Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

2008-10-03 Thread Curtis Preston
Hear, hear! What he said! Curtis Preston  |  VP Data Protection   GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.   T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: +1 760 710 2009   [EMAIL PROTECTED] |  www.glasshouse.com Infrastructure :: Optimized -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality

2008-10-03 Thread Bluejay
If you want a 100% fool proof verification, restore the data to /dev/null. Not too long ago I had a DLT tape drive that would, occasionally, change a bit when reading tapes. No errors were reported anywhere. That this was causing other problems only became clear when I restored a file and

Re: [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality

2008-10-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a 100% fool proof verification, restore the data to /dev/null. Not too long ago I had a DLT tape drive that would, occasionally, change a bit when reading tapes. No errors were reported anywhere. That this was causing other problems

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP Omniback vs Netbackup

2008-10-03 Thread Sesar, Steven L.
Why not have HP come in or better yet, have them set up a lab/demo environment up for you? Explain to them that your company has gone through an acquisition and that you now own/manage/maintain two infrastructures and that your goal is to consolidate down to a single platform. My guess is that

[Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main: Function connect_to_remote_server

2008-10-03 Thread Clooney, David
Hi I have just had new solaris 10 servers handed over to me from our SA's in order to start the process of upgrading to NBU 6.5.1. My first step is to get NBU 5.1 MP6 onto these new masters then migrate current 5.1 env to new servers and the finally upgrade. I have copied all the 5.1

Re: [Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main: Function connect_to_remote_server

2008-10-03 Thread rob worman
David- I bet you're running into a side effect of the fact that solaris10 wasn't actually a supported client platform until 5.1 MP2. To get around this, I would suggest the following sequence: 1. install base 5.1GA 2. patch the base 5.1GA to 5.1MP6 3. install 5.1GA options 4. patch the 5.1GA

Re: [Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main: Function connect_to_remote_server

2008-10-03 Thread Clooney, David
Much appreciated rob That was right on the money Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From: rob worman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2008 17:20 To: Clooney, David Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main:

[Veritas-bu] Resources needed to tame NetBackup

2008-10-03 Thread spaldam
I've got a two man Engineering/Admin team, and between 1-3 operators on duty at any given time to help manage our 1 large implementation and 4 other small international implementations. Of course the Operators also have other responsibilities as well, and one of the Engineers/Admins also