Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread Karthikeyan.Sundaram
Hello there, Thanks a lot for your response guys ! My master is running in Windows 2003 32 bit operating system with 8 GB RAM. Is my master utilizing this full 8GB of RAM ? if not how can I make my master to go ahead and use 8 GB of RAM. How can know how much memory my master

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Scratch Script

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
Hi Rusty I have just made this small bat script for check of number LTO3 (L3) scratch tapes in the robot (TLD) @echo off C:\Program

[Veritas-bu] Subject: NetBackup NDMP with EMC DL3D VTL?

2009-07-17 Thread Don Peterson
Bryan, If you look in the VTL section of the NBU 6.5 HCL (link below), you will see all VTLs supported by NBU, the inquiry string supported for each (which is the type of tape library you need to configure the VTL as), the OS platforms supported for that VTL and the specific emulated drive

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question in regards to command-line add/config of Windows Clients

2009-07-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: Opened a case with Symantec for #2, we'll see what they say. The communication buffer sizes are simply text files on Windows. If you can get the text file to the box,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-17 Thread Eagle, Kent
Karthikeyan, An easy thing to do is to look at the performance tab of Task Manager during a time of heavy usage. There you will get an idea of how the cpu load is distributed, and what your memory utilization looks like. It's just a snapshot in time, but it's a good place to start. If you want

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Eagle, Kent kea...@wilmingtontrust.comwrote: Avoid putting a page file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume. Page files do not need fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant systems suffer from slow data writes because they

[Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread A Darren Dunham
I have a 6.5.3 setup with a Linux Master and a Windows media server. After configuring a basicdisk DSU, I performed some image expirations via 'bpexpdate -d 0 backupid'. The catalog information is deleted, but the files are still in the DSU. I was expecting that they would be deleted as part

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM, A Darren Dunham ddun...@taos.com wrote: I have a 6.5.3 setup with a Linux Master and a Windows media server. After configuring a basicdisk DSU, I performed some image expirations via 'bpexpdate -d 0 backupid'. The catalog information is deleted, but the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:03:08AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: I've run some image cleanup jobs and none of them appeared to touch the files either. Am I doing something wrong? How can I get the files to go away when the image expires? They do go away but the process is asynchronous.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I can think of a few reasons why this might be happening. 1) Don't run bpexpdate commands in quick succession. My NBU servers can only run one bpexpdate at a time and even after the command returns with status zero, I still use a sleep command to wait 10 seconds before running the next loop.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server offline for disk

2009-07-17 Thread Girish Jorapurkar
The high watermark serves two purposes - (1) It prevents any new backup jobs from being sent to the STU, and (2) It triggers image expirations on the STU. The function #1 is not applicable to Disk Staging STU; however, the functionality #2 should work for it. So, if you lower HWM for the Disk

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this hack to avoid import?

2009-07-17 Thread Dean
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. To summarise comments I've had both on and off this mailing list, modifying the catalog files in not necessary. The same effect can be achieved by using the bpimage -oldserver xxx -newserver yyy command, or the FORCE _RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER directive in bp.conf.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:47:26AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan wrote: I can think of a few reasons why this might be happening. 1) Don't run bpexpdate commands in quick succession. My NBU servers can only run one bpexpdate at a time and even after the command returns with status zero, I still

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-17 Thread Eagle, Kent
Ed, I think you misunderstood. The next thing you should do is determine where your pagefile is located on physical drives. Ideally it should be local (not on a SAN drive) and should not exist on the same physical drive as the operating system. An exception to this could be if you have raid

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Scratch Script

2009-07-17 Thread Rusty.Major
Michael, Thanks for the reply. I actually got it working and forgot to update the list. My solution was to install Cygwin, configure blat as the email provider, edit the nbmail.cmd script, and make changes to our standard Unix scratch script to work in Cygwin. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Scratch Script

2009-07-17 Thread Preston, Douglas
I like it, I can now not get surprised by our of media errors. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:59 AM To: rusty.ma...@sungard.com Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server offline for disk (now DSSU stuff)

2009-07-17 Thread bob944
The high watermark serves two purposes - (1) It prevents any new backup jobs from being sent to the STU, and (2) It triggers image expirations on the STU. The function #1 is not applicable to Disk Staging STU; however, the functionality #2 should work for it. So, if you lower HWM for the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread tim burlowski
All: I wanted to chime in on this conversation and take the time to mention two things. You should all familiarize yourself with the Compatibility list and the 6.5 Release Notes, End of Life section about 32 bit platforms for the next major release of NetBackup.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread tim burlowski
That last sentence should read one 32 bit NetBackup server platform, Windows 2003 x86-64. -- tim burlowski http://timbu.org/mtblog On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, tim burlowski tim.burlow...@gmail.comwrote: All: I wanted to chime in on this conversation and take the time to mention two

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:04 AM, karthikeyan.sunda...@cognizant.com wrote: I have some doubts in choosing my NetBackup Master server OS Bit Version. We have both 32 and 64 bit OS's. Which will do better in my NetBackup setup either 32 bit or 64 bit. In general, NetBackup 64-bit runs better

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread tim burlowski
One last try. The last sentence should read The net result of reading the footnotes indicates that there will be one 32 bit NetBackup server platform, Windows 2003 x86-32. Thanks Ed! -- tim burlowski On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM, tim burlowski tim.burlow...@gmail.comwrote: That last