Re: [Veritas-bu] MS-Sql server

2010-09-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
What about just opening the .BCH file to see what is in it. If its $ALL, then all DB's are backed up that SQL is aware of. Using the BAR shows, or the logs (if running) that was described by TAL. Keep us posted on your findings... :-) Simon From: Shekel Tal

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Client install blowsupduring the install....

2010-09-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
We had this problem as well, and on a Windows 2000 Server. It was a pain. It was not down to NBU, the OS itself was at fault. The time spent on fixing it was so long, I ended up recovering from an Image of the System, and was able to install the NBU update. My feeling is, a Windows update was to

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

2010-09-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Adrian I dont think this is the behaviour. From my view, until all images are deleted or expired, the tape is then free for Backups. Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Adrian Soetanto

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

2010-09-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Shekhar, hello :-) In most cases, \Install\Veritas\NetBackup and NetBackup\Bin However, why would you want to know. Is there an issue in the Environment? From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

[Veritas-bu] nbpem_email

2010-09-28 Thread Patrick
Does anyone have any info on nbpem_email? Such as config, stopping etc. Regards, Patrick Whelan VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows. mailto:netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR implementation for two cluster servers

2010-09-28 Thread pranav batra
Hello Bahadir, Thanks for all the valuable points. Need to confirm one thing more : 1) Does BMR also support veritas file System:-Mean to say if system is down it will boot the system ( OS) by BMR recovery process but does this revcovery also recover the Veritas File System as it is

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR implementation for two cluster servers

2010-09-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:19 AM, pranav batra pranav_vent...@hotmail.comwrote: 1) Does BMR also support veritas file System No (it least not in NBU 7). For Red Hat 4.x (x64) and Red Hat 5.x (x64), the following fie systems are supported: EXT2, EXT3, Reiserfs

[Veritas-bu] Updating bp.conf on a *nix client

2010-09-28 Thread Heathe Yeakley
Greetings List, --== WHAT I'M TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH ==-- I'm building a new NBU environment and I want to add the names of my new master and two media servers to the bp.conf file on my *nix hosts. I picked a box at random, logged in, fired up the bp.conf file in vi and added 'SERVER =

[Veritas-bu] Tips, Tricks, Hacks, and Best Practices

2010-09-28 Thread Heathe Yeakley
Once a month or so, I see a little pearl of wisdom pop up on the list here. Something that makes me slap my head and say Why aren't I doing that in my environment? For example, I saw in a message earlier this week that mentioned excluding the /proc and /dev filesystems on *nix clients. I'm not

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

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Hickey
Adrian, Your problem , especially in the =case of physical tape, is that you put multiple retentions on the sane tape. I understand that in the short term this might reduce an initial tape purchase, but in the long term, you probably end up buying more tapes because the ones you are using

[Veritas-bu] Updating bp.conf on a *nix client

2010-09-28 Thread rmg
I'm building a new NBU environment and I want to add the names of my new master and two media servers to the bp.conf file on my *nix hosts. I picked a box at random, logged in, fired up the bp.conf file in vi and added 'SERVER = servername', saved and exited. In my experience, that does

[Veritas-bu] VTL Recommendations

2010-09-28 Thread mitch808
As others mentioned, just step away from VTL's in general. All they are, are disk as the base, with software on top, emulating tape, with a big markup for that software. Just buy plain disk, or re-use disk you may already have, and backup to disk. Add in deduplication that is native now in