On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:30:11AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
I had get new labels put on some tapes that had incorrect specifications,
which caused inventory problems in the past. Even though they are now
scratch, if there is a mismatch it will freeze the tape, etc, is there a
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:37:09AM -0700, Tony1100 wrote:
I'm looking into possibly moving to a VMware NBU configuration? and
backup VM's via datastore, etc.., but I'm not 100% sure how this is
configured. And honestly, I'd like to stay with the cheapest solution
(regarding NBU licenses). I
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 12:08:41PM -0400, SACHIN ARORA wrote:
Hi ,
I have an issue and need to reply to customer ASAP.
master NB6.5.6 solaris8
server - solaris box NB6.5.6 (not an NDMP host)
What was the source of the data?
Is it possible to restore NDMP backup to a diff. servers rather
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:35:02PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote:
The problem is that the file on tape is encapsulated with some NBU
format information. So you would have to position the tape past the NBU
information to the beginning of the Netapp data stream. I've had the
details
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:44:33AM +0200, Sumeeth Singh (S) wrote:
I have read through the sysadmin guides and they mention that
frequency takes precedence when multiple schedules are configured over
the same timeframe, however calendar based scheduling does not use
frequency.
Correct.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:59:01PM -0500, Stafford, Geoff wrote:
So, all ye great NBU minds, what are your experiences with using *.dbf
and have you noticed any ill effects on the client?
I think others have given some good ideas, and I believe the process
challenges of this decision are the
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:10:23AM -0500, Baumann, Kevin wrote:
15:54:34 (40087.001) Attempting normal restore.
15:54:34 (40087.001) Restoring / to /vol/mafs1_users/
15:54:35 (40087.001) NDMP restore failed from path /vol/mafs1_users
15:55:13 (40087.001) Status of restore from image created
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:08:35PM +, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
wrote:
bpexpdate -deassignempty was the command I was looking for. Took care
of all the tapes that needed to be expired (30 of them) will see if
tomorrow I have the same issue.
Yes, deassignempty doesn't appear to run
I have multiple NDMP policies that have the NEW_STREAM directive in the
file list. I have been playing around with several of the nbu commands to
script a way to identify which stream did not process. The policy set up is
similar to this:
HOST FILES
Netapp
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:23:39AM -0400, Tamimi wrote:
Hi All,
I converted LTO1 tapes to LTO4 tapes using bpduplicate. LTO1 tape read
with LTO2 tape drives (compressed) and write to LTO4 tape drives
(compressed). The result were some of the images have the same size
and some have smaller
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:24:59PM -0400, mitch808 wrote:
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
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
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:56:05AM +0100, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
BPFis is related to Bare Metal Restores.
BPFis is the frozen image daemon. It's used in just about any
snapshot process (VSS, VSP, etc.) You can enable traditional logging
for it.
I've had it go bonkers on some servers,
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:22:55AM -0400, David Turner wrote:
I am working at a site that has 4 LTO tape drives shared between a
Netbackup Master server and 1 media server (SSO option).
Right.
They also have a Netapp Filer. It appears the vendors have made an
attempt to share 2 of the 4 LTO
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:05:53AM -0500, Nate Sanders wrote:
Running the command sudo vmchange -w -res -ml 300111 -rt TLD -rn 0 -rh
backup1 -verbose the process ends with return 0 yet nothing is printed
on my console and no tape is ejected into the mailslot.
Am I missing something here?
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:43:40PM -0500, Nate Sanders wrote:
That did it. What is -single_cycle? It's not even in the vmchange man
page!! *facepalm*
No, it doesn't seem to be documented.
I came across it in a discussion on the Symantec forum. There used to
be some other ways of doing it in
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:24:07PM -0500, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote:
There is or was an 'issue' with NDMP where the dump levels for
incrementals rolled past 9 and went back to 0, causing a full and it would
stay at dump level 0 until the next scheduled full ran. I cannot find a
technote
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:37:20AM -0400, Shawn Plummer wrote:
Also I didn?t think NTFS permissions were restored correctly when using CIFs
shares as your backup source.
Barring any bugs, they are. Both NTFS and UNIX security is backed up
and restored via CIFS.
Only UNIX security is backed
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:49:38AM -0600, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
So - as a sanity check of the huge catalogs, how do you feel about a 1-2
TB catalog? Anybody running close to these sizes?
Can't say I'm happy with it, but I'm at 2TB right now (6.0MP5 on
Linux). I actually had my raid array
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 06:47:15PM -0400, Brandon35 wrote:
Ah got it.
What's the point of Vault then? This all seems very easy to setup
with base Netbackup :)
Change 'very easy' to 'possible' and I agree with you. Yes, everything
Vault does can be done through normal commands, but I
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:24:59PM -0400, Brandon35 wrote:
Im having tape drives show up with the same BUS address...
Drive 1 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0
Drive 2 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 2, LUN 0
Drive 3 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 3, LUN 0
Drive 4 Location:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:22:48PM -0400, Brandon35 wrote:
I tried this on my solaris box, all I get is
*
** SDT_TAPE *
*
and nothing...
So it's not currently detecting tape drives on the scsi-compatible
busses. I imagine if you tried to
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:05:58PM -0400, Roy McMorran wrote:
On 6/23/10 3:43 PM, Len Boyle wrote:
Hi Len, thanks for the reply!
Do you see anything of interest in the netapp /etc/messages file?
Alas, no. Nothing other than ndmpd session opened/closed.
Also look at
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Whelan, Patrick wrote:
Hi All,
A couple of irrelevant questions. Does anyone know what the -fork
option is?
I assume is just causes bpduplicate to run in the background. It
appears to do that.
No idea on the -X.
I am only the one that just
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:03:12AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
If you have a NetApp filer (and there may be other NAS heads that have the
same functionality) that have multiple security models on the same data,
this approach simply will not work. We have some file systems that use both
Unix and
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 03:03:55PM -0400, gbkyle wrote:
I have listed below our current scenarios and actions we would like to take
in the event of this scenario. I was wondering if this is possible with
NetBackup, or possibly even an existing tool or script.
Scenario \ Action
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:54:39PM -0400, hsyashwanth wrote:
Hello..
We are recieving the below error message while trying to backup NDMP host. We
have been backing up our SAN (Netapp) data using NDMP since an year. But this
error is seen from past 3 days.
30/04/2010 18:03:10 - begin
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Whelan, Patrick wrote:
Has anyone else seen this? When I say slow I mean 150 to 300 KB/Sec.
Windoze master
Netapps NDMP
NBU 6.5.3
Could be a lot of things.
With some versions of ontap 7.2, there's a bug that it reads the catalog
off the tape slowly.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52:02PM -0400, Len Boyle wrote:
I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this
version of tar as the being of the tar file would be missing. With a
lot of work you might be able to use the tar source as a base to read
the data and lay it down to
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:49:29PM -0400, Baumann, Kevin wrote:
Anyone know if that will change or has changed with version 7?
I doubt it has anything to do with Netbackup. Netbackup is asking the
remote system to send data. If that system doesn't allow wildcards,
then it won't work.
If you
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:05:35PM -0400, BeDour, Wayne wrote:
That makes sense about splitting the vtl drives up between media
servers, but I'm still confused about the robot. If robot is only
defined on one media server, how does that work for the other media
servers?
The robot is
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:22:24AM -0700, Grigore Petrisor wrote:
First thing, we tried to partition the library and it didn?t work. I
mean the second server was always ?seeing? the robotics as controlled
by the first server.
That sounds like either a problem with the library or the
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:46:53AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
Yeah, just to clarify, it takes ~39-50 seconds to complete a run with ~40k
jobs on relatively old hardware. OK then, have to wait for Symantec to
add an option to pull only the type of jobs, and to do that, they'd
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:50:28PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Checking...
0.10user 0.01system 0:00.27elapsed 40%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
However..
MASTER SERVER QUEUED REQUEUED ACTIVE SUCCESS PARTSUCC FAILED INCOMP SUSP
WAITING_RETRY TOTAL
There is not a way to
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:16:22AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to use bpdbjobs to *JUST* list Active Restores?
I know you can filter the output. However, if you have 50,000-100,000
jobs in the queue, it will be very slow because it has to load all of the
jobs and then
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:24:25PM -, Whelan, Patrick wrote:
Hi All,
Scenario:
Backups from A can be restored to B but not A
Backups from B can be restored to B.
So all restores on B work, and all restores on A don't?
What is in the details of the restore attempt in NBU?
What info is in
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14:13AM -0700, Trudi Eisenhour wrote:
Does anyone know of something that will help parse through a bpimagelist
to help me see Client, Kilobytes, and Backup Time in easier way? I
received the output of the nbulog via text and it has so many policies
and clients that
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:54:36PM -0500, zimmy00 wrote:
Here is the problem. Some time ago we upgraded a library from an lto
to lto3. Now they scan differently and I set barcode rules to get the
tape numbers to match. The problem is that the older tapes are
showing up as write protected.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:43:27AM -, Whelan, Patrick wrote:
* 15:52:00 (136287.001) INF - Restoring NDMP files from /vol/data4/Credit
Trading/ to /vol/scratch
* 15:52:05 (136287.001) DAR enabled
* 15:52:07 (136287.001) Restoring Credit Trading/25oct06 download.xls to
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:07:22PM -0800, Jon Bousselot wrote:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/323670.htm
When I tried to do what you are asking under NBU 6.0, it never worked
for me.
The link describes a new method for 6.5.x which looks promising. I
should try it too.
Yay.
I'm planning some upgrades to a location with a media server. Right now
it only has a slow tape drive. I'd like to do a backup to this media
server and see how fast it could receive.
I don't have any disks there that could be used for a normal DSU. Is
there a way to configure a DSU/STU to a
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:12:55AM -0700, Scott Jacobson wrote:
I have a orphaned bpcd connection that is invalid (below):
netstat -a | grep bpcd
tcp 205560 0 ms06.provo.novell.c:866 novprvlin0128-b.pr:bpcd
ESTABLISHED
I've restated the service on the server end, but the
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:54:32PM -0500, Sagz wrote:
The catalog still shows the tapes in the robot but as I said... I can't do a
tape inventory.
When I start a restore job it just sits there... I imaging getting hung up on
the bad robot.
If the robot isn't working, you can select the
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:47:47AM -0500, Sagz wrote:
I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic
t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a
different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname
and
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:05:01PM +0100, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote:
Is it supported in NBU that a Solaris Master/Media has multiple NIC's for
backups of different clients on different networks ?
Sure.
Master has 2 network interfaces. Interface A goes to network A to backup
clients on network
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:11:50PM -0500, j.keat...@tachi-s.com wrote:
Hello,
Am I correct to believe that NBU won't import or confuse itself or the
database if we should put a tape in the robot which has the same label as
a tape that's has already been written too and cataloged?
By
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:45:12PM -0700, Jeff Cleverley wrote:
Are you modifying the routing tables on the clients?
Nope.
When used to do it with Data Protector/Omniback we found was that the master
server on subnet A did route using network B to a subnet B client. The
problem was that the
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0500, Martin, Jonathan wrote:
What version of NBU are you using? I dump this data regularly using the
-all_columns and write it to a SQL database, and while I get a last path
backed up field, I do not get a path field. Here's a single line of
output from
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:01:02PM -0500, fullejn wrote:
I am currently using this one-liner to eject all tapes from a list. It works
in that I can build a tape list and save me the headache of entering tape #
by tape #, but I still have the aggravation of having to interact with the
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:00:29PM -0700, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
You'll have to use bpimagelist to get the majority of the information,
it'll have the start elapsed times (you can calculate end time) for
each image. It'll also have the backupid for that image.
I use this method for a backup
Posted this on the Symantec forums, but didn't have any nibbles yet, so
I'm asking here as well.
NDMP (or at least the netapp implementation of it) doesn't have the
concept of a true incremental. I'm used to this being somewhat faked
by increasing the level numbers. On my filers I can see that
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:22:28AM -0700, Patti Anderson wrote:
What version of 6.5 are you running? I see this behavior reported under
ET1435435 and resolved at 6.5.3.1 and 6.5.4.
Upgrading to 6.5.4 should resolve the issue.
Ah, so just a bug (whew). Yes, the two places I checked with
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:57:37PM -0800, Reynolds, Susan K. wrote:
If slot=0 then it is in a drive; I did a vmquery on a tape that was in a
drive and that's what came back
I've never seen that.
Here's a tape that's in a drive for me at the moment, and the robot slot
is not reported as zero.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
There are ways to preview the restore to tell you which tapes are needed but
why bother with a preview - you either need the restore or you don't.
I would like it on occasion because I might have a bin already recalled,
and the file I
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that.
It's not datadomain specific. It would happen with any VTL.
If you have a small scratch pool (tapes tend to be reused shortly after
they expire) and you're not near capacity on your
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Jonathan Dyck wrote:
Has to do with fragmentation (at least with my Diligent VTL). The VTL
wants contiguous space to allocate to virtual tapes. I think I've
posted this script before, but feel free to take a look:
Oh, so you *are* doing the
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:14:12AM -0800, Randy Doering wrote:
Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space
gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images.
? vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32
#
# DD -
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:48:17AM +0530, nitin.giz...@wipro.com wrote:
We are running 2 NDMP backps in parallel for to backup two diff
storage box. I would like to know can we have diff exclude list for
each of these NDMP backups? Since dir , files which needs to excluded
are diffrent as of
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:03:14PM +0200, Johan Redelinghuys wrote:
1. Storage Units:
You have 2 x LTO4 drives. Would you create one stu with two drives in it
or would you create a stu for each drives?
# I've found that in some cases it better to create two stu's. When a
policy
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:03:29AM -0400, nguytom wrote:
I hear DataDomain has DataDomain system cleaning process, anyone knows
about it please let me know (command line and how to run the cleaning
process, also you can please share me DataDomain OS Admin Guide, I
don't have access to
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:23:09PM -0400, Wilcox, Donald A (GE,
Research) wrote:
Doesn't appear to have anything to do with shared libraries, so I
changed the subject.
All,
I am currently looking for info on backing up MS SQL boxes and wondered if
the agent actually does any type of
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:07:20AM -0400, Jonathan Dyck wrote:
Don't know if you're looking for a *nix script Darren (or if this thread
is long dead for you), but here's our script if you want it (I have a
Diligent Protectier v2 VTL, requires regular bplabel to clear newly
Scratched tapes so
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:21:38AM +0100, Clooney, David wrote:
Darren
Have written the code already in perl if you want a copy? Runs daily, figures
out what vtl volumes have been returned to scratch in the last 24 hours and
labels accordingly.
Ah, interesting. Are you just parsing one
I'm writing a script that will go out and erase VTL media on a schedule
to reclaim space. While perusing the bplabel man page, I'm wondering
just exactly what is the difference between running bplabel (no erase)
and bplabel -erase (short erase).
They both rewrite the label at the front of the
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:41:58PM -0500, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
wrote:
So I believe that bplabel (no erase) just rewrites in the label part
at the front of the tape.
Where the short erase makes a gap (meaning that the first BOD for an
image is destroyed).
Makes sense to me, and
I had a hiccup with ltid (self-invoked) during a lot of long-running
full backups. So I didn't want to reboot.
Restarting ltid worked to some extent, but Netbackup's view of the robot
inventory became incorrect. Robtest said some drives were occupied that
weren't and that a tape was missing
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:24:56PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote:
As soon as all the backups finished and I had a chance to restart
daemons, tldtest/robtest showed the correct robotic contents again.
Er, um... never mind. :-)
Looking at lots of random volume and slot numbers, I've managed
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:37:37AM -0400, BeDour, Wayne wrote:
Would it be better to run with a mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-4 drives in
the library?
If you run two different drive types at the same time, you'll need to
give them different types in NBU.
Note that both LTO-1 and LTO-4 will default
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:33:33PM -0400, Will Tucker wrote:
In my current NetBackup 6.5.3 Windows environment, I have 4 tapes drives
that are directly connected to my NetApp filer which uses NDMP to run
duplicate jobs. I also have two other tape drives that are utilized for
other backup
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Alexander Leikin wrote:
Hi,
We are trying to implement NDMP direct copy duplication, but cannot
find documentation how to do it.
I do backups via NDMP direct (not Remote or 3-way), and I do
duplications. But I don't think those two concepts
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:07:10PM -0400, Alexander Leikin wrote:
Thanks for your response.
Actually I am looking for documentation how to setup robots, storage
units having VTL with NDMP option turned on and physical library.
So far I created NDMP hosts with proper authorization.
I have
I wish it were more explicit on the line about The VTL must have the
NDMP capabiliteis neede to support NDMP direct copy. Well what
capabilities would that be?
I'm afraid unless the VTL vendor says this should work with their unit,
I would be suspicious of it.
I don't have any VTLs that this
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:36:30AM +0100, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
Hi Darren
To be honest, I started to give up !!
What I did discover is that from the Backup, Archive, Restore tool, I
can select my Master Server and under Policy choose NBU-Catalog and from
here, I can see file images
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:50:18AM +0100, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
I have not found a Technote that suggests how to move images in 6.5
using the ALTPATH method.
Nor I. But I did find that it worked in some aspects on unix with
symlinks.
Presently, all images are in a folder
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:13:06AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
It all depends how long you want to wait to restore a file if you have
large backups that can span a tape completely.
With 1TB fragment size, assuming there was no compression and you needed
to restore a 10k file at the end of
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:58:11AM +0100, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
Darren
Running this command reports no entity found !
They're both a bit persnickity with options. These are general commands
to show files in an image. You'll need to give enough options to
identify the image in
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Jorge F?bregas wrote:
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:50:08 pm Jorge F?bregas wrote:
I'm wondering...why didn't they show up in the SCRATCH pool as usual (when
all images expire on tape)? ?Any common reason for this kind of behaviour?
I forgot ...
I've got a little tool that looks for expiring licenses via
get_license_key. But that doesn't appear to exist on Windows.
How can I dump the license information from a Windows machine?
Thanks!
--
Darren
___
Veritas-bu maillist -
I'm afraid I'm rather UNIX-centric.
I've recently inherited a large number of windows client that need
updates to the media servers that they'll talk to. Since windows
doesn't use a 'bp.conf' file like UNIX, is there some way of scripting
an update to the list? Right now I'm having to do it
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:55:19PM -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
Not sure if this works for Windows media servers but you can go into the
Java GUI for master and select Media Servers. In there select all the
hosts, wait for it to populate OS etc... then right click and select
Properties and
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:59:35AM -0700, Preston, Douglas wrote:
Registry entry, servers are listed in hex.
Change the servers on one machine
Run regedit
Export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config
then remove all but the Server= as below then import that
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:35:14PM -0400, apatoliya wrote:
I never used compression for tapes
You disabled it explicitly? It's on by default at the hardware level.
Encrypted data is the same size as non-encrypted data. But after
encryption the data is incompressible.
--
Darren
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:44:40PM -0400, smwoodcrafts wrote:
Are there any official Docs that show how to add a media server to an
environment? Or actually putting an environment together? I am
administrating an environment that was already established before I
took the job and it would be
I have a 6.5.3 setup with a Linux Master and a Windows media server.
After configuring a basicdisk DSU, I performed some image expirations
via 'bpexpdate -d 0 backupid'. The catalog information is deleted,
but the files are still in the DSU. I was expecting that they would be
deleted as part
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:03:08AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
I've run some image cleanup jobs and none of them appeared to touch the
files either.
Am I doing something wrong? How can I get the files to go away when the
image expires?
They do go away but the process is asynchronous.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:47:26AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan wrote:
I can think of a few reasons why this might be happening.
1) Don't run bpexpdate commands in quick succession. My NBU servers can
only run one bpexpdate at a time and even after the command returns with
status zero, I still
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:11:46AM +1000, Dean wrote:
From what I've read, and from what Curtis says below, you DON'T need to keep
the original full backup around, once you've created at least one more
synethtic full backup. You can do just one full backup, then keep creating
synthetic fulls
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:29:40PM -0500, Khurram Tariq wrote:
I realized the error I was making. I was writing my regex as if it were
being used for grep, I was missing the dots. Thanks.
Well, that's just silly. It shouldn't be necessary at all. It must be
explicitly anchoring the regex (at
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:26:52AM -0400, X_S wrote:
we're planning on replacing our LTO3 drives with LTO4s entirely
but want to utilize the many LTO3 tapes that we still have. The
problem that we have is that Netbackup sees these tapes as different
media types/densities because ACSLS
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:53:58PM -0500, Khurram Tariq wrote:
Lets say I'm in activity monitor of NetBackup Admin Console (Java) I
create a filter to filter out certain jobs. In the comparion list I have the
option of choosing regular expression. I'm looking at creating a slightly
more
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:20:44PM -0400, Jorge F?bregas wrote:
I'm still learning Netbackup (got around 1.5 years working with it) and I'm
wondering... Is there a way to perform incremental backups using in-file
delta technology (backup only changes within a file)? I've seen a lot of
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:36:29PM -0400, BeDour, Wayne wrote:
Here is the scenario. The auditors give me a date and a host which I
can relate to a backup policy. From the date, they need me to verify
the backup ran, the bar code of the tape(s) written to and if the
tape(s) went offsite.
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:18:48PM -0500, Nick Majeran wrote:
Most modern OSen should have a capable fs abstraction layer, like VFS,
which should remove the client from having to know too much about the
underlying file system, I would assume.
The abstraction layer usually doesn't have enough
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:36:49AM -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
If NBU can be used to read NDMP backups can it be used to bpduplicate
them with the target being the new NDMP?
Duplication shouldn't be a problem. You don't have to understand a
format to duplicate data.
I don't see why the target
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:05:59PM -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
I was thinking out loud because someone wanted to transfer from a EMC
Celera to a NetApp filer. It seemed one way to do it that would avoid
worrying about formats is to use NBU's duplication mechanisms to do the
transfer.
The
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:09:23PM +0530, Praveen Gupta wrote:
Block size could play a role. Increasing the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS to say,
256k, might help. You need to set SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_NDMP also.
Sounded to me like the OP is doing direct NDMP. Those buffer settings
only affect remote NDMP.
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:02:22PM -0500, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote:
and the longest frequency will win--the monthly will run.
Bob, that's what usually happens, but that's not why. The trump card is
the retention level, which usually is matched to a longer frequency, but
may not always
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:54:06PM -0400, RKastner wrote:
i have to restore NDMP backups (several TB) made from an EMC Celerra
to a Netapp filer. I know, this kind of restore is not supported by
Netbackup and all other backup software vendors. It's an issue of all
the different vendor NDMP
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:22:25AM -0400, Hudson, Steve wrote:
Hello Guru's ... We are struggling with this scenario. We are a
Netbackup 6.5.3.1 shop and recently discovered that using Frequency
Based Schedules that a Monthly Full backup and a Weekly Full backup for
the same client will run on
I was looking at a recent backup I had to do. I don't have sufficient
drives to duplicate, so I ran two separate backups. (The server is
offline, so there should be no changes to data).
First backup took 3 tapes, second backup took 4 tapes. The odd thing is
that the last tape in the second
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