Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have masters and db backup tapes? Our main site backs up to disk so that is not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any ideas or suggestions? Greg - did this ever get answered? I didn't see it when I was catching up. Regarding: However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. It shouldn't have been ejected, unless you have a process to eject it and replace it, physically, and update the bpsyncinfo data in the configure catalog backups interface. You can it differently, but the way Vault has always worked is that it produces a _new_ catalog backup tape--you don't eject either of the two offline-catalog-backup tapes. This part of the sequence is o duplicate images (optional) to Duplicates (historical, not required) pool o duplicate (actually, make a new one) the catalog backup to NBDB_Duplicates (again, the old 3.1 name for the pool) o eject everything in Duplicates and NBDB_Duplicates o inject everything returned from offsite The new catalog backup your produce will also have the information about the duplicatations that happen just before you produce it, as well. Note that the offline catalog backup process does _not_ draw tapes from your scratch pool as normal backups do. You must seed the NBDB_Duplicates pool with tapes or Vault's catalog backup step will fail. As there is nothing with less value than an older catalog backup tape, if you have a daily run from your offsite vendor, and handle tapes individually (rather than in cases), set the retention on NBDB_Duplicates to, say, 7 days (no matter what the retention of the other tapes you send out) and have more than seven tapes in that pool. That covers days/weekends/holidays/mistakes when one doesn't get brought back for a few days and you don't have to worry about it again. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
Rsync is great, use it too . Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Fogarty Sent: 05 December 2006 17:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Hindle, Greg' Cc: 'NB List Mail' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR I do something similar. I backup my catalogue to Disk. I then rsync both the catalogue and images to the DR site. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:51 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR If you re just talking the catalogue backups then i have mine done to tape which remains in the robot and then i run a job from cron ( unix ) which runs a script containing bpbackupdb to a file store location. I then scp these compressed files over to my DR site for the event of DR where i turn my DR netbackup server into my production netbackup server by restoring the catalogues ( and a bit of other jiggery pokery ). Hope that helps Dave Hindle, Greg wrote: Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have masters and db backup tapes? Our main site backs up to disk so that is not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any ideas or suggestions? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 -- -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have masters and db backup tapes? Our main site backs up to disk so that is not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any ideas or suggestions? Vault should have an option to duplicate your DB tape to include in the vault. Do you have that set? Is it getting duplicated and not included, or is it not getting duplicated? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
I do something similar. I backup my catalogue to Disk. I then rsync both the catalogue and images to the DR site. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:51 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR If you re just talking the catalogue backups then i have mine done to tape which remains in the robot and then i run a job from cron ( unix ) which runs a script containing bpbackupdb to a file store location. I then scp these compressed files over to my DR site for the event of DR where i turn my DR netbackup server into my production netbackup server by restoring the catalogues ( and a bit of other jiggery pokery ). Hope that helps Dave Hindle, Greg wrote: Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have masters and db backup tapes? Our main site backs up to disk so that is not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any ideas or suggestions? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 -- -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
I rotate my tapes - so every week, they rotate and stored in a safe. I have even created my own DR solution, which gives anyone the need to put in a CD, restore Server from image, and run bprecover. I used to do disk-based backups. Not anymore. I do however, take OFFLINE Backups of the system - though its not supported, but it does work and has been used as a last resort method. Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Steve Fogarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 December 2006 17:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Hindle, Greg' Cc: 'NB List Mail' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR I do something similar. I backup my catalogue to Disk. I then rsync both the catalogue and images to the DR site. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:51 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR If you re just talking the catalogue backups then i have mine done to tape which remains in the robot and then i run a job from cron ( unix ) which runs a script containing bpbackupdb to a file store location. I then scp these compressed files over to my DR site for the event of DR where i turn my DR netbackup server into my production netbackup server by restoring the catalogues ( and a bit of other jiggery pokery ). Hope that helps Dave Hindle, Greg wrote: Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have masters and db backup tapes? Our main site backs up to disk so that is not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any ideas or suggestions? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 -- -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
