Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

Title: Message Greg, Simon, I couldnt agree more. Nothing worse than a master server crash but at least when I experienced it I had a catalog backup from that day to save my career. Regards From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

Hi there how do you do with clients with database who sends transactionlogs like informix and Oracels archivelogs. You have no control of them. Fredrik Dahlberg Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 65 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprungligt meddelande-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

Sorry I don't quite understand ... I am referring to the NetBackup Catalog Backup. In summary, in order to ensure you as the Backup Infrastructre support or designer, you need to ensure a window of oppurtunity is available to allow you to backup the catalog. Alternatively, you need to

[Veritas-bu] compress all images in the Catalog Except the images of a server

Do you know if it possible to compress all images in the Catalog Except the images of a server ? I use Netbackup 5.1. Thanks Regards, Didier BRUN ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] compress all images in the Catalog Except the images of a server

Thanks Marianne, I shall prefer a solution of type touch .nocompress in the Catalog directory of the server Regards, Didier Marianne van den Berg a écrit : Seems you will have to compress per client: # bpimage -help bpimage: -[de]compress [-allclients | -client name] Regards Marianne

Re: [Veritas-bu] compress all images in the Catalog Except the im agesof a server

Does BPIMAGE help at all? I must admit, I don't compress the catalog at all 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] compress all images in the Catalog Except theim ages of a server

Actually I may have confused the issue here, are we talking about COMPRESSING the Catalog Backup images or just the images themselves? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email:

Re: [Veritas-bu] compress all images in the Catalog Except theim ages of a server

Simon, In fact I have many clients netbackup and I compress the Catalog Backup Images every day. I often make restorations of 1 client and I do not want to compress the catalog of the images for this client . Regards Didier BRUN WEAVER, Simon a crit: Actually I may have confused the

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Issue

I need some help with error status 219 on my remote NDMP. I am using NB 5.0 MP1, EMC Celerra. My master is HP UX and media Windows 2000. I started getting No NDMP drives connected to host hostname were found in robot -1, robot type =TLD and density = hcart2. I have been working with

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Issue

Did you declare drive NDMP on your media W2000 ? Syntax in solaris environment: hostname:/dev/rmt/0cbn ( the name of media server is included in the path of the tape drive ! ) Regards Didier BRUN Dibonge, Rudy a crit: I need some help with error status 219 on

Re: [Veritas-bu] compress all images in the Catalog Except theim ages of a server

Title: Message Ok so bpimage is the answer? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Didier BRUN [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Export / Import?

* WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-08 06:42]: David That sound like A LOT of work for what seems to be a simple process?? Does a copy and paste work Jonathan ? I suggest it because it would probably be the only supported way of doing it. There are several things that _should_ work,

[Veritas-bu] NBU vs Legato

Does any one have NBU vs Legato comparison docs? I have worked with NBU in the past but not with Legato. At my new pos. we need to upgrade the NBU env. I just want good reasons why we should not go with Legato but upgrade the current version of NBU. This is on a Solaris env. Thanks in advance.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Issue

Thanks to all who helped, the issue has been resolved. It turned out that the NDMP drives configuration was wiped out from the media server. Deleting and reconfiguring NDMP drives solved the problem. Thanks, Rudy -Original Message- From: Didier BRUN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] W2K3 media servers rebooting

Title: Message Bob, I had the syndrome of device manager doing down on my W2K3 media servers when I took the master down or rebooted the master and it went away when I updated to MP5. I see you are at MP4. Regards. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Im getting following errors: Activity Monitor failed and must be restarted. To recover, first correct the problem described below and then select Refresh. Connection refused Ive tried stopping and restarting services and no go still get same error. I dont understand why Im all

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU vs Legato

I too would like to see this and/or also a comparison to CommVault. I am new to NBU after working with Legato for 6 years and at the moment, I find Legato to be much easier to administrate with much less hardware and it performed better. However, the latest version of Legato (7.3) is just as

[Veritas-bu] Notification script for mount requests

I am running NetBackup 5.1 MP4 on Windows 2003 servers. Our backups currently span several tapes. I am looking for a script that would send out an email to a select group notifying them of the mount request. Thanks in advance. Stuart von Hoch Network Operation Specialist == This

Re: [Veritas-bu] W2K3 media servers rebooting

Title: Message My problem is that the media servers actually hang or reboot themselves This is symantec supports suggestion so far: As regards to the case and the servers rebooting, my assumption here is that you have a 3rd party Windows program that is rebooting the server when there is a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Notification script for mount requests

Title: Message nbmail.cmdand blat would do the job :-) a search on google should provide a TechNote - sorry cannot get online :-( But its there! Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth,

Re: [Veritas-bu] W2K3 media servers rebooting

Title: Message Bob Does the event logs show a SAVEDUMP EVENT LOG or an event that shows the Event Service was STOPPED and then a few moments later, Restarted. If YES, then I would confirm that the Server HAS been rebooted, but what caused it could be anything... from a Scheduled Task

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Weve seen the activity monitor failure when one of the fibre cards in our HP-UX master server has gone away. On HP we can reset the fibre card with the server still on line using fcmsutil. Not sure if its possible in Linux or how to do it if so. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Yeah, you should install ICS before installing NB 6.0x and do not use FQDN hostnames, use the short hostname only. Otherwise, you will have a whole sleuth of errors, like you are seeing. Justin. On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: I'm getting following errors: Activity Monitor

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

We did install ICS before installing NB. So just use the hostname and not the domain name (ie hostname.domainname.zzz) ? Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066 www.coyotesolutions.com Relax...it's just an update for the patch to fix the nerf that nerfed the fix for the update of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Export / Import?

Ok thanks Dave :-) Appreciate the response 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: David Rock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Yup, correct, that solved 95% of my problems with NetBackup 6.0. On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: We did install ICS before installing NB. So just use the hostname and not the domain name (ie hostname.domainname.zzz) ? Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Also, when I say just the hostname, I mean during the ICS installation. On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: We did install ICS before installing NB. So just use the hostname and not the domain name (ie hostname.domainname.zzz) ? Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

If the netbackup catalog backup is in progress, the informix, Oracle, etc, jobs will queue up untill the catalog backup is complete...once the catalog backup is complete, the db jobs will start. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Is this when the Master and Media are separate as I should have mentioned we have a single master/ media server, the fibre cards are alright I believe as the IBM tool is not reporting any errors on either of the HBAs. Correction the following error has a typo: Library Initialization

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Anyway to change the hostname after the install, we have had this thing up for 3 months now and this is the first time it has done this. The only thing that has changed is the IP address but that was done about 3 weeks ago and we never had a problem until Tuesday of the current week. Dustin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

In the cases I was speaking of it was when the Java GUI on my desktop was pointed to the activity monitor of the master. We do have media servers as well but they werent the issue. Ive not seen the robot communication failure youre seeing. Were using an HP OEMed STK and its connections

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Ah, ok, there is another thing too.. If you run cold backups it can also cause weird problems like that. The netbackup engineer from symantec told me its only 70% fixed in MP3, if you run cold backups it can cause severe problems. Justin. On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: Anyway to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Also I noticed that the services are stopping themselves, I'll restart them and a few minutes later they are stopped again. Anybody have this problem with the other 'strange errors' issue? Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066 www.coyotesolutions.com Relax...it's just an update

[Veritas-bu] any suggestion about this

what this means on master /bpps -a, its SSO , robotic controlled by master MM processes root 16080 1073 0 13:30:21 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/oprd -sockfd 7 root 15907 1073 0 13:28:42 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/oprd -sockfd 7 root 187 1073 0 11:13:16 ? 0:00 rdevmi -sockfd 7 -r

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Depends what services you are talking about, I will take a guess, nbemm? On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: Also I noticed that the services are stopping themselves, I'll restart them and a few minutes later they are stopped again. Anybody have this problem with the other 'strange

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Hm, ouch. Like I said though, the naming scheme that was chosen during the initial install is what solved the majority of my issues, the second was the cold catalog backups. Justin. On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Dustin D'Amour wrote: Nbpem is the most common, bprd, nbrb, nbvault, and bmpd are the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Errors

Nbpem is the most common, bprd, nbrb, nbvault, and bmpd are the trouble makers. Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066 www.coyotesolutions.com Relax...it's just an update for the patch to fix the nerf that nerfed the fix for the update of the patch that broke the fix that was fixed.

Re: [Veritas-bu] any suggestion about this

* Kohli, Vidit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-08 13:35]: what this means on master / bpps -a, its SSO , robotic controlled by master MM processes root 16080 1073 0 13:30:21 ?0:00 /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/oprd -sockfd 7 root 15907 1073 0 13:28:42 ?0:00

[Veritas-bu] backup 1K files that can't be restored? (was Re: Fame at last.)

There is one sentence that confuses me about Ms. Fisher's recent CW article: One major issue Veritas users cited with NetBackup 6.0 is that when a backup job indicates it's complete, it often has only backed up 1K files, so there's no data to restore. Whoa, that DOES sound scary. Backed