Re: [Veritas-bu] Suggestions for long running Windows SQL backups
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:01 AM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:35 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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? -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:28 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5? 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... -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If I've helped you, please make a donation to my favorite charity at http://firstgiving.com/edwilts Not using SSO here but agree with the QLogic comment. ___ 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] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?
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 To: Ed Wilts; Hadrian Baron Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you? I couldn't agree with Ed more. In addition, I BELIEVE under the new pricing model, BMR is included in the base product. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.comhttp://www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:47 PM To: Hadrian Baron Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?
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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup not deleting expired images
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:32 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 ___ 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] Windows equiv for iostat -xtc?
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:31 AM To: Schaefer, Harry Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 ___ 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] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
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 ip address 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 -Original Message- From: Steve Bally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:39 PM To: Hadrian Baron; Justin Piszcz; Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hadrian Baron Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:38 AM To: 'Justin Piszcz'; Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 6:17 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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. ___ 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] 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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 6:17 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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. ___ 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] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers
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? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers The ndmp backups of netapp filers back up the acls on NTFS and mixed volumes. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:16 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 ___ 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] Backing up SharePoint
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sesar, Steven L. Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:56 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Martin, Jonathan; Leidy, Jason D; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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. === Steven L. Sesar Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst UNIX Application Services R101 The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road - MS K101 Bedford, MA 01730 tel: (781) 271-7702 fax: (781) 271-2600 mobile: (617) 519-8933 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tue 9/11/2007 11:52 AM To: 'Martin, Jonathan'; Leidy, Jason D; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint Quick search I done, may or may not help... http://www.spsfaq.com/backup.asp?page=2 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 Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:09 PM To: Leidy, Jason D; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterpris e_Se rver/264318.pdf I'd say manual backups or an upgrade to NBU 6 are in your future. -Jonathan _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leidy, Jason D Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:49 AM To: Leidy, Jason D; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint The version of MS SharePoint is 2007 Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leidy, Jason D Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:40 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint 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 Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Help: NAS Disk as a Storage Unit?
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dy018 Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:24 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help: NAS Disk as a Storage Unit? 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 +-- |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] Script to query Logging level on all clients
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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] General Q - Gathering Backup Requirements How-to
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 Office: 702-992-4853 Cell: 702-553-5699 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0
Title: NBU 6.0 We are going from NB5.0MP5 to 6.0 MPX next month. Due to many issues - including corrupt images, massive policychanges,and most importantly,the perceived difficulty involved with migratingfrom Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 environments,I've decided toleave 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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DaveSent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:27 PMTo: 'Nguyen, Patrick [LTD]'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Patrick, I would discourage doing it this way unless you dont 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 dont care about the stuff you have backed up with 3.4 and dont 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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nguyen, Patrick [LTD]Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:16 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 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 Patrick NguyenEMBARQ - Lnt-Natlnetops-Intelligenetsvc Network Systems Admr IIOffice: 407.741.0561 | Fax: 407-741-0455500 North New York Ave - Winter Park, Florida 32789 - Mailstop: FLWNTC0103 1018[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMBARQ Confidential and Proprietary. This email contains information which is confidential and may be proprietary. This message is intended only for its named recipient. If youare not the addressee you are not authorized to distribute, copy, or forward this email. If you receive this message in error, delete it and notify the sender immediately. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Privledges to grant DBAs to do MSSQL restores?
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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:40 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after 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 George Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15-May-2006 19:07 To Len Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear 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. ___ 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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Software Planning for Win2k3
Title: Message If you have a netapps nas deviceand you need a quick RTO, maybe buy the advance client and take snapshots straight to disk? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:48 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Disaster 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... Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
