[Veritas-bu] Linux SUSE as master/media server..

2006-02-10 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi all, Anyone running SUSE Linux as combined Master/Media server (no SSO). This is for a smaller installation with 30 clients. MVH / Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43 Tel mob: +46 (0)70 - 217 92 66 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow NetWrae backups.

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi Mark Would need to know alot more about the setup and the Netware clients, what types of files you are backing up, Netware server configuration. I am guessing that this is simply a Backup over the "Network". Do you have any idea as to what speed they are using or what

RE: [Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Justin You could try, although you may get a message along the lines of "client not allowed" or something like this! Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From:

[Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
All my master servers are 5.1.x, some of the media servers however are still running at 4.5_FP6. Will there be any issues if I upgrade all of my clients to 5.1 as the media servers are still at the 4.5_FP6 revision? Justin.

[Veritas-bu] Obtain list of clients in policy from command line?

2006-02-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am reading the Commands for UNIX now but if anyone knows the command off the top of their head?

[Veritas-bu] Re: Obtain list of clients in policy from command line?

2006-02-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
I found it, bppclients policyname. On 2/10/06, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reading the Commands for UNIX now but if anyone knows the command off the top of their head?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 06:18:55AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: All my master servers are 5.1.x, some of the media servers however are still running at 4.5_FP6. Will there be any issues if I upgrade all of my clients to 5.1 as the media servers are still at the 4.5_FP6 revision? I don't

RE: [Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Ed I agree, believe that it may not work, or get properly backed up (ie: trying to backup a Win2k3 server on a 3.4 server works, but restoring is IMPOSSIBLE) !! Regards Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow NetWrae backups.

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: February 10, 2006 3:10 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow NetWrae backups. Where

RE: [Veritas-bu] Obtain list of clients in policy from command line?

2006-02-10 Thread Bob Stump
I copied all of the documents from the installation cd's into folders in My Documents I have a 5.0 folder 5.1 folder and a 6.0 folder. I frequently search the pdf docs for phrases. It's handy and always available. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/10/2006 7:22 AM Justin You really should

RE: [Veritas-bu] Obtain list of clients in policy from command l ine?

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin Send me a blank email - I have something you are gonna love :-) Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2006 13:14

[Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Brooks, Jason
I've been thinking of how best to offsite my catalog tapes for disaster recovery. Currently, our catalog is backed up after each session of scheduled backups is completed. With disk staging, that means twice daily. I want to minimize the window of manual catalog reconstruction while effectively

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Keating
bash-2.03# man bpbackupdb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: February 10, 2006 9:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery As I can see it now,

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Brooks, Jason
Paul, Thanks for the tip. That, along with bpdbjobs to look for running backups will go a long wat to automating this. Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:12 AM To:

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Jason Yes will never see a Cat Backup queue - reason being is it waits until all scheduled jobs are completed. Also, if you attempt to run a Cat backup during a normal policy backup, I believe it will wait. The idea behind the integrity of the Cat DB is to ensure nothing else IS running, while

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Keating
Disregard Apparantly, specifying -m MEDIAID is all that's required...NBU figures out the rest. I was tripping it up, by trying to tell it to use a specific -tpath Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Keating Sent: February 10, 2006 9:43 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Brooks, Jason
Great! That's what I was wondering. One less step... -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:06 AM To: Brooks, Jason; Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:05:48PM -, WEAVER, Simon wrote: Yes will never see a Cat Backup queue - reason being is it waits until all scheduled jobs are completed. Also, if you attempt to run a Cat backup during a normal policy backup, I believe it will wait. It won't - you can force a

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Keating
Gah! Scratch that again...it succeeds but ignored the media ID you specify, and backs up to one of the pre-configured media. Back to square one. Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Keating Sent: February 10, 2006 10:12 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread David Rock
* Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-10 06:27]: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 06:18:55AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: All my master servers are 5.1.x, some of the media servers however are still running at 4.5_FP6. Will there be any issues if I upgrade all of my clients to 5.1 as the media

RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Hi Ed In my NBU 5.1 one of the warning messages is to advise you that any activity during the backup can cause integrity of the catalogue backup / database. Not sure I would want to run anything while a Catalogue Backup is running. Agreed, will be interesting to see NBU 6 supporting this feature

Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux SUSE as master/media server..

2006-02-10 Thread Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka
Runs smoothly and with no problems. We are using Netbackup 5.1MP3 on RedHat Enterprise 3. The hardware is Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Storagetek L40 library with 4 LTO-2 tape drives. On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:00:27AM +0100, Hampus Lind wrote: Hi all, Anyone running SUSE Linux as combined

Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux SUSE as master/media server..

2006-02-10 Thread Robin Small
We are running that with about 80 clients (and some remote NetWare NDMP medias) works nicely, although I do have a problem with some of the daemons not starting correctly on a reboot/restart (on two different masters) not sure if it's a function of SLES9 in general or SLES9SP3 (that we upgraded

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:48:04PM -, WEAVER, Simon wrote: Also, if I am wrong tell me, but even if you TRY to start a backup, it does not start until the Catalogue Backup has been completed !? OK, you're wrong :-). It actually depends on how the catalog backup is invoked. If it's the

[Veritas-bu] NDMP oddity

2006-02-10 Thread Charles Ballowe
Situation: NetBackup 5.0 - unix master NetApp R200s So - one master, more than one netapp. There are storage units configured for each of the netapps and they claim to be writing to their right storage unit, but they seem to be doing 3-way NDMP backups. I.e. Job kicks of to backup a filesystem on

[Veritas-bu] Real world overhead of Encryption

2006-02-10 Thread Horn, Brian
Does anyone have any estimates of real world overhead due to turning on encryption? That is, if I turn on encryption across the board, how much extra time/resources will be needed?