Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 to Netbackup7

2011-01-05 Thread ccosta . ccc
It would be easier if you went to the SYMC site and looked at the upgrade portal. That will provide all the information you need to perform the upgrade. --Original Message-- From: harikrse Sender: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU ReplyTo:

[Veritas-bu] Tape compatibility

2011-01-05 Thread Infantino, Joseph
We are currently converting from NetWorker to NetBackup and I am wondering if anyone can tell me if I can re-use a tape that was originally written to in NetWorker in NetBackup? I know NetBackup can't read the tape, but will it be able to re-label the tape and re-use it? I suspect it can, but

[Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 7.0 and licenses

2011-01-05 Thread ccosta . ccc
After upgrading to NBU 7.0, do I need to replace the 6.5.5 licenses with 7.0 licenses? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 7.0 and licenses

2011-01-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, ccosta@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading to NBU 7.0, do I need to replace the 6.5.5 licenses with 7.0 licenses? I don't think you need to but you should. Every new NetBackup release incorporates something different in the license keys. You should have

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1

2011-01-05 Thread smpt
I was a beta tester. But beta was ended long ago. I think that they found more problems than they expect. stefanos -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:31 PM To: smpt Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 to Netbackup7

2011-01-05 Thread Saranjit Singh
Netbackup upgrade from 6.X to 7.X is like a piece of cake. Very very smooth if compared to 5.X to 6.X upgrade. We upgraded our environment in less than two hours. Thanks, Saranjit On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:47 AM, harikrse netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Hi All, Can you please provide

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape compatibility

2011-01-05 Thread Jim VandeVegt
If certainly should, if it is a tape drive supported by NetBackup. I would make sure to have these entries in bp.conf: (also a part in the GUI under master properties that will do it.) ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = DBR ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = CPIO ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE =

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.5 Policy Retention issue

2011-01-05 Thread Dushyant.Mehta
Hello, We have an infinite retention policy for all our backups. However we had a restore request for one of the client and while checking images for that client using bpimagelist, we found out that the image has an expiry date. We went back to policy to find out that retention on the

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.5 Policy Retention issue

2011-01-05 Thread Jim VandeVegt
What date was listed? If it was sometime in the year 2037, that is how infinity is represented in NetBackup. Basically it is MAXLONGINT converted into a date. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 |