Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 MP3 Policies

2006-08-10 Thread jakub . bielecki
What you have been told is 100% normal practice. I have zillion of environments with policies mixing full/inc and different retention levels. I've seen no environment with separate inc policies. Moreover I'm under the impression that separate inc policy always backups all files (NetBackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Gen3 read LTO Gen2 tapes

2006-08-10 Thread jakub . bielecki
Right, fire up Shared Drive Wizard and change one drive from HCART3 to HCART2. Then create storage unit of type HCART2 for all SSO media servers in question. You're ready to restore. I've tested it even with LTO1 - LTO3. Later you can change drive back to HCART3 (but you can leave storage units

Re: [Veritas-bu] tape drive serial number changed when drive failed - what do I do?

2006-08-10 Thread Marianne van den Berg
New TechNote for 5.x : http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/271280.htm How to replace devices in a shared storage option configuration on NetBackup media servers Regards Marianne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Vosberg Sent: 09

[Veritas-bu] Timeout for ejecting media

2006-08-10 Thread James
Hi All I would like to automate the ejection of media from an Quantum ATL (TLD) robot by kicking off a vmchange -w from cron. The problem I have is that is the media isn't taken out of the MAP within 30 minutes then the robot will re-inject the media. The SAG suggests this timeout is robot

[Veritas-bu] EMM Peroformance Tuning

2006-08-10 Thread Veritas NetBackup
Guys, Have you guys have any Tuning Parameter for EMM Database? I've Doc from Veritas I would like to know real environment Paramaters and experience Regards, Khajan. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] BMR Admin Guide 5.1 MP5

2006-08-10 Thread Clooney, David
Hi doe anyone have a bare metal restore guide that the y could send a copy of. Saying that, does BMR work with openVMS ? It would be much apprecaited. Regards DaveNotice to recipient:The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It

Re: [Veritas-bu] how long does it take to convert catalog ASCII - binary?

2006-08-10 Thread David Rock
* Vassileff, Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-10 11:20]: Hello All I am looking for real life experience with NetBackup catalog conversion ASCII - binary (15GB) on SUN V490. How long will it approximately take? Any bad experiences / issues with such a conversion? Generally, a single image

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 MP3 Policies

2006-08-10 Thread David Rock
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-10 09:46]: What you have been told is 100% normal practice. I have zillion of environments with policies mixing full/inc and different retention levels. I've seen no environment with separate inc policies. Moreover I'm under the impression

Re: [Veritas-bu] (Sorry) 84 Errors - answer!

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
Title: Message Hi, I wanted to take the time to thanks every one who responded to me regarding this issue. The problem I was having was with the disks using older technology. I have since corrected this and backups are running fine. Thanks, Matthew Johnson Entertainment

[Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

2006-08-10 Thread Deiter Scott
SETUP: Windows 2000 and 2003 clients Netbackup 5.1 mp4 Solaris master/media The bparchive is setup as a user backup and scripted in a dos.bat file. PROBLEM: We have been forced to archive our sql tranasctions logs.

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR Admin Guide 5.1 MP5

2006-08-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Clooney, David wrote: Saying that, does BMR work with openVMS ? I'm pretty sure it does not. However, OpenVMS doesn't really need it since it can restore to alternate hardware without any weird and wonderful driver changes. The instructions for a

[Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting We are looking at reporting software for Netbackup. We are looking at Storage Console from Aptare. But I understand 6.0 with Nom also has reporting built in. We are currently running 5.0 mp6 but are planning to upgrade to 6.0. Is anyone using NOM and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-10 Thread David Rock
* Hindle, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-10 14:18]: We are looking at reporting software for Netbackup. We are looking at Storage Console from Aptare. But I understand 6.0 with Nom also has reporting built in. We are currently running 5.0 mp6 but are planning to upgrade to 6.0. Is anyone

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-10 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
The thing I really like about Aptare is it's *real time* capability. As soon as a backup ends, the information is pushed from the master server to the Aptare server. Nice! I found Bocada to be seriously wanting when being used in a large environment for this reason specifically b/c the lowest

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

2006-08-10 Thread bob944
Windows 2000 and 2003 clients Netbackup 5.1 mp4 Solaris master/media The bparchive is setup as a user backup bparchive is a user archive, not a user backup. Details are important. and scripted in a dos.bat file. PROBLEM: We have been forced to archive

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

2006-08-10 Thread Mansell, Richard
For our MS SQL databases we have included a final step in the hourly transaction log dump which triggers a NetBackup job that performs a differential backup to a disk staged area on the backup server. The staged area then gets backed up to tape every three hours. The transaction logs left on

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-10 Thread Tristan Ball
Title: Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting I found NOM to be painfully buggy, and its reporting structure to be a little inflexible. That said, it does store everything in a SQL database, so with a little bit of work, you can get access to that and use any sql reporting software you like. T

[Veritas-bu] Reference points for incrementals (was: NetBackup 5.1 MP3 Policies)

2006-08-10 Thread bob944
That is correct. You MUST have the fulls and incs in the SAME policy for the incs to work. Otherwise, they have nothing to compare against and have no way to actually do an incremental backup. Correct enough, in the context of explaining NetBackup to the neophyte as you and the previous

Re: [Veritas-bu] tape drive serial number changed when drive fail ed - what do I do?

2006-08-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Bobby Sorry, but I am with Jonathan - in a Windows environment, it can be done! 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:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 MP3 Policies

2006-08-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi I have Policies that contain FULL, INCR and believe it or not Monthly with higher retention periods via the Calendar Schedule. Nothing wrong with this :-) If an Incremental was in a seperate policy, you would end up using ALOT of tapes. why you may ask? Well without a

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Gen3 read LTO Gen2 tapes

2006-08-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Taylor No probs - I moved from LTO1 to LTO3 and had the same issues. What I done (quite simply) Expand Devices Expand Hosts From the Master choose the DRIVES TAB (in the GUI its at the bottom) Right Click a Drive and change Press Next and choose I want to change general attributes for drive In