[Veritas-bu] Best way to convert Master to Media?
Hi all, I have an environment that was set up a while ago and possibly not in the best configuration: two separate locations about 5 miles apart, each with one Master server. Bandwidth between the sites is a T1, so I am not sure if it is feasible but we will be upgrading soon from 5.1 to 6.5 I suggested we look into the possibility of merging the environments into one master and one media since it would ease some of the management burden of dealing with two separate environs. First off, what steps can I take to ensure that this would be a wise move? Assuming it would be beneficial, is there a procedure to convert a Master into a Media while retaining all of the catalog information? TIA, -- ) ( ) [_]) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NOM not sending Email alerts?
Hi all, I got my previous NOM issue taken care of (not seeing the Builtin domain) but now have another hurdle: NOM is installed in two seperate environments and are both having the same issue: emails are not being sent out when configured in an alert policy. The odd thing is, reports can be manually emailed to the same recipients, and as far as I can see there is only one place to configure SMTP. So why would reports email out ok, but alerts are never sent? -- ) ( ) [_]) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Problem with NOM: NOM_BuiltIn does not exist.
Hi all, Trying to install Network Operations Manager on a lab box here, I went through all the steps that were outlined in my class and I am up against a hitch: When I go to log in at http://host:8181/nom , the instructions say to change the domain to: [EMAIL PROTECTED](vx) Except, no such entry exists for me. I see a bunch of others that include the host name, but this NOM_BuiltIn is not even in the drop down. I made sure I installed the components in order (Client first, then Auth. Service, then NOM) This is running on a W2003 server w/ SP2. and NBU 6.5.1a client. Any ideas how I can resolve this? -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?
Has anyone seen this before? I am trying to install the 6.5 Admin Console to my laptop, and every time it gets to the end and I see this message: The Veritas Netbackup install was interrupted before it could be completed I searched the Symantec support site but all the references I see to this error have to do with MP installs, not the console. I am running Vista if that matters (not by choice, believe me) T. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 config listing
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Barber, Layne Mr CTR US DISA GS4M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that a lot of the 6.0 setting are now stored in the emm database. Does anyone have a listing of all available setting for NBU 6.0? Thank You, Not sure if this is what you mean, but give it a shot: nbemmcmd -listsettings -machinename hostname ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Michitsch, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 65 admin console doesn't work on Vista. I had the same issue. Per Symantec, it will not work on Vista and there are no plans for it in the next dot release. That's good to know, at least I can stop banging my head against the wall now! Thanks. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bill Tsukahara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony, Unless I'm not understand what you mean by 65 admin console, I upgraded to 6.5 a week ago and I am running the Admin Console on Vista. Bill Hmmm, guess we have two different answers then? Earlier: The 65 admin console doesn't work on Vista. I had the same issue. Per Symantec, it will not work on Vista and there are no plans for it in the next dot release. But if yours is actually working, I wonder why I can't get mine working? I have it on XP boxes all over the place so the procedure is really not that difficult. I am running 6.5.1.a on the master (Solaris) and have a few copies of the Admin Console on XP boxes. Just this one Vista one giving me grief. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU
- Brick level backups of Exchange...not nearly as good as Backup Exec *runs out of the room* On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will have some product-specific information in it. I'm covering multiple products, so I won't go TOO deep on individual products, but I'd like to do my best to cover misunderstood or frequently asked topics for each major product. I figured that no one would know better than this list which topics people tend to get confused. What topics do you think should go on that list? (I've got my personal preferences, but I don't want to prejudice your thoughts.) What are the top 5/20/30 things about NBU that you think people get wrong? TIA --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- ) ( ) [_]) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Quick Q - when you realised the problems, were you able to plan to REVERT the systems back ? Simon Revert back to 5.1? I realize now that there should have been a plan to do that; Symantec reccomended it after hours of going nowhere but the client didn't want to. And even if they did, what is the procedure for doing this? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *not sure I would agree - it seems that going from 5.1 to 6.5 or even 6.5.1 should be the easier upgrade path.* *maybe careful planning is the key? * Honestly, I don't know how much more we could have planned/prepared. We went through the upgrade document at Symantec with a fine tooth comb; not one step was done flippantly, out of order or skipped. We ran the NBCC right before we started and had Symantec look at the output and address any inconsistencies, even got the go ahead from them that Your upgrade can now proceed. The problem was just about every step listed in that doc produced unexpected results; either the box would just sit there doing nothing, or it would come back with some error that was not addressed in the upgrade guide and had to be sent to Symantec. I will think twice about ever reccomending an in place upgrade again. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM, rascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so we found an interesting issue now with our upgrades. Right now our master/media server is experiencing issues with hot catalog backups (to tape). Here are some interesting, fun facts: 1. our master server is an aix box with multiple interfaces 2. its an upgrade from 5.1mp5 to 6.5.1 3. everything BUT catalog works just peachy 4. Error codes in include 252 (800), and 134. I have not seen that, but our upgrade is nothing short of a nightmare. We ran the NBCC tool again, and there was one error that we sent to support and they had us run a command to fix it. So we started the upgrade...*everything* took like an hour; after clicking setup, the status bar didnt move and just about the time we were going to give up it finished. Then the dreaded nbpushdata command produced an error. Sent that into support, after about 5 hours of back and forth running various commands nothing is working. NBU wont start, it generates all sorts of errors. Support finally said we should roll back to 5, but didn't tell us how. They said instead we could just patch it to 6.5.1. Well that had the predictable result of just hanging for an hour, then finally spitting back an error along the lines of Setup was interupted before it could finish What a comedy of errors this is...I don't even know where to begin, support had us run so many things that are not listed in their 20 page Upgrade Doc that I would not feel comfortable ever doing this again. In fact the next time I hear the word upgrade I am going to suggest getting new equipment, since NBU is obviously not stable enough to withstand an in place upgrade. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
Hi all, I am interested in hearing about any of the upgrades that you have done, mainly going from 5.x to 6.5 There seem to be quite a few environments (in my area) that are looking to upgrade, and I am putting together some documentation that asks questions to better prepare for it. I am still learning the ropes of NBU but I have a lot of experience with the server side of things especially Sun and AIX systems with SAN storage. I have the Symantec upgrade guide Upgrading to Veritas Netbackup 6.5 and it appears to be pretty detailed, but it just covers the steps to get from point A to point B. Some of the things I am interested in finding out: - is there anyway to estimate how long step X might take? I realize that there are so many variables that it is not possible to say popluating the EMM will take X hours but if enough people chime in on what their experience was like, maybe we can come up with an average - have there been any show stoppers that were unanticipated? We could all learn from this, knowing what questions to ask up front based on our past...er...challenges. NBU has so many options and is such a broad product that I doubt any two environments are identical. Just sort of brain storming here, looking forward to hearing (seeing?) what you all have to share. If we get a good dialog going I will attempt to compile it into something usable and post it back here. T. -- ) ( ) [_]) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Scott Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of a 5.1 to 6.5.1 upgrade in my stagging environment (Windows Master, 4 Linux Media Servers) as of yesterday and today. When finished, I'll be heading east to upgrade the operations there. Upon returning, I'll then upgrade the production system here (Windows Master, 11 Linux Media Servers with ACSLS and a SL8500 Library), so I'll have much to share. One thing I've noticed (with two different 6.5.1 media sets); many read errors. We've found it easier to copy the data to a media server and NFS mount to that location and run the install's from there. At minimum, I'd check the read or copy capability from the CD/DVD drives on the systems you intend to upgrade. -sj Interesting... Do you mean you are finding some of the NBU media to be defective? Or are we talking older drives that are flaking out? T. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.5 training
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Elena Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took Veritas NetBackup 6.5 for Solaris Administration in November. Facility is in New York City on Madison Avenue (midtown) I was very pleased with the training, esp. the instructor who was open to lots of technical questions. The weather this winter is relatively mild, although there hasn't been a lot of sun. That is good to hear, I have that class scheduled in a couple of weeks at the same location. This will be my first class with Symantec, although I did take a VCS class some time back when it was still Veritas and it was top notch. There are always a lot of variables with this type of training: what the instructor is like, if the materials are up to date and in some cases even on site, the class makeup, classroom facilities. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] How do you use NBCC?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Sean Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It made for support to look at it and you really have to let them check it out. We went through the process and it took multiple passes and fixes of problems in our catalog before we are ok to do the upgrade and the upgrade (or at least the catalog conversion) went off without a hitch. The upgrade converts the 5.1 flat files into a database. The loading of the tables in the upgrade enforces database type consistency rules that will cause the import to fail when it finds things in your current version that it does not like. As prime example is media that is still assigned to a Media server that no longer that. (Like a decommission or migration) Hope this helps Thanks for the information everyone. This step has been done and other than a tape needing to be unfrozen there were no issues reported by Symantec. As part of documenting the steps I need to take, I am going through the PDF from Symantec Upgrading to Veritas Netbackup 6.5. It is very detailed, although there are a few steps that I do not see explained: Make a copy of the current Barcode rules. How do I do this? The step to run 'nbpushdata' is also a bit confusing. Here is a snippet from the guide, it is step 17: Run the nbpushdata command. This command moves data from your current database files (a subset of the NetBackup catalog) into a newly created EMM database. The sequence of when and on what systems you run the nbpushdata command is extremely important. For more information on running nbpushdata and creating the EMM database after you upgrade servers, refer to Populating the NetBackup EMM Database in the NetBackup 6.0 Installation Guides. The following list provides the order in which you must run the nbpushdata command in your environment. a 5.x Global Device Database Host - Run nbpushdata -add on the 5.x server that was configured as the Global Device Database Host. This is usually a master server, but a media server as the Global Device Database Host is also a supported configuration b Master servers - There is no particular order in which you must run nbpushdata -add on your master servers after you have run it on the server that was configured as the Global Device Database Host. VERITAS c Volume Database Hosts - You must next run nbpushdata -add on the server designated as a Volume Database Host. If the Volume Database Host was also the Global Device Database Host or a master server, this step does not apply. d Media Servers - Any remaining media servers that have not been upgraded to NetBackup 6.5 Media servers can be upgraded at a later time. == What is a Global Device Database Host ? Is it part of the master server, and if so will I only have to run it once on the master server? There is only one master server in this environment, no (other) media servers at all. Also as part of this step, is there any way to estimate how long it will take? I suppose it has something to do with the amount of data currently being backed up, speed of the server, etc? Thanks again, T. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] How do you use NBCC?
I have an upgrade project coming up, going from 5.1 to 6.5 I have been doing some research and it was suggested that I run the utility NBCC (consistency checker). Downloaded and ran it on a test box, and I don't really get what it is supposed to tell me. Not only that, the last line in the output is to send the cab file to Symantec support for analysis. Is there any information on how I can parse what this utility is supposed to be telling me, or is my only option to have Symantec look at it? TIA, ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation
It's NTFS and you're creating and deleting a lot of files on the volume so of course it will fragment. Either defragment the volume or set the minimum threshold lower so that more files get deleted when the cleanup process runs to reduce the fragmentation. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the info guys. It sounds like fragmentation is just a given when it comes to backing up to disk? I understand that, as seeing it explained does make sense. I have been looking for some of this well documented information and have come up empty. Searching for fragmentation on Symantecs site is like a journey through the looking glass. I will keep looking, but if anyone has any links to a white paper or something it would be much appreciated. Also, when you say set the minimum threshold lower so that more files get deleted... This confused me; I mean, isn't the fragmentation being caused by so many file creation/deletions? Wouldn't increasing the amount of files being deleted also increase the fragmentation? Or did I misread that? Thanks again for the info, T. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation
On Feb 20, 2008 11:10 AM, Martin, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found through testing when we first added some 16TB of storage for Disk-2-Disk that your fragmentation is going to be directly related to how many simultaneous streams you write to a DSU/DSSU at a time. In my testing, I got a minimum amount of fragmentation with 1-2 Streams, a bit worse with 4 streams, and at my current 20 max streams we're completely 100% fragmented. Sysinternals has a took that allows you to look at your disks sector by sector to look for fragmentation, but its a bit difficult to you use on disks that are 1TB or better. I created this slide for a Netbackup Training presentation I did 6 months ago... Wow, this is excellent! Thanks much for the insight. T. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation
Has anyone heard of this issue? I have an environment where NBU 5.1 (plans to get to 6.5.1 are in the works) is backing up to disk then staging to tape. The admins tell me that the area where the backups are going gets very fragmented after each backup. It is a Windows box, using NTFS. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
