[Veritas-bu] intermittent connectivity lost with the server

2010-09-27 Thread Yusuf Hidayanto
Dear Guru, My netbackup 6.5 suddenly stop operating with error 196. Last full weekend backup *all failed.* When I checked it today, these the detail problem : 1. Often come up error: intermittent connectivity lost with the server. Verify services or Daemons are up. 2. 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

2010-09-27 Thread Martin, Jonathan
You cannot expire individual images on a media and re-use that space. Once a certain image has been written, NetBackup will not overwrite that position on the media until the entire tape has expired. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

2010-09-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Adrian Soetanto adrian.soeta...@bentoel.co.id wrote: What I want is to delete only certain backup IDs in a media ID and free up some space in that media ID. I've tried to use this command: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate -backupid backup_id -d 0

Re: [Veritas-bu] intermittent connectivity lost with the server

2010-09-27 Thread Nic Solomons
When you did stop start, did you confirm all NB processes had ended correctly? (bpps -a) I have experienced something very similar on a Windows Media/Master server last week. Use bprdreq -alive to check if resource processing is working. I'm guessing it isn't. In which case you will

[Veritas-bu] What is lock file with Netbackup 6.5

2010-09-27 Thread shekhar deshingkar
Hi, Where i can find the lock file in Netbackup,What is this file means, Could you please explain, Thanks, Shekhar Deshingkar. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

2010-09-27 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:28:07AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan wrote: You cannot expire individual images on a media and re-use that space. Once a certain image has been written, NetBackup will not overwrite that position on the media until the entire tape has expired. Right. And it's not just

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Recommendations

2010-09-27 Thread Rusty.Major
I would recommend moving away from the Virtual Tape Library and utilizing Advanced Disk, Disk Pools and Storage LifeCycle Policies. Most VTLs today can be utilized as a giant pool of disks, instead of a bunch of fake tape drives, as well. But, at that point, you could remove the complication

Re: [Veritas-bu] 7.0.1 UNIX/Linux clients backups

2010-09-27 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:28:45 judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: All it is telling you is that it is backing up / (root) and in doing so it sees that /u01 is a separate file system, and it knows you are doing multiply jobs, so it will not backup /u01 with root but will do it as a

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Recommendations

2010-09-27 Thread Marelas, Peter
The VTL interface has been superseded by OST based devices and NetBackup's own disk staging technologies. If I were to start again I would take a serious look at the disk and deduplication options available in NetBackup's 7.x. NetBackup 7.x now converges three technologies: 1/ deduplication