Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails with error(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sumeeth Singh (S) wrote: Hi, There may be a simple solution to this problem, however I do require some assistance. I am attempting to perform a filesystem restore on a W2k3 environment running NBU5.1MP6. The restore initiates, however does not mount the required

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails witherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Sumeeth Singh (S)
Are your drives up? tpconfig -dl on the media server All drives are UP Are they working properly? vmoprcmd -d ds on the media server All working properly Are the tapes ok? Tapes are fine bpmedialist shows them? yes What do the logs say? The failed restores are not generating any logs, which

[Veritas-bu] VCB - Fail to get VM server Info

2008-07-25 Thread Matthews, Gary (GSD UK Production Services business)
Hi , Hope someone out there can help me !! Trying to configure VCB for the first time and getting some problems. We're running 6.5.2 , master is on AIX , the VCB is 1.1 on a windows media server W2k3 R2 enterprise x64. We've got the VCB bit working now but the problem is with Netbackup . I've

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails witherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Sumeeth Singh (S)
Problem resolved seems to be due to hanging bprd processes or master server out of memory. Regards Sumeeth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sumeeth Singh (S) Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[Veritas-bu] RMAN issues with NetBackup 5.1 MP6

2008-07-25 Thread WALLEBROEK Bart
Yesterday we had an issues with an rman backup started on an Oracle server which opened a connection towards NetBackup to take care of it. However because the Oracle server was not known (not able to resolve) by the Master Server it never returned anything to this Oracle server. Rman apparently

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails witherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sumeeth Singh (S) wrote: Are your drives up? tpconfig -dl on the media server All drives are UP Are they working properly? vmoprcmd -d ds on the media server All working properly Are the tapes ok? Tapes are fine bpmedialist shows them? yes What do the logs

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and failswitherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Anything in the client event logs, or any indication that the box is causing other issues? Enable logging BPBRM I think you may need. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sumeeth Singh (S) Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:23 AM To: Justin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and failswitherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Sumeeth Singh (S)
Bpbrm is set to level 5 logging, no logs are being generated tho. I suspect the backup server is out of memory to accommodate the restore. Regards Sumeeth -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:26 PM To: Sumeeth Singh

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and failswitherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
And the directory is created as well.. right? On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote: Sumeeth Reboot the client (if at all possible) ? Sometimes, when enabling logging, you need to restart the netbackup client service too :-) HTH Simon -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and failswitherror(5)

2008-07-25 Thread Sumeeth Singh (S)
Restores have worked previously with no issues. I have attempted restoring to the host that was backed up as well as locally to the master server. The restore fails after approx 7 min. Will attempt a single file restore. Regards Sumeeth -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz

Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB - Fail to get VM server Info

2008-07-25 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I got a similar error and had to call Symantec for support. Are you looking for a VM Host or the Virtual Center? If you are pointing to the Virtual Center you have to change the port under Credentials -- Virtuaql Machine Servers to port 443 to connect. The default 902 is only for communication

Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB - Fail to get VM server Info

2008-07-25 Thread Matthews, Gary (GSD UK Production Services business)
Hi Jonathan , what version of NBU were you using ? According to the docs on what's new in 6.5.2 it says :- Connect using port number Unless the port number was changed on the VMware server, no port specification is required. If the Connect using port number box is checked, deselect it.

Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB - Fail to get VM server Info

2008-07-25 Thread Martin, Jonathan
When I first tested it was on 6.5.1 and I definitely had to select a port. Since then I've upgraded to 6.5.2 and the port box is still checked. YMMV. -Jonathan From: Matthews, Gary (GSD UK Production Services business) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB - Fail to get VM server Info

2008-07-25 Thread Savil Chacko
I know this was a problem in 6.5.1, but not sure if it was resolved in 6.5.2, but still, worth checking. Netbackup expects the VCB framework to be installed in the default location. c:\program files\... if not, the listing of the clients will fail -Savil _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Oracle agent versus rman

2008-07-25 Thread WALLEBROEK Bart
I have been told that during te installation of the NetBackup Oracle agent some files of rman are bing overwritten. Is this true? I only thought that the agent just links an rman library. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Navarro, Eddy
All, If you are running a Solaris NBU master server and are planning on upgrading to 6.5.2, think twice. We just upgraded and now backups simply do not work. Backups either do not start AT ALL when scheduled or manually started backups error out with code 230. Per the technote at

[Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup

2008-07-25 Thread Siano, James C
If I lost a tape - say SDLT or LTO-x - that was written with Backexc 9.0 and someone on this forum found ithad the write hardware...and either a version of BackupExec 9 or greater, or, an instance of Netbackup.could you read my tape? The tape is non-encrypted. Could you read that

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Oracle agent versus rman

2008-07-25 Thread Dean
I don't believe it overwrites anything. All you have to do is link one of the RMAN libraries to the NBU agent. The installation includes a script to do this linking. From memory, it is something like /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/oracle_link Cheers, Dean On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my caraccidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup

2008-07-25 Thread Martin, Jonathan
A BackupExec tape that is unencrypted can be read by either Netbackup or BackupExec with an appropriate drive type. I haven't administered BackupExec in a while, but if I remember correctly, put the tape in the drive, select the media in BackupExec and select Inventory. Netbackup can also read

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Renee Carlisle
I thought this was fixed in 6.5.2a which was just released Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navarro, Eddy Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:21 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Navarro, Eddy
Definite negative on that. We installed 6.5.2a when we upgraded. In addition to NBPEM issues, NBPROXY constantly coredumps. From: Renee Carlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:02 PM To: Navarro, Eddy;

Re: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup

2008-07-25 Thread Len Boyle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siano, James C Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup If I lost a tape -

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Copy Creation time

2008-07-25 Thread rvadde
Greetings, Is there a way that we can identify a Backup Copy Creation? A Netbackup Image can have multiple copies and the copy creation time of each copy can be different. Bpimagelist and bpimmedia seems to have only assigned times in their output. How can we identify the copy creation time?

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Scott Jacobson
Most all know, but perhaps not well enough emphasized in this forum is that anyone whose thinking about migrating to 6.5.2, especially with Solaris infrastructures, should hold off and wait until the special 6.5.2.a release is available. Navarro, Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/25/2008 6:21 PM All,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup

2008-07-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Siano, James C [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If I lost a tape – say SDLT or LTO-x – that was written with Backexc 9.0 and someone on this forum found it….had the write hardware…and either a version of BackupExec 9 or greater, or, an instance of Netbackup…..could you

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Scott Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Most all know, but perhaps not well enough emphasized in this forum is that anyone whose thinking about migrating to 6.5.2, especially with Solaris infrastructures, should hold off and wait until the special 6.5.2.a

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Solaris - BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread comp_geek_gal
FYI - the only difference in 6.5.2 and 6.5.2A is that the A version will automatically convert the database STREAMS file (in netbackup/db/images/CLIENT_NAME UNIX path or netbackup\db\images\CLIENT_NAME windows) to the new format. See Technote 305000 for details:

[Veritas-bu] Problem performing an incremental backup using Netbackup server 6.0

2008-07-25 Thread Santhosh Mogili
Hi, Full and incremental jobs are supposed to reset the archive bit on files after they are backed up. With netbackup 6.0 for Samba Shares backup, once the backup is performed netbackup does not reset the archive bit. This is impacting my daily differential incrementals because all the data gets

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 6.5.2A BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Haskins, Steve
All; especially Windows Netbackup admins, I upgraded my Windows test Netbackup 6.5.1 environment to 6.5.2 then 6.5.2A. Problem with 6.5.2 in Downing a drive in that it would down the wrong drive. 6.5.2A no problem (test environment again). I upgraded my production environment this past

[Veritas-bu] 6.5 media server rebuild in Windows environment

2008-07-25 Thread Haskins, Steve
All, In Netbackup 4.5 through 5.1 you could copy the Netbackup %installpath%\volmgr\database, %installpath%\Netbackup\var and %installpath%\Netbackup\db\media folders for a media server off the server and if the media server in question need rebuilt it would only require the initial Netbackup