Re: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question
If you back up the data using separate policies then each policy can have a different retention level (0-24). These can all have a one month retention period within DataDomain but will also have different retention levels. You can then use the retention mappings within the vault to have a different retention period for each level. That way you only need to have one vault process. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JAJA (Jamie Jamison) Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 6:32 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question I'm currently backing all of my systems up to DataDomain restorers with a one month retention period for the copy on the restorer and then duplicating from the restorer, using NetBackup Vault, to tape with a six month retention and sending the tapes offsite to Iron Mountain. Recently we decided to change the retention level for certain data from six months to two months and I am trying to figure out how to make this work with vaulting. If I create multiple profiles within one vault, one with a six month retention and another with a two month retention I run into the problem of scheduling, I can't run more than one profile at a time. I could create a new vault, but then I'm wondering how the eject and catalog backup steps work. I only want to eject tapes once a week and run one catalog backup for off-siting. Any help that anyone can provide on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jamie Jamison ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancelling all backup jobs from the CLI ?
I am a gui man myself but bpdbjobs -cancel_all seems like a likely candidate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Alex Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 1:30 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cancelling all backup jobs from the CLI ? Can anyone save me some time and give me the magic command to do this ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000
I have only ever had a forced reboot twice during the client install and that was on servers running NT. The installation procedure for the maintenance pack does say you have to reboot to get the latest VSP functionality but the core client should still work ok without it. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2007 2:56 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000 Hey guys I have been advised in the past that when you install a 5.1 or 6.0 backup client to a Windows 2000 server, it will require a reboot after the install. I installed a 5.1 backup client to a Windows 2000 server a few days ago and added the server to a backup policy on the Master and ran it. The server backed up fine and I didn't need to reboot the Windows 2000 server. Is there anything I am missing here? Daniel ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP4 Bug
Hi Rob Thanks for that, the vault job did indeed return status 306. If the normal behaviour now is not to retry then I do prefer the bug! Depending on how you interpret them, the MP4 release notes kind of imply that they should retry now when they weren't before:- Etrack Incident = ET630777 Associated Primary Etracks = ET630772 Description: A change was made to the Policy Execution Manager to auto retry Vault jobs on Status codes EC_vc_EjectFailed (287), EC_vc_EjectPartialSuccess (288), and EC_vc_PartialSuccess (306). If one image failed to duplicate, Vault would return a status 306. Also changed the parent job (nbgenjob) to validate the image for a Vault job that returned an error status 306, 287, or 288. I am confused! -Original Message- From: Rob Worman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 1:02 pm To: Mansell, Richard Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP4 Bug Hello Richard- When your vault job failed, what was the status code? I know that there was a problem in 6.0 where the scheduler was incorrectly restarting a partially successful vault job, e.g. a vault job that exited with a status 306 because not all of the images were successfully duplicated. I'm pretty sure 6.0 MP4 includes this fix. ( but it sounds like you might prefer the bug! :-/ ) HTH rob On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:48:08PM +1300 or thereabouts, Mansell, Richard wrote: We have only installed MP4 on our master server so far but have noticed today that the vault job no longer retries if it fails the first time. Has anyone else seen this? Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP4 Bug
We have only installed MP4 on our master server so far but have noticed today that the vault job no longer retries if it fails the first time. Has anyone else seen this? Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 throughput expectations
Hi Steve We are a Windows based shop running 6.0 MP3. We use an HP MSL6060 library with 4 LT03 drives. When backing up individual servers over a gigabit network we can get 80-90MB/s especially when backing up databases. During the overnight backup run when many servers backup together we get up to 60MB/s. The vault duplication process runs at up to 150MB/s with most being around the 100MB/s. I don't know if you have had a chance to play with the Netbackup buffers but that was where the biggest gains were for us. Ours are currently set to:- SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK 1048576 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS 64 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK64 SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144 NET_BUFFER_SZ 1048576 We had a play with multiplexing but found that the gains during backups were almost negated by the extra time taken to do the vault process. Since the time pressure for us was during the vault process not overnight backups we turned it off again. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Kirkpatrick Sent: Friday, 22 December 2006 6:56 am To: Austin Murphy Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 throughput expectations Thanks for the info Austin. You pretty much confirm what I have been reading. Anyone else have an idea of why I can only seem to drive the tape drives at 12.5MB/sec when duplicating tapes on the master server? The server itself is not loaded during this activity. It seems that bpduplicate should be able to read at max speed and write at max speed simultaneously especially since the drives and server are connected over a 2gb/sec SAN. I guess the long-term solution is to go with a disk-based device (such as the Data Domain) for the initial backups and then archive to tape from there. Also, what about the bpduplicate performance when duplicating multiplexed tapes? How about restores from the same? Am I just moving the bottleneck from one place to another? Any links to info that will educate me on the subject are appreciated. Thanks again, Steve. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] help please
I should add that for those of us who started using NetBackup for the first time from version 6 the catalogue volume pool is likely to be CatalogBackup (when using hot catalogue backups). We actually use the NetBackup volume pool for data backups (fed from scratch) as that seemed logical during the install. From the Admin Guide:- NetBackup automatically creates a CatalogBackup volume pool that is selected by default only for NBU-Catalog policy types. Offline, cold catalog backups use media from the NetBackup volume pool. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Stump Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 5:55 am To: Dave Markham; Curtis Preston Cc: nizar motasim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] help please To me it is Best Practise and to many NetBackup admins to only populate the NetBackup pool with catalog tapes. It makes things a lot easier to keep track of and cuts down the number of vmqueries. Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/5/2006 11:40 AM Thats odd then, why when configuring catalogue backups to tapes it will only allow you to input media which is assigned to the Netbackup pool? ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot catalog restore in NBU 6.0
I built our DR server environment recently and, as you found, the catalogue wouldn't restore as the hostname is different so I re-installed the NetBackup software and entered the prod server name as the master server then the DR server name as an 'additional server'. You could possibly add the 'Additional Server then use the 'Make Master' button in the 'Master Server Properties' instead. The following link may also be of use but isn't exactly what you are trying to do:- http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/284761.htm Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mkiles Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 9:07 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot catalog restore in NBU 6.0 I didnt get any replies on this, looks like not many admins plan to restore HOT catalog backup to a different master server. FYI, Symantec doesnt support it. But they also dont support restoring cold catalog backup to a new master server, even though bprecover provides a switch (-dhost) to do it and I have done it many times. Hi I want to restore NBU 6.0 Hot Catalog to a different server using the hot catalog restore wizard, but I dont see any options there as to change the name of master server, i am able to do it if i do a cold catalog backup and use -dhost option in bprecover utility. Do you know any switches that i can use when trying to restore hot catalog backup to a different server? TIA MK __ ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Error Message
Daniel If you cut and past "WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database" andfeed it to Google the first item listed is a tech note from Veritas:- http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/247001.htm Google is your friend. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez, DanielSent: Friday, 10 November 2006 6:39 pmTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Error Message Hey guys I am receiving the following error when backing up a server and would like to find out if anyone knows what the error means. Warning bpbrm(pid=3453) from client lmrbib: WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database (WIN32 21: The device is not ready. ) Thanks in advance Daniel ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicate BE images from DLT to hcart media
Hi Simrat We went through a similar exercise earlier in the year. Although you can import the BE tapes in to the NetBackup catalogue they don't appear in the duplication screen so you can'tduplicate them. I raised a call with Symantec as I noticed that there was a command called beconv in the manual that could be used to convert BE catalogues to NetBackup. The binary didn't appear to exist though. This is apparently a utility made available in earlier versions of NetBackup (4.5?) but is now no longer available. I did consider trying to obtain an earlier copy of NetBackup and using that to do a catalogue conversion but they said that the way NetBackup treated BE data changed in later versions so it might not be a goer. It might not have saved a huge amount of time anyway as you still have to import the tapes. In the end we did DLT to LT03 duplication in the old BE environment and now just import the LTO's in to NetBackup as and when restores are required. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sekhon Simrat S.Sent: Wednesday, 25 October 2006 2:27 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Duplicate BE images from DLT to hcart media We have imported our old Backup Exec 9.x DLT tapes into Netbackup 6.0 MP3. We are in the process of phasing out our old DLT drive and are trying to duplicate these BE images on to the hcart3 media. Is there a way to duplicate these BE images from Netbackup. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks. Simrat S. Sekhon Information Services (804) 459-2206 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.
My vault duplications are running at up to 160MB/s. My environment is Windows based and we have a 4 LT03 drive HP library. I did try turning on multiplexing but found that the write throughput got worse the more I multiplexed so I have turned it back off for the moment. The buffers will have an affect on performance. FWIW mine are set to:- C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK 1048576 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS 64 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK64 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\NET_BUFFER_SZ 1048576 What read speeds are you getting during the duplication process? If you have a look in the 'All log entries' report in the gui you should see a figure for the read as well as the write process after each image is duplicated. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 9:08 am To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance. Revoking this thread since its absolutely essential to me. I read the mails, went to office and did a grep Kbytes/sec log.100906 in the bptm folder. I found that no single value was above 22 Mbytes/sec, shd that mean that my vaults are not above 22 Mbytes/sec. Is there anything specific in the log which I can search for clarifying my vault speed. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Hardware Requirements
FWIW, our NOM server runs in a VMWare partition and has 384MB memory and a 4GB root disk. The disk filled up at one point but having read the manual I invoked the NOM backup and log purge facility and disk space usage seems pretty stable now. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Tim Sent: Monday, 16 October 2006 12:37 pm To: Justin Piszcz; Koster, Phil Cc: veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Hardware Requirements We were advised to use at least 2GB RAM with 2 good processors. It's hard to know how much disk space you'll need (depends on how many reports you keep, and how many servers you're monitoring, etc.) but I don't think 5GB will be enough. We've got 400GB+, just in case (will probably never need that much but it means it is 'future-proofed'. I asked Symantec and they said 30GB should be fine for a while in our environment. We're using a dedicated server as this has been recommended; specifically Windows for NOM apparently, although it can run on other platforms. The NOM guides don't give too much information about this stuff but it's a resource hungry beast. Cheers, Tim ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] How do we duplicate skipped images in vaulting
We run with the Vault permanentlyset to level
5logging. Info for failed images is then captured in the sessions
directory in the log for that particular vault stream. You can tell from the
activity monitor which duplicating session failed as it will say something like
10 of 12 images duplicated. You then look in that sessionlog for the
specific problem. e.g.
03:19:23 INF - Beginning duplicate on server ccobkp01
of client ccovcs01.03:19:25 INF - Beginning duplication on server ccobkp01
of client ccovcs01, creating copy 2 on destination media id GC901203:38:14
INF - host ccobkp01 backupid ccovcs01_1157711364 write failed, media write error
(84).
or
05:27:39 INF - Duplicating policy SQLLog schedule
SQLLog backup id ccobwpci01_1157990414 copy 1 created on 09/12/2006 04:00:14 on
source path E:\05:27:39 INF - Backupid ccobwpci01_1157990414 copy 2 already
exists05:27:39 INF - Duplicate of backup id ccobwpci01_1157990414 failed,
the entity already exists (226).
One of the reports generated during the eject phase
also lists images that have not been duplicated.
Regards
Richard
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NetbackupSent: Sunday, 24 September 2006 7:14 amTo:
David Rock; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re:
[Veritas-bu] How do we duplicate skipped images in
vaulting
Yes thats true,The problem is that I have just enough VTL
space to hold data for 3 days. We engage 8 Gen3 drives 3-3-2 for the vaults {3
at at time}. We are in the process of changing the polcies to implement daily
vaulting, but would take some time. For now it happens that we are not able to
overlap one of the vaults in the 3 day period. Thus we end up loosing some
images.How can quickly get a list of skipped images during the vault.
There shd be some way to extract this list from the files in the
"/usr/openv/netbackup/vault/sessions/" directory. I could then probably
manually duplicate them.Any suggestions are welcome since I have run
out of ideas.Regards,PP BIJU KRISHNAN
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion lists - How to list all on server
Title: Scalix message content Phil One thing we did that was quite useful was to dumpinformation for all clients to one file. It takes a little while to run as it has to connect to each client but if you select all of the clients in the Activity Monitor NetBackup Management Host Properties Clients then select from the menu File Export you will be prompted for the location of the output file. This will then create a .txt file containing details for all selected clients. You could then extract the exclusions from this file if that is what you are specifically after. A small part of the output is below. Regards Richard e.g. [...] Windows Client Settings General BPCD logging level: 0 TCP logging level: 0 Wait time before clearing the archive bit (in seconds): 300 Perform incrementals based on archive bit: YES Use Change Journal in incrementals: NO Time overlap (in minutes): 60 Communications buffer (in KB): 128 Maximum repetative error messages for server: 10 Keep status of user-directed backups, archives and restores (in days): 3 Perform default search of backup images for restore: YES User directed timeout (in seconds): 60 Exclude Lists Use case sensitive exclude list: NO Exclude list: C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\*.lock C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\misc\* C:\WINDOWS\system32\NtmsData Exceptions to the exclude list: VERITAS Snapshot Provider Enable VSP during backups: YES Cache file volume list (Drive letters separated by commas): VSP volume exclude list (Drive letters separated by commas): Customize the cache file sizes.: YES Cache files size are specifed in % of disk space: YES Inital cache size (in MB or % disk space): 30 Maximum cache size (in MB or % disk space): 3 Error control: 0 Snapshot: YES Busy file wait (in seconds): 5 Busy file timeout (in seconds): 300 Synchronization timeout (in seconds): 60 Logging level: 0 [...] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Koster, Phil"Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2006 8:21 amTo: veritas-buSubject: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion lists - How to list all on server For those keeping track, I am trying to audit our back up policies (NBU 6 MP2 on Win 2K Srvr). I have almost everything except I can not find out how to list all the excluded directories or files. I would like them all in one nice neat clean list or at least somehow CLI so I can parse it. Any thoughts other than I am stuck doing this one server at a time through the GUI? Thanks. Phil KosterNetwork AdministratorCity of Grand RapidsDirect: 616-456-3136Helpdesk: 456-3999 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 Performance Very Slow
We saw a much bigger improvement than 10%. Out of the box we were only achieving 18MB/s when backing up a test database. After playing with buffers we were achieving between 75 and 80MB/s. We increased:- Client buffer to 128MB NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS to 64 NET_BUFFER_SZ to 528384. The biggest gain was with the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DaveSent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 4:09 amTo: 'Ganapathy G'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 Performance Very Slow .. Performance tuning (increasing buffers and sizes) can give you about 10% better back up speed, but if you are only getting 6MB/sec then something is seriously wrong with your hardware strategy. Also, you dont mention if this is Windows or Unix. .. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Fame at last.
I see some of you were also contacted by Sharon at Computerworld:- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090506-users-suffer-major-problems -with.html ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status
For our MS SQL databases we have included a final step in the hourly transaction log dump which triggers a NetBackup job that performs a differential backup to a disk staged area on the backup server. The staged area then gets backed up to tape every three hours. The transaction logs left on the SQL server get purged after 3 days. Being a Windows based server the purging script checks to make sure that the archive bit has been reset before doing the deletion. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deiter Scott Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 6:08 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status SETUP: Windows 2000 and 2003 clients Netbackup 5.1 mp4 Solaris master/media The bparchive is setup as a user backup and scripted in a dos.bat file. PROBLEM: We have been forced to archive our sql tranasctions logs. We have attempted to use the bparchive against a temporary directory where we use robocopy to move the files from source to this temporary directory. The ugly thing that just happened is that on of the files was not completely there. So a status 1 occurred. None of the files where deleted. So next time(daily) we must create another image of these files and hope for a status code 0. This consumes excessive tape and time. 2-7 gig per day. How can we use set up an archive so that every successfully archived file is deleted at the end ? Scott Deiter ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Gen3 read LTO Gen2 tapes
That is certainly worth a try. Our LT02 tapes and LTO3's are all set up as HCART3. The LTO2's are in a different volume pool so that they don't get used for normal backups. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 9:18 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [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 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting reports
Scott You should do. Here is ours from today:- Picking List for Vault MEDIA SLOTID LAST MOUNT LAST SID REQUESTED DENSITY CATEGORY GC9058 47 08/01/2006176 08/08/2006 HCART3 New CTLG What does the of-site inventory report show? Off-site Inventory SLOTID MEDIA ASSIGNED EXPIRATION REQUESTED CATEGORY 1 GC9036 07/28/2006 08/27/2006 - NBU 2 GC9016 08/02/2006 09/02/2006 - NBU 3 GC9000 - 08/07/2006 08/07/2006 NBU 4 GC9010 07/11/2006 08/11/2006 - NBU 5 GC9007 - 08/07/2006 08/07/2006 NBU 6 GC9059 08/02/2006 08/09/2006 - New CTLG 7 GC9013 07/03/2006 09/23/2006 - NBU 8 GC9055 08/07/2006 08/14/2006 - New CTLG 9 GC9061 07/27/2006 08/27/2006 - NBU 10 GC9054 - 08/07/2006 08/07/2006 New CTLG 45 GC9078 05/21/2006 08/12/2006 - NBU 46 GC9079 05/21/2006 08/13/2006 - NBU 47 GC9058 - 08/08/2006 08/08/2006 New CTLG 48 JK2554 06/26/2006 09/16/2006 - NBU Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deiter Scott Sent: Tuesday, 8 August 2006 2:46 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting reports We run two vault policies weekly and monthly. The catalog backup step on the weekly policy creates a catalog backup each week to be vaulted. These tapes get sent off-site. Retention period is 3 weeks. We have these two reports selected as email to operations and our admins. Picking list for vault Picking list for robot. The picking list for the robot is working well. Currently one catalog backup tape should be returned today. The picking list for vault does not show any tapes. Should we expect to see the catalog backup tapes in the picking list for vault report ?? Scott Deiter 717 633 3298 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Multiplexing
We are struggling to get all of the backups run during the backup window and one of the obvious solutions is to start using multiplexing as the tape drives are not being driven at any where near their maximum throughput. There has been a rather nasty multiplexing problem fixed in 6.0 MP3 but I would be interested to do a straw poll of how many people are using multiplexing and if possible any issues encountered. I would appreciate it if you would respond (off list) as to whether you use multiplexing or not (any version of NetBackup). I will summarise the results and post back to the list. Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Server Backup Times - Scheduling Issues
Garrett Can't you justrun the Client Backups report then export the results to Excel for manipulation. It can be sorted by Policy, Schedule etc. I have even fed it in to MS Project to get a Gantt chart of our backups. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Covington, GarrettSent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 7:44 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Server Backup Times - Scheduling Issues I am looking for a script to help me with some scheduling issues/questions down to the client level. I was given a list of 600+ servers that I need to reply with the backup time(s) for each. Does anyone have a script (using bppllist?) that might help me list the backup time for a client or list of clients based on the schedule name (ours are named:daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) or type of backup (full/incremental)? In a separate but related issue, it would be helpful to have similar scheduling information about each of my policies backup times for each of the schedule within each policy. Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific polices?
I noticed last week that one of our clients has stopped doing full backups so raised a call. The advice so far has been to delete that particular schedule from the policy and recreate it. The output from the command 'nbpemreq -tables screen' has changed for that client but I won't know until Friday if it has fixed the problem. Backups that fail I can cope with but backups that just don't run at all is scary. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Tim Sent: Monday, 24 July 2006 1:25 pm To: Ed Wilts Cc: Steve; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; WEAVER,Simon Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific polices? I have logged a call and they recommend installing MP3, which we're going to do at some point soon. My next step is going to be waiting until the end of the week and create a new policy (this will probably happen before upgrading to MP3); I was going to do this last week but the jobs ran as they should on Thursday night so I thought it might be OK again. It appears this is not the case. Cheers, Tim ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing
Title: Message Paul The browsing Tim appears to be talking about is on the backup selections tab in a policy so the servermust get a list of file systems and files via the agent on the client, not physically mount file systems. I think it is just a feature (or lack of) of the Java GUI. We are mainly a Windows based shop and I can't browse any client file systemsusing the Java GUI whereas I can browse both UNIX and Windows clients with the Windows GUI. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul KeatingSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 12:24 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing been like that as long as I can remember. a unix host can't nativelymount a windows share.(ie NFS vs CIFS) so a unix master/media cannot inspect the filesystem of the windows client to "browse". Paul -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, TimSent: July 12, 2006 11:30 PMTo: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Hi, We've found some differing behaviour in regards to browsing backup selections using NBU6; A Windows Master appears to be able to browse Unix\Linux files systems on clients, whereas a Unix Master does not appear to be able to browse Windows (the path has to be entered manually). Is this as expected? Does anyone know why? I'd guess it has something to do with the GUI; on Unix (java GUI), there is no button to browse, and although a remote admin console in Windows (connecting to Unix Master) has a browse button, it isn't actually an active operation on the Unix Master (or something like that). Cheers, Tim ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing
Title: Message Huh, is there a non java remote admin console or is that something you get with a UNIX Master? Regards Richard From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 July 2006 11:47 amTo: Mansell, Richard; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing This is the thing though; with a remote admin console (non Java version) on Windows-based machine (connecting to a Unix Master), I can't browse either, so it doesn't look like it's an issue with using the Java GUI. Cheers, Tim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mansell, RichardSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 7:41 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Paul The browsing Tim appears to be talking about is on the backup selections tab in a policy so the servermust get a list of file systems and files via the agent on the client, not physically mount file systems. I think it is just a feature (or lack of) of the Java GUI. We are mainly a Windows based shop and I can't browse any client file systemsusing the Java GUI whereas I can browse both UNIX and Windows clients with the Windows GUI. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul KeatingSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 12:24 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing been like that as long as I can remember. a unix host can't nativelymount a windows share.(ie NFS vs CIFS) so a unix master/media cannot inspect the filesystem of the windows client to "browse". Paul -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, TimSent: July 12, 2006 11:30 PMTo: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Hi, We've found some differing behaviour in regards to browsing backup selections using NBU6; A Windows Master appears to be able to browse Unix\Linux files systems on clients, whereas a Unix Master does not appear to be able to browse Windows (the path has to be entered manually). Is this as expected? Does anyone know why? I'd guess it has something to do with the GUI; on Unix (java GUI), there is no button to browse, and although a remote admin console in Windows (connecting to Unix Master) has a browse button, it isn't actually an active operation on the Unix Master (or something like that). Cheers, Tim**This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the ChristchurchCity Council.If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise thesender and delete.Christchurch City Councilhttp://www.ccc.govt.nz** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing
Title: Message I have only everused NetBackup 6(on a Windows server)and the only consoles I have discovered so far arethe 'NetBackup Administration Console which gets installed as part of the server install and the 'NetBackup - Java Console' which can be installed separately. Are you referring to one of these or is there another one I haven't discovered yet? Regards Richard From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 July 2006 12:06 pmTo: Mansell, Richard; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing It's the Windows Netbackup remote admin console; this is different from the Java console isn't it (at least the CDs seem to think it is)? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mansell, RichardSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 9:58 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Huh, is there a non java remote admin console or is that something you get with a UNIX Master? Regards Richard From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 July 2006 11:47 amTo: Mansell, Richard; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing This is the thing though; with a remote admin console (non Java version) on Windows-based machine (connecting to a Unix Master), I can't browse either, so it doesn't look like it's an issue with using the Java GUI. Cheers, Tim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mansell, RichardSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 7:41 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Paul The browsing Tim appears to be talking about is on the backup selections tab in a policy so the servermust get a list of file systems and files via the agent on the client, not physically mount file systems. I think it is just a feature (or lack of) of the Java GUI. We are mainly a Windows based shop and I can't browse any client file systemsusing the Java GUI whereas I can browse both UNIX and Windows clients with the Windows GUI. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul KeatingSent: Friday, 14 July 2006 12:24 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing been like that as long as I can remember. a unix host can't nativelymount a windows share.(ie NFS vs CIFS) so a unix master/media cannot inspect the filesystem of the windows client to "browse". Paul -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, TimSent: July 12, 2006 11:30 PMTo: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing Hi, We've found some differing behaviour in regards to browsing backup selections using NBU6; A Windows Master appears to be able to browse Unix\Linux files systems on clients, whereas a Unix Master does not appear to be able to browse Windows (the path has to be entered manually). Is this as expected? Does anyone know why? I'd guess it has something to do with the GUI; on Unix (java GUI), there is no button to browse, and although a remote admin console in Windows (connecting to Unix Master) has a browse button, it isn't actually an active operation on the Unix Master (or something like that). Cheers, Tim**This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the ChristchurchCity Council.If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise thesender and delete.Christchurch City Councilhttp://www.ccc.govt.nz** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU: small office WAN config - deal? or no deal?
Jim Do you have the option to create a disk staging unit? That is what we use to back up servers on our slower links and works well as the data then takes minutes to copy to tape rather than hours straight to tape from the network. We also use compression for the very very slow links. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siano, James C Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 2:32 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU: small office WAN config - deal? or no deal? Importance: Low Hello: Deal or no deal? Or should I say - remote media server or no remote media server? ... ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies
Title: Message Simon One of our streams failed over the weekend and I just right clicked on thefailed streamin the activity monitor and selected Restart Job. Only that stream re-ran. May be a 6.0 thing though. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: Friday, 30 June 2006 1:38 amTo: 'Falk, Martin SZ/HZA-ITDS2'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies Martin B!! Thats not good is it :-((( but it what I have been doing ! Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Falk, Martin SZ/HZA-ITDS2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2006 13:53To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: AW: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies No, as far as I know. You have to start the whole job and cancel the stream that you don't need Von: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 13:13An: Falk, Martin SZ/HZA-ITDS2; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduBetreff: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies Martin Now that was my understanding! so really, I may as well kick off a failed job within the SAME policy. But can you kick off a STREAM rather than the whole lot? (job has 8 streams) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Falk, Martin SZ/HZA-ITDS2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2006 11:31To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: AW: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies Netbackup uses a combination of Policy name and archive bit. If you restart broken jobs within another policy next time policy 1 will not recognize that the jobs was already done. Martin Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von WEAVER, SimonGesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 11:37An: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduBetreff: [Veritas-bu] Question on Policies Guys A quick question again about Policies Scenario: One Policy does Weekly Full backups and Cum Incr. - Policy Name is SERVER 1 I have created a 2nd Policy named SERVER1_MANUAL, same settings as SERVER1, but this time not specified any drives \ folders to backup. If a stream fails on the FULL Backup in the SERVER1 Policy, could I enable the 2nd policy to backup the stream that failed? Although this would work, I am starting to think that when the SERVER1 Policy runs an incremental, it will treat the streams that failed the full backup as a full backup and continue to do so until a Full Backup has run at the end of the week. Does that make sense? :-) Any guidance on this would be great, as I want to narrow down how many policies I have. Finally, if I get a failed stream, is there a way to KICK OFF just a single stream if the window has closed? What I do is kick off a MANUAL FULL, and kill the streams that I dont need a full backup of. Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging in Netbackup Ver 6.0 MP2
Title: Message Sandeep Have you tried the Java GUI? It can be installed and upgraded independently of the Master server so may allow you to set up a DSSU properly asyou can run it with a different maintenance pack if needs be. The Java clientpatched withMP2is able to create a DSSU in the Windows environment. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTRSent: Friday, 30 June 2006 1:52 amTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging in Netbackup Ver 6.0 MP2 Karl So will I be correct in my conclusion that with Ver 6.0 and MP2 in a complete Sun Solaris environment I cannot create Disk staging Storage UNIT (DSSU) ??? But can just create Disk Storage UNIT (DSU)? If this indeed is true than this really sucks! Maybe I can backout of MP2 to get this feature. Thanks Sandeep -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:32 PMCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging in Netbackup Ver 6.0 MP2[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/28/2006 02:06:16 PM: Hi Have Netbackup Server Base Edition Ver 6.0 + MP2 installed and configured on my UNIX machines. Have One master as well as Media configured to backup 25 clients. Wanted to create a DSU for temporary disk staging area to be dumped to tapes at a later time. Follow the procedure given in the docs to create the DSU but I just do not see the "Low Water Mark" stuff enabled for me to anything nor do I see any checkbox to state that this is a temp staging area. I thought that functionality of disk staging was available under Netbackup Server Base Edition. I'm guessing you mean DSSU. Anyway, i have noticed that you can no longer set the high and low water mark with MP2. Specifically using the Windows Gui connecting to a Unix master/media. I'm pretty sure you could set it in MP1 and GA. MP3 ;) should be out any day now. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] x64 clients - partially successful backups
Shyam Typing Writer Removable Storage Manager did not respond to a GatherWriterStatus call in to Google brings up just three results. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/274993.htm http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Windows_Server_2003/Q_21134217.html http://forums.veritas.com/discussions/thread.jspa?threadID=43769messageID=4349831 Have you checked those? Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam HazariSent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 8:07 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] x64 clients - partially successful backups This is the error message in netbackup logs. WRN - can't open object: Shadow Copy Components:\System Service\Removable Storage Manager (BEDS 0xFED1: ) Error message in event viewer on the client. Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Writer Removable Storage Manager did not respond to a GatherWriterStatus call . Any idea how to get this fixed. Also checked the archives, couldn't find a solution. TIA -Shyam ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] x64 clients - partially successful backups
Shyam We got error messages from some servers regarding RSM and just excluded the ntmsdata directory http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/247001.htm Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backupschedule.bppllist included.
We only have one calendar based schedule (for quarterlies) andthe start windowspans the whole weekend. We do that as the client backups all get scheduled at the same time (Friday night) sowill sit and queue . Some jobs thereforewill not run until the next day. If the window has closed by then the jobs will fail as they are outside the run window. Because only Friday is specified as a run day thebackups only try to run once during the window. It works fine for us. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SteveSent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 4:36 amTo: Marks, Jonathan - Fort Collins, COCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Bob StumpSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backupschedule.bppllist included. . As far as having Calendar based schedules crossing midnight you should not do that. I don't think its goofy, it just defats the purpose of Calendar based Schedules. You told NBU that you want it to run on a certain day, well after Midnight it is no longer that day. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backup schedule.bppllist included.
Hi Bob We had a similar problem with our quarterly backup. It should only run 4 times a year but tried to run instead of the weekly backup for any new servers added toa policy. Removing 'Allowed to retry after run day' seemed to cure the problem. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob StumpSent: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:02 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backup schedule.bppllist included. I have years of experience with frequency based scheduling but I have always shied away from calendar based. Today I made my first attempt and I cannot see where I made a mistake. Please review this and help me if you can. Thanks. ... ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.
Title: Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused. Hi Cheryl I can't comment on the upgrade process as we migrated from Backup Exec to NetBackup recently and went straight to 6.0 MP2. The only major problems we have uncovered so far are related to the vault. We had a problem with retention mapping and also tape reservations not being released by previous processes. We have had a binary for both issues from Support. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of King, CherylSent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 7:51 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] 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 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU, duplications, lions, tigers, bears, et. al.
Dan Have you checked the Maximum Backup Copies setting (global Attributes) on your netbackup host? We had to change this to get the vault working when running DSSU as I think the default setting was 2. Maximum Backup Copies The Maximum Backup Copies property specifies the total number of backup copies that may exist in the NetBackup catalog (2 through 10). NetBackup creates either the number of copies specified under Multiple Copies, or the number of copies specified as the Maximum Backup Copies property, whichever is smaller. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Dobbs Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:28 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] DSSU, duplications, lions, tigers, bears, et. al. Greetings, all. I'm trying to figure out a way to do duplications for offsite using disk staging. Sounds easy, right? In the past, when I had a huge backup window and multiple slow tape drives, I'd run two copies of the same job, simultaneously, and manually change the retention of copy #2 and send it offsite. Now, we have one SDLT320 bot (we're running RH AS4, Veritas NBU 5.1). I thought I could send multiple copies as I had previously, just one to the 'bot and one to disk staging, and the disk staging would catch up on Monday and life would be ducky. It would appear that there's a hitch. The backups won't relocate to tape. I'm guessing that the reloc job fires up, and it says, 'hey now, I already have two copies, I'm done!', but I'd be the first to say that it's just my wild guess. I'm worried that it won't clean up after itself (there are no .ds files present), and I still don't have a foolproof solution. I guess I could just change the retention for the disk stage to one week, so it would (ideally) expire before the next week's backup (did I mention that it's our primary file server, and the backups are pretty large?), but that seems to be a little extreme. I bow to your collective wisdom. Cheers, -dd -Dan Dobbs, System Administrator -Mutual Materials -425.452.2387 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] NOM on Windows 2003 SP1
Title: NOM on Windows 2003 SP1 Hi Fiona We run NOM on Win 2003 as well but we use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that is the only one that seems to work with the admin account. That does appear to be backed up by the Release Notes:- "The initial domain name is NOM_BuiltIn@FQHN. FQHN is the fully qualified host name on which the NOM server and NOM web client are running." Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fiona GreenhoughSent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 1:49 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NOM on Windows 2003 SP1 Hi All I am attempting to install NOM into a Windows environment with no success, I have managed to get it working on Solaris. Master Server = Windows 2003 SP1, NBU 6.0GA NOM Server = Windows 2003 SP1, NBU Client 6.0GA On the NOM server we installed Java 1.5.x that we downloaded from the internet, PBX and VxSS as per the installation guide. We then installed NOM, checked that all services are started, including the Veritas Web service. We start NOM and obtained a login screen choose English (or Default) for the Language, admin for the user, Vxadmin for the password and the Domain we left as the default which was [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the error message: "User authenticationfailed. The user name/password are invalid for the selected domain" If we keep trying we eventually get a java dump: "Exception Report The server excountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request" Further down: "Root cause Failed to get credentials. hostname.domain. [vx. NOM_TRUSTED_CLIENTS hostname.domain]" Any help or direction would be much appreciated. RegardsFiona GreenhoughLECHABILE Storage Solutions (PTY) LtdUnit 1, Cambridge Commercial ParkRegent Street, PaulshofP O Box 784013, Sandton, 2146Switchboard: +27 11 519 8100Phone: +27 11 519 8124Fax: +27 11 519 8147Cell: +27 082 338 4754Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]This e-mail and attachments relating thereto, is intended for the above-mentioned recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify the sender and delete it immediately as it contains information relating to the official business of LECHABILE Storage Solutions (PTY) Ltd, which is confidential, legally privileged and proprietary to LECHABILE Storage Solutions (PTY) Ltd. LECHABILE Storage Solutions (PTY) Ltd does not own and endorse any other content. The views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender unless clearly stated as being those of LECHABILE Storage Solutions (PTY) Ltd. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz **
RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]
Hi Simon I suspect you are right but another reason to move to hot catalog backups is in the 6.0 release notes:- End of Life Notification for Catalog 1. The offline catalog backup feature will be removed in the next major release of NetBackup. Improved functionality is currently available to user with the new online catalog backup. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 6:59 pm To: Mansell, Richard; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please] Richard Although recommended, Online Cat backups were originally designed for Enterprise Backup Environments where there is no window to perform an offline backup. In other words, it will work while normal backups are running at the same time. Also (I think I am write!), online catalog backups allow the use to span more tapes, where an offline uses 1. Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mansell, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2006 06:06 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please] FWIW, in NBU 6 hot catalogue backups are the recommended way to go and a pool called CatalogBackup gets created especially for that purpose. We therefore just use NetBackup for the normal data tapes and it is fed from a scratch pool. Since we use the vault option we also have a VaultCatalogue and a VaultData pool. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob944 Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 4:49 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; 'Wilkinson, Alex' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please] Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations. This is the right one. :-) What is best practice with regards to Volume Pools ? We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data tapes. Is it good practice to use the Netbackup Volume pool for this situation ? Yes to the first, no to the second. Offline catalog backup tapes in NetBackup. Everything else in dsto-mlb. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 MP2 vault duplication - tape in use
Hi Linda Thanks very much for posting that. I had actually spotted it on the other forum but we had already trashed our installation ready for the Production build by then. If it happens again I will definitely give it a go. I had a response from Symantec on the Vault 'feature' and after investigation they have confirmed it was a bug:- Engineering have come back and said that they recognise the problem and have fixed the code. The fix will be included in MP3, if its ultra critical I can request a binary for you in the meantime. MP3 should be available around July. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linda Bunty Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 6:42 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 MP2 vault duplication - tape in use We upgraded to 6.0 mp6 on solaris for media and master server yesterday. We had the same with vault duplication. I seen your message of the Peer to Peer Newsgroups forum. I post this there and emailing what we found out last night. I found on another site a workaround. According to the veritas forum it is a Solution from Symantec support: Run nbrbutil -dump and analyze the output, looking for the MDS allocations in EMM section. Find the allocation key for the tape that is in use. Then run nbrbutil -releaseMDS allocation key #. The tape will now be released, and can be expired, moved, deleted, or whatever you need to do with it. Here's the output of nbrbutil with no arguments (-help and -Q aren't valid): Arguments: -dump -- dump all nbrb allocation and request list -dumptables -- have nbrb log its internal state -release GUID -- Release the allocation with the given identifier -cancel GUID -- Cancel the allocation request with the given identifier -resetAll -- Reset all nbrb allocations, requests, and persisted state -resetMediaServer mediaserver -- Reset all nbrb EMM/MDS allocations related to LTID on the mediaserver -listOrphanedMedia -- List media reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -listOrphanedDrives -- List drives reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -listOrphanedStus -- List storage units reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -releaseOrphanedMedia name -- Release media reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -releaseOrphanedDrive name -- Release drives reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -releaseOrphanedStu name -- Release storage units reserved in EMM but with no corresponding allocation in RB -releaseMDS ID -- Release EMM/MDS allocations by MDS allocation ID -releaseAllocHolds -- Release allocation holds due to alloction errors for drives/media -suspend -- Suspend nbrb processing -resume -- Resume nbrb processing * **URL got this from is: http://forums.veritas.com/discussions/thread.jspa?threadID=61500start=1 5tstart=0 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] how to get a list of tapes in the tape library
vmcheckxxx? vmcheckxxx NAME vmcheckxxx - Report the media contents of a robotic library SYNOPSIS install_path\Volmgr\bin\vmcheckxxx -rt robot_type -rn robot_number [-rh robot_host] [-h EMM_server | volume_database_host] [[-if inventory_filter_value] [-if inventory_filter_value] ...] [-full] [-list] DESCRIPTION Report the media contents of a robotic library and optionally compare its contents with the volume configuration. If no options are specified, the media contents of the robot and the volume configuration are listed along with a list of any mismatches detected. This command can be executed by any authorized users. For more information about NetBackup authorization, refer to "Enhanced Authorization and Authentication" in the NetBackup System Administrator's Guide or the NetBackup Media Manager System Administrators Guide. OPTIONS -rt robot_type Specifies the robot type of the robot to inventory. Valid robot types for NetBackup Enterprise Server follow: none, acs, odl, tl4, tl8, tld, tlh, tlm, tsh. Valid robot types for NetBackup Server follow: none, tl4, tl8, tld. -rn robot_number Unique, logical identification number of the robot to inventory. -rh robot_host Name of the host which controls the robot. If no host is specified, the host where you execute this command is assumed. -h EMM_server | volume_database_host This option is only applicable for NetBackup Enterprise Server. The name of the Enterprise Media Manager database host which contains information about the volumes in a robot. If no host is specified, the configured EMM server is used by default. For communicating with vmcheckxxx pre-NetBackup 6.0 systems not in the EMM domain, this is the EMM server. If no host is not specified, but a pre-NetBackup 6.0 robotic control host is specified on the -rh option, the robotic control host will be used as the EMM server. -if inventory_filter_value This option is only applicable for NetBackup Enterprise Server. Specifies inventory filter values. Multiple -if options may be specified. The inventory filter value is an ACS scratch pool ID, or a TLH volume category. The -if and -full options cannot be specified together. -full Specifies full inventory. The -full and -if options cannot be specified together. -list Lists the robot contents. NOTES Only limited validation of the option parameters is done. EXAMPLES The following command lists the media contents of TLD robot 1 and the volume configuration for that robot on the host named server2, along with a list of any mismatches that are detected: vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 1 -rh server2 The following command lists the contents of TLH robot 2 that is connected to the host where the vmcheckxxx command was executed: vmcheckxxx -rt tlh -rn 2 -list SEE ALSO vmupdate From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave CarlsonSent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:26 amTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] how to get a list of tapes in the tape library anyone know the console command for getting a list of tapes that are currently in the library? thanks! Dave CarlsonAssociate Systems EngineeratlasPartner for Results206.816.8221 // direct206.850.8980 // cell[EMAIL PROTECTED] // emailwww.AtlasSolutions.com // web ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz **
RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]
FWIW, in NBU 6 hot catalogue backups are the recommended way to go and a pool called CatalogBackup gets created especially for that purpose. We therefore just use NetBackup for the normal data tapes and it is fed from a scratch pool. Since we use the vault option we also have a VaultCatalogue and a VaultData pool. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob944 Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 4:49 pm To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; 'Wilkinson, Alex' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please] Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations. This is the right one. :-) What is best practice with regards to Volume Pools ? We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data tapes. Is it good practice to use the Netbackup Volume pool for this situation ? Yes to the first, no to the second. Offline catalog backup tapes in NetBackup. Everything else in dsto-mlb. ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level
FWIW, the Windows admin console in 6.0 reports the client version for Windows clients. We are only running 6.0 at the moment so I don't know if it will report the version for pre-6 clients. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Clarke Sent: Sunday, 23 April 2006 8:51 pm To: Sean Clarke; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level Ed Wilts wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote: consistent way to get the versions across all clients. .../Ed I'll go to my corner and cry now ;-) Guess I'll report on the UNIX boxes (which seem to play OK with bpcoverage and just report the major version number for windows boxes. Very annoying as to the untrained eye it would seem to be easy to ensure that this worked :-( Thanks for the replies anyway Sean ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow performance problem, cause unknown
I know it is for Windows servers but I found this tech note quite useful as it explains how to use the debug logs to see if the delay is client or media server based:- http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/244652.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grant lowe Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 10:39 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Slow performance problem, cause unknown Im having very poor performance on a Sun Ultra 60 with Solaris 9 and NBU 5.0GA. I've added the following files to the system with the asociated values: NET_BUFFER_SIZE = 65536 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 32 SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144 My /etc/system has these parameters: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=33554432 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=512 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmap=512 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=65536 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmni=1024 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmax=8192 set msgsys:msginfo_msgssz=32 set msgsys:msginfo_msgseg=8192 set msgsys:msginfo_msgtql=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmap=64 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=2048 set semsys:seminfo_semopm=128 set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=2048 set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semume=64 So, why am I only getting a backup that starts at only 2000 KB/sec and then slows town to 300 KB/sec? It may be an obvious answer, but I can't see it. Thanks for the help! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
Hi Chris Thanks for responding. The documentation implies that the Cross Mount Points is a UNIX specific parameter and also says not to use it with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive. I guess you may end up with two copies of all local drives if you do that! If it is UNIX specific though I wonder why it appears in an MS-Windows-NT policy. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: Christopher Jay Manders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 April 2006 2:25 pm To: Mansell, Richard Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES Is Cross Mount Points selected [policy attribute]? hth --Chris Hi, we have a number of Windows servers that have SAN attached disk drives. The ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive does not back up these drives so I assume we have to explicitly include them in a policy (we don't have the SAN media server option). The documentation (6.0) for ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES says that it must be the only entry in the backup selections list. Do you therefore need one policy for the local drives and one for the SAN attached drives? We had hoped to have a minimal number of policies so what does everyone else do in this situation? Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] beconv
Does anyone know anything about the beconv command? It is listed in the NetBackup 6.0 commands for Windows manual but does not appear to exist in my installation. We are migrating from Backup Exec to NetBackup and this looks like it may be a useful command to migrate the catalogue in one go rather than having to import each tape one at a time. Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working
Renee I left my HP-UX life behind a couple of years ago but have you installed the LTO drivers for HP-UX from IBM? We used to have a 3584 connected to various HP-UX servers and I remember having to install something from IBM. Here is a link that may help:- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S4000102 Have you seen this Red book from IBM about connecting drives to UNIX systems? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/SG246502.html?Open Don't know if you have access to HP's ITRC but here is a thread from there:- Jun 3, 2005 07:10:21 GMT Hi, Could anyone help me to configure ibm 3584 tape library for rp2470 ? With thanks regards Sid Leif Halvarsson Jun 3, 2005 07:55:00 GMT 3 pts Hi, IBM LTO drives need a special driver (ATDD) which can be downloaded from IBM but, perhaps you should check this thread before: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=620564 Thanks for ur reply. I already downloaded the binaries and installed but it didn't work. Sid Leif Halvarsson Jun 3, 2005 13:10:28 GMT 3 pts I downloaded the drivers from following site ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/ and installed the drivers. Then I changed kernel parameters for acdd to be loaded automatically. And it fixed the issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlisle, D Renee Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 7:32 am To: Jeff Lightner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working We are using BEST on HP, we have done numerous testing with new tapes and consistent data and compression has not been working since we switched over to the IBM library. Reneé Carlisle Sr. Systems Administrator 675 Basket Road Webster, NY 14580 Jer 29:11-13 585-216-0497 (w) 585-472-2360 (c) -Original Message- From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:42 PM To: Carlisle, D Renee; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working Didn't respond earlier because I thought your post regarding Sun only. On HP the device's minor specifies settings of the drive's device entries - it will have several. You need to make sure your minor numbers are for the Best density which would include compression. Also as noted by another poster I have seen on HP-UX that when I wrote to a drive using its non-compressed device entry that subsequent writes to that device where I couldn't specify the density made it continue to write in a non-compressed mode. This was for a backup I was doing from the boot prompt (don't remember how exactly I did that). By booting up the OS then doing a short write to the device file that had compression enabled then going back down to the boot prompt I was able to make it write compression. Not sure how familiar with HP-UX you are. It has a command called lssf for listing special files. For tape devices it will show you detail. Example chosen at random from my HP-UX master server: lssf /dev/rmt/c9t3d5BEST stape card instance 9 SCSI target 3 SCSI LUN 5 att best density available at address 0/6/1/0/4/0.98.54.255.1.3.5 /dev/rmt/c9t3d5BEST Shows it is the best density available so I know it has compression. You might want to try running lssf on the devices you have configured in HP-UX to insure they have this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlisle, D Renee Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working I answered the compression issue in a previous post, we definitely are not getting compression. The reason I mentioned the library is that it does not seem to be at the hardware level since the tapes are obviously compressing on the test side of the world and we are using the same library. IBM, Sun, and Veritas are all involved right now (even though it is across HP, Sun, and Windows), but everyone is scratching their heads. Just trying to think outside the box now. Reneé Carlisle Sr. Systems Administrator 675 Basket Road Webster, NY 14580 Jer 29:11-13 585-216-0497 (w) 585-472-2360 (c) -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:20 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Carlisle, D Renee Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:42:58 -0400
[Veritas-bu] Problem with vault retention mapping in 6.0
I don't know how widely people use the 'use mappings' feature in the Vault but there appears to be a rather fundamental bug in all version of 6.0. I thought I would let you know so that no one else gets caught out. We have three different type of backup, a daily, a weekly and a quarterly. The daily is kept for a month, the weekly 12 weeks and the quarterly forever. Because we only have a 60 slot tape librarywe can't use those retention periods in the library so we use the vault 'use mappings' feature to change the mappings. We therefore have:- Cycle library vault Daily 4 days 1 month Weekly 10 days 12 weeks Quarterly 10 days infinite WhenI setthis up it just didn't work. We had created 3 new retention periods in the Master server propertiesto cater for our design. The admin guide recommends that the retention levels 0 to 9 are leftas default and the customised ones are set up from level 10 onso thatis whatI did. After a bit of digging I realised that the vault was sorting the retention periods by date. The master server properties displays the list of retention periods by retention level number whereas the vault displays them in date order i.e. 4 days first. Soin the drop down field in the vault properties if you select the 5th drop down you actually end upmapping the 5th option in the master server properties rather than what the vault displays as being selected. As a work around I have had to set the master server retention periods up so they are in date order, starting from level 0. I have reported this to Veritas and they have confirmed that it is a 'defect'. Regards Richard ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz **
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers
Title: Message We purchased NetBackup recently and we were advised then that in a VMWare environment we would simply need one client license per OS. So for each physical machine you would need one to back up the VMWare/Linux environment (if desired) then one Windows client which would cover one or more virtual servers. Regards Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: Friday, 7 April 2006 7:36 pmTo: 'Roger Wilber'Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers But if the VM is not running as a local administrator, thats going to cause a problem? I wasnt aware there was a license issue with VM machines on a host!! Made need to clarify this :-) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Roger Wilber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 April 2006 15:51To: WEAVER, SimonCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual serversEasier? Probably. However, that would also require additional client licenses, where as my method does not. For long lived virtual servers, I can see buying additional client licenses and setting up an NBU client on each virtual server but for temporary virtual servers that aren't expected to last more than a couple of weeks, I just couldn't. On 4/6/06, WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Would it not be easier to apply the NBU Client? That way, it can run either if anyone is logged on or logged off? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Roger Wilber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2006 15:10To: WEAVER, SimonCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual serversAnother possibility exists, especially for temporary test setups:While backing up the the Windows VM host (lets call it vmhost), I just add into the backup selection something along the lines of "\\vm1\C$" where vm1 is one of the virtual machines. The Netbackup client on vmhost has to be running as an administrative user. I create a special account for it and change the password on a regular schedule. That allows me to backup the (in my case test environment) VMs individually as long as they are in use. On 4/5/06, WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well think of the virtual server as a physical one. As long as it can resolve name resolution, is not blocked by any firewalls, and can communicate with its host netbackup server, should be ok. We used to do this on NT4, so my guess is, not alot has changed :-) Its a standard PC Client software on what it believes is a physical machine :-) Thanks Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Global Exclusion Lists
Jason There is a Windows registry entry called FilesNotToBackup. We are hoping to use the group policy to distribute it to all of our Windows servers. NetBackup should honour that key (see page 193 of the 6.0 Sys Admin guide for Windows part 1) Regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:28 am To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Global Exclusion Lists I've been trying to smooth out our backups and eliminate recurring status code 1s. What I've found is there are common files/directories across all of our Windows servers that cause this. For instance, one is %WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\. Is there a way to globally exclude this from all Windows clients without manually adding the directory to each clients' exclusion list? Thanks, 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 ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
