Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec

2006-09-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
BE will be simpler - is the little brother to the big brother of NBU. Also, what version is it and what is your Windows version. An out of date BE may not be compatible with some of the features of your Windows OS :-) HTH Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server migration

2006-09-15 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Thanks Simon Yeah, tpautoconf -t results in the required info. Cheers Dave From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2006 06:36To: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media server migration Hi Dave Points

[Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2006-09-15 Thread mirko_nbu
Hi experts, a customer of mine is unsing NetBackup 6.0 on a Windows 2003 platform as it's central backup/recovery infrastructure. A FC attached library with 3x LTO3 drives is used for storing the data. For better backup/restore performance, a disk staging area is used! Unfortunately, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2006-09-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Mirko Ok, well maybe we can compare things here, because I have been using DSU's to an HP EVA over fiber, and to be truthful, the throughput is pants !!! In fact, writing to LTO3 is BETTER than disk. I do think that writing to disks has been a poor experience for me, and its something I may not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command for finding out witch files are notbeingback-up with status code 1

2006-09-15 Thread Edwin Bader
Title: Message Thanks Simon I will try that, all the logging levels are default I suppose? From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:46 AMTo: Edwin Bader; Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec

2006-09-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Ok 4.5 for windows is fine. You can check the system requirments for BE on the symantec.com web site :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command for finding out witch files are notbe ingback-up with status code 1

2006-09-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message I am not sure if you can change them - try the command with a /? for Windows users It may or may not help - just an alternative that activity monitor and the reports module :-) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On 9/15/2006 2:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a customer of mine is unsing NetBackup 6.0 on a Windows 2003 platform as it's central backup/recovery infrastructure. A FC attached library with 3x LTO3 drives is used for storing the data. For better backup/restore performance, a disk staging

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client is not validated to use this server

2006-09-15 Thread ida3248b
Hello Don Check the bprd log to see what name/ip the server is logging in to the backup server with. You may need to raise the verbose level to 5 to get the wanted information. You will proably need to stop/start netbackup on the backup server, if you didn't already. Regards Michael On Thu,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command for finding out witch files are notbe ingback-up with status code 1

2006-09-15 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message What you need to do is bperror -problems -client $client -d mm/dd/ (start time ) -e mm/dd/ (end time) -U Start and end time being either side of when the backup took place . If there was an error code 1 (partial sucess) then netbackup will have a record of it is is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client is not validated to use this server

2006-09-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Are you restoring from another server? Do you have /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames set up properly, see manual for the way that is right for your implementation? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Ed Can I ask a question? What sort of files are backed up? Large or a lot of small files? 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
I like the look of the ProtecTIER product. However, I've come up with some information that I can't get a hard answer on. The info I got from Diligent coonfused me even more. Everything I can find, and am told by either HDS, or Diligent says that Protectier requires FC disk...as in, not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread David Rock
* smpt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-15 07:05]: Hi, I've configured some firewaled NetBackup domains with vnetd and I never had any problem with streams. I have ages to hear from someone the port model. I had proposed this to some of my customers and when the firewall admin understood how

Re: [Veritas-bu] FW: Link To Download Exchange DB Extension -UP DATE

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
That's correct, from what I understand. As you are backing up the exchange instance, that is one Exchange License. However, you are still backing up two Windows Clients (the two physical nodes) so you need regular client licenses for each of those. Paul -- -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi, ProtecTier on work over FC protocol but I have never heard that it require FC disk... When I meet with diligent people from Israel, I told them that we already have 7 TB of SATA that we which to re-use, that would be no problem, they said. They only support FC arrays today, but in that array

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Step by step notes I wrote when I did this: FYI the following is what I did in NetBackup for backing up client in the firewall. Open Netbackup Java GUI Go to

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
My info has come from three sources: A) a question posed to the contact us link at diligent.com B) the Diligent regional Rep for Canada C) the rep from HDS. The Rep from HDS agrees with me, that it doesn't make sense. FC connectivity is sorta obvious... Paul -- -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
We were looking at an offsite backup solution w/ Diligent here and everyone we talked to (Local Reseller, Diligent Sales Technical resources) said our HDS AMS500 w/ SATA Shelves would be fine. In the end we balked at the Diligent Protectier software cost and went another way but cost aside

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
Interesting. I think you were mentioning a while back, that you only intend to keep data on disk for as long as it takes to get it staged off to tape? In that case, yeah, the cost of ProtectTIER is certainly steep, but if you intend to keep data around on disk for more than a couple weeks, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
Keep in mind that number and size of files is irrelevant to the tape drive speed. It only affects how fast the client can collect the data, form a stream and send it to the network stack. You can run bpbkar32 on the client http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/242918.htm And see how fast the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Allen, Jimmy
Please post the iptables information. We are adding Linux to our environment and that information would help. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:47 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
/sigh Don't try and figure it out. It took me 5 weeks to meet all of Management's demands, and I'm still confused. =P Basically, IF we went w/ Protectier we would have put it in our DR Building (a significant ways away from our Data Center, connected via fiber) and would have only had to write

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Lightner
As I said it worked for me doing the reread. The documentation says you have to restart the daemons so I noted it as such. I didn't try without the reread so it might have worked as you say. -Original Message- From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Lightner
This is on RHEL 4: To add permission to iptables on client: Verify iptables is running with iptables .L and that its last entry is to block icmp. (If not running iptables .L will only show about 3 lines.) 1) iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited ###

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I have a script that runs bprdreq -rereadconfig 50 times (50 is completely arbitrary) and so far it has worked every time. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
I feel your pain. :o\ Paul -- -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 15, 2006 9:54 AM To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ? and my

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread David Rock
* Whelan, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-15 15:34]: I have a script that runs bprdreq -rereadconfig 50 times (50 is completely arbitrary) and so far it has worked every time. I have never had a problem with on-the-fly changes for vnetd. You can also use the CLI to make these changes a LOT

[Veritas-bu] Resolution of BMR restore problem to RH3 systems with FC cards

2006-09-15 Thread Spearman, David
Title: Message The Problem Dell PE servers running RH3 with emulex 9000 fibre channel cards connected to Clariion disk space. When running a BMR to a stand alone system everything works as advertised. However if the system has an Emulex 9000 card in it the BMR job would always fail since

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

2006-09-15 Thread Richard . Mickle
I just fixed the same problem here. As it turns out, the problem we had was that we had Xeon processors in our x64 system. These where not supported until 5.1 MP 4. I had to uninstall all patches, and the 5.1 GA client, then install the client again using the winnt.x64.exe file for MP 4. Since

Re: [Veritas-bu] problems with VTL StorageTek solution ?

2006-09-15 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi, Here in Sweden Diligent is pretty cheap I think, or at least at the same level as other vendors. But of course management people can twist things the other way... Did you go with another VTL/de-dup solution instead? Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 -

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Keating
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I apologize for top-posting, but this web client really sucketh... Bah, I'm a top-posting vigilante, even though I come from a usenet background. ;o) You'll note in my posting that I am having performance

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Cox
I'm still using NB 5.1, but I assume these settings are still valid in 6. Have you tried creating/adjusting the parameters (adjust for Windows paths): ../netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK ../netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK If I recall, the staging process still requires

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 Thread Bahnmiller, Bryan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Cox Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:51 PM To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance I'm still using NB 5.1, but I assume these

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary

2006-09-15 Thread Brooks, Jason
Well, I found the problem. First, support was incorrect; plain barcodes work. I remember when I imported the tapes, something about setting the number of cleanings. When I looked, all the tapes were 0. I set one up with valid cleanings, which I believe them to have, and it worked. As for the

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2006-09-15 Thread Mirko Schlottke
Simon, thanks for your answer! I've checked all the client setting and they seem to be ok, no AV and nothing... Anyway: The strange point is, that if we're storing a Master Server's local volume to tape, it gives us about 40Mb/s to a single LTO3, storing the DSU results in 'bout 20Mb/s...

[Veritas-bu] VSP vs. VSS

2006-09-15 Thread mirko_nbu
Hi all, I'm not the expert in Windows backups, so allow me to ask a - hopefully - simple question: Are there any major differences using VSS vs. using VSP? Only a matter of Windows OS level? ... besides this, I wonder in what situations it makes sense to use (whichever) snapshot... any

[Veritas-bu] ...error requesting media, TpErrno = Robot operation failed

2006-09-15 Thread mirko_nbu
Hi all, a customer of mine is getting the following error message in a restore situation: Error bptm(pid=3904) error requesting media, TpErrno = Robot operation failed NetBackup is running Windows using version 6.0 using a Sun/StorageTek L700 library. The customer did not mention any NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] ...error requesting media, TpErrno = Robot operation failed

2006-09-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, a customer of mine is getting the following error message in a restore situation: Error bptm(pid=3904) error requesting media, TpErrno = Robot operation failed NetBackup is running Windows using version 6.0 using a Sun/StorageTek