[Veritas-bu] NDMP job backing up more data than exists??
Hello all, We have a large NetApp volume (14TB) that we are trying to backup through NDMP. The job is still running after 71 hours and it is reporting 25TB currently written. This volume is being deduped with NetApps block-level dedupe, so maybe I'm not understanding the true size of the volume. A df -s shows the following: Filesystemused saved %saved /vol/vol0/2676 0 0% /vol/ARX_Quorum/ 2620 0 0% /vol/vol1/ 9714035096 4359604200 31% I've verified we are excluding all .snapshot folders. Any help or insight is greatly appreciated. Regards, Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Any gotchas with 10 GB Ethernet?
Hello All, We are in the process of implementing 2 new Solaris media servers with 10 GB Ethernet. Are there any gotchas on the OS side or the NetBackup side I should be aware of? Any buffer settings we need to tweak or new touch files, etc? Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Drives disappearing on SUN servers with i2000 library
We have configured a new environment consisting of one SUN master as the control host, and two SUN media servers sharing 32 LTO-4 drives. Each server is a T5240 running Solaris 10. The library is a new Quantum i2000 with a single partition. The FC ports on the library can be set to Loop, Loop Preferred, or Point-to-Point. We have them set to Point-to-Point. One of the Quantum techs suggested Loop Preferred may work better, although an EMC tech suggested Point-to-Point. The switches are Brocade 5300 and are set to auto negotiate. After 4 days of testing, we notice that drives just disappear on the media servers at random times. We have made no changes since the initial setup, and can't understand why they just go away. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Regards, Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving
Is anyone using this feature within NetBackup? I recently found out about it, but it's been around since 4.5 Our catalog is approaching 1 TB in size and this looks like a good solution, as long as there are no gotchas. Just curious how it's working for people. Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Preferred hardware for Master Server?
Hello all, Does anyone out there have recommendations or possibly white papers for preferred Master Server hardware? We are looking at either a SUN T5240 or a SUN M4000. Although I'd be interested in any info on AIX too. Any info is greatly appreciated. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Qualstar Libraries??
Hello All, We are in the middle of a Physical Tape Library selection process. We have narrowed down our choices to the Quantum Scalar series and the STK SL3000, but I came across some info on the Qualstar SLX library and it looks very intriguing. So finally to the question. Is anyone out there using the Qualstar SLX and what are your thoughts? Happy? Disappointed? How's the speed, reliability, etc? Any info is greatly appreciated. Regards, Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Can I change a Media ID?
All, We just added a new robot to our environment and didn't get barcode rules set up right away. We now have a handful of Media ID's that are missing the preceding letter. For example a tape labeled C01234 is showing up with Media ID 01234L (the L designates LTO media). Other than duplicating the backups, is there a way for me to change the Media ID's without losing the backup images? Regard, Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] set_ndmp_attr question
I see there's been a wave of NDMP questions lately, so I thought I'd join in too. I'm trying to set up NDMP 3-way backups with NetApp filers. I've successfully configured the primary filer, but I keep receiving Status 99 errors for the 3rd party filer. The detailed status shows: Error bptm (pid-2220317) NDMP attribute lookup failed - verify attributes with set_ndmp_attr I ran set_ndmp_attr -auth $filer_name $user_name $encrypted_passwd and set_ndmp_attr -verify $filer_name for all filers and received a successful login response. Do I need to stop and start the daemons after running the above commands? Any other ideas? Thanks much! Tom Tschida Guidant Corporation ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
You're right about the STK's. We have L20's, L40's, L700's and even an old 9740, and they can al be opened without taking them off-line. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:39 AM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Really? I haven't used that particular model, but that reminds me of the OLD Quantum 4x100 libraries (forgot the model number) from years ago. I'm pretty sure that you can open the CAP on an ADIC (now Quantum), STK (now Sun) and IBM library without taking the library offline. (Anyone want to say different?) Is this just a PX510 thing, or is this all Quantum (non-ADIC) libraries? Am I right about the other libraries not having this issue? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: Sponsler, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:31 AM To: Curtis Preston; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP
All, Hopefully these are two quick and easy NDMP questions for the group: 1) How do I enable multiple jobs per filer with NDMP? 2) In a Dell tech doc, it specifies setting the max fragment size per NDMP storage unit to 0. Is that really the recommended setting? Thanks much. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP
I would like to run multiple jobs (policies) in parallel. Currently, only one job will run at a time, and additional jobs will queue. I'm running NB 6.0 MP4, by the way. Tom -Original Message- From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:17 PM To: Tschida, Tom (STP); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP Hello Tom, The answer to question 1 depends on what you mean by multiple jobs per filer. First of all are you looking to do multiple jobs in parallel or just do multiple volumes or qtrees. In the ndmp policy you can list multiple volumes or qtrees in the policy with optional new stream statements. You can also define multiple policies with one or more volumes or qtrees in each policy. So you could have policy-netapp1-vol0 /* for vol0 */ Then policy-netapp2-vol1 /* for vol1 */ Orpolicy-netapp2-vol-xyz /* for flex vol xyz */ These names are just made up, but they should give you the idea. It all depends on what you want. I have not looked at question 2 for a while, so with a fuzzy memory I will say yes. Remember the netapp is doing the backup and it does not know from netapp's fraq's. netbackup does have the netapp put netbackup labels on the tape. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tschida, Tom (STP) Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:57 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP All, Hopefully these are two quick and easy NDMP questions for the group: 1) How do I enable multiple jobs per filer with NDMP? 2) In a Dell tech doc, it specifies setting the max fragment size per NDMP storage unit to 0. Is that really the recommended setting? Thanks much. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Aptare gotchas?
Title: 185 error Hello all, we're looking at purchasing Aptare for our NetBackup and BackupExec (yes, they will be supporting BE this starting this month) environments. It's it promoted for the most part as easy plug-n-play. Does anyone have any lessons learned regarding the implementation of this tool? Any info is appreciated. Thanks, Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Trying to identify expired tapes
Gurus, I have a request from our legal department to identify all tapes written within a one year period. Unfortunately, that period is just outside of our retention. What I did: From a Full backup of the Master server just after the requested period, I restored the images directory, netbackup/db/media/mediaDB, volmgr/database/volDB and poolDB and class directory to a server in our lab. I created the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire file, moved all restored files in place, then stopped and restarted NetBackup on the test server. I was able to run bpimagelist and identify all the tapes written to during the time period. The problem is, when I run bpmedialist on the individual tapes, it says they are not in the NB media database, even though they can be seen in the GUI under media. They also show up with vmquery. The question is, do I still need to restore something, or am I just totally missing something with NB functionality? Any help is appreciated. Tom Tschida Guidant Corporation ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] AIX pSeries for master?
Just curious if anyone is using an AIX LPAR on a pSeries frame as a Master Server. Any gotchas or hints? Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida Guidant Corp ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
