[Veritas-bu] Strange status 13 during bpstart script

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Markham
Guys i've been reading on Status 13 quite a bit but am still flummoxed as to why we are getting this on an environment here. Ok Netbackup 6.0MP4 Windows 2003 Master server Netbackup 6.0MP4 Windows 2003 Media server attached to EMC disk virtual storage. Netbackup 6.0MP4 Linux Client running

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with Oracle backup Netbackup 5.1

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Markham
Are the oracle backups being issue from an agent such as RMAN? I know in the past the number of simultaneous backup streams are actually pushed from oracle and not netbackup. This was all set up in the RMAN scripts to stream 4 sessions at a time. This has no bearing on me having 8 drives

[Veritas-bu] Issues with Oracle backup Netbackup 5.1

2010-05-14 Thread Sushil
So let's look at something else. Are you running more than one job per client? (multistreamed backups) If so lets look at how many jobs per client are allowed. Master server properties, Global Attributes Maximum jobs per client -if this is one or 2 look at what jobs are running and

[Veritas-bu] RMAN crosscheck

2010-05-14 Thread Lightner, Jeff
My DBAs are starting to question me about an RMAN crosscheck they are running. Essentially I gather that when they ran it the crosscheck seemed to report even backups run in the last 2 days as expired. On checking the Data Domain unit I can see the images are still there and on running

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients

2010-05-14 Thread David Stanaway
On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange status 13 during bpstart script

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Markham
Yeah sorry perhaps not explained correctly. The bpstart time out is 8 hours (28800) The status 74 is what we would expect to see on the Master Server job view, and is actually what the CLIENT bpbkar log shows after 8 hours of the job hanging. However, the issue is the Master server is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange status 13 during bpstart script

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Markham
Well on the client they are empty and on the master server windows its using the vxlog thingy which i've not looked at before. I.e there's nothing in ~netbackup\logs\bpbrm. :( I'm a unix engineer so find windows very frustrating as regards looking and searching through logs. cheers Whelan,

[Veritas-bu] VMware clients

2010-05-14 Thread jopper
Vstorage does not scale well at all. We had it backing up around 1000 vm clients and crashed Vcenter everytime. David Stanaway wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients

2010-05-14 Thread Martin, Jonathan
1000 clients simultaneously? Across how many hosts? Did you troubleshoot at all with VMware support? -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of jopper Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:12 AM To:

[Veritas-bu] VMware clients

2010-05-14 Thread jopper
[quote=Martin, Jonathan]1000 clients simultaneously? Across how many hosts? Did you troubleshoot at all with VMware support? -Jonathan Not all at once. We were able to crash Vcenter with only 21 clients running at once. We were using 1 master and 2 media servers. We have had a case open

[Veritas-bu] last update ARB - Automated Runbook

2010-05-14 Thread Márcia Garcia
Mr. Rockey, Who is the Automated Runbook´s author? Thanks, Márcia Garcia Symantec Certified Professional ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu