Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification - Policies

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Ok, so short answer - if a backup fails for 1 policy, rather than using a MANUAL POLICY, simply restart the original policy again, and where applicable, cancel the stream or streams that do not need backing up (in other words, do a full on the streams that have failed) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification - Policies

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Jonathan Not sure what EXT3 is, but I understand how the archive bit works - that was not the actual issue - issue I wanted to clarify is whether NBU would treat 2 policies differently for the same client. :-) Thanks Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread smpt
Hi, 1) The installation is the same as in any UNIX system. Install VCS, install NetBackup and run the cluster script. It is working fine. But I don't know the cost 2) The only way for an individual to merge tapes from many NetBackup domains is to import the tapes. But maybe Veritas services have

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist columns

2006-08-30 Thread Ilya Voronin
http://support.veritas.com/docs/193085 On 8/30/06, Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning All Does any have the column names for the fragment output of bpimagelist ? Most of them you can pretty much work out however would be useful to have all the columns? FRAG 1 1 2048000 0 2

[Veritas-bu] FW: bpimagelist columns

2006-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Much appreciated Andy From: Chisholm, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 August 2006 10:07To: Clooney, DavidSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist columns http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/193085.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks for the response. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, smpt wrote: Hi, 1) The installation is the same as in any UNIX system. Install VCS, install NetBackup and run the cluster script. It is working fine. But I don't know the cost 2) The only way for an individual to merge tapes from many NetBackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Dean
I concur with what Stefanos said.In relation to 2), Veritas do offer a service where they send you a consultant with some scripts to do a catalog merge.On 8/30/06, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response.On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, smpt wrote: Hi, 1) The installation is the same

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Not really acceptable, we should be able to do it ourselves.. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dean wrote: I concur with what Stefanos said. In relation to 2), Veritas do offer a service where they send you a consultant with some scripts to do a catalog merge. On 8/30/06, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin I think what is being said, is that unless anyone else other than Veritas / Symantec do the work, then its not supported :-) Symantec do have a Consultancy Service, however I am pretty sure it can be done by yourself, whether it will work successfully remains to be seen! It's a bit like

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread bob944
For some investigation and other work, I did phase 1 bpimports of a few tapes. Now the work is done and I won't be doing phase 2. Is there a way to tell netbackup to forget the phase 1 step? I'd rather not have the 'bpimport -p' output cluttered with these old tapes forever. I didn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Darren Could well be wrong, but I don't think there is anything left over or it is removed by NBU if the Phase 2 is not carried out shortly after. This may be wrong, but I could well be right :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Do you want to move the robotic control to a different media server? or you're adding a newmedia server and you want to move the robotics, and the drives to the new media server? just wondering, cuz moving therobotic control to another server isn't gonna save much. Sounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700 Management interface

2006-08-30 Thread william . d . brown
And after installing the 'dongle' you have to restart the library for it to recognise it. Then it will say on the front panel that it is web-enabled. It is not the world's best GUI and the annual license charge is very steep, considering there has never as far as I've seen ever been any

[Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Brooks, Jason
Folks, Have you ever experienced a defrag utility resetting the archive bit? It appears that we may. We had a server last night backup about 95% of it's file store on it's internal disk (defragged by diskkeeper) while a SAN drive backed up about 5% (not managed by diskkeeper). This was

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Well.is your master a 3rd server? If not, ie, one is a master/media, and the other just a media, then you will not be able to shutdown the master/media and continue running with just the media serveryou NEED the master. I suppose you couldyou would have to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Thanks Paul. Yes we want to move the L700 media and robotic control and all to a new server. This will allow us, among other things, to shut down one server for maintenance while the other server stays up and runs. Another question. Can I move the media based on volume group

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning

2006-08-30 Thread briandiven
Title: Message 3,733 to be exact. Everyone thinks we are nuts when they first hear this and then think it's pretty cool and creative what we are doing. To put it in the simplest of terms, NBU does not allow you to pass parameters, but it does pass the policy name. Therefore, we use unique

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message We have 1 master and 2 media servers. Each media server is controlling 2 L700's. We are adding 2 more media servers and splitting out the L700 so the each L700 has its own media server which will control it. Currently 1 L700 does only ndmp backups and the other does regular

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message gotcha. So you've got 2 media servers and each controls 2x L700s, so you've got 4x L700s in total? are the NDMP backups "remote" to the media servers? or are your filers connected directly to the tape drives? so you will end upwith 4 media servers, each connected to one

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Lewick, Taylor
Turn of true image restore, you may be amazed how much quicker the backup runs... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Archive

[Veritas-bu] Last Backup Date not in 'bpdbjobs -all_columns'

2006-08-30 Thread Yarldi Belac
The date of last good backup does not appear to be in the output of 'bpdbjobs -all_columns', yet if I do a plain 'bpdbjobs', I have the option of using 'BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = LastBackup' in bp.conf. This gets me the last good backup date, but in my script I really want to use 'bpdbjobs

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Brooks, Jason
Not doing TIR or BMR for the policy that executed the job. Time really isn't the question. A delta of 90-95% seems abnormal to everyone in our department. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, Taylor Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700 Management interface

2006-08-30 Thread Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those out there interested ( I don't think I already posted this in the past), if your L700, L180, or L80 are on some indirect network, but you can get there a hop or two away, here is the port forwarding within an SSH session to get the console

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Yes we have 4 L700's,2 on each media server. Adding 2 more media servers so there will be one for each L700. Our filers right now are connected directly to the tape drives. Greg From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:12 AMTo:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Dunham
Is there a way to tell netbackup to forget the phase 1 step? I'd rather not have the 'bpimport -p' output cluttered with these old tapes forever. Thought this came up before, but in any event, the expiration of phase 1 catalog entries is one week. DAMHIK. :-( Ah, great. I can live

[Veritas-bu] How to remove old media server from configuration?

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Dunham
I'm looking at a 5.1 installation that had an old media server attached (just for testing apparently). I haven't been able to remove it from the environment. Since it doesn't exist, 'bpmedialist' hangs (trying to talk to it). I have looked at http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/266720.htm,