_element_status ioctl() failed: Error 0 ## From what I can ascertain this error is a transport error: #define CMD_TRAN_ERR 3 /* unspecified transport error */ which suggests I may have gotten something wrong with the robotic path re-configuration and yet I am able to move media between slots and drives. What I wanted to ask the group was this. When I run commands like s d or m s# d# in robtest, am I using the robotic path /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 or is robtest using information held in NetBackup somewhere? Is it only when I query slot information with s s that I use the robotic path? I was thinking that as robtest selects the above path successfully and can do s d, m s# d#, etc it must be using the robotic path and therefore the problem is not in the device re-configuration? I can actually run backups with this VTL and have media loaded, written to and unloaded successfully. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] robtest
Scott, The sgscan is finding the library at the correct target port/device path. What is the acsd process? Regards, Paul Esson From: Scott Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 July 2008 06:42 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Esson, Paul Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] robtest Paul, Make sure you have a persistent acsd process running from your primary device controller and/or the master server that's NOW controlling the robotic devices when you run robtest. If you've changed the control path's as you've indicated, it might be similar to an issue I had in which was resolved when I simply removed and then added the device back into Devices. If a continuing sgscan gives you the same problem, I'm suspecting a HBA/Zoning problem. However, if you run robtest, then inquiry and have the same problem, it could be mapping issues etc. as was indicated by Paul. -sj Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/10/2008 10:26 PM Folks, NetBackup 6.5.2 Solaris 10 Master Server, Solaris 10 Medias, EMC Disk Library + Quantum Scalar i2000 Tape Library Anybody out there know robtest well? I have an issue with a robot where I can't inventory it. I don't get an error, just no information on slots at all - it's as if the library thinks it has no media. This all stems from when I had to change the robotic control path on two VTLs. I made the same change on both, in terms of changing the HBA target ports used for robotic control, one has been fine and one has had the above error ever since. When I run sgscan the problem VTL is detected and NetBackup seems to identify it correctly in terms of serial number etc. I can use robtest to show drives, move media from slots to drives and check drive status at the OS level with the Solaris mt command and see media loaded in drives. However, when I try to show slots I get the following error: Robot Selection --- 1) TLD 1 2) TLD 2 3) TLD 3 4) TLD 4 5) TLD 5 6) TLD 6 7) none/quit Enter choice: 2 Robot selected: TLD(2) robotic path = /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 Invoking robotic test utility: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tldtest -rn 2 -r /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 Opening /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 MODE_SENSE complete Enter tld commands (? returns help information) s s user command failed, may be timeout, scsi_pkt.us_reason = 3 read_element_status ioctl() failed: Error 0 ## From what I can ascertain this error is a transport error: #define CMD_TRAN_ERR 3 /* unspecified transport error */ which suggests I may have gotten something wrong with the robotic path re-configuration and yet I am able to move media between slots and drives. What I wanted to ask the group was this. When I run commands like s d or m s# d# in robtest, am I using the robotic path /dev/sg/c0tw203908001b903926l0 or is robtest using information held in NetBackup somewhere? Is it only when I query slot information with s s that I use the robotic path? I was thinking that as robtest selects the above path successfully and can do s d, m s# d#, etc it must be using the robotic path and therefore the problem is not in the device re-configuration? I can actually run backups with this VTL and have media loaded, written to and unloaded successfully. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Cross-Platform Remote Admin Console
Folks, We have just installed NBU 6.5.2 on Solaris 10 with a mix of Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003 Media Servers. We have a temporary requirement to allow the Windows Media Servers to run the Admin Console with a Change Server to the Master Server. The only trouble is that the response is dreadful. The server itself is relatively powerful, DL380 G5, 2 x Quad Core 2.3GHz Intel Xeon processors, 16 GB RAM and 1 GB NIC. The usual network and performance indicators don't show an issue, but trying to load any information into the console from the EMM takes an age! Is there anything in particular needs to be tuned here? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class
Folks, Can someone explain how I add Solaris _x86_10 as an operating class in NetBackup 6.5? Do I have a separate client to install or is it simply a case of running the new_clients script? If the latter what is the syntax? I see the new_clients script in bin/goodies and the comments suggesting what values to use, basically, Existing H/W Class Existing OS Class New H/W Class New OS Class. However, from what I can tell the H/W Class remains Solaris and the OS Class becomes Solaris_x86_10. Do I uncomment the line New_CLient and supply the following values or am I missing something? I can find a working example! Solaris Solaris10 Solaris Solaris_x86_10 Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class
Jon, Thanks for the response. I released that I had only installed the Solaris (SPARC) client initially as I had not expected we would require Solaris_X86_10 at this time. Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Jon Bousselot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 July 2008 18:53 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class Paul, I believe you need to install the Solaris 10_x86 client software on the master server. This is one of the questions in the initial install script, where it asks if you want to install additional clients on this system. I usually install them all. Yes it wastes space, but then all the supported client classes are right there -- just in case. I have been unsuccessful in manually creating directories in /usr/openv/netbackup/client to trick NB into showing the client types in the policy. When you add the client software, this is one of the directories that are populated with client types and their supporting files. -Jon Folks, Can someone explain how I add Solaris _x86_10 as an operating class in NetBackup 6.5? Do I have a separate client to install or is it simply a case of running the new_clients script? If the latter what is the syntax? I see the new_clients script in bin/goodies and the comments suggesting what values to use, basically, Existing H/W Class Existing OS Class New H/W Class New OS Class. However, from what I can tell the H/W Class remains Solaris and the OS Class becomes Solaris_x86_10. Do I uncomment the line New_CLient and supply the following values or am I missing something? I can find a working example! Solaris Solaris10 Solaris Solaris_x86_10 Regards, Paul Esson _Redstor Limited_ __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Device Strategy
Folks, Could I ask the group for opinions on my device configuration strategy? We have built a new 6.5.2 backup domain with a Solaris 10 Master (clustered over two nodes using VCS) plus 4 x Solaris 10 Media Servers and 2 x Windows Server 2003 Media Servers. We also have 2 x Scalar i2000 tape libraries and 2 x EMC disk libraries. Our intention is to share the 6 x LTO-4 drives from each tape library across the Master and all Media Servers. With the disk libraries we have configured 2 x VTL on each disk library with 32 drives that is 4 x 32 = 128 drives. The drives from each VTL have been distributed equally amongst the four Solaris Media Servers only such that each has 8 x drives from each of the four VTLs. The reason for putting the robotic control on the cluster was to keep it highly available such that if we lost a Media Server then we would not have to reconfigure the robotic control onto another Media Server. However, we have discovered that we can't seem to get the wizard to configure the VTLs and their drives correctly. At the moment, unless the robotic control is on a Media Server that has drives from that VTL associated all drives are configured with limitations such as unable to determine robot type, robot drive number is unknown, etc. Even on the Media Server with the robotic control the wizard will correctly configure only the drives directly presented to that host, the other Media Servers get drives configured with limitations too. On the face of it to get this working correctly we would have to assign a VTL and all associated drives to each Media Server exclusively, but we really need to be able to distribute the drives. We are going to try a manual configuration today and bypass the wizard. Has anybody got hosts with robotic control only for a library? Should this work? But then again as I said above, even with robotic control for a VTL on a Media Server with drives, there are still configuration issues for the other Media Servers that share that VTL but with dedicated drives. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type
Folks, Anybody out there using EMC Disk Library as a VTL and has experienced similar? I have just installed NetBackup 6.5.2 on Solaris 10 with 2 x EMC DL 4000s and 2 x Quantum Scalar i2000s. There are 4 x Solaris 10 Media Servers that are configured to see dedicated drives from the DLs and shared drives from the i2000s. The sgscan and scan output look okay but when I attempt device configuration through the NetBackup wizard the DL based drives appear with the following limitations: Unable to determine robot type Drive is standalone or in unknown robot Robot drive number is unknown The DLs have inquiry strings EMC Disk Library 2.0 which apparently is a Symantec requirement. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type
Tim, The robot is reporting the correct number of drives and associated serial numbers while the drive has a consistent serial number too. It's as if NetBackup doesn't like the EMC Disk Library Inquiry string? Regards, Paul Esson From: Tim Hoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2008 12:28 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type The key is that the robot needs to report which drive number has which serial number. Are you seeing this in the scan output (along with the drives themselves showing a matching serial)? If not, then you'll either need to remedy that issue or manually figure out which drive equates to which robot drive number. I'll assume you are running the wizard for ALL the hosts at once? Such that the robot control host is being scanned along with non-robot control hosts. Or you need to configure the robot control host and then add the others later. HTH -Tim On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Anybody out there using EMC Disk Library as a VTL and has experienced similar? I have just installed NetBackup 6.5.2 on Solaris 10 with 2 x EMC DL 4000s and 2 x Quantum Scalar i2000s. There are 4 x Solaris 10 Media Servers that are configured to see dedicated drives from the DLs and shared drives from the i2000s. The sgscan and scan output look okay but when I attempt device configuration through the NetBackup wizard the DL based drives appear with the following limitations: Unable to determine robot type Drive is standalone or in unknown robot Robot drive number is unknown The DLs have inquiry strings EMC Disk Library 2.0 which apparently is a Symantec requirement. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Non-root administration
Folks, Can I ask the group with UNIX Master Servers how they administer NetBackup? We have just moved up to 6.5 on Solaris 10 from 5.x and discovered the nonroot_admin script is gone. I could re-apply the equivalent manually but this method obviously has limitations. I need to be able to run various commands use these in scripts and edit certain files on the Master and the UNIX admin won't give me root access. Will sudo help here? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server
Renee, Thanks for the clarification. Regards, Paul Esson From: Renee Carlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2008 13:29 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server You are right in your process. Run the device configuration on Node A when it is active, including all your media servers (not the inactive node), fail over to the Node B and repeat the process. When the server list comes up, you may notice the actual node name shows in the list, but once you finish the process you will notice that the storage group should be owned by the cluster name. NetBackup clustered master servers only work in an active/passive configuration so you will never be sharing the drives with the second node when it is inactive. Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esson, Paul Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:25 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server Folks, I have just installed and configured a 6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 that is also clustered using VCS. I have done the OS device configuration and presented my two tape libraries (6 x LTO-4 drives each) to both nodes in the cluster and am now ready to do device configuration within NetBackup. The HA guide suggests this is achieved by running the configuration wizard on each of the two nodes when it is the active member of the cluster and therefore has NetBackup running. My question refers to the fact that I will use SSO to share the drives between the Master Sever and a number of Media Servers. I am assuming that when the active node is node A I share the drives between it and the Media Servers and then repeat the exercise on node B when it is the active node? I did start to think that when A is the active node I might have to share with B, but B won't have NetBackup running certainly as a Master Server, though it does have the application installed and is known as a Media Server in the configuration. Can anyone straighten me out on this one? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server
Folks, I have just installed and configured a 6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 that is also clustered using VCS. I have done the OS device configuration and presented my two tape libraries (6 x LTO-4 drives each) to both nodes in the cluster and am now ready to do device configuration within NetBackup. The HA guide suggests this is achieved by running the configuration wizard on each of the two nodes when it is the active member of the cluster and therefore has NetBackup running. My question refers to the fact that I will use SSO to share the drives between the Master Sever and a number of Media Servers. I am assuming that when the active node is node A I share the drives between it and the Media Servers and then repeat the exercise on node B when it is the active node? I did start to think that when A is the active node I might have to share with B, but B won't have NetBackup running certainly as a Master Server, though it does have the application installed and is known as a Media Server in the configuration. Can anyone straighten me out on this one? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration
Folks, I am looking at having to migrate policy information between two NetBackup Domains (Windows 2000/5.1 MP6 to Solaris 10/6.5.2) My intention is to capture the existing information via a script or series of scripts and to use that same data as source information in creating the new policies. Somewhere along the line I will need to substitute in the new storage unit and volume pool information. As a starting point I have identified the following sequence and commands. Am I on the right lines here? * List and capture policy and schedule attributes in the 5.1 Domain bppllist bpplsched * Add the policies and schedules to the 6.5 Domain bppolicynew bpplinfo -set bpplsched -add * Update the policy attributes, including client and pathname Information bpplclients [policy_name] -add [host_name] bpplinclude [policy_name] -add [pathname] Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration
Shyam, I have been told I cannot do this by Symantec. I thought it would be possible as this information is text based but I placed a call with support outlining what I was proposing and was told no. Regards, Paul Esson From: Shyam Hazari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2008 12:38 To: Esson, Paul Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration Instead of creating policies from scratch, I would suggest copying the entire db/class folders to the new netbackup server and modify it. -Shyam On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I am looking at having to migrate policy information between two NetBackup Domains (Windows 2000/5.1 MP6 to Solaris 10/6.5.2) My intention is to capture the existing information via a script or series of scripts and to use that same data as source information in creating the new policies. Somewhere along the line I will need to substitute in the new storage unit and volume pool information. As a starting point I have identified the following sequence and commands. Am I on the right lines here? * List and capture policy and schedule attributes in the 5.1 Domain bppllist bpplsched * Add the policies and schedules to the 6.5 Domain bppolicynew bpplinfo -set bpplsched -add * Update the policy attributes, including client and pathname Information bpplclients [policy_name] -add [host_name] bpplinclude [policy_name] -add [pathname] Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] bulk import of images
Folks, Anybody out there successfully automated a large volume import of tape media into NetBackup? I am curious as to how you controlled the processing, given the potential conflict in using available tapes drives for example and how you validated the success of the phases of the import. We have several hundred tapes to process (800+). I am also looking for indications as to how long a phase 1 and phase 2 import will take on LTO-1 media with close to 2:1 compression (190+ GB). We have multiplexed media and 2 GB fragment sizes which I imagine will slow things down too. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bulk import of images
Jonathan, Thanks for quick the response. A copy of the script would be welcome to get me started. Regards, Paul Esson From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2008 01:42 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bulk import of images I scripted the import of several hundred SDLT Media running a simple script. I output the entries of the Phase I import to a text file called mediaID.txt and wrote a perl script to read that in and create an excel file with the media id, date of the backup and what server was backed up. I then used a pivot chart to combine what servers had backups available for what days / months / years. As and when someone makes a request I run a phase II import only on the images required, then restore the data. My suggestions are as follows: 1) Watch the tape drives; I had the occasional media get stuck. I think, due to bad media. The issue would cause the whole process to hang. 2) I had a huge library with over 300 slots and a media server dedicated to this effort. I'm sure a smaller library would have been a major pain. 3) Write a script or look for phase I logs that are very small - these are usually errors (in my case anyway) I can send you my scripts but they are just simple for loops, looking at a list of media that I loaded. On SDLT (110GB / 220GB Compressed) the Phase I's took a little better than an hour per (we multiplexed 4x /sigh) and the phase IIs take 4-8 hours depending. I'm sure LTOs would take longer, so good luck! -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esson, Paul Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:22 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bulk import of images Folks, Anybody out there successfully automated a large volume import of tape media into NetBackup? I am curious as to how you controlled the processing, given the potential conflict in using available tapes drives for example and how you validated the success of the phases of the import. We have several hundred tapes to process (800+). I am also looking for indications as to how long a phase 1 and phase 2 import will take on LTO-1 media with close to 2:1 compression (190+ GB). We have multiplexed media and 2 GB fragment sizes which I imagine will slow things down too. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster
Folks, Has anybody out there got NetBackup for Solaris running on a VCS Cluster and can answer a question or two? The set-up using the cluster_config script assumes a very basic cluster configuration. If you want more elaborate storage and NIC resources for example, do you simply build the service group initially through the script and then modify the particular resources from within VCS to refine them? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster
Greg, Do you have to supply valid resource parameters to the script to enable it to work? What did you enter for storage resource parameters before going back and creating the SRDF resource for example? Regards, Paul Esson From: Gregory Demilde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2008 16:16 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster Paul, Yes, that's what we have done. Shared disk was mirrored with SRDF, so we ran the script and then create a SRDF resource in the resource group. The script only create a resource group assuming that Vxvm is mirroring the disks and the interfaces are simple NIC and have the same name on all the nodes. You should check with Veritas Support if adding or modidying resources is supported though. They are very picky on what you do with their script or their Netbackup. It is only to use with a new server, you cannot use it to move an existing Netbackup server into a clustered one :-\ Greg Esson, Paul a écrit : Folks, Has anybody out there got NetBackup for Solaris running on a VCS Cluster and can answer a question or two? The set-up using the cluster_config script assumes a very basic cluster configuration. If you want more elaborate storage and NIC resources for example, do you simply build the service group initially through the script and then modify the particular resources from within VCS to refine them? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Large volume client migration
Folks, Does anyone have experience of large volume client migration from one NetBackup Domain to another that they can share? I am looking at having to define a process for moving several hundred clients from a v5.1 Domain (Windows 2000) to a new v6.5 Domain (Solaris 10). I was intending to use bpgetconfig and bpsetconfig to change the SERVER settings, if these are still available in v6.5, but I need a method of adding the host properties and the policy and schedule information. Can I use bpclient to query the current domain and feed some of those existing properties to the new Domain for instance? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster
rcarlisle, Many thanks for the clarification. Does the same apply to robotic control? Do I need to define the robot on both physical nodes to make it highly available? Regards, Paul Esson From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 03/05/2008 15:55 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster Paul, Configure the devices on whichever node is active, then failover to the second node and run through the device configuration wizard again for that node. Then you should be all set. The device configuration wizard will show the server name as the server it is scanning, but when you look at the storage units, you should see them as being configured as the clustered name. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esson, Paul Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:21 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster Folks, I am in the process of building a v6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 in a VCS 5.0 framework. I have done the basic install and tested the application will failover between the two nodes. However, I now want to configure a couple of FC attached tape drives for the catalog backups and am confused as to how to proceed. The documentation suggests I attach the devices to both nodes and run device configuration from the active node which means the device host will be the physical node, but do I make the storage units point to the virtual node name and/or do I have to do something clever with the EMM to tell it about the relationship between virtual and physical hosts. There is talk of this in the documentation under the description application cluster but is this what I have i.e. netbackup as an application in a cluster? Any guidance much appreciated. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Changing Master Server Platform
Folks, Our company has decided to change Master Server platform from v5.1 on Windows 2000 to V6.5 on Solaris 10. We have a large catalog with retention times of several years on the images and 2000 plus LTO-1 tapes. The plans also included moving to LTO-4 and introducing disk. I have identified three options for moving forward: 1. Upgrade the existing 5.1 system to 6.5 and merge/move catalog to the new 6.5 Solaris platform 2. Import the essential media from the 5.1 system to the new 6.5 system 3. Run the 5.1 system in restore only mode until images expire Option 3 will mean upgrading to 6.x anyway to ensure continued support and the requirement could run to 5-7 years which seems to discount it. Option 2 will still involve hundreds if not thousands of tapes and could take months? Option 1 seems the best way forward but will I need Symantec to get involved? Is it possible to recover the catalog and NBDB from one platform (Windows) onto another (Solaris)? One issue that comes to mind is compressed images. I know we compress after 40 days and suspect I will have to uncompress on source system before migrating anyway! Has anyone got experience of Option 1 that they can share? Have I missed an alternative approach? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster
Folks, I am in the process of building a v6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 in a VCS 5.0 framework. I have done the basic install and tested the application will failover between the two nodes. However, I now want to configure a couple of FC attached tape drives for the catalog backups and am confused as to how to proceed. The documentation suggests I attach the devices to both nodes and run device configuration from the active node which means the device host will be the physical node, but do I make the storage units point to the virtual node name and/or do I have to do something clever with the EMM to tell it about the relationship between virtual and physical hosts. There is talk of this in the documentation under the description application cluster but is this what I have i.e. netbackup as an application in a cluster? Any guidance much appreciated. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cardsunder RHEL5?
Jason, Where did you get the Red Hat specifics from in your post? Do you have a reference document you could share? Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 May 2008 09:45 To: Esson, Paul Cc: Jason Slagle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cardsunder RHEL5? http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/5982-9971EN.pdf I think this is it-- it may have been LTO-2 and not LTO-3: Results of HP testing with HP LTO2 tape drives Table 11. Number of tape transfer buffersNumber of waits Transfer rate to tape (MB/sec) 16 11,000 15 24 3,000 16-17 32 0 30-32 48 0 30-32 On Thu, 1 May 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: Unfortunately not it was from 2003 regrding the new LTO-3 (when it was new) on HP's site, it was a great review/document. 16 for number_Data_buffers helped to 32, but after that it showed no improvemnet and 256k was best size On Thu, 1 May 2008, Esson, Paul wrote: Justin, Do you have a link or other reference to the HP doc? Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 April 2008 22:38 To: Jason Slagle Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cardsunder RHEL5? Btw there was a good HP doc, 32 for the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS and 256k for the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS is the best. 32 (48) was not any better, but 32 16 was a definite gain in performance. Justin. On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason Slagle wrote: Having just gone through that (Albiet with Qlogic) this is what I did: Make sure the st driver is set to a reasonable buffer size (I did this in /etc/modprobe.conf): options st buffer_kbs=1024 echo 1048576 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS echo 1048576 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK echo 16 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS echo 16 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK echo kernel.shmmax = 268435456 /etc/sysctl.conf echo 65536 /usr/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ Doing this, I am able to hit 70-80MB/s to the tape from my DSSU, and I think I COULD actually go faster, but my DSSU is limiting it. Someone else amy have better values for these to improve it more - I would love to hear them also. Jason -- Jason Slagle /\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail . On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: I am only seeing 8-10MiB/s directly from RAM (/dev/shm) where if I write the same data to an LTO-3, I see regular speeds, 60-90MiB/s no problems? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] LTO-4 on Linux
Folks, Has anybody out there configured LTO-4 drives on Linux Red Hat ES 4? I recently swapped out a pair of LTO-2 drives for LTO-4 drives on a v5.1 Media Server and have seen no throughput performance improvement. I did the same test on a Windows 2003 Server using the same data and saw significant improvement, but the Windows OS has a specific driver for the LTO-4. Linux uses the mt driver, but I can't see anything on the web specifically about tuning the mt driver for LTO-4. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Export/Import of Policies Between NetBackup Installations
Folks, I have checked the archive and found some discussion on this topic but found no confirmation that the following is possible. I have a 5.1 master server (Windows 2003) and am about to build a new 6.5 master server (Solaris 10). I have 100+ clients and was looking for a process to migrate the policy information across to the new platform. Is it possible to simply copy the contents of install path/netbackup/db/class from the 5.1 set-up to the 6.5 set-up, assuming these are text files and I convert dos2unix? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS]
Travis, Very good point! I was neglecting the network routing aspect. So if I create multiple SERVER= entries for my Media Servers with the appropriate hostnames (resolving back to the correct IP addresses) and put these lines in the relevant bp.conf files on the clients then the routing should take care of the rest? Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Travis Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2008 16:49 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS] You should be able to achieve this without anu configuration changes to NB itself. We use multiple nics and you just have to make sure the routing is correct. When bpcd on the media server connects to the client the client will then connect back to that same ip (assuming that ip is allowed in the bp.conf on the client). So make sure you route traffic out the proper interface and the client will send data back through that interface. You do not need multiple storage units. The storage unit is not tied to the interface the data came in on. Hope this helps. Travis - Original message - Yes, appears so, I'd like to know what you find. Regards Carl ... On 3/4/08, Travis Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS
Carl, I had thought along similar lines but will the application not expect to see a device host in the netbackup configuration with the same name as is referenced in the Media Server setting of the storage unit? Regards, Paul Esson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2008 13:35 To: Esson, Paul Cc: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Greetings Paul, OK, I guess I mis-interpreted your question, apoligies. My initial thoughts are that you could set up a different DNS name for each interface on the media server. Then create a different storage unit that refers to each Media server name, and have that storage unit refer to the interface associated with the name. Then modify the backup policy to use the policy storage unit that refers to the interface you want to use. Just a thought.. In our environment we have multiple media servers and we direct backups to what ever media server we want for a particular policy. My guess, ( and it is only a guess) is that you could do a similar thing using one media server with multiple NIC's. I guess you could open a case with Symantec. Other people may have actual experince with this. Regasrd = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/2008 07:02 AM To Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Folks, My clients won't have multiple NICS only the Media Server because its receiving input from multiple subnets so the use of REQUIRED_INTERFACE on the client won't help. I basically want to send certain clients to certain interfaces/addresses on the Media Server. Doesn't the Master tell the client where to send it's backup data via the policy information i.e. storage unit/device host? In a normal backup scenario nbjm starts the backup using bpcd to start bpbrm on the Media Server. The bpbrm process in turn starts bptm which then uses bpcd to start bpbkar on the client. Its the interaction between bpbkar on the client and bptm on the Media Server that I am trying to control but in my case the Media Server is a different host from the Master. Regards, Paul Esson From: Esson, Paul Sent: Fri 29/02/2008 18:33 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Folks, Is anyone out there using Media Servers with multiple NICs on separate networks? I am trying to understand how to force clients to use specific interfaces on the Media Server when sending backup data or receiving restore data. Do I need to create multiple storage unit and Media Server entries to be able to target the clients through the policy? Or am I on the wrong track altogether? NBU 6.5 Solaris 10 Master and Media Servers - Media Servers have 4 NICs and clients are on multiple subnets. Regards, Paul Esson ___ 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] Media Server with multiple NICS
Carl, It is v6.5 on Solaris 10 and I guess I have some experimentation ahead! Regards, Paul Esson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2008 13:30 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Paul, Please clarify what you mean by the application I assume Netbackup. Good question. Hadn't thought of that. You may have to make Netbackup think of it as a completely separate media server, and device host all the way through. That way the it knows what path (NIC) to take when running a backup. I need to think about this some more. What version of Netbackup are you using? = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/2008 04:12 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Carl, I had thought along similar lines but will the application not expect to see a device host in the netbackup configuration with the same name as is referenced in the Media Server setting of the storage unit? Regards, Paul Esson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2008 13:35 To: Esson, Paul Cc: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Greetings Paul, OK, I guess I mis-interpreted your question, apoligies. My initial thoughts are that you could set up a different DNS name for each interface on the media server. Then create a different storage unit that refers to each Media server name, and have that storage unit refer to the interface associated with the name. Then modify the backup policy to use the policy storage unit that refers to the interface you want to use. Just a thought.. In our environment we have multiple media servers and we direct backups to what ever media server we want for a particular policy. My guess, ( and it is only a guess) is that you could do a similar thing using one media server with multiple NIC's. I guess you could open a case with Symantec. Other people may have actual experince with this. Regasrd = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/2008 07:02 AM To Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Folks, My clients won't have multiple NICS only the Media Server because its receiving input from multiple subnets so the use of REQUIRED_INTERFACE on the client won't help. I basically want to send certain clients to certain interfaces/addresses on the Media Server. Doesn't the Master tell the client where to send it's backup data via the policy information i.e. storage unit/device host? In a normal backup scenario nbjm starts the backup using bpcd to start bpbrm on the Media Server. The bpbrm process in turn starts bptm which then uses bpcd to start bpbkar on the client. Its the interaction between bpbkar on the client and bptm on the Media Server that I am trying to control but in my case the Media Server is a different host from the Master. Regards, Paul Esson From: Esson, Paul Sent: Fri 29/02/2008 18:33 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Folks, Is anyone out there using Media Servers with multiple NICs on separate networks? I am trying to understand how to force clients to use specific interfaces on the Media Server when sending backup data or receiving restore data. Do I need to create multiple storage unit and Media Server entries to be able to target the clients through the policy? Or am I on the wrong track altogether? NBU 6.5 Solaris 10 Master and Media Servers - Media Servers have 4 NICs and clients are on multiple subnets. Regards, Paul Esson ___ 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
[Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS
Folks, Is anyone out there using Media Servers with multiple NICs on separate networks? I am trying to understand how to force clients to use specific interfaces on the Media Server when sending backup data or receiving restore data. Do I need to create multiple storage unit and Media Server entries to be able to target the clients through the policy? Or am I on the wrong track altogether? NBU 6.5 Solaris 10 Master and Media Servers - Media Servers have 4 NICs and clients are on multiple subnets. Regards, Paul Esson ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Device Configuration in a Cluster
Folks, I am looking for advice/understanding of device configuration in a cluster scenario. My specifics are Solaris 10 Master/Media with NetBackup 6.5 atop Storage Foundation HA in a two node topology. The robot is a Quantum Scalar i2000 with FC drives. The only reference I can find suggests configuring the devices through the wizard on the active node then failing the service over to the other node and repeating the exercise. However I am struggling to understand how both sets of information are maintained in the EMM? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VCS Clustered NetBackup Master Server
Folks, I'm looking for some guidance on configuring a clustered NetBackup Master Server. Can anyone share their experiences with me? The basic configuration is a two node (V445) Solaris 10 cluster using Storage Foundation Standard HA 5.0. The application is NetBackup 6.5 (Master Server). The shared storage is delivered from two HP XP 12000 arrays. The nodes and the arrays are located at separate sites approximately 13 km apart and there is a tape library and VTL at each site too. There are 8 Media Servers, 4 Windows 2003 and 4 Solaris 10 none of which are clustered. There are 4 Media Servers at each site. My main concern is in how to take the catalog backup. Should I use a Media Server and avoid any device configuration on the Master Server or does that compromise my recovery capabilities if I have to restore the catalog? If I configure a tape drive from each library on the Master Server cluster, how do I ensure that the device configuration remains consistent across both nodes for these devices? Regards, Paul Esson Senior Consultant Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Difficulty restoring Windows 2003 Servers With SP1 and above
Caleb, Which directive are you using for the system components? There is a known issue with using the System State directive on Windows 2003, you should be using Shadow Copy Components or All Local Drives to ensure all objects are secured. Regards, Paul Esson Senior Consultant Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 May 2007 18:00 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 13, Issue 48 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Veritas-bu digest... Today's Topics: 1. NDMP SSO and SCSI Reserve / Release Issues. (Nick Majeran) 2. Re: for sale nokia n95.$300usd (Curtis Preston) 3. Re: for sale nokia n95.$300usd (Jeff Lightner) 4. Difficulty restoring Windows 2003 Servers With SP1 andabove (Caleb Chevez) 5. Re: Difficulty restoring Windows 2003 Servers With SP1 andabove (Sekhon Simrat S.) 6. Re: VMWare ESX Backup (rongill) 7. Re: VMWare ESX Backup (Roger Wilber) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:23:36 -0500 From: Nick Majeran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP SSO and SCSI Reserve / Release Issues. To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Does anyone have any experience turning off SCSI Reserve / Release in NBU 6.0 with NDMP SSO? I have 24 LTO-3 drives sharing between a local Linux host (NBU 6.0MP4) and 11 Celerra data movers, which are configured to *use* SCSI reserve / release by default. If a data mover panics and fails over while holding some SCSI reservations, those particular drives become useless to me (SCSI reservation conflicts on my host) until I reboot the robot and the host. Running a reset from Netbackup fails, as it thinks the drive is in use, and if I run it from the command line on the generic device, it clears up the reservation conflict, but the local device paths are still hosed. Do I still need SCSI Reserve / Release if Netbackup is the drive broker in this case? Looking through some of the Celerra documentation, it says to disable reserve / release if doing dynamic drive sharing in ARCServe and CommVault, I'm wondering if NBU would be similar? EMC and the robot vendor both say to turn SCSI reserve / release off, Veritas says to leave it on; anyone out there with any experience with these issues? thanks. -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:33:07 -0400 From: Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] for sale nokia n95.$300usd To: Clem Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED],Martin, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED], VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Clem, Doug and I hate SPAM as much as you do. We have placed as many controls on the list and the forum as we could possibly place to eliminate it. Unfortunately, if someone wants to ignore all those warnings and post unsolicited commercial postings in an obviously technically-oriented mailing list, the only thing we can do is block their address from all further postings, and we do that very quickly. The funny thing is that, as long as I've been on and off this list (and other lists just like it), there have been far more posts like this one _discussing_ the occasional SPAM than there are actual SPAM messages. I would say you have two choices when you get such a message: Passive: Consider it just like the other few SPAMs that make it through your other SPAM filters and just delete it. Trust the list and forum admins to do the right thing. We're watching for these messages and will block the person immediately. (You can also be assured that a bunch of other people will choose the active approach.) Easy Active:
[Veritas-bu] 64-bit v 32-bit binaries - comparative performance
Folks, Has anybody out there deployed the 64-bit binaries for NetBackup and have you measured the performance difference? I know I am hoping for much here, but I will ask the question anyway. Has anybody run the 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit OS then upgraded to the 64-bit binaries? What sort of performance improvement did you see/measure? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client NAS Snapshot Method
Folks, Is anybody out there using this functionality? If so can you tell me if copying the NAS Snapshot to tape via NetBackup's Advanced Client NAS Snapshot method results in a full volume copy or is it just the Snapshot/pointers that are being saved. I have seen conflicting documents on this topic and need to know to size a tape library correctly. I am guessing its the full volume that gets backed up and the snapshot is read for point-in-time consistency, but doesn't NDMP do that anyway though not on a remote host! Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Merging v5 and v6 Data
Folks, I have a question regarding merging data from separate NetBackup domains. Does anybody know if you can import tapes from a v5.x system into a v6.x system? Regards, Paul Esson Senior Consultant Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Catalog Inconsistency with DSSU
Folks, I have a 5.0 MP4 installation on a Windows 2000 SP4 server that has a SATA array attached and configured for disk staging. Backups appear to be working okay but I ran a bpdbm consistency 2 check recently in preparation for a proposed upgrade to v5.1 and have discovered the following for which I cannot find any reference on the Symantec web site. Has any one got any thoughts as to what has occurred here? There are multiple entries of this type for a number of images. checking image file __DSSU_POLICY_unix_full_1147475093_FULL PRIMARY_COPY is set to an invalid copy EXPIRATION is not set to the next valid copy to expire Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct:+44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
