Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups might not be triggering!!!!
My understanding with calendar based backups is that only one schedule can run within a day. This has been verified with early releases of 6.5. Now in 7.1 I have seen two calendar schedules run on the same day but not at the same time. The second to run basically waited the first one to finish. Now apparently in your case Smitha, the jobs for the second schedule failed then you should be able to catch the error :o) Greg On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Peter Mosopa peter.mos...@multichoice.co.za wrote: Hi, ** ** If you don’t get any luck to get a script, please make use of the “Exclude Dates” which works like a wonder, I’ve got exactly the same schedules whereby at the end of March I’m running a yearly backup instead of a monthly. The monthly schedule is excluded at the end of March and the yearly one kicks in. ** ** Regards ** ** *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Smitha reddy *Sent:* 24May2012 23:42 *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups might not be triggering ** ** Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered . When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ? Thanks in Advance!!! Reds ___ 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] SLP with Synthetic backups - What are people doing for workarounds?
Hi, Basically, What I have been told by Symantec is that the full synthetic process was not aware of the SLP and therefore the image was re-created it was without the SLP information. The good workaround was to use vault duplication. Indeed that should be now fixed in one of the 7.1 releases. A year ago I think it was planned to be fixed in the 7.1.0.3 release. A simple workaround is to basically use vault duplication. Because in 6.5.x there were some flaws in the SLP process especially when you stop and started the services, an image could get the status SLP_COMPLETED without any copies being made, I prefered to script the duplication process instead using vault so I could include the images that have been left out by the SLP. I think in 7.X Symantec corrected some issues. The big drawback of SLP, is the queued jobs. If you do not set up duplication job size correctly, you might set up an important load on the master. Besides, depending on the size of you environment you might need to tune up NBRB. There are some SLP tuning recommendations on Symantec website. But yeah SLP queued jobs are a pain. I do not know if it is still the case but on 6.5.x stopping netbackup master services could trigger SLP proces to be in disaster recovery mode when starting up the services. Basically, this mode forces Netbackup to check every image on the source STU before doing any SLP duplication. This can take a while ( for us 36 hours ) if you use big disks for backups. Greg On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:23 AM, David Stanaway da...@stanaway.net wrote: I am happy to report this was seemingly silently fixed in 7.1 (At least in 7.1.0.3), the only oddity is that each backup job seems to spawn it's own SLP duplication job, so you will see hundreds of SLP duplication jobs queued. Now can anyone say if SLP and GRT backups are going to work correctly in 7.1 ? On 3/16/2010 8:02 AM, David Stanaway wrote: I'm getting very frustrated about having to re-invent the wheel to reproduce the functionality of Storage Lifecycle Policies for my Synthetic Full backups. For those not aware, Synthetic backup images for some dumb reason that hasn't been explained to me cannot be managed by an SLP and you will get dataloss if you backup to an SLP and expect it to execute the policy. The backup will go to the Backup destination, but that is it. No duplications. I am working on some scripts to re-produce the functionality of SLP since Vault is not adequate as I have hierarchical duplications that are not possible with a vault job. It is going to take a little time to get right, and I can't help but think this must have been done before. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines
Simon, I think this limit is per datastore not global. Greg On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: ** Hi all Going through my Vmware testing on 7.0.1 and when I done my initial testing, I wrote myself a note, saying that there is a limit that only 4 Virtual Machine Guests can only be backed up at one time. Is this correct, or did I misunderstand my note? I have over 200 ! *Regards* *Simon Weaver*** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines
Simon, VMWare setup her is about 600 VMs ( and increasing ) over several datastores. We are running Netbackup 7.1.x and backups are done using SAN with 4 proxy hosts (no VCB but Full Mapped Volume using vStorage API). We use the query facility in the Policy to automatically add VM to the specific policy. The limit of 4 VM is per VMWare datastore. During backup period, There is about 24 concurrent VM backups ( 6 per proxy ). Greg On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: ** Can I ask how yours is setup? I was initially thinking of one Policy and cramming the VM's in this one policy. If anyone has suggestions, that would be appreciated? Thanks Simon -- *From:* Gregory Demilde [mailto:gdemi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 06 February 2012 09:02 *To:* WEAVER, Simon (external) *Cc:* VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines Simon, I think this limit is per datastore not global. Greg On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: ** Hi all Going through my Vmware testing on 7.0.1 and when I done my initial testing, I wrote myself a note, saying that there is a limit that only 4 Virtual Machine Guests can only be backed up at one time. Is this correct, or did I misunderstand my note? I have over 200 ! *Regards* *Simon Weaver*** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England -- Gregory DEMILDE ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] TIR files on the client
Patrick, It's not only a feature of NBU 7.1 but also from the previous releases. There should be only one or two files containing the list of files or changes as listed during the backup. Those are to be reuse for the next one. That's how NBU keep track of the changes. It you have more files with dates prior to the last backup, delete them. Thos can apperear if backup was aborted. Greg On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:44 PM, pwhelan0610 nbu-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Hello All, Has anyone heard of NetBackup 7.1 saving TIR files on the client? We seem to have a client whose disks are being filled up with what appear to be TIR files. Any suggestion welcomed. Regards, Patrick :( +-- |This was sent by netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] TIR files on the client
Patrick, Indeed when TIR is activated, NBU stores information on the client. This is is named like tir_info.policy, any other file could be removed. Do not remove the active tir_info file otherwise your next backup will be a full (if TIR is still activated). By experience, I noticed that NBU is not deleting correctly temporary tir_info files on the client and that a regular check and cleaning is needed. Besides on storing information on the client it is also storing information in the catalog, basically the header files of every backups contains the full list of files present at the time of the backup. Greg On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:40 PM, pwhelan0610 nbu-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Just to clarify. You are saying there are one or two files that reside on the CLIENT, related to TIR. Is this correct? [Shocked] I know there can be several files on the master, depending on how many days the TIR's are kept, but I had not heard of them residing on the CLIENT. We have several of these files going back up to a week ago. What is supposed to clean them up? Regards, Patrick +-- |This was sent by netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Ops Center
Hi, Well there are several documents available on Symantec website. There is even a sizing document. We are using OpsCenter with 3 masters and it runs smoothly after I configure database server to use 4GB of cache. It requires lots of memory. CPUS/Cores usage increases when you run reports. Greg On 6 Oct 2011 01:07, William Brown william.d.br...@gsk.com wrote: My VM that had our test OpsCenter vapourised but it was fine while it was available, certainly not obviously worse than NOM. What we did do was the tuning documented in the NOM guides to set the DB cache a bit bigger - there is a section that is basically Sybase tuning. I admit that it was only watching a couple of very small test lab Masters. We still use NOM in production because it is not easy to upgrade - nothing to do with the product, just 'process'. I think the best advice I can think of would be to be generous with the server specification and bear in mind that it is a database server (assuming you do it all on one server, which is not strictly required). So if your OpsCenter server does not look like your SQL*Server servers... do not want a lot of paging. It relies heavily on TCP communication and polling, so is your DNS quick? Do you have long lists in domain search lists? I'm not sure if nbdna works on all platforms but it does have the ability to see how quick name resolution is. Slow DNS lookups multiplied by lots of servers will hurt. Hosts files are dangerous but can help speed many NBU things up. William D L Brown -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounc... This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - veritas...@mailman.eng.aubu... ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange question
Patrick, Which version of Netbackup are you running? In 6.5.x, there are some conditions in which a SLP process gets status SLP_COMPLETE without all copies being done. Now infinite retention is standard as long as slp status is not SLP_COMPLETE. Greg On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Patrick netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.ukwrote: Hi All, I have a strange question which may be related to my misunderstanding of how SLP works. I ran the nbstlutil command on a particular client with the following results (many lines) Image client_backupid for Lifcycle SLP is COMPLETE Copy to Disk is NOT_STARTED Copy to Tape is NOT_STARTED What is confusing me is that the image for the specified backupid does not exist anywhere that I can find. Bpimagelist –backupid client_backupid show no entity found. So how can the Lifecycle be complete if there are no images? The actual backup does not exist on disk. The SLP backups to disk then copies to tape, ONLY. Also this particular SLP has a retention level of infinite. L Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Patrick Whelan VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows. netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : gdemi...@gmail.com GSM : +32 476 304008 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 Catalog move
Or you can ask Symantec Consulting to do it for you... they a nice tool to do it ;-) WEAVER, Simon (external) a écrit : what about using the same hostname on the new server, restoring the catalog, and then using the ALTPATH procedure to relocate the catalog onto the SAN. Simon *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Thomas D Pryde *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:33 PM *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 Catalog move Is it possible (has anyone done this) to take a 6.51 catalog and copy it to another drive (SAN drive) and then re-assign to a new server (hardware upgrade)? What are the potential problems? New hardware and upgrading OS from Win 2000 to Win 2003 SP2. Thank you This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Shared memory issue with Solaris 10
Normally you shouldn't but some of the shared momory settings are still working and can only be tuned by /etc/system Dave Markham a écrit : I'd be interested in this too, as i'd heard you didnt need to bother with /etc/system tuning in Solaris 10. Cheers Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, NBU wrote: Hi forum, I have a Master and 3 media server on solaris 9 having Netbackup 6.0 MP4. Recently added new media server with solaris 10. Problem which i am facing is when the load increases (Schedule starts) backup start failing with error code 89. Experts need your help on this. thanks +-- |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 Error 89 is shared memory problems, read the archive on how to fix that for Solaris 10, generally you need to increase your SHMMAX value in the kernel (Linux) in Solaris it has been awhile :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Setup
Nick, Which version of NOM are you using? Are ports open between on the firewall?? Greg Nick Anderson a écrit : Hi All, I've just installed NOM here and it seems to be okay, but i cant add my master server on it. Everytime I try to add a Master Server, it complains with the message below: Server DTSBKP could not be located. Make sure the server is reachable on the network and NetBackup is running. NOM server and NBU Master server are on different networks, but theres no firewall between them. NOM server is listed in NBU Master's servers list. I checked connection in both ways with ping, telnet on port 1556, traceroute, etc, and everything is okay, but it keeps telling me that it cant locate the Master Server. Any tips? Cheers, Nick Novos endereços, o Yahoo! que você conhece. Crie um email novo http://br.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/mail/*http://br.new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses com a sua cara @ymail.com ou @rocketmail.com. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration
Paul, Actually it could be a problem if you had already existing policies otherwise you can save policy information using bpplinfo ... and then use that information to create the policies. Greg Esson, Paul a écrit : 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] mailto:[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] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com http://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 mailto: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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM historical data
Griff, NOM does not stora any historical data because its dedicated to operations... If you want to keep historical data and do reporting, you will need Backup Reporter or any similar products. Greg griff a écrit : I just recently installed NOM MP6 on Solaris 10 server. However, it is not giving any historical job data. Will it only populate with new jobs that are run or is there a way to import the existing data. Thanks +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 : not all files backed up in system32/drivers directory
Dear All, I was doing some backup and restore test on a win 2k3 system and I noticed that not all the files in that directory were backup up. Only 19 out of 181. I checked several win 2K3 systems and all had the same problem. Does anybody knows why? Greg ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP5 - Jobs queued, not going active
Marianne, Have you already tried ? # nbpem -terminate # nbpem Greg On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Marianne Van Den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope there's a guru out there that's awake and online!! We have logged a priority 1 call with Symantec – they have only 1 engineer on duty trying to handle 5 calls… No idea when we can expect a call back… Everything was running fine till about 7 hours ago. We are seeing a couple of Active jobs, but they are parent processes only. Over a hundred jobs queued. bpps shows a large number of nbgenjobs that seem to be hanging. nbgenjob log shows this message (repeated multiple times over last couple of hours): waiting for Policy Execution Manager callback, verify nbpem is running (nbpem IS running) Master server: Solaris 10, NBU 6.0 MP5. This has happened twice before. Stopping everything on master and all media servers and then restarting one by one 'solves' the problem. I don't see this as a solution – we need to know what's causing this. Any ideas? Regards *Marianne * ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter
We are starting also to use VBR here ... By any chance has anyone of you a full description of the database so we can create our own queries ? TIA, Greg On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Michael Graff Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Matthew We are starting to use VBR, there should be at least two ways of pulling/getting historical data the various reports custom SQL queries Regards Michael 2008/3/5, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, I have just started using Veritas Backup Reporter, and I was wondering is their a way to pull / get historical data. Thanks in advanced for all responses, Matt Matthew Johnson System Backup Administrator Information Technology Operations 2835 N. Naomi Street Burbank, CA 91504-2024 Tel. (818) 955-6357 Fax. For information on our products and services, please visit http://www.entertainmentpartners.com/ Disclaimer - March 5, 2008 This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not a named addressee you are prohibited from reviewing, printing, disseminating, distributing, copying or altering this email or any part of it. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender of the error immediately, do not read or use the communication in any manner, destroy all copies, and delete it from your system if the communication was sent via email. Warning: Although Entertainment Partners has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the recipient is responsible for checking for and deleting viruses. Entertainment Partners does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] tapes being deassigned.
Hi, I have a NBU 6.0 MP5 master running on Solaris. I have moved my master (which is using a logical interface) to another server and when I started it on the new all my tapes are getting deassigned. I though it was due to the user_retention file problem, but apparently it was not. Has anyone of you already met this problem? Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Exchange Public Folders Backups problem
Dear all, We are running MS Exchange public folders backups and we see that some of the directories are missing from the backups. I put the logs on max on the client and found out that there are no mention of them in the logs. I ran a backup specifying the missing directory and the error I found in the logs was Invalid directory. Has anyone of you already encountered the issue? We are running NBU 6.0 MP5 and the client is 6.0 MP4. Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch NB_60_5_M installation on NetBackup 6.0MP4 (RHEL 4.3)
With MP5 : bpdbm : can't read compressed images anymore bpbrmds : parent job for relocation finishes 5 minutes after being started. It is getting worse if you are using DSSU + ITC has queued relocation jobs stayed queued and never become active. bpbrm : restore problem with windows client running 5.1 MP3 or 4. Upgrading client to 6.0 MP4 also solved the problem. all those things were running fine under MP4. Greg On Dec 6, 2007 2:24 PM, Len Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Can you tell this group a little about the problems that you have seen that require an Engineering fix. Thanks len *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Gregory Demilde *Sent:* Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:57 AM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Cc:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch NB_60_5_M installation on NetBackup 6.0MP4 (RHEL 4.3) Umm do you really want to upgrade to MP5 I am already with my 3rd engineering fix ;oppp Greg On Dec 6, 2007 11:45 AM, Ueli Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check if /usr/openv/netbackup/version exists (not the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version file, that contains information about the installed client version). Cheers, Ueli Schweizer CTO AGITE Software AG Boesch 43· CH-6331Huenenberg · Switzerland Direct: +55 73 99 88 64 64 · Phone: +41 41781 5678· Fax: +41 41 781 5677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://www.AGITE-Software.com backupVISUAL … ... we make life on backup easy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Jolle Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:42 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Patch NB_60_5_M installation on NetBackup 6.0MP4 (RHEL 4.3) Hi NetBackup users I installed NetBackup 6.0 MP4 (just normal with the shell script wizard). Now I am trying to apply the latest maintenance patch (NB_60_5_M_290383.linux.tar) # /bin/sh Vrts_pack.install There is 1 pack available in /root/patch: (* denotes installed pack) NB_60_5_M Enter pack name (or q) [q]: NB_60_5_M ERROR: No readable product version file was found, please verify the version file exists and that this pack is appropriate for this system. # cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version NetBackup-RedHat2.4 6.0MP4 Anyone is using a workaround? cheers Simon -- XMPP: [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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Host Name Change on Master Server
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any sign of 6.5.1?
Yeah 6.0 MP4 is the most stable We have MP5 and we have some nasty bugs... I already have 2 engineering fix and I will probably have a third one coming soon ... actually I got the third one but the cure was worse than the sickness... Greg On Nov 27, 2007 4:45 PM, bthessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quote=jpiszcz]Wow, 6.0MP2 isn't bad for you? I think most will agree 6.0MP4 was the first 'stable' 6.0 release. Justin. Actually I have had little trouble with MP2. +-- |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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Open Q to the List: What is the Best Filesystem for a staging disk
I haven't tested ZFS yet. The problem is that after a while the performance on UFS goes dramatically down due to fragmentation. VxFS performs better as it handles better the fragmentation. Greg On Nov 21, 2007 9:06 PM, Jon Bousselot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done only tests using disk staging with JBOD and SAN attached disks. UFS performed pretty well. VxFS was a bit slow on clearing image files, but that wasn't a huge problem as the image cleanup didn't always happen when I was trying to write new ones. Since it was VxFS, I could manage it using our standard tool set and I knew it would most likely survive a host crash and not corrupt itself. ZFS had a lot of overhead that my test system didn't appreciate, but did ok. If I had a faster system, performance might be a non-issue, and the reasons for picking one would be for the feature set. -Jon Good evening all, I'm in the process of setting up another media server which will have 7TB of staging disk. What have your experiences been with filesystem type X's performance over Filesystem type Y ? I'm running on a Solaris media server, so my interest directly lies with UFS, VXFS, ZFS, or QFS. But I am interested in hearing your thoughts / experiences. Thanks. Unfortunatly it is late, playing on a SAN when tired IS dangerous so I'm going to post this and see what get's stirred up. Regards Adam Mellor Senior Unix Support Analyst CF IT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Woodside Energy Ltd. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line to list netbackup Policy information
bpplinfo policy_name if you want to list or modify something On Nov 20, 2007 3:26 PM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, DLew97 wrote: Does anyone know the command line to list the netbackup policy information on a Windows platform? Dan, Looks like it has not changed from UNIX: bppllist should list the polices then loop through them bppllist policyname bppllist NAME bppllist -List policy information. SYNOPSIS install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist [policyname] [-L | -l | -U] [-allpolicies] [-M master_server,...,master_server] [-hwos] [-byclient client] [-keyword keyword phrase][-verbose] DESCRIPTION bppllistlists policies within the NetBackup database. This command can be executed by any authorized users. For more information about NetBackup authorization, refer to Enhanced Authorization and Authentication in the NetBackup System Administrator's Guide. OPTIONS -allpolicies Lists all policies. -hwos Lists possible hardware and the operating system. -L Displays a full listing. -l Displays information in raw output mode. -M master_server,...,master_server Lists policy information for a specific master server(s). -U Displays information in the style used by xbpadm. -byclient client Lists policy information for all policies containing the client indicated. -keyword keyword phrase The value will be associated with all backups created using this policy. The keyword phrase can be used to link related policies. It can also be used during restores to search only for backups that have the keyword phrase associated with them. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] T2000 vaulting performance with VTL/LTO3
Chris, Which version of Solaris are you using. You might have a look on the following URL. There are some parameters to tune for the T2000. http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/parameters.jsp#2 Besides, what does the bptm logs say about the buffers? According to you settings, you have only buffer 50 ms. I would increase the number of buffers to a higher number and see how it goes... Greg On Nov 16, 2007 7:00 PM, Chris_Millet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to experiment with the use of T2000 for media servers. The backup server is a T2000 8 core, 18GB system. There is a Qlogic QLE2462 PCI-E dual port 4Gb adapter in the system that plugs into a Qlogic 5602 switch. From there, one port is zoned to a EMC CDL 4400 (VTL) and a few HP LTO3 tape drives. The connectivity is 4Gb from host to switch, and from switch to the VTL. The tape drive is 2Gb. So when using Netbackup Vault to copy a backup done to the VTL to a real tape drive, the backup performance tops out at about 90MB/sec. If I spin up two jobs to two tape drives, they both go about 45MB/sec. It seems I've hit a 90MB/sec bottleneck somehow. I have v240s performing better! Write performance to the VTL from incoming client backups over the WAN exceeds the vault performance. My next step is to zone the tape drives on one of the HBA ports, and the VTL zoned on the other port. I'm using: SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 64 Any other suggestions? +-- |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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some suggestions
Daniel, Flashbackup might help. Otherwise where is the bottleneck? disk? network? cpu? filesystem? Greg On Nov 14, 2007 5:52 PM, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The setup… Client: Windows 2003 Svr 6 TB of very small files…Word, Excel etc NBU environment 6.0 MP4 all Windows…media and master node. LTO3 drives SAN Attach (FC) Mutlistreaming enabled 1GB isolated network Multiplexing enabled, and don't laugh it is set to 20…I know I know hopefully I'll never need to do a full system restore. I've isolated all policies from the media server that handles this clients backup request. And yet my full backup is running anywhere from 1.5 – 2 days, my transfer rate to tape is running around 2000 KB/sec…horrible What else can I do to help speed this up? Thanks *Dan Cruice* Deloitte Technology Service Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Direct: +1 610-479-5179 Fax: +1 610-479-6179 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.deloitte.com 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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message
Justin, I have the same issue with a master NBU6.0 MP5. When a restore is initiated and there is no tape drive available for restore, it waits. Nothing fancy upto there. After 15 minutes, it timeouts but only partially. The mount requests are still pending. After he got a tape drive, mounts the tape and the return a broken pipe because the part of the processes have timeout. I need to stop/start my master to be able to have a successful restore afterwards. Greg On Nov 13, 2007 5:00 PM, Gregory Demilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin, What's your Master version ? Greg On Nov 13, 2007 4:46 PM, Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Maybe tail your bpbrm log for more info whilst its happening. dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 13 November 2007 15:40 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: 11/13/2007 15:33:28 - Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message, connection dropped or not connected (errno = Broken pipe) 11/13/2007 15:33:28 - Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message, connection dropped or not connected (errno = Broken pipe) Anyone ever get these when trying to restore to a Windows host? Its one particular Windows host that is having the problem, we even upgraded it to 5.1MP6 and rebooted, same problem after reboot, has anyone seen this? Justin. By the way I can restore the data without any problems to another Windows server. Clues? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message
Justin, Carl just told me that upgrading the client to the same version of the master solved the problem. Greg On Nov 13, 2007 5:47 PM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nastiness :( On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote: Justin, I have the same issue with a master NBU6.0 MP5. When a restore is initiated and there is no tape drive available for restore, it waits. Nothing fancy upto there. After 15 minutes, it timeouts but only partially. The mount requests are still pending. After he got a tape drive, mounts the tape and the return a broken pipe because the part of the processes have timeout. I need to stop/start my master to be able to have a successful restore afterwards. Greg On Nov 13, 2007 5:00 PM, Gregory Demilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin, What's your Master version ? Greg On Nov 13, 2007 4:46 PM, Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Maybe tail your bpbrm log for more info whilst its happening. dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 13 November 2007 15:40 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: 11/13/2007 15:33:28 - Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message, connection dropped or not connected (errno = Broken pipe) 11/13/2007 15:33:28 - Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message, connection dropped or not connected (errno = Broken pipe) Anyone ever get these when trying to restore to a Windows host? Its one particular Windows host that is having the problem, we even upgraded it to 5.1MP6 and rebooted, same problem after reboot, has anyone seen this? Justin. By the way I can restore the data without any problems to another Windows server. Clues? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] DSSU Relocation
Dear all, I have just installed 2 media servers running NBU 6.0 MP5 and I see some issue with the relocation. The parent relocation job finishes with error code 0 after 5 minutes even if there are still duplication jobs active and/or queued. Have anyone of you already seen this? Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU Relocation
Ed Andrew, Thank you !!! I will ask my fix ;o) Greg On Nov 8, 2007 4:45 PM, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/07, Andrew Sydelko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:34:22 +0100 Gregory Demilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed 2 media servers running NBU 6.0 MP5 and I see some issue with the relocation. The parent relocation job finishes with error code 0 after 5 minutes even if there are still duplication jobs active and/or queued. Have anyone of you already seen this? Yep, it's a known bug. There are engineering binaries to fix it. The only issue is if another relocation starts while one is running, it will attempt to relocate images that have already been relocated. This issue is also fixed. The binary you need is bpbrmds and the Symantec ETrack number is ET1119235. We drove the issue here and worked with Symantec to test the fix and it really does fix the issues. Symantec fixed this back in September. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris
Alexander, /usr/openv or /opt/openv should be sufficient ... Greg On Nov 7, 2007 1:47 PM, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'd like to upgrade an installation of NBU 5.1 to 6.5. As I'd like to change quite a bit in the way the system is setup, I'm actually rather planning a new installation of 6.5, after having de-installed 5.1. But to do that, and to have an easy fallback, I'd like to backup the NBU 5.1 installation on the system (eg. to a tar file). What do I need to backup, to be able to do an easy rollback? Is it sufficient, when I backup the following: - /usr/openv - /opt/openv - /etc/*.d/*netbackup (init scripts) Do I need anything else? Thanks, Alexander Skwar ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Which tape drive type for DLT7000 tape drives and NetBackup 3.4
Aleksandr, Actually, using DLT or DLT3 won't change you performance. Are you sure that the tape was written the first time in DLTIV format? The first time you write the tape, you are setting up the format of the tape. Greg On 11/6/07, Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear NetBackup Gurus, I have inherited installation of NetBackup 3.4 with Sun L1000 library and DLT7000 drives. My tape drive type is set to DLT. At the moment I am getting 30-40G per DLTIV tape (with compression - using /dev/rmt/0cbn Solaris device ). Looks like NetBackup 3.4 supports DLT , DLT2 and DLT3. Should I change my tape drive to DLT3 ? Will I be able to get more data per tape? Thank you, Aleksandr ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists
Jason, I have you tried P:\* and P:\*.* ? anyway the directory entry will probably back up but non of the files/directories in it. Netbackup relies on Windows wildcards. Greg On 10/31/07, Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm probably missing something obvious here, but the docs on exclude lists are always frustrating. I'm running 6.5 Master on Windows 2003. What I'm trying to do is set up excluded drives on one server (Windows). One example is our dedicated page file, stored on P:. Here's what I've tried so far: On the client properties-Windows Client-Exclude Lists I've created an exclude list for P: to a specific policy. I've added it as: P:\ - still backed it up. P: - same P:\* - same So, what's the trick to ignoring a drive without changing the Backup Selections? 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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Exchange
Dear All, Exchange admins here are consolidating all their Exchange servers and they have a question I couldn't find an answer for. When doing restores, does Netbackup rely on the name of the database or does it rely on the SID? They would like to delete the old exchange DB and create new ones. They would like to know if they need to keep the entries (and keep empty DB) or they can delete the old entries. does anyone knows the answer? TIA, Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data
Snapshoting is nice but you need to think about restores... in case of file servers 99,999% of your restores will be for a couple of files. Only solution is or flashbackup or start to use wilcards (and exclude lists) in your backup selections. Besides always think about the processing power you have. Network traffic tends to consume more CPU than FC. And backups tend to use everythings that's left. Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5
Justin, running MP5 since Monday already found an interesting bug : Etrack 110077 Cannot view or restore compress images ... I think I might also have found another one : hot catalog backup just kills NB_dbsrv ... Greg On 9/20/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Has anyone got 6.5 yet? We are running NBU 5.0 MP7 on a predomintatly solaris platform. We are due to upgrade h/w and s/w and i was wondering was it worth going for 6.0 which seems to be used quite a bit by people now, or do we go to new 6.5 ? Also we have around 20 servers including a 2 node Sun Cluster ( attached to T3 arrays ) running oracle10g. Is there anything special which can be done with 6.5 or is it just worth still doing filesystem backups direct to Tape Thanks ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu I'd recommend 6.0MP4 as I have not done any testing with 6.5 yet. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Invalid Images in DSU - How to clear?
I think that if they are not in the catalog and they are coming from failed backup images you can simply delete them Greg On 9/19/07, dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Currently one of my media servers is using its large localdisk as a DSU in my netbackup domain. What i realised was that some of the failed backup jobs or some backup job that i cancelled, the images already created in the disk but in actual fact, these images is not registered in the NBU catalog hence cannot be use but still eats up my disk space. Netbackup shld delete away these images if the backup failed. How am i going to determine exactly how much disk space left in my DSU? Or does NBU have another command to clean up all these useless images? Anyone knows? +-- |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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Invalid Images in DSU - How to clear?
Well normally in NBU 6.0 your DSU you should have files that look like this : backup_id_Ccopy_number_Ffragment_id.ctime.* Use the backup ID part to lookup in you catalog. Greg On 9/19/07, dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, i understand that the images can be deleted. But what if there are vaild images that are registered in the catalog together with those backup failed images, how am i going to tell which images to delete?? +-- |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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: backup schedule
Do you backup start a little bit later or it does not start at all? On 9/19/07, ramaswamy savi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have installed Veritas netbackup in solaris server with MP4. The bakup is not starting at scheduled time. I changed the type from frequency to calender in schedule option. Let me how to rectify this problem. Regards Hemalatha.N.R Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: backup schedule
Also Is you backup starting manually or not? On 9/19/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, good question, the jobs should 'enter the queue' around the time you specify but not actually run until a drive/etc is available. On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote: Do you backup start a little bit later or it does not start at all? On 9/19/07, ramaswamy savi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have installed Veritas netbackup in solaris server with MP4. The bakup is not starting at scheduled time. I changed the type from frequency to calender in schedule option. Let me how to rectify this problem. Regards Hemalatha.N.R Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving a master server to an existing media server + upgrade
Well I have just migrated a master server from a V440 to another V440 in order to put it in cluster. Upgrade from 5.1 MP6 to 6.0 MP4 was part of it. I upgraded first to 6.0 MP4 and then moved to the new server. As long as you keep the same name there is no real gotchas. But there are things to know especially with the EMM database in 6.0 : 1) Only move the datafiles. They start by EMM or NBDB. There is a technote about moving the EMM database to another server. 2) When you moved the datafiles you need to verify or ugrade it. create_nbdb will dot it for you. Originally it is intended to create an empty NBDB but I found you can use it to validate and upgrade. In order to do so you need to start the rdbms without loading the database. Otherwise flat files can be copied over Greg On 9/18/07, Wessam Aly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Netbackup 5.1 MP4 I currently have a master server on hpux 11.11 and a media server on aix. I want to move the master server to an itanium machine (hpux 11.23) and upgrade to 6.5. Problem is, I don't have enough time since fixing the inconsistencies of the database with support takes a lot. What I want to do is comission the new master server only as a media server and start backup right away. Eventually I want to move the database from the old master server to the new master server and make the new machine the master.. Then decommision the old hpux server. I'm planning to upgrade to 6.0MP4 sometime after I run the setup of new machine as media server. Then when I move to new machine as master, I will upgrade to 6.5. Is all that do-able ? Thanks, Wessam Aly Sr. UNIX Storage Expert HPUX-CSA Certified Systems Administrator *** IMPORTANT Confidentiality: This e-mail communication and any attachments thereto contain information which is confidential and are intended only for the use of the individuals or entities named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking any action in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. Please notify us of your receipt of this e-mail in error and delete the e-mail and any copies of it. Monitoring/Viruses: Mobinil may monitor all incoming outgoing e-mails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any Virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) www.mobinil.com *** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving a master server to an existing media server + upgrade
Martin, I have tried to find the document back but I couldn't. I remember I found when looking for something else. :o((( Greg On 9/18/07, Martin Ruslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi George, can you give us the link for moving the emm database docs? Or maybe anyone can help? Thanks. mTz On 9/18/07, Gregory Demilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have just migrated a master server from a V440 to another V440 in order to put it in cluster. Upgrade from 5.1 MP6 to 6.0 MP4 was part of it. I upgraded first to 6.0 MP4 and then moved to the new server. As long as you keep the same name there is no real gotchas. But there are things to know especially with the EMM database in 6.0 : 1) Only move the datafiles. They start by EMM or NBDB. There is a technote about moving the EMM database to another server. 2) When you moved the datafiles you need to verify or ugrade it. create_nbdb will dot it for you. Originally it is intended to create an empty NBDB but I found you can use it to validate and upgrade. In order to do so you need to start the rdbms without loading the database. Otherwise flat files can be copied over Greg On 9/18/07, Wessam Aly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Netbackup 5.1 MP4 I currently have a master server on hpux 11.11 and a media server on aix. I want to move the master server to an itanium machine (hpux 11.23) and upgrade to 6.5. Problem is, I don't have enough time since fixing the inconsistencies of the database with support takes a lot. What I want to do is comission the new master server only as a media server and start backup right away. Eventually I want to move the database from the old master server to the new master server and make the new machine the master.. Then decommision the old hpux server. I'm planning to upgrade to 6.0MP4 sometime after I run the setup of new machine as media server. Then when I move to new machine as master, I will upgrade to 6.5. Is all that do-able ? Thanks, Wessam Aly Sr. UNIX Storage Expert HPUX-CSA Certified Systems Administrator *** IMPORTANT Confidentiality: This e-mail communication and any attachments thereto contain information which is confidential and are intended only for the use of the individuals or entities named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking any action in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. Please notify us of your receipt of this e-mail in error and delete the e-mail and any copies of it. Monitoring/Viruses: Mobinil may monitor all incoming outgoing e-mails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any Virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) www.mobinil.com *** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive
The biggest problem is to have an architecture that can feed that transfer rate .. because at those speed, one drive just saturates a 2 Gb FC link. ;op On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote: Native drive speed of the T10K is 120 MB/s ... it is even closer to 130 MB/s..; so If you are using compression and you feed the data fast enough you can go over the 170 MB/s.. I had peaks over the 180 MB/s On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote: FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec... Harry But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah? If the data stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s. I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the disk reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the catalog up to writing that fast? No, compression was being used. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 I was referring to LTO-X but nice info! Justin. -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0MP4 media server in cluster (VCS)
Selwyn, We have two sunfire, PhysA PhysB. cluster framwork is using those two machines. We have created a vcs ressource group, Logical which acts as media server. The nbemmcmd -listhost gives the following output master Master media Master app_cluster Logical cluster Logical media PhysA media PhysB All the STUs have PhysA or PhysB as media server. images are automatically assigned to Logical. When trying a restore, I receive an error 800 : host is unknown in EMM. Would it be possible to have your output of the nbemmcmd -listhost and tpconfig -d ? TIA, Greg On 9/8/07, selwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forget using the device wizards, they just make a mess of the configuration. We are running Netbackup 6.0 MP4 on Solaris 10. I set up all of the tape drives using tpconfig. I created a script that reads a map file to create the tape devices. I kept the device paths matched between both servers in the cluster--though that does not appear to be necessary for the system to work. I do not understand what you mean by physical names. I do not use the names of the drives at all when I set up storage units. Can you elaborate? We have had no problems with restores. +-- |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 -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM : +352 691 915620 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0MP4 media server in cluster (VCS)
Dear All, Does anyone of you have experience in setting up a media server in VCS on Solaris 10? The issue I have is the following : - If I configure the devices using the wizard it add two entries for each drive. One with a null path and the other with the correct path. ltid does not start because one of the path is not starting with a / - If I configure the drive with tpconfig, I must configure all my STU with the physical names in order to devices to be assigned. But restores fail. Sincerely, Greg -- Gregory DEMILDE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
