[Veritas-bu] Re: HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-12 Thread hebeonline
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[Veritas-bu] LTO4 with encryption

2007-07-12 Thread Rajmund Siwik
I've just received library with LTO4 drives for eval. Anybody has eval that already? I have T2000 server, running Solaris 10. I am waiting to get IBM Java SDK for Solaris from my vendor, which can not be downloaded as I was told. Has anybody used IBM EKM software? Any thought much appreciate

Re: [Veritas-bu] drives in Avr mode

2007-07-12 Thread Gaurav Rakheja
Dear Abhishek, May be you have left robtest running in your environment due to which drives went into AVR mode. Regards, Gaurav On 7/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Gurus, According to my knowledge , if all the drives went in to the AVR mode , it means some problem

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
Nice try, but I hope nobody follows the template below. Having been heavily involved in a Windows to Solaris migration back in 3.4, I can tell you it's a lot more complicated than this. If you have to ask for how to do this migration, honestly, you don't have the skills to complete it. The sho

Re: [Veritas-bu] Resource overheads.

2007-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
These rules of thumb are in the NetBackup Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide at http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281842.htm ./Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-12 Thread Dominik Pietrzykowski
> My main concern here is becoz the tape drive is from IBM but the media is from HP. It doesn't matter where the media is from as long as it's LTO standard. -Original Message- From: hebeonline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2007 11:44 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Copy policies from NBU 5.1 to 6.0?

2007-07-12 Thread Ellis, Jason
Someone replied and said it should work so I just tested it. You can indeed copy from 5.1 to 6.0. Just make sure you go into the policy and make any changes for the storage unit and/or volume pools. Jason Ellis -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursd

Re: [Veritas-bu] Copy policies from NBU 5.1 to 6.0?

2007-07-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
Worked in UNIX from 5.1MP4 to 6.0MP4, have not tried it in Windows. On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Ellis, Jason wrote: > Is it possible to copy the directory for a policy from the > \VERITAS\NetBackup\db\class directory from a NetBackup > 5.1 MP6 master server to import that policy to a NetBackup 6.0 MP4 >

[Veritas-bu] Copy policies from NBU 5.1 to 6.0?

2007-07-12 Thread Ellis, Jason
Is it possible to copy the directory for a policy from the \VERITAS\NetBackup\db\class directory from a NetBackup 5.1 MP6 master server to import that policy to a NetBackup 6.0 MP4 master server? Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Data Protection Team IndyMac Bank, La Mirada Datacenter Phone: (7

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-12 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Yes HP Media will work in an IBM drive and visa-versa. LTO is an independent hardware standard that all manufacturers must adhere to and qualify for. If you bought name brand media and it didn't work in a known working drive from a different manufacturer I'd return that media to the manufacturer f

[Veritas-bu] Re: Windows flash-backup experiences (again)

2007-07-12 Thread tburrell
Leidy, Jason D wrote: > I backup ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES on a few of our clusters, it gets everything. > For instance, I'll put both physical nodes that host the cluster in a > policy that uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES option. I'm new to the backup > world, is this not the best practice? It gets the quorum

Re: [Veritas-bu] Designing SLAs

2007-07-12 Thread Angela Akridge
Thank you Jason for the vocabulary. I'm reading up on RPO/RTO. Angela On 7/10/07, Ellis, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Angela, > > A couple of the things that you want to define in a backup SLA are > Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). > > Recovery Point Objec

[Veritas-bu] Re: HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-12 Thread hebeonline
So that means the IBM LTO3 Drive can even read/write HP LTO3 and HP LTO2 tape but read only for HP LTO1. My main concern here is becoz the tape drive is from IBM but the media is from HP. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] status 29 ACS

2007-07-12 Thread Kenneth W Wilkinson
Has anyone encountered ACS Status = 29 codes in /var/adm/messages. After a backup finishes, the media is unable to mount. It's not just one drive so I don't think it's the drive. Kenneth ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Lightner
Sun is pushing the OpenSolaris for Intel pretty hard. I don't know if NBU has anything for it yet because I don't use it but wouldn't be surprised if it was there or on the way. Lots of UNIX folks use Solaris on SPARC and might prefer OpenSolaris over Linux just to have an OS they're familiar wi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Curtis Preston
Back to the original question. I think the databases (Sybase/emm, etc) would restore just fine, but the text files would have a problem. So what if you just fixed the text files? Although it's unsupported, I'm thinking that it's like the scenario below. (Test and try at your own risk. I'm ty

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Curtis Preston
Yeah, but who uses that? ;) (Does NBU even have a Solaris x86 server?) --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:53 AM To: Curti

Re: [Veritas-bu] Offline catalog backups

2007-07-12 Thread Christopher Trown
Hampus Lind wrote: We had a normal policy that did not run for some time.. There where no errors or anything that indicated a problem and the job did not start at all.. Support told us to remove the policy (or copy to new). So we did, and after that the sched worked again.. Maybe you could try

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
Which is the only way I needed to convert my catalog in one case from Intel to SPARC and it was not supported. On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Curtis Preston wrote: > But the endian is rarely the same. SPARC is big endian, Intel is > little-endian. > > --- > W. Curtis Preston > Backup Blog @ www.backupcen

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Lightner
Right but there is Solaris for Intel which is little-endian. Custer was apparently a frustrated IT professional - he asked "Where did all those endians come from?" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, July 12, 200

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Curtis Preston
But the endian is rarely the same. SPARC is big endian, Intel is little-endian. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Thu

[Veritas-bu] Offline catalog backups

2007-07-12 Thread Christopher Trown
Recent discussions about poor performance for offline catalog backups to tape prompted me to go see how long mine were taking. To my dismay, I discovered that they haven't been running since the 6.0 upgrade. They were *before* the upgrade. I checked the config and everything loo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
As long as the endian is the same, it is supposed to work. On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Akker Henk van den wrote: > Hi Guru's, > > > > Just wondering if it is possible to migrate the NBU catalog 5.1 or 6.0 > from unix to windows. > > I have heard different opinions about this matter. > > > > Met vriendel

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Vault backup - increase throughput ....

2007-07-12 Thread Kennedy, Cameron
thanks Philip for being the bearer of bad news! - just kidding. Seriously though thanks for sending this over. I know points 1&2&4 don't apply to our environment, but I will have to check up on 3. From: Philip McDougal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Vault backup - increase throughput ....

2007-07-12 Thread Philip McDougal
Cameron. Here's a relatively new doc from KVS about backing up closed partitions ... http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/285006.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Cameron Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:45 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external);

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Domains for Master and Media Server

2007-07-12 Thread Clooney, David
Mike, Unfortunately if they existed they would be like gold dust and in turn Symantec would be out of pocket. I pretty much figured it out for myself. If you do decide to go down that route I would strongly suggest you totally understand what you are doing, if in doubt don't do it. Rega

Re: [Veritas-bu] Designing SLAs

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Lightner
Well I allowed for the possibility of including it and accounting for the full "recovery" period. However, often SLAs are "internal" to an organization. Meaning the Backup Admins (often UNIX or Windows Admins) are providing SLA for THEIR services to the "internal" customer rather than to a real

[Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003

2007-07-12 Thread Akker Henk van den
Hi Guru's, Just wondering if it is possible to migrate the NBU catalog 5.1 or 6.0 from unix to windows. I have heard different opinions about this matter. Met vriendelijke groet/Best regards, Henk van den Akker Beheerder infrastructuur N.V. WML BO/IT&T/BTI E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread ckstehman
We have been using Aptare for at least 5 years. We are currently running about 4,500 backups daily. Our environment consists of a Windows Master (Win2003) and a Solaris 9 Master. The backups are split pretty evenly. We have customized some of the sql reports and use the output as the basis f

Re: [Veritas-bu] Redirect Restore for Raw Partition Backup

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Ruslan
Just want to add, I already set the to the raw partition restore. and, the policy type was standard when backuping the raw partition. my master server is win2k3, and the raw partition reside on solaris 9 client. Do I miss something? Regards, mTz On 7/12/07, Martin Ruslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[Veritas-bu] Resource overheads.

2007-07-12 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Morning all, Does anyone have the overhead cost of the recourses we use everyday? e.g. 1. LTO tape drive requires a processor and 750KB memory to drive the tape drive 2. 2 X 2GB HBA's requires a processor and 500KB memory etc. I want to create a rule of thumb that we can give to

Re: [Veritas-bu] drives in Avr mode

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Ruslan
And you can try just to reboot the drive, rather than rebooting the whole on the library. Regards, mTz On 7/12/07, Stump, Bob A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With ACS and lib-attach you can run configurator. Bob Stump Fidelity Information Services ENT STORAGE MANAGEMENT - TAPE Mobile (269)

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread Kennedy, Cameron
Not sure what version of NB you are using, but with NB5.1 we use VBR only for month-end stats. We don't find any real use other than that. If we had to pay for another license we wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
I think the out-of-the-box reports are pretty good and we do very little custom reporting. If you contact them (aptare.com) they can set you up with a demo using your own data and you can see how it will perform for you. They do have some screen shots online that give you a general idea as to what

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread ida3248b
Hello Ed How is the out-box reports in aptare ? Regards Michael On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:41:37 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote > We've been very impressed with Aptare StorageConsole. We use it to report > on 2 master servers, 6 media servers, over 300 hundred clients, and report > on both NetBackup and Bac

[Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread ida3248b
Hello All We're in the process of getting the Veritas Backup Reporter, but would like to hear people experiences with other report tools. So far we are not impressed by VBR Regards Michael -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk) ___ Verita

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter

2007-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
We've been very impressed with Aptare StorageConsole. We use it to report on 2 master servers, 6 media servers, over 300 hundred clients, and report on both NetBackup and BackupExec. We've been customers for nearly 4 years (I think). If you can, do a head-to-head comparison between VBR and Stora

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Domains for Master and Media Server

2007-07-12 Thread Conner, Mike
Dave, Where did you find steps or documentation on this? Thanks Mike _ From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:31 AM To: Conner, Mike; Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing Domains for Master and Media

Re: [Veritas-bu] drives in Avr mode

2007-07-12 Thread Stump, Bob A
With ACS and lib-attach you can run configurator. Bob Stump Fidelity Information Services ENT STORAGE MANAGEMENT - TAPE Mobile (269)832-0293 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:10 AM

[Veritas-bu] Redirect Restore for Raw Partition Backup

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Ruslan
Dear guys.. can I do a redirect restore for raw partition backup? Already tried the redirect restore to the exactly same raw disk size, even the block size, and it failed. The manual said it can be done, but didn't tell how it can be done.. :( Regards, mTz ___

[Veritas-bu] drives in Avr mode

2007-07-12 Thread Abhishek . Dhingra
Hi Gurus, According to my knowledge , if all the drives went in to the AVR mode , it means some problem with the Robot of the library, and we need to reboot the library, is there any other reason behind the AVR mode. Rgds Abhishek___ Veritas-bu mail

[Veritas-bu] Regarding command central

2007-07-12 Thread NITIN BHOSALE /SSTG/INFOTECH/MLX
Hi ! Can any body tell me how to reset the root password for Veritas command central. I repeatedly tried the Username and Password but invain. Does the account got locked up. I am using the correct login options( startin= service as well as the correct domain). Plz suggest Regards Nitin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Domains for Master and Media Server

2007-07-12 Thread Clooney, David
Just to add, we successfully migrated a master server to new hardware with a new name, personally I think the procedure it not complicated at all,just an understanding of the various DB's within 5.1. However we did indeed have a Symantec PS chap on site in order for it to be supported, just a way