Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

2007-12-05 Thread smpt
Something is wrong. Call support and ask for a database consistency check stefanos _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:10 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming

Re: [Veritas-bu] labelling a media when it is deassigned

2007-12-05 Thread Mellor, Adam A.
Kevin, I have not done this before, however I waspondering how I might actually perform it. Just some thoughs, Not knowing exactly what netbackup is trying to do at the time, How long does it take to erase the tapes in question ? Did you background your erase_media.pl script called by

[Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread bthessel
Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This seems to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a date and see all backup jobs that are currently scheduled to run it would be very helpful. Can this be done with a command line report?

[Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Ruslan
Dear masters... anyone had the apparentnet (www.apparentnetworks.com) XML translator result and kindly want to share? or maybe exchange with another tools maybe? usually, when using this apparentnet software to checking the network traffic, I have to give the result to Symantec support guy to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

2007-12-05 Thread Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
We just did the same thing, but fortunately for me the two different sites had different media prefixes so I got lucky. The only issues we ran into was getting the other site's library to intergrate successfully, but it wasn't that big of a deal. If you are running vault, you will need to

[Veritas-bu] Recovering SAN Media servers during DR

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Wigington
We have a NetBackup 6.0 MP5 environment with 1 Master/ Media server and 1 Media server. I want to add a SAN Media server to the environment. Does a SAN Media have to be recovered during a DR test similar to the Media server having to be recovered ? TIA, Mike Wigington

[Veritas-bu] Multiple jobs going to an incomplete status

2007-12-05 Thread Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
NBU environment: Totally Windows 2003 Ent all media servers have 4 gig of ram Fiber NICs (NC6136) NBU 6.0 MP4 Am running into an issue where I am getting a large number of incomplete jobs. And they all seem to be from a single media server. I have gone thru three different Symantec

Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

2007-12-05 Thread Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
Actually I just received this link from Symantec who state Free Download. This is what they use to analyze the network...I know because right I am running into an Network utilization overload I am guessing. http://apparentnetworks.com/sas/310. Thanks Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

2007-12-05 Thread RMajor
While this is a really good tool, it is NOT freeware. If you want to license it from the company, go for it. Otherwise you're going to have to wait for the results from Symantec. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Ruslan Sent: Wednesday, December 05,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread Alexander Wasmuth
bthessel wrote: Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This seems to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a date and see all backup jobs that are currently scheduled to run it would be very helpful. Can this be done with a command line

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread BOGAC DAGDEVIR
Commands are Netbackup 6.X nbpemreq -predict -date mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS Netbackup 5.x Bpschedreq -predict mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bthessel Sent: 05 Aralık 2007 Çarşamba 17:37 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

2007-12-05 Thread ckstehman
We have a similar situation, and considered merging two masters. However we ruled that out because of the complexity of the tape libraries and tapes, and the backup catalog.. In our situation we have two geographical locations, one is Solaris, the other Windows. I can be done, but it is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread Patrick
Which version? In 6.5 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -date mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS or /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -dateu unixtime Regards, Patrick Whelan Whelan Consulting Limited VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. VERITAS Certified

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread Jared . Seaton
on netbackup 6+ : /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -date mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) bthessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/2007 10:42 AM Please respond to

[Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

2007-12-05 Thread Kevin Whittaker
My group has been requested to take over the backups from another group. I have no interest in having multiple master servers, so I want to merge the 2 environments. I figure my first issue is that my environment is 6.5 and theirs is 5.1. So, I plan on upgrading them to 6.5 before I do anything.

[Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

2007-12-05 Thread bthessel
Thank you both of you. That is very helpful. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

2007-12-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Why not just run the tool, and then if something looks to be wrong, call support (if it really is justified) http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290489.htm http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290489.htm Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

2007-12-05 Thread Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
That's possible but unlikely. The most frequent circumstance in which I see tapes not being returned to the scratch pool when their images are expired is when they were assigned as Vault duplicates for a Vault profile that is later removed. If that Vault profile doesn't rerun later, they won't be

Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

2007-12-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Kevin Expect alot of problems with this. I am sure young Ed Wilts advised this is not supported and with 2 mixes of version of NBU 6.5, its not going to be alot of fun. Maybe just import the tapes you need, as and when required? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows