Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I guess my question is to question the requirement to do this. I've never been a fan of special backups going to special tapes. I'm relatively OK with segregating backups (e.g. Oracle on its own tapes, etc), but who cares what backups go to what tapes? Just let NBU put it on whatever tape it

[Veritas-bu] RMAN to backup big empty DB

2009-02-27 Thread LDi
Hi, Could someone help us determine what to expect with this situation : - Backup server : SERVER_A - DB server : SERVER_B (as StorageNode or MediaServer with 4 SAN Drives attached, see below) - DB server : PA_RISC HP-UX 11.11 (HP 9000 rp7410) - Oracle 10g R2 DB : 3,6TB - Real amount of datas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Mosopa
You can create different volume pools and specify a certain pool to use for a particular backup. In our scenario, I've got barcodes that starts with NT and UN respectively, all my windows servers I backup to the NT pool and all my Unix/Oracle backups I use the UN pool. Try this, it makes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Crazy at Errors in Netbackup 3.4 on Solaris 7

2009-02-27 Thread Rusty . Major
I would also suggest checking your device configuration in NetBackup and making sure it's correct. The mismatched barcodes (expecing A but found B) is indicative of improper configuration, especially when you say you changed the drives. The Disk alerts with Amber/White codes is not a NetBackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 Thread Rusty . Major
I agree with Curtis. There's not a need within NBU to separate server or OS types to different media. Usually this is dictated by management who doesn't understand the dynamics, but the data isn't going to care if it lives on the same tape as differing types. It's all bits when you get down to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Peter Mosopa peter.mos...@multichoice.co.za wrote: You can create different volume pools and specify a certain pool to use for a particular backup. In our scenario, I've got barcodes that starts with NT and UN respectively, all my windows servers I

[Veritas-bu] Crazy at Errors in Netbackup 3.4 on Solaris 7

2009-02-27 Thread bkpguy
Can you advise me how can i make sure device configuration is correct ? And what does it mean that amber and white state ? White is normal ? I replaced the tapes which resulted status code 83 with new tapes . After that whenever I run bkp on these tapes ( without killing the jobs and just

[Veritas-bu] VMware Consolidated Backup on iSCSI vs NFS

2009-02-27 Thread Renee Carlisle
I have checked a number of compatibility guides for both Symantec and VMware and still can't get a straight yes or no answer on VMware Consolidated Backup support for Virtual Machines using NFS. The environment is a NetApp array. Will NetBackup support nfs for virtual machines with the VCB

Re: [Veritas-bu] Crazy at Errors in Netbackup 3.4 on Solaris 7

2009-02-27 Thread Hall, Christian N.
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[Veritas-bu] single initiator zoning

2009-02-27 Thread Geyer, Gregory
I believe our SAN admin has one zone which includes all the tape drives and all the HBAs for the media servers. Makes it easy for him. But we have performance problems. And there is one other zone I think with just a couple of HBAs in it that performs very well. I've been harping on zoning as a

[Veritas-bu] locate database files in clients system level backups

2009-02-27 Thread Stump, Bob A
Hello, I have a thousand clients on several sites throughout the U.S. I want to be able to determine if a client has a database on it that is getting copied to tape by a NetBackup system level backup. I thought that perhaps I could use the NetBackup image catalog. I was thinking that I could

Re: [Veritas-bu] locate database files in clients system level backups

2009-02-27 Thread Jeff Lightner
Why not just do a bpflist on the backupid to determine what files it had? What I typically do is: bpimmedia -L -policy POLICY -d mm/dd/ccyy hh:mm:ss -e mm/dd/ccyy hh:mm:ss where -d = start time and -e = end time of the backup you're interested in. Or use bpimagelist:

Re: [Veritas-bu] locate database files in clients system level backups

2009-02-27 Thread Donaldson, Mark
Why not just bplist?Good for a one-off. Otherwise, I'd use bpimagelist to list my images, limited to my filesystem only, full backups, generate a bpid list, then use bpflist to search those for evil file types. -M From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] single initiator zoning

2009-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Geyer, Gregory gregory.ge...@avnet.comwrote: Hey Ed, I'm wondering why you say categorically that it has nothing to do with performance? That's not exactly what I get out of their doc, and so far not what I'm seeing in testing. My rationale is based on

[Veritas-bu] Crazy at Errors in Netbackup 3.4 on Solaris 7

2009-02-27 Thread bkpguy
Hi, Thanks for your comment.If someone really added the tapes , how can i do to recognize the media ? May be I use bpexpdate -ev medai id -d 0 -force -host media server and vmquery -deassignbyid MEDIA_ID 4 0 ? I have the troubleshooting guide and I did follow but problem still persist.