[Veritas-bu] Splitting network Traffic
Can I split backup network traffic over two NICS? I know I can specify backup traffic go over a different NIC than regular network traffic. kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 59 using admin console for restores.
Client propertiesmake sure the media server is listed. Also, if you use hosts files, make sure the server's has the client and vice versa. Kenneth From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:44 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error 59 using admin console for restores. Situation: Running NBU5.1 mp6 under Solaris10. Using Adminconsole on windows workstation to do restores. I keep getting these type error 59's. I can do restores of clients to original file locations with success. If I try to restore any file to same server or different server and to a different location, I get the cannot put rename file on host name. It complains about bpcd exiting from workstation where admin console is running from etc.. Either way, if it is a successful (original location) restore or not it still complains with error 59. example of alternate location restore: 8/22/2007 3:37:26 PM - begin Restore 8/22/2007 3:37:27 PM - restoring image jsnbumedia_1187205790 8/22/2007 3:37:29 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=15020) bpcd on as400rpt exited with status 59: access to the client was not allowed 8/22/2007 3:37:29 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=15020) cannot put rename file on jsnbumedia 8/22/2007 3:37:30 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=15020) client restore EXIT STATUS 59: access to the client was not allowed All servers can ping each other. I have all servers static in hosts. All servers referenced in bp.conf etc.. Anyone have any ideas? I'm running out..:o(~ Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Custom Retention Periods
How can I create custom retention periods? I've done this before on 5.1 but I'm on 6.0 now. Plus I just don't remember how I done it. Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 when backing up a network drive
I ran into this today. Make sure that the NetBackup Client service on the media server logs on with a user with permissions to the share. If it uses system to logon, it won't work. kww -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gturner Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 3:54 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 when backing up a network drive Hello All, Don't know if this has been discussed already. I've gone back 10 pages with no success. Running 6.0MP4 on a W2K3 master server My client is a W2K3 R2 server. Ive set up my bpstart_notify.bat file with the following line: net use M: \\server\sharname password /USER:domain name\user name Then set up my policy to reflect M:\ in the backup selection. This is a NetApp share... Getting status 71. Ive looked at the bpbkar log in the bin directory of my client, but I'm not getting anything from it. Has anyone run into this problem before? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange restores
When you restore to your test box, be sure that the storage group and the mailbox store is named exactly how it is on the production box (Case sensitive). kww -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange restores Does it fail at the beginning of the restore or the middle? Are client and server version the same? I had a known issue similar to this trying to restore from a 6.0 MP4 Master to a 5.1 MP6 client. In the end Veritas was little help and I just upgraded to 6.0 MP4 clients. Double check (as usual) DNS Lookup (We're not accidentally writing to production are we? I'd be 100% sure with HOST files just to rule this out.) How about reverse DNS, for Master, Media and Client?! Does the database location exist? I.E. if the database pointing to G:\SG1 does G:\SG1 Exist? Yadda yadda, check box for overwrite etc... -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:00 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange restores Enviroment: Win2k3 Master - 6.0MP4/ Exchange 2003 I am working on doing some DR documentation and am receiving an error when I attempt to restore one of our information back to a test exchange server. 10:07:49.970 [5436.6072] 2 bpbrm write_msg_to_progress_file: (8.001) TAR - Microsoft Information Store:\SG1\DB1-1 10:07:50.142 [5436.6072] 16 bpbrm main: from client wosraltcmx011.ds.wolseley.com: ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\SG1\DB1-1 (BEDS 0xE000FE30: A communications failure has occurred.10:07:50.142 [5436.6072] 2 db_error_add_to_file: dberrorq.c:midnite = 1185508800 10:07:50.142 [5436.6072] 2 bpbrm write_msg_to_progress_file: (8.001) (8.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\SG1\DB1-1 (BEDS 0xE000FE30: A communications failure has occurred. 10:07:50.142 [5436.6072] 2 bpbrm write_msg_to_progress_file: (8.001) ) The test exchange server is named identically to the server in production (we are in a lab enviroment). The results from the bpclntcmd come back correct. The netbackup master server was restored from a catalog backup, and the buffer setttings are identical. We are simply attempting to overwrite a SG - we are not using a recovery storage group. The databases have been marked that can be overwritten. Any thoughts? -cj ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4
Yes. Other way not supported. kww -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of malabelle Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:31 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4 Hi, I'm new to Nb. if I need to upgrade my clients to MP4, do I absolutely need to backup my master server (solaris 9) to MP4 too? or keeping it at mp3 is ok? Thanks, Marc-Andre Labelle +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] status 29 ACS
Has anyone encountered ACS Status = 29 codes in /var/adm/messages. After a backup finishes, the media is unable to mount. It's not just one drive so I don't think it's the drive. Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Master Server logging.
Having something weird going on with my logging. I know the verbose can stay at 5 at all times and if the directories are NOT created there will be nothing captured. My issue is, when I delete the directories from /opt/openv/netbackup/logs they seem to get created by themselves again. The only other person that works on this system isn't doing it either. Is there some setting that I may have set that would create log directories automatically? kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Sol10
Anybody running Solaris 10 and NB6.0? Any issues you see with it? kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Sol10
I'm in the same boat. I'm about to 10 on a T2000 and upgrade to 6.0 all at the same time.yuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:52 AM To: Steve Quan Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sol10 Hey Steve. Have you tuned the OS in any way? Specifically with Sol8/9 there were many /etc/system entries required for optimal (functional?) performance when the system is under load. I understand this has gone away (??) in Sol 10, but I don't know if there are new/other parameters that require tweaking. Is there anything at all that you've tuned on the boxes or are you running a plain vanilla install? I'm looking at testing out Sol 10 on some T series servers, and due to the inability to sufficiently load the boxes in my lab (number of backup jobs + raw throughput) I don't want to have to find out in production that bpsched crashes/hangs and jobs don't run because of lack of shmem, or vmd pukes due to lack of semaphores. These are just a few issues I found in Sol8 after servers were in production for months.everything worked fine till one fine day when our load gradually, and unexpectedly crossed some random boundary. Paul Also contemplating Linux on Sun X-series hardware -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Quan Sent: May 17, 2007 12:34 PM To: Kenneth W Wilkinson Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sol10 We're running Solaris10 on our media servers (for about 3 weeks now). /Steve --- On Thu, 17 May 2007, Kenneth W Wilkinson wrote: Anybody running Solaris 10 and NB6.0? Any issues you see with it? kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4
Good luck. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liddle, Stuart Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:00 PM To: Mike Wigington; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4 yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing --stuart From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wigington Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:55 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4 Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? TIA, Mike Wig Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http:/autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] installing 6.0
I'm currently on 5.1mp6. I want to do a new install and redetect the drives on the clean install. Is there a method of importing/converting just the catalog over to 6.0 including the db's on the media servers that tells the system when to expire tapes. kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Minimum Specs
Does anyone know what Symantec's recommendation/suggested is for physical memory on a master server? kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Status 51
Has anyone ever had a status 51 before? Something about the database didn't respond in time. kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ejecting tapes
Is there any way to eject tapes w/ command line? I'm on 5.1mp6. Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] ejecting tapes
Thank you all for the responses. Good stuff. kww -Original Message- From: Austin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:11 AM To: Kenneth W Wilkinson Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ejecting tapes On 2/21/07, Kenneth W Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to eject tapes w/ command line? I'm on 5.1mp6. vmchange -multi_eject -w -res -rt robot-type -rn robot-number -rh master-hostname -ml mediaID:mediaID: ... :mediaID Austin ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Read Only GUI Access
Does anyone know a simple way to give someone read-access only to the NB GUI? I know how to restrict them to see the Activity Monitor. However, they can still cancel a job and I don't want that. Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Status 23 - Socket read fail
Does any one know what Error bpbrm could not write FILE ADDED message to stderr is? This doesn't happen on all backups. It happens on one particular exchange backup about every 3 or 4 days. The job fails with a 23 but this is what's in the details. Master is Solaris 8. NB5.1 MP3A Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
My 2 cents. I ran into this when I added my stkl700. My master server is Solaris 8. I was only getting a few mb on an lto3. I patched the OS and it resolved it. Again, my 2 cents. kww From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:10 PM To: WEAVER, Simon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape Just curious. Is the tape that's not full actually MARKED as full? Or is it just that NBU is choosing a second tape for other reasons (database backup, different retention, etc)? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape It could well be. My concern is that LTO2 should be at least 200GB and 400GB Compressed. so if you are getting nothing like that, its either the tape, drive, drive configuration issue perhaps. LTO3 offers 400GB / 800GB Compressed - LTO1 Is 100GB / 200GB compressed. Can you definetely confirm its an LTO2 tape (sorry if it sounds silly to ask, but it seems to be alot of wasted space if its LTO2). Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2007 15:46 To: WEAVER, Simon Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape Windows fileshare data. Word, excel, Visio, text and image file formats. I'm currently writing to a different tape using the same drive. Maybe the fujifilm tape is the problem. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2007 09:33 AM To '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape Karl What sort of Data was being written to the tape? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2007 15:01 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape I'm having a case of the Mondays. On Friday i upgraded to MP4 from 6.0MP3. The MP4 upgrade seems to have gone well. A backup this weekend only used 125GB of tape and then required a 2nd tape. I should get closer to 200GB of data on an LTO2 tape. The tape positioned itself to file 1. I'm wondering, why didn't more data get written to the LTO2 tape? Karl This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified.