Re: [Veritas-bu] Suggestions for long running Windows SQL backups

[Hadrian Baron]

If the databases are stored on a SAN, chances are the SAN vendor has snapshot 
software that will integrate with VSS to take consistent snapshots of the data, 
then you can move the snaps around from the array side to tier2/3 storage, or 
NDMP backup directly off the SAN array.

Netapp, EMC, and HDS all have this technology.

- Hadrian

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(external)
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Suggestions for long running Windows SQL backups

Jeff
San Media Server, using SSO does ours in less than a few hours.
Simon


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Suggestions for long running Windows SQL backups

We have some Windows SQL databases over ½ TB that are now becoming a problem 
with backing up and duplicating in a timely manner.

On UNIX for large database we do BCVs and flat file backups.   Not being a 
Windows expert I'm not sure what is possible on the Windows side of things.

What are others doing for large SQL backups?
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?

[Hadrian Baron]

I too see people shying away from Emulex.  I think we will be moving forward 
with only Qlogic as well.

Not sure why other than it seems most operating systems like them, as well as 
our SAN gear only uses Qlogic.  It's nice to standardize.

- Hadrian

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone here use Emulex cards and RHEL5?  It seems to have persistent
>> binding on by default?
>
>
> The official recommendations are that persistent binding be turned on for
> tape drives.  This comes from both Symantec and SNIA.  The only exception
> that I'm aware of is Solaris 10.  This is certainly true of SSO environment
> and I think I recall that you're using SSO.
>
> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/256261.htm
>
> In any case, persistent binding should never make things worse - it may not
> be required, but it shouldn't hurt to have it on.
>
> Around here, we've made a decision to not use Emulex HBAs in any
> Linux/Solaris environment and to also purchase only Qlogic HBAs on all
> Windows systems going forward.  It's just easier...
>
> --
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Not using SSO here but agree with the QLogic comment.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?

[Hadrian Baron]

Alas, more and more reasons to push to go to 6.5.1.

Thanks for the input guys.

- Hadrian

From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:45 AM
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I couldn't agree with Ed more.  In addition, I BELIEVE under the new pricing 
model, BMR is included in the base product.

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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Hadrian Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Does BMR really speed up recovery significantly?  Reading through  the 
documentation it seems that between the multiple reboots, reinstalling windows, 
restoring the data files, reformat time, it seems like it doesn't save much 
time over a typical restore (manually reformat the system, load nic drivers + 
Netbackup, and kick off restore).

Disclaimer:  I've seen the demos but we don't have it running yet.  I know the 
theory though.

I've seen a full system restore from bare metal in 20 minutes.  Our Windows 
admins take a day or 2 to rebuild a server...and even then, they don't always 
get it right.

One of the key things to consider, though, is how important it is to get the 
server back to the exact same configuration it was before it died.  If it's 
important, and it probably should be, BMR is far more critical than a simple 
re-install.  Don't forget that not only do you have to re-install Windows, 
you'd have to apply all of the identical server paks you had on the system to 
begin within, all of the exact same versions and patches to the applications, 
identical drivers, identical registry settings, local user configurations, 
share configurations, and only then can you worry about the application data.  
If you try the rebuild approach, the odds are almost 100% that what you end up 
with will not be the same as what you started with.  One missed setting and 
your application could crash, fail, or corrupt data.  You may not even 
partition the drives the same as what you had.
   .../Ed

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[Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?

[Hadrian Baron]

Hi all,

Does BMR really speed up recovery significantly?  Reading through  the 
documentation it seems that between the multiple reboots, reinstalling windows, 
restoring the data files, reformat time, it seems like it doesn't save much 
time over a typical restore (manually reformat the system, load nic drivers + 
Netbackup, and kick off restore).

Any ideas on this?  Thanks!

- Hadrian
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup not deleting expired images

[Hadrian Baron]

This seems to be a typical issue..  I've heard using the Advance Disk 
Optimization license can help Netbackup expire it's DSU images a bit better 
than 6.0 out of the box.

(BTW like all other licenses you *should* have, it's built into 6.5).

Opinions?

- Hadrian

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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:32 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup not deleting expired images

Hi,

Does anybody know how and when NetBackup deletes old images from the
disk after they have been expired? We are backing most of our data to
disks and it seems that NetBackup is expiring old backups from its
catalog correctly but the images on the disk are not being removed
even if they don't exist in the catalog anymore.

I do run '/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -
allclients' on the master server once every hour via cron.

We are running NetBackup 6.0 MP5 on Solaris 10.

Thanks a lot,

Rongsheng
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows equiv for "iostat -xtc"?

[Hadrian Baron]

In Windows, use perfmon to monitor Disk Queue and Read/Write transactions for 
the disk drive which is SAN attached.

Read Transactions = Read iops
Write transactions = Write iops
Disk Queue = more than 2 is considered not optimal (this may be a point of 
great discussion ;)

If it is not fibre but iSCSI, you can use taskmgr.exe to watch network stats.

HTH,

Hadrian

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Andersen
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows equiv for "iostat -xtc"?

Havn't been able to find a command like iostat, but perfmon should
could give you some idea of what the problem might be

Regards
Michael


2008/2/8, Schaefer, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Is there a Windows equivalent to the unix command "iostat -xtc"? We are
> seeing some degraded throughput to some of our Windows attached storage, so
> I was hunting around for some options...
>
> - Harry S.
> Atlanta
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?

[Hadrian Baron]

We have the LCD which allows you to set the IP if you know the service login, 
but even that didn't work.

After consoling into the SL500 (38400, 8-N-1 flow - off?) use the command 
network ip  to make it take effect.  You'll still need the service 
login for console access.

Use the command network restart to re-initialize the network subsystem.

HTH - Hadrian

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To: Hadrian Baron; Justin Piszcz; Ed Wilts
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?

Unfortunately, this is true, it takes a CE to re-ip the device.  I guess
that is why we pay maintenance.

Steve

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Baron
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?

The java application works for either Windows or Solaris.

There is also a lcd panel available for the SL500 which you can
configure IP addresses and other cool stuff if you like new toys, it is
not too expensive.

I am actually in the process of re-iping our SL500 and Sun Support said
I *have* to have an engineer do it.  This is because you can only set
the IP address using the "service" account which the install tech's
configured when first setting the thing up.  If you know your local
support guy, you might want to give them a call to see if they know the
login/pass.

- Hadrian

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?



On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:

> There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading
that
> when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade.   There
is a
> client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that
> communicates with the library over SSL.  It requires authentication
with the
> library.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
>
>   .../Ed
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> When you console into an L700 it looks like this:
>>
>> cli>
>>
>> Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like?  Does it
>> require authentication?
>>
>
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

I found my answer.

On the back of the SL500 there is a public IP port for SLConsole/etc--
I am talking about the CLI/Console port which you connect via serial
cable/or special ethernet cable.

You (I) need to contact Sun/STK to get the initial user/password to
login
via the CLI, then I can configure the public interface and use SLConsole
et all.

Justin.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?

[Hadrian Baron]

The java application works for either Windows or Solaris.

There is also a lcd panel available for the SL500 which you can configure IP 
addresses and other cool stuff if you like new toys, it is not too expensive.

I am actually in the process of re-iping our SL500 and Sun Support said I 
*have* to have an engineer do it.  This is because you can only set the IP 
address using the "service" account which the install tech's configured when 
first setting the thing up.  If you know your local support guy, you might want 
to give them a call to see if they know the login/pass.

- Hadrian

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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 6:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?



On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:

> There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading that
> when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade.   There is a
> client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that
> communicates with the library over SSL.  It requires authentication with the
> library.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
>
>   .../Ed
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> When you console into an L700 it looks like this:
>>
>> cli>
>>
>> Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like?  Does it
>> require authentication?
>>
>
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

I found my answer.

On the back of the SL500 there is a public IP port for SLConsole/etc--
I am talking about the CLI/Console port which you connect via serial
cable/or special ethernet cable.

You (I) need to contact Sun/STK to get the initial user/password to login
via the CLI, then I can configure the public interface and use SLConsole
et all.

Justin.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

[Hadrian Baron]

Yep, NDMP will grab ACLs, but you may want to double-confirm the compatibility 
of SSO + Netapp NDMP. For some reason I remember it used to be not possible 
until a new Netapp revision came out.

What version of Data Ontap?

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The ndmp backups of netapp filers back up the acls on NTFS and mixed volumes.
len

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

Long title, huh?

I know I could dig into the docs but you guys are usually faster.

Right now I backup our one Netapp CIFS as a unix NFS mount.  I miss all
the ACL's but that's not a big problem with this share since it's pretty
much all owned by the same group.  Discussion in a meeting today may
lead to a lot more CIFS shares but they're very much cross-owned and the
Windows ACLs are about to become important.

I could build a windows media server and backup the shares that way -
all the nice ACL's come along for the ride.  However, I've gone years
now without becoming a windows admin and I like it that way.  I'd rather
look at NDMP direct to tape (SSO share) of the volume containing the
share.

Do any of you know if the NDMP backup will grab all the ACL information
so the winders users stay happy?

-M

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Re: [Veritas-bu] ExaGrid D2D w/ NBU 5x or 6.5

[Hadrian Baron]

They've been pitching to us in competition with Data Domain.

They do their de-duplication post-write, instead of Data Domain's inline 
de-dupe, so they claim great speed improvements over Data Domain all day.

If your budget doesn't warrant a Data Domain and your backup window is really 
crunched, you may want to look at them, at least to get Data Domain to bring 
down prices.

- Hadrian

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NBU'ers:

Has anyone even heard of ExaGrid?
>From the lack of response to my initial question, I assume no one is using 
>them.

Thanks,
Scott Roemmele

On 1/4/08 10:41 AM, "Roemmele, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anybody out there using D2D from ExaGrid along with NBU?

How has your experience been?  Speed to Backup/Restore?
Using Replication between sites?

What kind of compression are you seeing?
Any info regarding their management & scalability?


Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

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Re: [Veritas-bu] )([EMAIL PROTECTED])*(&@# Symantec Support

[Hadrian Baron]

> There have been times that I have a problem & I have waited until the
Aussies were working to call my problem.

+1


- Hadrian

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dgrabs03 wrote:
> Symantec Support in Australia are the best than in the US They have 
> the best attitude and service.


I agree.   There have been times that I have a problem & I have waited
until the Aussies were working to call my problem.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint

[Hadrian Baron]

As far as third party providers go, 
 
Avepoint / DocAve is one of the leaders from what I hear.
 
Also Netapp will be re-branding the DocAve product and tweaking it to
work at a snapshot level.  Think SnapManager for Sharepoint if you have
any Netapp to play with.
 
The STSADMIN tool is good to export the whole site, but for document
level restores you probably will want a third party product.
 
HTH 
 
- Hadrian 
 



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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint



Again, the bottleneck here is an extremely slow API.  If you have a
large SP farm, doc-level backups are impractical.

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint


Quick search I done, may or may not help...
http://www.spsfaq.com/backup.asp?page=2


Only thinking was performing file level backup to disk, which you can
write
to tape.

Just a thought


Regards

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3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator

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Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint


After consulting the:

Veritas NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / NetBackup Server 5.x Database
Agent Compatibility (Updated April 2, 2007)
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise
_Ser
ver/264318.pdf


I'd say manual backups or an upgrade to NBU 6 are in your future.

-Jonathan

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Jason
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The version of MS SharePoint is 2007



Jason Leidy

Con-way Enterprise Services

Windows Server Group

503-450-3958



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We use NetBackup 5.1 MP6. We'd like to start backing up out SharePoint
servers via NetBackup...can this be done with an agent, similar to
SQL
and Exchange (I've got a call into Veritas)?



Jason Leidy

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Help: NAS Disk as a Storage Unit?

[Hadrian Baron]

Yes, 

You can configure NFS shares to be DSUs.  I sometimes use a small NFS
share as a DSU for those "one-off" backups that admins sometimes need.  

HTH

- Hadrian

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Hi,

Can a media server mount a NFS disk shared out by a NAS and use that
mount NFS disk as a DISK Storague Unit? I know it can be done using SAN
Disk but what abt NAS?

Anyone implement before?

Thanks

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Re: [Veritas-bu] VERITAS backup for Solaris zones

[Hadrian Baron]

"The client on the Global Zone is responsible for backing up the
"logical zone" "

Do you stop the logical zone, or do you just grab it hot?  

I thought there was some issues with backing up everything from the
global zone. 

Thanks,

- Hadrian

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Mike,

The way we are doing it is like this:

The client is installed on the server with the Global Zone. The client
on the Global Zone is responsible for backing up the "logical zone".

Kinda like this:

Server name: ZXY
Server name with Global Zone: ZXY00
Client installed on: ZXY00
All restores always point to ZXY00 as the destination as the Global Zone
has the permissions to write to all mounts.
To restore a file to a mount on the logical node (ZXY) you'd have to set
the destination to ZXY00 and the restore path would be:
/zones/ZXY/root/u02/directory_name

This of course is assuming that you are running the restore from a
master backup server that is backing up the ZXY00 client.

I'll try to provide more details later on this week. Time and work is
pressing right now.  [Wink]

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[Veritas-bu] Script to query Logging level on all clients

[Hadrian Baron]

Title: Script to query Logging level on all clients






Is there any CLI or script used to poll all the clients for their logging level?  For sql client too :)


Thanks,


Hadrian



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[Veritas-bu] General Q - Gathering Backup Requirements How-to

[Hadrian Baron]

Title: General Q - Gathering Backup Requirements How-to






I have the task of documenting RTO and RPO across our Enterprise and had some questions.


I feel like asking Departments how soon do you need restores will yield… arguments and confusion.


Do most people present a few different solutions and cost and say pick one?


I somehow feel like the need to get data on "How much money do we loose every minute of downtime" is going a bit high level, but NECESSARY for establishing the RTO / RPOs in a realistic manner.

What do you guys/gals think?  Any help for a burgeoning SAN / Backup engineer would be helpful :)


Hadrian Baron

Network Engineer

VEGAS.com 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0

[Hadrian Baron]

Title: NBU 6.0



We are going from NB5.0MP5 to 6.0 MPX next 
month.
 
Due to many issues - including corrupt images, massive 
policy changes, and most importantly, the perceived difficulty 
involved with migrating from Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 
environments, I've decided to leave the existing server online and 
just zone off the HBAs from our Storagetek.  If I need to restore, zone off 
the new server and boot the old box.  
 
Is this too simplistic an approach?  We hardly ever do 
restores from tape.  99% of restores take place from snapshots on our 
NetApps gear. 
 
Thanks,
Hadrian 
Baron 


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DaveSent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:27 PMTo: 'Nguyen, 
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[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0


Patrick, 

 
I would discourage 
doing it this way unless you don’t want to keep history – basically if you want 
to start from scratch. 
 
There were a number of 
Catalog and other changes between 3.4 and 4.x, then again in 5.x and then again 
in 6.x. It is recommended that you upgrade to each new level to allow the 
software to actually upgrade the various parts that were changed. 

 
If you don’t care about 
the stuff you have backed up with 3.4 and don’t need to ever recover it, blow it 
away and start from scratch. A clean install is always less troublesome than an 
upgrade especially when moving to 6.x. 
 
Current NBU version is 
6.0 MP3 so I would recommend that. MP3 fixed a few things and broke a few 
things, but that is pretty normal. 
 
Cheers, 

 
dave
 




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6.0
 
 
I 
am new to NetBackup.
Q. 
What steps do I need to do before I uninstalling NBU 3.4 and installing NBU 6.0 
on Solaris 9 environment and restore all configuration files (scheduling, 
catalog,restore files/dir)?
Q. 
For NBU 6.0, what software do I need to install
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[Veritas-bu] Privledges to grant DBAs to do MSSQL restores?

[Hadrian Baron]

Title: Privledges to grant DBAs to do MSSQL restores?






Hi everyone,


I am trying to solve the age old issue of giving DBAs control to do restores from their production MSSQL environment to the development environment. I was hoping you could help.  

Here are my constraints:


1.  User can RDP / log into the development SQL box.

2.  User cannot log into the production SQL box.

3.  User does have full permissions at the SQL level for all databases in question.

4.  User CANNOT have any admin (or power user) privledges on either the dev or prod box.

5.  User cannot know the functional account password which SQL and Netbackup services run as.  That functional account is not a local admin either.

Environment:

Netbackup 5.0 MP5 on Win2k3, but within a month, NBU 6.0 MPX on Solaris 10.

MSSQL 2000 sitting on Win2k3 enterprise server.  5.0 MP5 client.  


The only way I have gotten this to work so far is to give the DBA admin (or power user from what I've read) on the development box.  

Does anyone have ideas, or if Netbackup isn't the right choice, what do you guys use?  


Thanks for your help,


Hadrian Baron

Network Engineer

VEGAS.com 



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RE: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear

[Hadrian Baron]

I'm not sure about the sniffer issue, but I do know Data OnTap v7.1
includes updated support for NBU 6.0 (at least NBU's support of
snapvaults).  Are you running the latest code on the Nearstores?   Check
out
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel71/html/ontap/rnote/fe
atures.shtml

HTH - Hadrian

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upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear

Well NetBackup 6 includes support for sharing drives between NDMP and
non-NDMP use, so must include logic that probably was not there before. 
Check the version of ONTAP is supported with your version of NetBackup. 
You can turn on detailed NDMP tracing on the "NetBackup for NDMP Server"
- 
where the option is installed.   It gets very bulky but can trace every 
NDMP exchange.   If your clocks are synch'd you may be able to see what
is 
happening.

The IBM LTO-2 drive does support the "WRITE ATTRIBUTE" command,
according to the manual.  It writes to the "Medium Auxilliary Memory"
i.e. the LTO-CM cartridge memory.  I guess it's possible that NetBackup
6 now has support for attempting to write to this, as one field
available for use is 
"Backup Date".   Maybe this is not working properly - without the detail

of what was being written you cannot see if it is being done correctly.

William D L Brown




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Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of
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Len,

This message means that you have some device in the path to your
tape drive that isn't happy with 16-byte CDBs (some scsi-3 commands).
This one in particular is the scsi-3 "WRITE ATTRIBUTE" command.

(Reference: http://t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/spc4/spc4r04.pdf)

George

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Len Boyle wrote:

> Good Day,
>
> We upgraded a netbackup master running on solaris 9 from 5.1mp3 to 
60MP2. This master runs ndmp backups on 6 R200's with fibre direct 
attached IBM LTO-2 tape drives. After the netbackup upgrade, with no 
changes with the tape drives, tape library or netapps we started to see 
the following messages in the /etc/messages file on the netapp. We are 
being told by netapp and symantec that this is a problem with scsi 
commands, but they report that they can not tell us what the offending 
scsi commands are, unless we hook up a sniffer.
> So my question to this group, is Any hints on what one should  use to 
act as a sniffer for this scsi connection?
>
> That is what company makes good sniffers, and what are the different 
features  one should look for?
>
> Thanks for any info you guys can throw this way.
>
> Fri May 12 07:54:31 EDT [scsi.cmd.contingentAllegiance:error]: Device 
3a.51: Contingent allegiance: cdb 0x8d.
> Fri May 12 08:00:01 EDT [kern.uptime.filer:info]:   8:00am up 57 days,

18:59 427592 NFS ops, 3947850238 CIFS ops, 9 HTTP ops, 0 DAFS ops, 0 FCP
> ops, 0 iSCSI ops
> Fri May 12 08:03:16 EDT [scsi.cmd.contingentAllegiance:error]: Device 
3b.52: Contingent allegiance: cdb 0x8d.
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RE: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Software Planning for Win2k3

[Hadrian Baron]

Title: Message



If you have a netapps nas device and you need a 
quick RTO, maybe buy the advance client and take snapshots straight to 
disk?  


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SimonSent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:48 AMTo: 
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Recovery Software Planning for Win2k3

Hi again
I 
wanted to use the "collect disaster recovery" info, but as I do not have a key, 
I cannot use it!
 
So I wanted to know what alternative solutions companies in an 
Win2k3 AD larger environment are using.
 
For the main OS I use GHOST, which is "OK", but wondered if anyone 
else had any alternative products that work well with 
Win2k3.
 
Once the Server is up, its a case of restoring the Data via NBU - 
which works. But I would like to review the possibility of a faster 
solution.
 
If anyone is in a Win2k3 environemt (or NT/2000), I would love to 
hear opinions on this.
 
With my old NBU 3.4 I must have had a license to do a BMR, because 
I created either a CD/floppy disk that was inserted into the server, connected 
to the Master Server and restored the data. It worked, but took 
time...
 
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