Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15143 Check this link. -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:51 PM To: King, Cheryl; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable? Cherly thought 5.1 was supported til October 2008 ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of King, Cheryl Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:15 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable? I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for opinions on that version. Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media. ___ 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. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
Lol. Thanks for the feedback and for getting the bugs out for us, over the years. From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:45 AM To: King, Cheryl Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, King, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for opinions on that version. Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media. Hi Cheryl, We've been at 6.5.1 since shortly after it came out - we upgraded from 6.0MP5. Overall, 6.5.1 is fairly stable most of the time. We are experiencing some critical issues and we have open tickets with Symantec on this. We've had a few cases where it just tips over and we've lost a few days of backups as a result. We have a Solaris master/media, 2 Solaris media, plus a bunch of Windows media servers (some remote doing disk only and 1 local in an SSO environment). We've had some critical issues with pretty much every release so we're sadly getting used to this state of affairs. NetBackup has never had a release (for us) that we can just install and it all just works. On the other hand, we've got a small remote site with a Linux master/media and a couple of tape drives and it hasn't caused us any grief at all since it was upgraded about 6 weeks ago. That site just chugs along... I don't think our issues should prevent you from going forward but of course you do need to be careful. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for opinions on that version. Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server Issue
I think I had a similar issue at one time and found that one of the media servers didn't have the correct entry in 'Maximum multiplexing per drive'. We had 8 drives and it was set for 4. This media server was becoming the SCAN_HOST (vmdareq -a) on some drives from time to time and caused some drives to not be used. The way I fixed it was to set the 'Maximum multiplexing per drive' to the total # of drives on that media server. On the master server in /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf set SSO_SCAN_ABILITY = 9, and on the media server set SSO_SCAN_ABILITY = 0, to prevent the media servers from becoming the SCAN_HOST. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:40 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server Issue Thanks Simon What was the issue you where experiencing? , what I find bizarre is that this is even occurring whilst netbackup is down on this media server ? Dave From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2007 11:31 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Server Issue Dave Well I had a similar issue to this, and my only resolution was to stop all Netbackup Services, power down the robot, then from Windows Device Manager ensure the drives are robot were removed from each media server. Then power the robot back online, then from each media server, run the device manager to ensure it could see the drives and robot. Finally, start the master server services, and then one media server at a time. I am in a Windows environment, and it seemed to sort out the issue. 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] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:15 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Server Issue Hi All We have a unusual situation going which maybe some of you have come across? Environment - all 5.1 MP5 Mater - Solaris 8 Media Servers - winodws2000/2003 On Friday we started to experience numerous Status 52: timed out waiting for media manager to mount volume. After a nightmare of a weekend we are still having issues. The following is what I have found. We have a particular media server that seems to be causing the issue for reasons unknown. From testing when this media is up and Netbackup is up or down and I initiate a restore on another media server, the job starts and I can see the mount request in the ACSLS log, however the job will staying in a mounting state. If I then reboot the problem media server( I think) and keep a constant ping on the server, as soon as I lose ip connectivity the job on the other media server will immediately issue the SCSI reserve on the drive and the restore will complete. For some reason this media server seems to causing mount requests to complete throughout the environment just by being powered on as I have tested with netbackup DOWN. All our media servers are SAN connected and are sharing 14 stk 9940B drives, I have rebuilt the SSO environment and we have no discrepancies in the global device DB. It just seems that when this problem media server is powered on it is causing issues. Anyone have any ideas ? Thanks Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
[Veritas-bu] error messages: hcb_mark_image_invalid Error 0 General cannot write new image rec: an invalid entry was encountered (223) bpdbm
Has anyone seen this message and fixed the problem? I have two master servers on Solaris 8, NBU v5.1 MP5 and one has some additional media servers, the other is standalone master/media. This message occurs on both masters. I have a case open and have done what they suggested to fix catalog inconsistencies. Just thought I'd check to see if anyone else has seen this. Thanks, Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com file:///\\www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)
LOL. You mean I avoided the pain all this time and still have to do go through it:) I purposely didn't go to 6.0 after reading everyone's posts. Then when it was stable I didn't have time. I don't like to be too far behind though and plan to make time for an upgrade some time this year. Thanks for the advice. -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:29 PM To: King, Cheryl Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) We're on Solaris v5.1 MP5. Will we need to upgrade to 6.0 before going to 6.5? Anyone know? You probably want to even if you don't need to. The major changes were in 6.0 and you have to experience the pain anyway - there's no way around that. If your environment isn't ready for the 6.0 upgrade, it won't be ready for 6.5 either. Make sure you follow all of the 6.0 upgrade prep steps first. Then I'd probably recommend an upgrade to 6.0 even if it's just a passing through upgrade until you install 6.5. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821118 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)
Hey, it looks like the 6.5 version has a new SAN client and some other disk related options. We'll have to look into that. We should install 6.0 to make sure we get everything implemented correctly, then go to 6.5. That's what the more knowledgeable users are saying. We don't want to stay on 6.0 because it's not stable but we need to go through the upgrade steps of 6.0. So it will be like putting 6.0 and then 6.5 for maintenance. Although 6.5 was announced it's not GA yet. We may even do 6.0 and MP4 (which is stable), then wait for 6.5 until 1st quarter 2008. We'll have to see what the early adopters have to say about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:27 PM To: 'Justin Piszcz' Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) Hopefully 6.5 won't be a nightmare like 6.0? (until 6.0MP4 anyway) 6.0 had major core modifications. 6.5 isn't really that major - its focus has been on disk functionality with the SAN client, Flexible Disk Option, etc. Nothing like EMM and scheduler changes that happened in 6.0 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821118 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)
We're on Solaris v5.1 MP5. Will we need to upgrade to 6.0 before going to 6.5? Anyone know? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rcarlisle Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:37 AM To: 'Justin Piszcz'; 'Ed Wilts' Cc: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) 6.0 Was a MAJOR rewrite of code that was long overdue. I think issues were to be expected. 6.5 is a regular enhancement release so I don't expect you will see the same challenges as going to 6.0. I think part of the delay in releasing the code was to make sure it was as stable as it could possibly be going out the door. If you are moving from 5.X to 6.5, there is still all the same pre-work that needs to be done to make sure the upgrade is successful however. Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:10 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) Hopefully 6.5 won't be a nightmare like 6.0? (until 6.0MP4 anyway) On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ed Wilts wrote: There have been lots of articles covering the announcement but 6.5 is not yet shipping. You won't get any thoughts on how well it works until this fall (rumors have it that 6.5 will ship in August). There are certainly some nice features in 6.5. One of the articles I read says that the BMR functionality is now included for free in 6.5 - it was separately licensed in 6.0. The integration with VMware 3.0 is really cool stuff. http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=126335 ./Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821118 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:25 AM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Any takers yet? http://esj.com/product_news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1228 Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts sounds promising! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)
Why do you say v5.1 MP6 first? Sorry I've been away from the list for a long time. I know I'm out of touch but glad to be back. You guys rock! -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:31 AM To: King, Cheryl Cc: rcarlisle; Ed Wilts; WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) That is a good question. BTW I'd suggest to upgrade to 5.1MP6 before goign to 6.5, at least this is best practice. On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, King, Cheryl wrote: We're on Solaris v5.1 MP5. Will we need to upgrade to 6.0 before going to 6.5? Anyone know? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rcarlisle Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:37 AM To: 'Justin Piszcz'; 'Ed Wilts' Cc: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) 6.0 Was a MAJOR rewrite of code that was long overdue. I think issues were to be expected. 6.5 is a regular enhancement release so I don't expect you will see the same challenges as going to 6.0. I think part of the delay in releasing the code was to make sure it was as stable as it could possibly be going out the door. If you are moving from 5.X to 6.5, there is still all the same pre-work that needs to be done to make sure the upgrade is successful however. Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:10 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?) Hopefully 6.5 won't be a nightmare like 6.0? (until 6.0MP4 anyway) On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ed Wilts wrote: There have been lots of articles covering the announcement but 6.5 is not yet shipping. You won't get any thoughts on how well it works until this fall (rumors have it that 6.5 will ship in August). There are certainly some nice features in 6.5. One of the articles I read says that the BMR functionality is now included for free in 6.5 - it was separately licensed in 6.0. The integration with VMware 3.0 is really cool stuff. http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=126335 ./Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821118 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:25 AM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Any takers yet? http://esj.com/product_news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1228 Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts sounds promising! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] I need MP5 for the Oracle agent
Is there anyway to download V5.1 MP5 for the Oracle agent? When I select it, it says it's been updated and leads to the MP6 download. I'm still at MP5 for everything else and don't have time to upgrade right now. ORA 5.1GA Pack NB_ORA_51_5_Mis what I want Solaris v5.1 MP5 Master Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com file:///\\www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] FalconStor vs. Data Domain
We are going to add a Disk backup solution to our environment. We narrowed it down to FalconStor VTL and Data Domain. We've got the cost down on both to be equal, except that with FalconStor we'll need some additional Veritas Drive licenses depending on how many virtual drives we define. We're leaning toward FalconStor because it's easier to scale and there's no proprietary hardware. Data Domain we'd have to keep adding another DD device to upgrade. I looked through the archives of this Email list and didn't find any negative press on FalconStor. Are there any FalconStor VTL users that have had a bad experience? Anyone want to share a good experience with them? We're down to the wire and can't look at any other solutions so it's just between these two. Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com file:///\\www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor vs. Data Domain
Thanks for the information. We are trying to verify the de-dupe availability with FalconStor. I'll let you know where we end up. From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 4:26 PM To: King, Cheryl; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor vs. Data Domain Cheryl, Although I'm curious as to how you narrowed the list down to these two vendors, I'll answer the question on your terms. Perhaps you were too small for the likes of Copan (right there in Longmont with you) and SEPATON. I'm eagerly awaiting the GA release of the de-dupe versions of SEPATON and Falconstor. They'll probably outperform Data Domain on the high end, but not everybody needs that. In addition, Data Domain's got them beat by about three years and several hundred happy customers. There's something to be said for a big installed base. If the Falconstor unit gives you something you can't get from DD, then go for it. It's all about meeting your requirements. Just realize that, although they've got a long list of happy VTL customers (especially if you include all the EMC, IBM, and Sun deals), you'll be an early adopter of their de-dupe product. BTW, you don't need to buy more drive licenses for you VTL. You need to buy a VTL license, which is priced per GB. If you use DD to make a DSU, right now you don't pay per GB. That will come in NBU 6.5, though. --- 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 King, Cheryl Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:40 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor vs. Data Domain We are going to add a Disk backup solution to our environment. We narrowed it down to FalconStor VTL and Data Domain. We've got the cost down on both to be equal, except that with FalconStor we'll need some additional Veritas Drive licenses depending on how many virtual drives we define. We're leaning toward FalconStor because it's easier to scale and there's no proprietary hardware. Data Domain we'd have to keep adding another DD device to upgrade. I looked through the archives of this Email list and didn't find any negative press on FalconStor. Are there any FalconStor VTL users that have had a bad experience? Anyone want to share a good experience with them? We're down to the wire and can't look at any other solutions so it's just between these two. Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com file:///\\www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Have to get rid of STK L180
Title: Have to get rid of STK L180 Im wondering what people do with their old hardware. We have an L180 (in Denver with 8 SDLT drives) and L80 (in Miami with 2 SDLT drives). We need to keep one of them to process old tapes but need to get rid of one due to space constraints. My first question - Is anyone interested in buying one of these? Second question How do other companies get rid of their old backup equipment? I have someone that will take the L80 but then I found out it still has value on the books. Just thought Id check to see if there was any interest in purchasing one of these. FYI - SUN/StorageTek has quoted us $4K+ to pack/ship/certify the L80, to get it to Denver. Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] determining size of last full backup of each policy
I use bpimagelist and change the parms depending on what I need. You
can do it by type, full incremental, policy etc. Change the dates and
times for your window of course.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -l -st FULL -d 1l/25/05
21:00:00 -e 11/28/05 08:00:00 | grep IMAGE | awk '{ tot+=$19} END {
printf Backed up %9.0f KiloBytes in the last FULL backup\n,tot }'
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven
L. Sesar
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:02 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] determining size of last full backup of each
policy
I'm going through a sizing exercise right now and need to determine how
much data each full backup represents. Before re-inventing the wheel,
does anyone have any quick and dirty ways of accomplishing this?
Thanks,
Steve
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Re: [Veritas-bu] [vmd] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58)
In Solaris 9 TCP wrappers are enabled by default. If /etc/default/inetd contains the following line: ENABLE_TCPWRAPPERS=YES Entries have to be added to /etc/hosts.allow as follows: bpcd: master server IP vnetd: master server IP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Alex Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:59 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] [vmd] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58) Howdy all, OS: Solaris 9. SAN Media Server. When I exec() the /etc/init.d/netbackup script I am seeing the following errors via syslog. Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 625030 daemon.error] unable to obtain bound socket, no port number available for vmd (0) Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 423164 daemon.error] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58) Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 715111 daemon.error] volume daemon terminating because it received a signal (15) Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 164182 daemon.error] terminating - daemon terminated (7) I cannot connect to port 13782 :( There is a technote on seer.veritas about this error and it basically says that there this error will occur if the necessary services are not listed in /etc/services. I have checked and all required services are listed in /etc/services. Essentially the problem is, is that vmd will not exec(), because it cannot bind to its socket/port (13701). I have even truss(1)'d the execuction of vmd. And no there are no other processes bound to port 13701. Can anyone recommend why vmd would be unable to bind to its port ? Cheers -aW ___ 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] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.
Title: Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused. I usually rely on this list to identifying issues with new versions and maintenance before I install them myself, but Im confused. Is there a problem with MP2 or are the people having problems with MP2 not implementing properly? Thanks, Cheryl King System Administrator II AIS - OpenView System and Servers Certified Intrado Inc. 1601 Dry Creek Drive Longmont, CO 80503 direct: 720.864.5162 mobile: 720.840.4786 page: 303-207-4648 fax: 720.494.6600 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrado Inc. www.intrado.com ATTENTION: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Intrado Inc. immediately at 720.494.5800 and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing expire for backup
Title: Changing expire for backup bpexpdate: -recalculate [-backupid backup id] [-copy number] [-d mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS | 0 | infinity] [-client name] [-policy name] [-ret retention level] [-sched type] [-M master_server,...,master_server] legal values for sched: 0=full,1=differential incr,2=user,3=arch 4=cumulative incr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:57 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing expire for backup What is the best and easiest way to change a backup expire date? I am looking at the restore screen and a backup there and need to change the date that it expires. What is the best and easiest way to do that? I just can't seem to remember the syntax! Its Monday! Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal,professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for theaddressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the informationin this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2
RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 and MP1 + MP2
Just curious, how do you know MP1 is a pre-requisite to MP2. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kilpatrick, Mark Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:35 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 and MP1 + MP2 Is it necessary to install MP1 before installing MP2. The dependencies in the notes with MP2 do not mention that MP1 is required prior to install of MP2. Thanks, Mark ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify Sabeo Technologies. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. **
RE: [Veritas-bu] Maint. Packs
Always read the README file or release notes and it will list the pre-requisites. They are cumulative, but sometimes they might slip something else in there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin King Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:09 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Maint. Packs I assume I know the answer to this, but need to ask for confirmation. Are NBU Maintenance Packs cumulative? If I install NBU5.0 and then install MP6, I'm not missing anything by not installing MP[1-5], right? ___ 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] Restore from the Tape
Change the expiration on the tape, turn on write protect and import the tape. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos Britto Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:25 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore from the Tape All, I have some tapes thatI havedone a backup using Netbackup, that suppose to set to never expires and unfortunately they expired. Does anyone know how can I read and restore these tapes? I have tried to run the tar command but it didn't work. Thanks and Regards, Carlos Britto System Administrator Schlumberger Avenida Presidente Wilson, 231 13º andar Rio de Janeiro - Brasil ( Mobile 55 21 9603-2097 ( Office 55 21 3824-6955 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schlumberger Há 60 anos escrevendo Brasil com S 'CONFIDENTIAL PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION The information contained in this message is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. This message is intended for the individual or entity addressed herein. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication to others; also please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete it from your system. The sender totally disclaims, and will not accept, any responsibility or liability for the unauthorized use, or the consequence of any unauthorized use, of this communication or message.'
RE: [Veritas-bu] on the subject of disk based backups....
I think its more efficient and cost effective to consolidate as much as possible. Reasons for mulitiple volume pools: different retentions 1 group of servers has a separate pool for Full and incremental reason is, they require sending Full Backup tapes, occasionally, to our DR site to restore to servers there. They use those servers to test maintenance and so require them to be restored from the production server backups. We use bpduplicate to make a copy before sending them to DR site. When they were in the same pool I had trouble getting everything on the tape copied in a timely manner. Better option is to have enough tape drives to create 2 copies but we dontL. We use bpduplicate to copy almost everything. We keep a copy on site for a short period of time while sending a copy offsite everyday. Separate pools allows more than one dup job to run, from cron, after the backup window. Multiple media servers you might want to easily see which media belongs to which media server. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Rand Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] on the subject of disk based backups I'm curious: Why do people use different volume pools? We have one pool for Exchange backups, and three others to go with our Iron Mountain weekly rotations, but I'm not sure what that's buying us. For tracking Iron Mountain boxes, we use volume groups, so the three pools for that are redundant. It's nice to be able to easily break out the Exchange tapes, but there are other ways of getting that information. So I don't think the case for separate volume pools is all that compelling for us. How do other folks use them? other than being able to track easily how much On 3/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, from my experience what you say about DSSU is incorrect, a single DSSU cannot stage the data off to multiple tape tape pools - if you have a requirement to stage to different tape pools you need to have a at least one DSSU per tape pool, cheers Andy. Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/03/2006 13:05 To:veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc: Subject:[Veritas-bu] on the subject of disk based backups I'm also interested in thoughts regarding VTL vs DSSU. DSSU interests me mostly because I can write multiple jobs at once without any regard for tape pool, mpx or not, retention, etc. ...then it all gets sorted out to appropriate tapes during the destaging VTL still presents itself to NBU as a tape, so each virtual tape drive must be licensed with Veritas, in additional to the physical tape drives (unless the VTL is run inline, though there could be issues there regarding estimated compression, etc.) Just a couple things off the top of my head. Just wondering who is using DSSU, adn who is using VTL, adn why you made that choiceie.what were the key requirements for your environment that made one option better than the other. Paul -- Phil Rand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [Veritas-bu] Slot upgrade
I believe just inventory and NBU should find the slots. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pillapalem, Smitha Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:25 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Slot upgrade Hello, My environment consists of NB 5.1 running on HP-UX 11.11 U 9000/800 and Storage Tek L180 tape library. Right now the library has 140 slots and planning to upgrade it to 180 slots. I have scheduled a upgrade with our STK engineer tomorrow, was wondering if I need to do anything on the netbackup side once the library is reconfigured with the upgraded slots? Any help is appreciated.. Thanks in advance, Smitha ___ 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] bperror
Title: Message I didnt know if you found this link or not but its about troubleshooting status 84. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273908.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Snyder, Guy C. Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:08 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bperror The BPTM log shows the error and what tape drive the tape was mounted on. I think however, that the D:\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\media\errors file contains the exact information needed. Now we just need to figure out why there are so many media errors. Cleaning the drives helped some. Also I found out that some tapes with previous media errors were being reused. However, I still have too many errors (compared to other environments) occurring on 2 different drives. The BPTM log normally shows the following error: 12:08:05.241 [3728.3160] 2 write_data: write of 65536 bytes indicated only 0 bytes were written, err = 23 12:08:05.241 [3728.3160] 2 logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 172.17.235.145.2406 TO 172.17.235.139.13721 12:08:06.022 [3728.3160] 4 write_data: WriteFile failed with: Data error (cyclic redundancy check). (23); bytes written = 65536; size = 0 12:08:06.022 [3728.3160] 2 signal_parent: set bpbrm media ready event (pid = 2716) 12:08:06.022 [3728.3160] 2 write_data: attempting write error recovery, err = 23 12:08:06.022 [3728.3160] 2 tape_error_rec: error recovery to block 4228 requested 12:08:06.022 [3728.3160] 2 tape_error_rec: attempting error recovery, delay 3 minutes before next attempt, tries left = 5 12:09:45.459 [1920.2168] 2 bptm: INITIATING (VERBOSE = 0): -count -cmd -rt 8 -rn 0 -stunit DB02 -den 21 -mt 2 -masterversion 51 12:09:45.459 [1920.2168] 2 bptm: NUM UP 2 2 0 0 2 0 QUANTUMSuperDLT10 QUANTUMSuperDLT11 b-QUANTUMSuperDLT10 b-QUANTUMSuperDLT11 12:09:45.459 [1920.2168] 2 bptm: EXITING with status 0 -- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:41 AM To: Snyder, Guy C.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bperror What does the BPTM Logs show? Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Snyder, Guy C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2006 16:41 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bperror Does someone have a script or command line syntax for finding details on 84 errors (media error). We are having a problem and I want to list the tape # the error occurred with over the past 6 weeks and what drive it occurred on. Thanks This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Re-queuing jobs due to busy resources(134)
I get these all the time. However, when I first put in SSO, I had an unusually high # of them, like more than 50 every night. Im trying to remember what Veritas support had me do to get these down to a more reasonable # and I think it was adding SSO_SCAN_ABILITY = 9 to /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf on the master server. This will make the master server the SCAN host most of the time. SSO_SCAN_ABILITY may have from to 0 - 9. The larger the scan ability, the more likely the host will be to become the scan host. Setting it to zero means it will never become the SCAN_HOST. When a 134 occurs the jobs will re-que if the backup window is still open. The 134 happens when a job starts and all drives are already assigned. In my case, where all 4 media servers share all 8 tape drives, I could probably set the other media servers to 0 so they would never become the SCAN_HOST and Id eliminate the 134s. I might try that. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re-queuing jobs due to busy resources(134) Does anyone know which kernel sysctl or configuration option or netbackup? option is related to this error? Is it the number of maximum file descriptors or the fd limit? Anyone ever get these in the past and then fix the issue? Thanks, Justin.
RE: [Veritas-bu] Unable to SCSI unload drive
I get these a lot. One thing I found that caused it was, our Linux media server was set to only use 4 drives concurrently and all other media servers were set to 8 (total # of drives). One day something happened in the fiber network (I think) and the Linux Media server became the SCAN_HOST on all the drives (vmdareq -display). Four of the drives got the Unable to SCSI unload drive and went down. Sometimes its caused by a popped leader (SDLT tapes). If the tapes show they are loading and not loaded it might be a bad tape. If the tapes are loaded usually resetting the drive from the Windows admin console will unload the tape. It could also be a problem on the drive if it happens on the same drive a lot. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Esson Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:06 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Unable to SCSI unload drive Folks, Has anyone seen this message before? This is from a Red Hat 7.x Media Server with FC LTO-2 drives attached via Brocade 3800 switches and QLA2340 HBAs. Feb 23 00:26:04 abzlxre1 tldd[1282]: TLD(0) drive 15 (device 0) is being DOWNED, status: Unable to SCSI unload drive Feb 23 00:26:04 abzlxre1 tldd[1282]: Check integrity of the drive, drive path, and media The installation is a v5.1 MP3 set-up with a W2K3 Master Server and a number of W2K and W2K3 Media Servers. The Linux Media Server has exclusive use of two LTO drives but is running NBU v4.5. I cant find a decent hit on the Veritas site or generally and wondered if anyone on the list had been here before? Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct:+44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality.
RE: [Veritas-bu] Partially Successful System State backup
This sounds like an issue we had with 2 of our w2k systems. I think it occurred after some maintenance pack was installed. I was using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and a new drive showed up in the backups at the same time the system_state backup got status 1s. We checked the server and this new drive didnt exist. Somehow the regedit was messed up with some things pointing to the new drive and the rest pointing to the C:\ drive. If this is your problem, I can ask how the sys admins fixed this. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner, Mike Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:20 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Partially Successful System State backup I have NBU 5.1MP4 on Windows, this client is a W2k server and NBU master is W2k. I keep getting a status of 1 on the system state backup and the following is the error code. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate italso, if I ever have to restore this, will it work? 2/23/2006 6:10:54 PM - using NONE 2/23/2006 6:10:55 PM - begin writing 2/23/2006 6:10:55 PM - started process bpbrm (3496) 2/23/2006 6:10:55 PM - connecting 2/23/2006 6:10:56 PM - connected; connect time: 00:00:01 2/23/2006 6:11:05 PM - Warning bpbrm(pid=2588) from client rvapsydplus01.imb.bminet.org: WRN - cannot open old TIR info file 'C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\tir_info\System_State:\NetBackup_file_info.File_System_DS'. Backing up everything in 'System_State:' 2/23/2006 6:12:32 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=2588) from client rvapsydplus01.imb.bminet.org: ERR - fatal error during enumeration for: System_State:\Registry\ 2/23/2006 6:12:33 PM - end writing; write time: 00:01:38 the requested operation was partially successful(1) Thanks Mike
RE: [Veritas-bu] Scratch Pool Alert
Title: Message I use OpenView Operations agent to monitor the logs and alert the 24/7 operators to add SCRATCH tapes. There are several messages in bptm and bpsched when there are no scratch tapes left. Oh man, I feel your pain. Every quarter I order tapes and have to justify the order to the controllers of each business unit. I do a clientbackup report and pull it into Excel to do calculations per server, then per business unit to determine how many tapes each one should be charged for. I also periodically do a medialist and pull it into Excel to calculate average amount of data Im getting on a tape so I can use that in my calculations. The whole process sucks the life right out of me:^0 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:43 AM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Scratch Pool Alert Guys Daft question here, but I have a remote site that has a low supply of tapes and the scratch pool is empty Is there a way to set an alert if the tapes get low or down to Zero? I am also trying to justify to the business that the tapes are needed !! Any help or opinions on making a plea would also help Thanks Simon
RE: [Veritas-bu] Frozen / suspended tapes
Title: Frozen / suspended tapes This might help. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/249632.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:57 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Frozen / suspended tapes We are getting a fair amount of frozen and suspended tapes over the weekend. What are the causes for tapes getting into these states? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP1
[Veritas-bu] We want to backup an STK280 directly
Title: We want to backup an STK280 directly We have a STK280 that were backing up through the individual servers attached to it. Wed like to be able to backup directly from the SAN. Is there a way to do that with Veritas?
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
We just put in a W2K3 media server and a Dell T200 Autoloader with one tape drive in a remote site to backup 1 file server and an Exchange servers. We have a PC tech there to rotate tapes and send them offsite. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j. okabayashi Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:44 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites All, I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone is doing to back up anyremote sites they may have. I am running NBU 5.1 MP4 on W2K3 servers.I have a few sites with a single DC that is acting as file server, and print server. As of right now, these single servers are not getting backed up. Can NBU be used for this or should we look into something else? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason
RE: [Veritas-bu] How to backup open files using VSP
This is what I do: Host propertiesMaster Serverclient attributes. Select client then Windows Open File Backup tab. Set snapshot provider to User Veritas Volume Snapshot Provider. Set Snapshot error control to disable snapshot and continue. Host propertiesclientsclient nameWindows clientVSP: mark Customize cache sizes. Set Cache in MB and set initial to 200 and max to 3000. Set busy file timeout to 600 seconds. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Naidu V. T. Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:24 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to backup open files using VSP Hi All, We are getting partial backup (1) from one of our media server (Windows 2000). We want to backup this client using Open file using VSP as our client is windows 2000 and cannot implement microsoft VSS. Secondly is it important to specify cache size ? for example my drive size is 10 gb then how much size should I allocate for cache ? Can anybody give their experience and procedure used for this implementation. Regards V.T.Naidu IITC LLC Oman Muscat Sultanate of Oman.
RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
Title: Message Thats what OpenView Operations (OVO) does. You run an agent on the NetBackup system to monitor all the log files and the /var/adm/messages. You can monitor processes and lots of other things. You can also use the custom scripts you already have and just use opcmsg to send messages to the OpenView agent. There is also a Smart Plug in (SPI) for NetBackup Im not sure what that includes but I believe its free; downloadable from the HP OpenView website. You can add commands to the Application bank in OpenView to allow the NOC to do Veritas commands. And/Or you can add commands as automatic actions to certain messages like tape drive going DOWN. Brian, Do you use Message Keys? They can easily be used for message correlation at no extra cost, instead of ECS. ECS is only needed for complex correlation. Cheryl From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring We have open view now. But there is no way of tying in open view to netbackup to up drives or restart jobs is there? How can netbackup send data to open view for things such as what backups failed, drives or robots that are down etc. without having to have some script running on the master and sending trap to open view, right? Am I missing something? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:38 PM To: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring I primarily use HP OpenView for Operations (OVO). It would be nice to also get ECS (Event Correlation Services) with it, but that's an extra cost. We also use autosys to schedule the running of some scripts that will send information to syslog, which OVO will then detect, assess, and possibly notify. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:14 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring Solaris 9 nb5.1 mp4 Does anyone use external monitoring tools for netbackup? We have many custom scripts created to perform some monitoring tasks but I have been tasked with looking for something that can automate allot of the monitoring without having to write a customer script for everything. Management also wants our NOC people to take over some of the monitoring for us to allow us to get to the real work instead of worry about upping drives or restarting failed jobs. Any ideas? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal,professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for theaddressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the informationin this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify Northwestern Mutual immediately by returning it to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please be advised that communications received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center are secure. Communications that are not received via the Northwestern Mutual Secure Message Center may not be secure and could be observed by a third party. Thank you for your cooperation.
[Veritas-bu] Exchange license
Title: Exchange license Last week there was a discussion about licensing the Exchange client. One of the responses said something about running any number of exchange clients with one license. I ordered one license per client. Did I overpay?
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup Audit Controls
Title: Backup Audit Controls Change tickets for restores with verification from user that the files were correct. I just send Emails asking the user to verify and then copy from the Email to the ticket. Daily printouts of bperror U backstat by_statcode hoursago 24 /opt/bperror`date +%a`;cat /opt/bperror`date +%a` | mailx s NBU `hostname` 24 hr Rpt: Problems Report [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I check the backup issues I write comment on the printout and keep it in a book. Daily Emails to data owners of the status of their backups. Im using bppllist and bperror commands. This was put in very quickly and I havent gone back to make it really useful. I dont know what they do with these report. Probably stick them in the deleted items. Occasionally I get one Emailed to me asking why the status code 0. I just investigate and answer it. I have a Backup Management Guidelines ISO doc that talks about the backup infrastructure, tape maintenance, tape retentions, tape archival, backup schedules, backup verification process, and recovery process. It also has links to other ISO process docs. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yosifovski, Tammy Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:09 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Audit Controls Just curious on what audit controls people have in place for there backup environments. Trying to work on Sarbanes-Oxley. IE Sending tapes offsite. Successful backup completion and/or issue resolution. Adding/removing servers. Thanks!! Tammy - Thise-mailistheexclusive,privateandconfidentialpropertyofthesender.The informationcontainedinitisintendedsolelyfortheuseofthesenderandthe intendedrecipient.Ifyouarenottheintendedrecipientyouareherebyadvisedthat anyunauthorizeddisclosure,copying,distributionorthetakingofanyactionin relianceonthecontentsofthismessageisstrictlyprohibited.Ifyouhavereceived thise-mailinerror,pleasenotifyusimmediatelybytelephone(calltheUSF CorporationTechnicalSupportCenterat1-888-873-8721)andthendestroythis documentandanycopiesinanyformimmediately.Finally,therecipientshould checkthisemailandanyattachmentsforthepresenceofviruses.USFCorporation acceptsnoliabilityforanydamagecausedbyanyvirustransmittedbythisemail. -
