I'm about to upgrade to 6.5.1. Probably also about to be made
redundant; so perhaps I can blame that on 6.5.1 :-O
I'm happy to help out with the FAQ.
cheers, Phil
Phil Weber MBCS
Storage Technical Services - Senior UNIX Technologist
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On Jan 23, 2008 12:44 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external)
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Divorced because of upgade to 6? Gosh, what will happen when going to 6.5:-)
Saying that, I am not married, but due to be. so maybe I should hold
off the upgrade to 6.5 for another year ;-)
I'm happy to report
We recently upgraded to Netbackup 6.5.1. Since the upgrade, we have had some
instances of errors backing up the Shadow Copy Components:\ drive. The problem
is that Shadow Copy Components:\ is in the exclude list for these clients. Any
ideas why it is trying to back this up? I have just noticed
Interesting Solaris 9 answer - works on my HP-UX 11i master as well.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Jack
(Systems Network)
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:47 PM
To: Stump, Bob A; veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] date calculator
perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime);print strftime(localtime($^T+days in
seconds)).\n'`
Steve
On Jan 22, 2008 5:16 PM, Stump, Bob A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how I can recalculate what a date would be if I added
558 days to it?
For instance, what date would it be 558 days
Oops - I really shouldn't type before my second cup of coffee.
This didn't really work on HP-UX.
HP-UX has tusc rather than truss but makes the latter a symlink to the
former. It appeared to work because of the hardcoded values used form
his truss output. Playing with tusc I didn't see
Oops...get rid of the back tic at the end.
perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime);print
strftime(%m/%d/%Y,localtime($^T+86400)).\n'
Steve
On Jan 23, 2008 10:12 AM, Steve Fogarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime);print strftime(localtime($^T+days in
seconds)).\n'`
Steve
I don't know very much about HP's Data Protector but I'm confident that
Microsoft's DPM isn't up to enterprise class after I evaled it last
year. That said, is there a reason you are not considering Commvault?
If Netbackup has a competitor in the enterprise space, from my
perspective Commvault is
Right, NetApp writes in dump, the Celerra will do either dump or tar,
and who knows, you may even find some vendors using cpio.
One important thing to remember is that, as the backup format for NDMP
is strictly platform dependant, so you can't restore your EMC NDMP
dumps to a NetApp or vise
It's worth noting that the one place neither escaping nor quoting works
(in my experience) is in rename files (the argument for -R on
bprestore).
Unless I'm missing something?
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gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery
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While its certainly not supported, we have our legacy (restores only)
catalog, which is currently around 600 GB on NFS, and it's actually
faster than the really old SAN disk on which it used to reside.
Everything seems to work fine, but I don't know how much I would trust
using NFS for a regular
That is my current setup. 575 policies and about 500 clients. Some
overlap for DB and OS backups. I have also worked in an environment
were I put 30+ clients in a policy.
I would say that for the initial setup the one client per policy is a
pain. But I find that reporting and management
Did you do a custom install and exclude VSP? If not, you should completely
uninstall and then re-install without VSP.
We've seen a bunch of 71s on the Shadow Copy Components but those were
mostly older clients and the errors actually went away once we upgraded the
clients to 6.5.1.
.../Ed
I think the back and forth on this issue has been quite interesting and
I'll reserve judgment on the one client per policy option until I've
personally tried it, but generally speaking my I.T. policy is KISS -
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. This means (to me) if there is no inherent value
in doing
That's right Simon, give it some careful consideration. I lost
everything but it was my own fault. Everyone always advises Make sure
you have a backup. Being the NetBackup proponent that I am, I followed
that advice religiously. Apparently that little piece of advice didn't
apply to wives J
Having a backup wife would be frowned upon by the authorities.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy
Samora
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:25 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Curtis Preston;
Ok, but if I build a list from the file lists in each job submitted to the
master server during the RMAN backup, I will already have a list of all of the
actual data files PLUS a bunch of these piece handle files. The total size is
almost 2x the actual database like it is backing up the
Shouldn't forcing the client to use VSS rather than VSP take care of
anything that installing sans VSP would? (That is, `bpclient -client
client name -add -WOFB_FIM 1`.) It's definitely preferable to use VSS
for 2k3 and above (WindowsNET) clients.
Matt, the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES target includes
On Jan 23, 2008 12:16 PM, Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
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Shouldn't forcing the client to use VSS rather than VSP take care of
anything that installing sans VSP would?
Nope. If you installed VSP, you'll require a reboot when you install
updates. Don't install VSP and you
Okay... but I don't understand what that has to do with Matt's getting
error type 71 on streams backing up an excluded Shadow Copy Components
target...
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gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556
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From:
I'm looking at dumping the activity monitor data I examine daily to a flat
file, scripted. So, I started looking through the Commands reference for
NBU 6.5 - Windows and am now playing with bpdbjobs.
Here's what I'm using now:
C:\bpdbjobs.exe -report -M Master -most_columns -file
On Jan 23, 2008 7:03 AM, Weathers, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We recently upgraded to Netbackup 6.5.1. Since the upgrade, we have had
some instances of errors backing up the Shadow Copy Components:\ drive. The
problem is that Shadow Copy Components:\ is in the exclude list for these
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:02:05PM -0500, Brooks, Jason wrote:
C:\bpdbjobs.exe -report -M Master -most_columns -file D:\temp\jobs.txt
What I'm recording now are the following, per day:
Average job time
Error Count
Sum of KB Backed up
Is there a way to munge the output so that it'll
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Dumping Activity Info to file
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:02:05PM -0500,
As long as you realize that I'm just respectfully discussing and not
trying to be argumentative, I'll continue to respond. I do think you
should do what makes sense to you. If my approach doesn't make sense to
you, then by all means don't use it.
I completely agree with KISS, but I think my
Funny you asked the question as I am going thru the same procedure. DPM
is really targeted to the smaller - midsize environment they are by no
means an enterprise backup / recovery tool. Gartner group has CommVault
and Symantec rated as one two respectively. DPM has it's limitation
such as it
I have not heard of anyone doing it and from what I've seen it would be an
insane idea !!! We have tried to use it for other things and the performance
is bad !!! I believe any other decent storage array ie SAN, disk tray or box
full of monkeys chipping away at stone tablets would be much better
The final nail on that coffin
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 9:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] catalog in nfs mount point
Anybody put their NetBackup
I understand the way things are written to tape much better now and can
see that we probably would not be able to restore a tape to a non-ndmp
system such as a hpux server.
The solution we are looking at would only be needed until the data
retention period for existing backups expire. We
I concur on everything Cruicer said about DPM. It's a decent product designed
for ALL-Windows shops. It's now been enhanced to support Exchange and SQL
Server (last I heard), but it will never support anything on Unix. But for an
all-Windows shop that's reasonably-sized, it's actually pretty
If you've got a Unix server, you can mount that tape on a Unix-connected
tape drive and read NetApp's dump format (after you manually manipulate
the tape to get to the right spot). But you won't be able to properly
restore any Windows ACLs, as NetApp wrote a custom dump format to store
them. (As
Yep, that's it, at least from my understanding. We used to be an all
NetApp shop here, and have since switched to all EMC Celerra.
We have to keep a small NetApp around just for restores of this data,
which do occur occasionally.
AFAIK, I don't think Netbackup actually writes anything Netbackup
That seems strange, I'm not sure you should have straight filenames from
RMAN, at least on a hot backup, just pieces. Is this a cold image?
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Chris_Millet
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:37 AM
To:
Hi,
I've noticed that on occasion, the NBU hot catalog ('NBU-catalog' type
policy) backups seem to not use the tapes in the CatalogBackup volume
pool and grabs a tape from the scratch pool. There are 2 LTO3 tapes in
that pool (CatalogBackup) specifically for catalog backups and I don't
think
I vote this for thread of the month.
Since there was so much talk on this topic I made a quick survey if
people care to vote their preference.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=N_2fMf4zEKDnHEU8Un_2bLf8fg_3d_3d
I'll publish the results in a week. In the interest of full disclosure
I work for
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:37:01PM -0600, Nick Majeran wrote:
AFAIK, I don't think Netbackup actually writes anything Netbackup
specific to the headers of NDMP tapes, as the tape drives are
controlled by the filer during the time of backup / restore. I
believe all that Netbackup does is just
Well maybe I will duplicate my girlfriend, put her in a safe, and try to
upgrade.
Then if things go wrong, put it all back, import the girlfriend from the
safe, and she will be none the wiser :-)
Simon
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