[Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Siano, James C
At one time I used cumulative inc. for just about everything; however, then the realization that is was eating up tape galore. Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. I was thinking in one case a database system called DOORS. It generates thousands of small files changing

[Veritas-bu] wanted to understand the catalog in netbackup master and media servers

2006-08-17 Thread Asiye Yiğit
Title: Message Hi All, I have a big question about the catalog included in netbackup servers. Inmy environment, there is one solaris 9 master and media server, there is one solaris 9 media server, and one windows 2003 media server.I am preparing the procedure in case one of media server

Re: [Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
James C Siano wrote: Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. Or where else would it be best used overall from those on the list using that formula? CumInc is used when you want to minimize the tape mounts for a restore and also to minimize the risk of data loss in case

Re: [Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Bob Stump
Some NetBackup admins that use diffInc will throw in a CumInc in the middle of the week. "Ed Wilts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/17/2006 7:43 AM James C Siano wrote: Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. Or where else would it be best used overall from those on the list using that

[Veritas-bu] Database backup restarts

2006-08-17 Thread Hillman, Eric
Title: Database backup restarts We have a problem whereas if a database (Sybase) job is spawned using the standard netbackup script and half way through the backup (maybe 25 out of 50 databases) the parent job failes, Netbackup restarts the parent job and ALL databases attempt to backup all

Re: [Veritas-bu] Keepalive to comm_sock

2006-08-17 Thread Steve
Keep alive are packets that are sent on idle connection to ensure the connection is still active / valid. If the keep alive fails its often because the connection itself has been severed (broken TCP connection) This can also happen if the target machine is working on something and does not have

Re: [Veritas-bu] wanted to understand the catalog in netbackup

2006-08-17 Thread bob944
You didn't specify the release. Assuming pre-NetBackup 6.0 cold catalog backups here. 1. Is All catalog information which I need to restore/backup contained in the master server. Restore, yes. I mean if one media server has gone, does the information in master server contains the

Re: [Veritas-bu] wanted to understand the catalog in netbackup master and media servers

2006-08-17 Thread Steve
See in-line On 8/17/06, Asiye Yiğit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a big question about the catalog included in netbackup servers. Inmy environment, there is one solaris 9 master and media server, there is one solaris 9 media server, and one windows 2003 media server. I am preparing

[Veritas-bu] hanging backups.

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Keating
So I've got about 6 machines, all MS-Windows at a remote site connected by 1000Mb/s ethernet over DWDM/Fiber. It seems on a nightly basis, it rotates, which of thes machines hang. The behaviour looks like the stereotypical NIC duplux mismatch, but that's been verified, and is not the caseno

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Major, Rusty
Has there been any word on an MP4 release? -Rusty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:33 PM To: 'Brooks, Jason'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler

Re: [Veritas-bu] hanging backups.

2006-08-17 Thread Jeff Lightner
Is the master a Windows machine as well? If its Unix/Linux you can download and install tcpdump which will let you specify interface and IP you wish to monitor. You can use ethereal to look at the packets captured by tcpdump. Not sure if there's a Windoze equivalent or version of those tools.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Jeff Lightner
I'm starting to get the impression that in 6 NBU = No BackUps and MP = Mangled Patch. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Major, Rusty Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:32 AM To: Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re:

[Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread Major, Rusty
We're going to upgrade very soon to 5.1 MPx. Is there a patch that's better than the others? We're upgrading to make best use of disk storage units and also to prepare for the move to 6.0 at some point. Thanks, Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP Data Assurance Engineer (281) 584-4693 VeriCenter,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
MP4 seems to be safe in a LARGE environment for us :) On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Major, Rusty wrote: We're going to upgrade very soon to 5.1 MPx. Is there a patch that's better than the others? We're upgrading to make best use of disk storage units and also to prepare for the move to 6.0 at some

Re: [Veritas-bu] HPUX server not recognizing tape drives for SAN Media Server Install

2006-08-17 Thread Shyam Hazari
Did you do run insf -e ? -Shyam On 8/17/06, Covington, Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are trying to connect a HPUX server to our McData switch so that the HPUX can be zoned to 'see' the SSO tape drives also attached to this switch. We should be able to see 6 Ultrium Lt02 drives in an

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread Shyam Hazari
We recently applied MP5. No problems so far. -Shyam On 8/17/06, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MP4 seems to be safe in a LARGE environment for us :)On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Major, Rusty wrote: We're going to upgrade very soon to 5.1 MPx. Is there a patch that's better than the others? We're

Re: [Veritas-bu] hanging backups.

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Keating
It's a solaris master. We've got a mucho-dinero full-duplex GigE sniffer / network analyzerwhich is where this data came from.ie. Hardware based pay-to-play verson of tcpdump+ethereal. Now on to trying to interpret the data from it. -- -Original Message- From: Jeff Lightner

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Brooks, Jason
The recommendation from the tech support guy dealing with the job manager crashing is to go back to MP2 and see if JM is still as flaky. I never observed the same behavior with MP2 that I've seen with MP3. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

2006-08-17 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Thanks to all, I'm new to netbackup and thats a terrible goof up. Many of the gurus out here have shown me where I err'ed. The concept is clear to me know But I'm still surprised as to why the first working day backup is approx 74 GB when the full backup on SUN is 120 GB. Well I'm planning to

[Veritas-bu] Informix 7.31 logical logs and Netbackup 6.0 performance issues

2006-08-17 Thread Sponsler, Michael
Title: Informix 7.31 logical logs and Netbackup 6.0 performance issues All, I'm having problems quickly backing up logical logs for an informix 7.31 database using Netbackup 6.0 MP2. Each Informix Server (there are many of them.) has a 550 meg staging disk that the logical logs back up

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Jeff: Well done! I am laughing so hard I am crying. Thanks for the levity. Since we went to 6 it has been an uphill climb. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:26 AM To: Major, Rusty; Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Don't go there - if you can. Get your logging up a bit (3-5). Submit your logs and ask for the newest iteration of nbpem and nbjm. They have been working on those binaries to prepare for MP4 (as I understand things). Good luck, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Sept 15! Focus on nbpem, nbjm, and hot catalog backups. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Major, Rusty Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:32 AM To: Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Brooks, Jason
Title: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems? If they can get it to work, great! I'll definitely wait a bit on this one. I'm working over trying to get a BMR case resolved so I can downgrade to MP2, per the tech support. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jorgensen, BillSent: Thu

[Veritas-bu] bptm log output format question

2006-08-17 Thread Timothy_Tobin
Within the log, each line contains 2 sets of digits (the '[3456.3432]' part shown below) in brackets separated by a dot, but have been unable to determine exactly what each side of the digit set represent. I have noticed that the 1st digit set appears to correspond to job and/or process ids, but

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread Len Boyle
We also ran into sched problems with nbu 6.0, not as bad Ed. But most of them have been fixed with MP3 and the post MP3 patches. We have three systems using netbackup 6. One is very small and only saw one sched error with a 200 error code. The second system is medium sized and we saw a little

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
Jorgensen, Bill wrote: Sept 15! Focus on nbpem, nbjm, and hot catalog backups. We've got recent nbpem and nbjm images and it's still broken. They're working on the issues but they're not quite there yet... .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread christopher . d . adkisson
Not sure what LARGE is defined as, but MP4 works ok after 7 engineering binaries from Symantec. All but one made it's way into MP5... Is there really such a thing as best patch? (Seems like an oxymoron to me) :) Christopher D. Adkisson Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL