Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2010-02-20 Thread Ed Wilts
One way to solve this problem is to use encryption. Use a key-per-tape procedure and when the tape images expire, destroy the key. There will be no way to ever get that data back and the tape can sit in your scratch pool for years. .../Ed On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, bruceephx

[Veritas-bu] Any gotchas with 10 GB Ethernet?

2010-02-20 Thread Larry
Oh yeah, and if you haven't bought the servers yet, Sun has some with dedicated busses for 10Gb NICs. Haven't played with them yet, but it's definitely worth considering. I want to say the 5240 has them while the 5220 doesn't.

[Veritas-bu] Incremental Backups.

2010-02-20 Thread Larry
If you mean your incremental backups and full backups in the same policy are going to different targets, then check the schedules and one or more will be set to override the storage unit set for the policy. +-- |This was sent

[Veritas-bu] Any gotchas with 10 GB Ethernet?

2010-02-20 Thread Larry
I don't know if this has changed since 5.1, but at 5.1 and earlier you would need to use /usr/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ (yes, SZ) and put a value greater than 64KB in there. It really doesn't matter what you use, unless you're going over a LFN, 1048576 will work in most cases. It's not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any gotchas with 10 GB Ethernet?

2010-02-20 Thread Shekel Tal
I haven't followed the whole thread so excuse me if my message isn't relevant but I read in a performance tuning guide you should set your NET_BUFFER_SZ to 4 times the size of your SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS Also - not mandatory but recommended to match the client and media server network buffers The

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't upgrade past windows netbackup client 6.0

2010-02-20 Thread David Stanaway
I just had a problem with this same error on a windows 2000 client. This was on a new 6.5 install. At the very end of the install, the installer connected to the windows event logs through WMI I think but this failed due to WMI repository being corrupted somehow. The install rolls back at this