[Veritas-bu] NB 6.5 - Vault session file is empty

2007-10-22 Thread Kevin Whittaker
All, Ok Well my weekend is done and I am currently running 6.5 instead of 5.1. Yippee! There has been a handful of issues. One of them is the detail.log session log is empty. Vaulting is working just fine, just not logging anything with in the detail.log file. I assume there must be an

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Hall, Christian N.
Why don't we just move on.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:52 PM To: Eagle, Kent; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Hudson, Steve
I am being told by the Unix Admin that because we run the Leadville Driver we don't need persistent binding. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bdoyle Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:01 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Hall, Christian N.
Steve, What was his/her explanation? I never heard of that before... However, this is a learning forum. Please elaborate... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:59 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Agree with you on that I set this subject to auto delete now a few weeks back! 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-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flash backup for mount-points Windows 2003

2007-10-22 Thread Hall, Christian N.
Excellent. TY -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tburrell Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:04 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Flash backup for mount-points Windows 2003 Chris, We set up one mount point as a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Austin Murphy
Here is some required reading on the topic from Val Henson, a noted academic/storage-guru. An Analysis of Compare-by-hash www.nmt.edu/~val/review/hash.pdf Of particular interst is why hardware error rates can't be compared with deterministic software errors. Austin

[Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery

2007-10-22 Thread Klebba, Don
I'm trying to recover a catalog from a windows master server to another windows master server I have in a lab environment. The server names are the same. When I run the bprecover -l -tpath Tape1, I get IMAGE1 D:\Veritas\Netbackup\db IMAGE2 D:\Veritas\Netbackup\var IMAGE3

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Len Boyle
The driver uses the wwn in the device name. This does not change if the tape drive is plugged into another card or port. len lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 71 Jul 30 2004 /dev/rmt/3cbn - ../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Markham
Im not sure if its still relevant for Solaris 10 but i remember in the device admin guide it mentions that solaris unloads the least used devices should the system be busy. These are usually tapes and so it recommends adding the following lines into /etc/system forceload: drv/st forceload: drv/sg

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Jeff Lightner
This paper looks to be 5 years old (based on newest references it cites - it actually cites others that go back nearly 10 years). It would be interesting to see his take on current deduplication offerings to see if the other checks they contain over simple hashing were enough to allay his

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I don't know. I, for one, am now thoroughly engrossed given Curtis' honor has been impugned. =P -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hall, Christian N. Sent: Mon 10/22/2007 9:55 AM To: Curtis Preston; Eagle, Kent; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery

2007-10-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Klebba, Don wrote: I'm trying to recover a catalog from a windows master server to another windows master server I have in a lab environment. The server names are the same. When I run the bprecover -l -tpath Tape1, I get IMAGE1 D:\Veritas\Netbackup\db IMAGE2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
I remember having to do that back when I used Solaris in PROD backup environments, seemed to be what was needed. On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Im not sure if its still relevant for Solaris 10 but i remember in the device admin guide it mentions that solaris unloads the least used

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery

2007-10-22 Thread Klebba, Don
I figured it out. The netbackup client service needs to be running. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klebba, Don Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:17 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery I'm trying to recover a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drivesdisappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Hall, Christian N.
What do you mean by disappear? What log files have you examined so far? What does modinfo info show for sg? What's the frequency of tape devices disappearing? Also could you provide more information about you environment physical/logical? Thanks, Chris Hall -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:31:16PM +0100, Dave Markham wrote: Im not sure if its still relevant for Solaris 10 but i remember in the device admin guide it mentions that solaris unloads the least used devices should the system be busy. These are usually tapes and so it recommends adding the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Folks has anyone seen the issue we are seeing on Solaris 10. We have a Media Server that is at Solaris 10 with the Leadville Driver on the HBA and we are running Netbackup Enterprise Server version 5.1 MP5. Our tape drives keep disappearing from the O/S and the drives

[Veritas-bu] The best training for Netbackup 6.0

2007-10-22 Thread Kelly B Harris
Anyone got any ideas on the best Unix training for Netbackup 6.0? Is Symantec the best or should I go with someone else? Thanks, Kelly ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Curtis Preston
Funny. VERY Funny. ;) --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:23 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Mark.Donaldson
I think that part of the problem is that a hash duplication is nearly undetectable until you have restored and tested it as false. We all know that 99.999% of what we back up is never restored. It just ages gracefully on media and is expired. If any of that .001% is restored and is damaged due

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Mark, Did I read in this list that netbackup was supposed to do some kind of checksum on the data written to tape? If so would a bpverify check this. I would assume that if netbackup does this it would find the error. because netbackup would do it's calc before passing the block to the

[Veritas-bu] Media read error 85 - Help appreciated!

2007-10-22 Thread ctate
I am getting a media read error 85 when trying to restore some files from an LTO-1 tape. I already swapped tape drives to rule out a bad drive. This is on Netbackup 5.1 MP6 Windows. This system is up for legacy restores only. The backup was made on a media server that no longer has drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media read error 85 - Help appreciated!

2007-10-22 Thread Sami . Abdul
Try bpmedia -movedb -m media_id -newserver newmediaserver -oldserver retiredmediaserver and then try the restore cheers SA ctate