Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
No, but it does work to NFS mount the image catalog in a pinch. We had a sudden disk full condition on the local array containing the catalog and a SAN drive wasn¹t available, so this was the recommendation from Symantec --except, unbeknownst to them at the time, bpcatarc throws an error and quits... Yes, it was a fun time. Neil On 12/10/10 12:58 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based databases (like Oracle does). .../Ed ___ 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] Catalog Archiving Solution
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based databases (like Oracle does). .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
Kind of a side question... does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? I know they didn't used to support that, but the catalog is getting a bit big these days to keep running it off of internal disk... Thoughts? Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage and Database Administration ICBC - Victoria Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:59 PM To: Conner, Neil Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.orgmailto:n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based databases (like Oracle does). .../Ed This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chapman, Scott scott.chap...@icbc.comwrote: Kind of a side question… does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? I know they didn’t used to support that, but the catalog is getting a bit big these days to keep running it off of internal disk… Thoughts? They've supported this for years and years. Our catalog has been EVA-based for what seems like forever. It's about to go local with our new master server which has enough slots - and spindles are getting big enough - that local SAS is doable again. Our catalog is about 740GB. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
Scott We have our catalogs on SAN disk and have never had an issue receiving support on it. Daniel Jimenez Backup and Recovery Team From: Chapman, Scott [mailto:scott.chap...@icbc.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:01 PM To: 'Ed Wilts'; 'Conner, Neil' Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; 'Veritas List' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution Kind of a side question... does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? I know they didn't used to support that, but the catalog is getting a bit big these days to keep running it off of internal disk... Thoughts? Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage and Database Administration ICBC - Victoria Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:59 PM To: Conner, Neil Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.orgmailto:n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based databases (like Oracle does). .../Ed This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately. inline: image001.jpg___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
Neil I will take a look at the guide and open up a support ticket, thanks for your help. Daniel Jimenez Backup and Recovery Team From: Conner, Neil [mailto:n...@mbari.org] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:29 PM To: Jimenez, Daniel; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution The Admin guide covers it in basic terms. There are a suite of commands like bpcatarc, bpcatlist, bpcatres, etc. I used it once to archive a portion of my catalog and then recovered it later. It does what it claims to do, but I did encounter some details that weren't documented (in 6.5 anyway). It's policy-driven and it writes to tape so you have to take the obvious precautions. Make sure your catalog is in a consistent state before beginning Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted Check for KB articles that go into more detail than the Admin guide Neil On 12/10/10 11:49 AM, Jimenez, Daniel daniel.jime...@owb.com wrote: Good Friday to Everyone I am looking to find a way to reduce our large catalog and would like to find out if anyone has an archiving solution that would work for a Catalog? Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Backup and Recovery Team ___ 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] Catalog Archiving Solution
Thanks Ed and Daniel! Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage and Database Administration ICBC - Victoria Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295 From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:54 PM To: Chapman, Scott; 'Ed Wilts'; 'Conner, Neil' Cc: 'Veritas List' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution Scott We have our catalogs on SAN disk and have never had an issue receiving support on it. Daniel Jimenez Backup and Recovery Team From: Chapman, Scott [mailto:scott.chap...@icbc.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:01 PM To: 'Ed Wilts'; 'Conner, Neil' Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; 'Veritas List' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution Kind of a side question... does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? I know they didn't used to support that, but the catalog is getting a bit big these days to keep running it off of internal disk... Thoughts? Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage and Database Administration ICBC - Victoria Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:59 PM To: Conner, Neil Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.orgmailto:n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based databases (like Oracle does). .../Ed This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately. This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately.inline: image001.jpg___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution
Kind of a side question… does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? The question to ask yourself when considering this is, where is the data that you're backing up, and where is the catalog that you need in order to restore it? Personally, I don't want both items on the same array. - Bluejay Adametz In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences. - Robert G. Ingersoll NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all attachments, and any copies thereof. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
