[Veritas-bu] Microsoft SQL Backups on MSSQL Shared Application Cluster?

2010-07-16 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Has anyone here backed up MSSQL databases that are mirrored within a cluster? I have several clients who run a sole MSSQL DB that backup without issue in 6.5.x environments. However, when the DBs are mirrored, if there are processes cleaning/migrating data between a mirrored pair, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditionalbackup system.

2010-07-16 Thread JC Cheney
Snapshot client? I guess you'd still be 24hrs + time to take the snap but that should be negligible... From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean Sent: 16 July 2010 05:54 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditionalbackup system.

2010-07-16 Thread William Brown
You are quite correct and it is something that I have pointed out several times to rather puzzled managers. We don't sell a service but for most systems the RPO is 24 hours. I have pointed out that for many systems where they take a FULL backup on Friday, and Cumulative Incremental on Mon,

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-16 Thread tsimerson
I don't think this problem is a NBU issue. It looks like Solaris has lost the drives. You need to rescan the devices to make sure that Solaris can see the drives. I believe you can run devfsadm -c tape to have the system rescan for devices or issue a touch /reconfigure then reboot the

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditionalbackup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Renee Carlisle
Check into synthetic fulls...especially optimized synthetic fullsthat way you are only really doing a differential every night and letting NBU handle the creation of the full...this should dramatically shrink the time it takes to do the backups. From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Dean dean.de...@gmail.com wrote: Silver is 24 hours. The large majority of our backup clients fall into this category. Silver class is all based on tape backup/recovery. It's the traditional overnight backup to tape (or disk, VTL, whatever) fulls on the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-16 Thread Rusty.Major
If the devices are scsi attached, you can take the system down to the OK prompt and run probe-scsi-all to verify that at the OS level, the drives are being presented. This page tells you how to do it: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/114/troubleshoot-scsi-devices-with-probe-scsi-all/

Re: [Veritas-bu] Shadow Copy Components failing!

2010-07-16 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
This is the only thing I can think of. Document ID: 327105 http://support.veritas.com/docs/327105 A potential for System State data loss has been discovered in NetBackup Server / Enterprise Server 6.5.4. This occur when the System State is selected for backup and snapshot error control is

[Veritas-bu] report backup status elapsed time

2010-07-16 Thread Brandon35
Is the reported elapsed time including the time that job spent in queue? If so that would explain this, as now I have nearly 1,000 jobs queuing at night that could explain the jump in total elapsed time yet decreased backup times.

Re: [Veritas-bu] report backup status elapsed time

2010-07-16 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Yes, There are two columns Elapsed time - includes queued Active Elapsed - only active time. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brandon35 Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:25 AM To:

[Veritas-bu] report backup status elapsed time

2010-07-16 Thread Brandon35
Thanks for the info. I see Active Elapsed as a selectable column in my Activity Monitor, but unfortunately, I can't get that column in my Reports for historical info... I'm thinking command line may be able to pull this info for me. I am researching, will post my findings :)

[Veritas-bu] Data Domain OST

2010-07-16 Thread Renee Carlisle
Is anyone out there using a Data Domain with the OST plug in for NetBackup? (Especially if you are running NBU 7) Can someone give me a rough idea what kind of performance numbers you are gettingjust looking for an average mb/s per stream on typical backup jobs. Don't need a lot of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Domain OST

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Glazerman
Renee, We're testing OST as I write this !! We've actually been testing OST and the new dedupe in NBU 7.0. We've been running our exchange backups to an OST storage unit and have seen higher throughput speeds compared to our regular CIFS backups in the limited testing we've done (40mb./sec

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Dean
Thank you all for the responses. We do already offer a Bronze service class, which is basically best-effort. But most of the systems fall into this 24 hour Silver category. Doing daily differential incrementals then synethetic backups wouldn't really change the fact that in the worst case, our