Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP question (drive sharing)

2005-12-12 Thread william . d . brown
The DataONTAP manuals go into some detail about how to configure shared drives, and the use of the scsi reservations. As I read it this is only really designed if you are using the native 'dump' kind of backups. In theory you may be able to do what you want if you follow the NetApp

RE: [Veritas-bu] Need help with Windoze clients

2005-12-12 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Eric: Thank you for the reply... Have you tried performing an nslookup on these clients from your master media servers ? also a tracert ? I have run numerous lookups on the clients with success from the clients - master server and master server - clients. I have not done a tracert. Is

RE: [Veritas-bu] Disaster recovery configuration

2005-12-12 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Bobby: If you were to chose the route suggested by Kris (we do this) make sure that you replicate /usr/openv/volmgr/database/poolDB and /usr/openv/volmgr/database/volDB too. When you fire up the alternate site you will need to inventory the robot so that the volDB and poolDB databases can be

Re: [Veritas-bu] VxSS 4.1.2.7 console won't start

2005-12-12 Thread Wayne T Smith
The docs say VxSS is required for NOM. Perhaps it is important that VxSS 4.2.2.20 is the supported version? cheers, wayne Paul Keating wrote, in part, on 12/9/2005 3:20 PM: good luck. we had a consultant in from our veritas var, who worked for 2 months with his support reps, and

RE: [Veritas-bu] Which backups ran on tape L00123?

2005-12-12 Thread Mark . Donaldson
Title: Message Suspending a tape keeps it from being written to until the last image on that tape expires. Then the tape returns to read/write. Freezing a tape keeps it from being written to forever. Both are options to the bpmedia command. To find images on tapes, use "bpimmedia

RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP question (drive sharing)

2005-12-12 Thread Mark . Donaldson
Thanks all, This is, unfortunately the answer I expected (no drive sharing pre-v6). So - anybody out there using v6 with SSO-shared NDMP drives? -M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:43 PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp like command for Windows

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Stump
bpgp was called by add_slave_on_clients to get the bp.conf file on a UNIX client so it could be modified and resent to the client. I don't see any need for bpgp to be on a windows system. I was given the proper syntax for bpgp to get a windows file onto a UNIX server by Greg Sheka. # bpgp from

Re: [Veritas-bu] VxSS 4.1.2.7 console won't start

2005-12-12 Thread Rob Worman
Adam- I have observed some oddities when it comes to launching the vxss GUI. (aka On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:34:30AM -0500 or thereabouts, Wayne T Smith wrote: The docs say VxSS is required for NOM. Perhaps it is important that VxSS 4.2.2.20 is the supported version? cheers, wayne

Re: [Veritas-bu] VxSS 4.1.2.7 console won't start

2005-12-12 Thread Rob Worman
Hey, what did that mutt do to my email??? Anyway, what I MEANT to send was... I saw the same error trying to run the VRTSat 4.1.2.5 GUI. In my case, I was suprised to realize that it was because I was setting the CLASSPATH environment variable in /etc/profile. If I instead manually set my

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp like command for Windows

2005-12-12 Thread ida3248b
Thanks, but I'm stuck with a windows only environment Michael On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:21:14 -0500, Bob Stump wrote bpgp was called by add_slave_on_clients to get the bp.conf file on a UNIX client so it could be modified and resent to the client. I don't see any need for bpgp to be on a

[Veritas-bu] VAULT: how to turn off resetting Vault ID/Slot

2005-12-12 Thread alex.gerber
Hey Guys: Need help. I've recently implemented Vault. I would like to move slotted media instead of containers at my offsite storage facility. I would like to assign each tape an individual Vault Container/Slot ID. I know how to assign the ID, but I noticed something odd during my testing.

RE: [Veritas-bu] Hard symbolic link restore issue...

2005-12-12 Thread Mark . Donaldson
There's an extensive discussion of the interaction of hard-links Netbackup in on pages 114-116 of the v5.x SAG (vol 1). Hard-links, as you're probably aware, can't cross filesystem boundaries so restoring to a mixed set of filesystems is bound to cause link issues. In a DR situation, I suspect

[Veritas-bu] NBU v6 Down-revved Clients?

2005-12-12 Thread Daryl Katauskas
Hello All: I've a two-part question that doesn't seem to covere4d in the NBU v6.0 dox nor the NBU v6.0 Compatability matrix. Here goes: 1. Is NBU v4.5 supported as an NBU v6.0 client? 2. What is the Veritas approved upgrade method for for upgrading clients from v4.5 to v6.0? (The v6.0

Re: [Veritas-bu] VAULT: how to turn off resetting Vault ID/Slot

2005-12-12 Thread Rob Worman
Try using the inventory robot option (aka vmupdate) instead of vltinject. HTH rob On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:10:51PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys: Need help. I've recently implemented Vault. I would like to move slotted media instead of containers at my offsite

[Veritas-bu] Cleaning Tape SAN Media Server

2005-12-12 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Good Morning. Well so far, I am having alot more successful backups. I get the very odd status 84 message appear, but the backups do continue and complete. Looking into this more, I wonder if my drives need cleaning. I have purchased 2 tape cleaning media's - is there a way