Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools
Turn of true image restore, you may be amazed how much quicker the backup runs... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools Folks, Have you ever experienced a defrag utility resetting the archive bit? It appears that we may. We had a server last night backup about 95% of it's file store on it's internal disk (defragged by diskkeeper) while a SAN drive backed up about 5% (not managed by diskkeeper). This was all on a Differentil-Incermental schedule. The client is set to use the archive bit for differentials, so we're wondering if diskkeeper may have reset the archive bit, or actually set it on numerous files, on defrag. Also, the defrag would have ran in-between backups. Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[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] netbackup DB inconsistency ?
Title: netbackup DB inconsistency ? I have a script that reports on media inconsistencies, I know it works under 4.5 and 5.1, not sure about 6.0 because we arent there yet From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wessam Aly Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:17 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ? Hey all, I have a mind boggling problem, I have a bunch of media which is the following: - when reports run on the pool, it is reported as protected for 1 year - when i run bpexpdate on any media to expire it immediately, my system reports that the media does not exist - when i run media contents report of any of those media, i get a bunch of backup IDs which do not show up in the client backups report - when i run bpexpdate on the backup IDs themselves, i also get that no backup ID exists with the ID i listed - when i try to erase the media, NB says its assigned and cannot be erased What i am trying to do is delete these media and redefine them (as if completely new) without changing their barcode IDs. Any help will be greatly appreciated. NB: Is there a utility or something which will fix inconsistencies inside the database ? maybe and export/import thing which will automatically do a cleanup of old/invalid/inconsistent entries ? Regards, Wessam Aly Senior Systems Adminstrator *** IMPORTANT Confidentiality: This e-mail communication and any attachments thereto contain information which is confidential and are intended only for the use of the individuals or entities named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking any action in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. Please notify us of your receipt of this e-mail in error and delete the e-mail and any copies of it. Monitoring/Viruses: Mobinil may monitor all incoming outgoing e-mails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any Virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) www.mobinil.com *** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ?
Title: netbackup DB inconsistency ? Ha, thats pretty good. See about 2 years ago, I opened a case with NetBackup because we were having a lot of weird issues, and the support guy said I bet you have database inconsistencies as a result of things like media servers being decommissioned improperly, etc So he ran a consistency checker and sent me the output, and I said, great, please send me the consistency checker as I would like to run it from time to time. He said, nope, its not out for public release, so I said, fine, Ill write my own. When I was done, I called them back, asked them to run it and send me output, which they did, then I ran mine, and the same tapes were listed exactly. The output is slightly different, from a look and feel Anywho, use whichever you want. I named mine nbcc.pl for netbackup consistency checker.. I think mine runs pretty quick, we have over 8000 media and it runs in about 60 90 seconds. You should run it when there is zero or little activity on the backup system, and you can catch it when its doing cleanups, so I always run mine a couple of hours apart to verify if everything is good. But it helps, sometimes I find media that is assigned in volume and media database but not in images, and verify with bpimmedia, so you can vmquery deassignbyid and bpexpdate those tapes From: Major, Rusty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:51 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; Wessam Aly; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ? You need to use the Netbackup Catalog Consistency Utility (NBCC), found here. It will run against all the databases and create reports. It doesn't fix anything itself, but with this info and a case with Veritas, you can get it fixed. Note, this only works on 4.5 - 5.1 environments. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/267965.htm I'm actually just about to start the utility on one of my environments myself. -Rusty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:43 AM To: Wessam Aly; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ? I have a script that reports on media inconsistencies, I know it works under 4.5 and 5.1, not sure about 6.0 because we arent there yet From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wessam Aly Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:17 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ? Hey all, I have a mind boggling problem, I have a bunch of media which is the following: - when reports run on the pool, it is reported as protected for 1 year - when i run bpexpdate on any media to expire it immediately, my system reports that the media does not exist - when i run media contents report of any of those media, i get a bunch of backup IDs which do not show up in the client backups report - when i run bpexpdate on the backup IDs themselves, i also get that no backup ID exists with the ID i listed - when i try to erase the media, NB says its assigned and cannot be erased What i am trying to do is delete these media and redefine them (as if completely new) without changing their barcode IDs. Any help will be greatly appreciated. NB: Is there a utility or something which will fix inconsistencies inside the database ? maybe and export/import thing which will automatically do a cleanup of old/invalid/inconsistent entries ? Regards, Wessam Aly Senior Systems Adminstrator *** IMPORTANT Confidentiality: This e-mail communication and any attachments thereto contain information which is confidential and are intended only for the use of the individuals or entities named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking any action in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. Please notify us of your receipt of this e-mail in error and delete the e-mail and any copies of it. Monitoring/Viruses: Mobinil may monitor all incoming outgoing e-mails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any Virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) www.mobinil.com *** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me... This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries. It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it. I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine. When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it tries to load. If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more and more tapes. The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is unmountable and cannot be used for backups. Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set. Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed attributes. I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help. Any ideas? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
Configured the same, different then the other type of LTO media and drives in the library... -Original Message- From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:01 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Are then LTO2 tapes and drives configured as the same type, ie. HCART2, and different than the type of the LTO cartridges and drives? Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: August 22, 2006 9:39 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me... This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries. It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it. I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine. When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it tries to load. If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more and more tapes. The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is unmountable and cannot be used for backups. Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set. Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed attributes. I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help. Any ideas? Thanks, Taylor ___ 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] Help, media issues
Greg, Yes I inventoried the robot. In fact, I even deleted the media and the re-inventoried the robot to make sure barcode rules were working correctly, which they were... The LTO2 Media all show Active or Available, and are in the correct volume pool and volume group... -Original Message- From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:20 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues This might sound dumb, but after you moved the library did you run a inventory from netbackup? I have seen this error before when netbackup thinks a slot has one type of media and it find another. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:39 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me... This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries. It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it. I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine. When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it tries to load. If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more and more tapes. The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is unmountable and cannot be used for backups. Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set. Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed attributes. I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help. Any ideas? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
Shared storage option. We have several media servers, but we just zone all drives to all media servers (except for SAN media servers that back only themselves up) so it becomes a whatever is available type of situation. We have several hundred to a few thousand clients so we want to make sure something is always available, so we limit the amount of drives that can be going at one time on a give media server... -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:25 AM To: Lewick, Taylor Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Also, separate question, why would you ever put 30 drives on a server? I guess if a lot of them are slow that might work, but most servers cannot handle more than 2-4 LTO2 drives and definitely not more than 4 LTO3 drives unless you have at least a DL585 + 10GBIT, even then with 4 drives you'll nearly max out the 10GBps card if you could push that much. On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Lewick, Taylor wrote: LTO2s are shared storage, configured as HCART2 LTO1s are shared storage, configured as HCART1 I have looked at drives over and over again, everything looks okay to me... Here is some tpconfig -d on one host that can see DLT, LTO2 and LTO3 (haven't set LTO1 on this host yet...) DLT and LTO3 work great, they are in separate library. TLD(1) robot/library is DLT and LTO3, TLD(2) is LTO1 and LTO2... 18 tld1-lto3-9/dev/rmt/c76t3d0BESTnb hcart3 Yes UP TLD(1) Definition DRIVE=9 19 tld1-lto3-10 /dev/rmt/c75t3d0BESTnb hcart3 Yes UP TLD(1) Definition DRIVE=10 20 tld2-lto2-3/dev/rmt/c81t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes DOWN TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=3 21 tld2-lto2-4/dev/rmt/c88t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes DOWN TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=4 22 tld2-lto2-5/dev/rmt/c91t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=5 23 tld2-lto2-6/dev/rmt/c82t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=6 24 tld2-lto2-7/dev/rmt/c83t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=7 25 tld2-lto2-8/dev/rmt/c85t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=8 26 tld2-lto2-9/dev/rmt/c90t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=9 27 tld2-lto2-10 /dev/rmt/c87t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=10 28 tld2-lto2-11 /dev/rmt/c89t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=11 29 tld2-lto2-12 /dev/rmt/c93t3d1BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=12 30 tld2-lto2-13 /dev/rmt/c95t3d1BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=13 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:13 AM To: Lewick, Taylor Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Yeah that is exactly what I was going to ask, how are the drives configured? Justin. On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Lewick, Taylor wrote: Configured the same, different then the other type of LTO media and drives in the library... -Original Message- From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:01 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Are then LTO2 tapes and drives configured as the same type, ie. HCART2, and different than the type of the LTO cartridges and drives? Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: August 22, 2006 9:39 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me... This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries. It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it. I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine. When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it tries to load. If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more and more tapes. The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is unmountable and cannot be used for backups. Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set. Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed attributes. I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help. Any ideas? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo
Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
LTO2s are shared storage, configured as HCART2 LTO1s are shared storage, configured as HCART1 I have looked at drives over and over again, everything looks okay to me... Here is some tpconfig -d on one host that can see DLT, LTO2 and LTO3 (haven't set LTO1 on this host yet...) DLT and LTO3 work great, they are in separate library. TLD(1) robot/library is DLT and LTO3, TLD(2) is LTO1 and LTO2... 18 tld1-lto3-9/dev/rmt/c76t3d0BESTnb hcart3 Yes UP TLD(1) Definition DRIVE=9 19 tld1-lto3-10 /dev/rmt/c75t3d0BESTnb hcart3 Yes UP TLD(1) Definition DRIVE=10 20 tld2-lto2-3/dev/rmt/c81t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes DOWN TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=3 21 tld2-lto2-4/dev/rmt/c88t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes DOWN TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=4 22 tld2-lto2-5/dev/rmt/c91t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=5 23 tld2-lto2-6/dev/rmt/c82t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=6 24 tld2-lto2-7/dev/rmt/c83t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=7 25 tld2-lto2-8/dev/rmt/c85t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=8 26 tld2-lto2-9/dev/rmt/c90t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=9 27 tld2-lto2-10 /dev/rmt/c87t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=10 28 tld2-lto2-11 /dev/rmt/c89t3d0BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=11 29 tld2-lto2-12 /dev/rmt/c93t3d1BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=12 30 tld2-lto2-13 /dev/rmt/c95t3d1BESTnb hcart2 Yes UP TLD(2) Definition DRIVE=13 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:13 AM To: Lewick, Taylor Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Yeah that is exactly what I was going to ask, how are the drives configured? Justin. On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Lewick, Taylor wrote: Configured the same, different then the other type of LTO media and drives in the library... -Original Message- From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:01 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Are then LTO2 tapes and drives configured as the same type, ie. HCART2, and different than the type of the LTO cartridges and drives? Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: August 22, 2006 9:39 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me... This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries. It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it. I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine. When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it tries to load. If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more and more tapes. The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is unmountable and cannot be used for backups. Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set. Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed attributes. I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help. Any ideas? Thanks, Taylor ___ 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] LTO Gen3 read LTO Gen2 tapes
I have been told repeatedly that Ultrium LTO3 drives can read LTO2 tapes for restores. Today we actually have a reason to try this. Out LTO3 drives are in one tape library, the LTO2s at another at a different location. We need to do the restore where the LTO3 drives are located. We configured the the drives using shared storage option, and the LTO3s are configure to use media of HCART3, and the LTO2s are configured to use media of HCART2. We loaded the tapes in and tried the restore, but it is failing with requested number of drives are not available. Do we need to temporarily change one of the LTO3 drives to be of type HCART2? We are thinking that's all we need to do. Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backup Window graphing script
A while back someone on the list said they were manually pulling data to assemble a backup window grapher I have a script almost ready using perl and ploticus that should do this. I know it works for 4.5 and 5.1, I am curious if it will work under 6.x Can someone who is has a 6.x master on a Unix server run bppllist policy-name (policy-name is the name of one of your policies) and send me the output. I want to see if it is the same output as the 5.x command. If you can, run it for a policy that has two or three schedules. Here is the ouput I am looking for CLASS Unix-Maple *NULL* 0 50 0 *NULL* NAMES INFO 0 0 0 99 *NULL* 0 0 2147483647 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 *NULL* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 KEY *NULL* BCMD *NULL* RCMD *NULL* RES fa-ned-lto1 *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* POOL Unix NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup NetBackup FOE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CLIENT maple-bkup HP9000-800 HP-UX11.11 0 0 0 0 *NULL* INCLUDE NEW_STREAM INCLUDE / INCLUDE /stand INCLUDE /var INCLUDE /usr INCLUDE /tmp INCLUDE /opt INCLUDE /home SCHED Full 0 1 345600 3 0 0 0 *NULL* 0 0 0 0 0 0 SCHEDWIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72000 205200 0 0 SCHEDRES *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* SCHEDPOOL *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* SCHEDRL 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 SCHEDFOE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SCHED Incremental 4 1 86400 3 0 0 0 *NULL* 0 0 0 0 0 0 SCHEDWIN 72000 18000 72000 18000 72000 18000 72000 18000 72000 18000 0 0 72000 18000 SCHEDRES *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* SCHEDPOOL *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* SCHEDRL 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 SCHEDFOE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 1 Master server, 2 libraries, 2 robotic control hosts equals problems
We are currently operating out of two separate data centers. So we have one master server, called master which is a robotic control host for the library at Data center 1. Then at data center 2, I have another media server there, we'll call is media1, that is also a robotic control host. Everything is working well, backups are running, etc, no global device conflicts, etc. However, when the operators use vltopmenu (on the master server, vault is only installed on the master server) to try and do the ejects for the library at data center 2, we have problems. The ejects never happen and the session never comes back to them. I noticed the vault jobs for the library at the second data center were failing. So I typed vltadm and checked and sure enough the robotic control host for the library is listed as master, and not media1. I changed this, saved it, even checked in vault.xml to make sure the change took, re-ran the vault job and bingo, vault runs perfectly. A couple of hours later, checking with vltadm and now the robotic control host for the library at data center 2 is back to master. Its getting changed somehow. Does anyone know what I need to do to make sure this change is permanent? Tpconfig -d on the master and media server show robotic control host is media server for the 2nd library... Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] policies not running
Title: Message In NetBackup 5.1 MP 4, we are experiencing a recent issue where some policies are not starting. Schedules are set well, policies are active, clients are correct, these jobs dont error, they just never start. Anyone else seeing this, and any idea what to check for? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NB 5.1 Non java windows gui client
Does anyone here know if there is a non-java windows gui client available? I would be thinking that is much easier/more reliable then the Java GUI. Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Change retention on image and media, or just image
I have some backups that need to be retained for longer then the standard 4 week retention. I only want to affect the images for 1 client. if I use bpexpdate and tell it to change the retention on the media id it changes the retention of every image on that media. That normally isnt a problem, but it changes the retention of any tapes that were multiplexed with this tape correct? So my question is, if I use bpexpdate and change just the retention level of an image, say from 4 weeks to 10 weeks, what happens to the media that the image is on in 4 weeks? When it gets brought back will NetBackup just overwrite that image? Thanks, Taylor "This email (including any attachments) is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, use, disclose, distribute or rely on the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and delete the email from your system. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this communication are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. Lend Lease does not guarantee that this email or the attachment(s) are unaffected by computer virus, corruption or other defects. Lend Lease may monitor incoming and outgoing emails for compliance with its Email Policy. Please note that our servers may not be located in your country."
[Veritas-bu] tpautoconf, vmglob, tpconfig
Is there one really good source of documentation of when you should use tpconfig, tpautoconf, and vmglob for actions like upgrading or changing the robotic controller... If you just do an update using tpconfig, does that also update the global device database, or does that happen by stopping and starting netbackup? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Super DLT drive question
Anyone know, can all SuperDLT drives read/restore from DLT 7000 and DLT 8000 media? Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Compressed and uncompressed data
In 5.1 what report/command will show the compressed size on tape versus the actual uncompressed data size that was backed up? Thanks,
[Veritas-bu] bpcoverage is core dumping
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned/discovered this, but on my master server, an HP-UX 11.11 (not itanium) server, running NB5.1 MP 4, bpcoverage -c client-name is core dumping but only on certain clients. And the clients that are failing don't have anything in common. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] bpcoverage is core dumping
Thanks, just got off the phone, known issue, didn't really want to send me the binary for MP3 bpcoverage in case it broke something else, but I said I would assume responsibility for it -Original Message- From: James Pattinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:08 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpcoverage is core dumping Lewick, Taylor wrote: Not sure if anyone else has mentioned/discovered this, but on my master server, an HP-UX 11.11 (not itanium) server, running NB5.1 MP 4, bpcoverage -c client-name is core dumping but only on certain clients. And the clients that are failing don't have anything in common. Known issue, will be fixed in MP5. I have had an answer from Veritas saying that the MP3 binary works with no issues on MP4. Cheers James -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Flash Backup on Unix Client, multiple data streams, how to do in 5.1?
Hi all, recently upgraded to NB 5.12 MP4 from 4.5 FP6 I have a few flash backup clients, and according to the documentation in 5.1, the only way I can figure out how to set up a flash policy on a unix client that uses multiple data streams, i.e. backing up multiple raw partitions and sending them to multiple tape devices is under the section Configuring FlashBackup in the Earlier Manner (UNIX only). This is fine, it works, but it says in the documentation, this is only being supported for backwards compatibility and will go away in the future. So is anyone out there backing up a unix client via FlashBackup with a 5.1 advanced client and using multiple data streams? How did you get this to work? Is there a way to specify multiple cache devices? In the 5.1 documentation under the new method I read that you only can define one cache device. Again, I dont have a problem using the older version, its just the documentation makes it sound as if this is not preferred, but it does a poor job of specifying how to handle multiple data streams Thanks, Taylor
[Veritas-bu] Advanced Reporter 5.1 on HP-UX Master not working
Hey all, anyone running Advanced Reporter on NetBackup 5.1 on an HP-UX Master server? I can get to the first page, so I know the nbar webserver/tomcat is working, but it is trying to redirect me to /nbar/nbarc which I can't find anywhere. Before I start messing with the tomcat config files I wanted to see if anyone else has the easy fix... Thanks, Taylor ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Huge incrementals, with little data change
Title: Message I tried using time stamp. Didnt work, the only solution is to turn of TIR, which if you do a weekly full then TIR doesnt really get you that much in my opinion. TIR is helpful if you did a full once a month, then if you had to do a massive restore you wouldnt want it restoring all the files that users have since deleted but were backed up. But how much data change is present once a week? Depends on the footprint of the data of course, but for ours it was file shares and users werent deleting much, its the other way around, they are pack rats and store everything. -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:31 AM To: Lewick, Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Huge incrementals, with little data change IHAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! NBU 5.x streamed to do a Incr and no TIR is set in the policy, yet today, still doing a full - which I now cancelled! I am going to try doing backups using TIME STAMP tonight!! Cannot afford to go through this amount of tapes! No other client is affected! Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lewick, Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2005 18:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Huge incrementals, with little data change This seems to be happening to quite a few people, its happening to me in a similar environment on our file server. Try turning off True Image Restore... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:44 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Huge incrementals, with little data change All, Here is the situation, I have a server that has about 250Gb of used space, and the incrementals are backing up over 215 GB every night, this is a remote office and there is not that much activity on the client to warrant the incrementals backing up that much data every day. The NBU Environment is: Win2k3 Master/Media NBU 4.5 FP7 Client is a Windows 2k3 NBU 4.5 FP6 I am having a very difficult time trying to figure out why all this data is being backed up every night. Thanks, Steve Bally Systems Engineer RadiSys Corporation www.radisys.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 503-615-1207 Cell: 503-970-6201 This electronic message (Email) contains information which may be confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be used solely by the named recipient(s). If you are not a named recipient, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this transmission or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this transmission (Email) in error, please notify me immediately. 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
[Veritas-bu] Script or command to check for tapes that should be offsite
Does someone have a script or an easy way to check for tapes that should be offsite. I.e, a 3 year backup that was ran, sent offsite, requested back for a restore, and then we forgot to send it back offsite so its stuck in the library? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deiter Scott Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Pending request for Tape Here is the script we use. Of course there are three running. One for each site where the operators are located near the media servers. We have cron run this every 20 minutes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vikash Gupta Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:13 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Pending request for Tape Hi, I need some sort of notification email from NetBackup server side when there is a pending request for Tape. This is required because while doing the restore NetBackup gives huge list of tapes and I know it's bogus list. This email will help usthe NetBackup admins to quickly looks for the tapes and deposit them. How can I do the above activity ? Thanks Regards Vikash Gupta
