Re: [Veritas-bu] File Size Byte Count - Conversion
the file hasn't grown 20kb since the backup? what version of netbackup? what does cat_convert -dump on the backup.f file | grep filename show? thanks, jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:08 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] File Size Byte Count - Conversion I have an odd problembut aren't most of my problems odd? :) blist gives large file sizes in KBytes.I need to correctly convert those file sizes listed in KBytes to the real Unix/Linux file Byte size. Example: File A - 2775784693 Bytes on the server File A - 2710707K as reported by Netbackup in the bplist output A simple conversion of 2710707 * 1024 does NOT yeild 2775784693 bytes but does yield 2775763968 Bytes, which does NOT equal the original file size on the server. Does anyone here know how to resolve this? +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com 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 Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] netbackup 7.1 convert catalog to 7.5
environment: redhat linux 7.5 master/media server we move (archive) old catalog images which don't expire under netbackup/db/images for 1 client to a nfs mounted filesystem to keep the image database to a managable size, and then link an epoch directory to the nfs mount if needed for a restore. this has worked for 6.5, and 7.1, but now when i link a 7.1 directory that wasn't upgraded during the 7.5 upgrade, the .lck files aren't there and the images don't show up in the gui for a restore. is there a command i can manually run to convert the database image files? i thought i read something last year about manually doing this if you had a large database when doing the upgrade. thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.5.0.5 - Media server won't write to tape
can you post tpconfig -l output from all nodes?and possibly bpps -a if unix/linux? thanks, jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Privat Gmail Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 1:06 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.5.0.5 - Media server won't write to tape From this it seems that node B has an issue with loading the tape I would try the same operation with robtest in volmgr/bin from node B and mt -f device file status to check Regards Michael Sendt fra min iPhone Den 12/11/2013 kl. 17.57 skrev Dennis Peacock nbu-fo...@backupcentral.com: Out of the job detail log: 11/12/2013 10:07:26 - current media KC0063 complete, requesting next media Any 11/12/2013 10:28:34 - Waiting for scan drive stop IBM.ULT3580-TD5.002, Media server: node-B 11/12/2013 10:28:38 - granted resource KC0063 11/12/2013 10:28:38 - granted resource IBM.ULT3580-TD5.002 11/12/2013 10:28:38 - granted resource node-b-hcart2-robot-tld-0 11/12/2013 10:28:39 - Info bptm (pid=4653098) Waiting for mount of media id KC0063 (copy 1) on server node-B. 11/12/2013 10:28:39 - mounting KC0063 11/12/2013 10:36:08 - Error bptm (pid=4653098) error requesting media, TpErrno = Robot operation failed 11/12/2013 10:36:08 - Warning bptm (pid=4653098) media id KC0063 load operation reported an error 11/12/2013 10:36:08 - current media KC0063 complete, requesting next media Any 11/12/2013 10:36:19 - Error bptm (pid=4653098) media manager terminated by parent process 11/12/2013 10:36:23 - Info bpbkar (pid=65142872) done. status: 150: termination requested by administrator 11/12/2013 10:36:23 - end writing termination requested by administrator (150) +- +- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com 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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] netbackup 7.5.0.6 bpimmedia question
i've upgraded 1 of my environments to 7.5.0.6, and noticed that the db/images/client/epoch_dir/policy_epoch_backup-type files are no longer there. the .f files are there, and now a .lck file is there, but not the backup image header file for me to grab backup data out of. so i'm trying to get fragment information using the bpimmedia command, which runs much faster as all of the data is in 1 central location, but it doesn't return everything. not getting all the data back faster doesn't cut it. i think since netbackup 3.4 the bpimmedia command has returned all fragments in a backup set when any of the media is given for the mediaid option. here's an example of a backup that went to 5 tapes in netbackup 7.1.0.4, it is an ndmp backup, so some catalog data gets written at the end to FRAG -1. # bpimmedia -mediaid L46555 IMAGE ushoufas6070a 8 ushoufas6070a_1374656402 netapp-6070a-sqlbakrepl6 19 full 0 3 29098 1377334802 0 0 FRAG 1 -1 4556 0 3 6 2 L46555 houlebspd1 65536 11474540 1374656402 9 64 *NULL* 0 0 3 1 FRAG 1 1 49437184 0 3 6 3 L45086 houlebspd1 65536 13170345 1374581017 9 64 *NULL* 1377334802 0 3 1 FRAG 1 2 839758208 0 3 6 1 L45352 houlebspd1 65536 2 1374656402 9 64 *NULL* 0 0 3 1 FRAG 1 3 837484032 0 3 6 1 L45585 houlebspd1 65536 2 1374656402 9 64 *NULL* 0 0 3 1 FRAG 1 4 832688640 0 3 6 1 L46840 houlebspd1 65536 2 1374656402 9 64 *NULL* 0 0 3 1 FRAG 1 5 734370304 0 3 6 1 L46555 houlebspd1 65536 2 1374656402 9 64 *NULL* 0 0 3 1 in my 7.5.0.6 environment, i have a backup that went to 6 tapes. running the bpimmedia command on 1 tape returns just that fragment: # bpimmedia -mediaid 000189 IMAGE usbcpfas3050 8 usbcpfas3050_1329405567 netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap 19 full 0 9 3515573 2147483647 0 0 0 0 FRAG 1 6 513484544 0 3 20 1 000189 auslebsms1 65536 2 1329405567 14 0 *NULL* 2147483647 0 9 1 *NULL* 0 running it on another tape returned that tape which was used at the end of another backup, and the first fragment of this backup: # bpimmedia -mediaid 000195 IMAGE usbcpfas3050 8 usbcpfas3050_1329405567 netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap 19 full 0 9 3515573 2147483647 0 0 0 0 FRAG 1 1 139074176 0 3 20 3 000195 auslebsms1 65536 7657992 1329252218 14 0 *NULL* 2147483647 0 9 1 *NULL* 0 IMAGE usbcpfas3050 8 usbcpfas3050_1329252218 netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap 19 full 0 9 3515666 2147483647 0 0 0 0 FRAG 1 6 489615360 0 3 20 1 000195 auslebsms1 65536 2 1329252218 14 0 *NULL* 2147483647 0 9 1 *NULL* 0 another tape in the set: # bpimmedia -mediaid 000134 IMAGE usbcpfas3050 8 usbcpfas3050_1329405567 netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap 19 full 0 9 3515573 2147483647 0 0 0 0 FRAG 1 3 623871552 0 3 20 1 000134 auslebsms1 65536 2 1329405567 14 0 *NULL* 2147483647 0 9 1 *NULL* 0 for the fun of it, i tried the nospan option, and it did list all 6 media used, plus another 12(?): # bpimmedia -spanpools -mediaid 000134 SERVER auslebsms1 DISK POOL 000189 000195 000129 000134 000135 000138 000119 000182 000184 000185 000186 L41759 000102 000104 000153 000151 L41722 L41743 so i dumped the netbackup database, and looked into the *.dat files, and they look correct (dbm_image and dbm_imagefragment): 845.dat: '4930','102',,'usbcpfas3050','42','netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap','1329405567','0','0','19','9','0','0','0','3123802962','7','1','0','8','9','1','0','54640','2147483647','3515573','119330','32','root','full','','','netapp-fas3050-special-req-snap_1329405567_FULL.f','507617313','','','3748583707','0','0','1329405567','1329405567','0','1','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.94','2013-07-16 17:29:10.98' 849.dat:'2','4930','5032','1','-1','0','000189','102','3','1','1','507660288','000189','20','2','65536','8023200','1329405567','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.669941','2013-07-16 17:29:10.669945' 849.dat:'3','4930','5032','1','1','0','000195','102','3','1','1','142411956224','000195','20','3','65536','7657992','1329252218','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670277','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670280' 849.dat:'30001','4930','5032','1','2','0','000129','102','3','1','1','638745640960','000129','20','1','65536','2','1329405567','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670566','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670570' 849.dat:'30002','4930','5032','1','3','0','000134','102','3','1','1','638844469248','000134','20','1','65536','2','1329405567','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670885','2013-07-16 17:29:10.670889' 849.dat:'30003','4930','5032','1','4','0','000135','102','3','1','1','609969635328','000135','20','1','65536','2','1329405567','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.671208','2013-07-16 17:29:10.671212' 849.dat:'30004','4930','5032','1','5','0','000138','102','3','1','1','642486697984','000138','20','1','65536','2','1329405567','14','0','*NULL*','0','0','','','2013-07-16 17:29:10.671486','2013-07-16 17:29:10.671490'
Re: [Veritas-bu] ndmp drives down after netapp upgrade to 8.1.1RC1
we opened a call with netapp, and i think they are having issues with 8.1.1 and certain drives. we did turn up logging, and see an ndmp connection connect, but then we get the message back from netbackup stating drive does not match, (sorry i don't have the exact message in front of me). someone did reply that they have lto4 working with 8.1, so i connected an lto4 drive but we still see the same issue. netapp is still looking into it, so we are doing 3-way backups tonight. thanks, jerald From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Quan Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:40 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ndmp drives down after netapp upgrade to 8.1.1RC1 Can you turn on verbose logging on the affected filer and see what the logs say ? Also, from the filer, can you mount/rewind/etc a tape ? I'm curious about this NBU msg: Device serial number for device at path /dev/nrst1a does not match drive adic_drv03 /Steve snip we have a netbackup 7.1.0.3 environment, linux master/media servers. after upgrading 2 netapp fas3160's to 8.1.1RC1, the direct attached (thru a san switch) lto5 tape drives went down, and go back down after up'ing them. 1 netapp has 1 drive, the other has 2 drives, and all 3 went down and stay down. from the first filer i see the tape drive: fas3160e ndmpd status ndmpd ON. No ndmpd sessions active. fas3160e storage show tape Tape Drive: ushouebs9148a:1-9.126 Description: IBM LTO 5 ULTRIUM Serial Number: F001B2B013 WWNN: 5:003:08c001:b2b013 WWPN: 5:003:08c001:b2b014 Alias Name(s): st1 Device State: available fas3160e sysconfig -t Tape drive (ushouebs9148a:1-9.126) IBM LTO 5 ULTRIUM rst1l - rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB nrst1l - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB urst1l - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB rst1m - rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp nrst1m - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp urst1m - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp rst1h - rewind device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB nrst1h - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB urst1h - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB rst1a - rewind device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp nrst1a - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp urst1a - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp from the media server: ebsmd1# tpautoconf -verify fas3160e Connecting to host fas3160e as user root... Waiting for connect notification message... Opening session--attempting with NDMP protocol version 4... Opening session--successful with NDMP protocol version 4 host supports MD5 authentication Getting MD5 challenge from host... Logging in using MD5 method... Host info is: host name fas3160e os type NetApp os version NetApp Release 8.1.1RC1 7-Mode host id 0151736859 Login was successful Host supports LOCAL backup/restore Host supports 3-way backup/restore ebsmd1# tpconfig -dev_ping -drive -path /dev/nrst1a -nh fas3160e Failed to inquiry the specified device. ebsmd1# tpconfig -update -drpath -path /dev/nrst1a -nh fas3160e -asciiname adic_drv03 -drstatus UP Device serial number for device at path /dev/nrst1a does not match drive adic_drv03. ebsmd1# tpconfig -l Device Robot Drive Robot Drive Device Second Type Num Index Type DrNum Status Comment Name Path Device Path robot 0 - TLD - - - - /dev/sg11 ... drive - 3 hcart 4 DOWN - adic_drv03 /dev/nrst1a ... does anyone else have a setup with netapp ontap 8.1.1rc1 working? we have 12 other netapps at lower ontap versions that still work. i think i found a compatibility chart that says it is supported. thanks, jerald snip Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ndmp drives down after netapp upgrade to 8.1.1RC1
we have a netbackup 7.1.0.3 environment, linux master/media servers. after upgrading 2 netapp fas3160's to 8.1.1RC1, the direct attached (thru a san switch) lto5 tape drives went down, and go back down after up'ing them. 1 netapp has 1 drive, the other has 2 drives, and all 3 went down and stay down. from the first filer i see the tape drive: fas3160e ndmpd status ndmpd ON. No ndmpd sessions active. fas3160e storage show tape Tape Drive: ushouebs9148a:1-9.126 Description:IBM LTO 5 ULTRIUM Serial Number: F001B2B013 WWNN: 5:003:08c001:b2b013 WWPN: 5:003:08c001:b2b014 Alias Name(s): st1 Device State: available fas3160e sysconfig -t Tape drive (ushouebs9148a:1-9.126) IBM LTO 5 ULTRIUM rst1l - rewind device,format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB nrst1l - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB urst1l - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB rst1m - rewind device,format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp nrst1m - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp urst1m - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp rst1h - rewind device,format is: LTO-5 1600GB nrst1h - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB urst1h - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB rst1a - rewind device,format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp nrst1a - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp urst1a - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp from the media server: ebsmd1# tpautoconf -verify fas3160e Connecting to host fas3160e as user root... Waiting for connect notification message... Opening session--attempting with NDMP protocol version 4... Opening session--successful with NDMP protocol version 4 host supports MD5 authentication Getting MD5 challenge from host... Logging in using MD5 method... Host info is: host name fas3160e os type NetApp os version NetApp Release 8.1.1RC1 7-Mode host id 0151736859 Login was successful Host supports LOCAL backup/restore Host supports 3-way backup/restore ebsmd1# tpconfig -dev_ping -drive -path /dev/nrst1a -nh fas3160e Failed to inquiry the specified device. ebsmd1# tpconfig -update -drpath -path /dev/nrst1a -nh fas3160e -asciiname adic_drv03 -drstatus UP Device serial number for device at path /dev/nrst1a does not match drive adic_drv03. ebsmd1# tpconfig -l Device Robot Drive RobotDrive Device Second Type Num Index Type DrNum Status CommentNamePath Device Path robot 0-TLD- - - - /dev/sg11 ... drive-3 hcart4DOWN - adic_drv03 /dev/nrst1a ... does anyone else have a setup with netapp ontap 8.1.1rc1 working? we have 12 other netapps at lower ontap versions that still work. i think i found a compatibility chart that says it is supported. thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting
i have a bpdbjobs comand line output formatting question, netbackup 7.1.0.3. on a nt netbackup master server, i have column definitions set to output the started column, and the output format shows up as dd/mm/ hh:mm:ss, ex: 16/07/2012 19:00:46 on a linux netbackup master server, the bpdbjobs command gives me mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss, ex: 07/16/12 21:00:38 is there any way to make them both behave the same? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting
the nt master is in england, and the linux master is in ireland, so they should have similar localization settings. most of our environments are linux (7 across the globe), and they all give the same output. our backup admin in england just runs bpdbjobs -ignore_parent_jobs and has 8 columns he wants defined (not sure where as it is windows) so he only sees those in the output, it the date gets formatted by bpdbjobs. he is now bringing up a new environment in ireland on linux, and put the column definitions in bp.conf. he gets the columns he wants, but the month/day are switched between nt and linux so it screws up a spreadsheet that the data goes into. on the 3 netbackup servers (all linux) in the u.s., i run bpdbjobs with the -all_columns and use a perl script to pick out data for reports when i need it. thanks, jerald From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:31 PM To: Iverson, Jerald; veritas-bu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting Which switch are you using with bpdbjobs? When I run bpdbjobs with the -all_columns switch on my Windows 2008 R2 Master running 7.1 I get UNIX time. Just a shot in the dark here, but have you checked your localization settings in Windows? (Control Panel, Clock Language, Region)? -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:20 PM To: veritas-bu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting i have a bpdbjobs comand line output formatting question, netbackup 7.1.0.3. on a nt netbackup master server, i have column definitions set to output the started column, and the output format shows up as dd/mm/ hh:mm:ss, ex: 16/07/2012 19:00:46 on a linux netbackup master server, the bpdbjobs command gives me mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss, ex: 07/16/12 21:00:38 is there any way to make them both behave the same? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting
also, i've looked into the /usr/openv/msg/.conf file: .../msg# locale -a | grep en_G en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 .../msg# env | grep en_ LANG=en_GB.utf8 .../msg# grep -i uk .conf TL 5 en_UK :hh:mn:ss /dd/mm/ . English UK TL 5 en_GB :hh:mn:ss /dd/mm/ . English UK TM 5 en_GB 5 en_UK TM 5 EN_GB 5 en_UK TM 5 En_UK 5 en_UK TM 5 en_IE 5 en_UK TM 5 en_NZ 5 en_UK TM 5 en_AU 5 en_UK TM 5 en_JP 5 en_UK TM 11 en_GB.UTF-8 5 en_UK .../msg# grep -i GB .conf TL 5 en_GB :hh:mn:ss /dd/mm/ . English UK TL 5 en_GB :hh:mm:dd /dd/mm/ . English TM 12 en_GB.roman8 2 en TM 5 en_GB 5 en_UK TM 5 EN_GB 5 en_UK TM 11 en_GB.UTF-8 5 en_UK TM 10 en_GB.utf8 5 en_GB OR 12 en_GB.roman825 AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII OR 5 en_GB 35 ENGLISH_UNITED KINGDOM.WE8ISO8859P1 i've run strace on bpdbjobs and it does open /usr/openv/msg/.conf but for some reason isn't using the date format from there. thanks, jerald From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:00 PM To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting the nt master is in england, and the linux master is in ireland, so they should have similar localization settings. most of our environments are linux (7 across the globe), and they all give the same output. our backup admin in england just runs bpdbjobs -ignore_parent_jobs and has 8 columns he wants defined (not sure where as it is windows) so he only sees those in the output, it the date gets formatted by bpdbjobs. he is now bringing up a new environment in ireland on linux, and put the column definitions in bp.conf. he gets the columns he wants, but the month/day are switched between nt and linux so it screws up a spreadsheet that the data goes into. on the 3 netbackup servers (all linux) in the u.s., i run bpdbjobs with the -all_columns and use a perl script to pick out data for reports when i need it. thanks, jerald From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:31 PM To: Iverson, Jerald; veritas-bu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting Which switch are you using with bpdbjobs? When I run bpdbjobs with the -all_columns switch on my Windows 2008 R2 Master running 7.1 I get UNIX time. Just a shot in the dark here, but have you checked your localization settings in Windows? (Control Panel, Clock Language, Region)? -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:20 PM To: veritas-bu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs comand output formatting i have a bpdbjobs comand line output formatting question, netbackup 7.1.0.3. on a nt netbackup master server, i have column definitions set to output the started column, and the output format shows up as dd/mm/ hh:mm:ss, ex: 16/07/2012 19:00:46 on a linux netbackup master server, the bpdbjobs command gives me mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss, ex: 07/16/12 21:00:38 is there any way to make them both behave the same? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] symantec support for other countries
i have a general question: how do companies work with symantec for support on backup environments in different countries? do you need a separate symantec support agreement for each country? or is there a universal support agreement that can cover all backup environments of a company in the known universe? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ndmp fails for 7.1.0.3
we upgraded from netbackup 7.0.1 which has worked for over a year, to 7.1.0.3 and the ndmp tape drives go down and stay down, and tpautoconf gives the following output: master:.../bin# tpautoconf -verify netappfas3160a Connecting to host netappfas3160a as user root... Failed to connect to port 1 : host netappfas3160a failed NDMP failed to verify host master:.../bin# tpautoconf -probe netappfas3160a : host netappfas3160a failed Internal NDMP error master:.../bin# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/version HARDWARE LINUX_RH_X86 VERSION NetBackup 7.1.0.3 RELEASEDATE Wed Dec 07 20:38:17 CST 2011 BUILDNUMBER 20111207 old version: HARDWARE LINUX_RH_X86 VERSION NetBackup 7.0.1 RELEASEDATE Thu Jul 08 02:04:00 CDT 2010 BUILDNUMBER 20100707 i had copied openv/* to openv_7.0.1/* so reverting back to 7.0.1 was easy, just shutdown netbackup and rename the 2 dirs. i upgraded another site with the same netbackup environment (os and library, 2 netapps, etc) with no problems. has anyone else experienced this problem? telnet to the netapp port works fine. when the original openv dir is back in place, tpconfig shows the drive up and backups work fine. is 7.1.0.3 trying to use a different os network shared library object that may be missing? thanks, jerald more info: master:.../bin# tpconfig -l Device Robot Drive Robot Drive Device Second Type Num Index Type DrNum Status Comment Name Path Device Path robot 0-TLD- - - - /dev/sg4 drive-1 hcart1DOWN netappfas3160b lto5_drv1 /dev/nrst0a drive-2 hcart2DOWN netappfas3160a lto5_drv2 /dev/nrst0a drive-3 hcart3 UP - lto5_drv3 /dev/nst1 drive-4 hcart4 UP - lto5_drv4 /dev/nst0 master:.../# ssh netappfas3160a sysconfig -t Tape drive (0b.73) IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 rst0l - rewind device,format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB nrst0l - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB urst0l - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 4/800GB rst0m - rewind device,format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp nrst0m - no rewind device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp urst0m - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-3(ro)/4 8/1600GB cmp rst0h - rewind device,format is: LTO-5 1600GB nrst0h - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB urst0h - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 1600GB rst0a - rewind device,format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp nrst0a - no rewind device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp urst0a - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-5 3200GB cmp master:.../# ssh netappfas3160a ndmpd status ndmpd ON. No ndmpd sessions active. master:.../# cat /etc/red*rel* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF)
i use the get on the latest firmware first option as an easy way to get on the latest firmware without having to do all of the paperwork for planned upgrades. it's broke and needs patching now! when they correct a known issue (bug), the fix could also inadvertantly fix a different issue, the issue that you are experiencing. if it doesn't fix your issue, then it forces them to now look at it much more closely. i had an issue a couple of weeks ago where we've been using lto5 drives for 8 months with no issues, but we are only writing to lto4 media. we put on our first batch of lto5 media and all tapes gave us errors and went to a partially written FROZEN state: /var/log/messages: Nov 17 19:12:40 tldd[18902]: TLD(0) MountTape L5 on drive 1, from slot 51 Nov 17 19:12:41 tldcd[18908]: Processing MOUNT, TLD(0) drive 1, slot 51, barcode L5 , vsn L5 Nov 17 19:42:19 bptm[9924]: TapeAlert Code: 0x03, Type: Warning, Flag: HARD ERROR, from drive lto5_drv1 (index 1), Media Id L5 Nov 17 19:42:19 bptm[9924]: TapeAlert Code: 0x06, Type: Critical, Flag: WRITE FAILURE, from drive lto5_drv1 (index 1), Media Id L5 Nov 17 19:42:19 bptm[9924]: TapeAlert Code: 0x14, Type: Critical, Flag: CLEAN NOW, from drive lto5_drv1 (index 1), Media Id L5 Nov 17 19:42:19 bptm[9924]: TapeAlert Code: 0x27, Type: Warning, Flag: DIAGNOSTICS REQ., from drive lto5_drv1 (index 1), Media Id L5 Nov 17 19:42:20 tldd[18902]: TLD(0) DismountTape L5 from drive 1 ~netbackup/db/media/errors: 11/17/11 19:42:08 L5 1 WRITE_ERROR lto5_drv1 11/17/11 19:42:18 L5 1 POSITION_ERROR lto5_drv1 11/17/11 19:42:19 L5 1 TAPE_ALERT lto5_drv1 0x24001000 0x0200 ouch! so i opened a support ticket and they thought it could be bad tapes (all of them?), but suggested a firmware upgrade. how could that fix it? lto5 drives should be able to write to lto5 media. would we have had this issue if we had used lto5 media 8 months ago with the firmware that was on the drives when they were new? so i upgraded the drives to B6W0 and it fixed the issue. i now get twice as much data written per tape in each slot of the library. jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:31 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF) A good thing to ask vendors when they suggest you patch software or update firmware is for the documentation for that patch/firmware that shows where it fixes your SPECIFIC issue. Telling people to patch/update has always been viewed by me as just a vendor stalling tactic for the most part. You should of course do planned patching/updating as regular maintenance but usually when it is suggested during troubleshooting it has little value and doesn't solve the issue. In more than 20 years I can only think of 2-3 occasions where a vendor when so challenged was actually able to show where the suggested patch/firmware specifically mentioned the issue I was having. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WALLEBROEK Bart Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:12 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; jpis...@lucidpixels.com Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF) Make sure to run the latest firmware on the tape drives (B6W0). IBM 'claims' that this will solve all media issues. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:23:10 -0500 From: Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com Subject: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF) To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: 001801ccb8af$ab386850$01a938f0$@lucidpixels.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I read on this list awhile back there were some media issues others were having with the IBM LTO-5 tape drives; after an update, things were better. Currently running B5BF and notice a lot of '(86) - media read errors' on separate drives in different locations, has anyone seen this, one could chalk it up to some bad tape media but because it seems to occur across 2 drives in 1 location I was curious if anyone else had seen this issue and if so, which F/W where they running that seemed to solve the issue? Drive: IBM LTO-5 8.0gbps F/C F/W: B5BF ** Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is
[Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive
i've been using netbackup on unix/linux for many years. i'm attempting my first install of netbackup 7.1 for a new small environment which is a windows master/media server. i'd like to install to the d: drive but the installation gui does not give me a chance to change it. i do not want to install to c: and then have to hack it to move it to the d: drive as i've seen some symantec articles on moving the database if it gets too big. has anyone been able to install directly to a different location? should i download 7.0 and try that, and then upgrade to 7.1? that also seems to be an unneccessary hack if the 7.0 installation does let me change the installation path. hopefully it's something i'm overlooking as i'm fairly new to using this here pointy-clicky thing. thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive
thank you very much, that was too easy. when i got up the part where it showed me that it was going to install to c:, i went back but only to the screen of choosing install master/media, client, or admin console. hitting back 1 more time shows me the typical or custom option. luckily i hadn't installed anything. thanks again, jerald -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:42 AM To: Preston, Douglas; Iverson, Jerald; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive Yes, select custom install and you can manually change the location from C:\Program Files\Veritas to D:\Program Files\Veritas. Also be aware that I recently installed to the C: (accidentally), removed the install via Add/Remove Programs, Reinstalled to D:, and NetBackup's registry entries were all screwed up. I'm not sure if it was a one time thing or if there is a problem with the install package but the uninstall did not clean out all the registry entries which left me with registry entries pointing to C: and D: which left NetBackup unstable. I chose to rebuild the machine entirely (it was a new build anyway) but Datalink support suggested clearing out the registry entries manually. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:32 AM To: 'Iverson, Jerald'; 'VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive Do a custom install Doug Preston Phone 626-667-1447 Email dlpres...@lereta.com -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 7:19 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive i've been using netbackup on unix/linux for many years. i'm attempting my first install of netbackup 7.1 for a new small environment which is a windows master/media server. i'd like to install to the d: drive but the installation gui does not give me a chance to change it. i do not want to install to c: and then have to hack it to move it to the d: drive as i've seen some symantec articles on moving the database if it gets too big. has anyone been able to install directly to a different location? should i download 7.0 and try that, and then upgrade to 7.1? that also seems to be an unneccessary hack if the 7.0 installation does let me change the installation path. hopefully it's something i'm overlooking as i'm fairly new to using this here pointy-clicky thing. thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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] nb7 and exchange 2010 grt
i found this somewhere on a symantec website/forum dated 2009: the reason has to do that the full backup image is being mounted and browsed to extract the item. With incremental or differential backups there isn't a full image so it requires extra development to generate a synthetic backup image on the fly for browsing all the GRT items. The good news is that you can still have 1 Exchange policy in NetBackup with a full and differential (or incremental) schedule. It's only when you browse to do the restore that you won't be able to crack open the incremental/differential backups to browse for items. We hope to have that in a future NetBackup release. Sr. Product Manager, NetBackup Symantec does anybody know the status of this? are incremental grt restores working in 7.1 or will it be a feature in 8.0? or is it just unfeasible to implement? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] distributed application restore mapping not in linux gui
i am trying to set up restores for an exchange dag, and the symantec netbackup linux admin guide volume 1 mentions: The Distributed Application Restore Mapping dialog box contains the following properties. Property Description Add Adds a host that is authorized to run restores on SharePoint component hosts or Exchange hosts.You must provide the name of the Application host and the name of the Component host in the SharePoint farm or Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG). Note: For restores to be successful in an Exchange 2010 DAG environment, you must add the CAS server to the list. Change Changes the application host or component host of the currently selected mapping. Remove Removes the currently selected mapping when running the jnbSA gui i should click on host properties - master server. when i double click the master server and open the properties, i see like 25 things i can change, from global attributes, universal settings, etc, to login banner config. a picture of the windows admin console shows that between client attributes and firewall should be the distributed application restore mapping property, but it isn't there in my linux jnbSA. in the admin guide, they show a picture for each thing that you can select to change, except there is no picture for the distributed application restore mapping, because in the other pictures you can see that it isn't there to select. is there a command line command that i can run to run to add the mappings? also i'm setting up grt, so is there a command to run for nbfsd to allow the cas to mount the disk or does the restore mapping take care of that also? thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] nb7.0.1 exchange 2010 restore error
environment: master: redhat, netbackup 7.0.1, client: windows 2008 r2, netbackup 7.0.1 has anyone come across a problem when trying to initiate an exchange restore and having it fail with an status 5. looking at the bprd log on the master server i see (time stamp removed from each line to try to shorten them, also 100+ lines removed): restorefiles: bePathByteCount = 114 restorefiles: beRedirectionPath = /Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups/EXCHANGEDAG.company.net/Microsoft Information Store/EU_rec_01/ restorefiles: restore_sync_command = 0 restorefiles: granular_restore = 0 find_files: file_path = /Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups/EXCHANGEDAG.company.net/Microsoft Information Store/EU_MB_E41/ find_files: start_date = 1288376025 find_files: end_date = 1289502768 find_files: allow_virtual_browse = 0 find_files: include_no_display = 0 find_files: granular_restore = 0 restorefiles: Exchange DAG detected in target path. The destination needs to be dynamically checked restorefiles: Exchange DAG detected in target path. The destination needs to be dynamically checked restorefiles: Exchange DAG detected in target path. The destination needs to be dynamically checked restorefiles: Exchange DAG detected in target path. The destination needs to be dynamically checked make_bpresolver_call: Redirected restore to path /Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups/EXCHANGEDAG.company.net/Microsoft Information Store/EU_rec_01/ has been detected make_bpresolver_call: Received Reply back from bpresolver start europe_mb01 make_bpresolver_call: restore_dag -c europe_mb01 -pt 16 -v make_bpresolver_call: Sent restore_dag -c europe_mb01 -pt 16 -v to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent 5 to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Sent CONTINUE to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: Received BPCD success message make_bpresolver_call: TRV - BPRESOLVER has executed on server (EUROPE_MB01) make_bpresolver_call: INF - RESOLVER EXCHANGE14 WORKLIST EUROPE_MB01 Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 make_bpresolver_call: active_server EUROPE_MB01 database_name EU_rec_01/ make_bpresolver_call: INF - RESOLVER EXCHANGE14 WORKLIST EUROPE_MB01 Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 make_bpresolver_call: active_server EUROPE_MB01 database_name EU_rec_01/ make_bpresolver_call: INF - RESOLVER EXCHANGE14 WORKLIST EUROPE_MB01 Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 make_bpresolver_call: active_server EUROPE_MB01 database_name EU_rec_01/ make_bpresolver_call: INF - RESOLVER EXCHANGE14 WORKLIST EUROPE_MB01 Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\EU_rec_01 make_bpresolver_call: active_server EUROPE_MB01 database_name EU_rec_01/ make_bpresolver_call: INF - RESOLVER EXCHANGE14 END WORKLIST 0 make_bpresolver_call: Sent ACK to bpresolver make_bpresolver_call: readline exit status = 0 make_bpresolver_call: Cannot restore more than one Database to a new target in a single restore job make_bpresolver_call: Cannot restore more than one Database to a new target in a single restore job make_bpresolver_call: Cannot restore more than one Database to a new target in a single restore job make_bpresolver_call: Cannot restore more than one Database to a new target in a single restore job make_bpresolver_call: bpresolver returned no items to restore. return status = 5 mail_msg_and_set_exit_status: entered; status = 5 mail_msg_and_set_exit_status: Attempting to send mail to root on europe_mb01 start_date 1288376025 = 2010/10/29 13:13:45 end_date 1289502768 = 2010/11/11 13:12:48 the above log is when our exchange administrator leaves the default netbackup range of images selected, so in this case oct 29-nov 11, but only 1 exchange mailbox for 1 day is selected. when i painstakingly over the phone guided them on how to select only images that were done on one day, then the restore would work as only 1 image is returned from bpresolver. from what i have read in the exchange admin guide, it should work both ways, and should also work if more than 1 days worth is selected (full and incremental such as is our case) (nb ms exchange server admin guide page 124). To restore full and incremental backups, you can restore all the backups in a single operation. Or you can restore the full backups and incremental backups individually. If you restore all the backups in a single operation, NetBackup performs a commit after the last incremental is restored. If you restore the backups individually, select the following options when you restore the last incremental
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to find out which media server is backing upwhich client...
so if you use the -hoursago 168 option then it should show you 7 days worth... From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of stefanos Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:57 PM To: 'Ed Wilts'; 'Joseph Despres' Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to find out which media server is backing upwhich client... Bperror keeps the logs by default for 28 days and is following the general log retention. If you change the days to keep logs to 3, then bperror logs will be deleted after 3 days. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 8:48 PM To: Joseph Despres Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to find out which media server is backing up which client... On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Joseph Despres jdesp...@csc.com wrote: Looks like I opened my mouth and stuck my foot in it. bperror doesn't look back 1 week... It can but the default is 3 days I think. For longer-term reporting, look at OpsCenter or a 3rd party reporting tool. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. image001.jpg___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] netbackup 7 alternate client restore
linux master/media: there is no netbackup/db/altnames directory to allow alternate client browse/restores. anybody know right off where it is configured or how it is allowed? i can look it up monday morning in the manuals, but was trying to do a quick restore this afternoon. thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 7 alternate client restore
that is what we have had on our 3.4 thru 6.5 environments. i just thought the altnames directory would have been there. i also received this reply: create a file with the destination client name under altnames directory. Edit the file and add the source to it in my hast i had created it the other way around, i had the file named the source and put the alternate clients in it. it is all good now. thanks, jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:21 PM To: Iverson, Jerald; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 7 alternate client restore How about dropping the No.Restrictions touch file into db\altnames\ for a quick fix? -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:28 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 7 alternate client restore linux master/media: there is no netbackup/db/altnames directory to allow alternate client browse/restores. anybody know right off where it is configured or how it is allowed? i can look it up monday morning in the manuals, but was trying to do a quick restore this afternoon. thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] isilon backup accelerator
anyone using an isilon backup accelerator to do ndmp backups directly to tape? running Isilon OneFS v5.0.7.13? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion
if you are replacing all drives at once, you may want to keep the media type the same, so that you can still read the lto3 media in the lto4 drives (such as restoring data). the lto4 drives can also write to the lto3 media if need be, unless you want to write using encryption. i've seen it freeze the lto3 media if it loads it when wanting to write to an encrypted pool. if you do keep the drives the same type, then simply freeze all lto3 media and they shouldn't be able to be written to if they are active or even after all images expire. they will remain frozen until you unfreeze them, and then you could manually move them to a media pool that no backup policies use. you wouldn't need to change any barcode rules or backup policies. jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:08 PM To: Nate Sanders Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion Barcode rules are only used when injecting new media. Your existing media will return to whatever pool they came from when they expire. If you don't want your old LTO3 media to be used anymore then change your media type for LTO4 to something different than what your LTO3 media use, and reconfigure your drives only to use that media type. I.e. - LTO3 media type hcart, LTO4 media type hcart1, drive type hcart1. NetBackup won't put an hcart media an hcart1 drive. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:59 PM To: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion That tiny bit of information just answered tons of questions. Thank you! So now I know how to properly handle all new incoming LTO4 tapes. And ensure they wind up in the LTO4 scratch pool. In order to ensure LTO3s wind up in a dead pool for old tapes, do I simply enter L3 as the barcode rule? And when are these rules actually processed? I know it's used when injecting new tapes, but what other situations does it apply these rules? On 05/26/2010 12:16 PM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: Bar code rules can be viewed Go to the gui and act like you are going to inject tapes into your library Choose the radio button for update volume configuration This will then un-gray the advanced options Click that button and you will see a screen where you configure the barcode rules ( you should be able to find this in the volume manger manual) Now the barcode rules are based on what it finds when it scans the barcodes on the tapes. If you lto3 tapes have a L3 in the barcode then you can make a rule telling it L3's go to old pool Make your rules and put 1 l3 and 1 l4 in the map and inject the tapes, then see if the tapes end up in the pools you want them to. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion Getting ready to load in the new LTO4 tapes, but I'm still having a hard time planning the right way to do it. I assume I can make a new LTO4 scratch pool that will store all my initial blank media. I disable the existing scratch pool and this will ensure that only new LTO4 tapes are rotated into my other pools. But how do I make sure the existing LTO3 tapes that expire are not put back into this new LTO4 scratch pool? People keep mention barcode rules/labels but I've been unable to find what this means or where to view/manage these. If I were to make new duplicate LTO4 pools for my other volumes (production4, ndmp4, offsite4, etc) would this ensure none of the existing LTO3 tapes are reused? I've been digging through the Media Manager (5.1) Admin manual for a better understanding of how NBU uses scratch/pools and expires tapes, but nothing really seems to explain how it works, just how to manage general tasks. If anyone can help answer my questions and also provide a better place for me to focus studying on I'd appreciate it. Thanks. On 05/03/2010 10:23 AM, Nate Sanders wrote: Forgive me for what may be a straight forward question, but our last backup admin has left and I'm doing my best to step up and keep our systems moving along. I'm looking for a general outline of an LTO3 to LTO4 conversion with Netbackup 5.1 (upgrading is on the list, but we can't wait to complete it). Right now we still have some LTO2 tapes, and I believe I must migrate and/or eject and store these in order to complete the conversion. Are there any other gotchas or need to knows I must be aware of? Thank you much. P.S. New
Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mountpoint.
bpdbjobs has the information you may need. unfortuneately the
-most_columns options doesn't show the file system per jobid (at least
6.0 didn't, 6.5 might), so you must use the -all_columns. this then
gives you output with a variable number of fields per line, so you have
to use logic to parse it, based on the number of file systems, and
number of entries in the details section. but you can get output that
looks like:
jobid stat policy sched client starttime
duration kbytes files #fs path
1487038 0 unix-all-local-dup - houswasd2 2009/12/13 13:00:01
1:51:38 1ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
1487120 0 unix-all-local-dup full houswasd2 2009/12/13 13:24:51
1:18:08 8,473,350 180782 1/
1487121 0 unix-all-local-dup full houswasd2 2009/12/13 13:24:51
1:06:08 15,151,192 72664 1/data
1487122 0 unix-all-local-dup full houswasd2 2009/12/13 13:24:51
1:26:48 9,703,496 151761 1/opt_new
1487165 0 netapp-r200-kvault incr ushour200 2009/12/13 19:00:00
2:37:39 362,692 162371 2/vol/kvault/ /vol/kvault02/
the first client job listed above is all local drives, and the policy
allows multiple data streams, so the paths get listed for each job. if
allow multiple data streams is not checked, then only all_local_drives
shows up for the path. the second client job listed above has 2 paths
in the policy but does them as 1 job as allow multiple data streams is
not checked.
thanks,
jerald
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:00 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each
mountpoint.
I don't have a script that'll do this - it's possible, I think but it'll
be a major pain to create.
You'll have to use bpimagelist to get the majority of the information,
it'll have the start elapsed times (you can calculate end time) for
each image. It'll also have the backupid for that image.
You could then use bpflist and that backupid to get a view of the backup
which occurred. From that, if you sort to the shortest path (by subdir
count) you could then infer which filesystem was backed up by that
backupid.
Just quickly... here's the IMAGE record from a backup of mine:
IMAGE lp91 0 0 8 lp91_1261022563 Smaug_FS 0 *NULL* NetBackup Incr 1 3
1261022563 2742 1263700963 0 0 44557223 6643 1 29 0
Smaug_FS_1261022563_INCR.f *NULL* *NULL* 0 1 0 0 0 *NULL* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
*NULL* 0 0 0 *NULL* 586876 0 0 709075 0 0 *NULL* *NULL* 0 0
Buried in here are field for start time, elapsed time, etc.
Then you could cross-reference through bpflist:
bpflist -client lp91 -backupid lp91_1261022563 \
-policy Smaug_FS -d 12/15/2009 -rl 9 -option ONLY_DIRS \
| awk '{print $10}' |sort -r | tail
...and it returns...
/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/data/fulltext/
/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/data/
/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/
That last line is the top level of the files that were backed up.
It probably could be sorted better - use a field-count based on / as a
field separator. Shortest field-count wins.
Something like this will print the smallest field-count based on a /
separator (replace the sort|tail with this):
awk -F'/' '{if(NR==1){f=NF;save=$0}
else{if(NFf){f=NF;save=$0}}}
END{print save}'
It's a starting point anyway.
-Mark
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
harpreet_singh
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:24 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mount
point.
Dear All,
Many thanks for contributing your scripts for various reports. I am ver.
6.5.4 on Red hat. Sorry to say could not find the report where I can
extract the backup details by each mount point.
My Majority backups are being done by multiple data Streams and
Multiplexing.
Not sure if possible I can get the report as
Job ID # Policy Name # Client Name # Mount Point # Start Time # End Time
# Elapsed Time# #MB backup # Backup Status etc... we want to charge to
other departments by the total size of backup. Not you if you want to
add some more.?
Example
Client Type Status MediaSvr Start_Time End_Time
Elapsed KilobytesFiles
aceaix1s Diff 0 ebsmaster 10/04/2004 00:11:07 10/04/2004
01:03:53 00:52:46651929 589
aceaix2s Diff 0 ebsmaster 10/04/2004 00:11:07 10/04/2004
00:59:42 00:48:35 27478 93
ams1an01pDiff 1 ebsmaster 10/04/2004 01:10:15 10/04/2004
01:26:16 00:16:01 3604735 3606
ams2an01pDiff 0 ebsmaster 10/04/2004 01:10:15 10/04/2004
01:21:32
Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this hack to avoid import?
we've been doing this hack for years for moving data between sites and business recovery. we backup data to tapes, ship the tapes, and tar the catalog and ftp it to the master at the other site. 1 step that you may be able to do, and avoid editing the *FULL files: in the bp.conf file, use the force restore media server option. it tells netbackup that if the restore says to use a certain media server (that may not even exist in your current netbackup environment), use this other one. such as: FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = dallas_nb1 hous2 FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = denver_nb hous2 much simpler and no need to take a chance on screwing up the catalog files. thanks, jerald From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:56 AM To: Dean; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this hack to avoid import? Force the assignment? vmquery -assignbyid From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:49 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this hack to avoid import? Woops, just after sending that, I realised I can't freeze an unassigned tape. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Dean dean.de...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ed, I appreciate the input. Yeah, in a perfect world, I would flip the write protect on all the tapes. But they are in a managed site, which is quite difficult to get access to. I'm thinking I'll probably just freeze them. And regarding the 2GB file size, I'm only editing the small index files in the catalog - the flat text files that describe the details of the backup and fragments. The largest one I've run into so far was about 30 KB. Regards, Dean On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: Very interesting... You're going to make a lot of people very, very happy if this turns out to be stable. A couple of things to be aware of. You might want to throw the write-protect tabs on those tapes if they have them (I don't know anything about the 3592 drives). Right now, you really, really don't want the new environment to reach out bu accident and bite you by expiring an image you don't want expired. When you're checking your list on tapes to re-use, flip the tab back and re-label the tape, and make EMM happy. I'd watch for any files that are over 2GB - some of the scripts you're working with to do inplace updates may break on large files. Ask me how I know :-). We ran into this doing a Windows to Solaris master conversion many years ago. I'll let others chime in on whether rewriting those files was a good idea or not. .../Ed On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dean dean.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hello veritas-bu'ers. I'm interested to hear if any of you experts have any thoughts on my current scenario. We have recently moved on from a NBU 5.1 on HPUX environment to NBU 6.5 on Linux (with a different master server name). Mainly because of urgent requirements at the time, I just created a new master server, installed NBU 6.5 from scratch, and didn't bother about integrating the NBU 5.1 catalog. Now the HP server has been decommissioned, and it's time to do something about the long term (7 year retention) backups. Last week, I started Phase 2 import on a spangroup (connected set of tapes) of Lotus Notes backups. I left it running over the weekend. It ran for 3 days, and only got through 3 of the 1,000 or so tapes I have to import. At that rate, it's going to take over 3 years to get all the imports done. Aside from the constant monitoring, that basically means one expensive (IBM 3592) tape drive in use constantly for 3 years, and a constant drain on our cross-site fibre bandwidth. However, I seem to have found a hack that allows me to restore from these old backups, without having to import the tapes. I have found that you can copy the catalog entries from the old catalog to the new one, then edit the *FULL index files, replacing the old master server/media server name on the FRAGMENT records with the new master server name, and the backup image appears completely normal in the new system, with all the right attributes, including expiry date, and can be restored from. I wrote a small script to automate the catalog file modifications, and managed to get these 7 years worth of backups cataloged in the new NBU server, in about 20 minutes, as opposed to 3 years of importing. I tested several restores, and it all works perfectly. The only issue seems to be that that NBU doesn't know much about the actual tape. I have all the old tapes in a seperate volume pool called imported, which no policies can (should) EVER write to. (feature request for Symantec? - read only volume pools). When I do a bpmedialist on one of
Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec tape reader import for netbackup 6.5.x
thanks ed, this is exactly what i was looking for. i don't know why my search on their site or google didn't find it. From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:36 AM To: Iverson, Jerald Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec tape reader import for netbackup 6.5.x On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Iverson, Jerald jerald.iver...@invesco.com wrote: the netbackup admin guide states: NetBackup can import backups that have expired, backups from another NetBackup server, or backups written by Backup Exec for Windows. (Supports Backup Exec versions 7.0 through 9.1.) i have heard that netbackup can now import newer versions of backup exec but can not find any documentation on it. has anyone seen anything on this? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/295433.htm .../Ed Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: LTO3
neither show you how full each tape is (guessing they were different tapes). with software compression, you got 2.5:1, so 99 gb is written on the tape, which may have made the tape 1/2 full. with the hardware compression, 250 was written to tape, and the tape may still be only 1/2 full or less. you would have to do another backup, and see if another 250 gb can fit on the tape. then you'd get 500gb on a 200gb tape, which would be 2.5:1 compression. you'd at least expect to get another 150gb on the tape, which would be 400gb total, which would be 2:1. compression varies by type of data. we get over 3:1 on some backup tapes. you need more testing before you conclude anything. good luck, jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lakshmi Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:15 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reg: LTO3 Hi All, Im facing a similar issue. We have LTO2 tapes which has native capacity of 200 GB and compressed capacity of 400 GB. Did the following tests to check which compression can help in our environment. Actual data size 250 GB With software compression enabled, data written on tape is 99 GB With hardware compression enabled , data written on tape is 250 GB So, should i conclude that h/w compression is not useful or is there something wrong with the drive. Regards, Backupadmin Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3
if you select a directory to restore, netbackup will have to read the entire ndmp backup image from tape to get everything in the directory. it should still restore the directory and all files/sub-directories beneath it, it just takes a longer time. if you select a file or set of files (i believe up to 1024), then it will use dar, and netbackup will be able to get to the files faster in the backup image. we have restored a directory with 10 files in it, and it took 3 hours as it was a 1.5 TB backup image. we then selected only the 10 files and the restore took 12 minutes. both restores did restore all of the files. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Marianne Van Den Berg Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:01 AM To: Patrick; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3 We got 'caught' by the same thing - found this in the NDMP Admin Guide: Note File-level DAR is supported; directory-level DAR is not supported. You need to select each file in the directory or else the entire volume. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: 10 March 2009 22:16 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3 Does anyone have any experience with this configuration? I am having problems restoring although the backups work fine. If I click a specific file or files the restore works, however if I pick the directory only the directory is restored, none of the files. Any help will 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 Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Just how smart is Netbackup onrestores? (Full/Cumu/Incr)
i think you would see different results depending on if you have collect true image restore information checked for the policy. from what i understand, if it is not checked and you start the restore (either way, cli or gui), then files backed up on any dates backup from the range you give it will be restored. in your example, a file backed up on 12/09/2008 15:45:30 Incr, which may have later been deleted and doesn't exist on the 12/19/2008 10:14:00 Cumu backup will still be restored from the 12/09/2008 15:45:30 Incr backup because it is in the date range you specify and netbackup sees it as the latest version of the file. so when you test this, you may have to do 2 tests, one with tir, and one without. hopefully the one with tir will work the way you think it should (smart restore). just my guess, jerald -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:24 AM To: Donaldson, Mark Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Just how smart is Netbackup onrestores? (Full/Cumu/Incr) Surprisingly if its possible i'd recommend the gui. I normaslly do most things command line but from what i understand if you picked the files/volumes you want on the gui Netbackup will only show you the latest revision of that file it knows about. Hence any file done on a full backup overwritten by a cumulative and even subsequent diff inc will be shown. This means selecting it will select the latest images the file was successfully backed up on. Hope that makes sense. I'd then guess that if the gui behaves in this way, by putting the date range to bprestore it would too. You could run a bpduplicate command without doing the duplicate to see what media would be needed? You could then back track using bpimagelist if its picked the correct tapes? D Donaldson, Mark wrote: I've got a set of policies that follow a pattern of: Monthly - Full Weekly - Cumulative Incremental Daily - Differential Incremental If it's been 20 days from the last full, then what I need is the full backup from 20 days ago, then a big skip to the previous cumulative the incrementals from just that cumulative. If I define a 20 day restore range in my command, though, I'm not sure that Netbackup isn't restoring *all* backups including the unneeded ones between the full and the latest cumulative. Make sense? An example, my images for one filesystem: 12/05/2008 10:26:45 Monthly /vol/fs03/ 12/06/2008 19:46:11 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/07/2008 20:07:50 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/08/2008 18:35:59 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/09/2008 15:45:30 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/10/2008 16:06:20 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/11/2008 12:57:15 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/12/2008 13:27:55 Cumu /vol/fs03/ 12/13/2008 18:52:48 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/14/2008 18:44:20 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/15/2008 16:26:47 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/16/2008 15:39:36 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/17/2008 15:23:43 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/18/2008 10:27:52 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/19/2008 10:14:00 Cumu /vol/fs03/ 12/20/2008 13:41:58 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/21/2008 15:20:24 Incr /vol/fs03/ 12/23/2008 10:42:47 Incr /vol/fs03/ OK - now if I want /vol/fs03 back to its best state as of 12/23, I need to restore the 12/5 full the 12/19 through 12/23 incrementals. The incrementals from 12/6 to 12/18 are included in the 12/19 Cumulative so I don't want to waste my time (and in fact, may contain data that we deleted and we want don't want to restore). What I want to issue is one smart command: bprestore -s 12/5/2008 -e 12/23/2008 /vol/fs03. I want 5 images to come back. If Netbackup does it dumb, then this is two restore statements: bprestore -s 12/5/2008 -e 12/5/2008 /vol/fs03 bprestore -s 12/19/2008 -e 12/23/2008 /vol/fs03 So, in response to the single smart command, will Netbackup restore just 5 images or do a dumb restore and put all the incrementals between 12/6 12/18 back, too? I know I could write a test for this but it's easier right now to see if one of you knows. -M Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups may not be running
we also occassionally see the problem here (6.0mp4 linux). certain clients won't run but others in the same policy will. we have been running a cron script every morning on our master servers (since going to 6.0 2.5 years ago when there were scheduler issues) that checks all policies/schedules/clients and compares them with what actually ran (via bpdbjobs) and emails us an alert if any did not run. we then run them manually with no problem. once a client gets into a stuck state, it doesn't run until daemons are restarted. one time that didn't fix the problem either so i had to remove the pempersist file and that cleared the problem. we haven't had the issue for a couple of months so i haven't had to troubleshoot it further. finding a backup hasn't been running when asked for a restore is not acceptable. thanks, jerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tageson, Jim Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups may not be running Maybe it's not an isolated problem after all. In my case it was not an entire policy with the problem, it was certain clients within policies that were not running. Other clients in those policies were running OK. I too was able to initially get them to run again by copying them to other policies. Jim Tageson Netbackup Administrator BayCare Health System Phone: 727-467-4586 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:11 AM To: Tageson, Jim Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups may not be running This is actually something which happens to me quite regularly so i believe symantec need to take notice of it. My case is slightly different in that i have a number of policies for different SSO Media servers. Out of the blue one of the policies does just not schedule to run yet no change has been made to it. A manual backup works fine yet still no scheduled backup works. The only way i have been able to get around it is this :- Copy the policy to a new name Delete the old policy Copy the new name policy back to the original name Delete the new name policy. I'd like to know why this happens too as as you say its not picked up in the activity monitor. I have it on my list to check that my report script has a known list of clients and to alert if any of them are not present in the daily report. This i have not yet gotten around to doing though. Cheers Tageson, Jim wrote: We uncovered a situation recently where some client backups in scheduled policies were not running at all. These clients were in active policies with several other clients which were running just fine. We discovered a total of 4 clients in 2 policies which were just not running their backups at all. Other clients in these 2 policies were being scheduled as expected. We went for 19 days without backups running on these 4 clients. Since they never were scheduled, there were obviously no errors in Netbackup at all and we didn't know we had a problem until someone requested a restore and we saw no backups had run. We opened a ticket with Symantec and they have escalated it to the highest level. The problem was finally resolved by a recycle of the Netbackup daemons, but no cause has been determined due to lack of log files during the time of the problem. Symantec believes the policies somehow got corrupted and they believe this is an isolated issue and probably will not occur again. However if you are not monitoring to see if all your scheduled backups are actually running, you will never know you have a problem. This is just to alert other users of this issue and to urge them to make sure that this is not a widespread problem. We are currently running Netbackup 6.0MP6 on an AIX master server. **Jim Tageson** **Netbackup Administrator** **BayCare Health System** Phone: 727-467-4586 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library
we also use the -w option. also, does your master server control the robotic arm? -rh is the robot_control_host, which we put as the media server that controls the robotic arm. jerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Darren Dunham Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:34 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:39:18AM -0400, dy018 wrote: I'm using the command below, it manage to eject the tapes BUT the command didnt end properly as the command spawn another tldcd process but didnt go off after eject. I can only kill that spawned process in order to do a tape inventory. Anyone know exactly how to use vmchange to eject tape? Thanks vmchange -res -multi_eject -verbose -rn 0 -rt TLD -rh MASTER SERVER -ml mediaid:mediaid I use the same command but add '-w' to make it wait. The spawned tldcd is odd. It looks like it's trying to talk to something and see the tape appear, bu that doesn't happen. I'm not sure what's happening. -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ndmp cross-platform restore compatibility
should an ndmp backup performed on one platform be able to be restored to another platform? example: can an ndmp backup done on a netapp be restored to an emc celerra nas device? or is ndmp just a protocal for backup software to initiate/control backups, and the actual stream of data going from a volume to tape is proprietary to each os/vender. each os/vender could then only restore from their own backups, but they would at least be using ndmp common commands from the backup software. does anyone have any success stories on cross platform restores? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup protecting 30TB - 60TB NetApp over NDMP.
if you choose your restore files correctly, backups can be very fast. DAR (direct access restore (i think)) has been available since netbackup 4.5 (maybe fp3). read the rules for using it, and restores can speed up significantly. you can't choose directories, only files, and are limited to 1024 or so. we had an admin click on a directory to restore and it took 6 hours to complete as it had to go through several entire tapes (sdlt at the time). then in the restore gui i went down into the directory and manually selected the 25 files that were there and the restore took 15 minutes. 99% of our ndmp restores are for files. for us if someone screws up a directory, the ~snapshot is there. your mileage may vary. jerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staub, Doug Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:37 PM To: Raymond Wong; Tharp, Trey; Jim Hall; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup protecting 30TB - 60TB NetApp over NDMP. Yes, the restore process of NDMP is definitely slower, but for us the choice was simple. Many of our larger 2-3 TB NetApp volumes were being backed up via CIFS through a Windows media server, which 1) took days to backup and 2) placed a heavy CPU load on the media server. IF those volumes were successful, then the restores would take minutes. With NDMP, the restores ARE successful, they just happen to take 2-3 hoursnever experienced an NDMP restore to take days... Our users are much happier to get back data and wait a few hours (some would be willing to wait days), rather than the alternative of nothing to restore. Again, my experience is limited to version 5.1 MP6, so I have not seen this play in 6.5 (yet). -Doug -Original Message- From: Raymond Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:22 AM To: Staub, Doug; Tharp, Trey; Jim Hall; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup protecting 30TB - 60TB NetApp over NDMP. Another problem I run into using NDMP backups is the restores. You cannot restore a single folder without the restore job reading through the entire backup image. For example, I backup my filers by running a backup stream for each volumes. So if the volume is 2TB and I try to restore a single 20MB folder in this volume, the restore job needs to reads through the entire 2TB backup image before it can successfully recover that 20MB folder. This means a 20MB restore job can take days to complete. I think this problem is resolved in NBU 6.5 but I haven't tried it yet. I'm currently running NBU 6.0MP6 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staub, Doug Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:18 AM To: Tharp, Trey; Jim Hall; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup protecting 30TB - 60TB NetApp over NDMP. NDMP is not horrible, but I would agree that SnapMirror is the best alternative at these sizes. We have 2 GB FC connects to VTLs enabled with NDMP drives for filers and we have seen 3 TB volumes backup in hours via NDMP compared to 4-5 days via CIFS...now that is a horrible protocol... The one caveot with NDMP is you are limited to 16 or so concurrent sessions (ONTap version specific) and can severely impact the filer (which is why Trey's suggestion of SnapMirror is a good one because you won't degrade your source filer trying to back it up.). -Doug Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] exchange 2003 public folder alternate restore
environment: netbackup 6.0mp4, redhat linux master/media, exchange 2003 client my exchange admins need to restore the public folder (.edb?) file to an alternate machine without bringing up exchange. the netbackup gui only drills down to the storage group, and not the individual files. i believe that it used to show the files in exchange 2000, where you could see the priv and pub files, etc to choose what to restore. i think exchange 2003 hides this so that an exchange admin can easily restore to a recovery storage group for a normal exchange database. i don't deal with exchange, but our exchange admins say that public folders cannot be restored to an rsg, and also cannot be restored to an alternate machine. if they can get the files restored as a flat file to another machine, they have tools that can extract the data they need. has anyone out there had to do this? can you let me know what procedures you did to accomplish this? here is the structure that i see from the gui dumped from the netbackup catalog information: /Microsoft Information Store/ 16832 root root 0 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411 /Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/ 16832 root root 0 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411 /Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/Public Folder Store (XPF02) 33216 root root 2106544426 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411 /Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/USHOUXPF02_SG1_MS1 33216 root root 1481789730 1207292814 1207292814 1207292814 /Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/Log files_1207265400 33216 root root 104858800 1207292886 1207292886 1207292886 the fields are: path, permissions?, owner, group, size, modified, changed, access times. thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] adic i2k questionable barcode errors
environment: linux master/media servers running 6.0mp4 adic i2k, 2 partitions: lto3 and sdlt (to duplicate to for br/dr/bc) we did a firmware upgrade on the library and now get questionable barcode returned only on the sdlt partition for random media. sometimes reading the barcode will work several times, and then it will error. once it errors, it seems that it will always error. an example robot log from an inventory shows a good tape and then a questionable tape: 10:55:36.954 [7619] 3 empty_slot: tldcd.c:5027 address = 4098, source address = 4098, source valid = 1 10:55:36.954 [7619] 3 --: sense = 00, qual = 00, except = 0, access = 1, full = 1, invert = 0 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 --: voltag = B03978 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 --: voltag hex: [42 30 33 39 37 38 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 ] 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 empty_slot: tldcd.c:5027 address = 4099, source address = 4099, source valid = 1 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 --: sense = 83, qual = 02, except = 1, access = 1, full = 1, invert = 0 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 --: voltag = B03981 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 --: voltag hex: [42 30 33 39 38 31 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 ] 10:55:36.955 [7619] 3 empty_slot: tldcd.c:5145 Error in table MM_NO_MAGAZINE_SENSE. status = 8 after the questionable tape error, the inventory errors with a 204, which is pretty generic. the error flagged in /var/log/messages shows: Dec 12 10:56:21 houlebsmd1 tldcd[7619]: TLD(2) cannot clear slot 4 error, slot asc=0x83, ascq=0x2 adic is the one telling me the code translates to questionable barcode. has anyone had to deal with this issue before? is there a netbackup setting that can override the error and tell it to accept the barcode, as it is always correct? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] disable automatic eject after backup completed ( standalone tape drive )
put this line in /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf: DO_NOT_EJECT_STANDALONE i believe this worked in netbackup 3.2 thru 5.1. in 6.0 you use the nbemmcmd: master1:.../nb6# nbemmcmd -? NBEMMCMD, Version:6.0MP4(20060530) An invalid option was used. Usage: nbemmcmd [-addhost] [-brief] [-changesetting] [-deletehost] [-deletemedia] [-deletemerge] [-errorsdb] [-forcemerge] [-getemmserver] [-help] [-listhosts] [-listmedia] [-listsettings] [-machinealias] [-releasecache] [-renamehost] [-servercontrol] [-setemmserver] [-updatehost] Type nbemmcmd -option -help for help on an individual option. Command did not complete successfully. master1:.../nb6# nbemmcmd -listsettings -help NBEMMCMD, Version:6.0MP4(20060530) Help requested. Usage: nbemmcmd -listsettings [-brief] -machinename string Command completed successfully. master1:.../nb6# nbemmcmd -listsettings -machinename media1 NBEMMCMD, Version:6.0MP4(20060530) The following configuration settings were found: ALLOW_MULTIPLE_RETENTIONS_PER_MEDIA=no DISABLE_DISK_STU_JOB_THROTTLING=no DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS=no MEDIA_REQUEST_DELAY=0 MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE=no NON_ROBOTIC_MEDIA_ID_PREFIX=A MAX_REALLOC_TRIES=1000 DISALLOW_NONNDMP_ON_NDMP_DRIVE=yes DO_NOT_EJECT_STANDALONE=yes DONT_USE_SLAVE=no DRIVE_ERROR_THRESHOLD=2 MEDIA_ERROR_THRESHOLD=2 TIME_WINDOW=12 RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL=yes VAULT_CLEAR_MEDIA_DESC=no Command completed successfully. master1:.../nb6# good luck, jerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier BRUN Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:03 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] disable automatic eject after backup completed ( standalone tape drive ) Hello, Someone have a solution for to disable the automatic eject after backup completed on standalone tape drive ? Many thanks, Didier ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?
What you must grasp is that it is *impossible* to represent/re-create/look up the values of 2^65536 bits in fewer than 2^65536 bits--unless you concede that each checksum/hash/fingerprint will represent many different values of the original data--any more than you can represent three bits of data with two. that is why i have turned off all hardware and software compression on my tape drives. imagine trying to store more than 400GB of data onto a single lto3 tape! they say that you can store up to and even more than 800GB, but i don't believe a word of it. there is no way 1 nibble of data can represent 1 byte! once i have the time to study lzr compression and understand it, and see whether or not it is data-loss-less, then i may turn compression back on. until then, tapes are cheap and i'll buy 2.5 times as many as i need. :-) thanks, jerald p.s. our de-dupe vtl does the hash and then a bit by bit comparison of the data block to ensure the data really is the same in order to eliminate the duplicate block. i think some of the confusion may be in not understanding how the de-dupe process works. once you create a hash for a block of data, you are storing the hash AND the block of data. you are never having to re-create a big block a data from a smaller hash. the backup stream of data gets re-written from a string of 8k blocks, into a string of 160-bit pointers which point to the unique 8k blocks of data via the hash table. or something like that... Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Change retention of all tapes(question)
ken,
you are redirecting input for the bpexpdate command from a file called
yes, but you state that bpimagelist prompts for a yes. bpimagelist
doesn't prompt, and to get by the bpexpdate prompting for are you sure
you want to change the expiration question, use a -force option which
is there specifically for scripting so that you don't have to enter 'y'
dozens of times.
jerald
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:58 AM
To: Tim Martino; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Change retention of all tapes(question)
You can change the expiring of tapes by backup id using the following
commands:
bpimagelist -l -d mm/dd/yy -e mm/dd/yy | grep IMAGE | awk '{print
bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid $6 -ret 9 yes}'
command_script_to_run
you need to create a file called yes with one line with the word y.
This is required because bpimagelist prompt for a yes.
The -ret 9 is to set the backup to infinite. This command will set the
backup to infinite regardless of how many tapes the image is on.
Regards,
Ken
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Change retention of all tapes(question)
We have just shut down one datacenter and we are moving the backup
server and tapes to a separate location. Is there an easy way to set
all the tapes by media_id to infinite with just one running of the
command instead of listing every single media_id? Thanks.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] exchange backup without truncating logs
i came to the same conclusion after looking through the bpbkar logs on the client. netbackup would add the client name that was assigned to the client in front of the Microsoft Information Store, even if the name of the exchange server database was something different. in our case it is on a server that is part of a cluster, so the exchange db name doesn't match the name of the server. i changed the client name in the netbackup gui (after the warning that it shouldn't be done) to the same name of the exchange db name, and the backup worked. thanks for your reply showing that at least someone else has encountered the same problem. jerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marianu, Jonathan Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:40 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] exchange backup without truncating logs There are a few things that could cause the status 69. When it happened to me it was the client name. I was use the name assigned to the backup interface on the host instead of the name assigned within exchange. The rule here is that the name of the client must exactly match the name embedded in the exchange configuration. It must match exactly. Here is the configuration for one of my exchange policies. You can compare your policy and look for any differences. Consider using my include list to see if it works. Good Luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# bpplinclude BDC_EXC_BD01MSXMB021_IS -L Include: NEW_STREAM Include: Microsoft Information Store:\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# bpplinfo BDC_EXC_BD01MSXMB021_IS -L Policy Type:MS-Exchange-Server (16) Active: yes Effective: 02/01/2006 22:57:48 Follow NFS Mounts: no Cross Mount Points: no Client Compress:no Collect TIR info: no Policy Priority:0 Ext Security Info: no File Restore Raw: no Client Encrypt: no Max Jobs/Policy:Unlimited Mult. Data Stream: yes Block Level Incremental:no Perform Snapshot Backup:no Snapshot Method:(none) Snapshot Method Arguments: (none) Perform Offhost Backup: no Backup Copy:0 Use Data Mover: no Data Mover Type:2 Use Alternate Client: no Alternate Client Name: (none) Enable Instant Recovery:no Disaster Recovery: 0 Max Frag Size: 0 MB Checkpoint Restart: no Residence: GLOBAL_211A Volume Pool:NetBackup [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# bpplsched BDC_EXC_BD01MSXMB021_IS -L Schedule: FULL_VY_DUP_2MO Type:FULL SExchange (0) Frequency: 1 day(s) (86400 seconds) Retention Level: 1 (2 weeks) u-wind/o/d: 0 0 Incr Type: DELTA (0) Incr Depends:(none defined) Max Frag Size: 0 MB PFI Recovery:0 Maximum MPX: 1 Number Copies: 1 Fail on Error: 0 Residence: (specific storage unit not required) Volume Pool: (same as policy volume pool) Daily Windows: Day Open Close W-Open W-Close Sunday 021:00:00 028:00:00 021:00:00 028:00:00 Monday 021:00:00 028:00:00 045:00:00 052:00:00 Tuesday 021:00:00 028:00:00 069:00:00 076:00:00 Wednesday 021:00:00 028:00:00 093:00:00 100:00:00 Thursday021:00:00 028:00:00 117:00:00 124:00:00 Friday 021:00:00 028:00:00 141:00:00 148:00:00 Saturday021:00:00 028:00:00 165:00:00 172:00:00 004:00:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# bpplclients BDC_EXC_BD01MSXMB021_IS Hardware OS Client --- --- -- PC WindowsNET bd01msxmb021 ___ Remedy information: Group: National EBR Ops Scope: Backend Applications Category: NetBackup http://wa-gsmrdb02-bth/ESBR/ http://netbackup.entp.attws.com/cgi-bin/backup_amount http://netbackup/prod/netbackup_REQ_form.xlt __ Jonathan Marianu (mah ree ah' nu) National Enterprise Backup Recovery Cingular Wireless (360) 597-6896 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[Veritas-bu] exchange backup without truncating logs
we have a need to backup an exchange server without truncating the logs. this should be feasible using a user backup type of schedule, which then forces the backup to be started from the client using the bpbackup command. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/284857.htm the problem i'm having is the master server is unix, and when the file list comes in for the request from the nt machine, the list is Microsoft Information Store:\sg1 and our master server starts a backup job with /Microsoft Information Store/sg1 as the file list, and the job ends with an error of 69. any ideas? thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] vnetd question
we are having problems with a media server unable to connect to the EMM server (on the master). it is on a secondary media server that we initially set up and tested, but haven't had to use until now. environment: linux master and media servers, netbackup 6.0mp3 on media server 1: # netstat -a | grep vnet tcp 0 0 *:vnetd *:* LISTEN unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 25838 /usr/openv/var/vnetd/vmd.uds unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 25830 /usr/openv/var/vnetd/bpcompatd.uds on media server 2: # netstat -a | grep vnet tcp 0 0 *:vnetd*:* LISTEN unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 78242 /usr/openv/var/vnetd/bpcompatd.uds to test vmd from the master: # bpcompatd -vmd_connect lebsmd1 the requested operation was successfully completed # bpcompatd -vmd_connect lebsmd2 cannot connect on socket how do i get the vmd.uds listener to run on media server 2? i renamed 2 old files which might have been created the last time that it ran correctly, and rebooted, and it didn't recreate the files: # pwd /usr/openv/var/vnetd # ls -l drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Nov 3 09:25 bpcompatd_child drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Nov 3 09:25 bpcompatd_parent -rw--- 1 root root 54 Nov 3 09:32 bpcompatd.txt srw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 3 09:32 bpcompatd.uds -r--r--r-- 1 root daemon 47 Jun 8 22:54 inetd_bpcd.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root daemon 92 Jun 8 22:54 inetd_bpjava-msvc.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root daemon 51 Jun 8 22:54 inetd_vopied.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 Oct 11 11:43 vmd.txt.old srw--- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 11:43 vmd.uds.old thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Keeping tape mounted between backups
Title: Managing Tape Rotations we used to use this in 3.4 and 4.5, it may still work in 5.x or 6.0. put it in bp.conf. i think the delay number is in seconds, we only needed the tape to stay in a short while as the next oracle stream would start within a minute. # stop tape from immediately unmounting for oracle backup/restores: MEDIA_UNMOUNT_DELAY = 60 thanks, jerald From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:26 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Keeping tape mounted between backups All, Is there a way to have netbackup keep the tape in drive of a robotic library? I'm doing hourly backups of the Oracle Archive Log, and the tape gets unmounted and put back into it's slot after the backup is completed. Is there a way to tell netbackup to keep the tape in the drive until the tape is full? We did that with Legato, and now the we have moved to netbackup we are concerned about the wear and tear on the tape drive. Since it's constantly mounting and unmounting the same tape. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Large Windows Clients
in our nb6mp3 linux master/media environment i have one win2k3 client that has 6TB of data that i need to backup in a certain amount of time. is there still a SAN Media server in netbackup 6.0? i haven't found too much information on the symantec/veritas web site for 6.0. would i install the nt media server software on the client, or install something under the advanced client software? can we test this without a temporary license to see if it would meet our needs? as a test, we put this client on a 10GB network with the media servers and may have gotten an acceptable speed, but want to compare it with direct attached fibre drives. some google links had information such as: Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server is used to locally backup large apps. Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server may share a tape library with the ... Read product details on Veritas NetBackup for Windows SAN Media Server 5.0 Full Version for PC, Unix, Sun. A SAN media server is limited to only be able to backup itself up. It cannot backup other NetBackup clients. If you want to backup additional Netbackup... thanks, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Command to get tape barcode while it's in a drive.
Title: Command to get tape barcode while it's in a drive. /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd -d ds DRIVE STATUS Drv Type Control User Label RecMID ExtMID Ready Wr.Enbl. ReqId 0 hcart3 TLD - No - 0 1 hcart3 TLD - No - 0 2 hcart3 DOWN-TLD - No - 0 3 hcart3 TLD Yes LB0397 LB0397 Yes Yes 0 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:51 AM To: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Command to get tape barcode while it's in a drive. Not sure myself unless tldtest has a switch for reading the barcode (doubt it though) , can you not extract info form your messages file. What kind of problems are you trying to resolve?? Regards Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: 24 August 2006 15:41 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Command to get tape barcode while it's in a drive. Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups.I know this has come up before but couldnt find anything in the archives. Im looking for a command line way to determine the bar code of a tape when its in a drive. Im trying to gather info to determine if certain tapes are causing problems. Thanks in advance. Wayne BeDour IT Unix System Administrator PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. 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. Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] status filelist incorrect for ndmp backups
has anyone seen this happen? environment: netbackup 6.0 mp2 on linux master and media servers. ndmp backups run and complete successfully, and an email gets sent stating so, but the filelist is a hex number. ex: Backup on client netapp_r200 for user root by server master1 succeeded. File list - 0xf0faef6c for different backups, the hex number is different. bpps a shows root 31854 1 14 08:34 ? 00:04:18 bpbrm -backup -S master1 -c netapp_r200 -ct 19 -ru root -cl netapp_r200_vpdata -sched full -bt 1145885681 -dt 0 -st 0 -b netapp_r200_1145885681 -mediasvr media1 -jobid 1959 -jobgrpid 1888 -masterversion 60 -maxfrag 1048576 -reqid -1145833236 -mt 3 -to 0 -stunit r200_adic -cj 2 -rl 3 -rp 2678400 -D 20 -rt 8 -rn 0 -pool ndmp_pool -use_ofb -use_otm -jm -secure 1 -cv -rg root -fso -dmplevel 0 # cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin # ls -l bpbrm -r-x-- 1 root daemon 386773 Mar 11 09:49 bpbrm we do not use any mail notify scripts, so it appears bpbrm process itself is sending the email. running strings on the bpbrm shows the text from the email message. # strings bpbrm ... cannot send mail because BPCD on %s exited with status %d: %s Backup on client %s for user %s by server %s succeeded. Backup on client %s for user %s by server %s was partially successful. Backup on client %s for user %s by server %s was suspended. Backup on client %s for user %s by server %s failed. Status = %s. ... PrgLog0070N File list - PrgLog0080N Backup Archive Verify Import NetBkup cannot send mail to %s ... is there a work-around / fix i can do? thanks in advance, jerald Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
RE: Subject: [Veritas-bu] status filelist incorrect for ndmpbackups
i think what im seeing is exactly what is described there. ive mainly migrated only my ndmp backups to 6.0, so i thought that was the issue. i ran some unix file system backups and see it there also. thanks again, jerald From: Mike Kelczewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:56 AM To: Iverson, Jerald Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re:Subject: [Veritas-bu] status filelist incorrect for ndmpbackups See if this is the same problem. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281151.htm Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
