Re: [Veritas-bu] Help importing expired backups

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Steve EOF - Oh dear :-( It sounds like a case I had before and basically, its looking for images on the tapes (from the PHASE1 import) that do not appear to be there! Unless something else has recently overwritten images on the tape, or the tape has expired, or there may be another tape to be

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Tim Well you can buy the IDR Add-on for NetBackup if you want! Your "meant" to be able to :-) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACS error

2006-08-02 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Thanks Simon Will have to investigate how long they have been happening for, in a new contract and trying to clean up. Seems as though you are leaning to hardware ? Going to enable the the ACS logs to get a better understanding of what is happening at the time. Regards

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread Spearman, David
Title: Message Tim, Windows is the easiest restore in the entire venue. From scratch, load the OS (patched to whatever level your version of NBU requires) and leave it in the workgroup mode with a workgroup having the same name as the domain it was in.Load the nbu agent, partition the

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACS error

2006-08-02 Thread ida3248b
Hello David Have you tried to start the acssi deamon by hand ? I think there is an appendix in the Media Manager Guide about ACSLS and how to troubleshoot the connection to it. Regards Michael On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:49:05 +0100, Clooney, David wrote Hi everyone We seem to be getting an

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message David What is the bug, as we use MP2 NBU 5.1 can you provide details on this? Thanks Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL

2006-08-02 Thread briandiven
Title: Message or Diligent, STK, IBM, Copan Systems, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jim HoralekSent: Tue 8/1/2006 5:23 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL Unfortunately no one has answered Juan's question. Any Data Domain, Reo,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread Shyam Hazari
Check this tech note. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/251163.htm I had to recover a production server after crash few weeks back. What I did was to restore system_state and C: drive at one go. Make sure you have enough space in the C: drive. Otherwise it will not restore all the required

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message I heard about this - does anyone know why the restore needs MORE disk space to recover the OS ? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message From what I understand, any "in use" files, such as system files, are not over written in situ, but rather are restored to an alternate namesort of, and tagged for the OS to swap it after reboot. so since the file in use, and the new restored file both exist, you need

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL

2006-08-02 Thread Jeff Lightner
You might want to in order to do database refreshes by restoring one machines database backup to another's database. We currently do that with tape using the FORCE_MEDIA_RESTORE option in our SSO setup. I don't think having separate disks would eliminate this need unless you wanted to do a 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread Shyam Hazari
The system files are queued up when you do the restore(it will not replace when the system is running). The files are replaced when you do a reboot. -Shyam On 8/2/06, WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard about this - does anyone know why the restore needs MORE disk space to recover

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Title: Message The open file writes don't occur until after reboot. So essentially you've got multiple copies of many window files just sitting around in temporary locations waiting for the next reboot to replace the original file. IMO if you are THAT strapped for space on your C: you've

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Jonathan I am assuming its only for files in use - because lets assume you have an 8GB Partition and 6GB is filled with apps / OS. If NetBackup needs MORE than 2GB, that is going to be a problem. Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)

2006-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Same here Paul I get them ALL the time!! I think its more of an AUTO RESPONSE, rather than Out Of Office (This should only appear once and no more!) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage

Re: [Veritas-bu] Jobs won't go active

2006-08-02 Thread Barber, Layne \(Contractor\)
If you created a new stu on these, did you restart netbackup? Usually that will happen on a new storage unit if you don't stop and restart NBU. You can also try the following commands if you can't stop NBU right now. Sometimes it will work and sometimes you just have to restart NBU. bprdreq

[Veritas-bu] Jobs won't go active

2006-08-02 Thread Forester, Jack L
I've recently added a few new SAN media servers to my environment NBU 5.1MP5) and we are trying to run some test backups from these servers. The job gets submitted and shows up queued in the activity monitor and stays that way. I left one like that overnight, and it was still queued this morning.

[Veritas-bu] How many days back can Advanced Reporter report on?

2006-08-02 Thread Kilpatrick, Mark
How many days back can advanced reporter report on? It currently reports on 28 days. Can this number of days be configured to record history for the previous 365 days? Thanks, Mark ** This email and any files

[Veritas-bu] bpstart/bpend_notify - any way to run them from the master server?

2006-08-02 Thread Shane Liebling
Hey all, I am looking to run some scripts on the master server when jobs kick off and/or end. I know about the bpstart/bpend scripts, but they run on the client-side AFAIK. I also know about backup_exit_notify, but I also need the start info as well. Any suggestions? -Shane

[Veritas-bu] archiving for restore without netbackup

2006-08-02 Thread Kris Reiss
All - Wondering if I can archive a few large directories to tape, assuring that someone without NetBackup would be able to access the files. Basically I need to mail someone their 500g home directory. I have searched docs and the list and found nothing relatied to this, but if it is there and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Jobs won't go active

2006-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Whelan, Patrick wrote: I have found that if you run bprdreq -rereadconfig; bpschedreq -read_stunits; bpschedreq -read_stu_config And I've run into a case where doing this killed NetBackup to the point that no jobs ran. Safer to restart NBU IMO. NBU

[Veritas-bu] Oracle Hot Backups using TimeFinder BCV

2006-08-02 Thread Shyam Hazari
Anyone out there using BCV's to do hot backups of Oracle databases ? I have few questions After mounting the BCV's on the backup host 1) Do you backup the filesystems ? or Start the database on the backup host and do a hot backup using RMAN ? 2) Also how you backup the archive logs and how

Re: [Veritas-bu] archiving for restore without netbackup

2006-08-02 Thread Lee, Kenneth \(SBS US\)
If you want someone without NetBackup to access the files, use tar, dd, or cpio. I am assuming you are on a Unix box. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Reiss Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:01 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Hot Backups using TimeFinder BCV

2006-08-02 Thread Lee, Kenneth \(SBS US\)
There is no need to do RMAN on the backup host, just do a file system backup. I am assuming that you are doing something to put Oracle in backup mode before you do your split. As for the archive logs, it depends on how your file system was set up. If your archive logs are on the BCV

[Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR Type 5 on Solaris Server with 5.1 MP4

2006-08-02 Thread JAJA \(Jamie Jamison\)
I'm trying to restore a file from an NDMP volume and it fails with 'status 5 - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR'. When this happens nothing shows in the console of my NetApp filer and the message I get on the backup/restore console is WRN - Cannot restore from filepath /vol/volW5a,

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR Type 5on Solaris Server with 5.1 MP4

2006-08-02 Thread Len Boyle
You have to look at the logs on the netapp. You can look in the /etc/messages file, but I suspect that you will not find anything. There is also an ndmplog (watch my spelling) If memory serve me you issue the command on the netapp of ndmpd debug xx where the higher the number the more