From a licensing perspective, if you were doing a standalone instance then yes
the Standard version would be fine. Since you are incorporating it into an
existing Enterprise instance, you would need an Enterprise NetBackup server
license since this server would most likely be a media server for
There's a white paper out there when Sun was using a T5220 as a media server
streaming to about 6-8 StorageTek 1 drives. When we refreshed our NetBackup
infrastructure in one location, we did something very similar to this where I
have a T5220 as a media server streaming to 6 LTO-4 FC
How are you getting a single media ID to hold 3TB? The largest tape
capacity I know of is the LTO-4 at 1.2TB per tape...
On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:31 PM, KinAn netbackup-
fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
No,no Because at dayn+1 I see tape ID 01 have ~3TB, but dayn+2 I
see tape ID 01
Check the webserver logs for the LiveUpdate repository. That's how I found out
that NBU was hanging up with trying to get the miniflg.tri file due to a MIME
issue.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
What's sgscan showing? You may need to go through the whole sg driver
installation process so the drives are visible to NBU.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Jeff
Sent:
The two are vastly different. NBU LiveUpdate probably could not co-exist on a
SAV LU Server because the files which identify which packages to get would not
contain information about the other product (i.e. a NBU LU Server would not
contain information on SAV and vice-versa). Because there are
I have successfully gotten it working with a IIS 6.0 Web Server and a Solaris
10 Client. So far it looks pretty sweet, I'm actually gearing up for a full out
deployment of it soon now that I have my test case working.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/vltadm
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Doug
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:32 PM
To: Stump, Bob A; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re:
Is D:\data something special (like a disk attached at a mountpoint or a SAN
volume)?
You might be able to do this as your backup selections:
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
D:\data
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Remove the media from the L700e and have NetBackup inventory the robot. This
will put all the tapes into standalone.
Then put the tapes into the SL500 and inventory the new robot, NetBackup will
see the tapes in that new robot and adjust the locations accordingly.
This of course assumes you
NetBackup Standard = Allowes a Single Combined Master+Media Server
NetBackup Enterprise = Allows Multiple Master/Media Servers
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of reddi72
Sent: Tuesday,
Mailslots are not treated as a normal slot as far as NetBackup is concerned.
You need to have an empty slot for the tape to go into before NetBackup can
then move it into a drive or import it into the library. As a general rule of
thumb, I will usually allocate one empty slot per mailslot in my
If NetBackup is going to back up files on a server, you need the client
software. The entire NetBackup suite is Client/Server based where the server
connects to the client and basically sucks the files back to the server to
place into the appropriate storage based on the policy.
I'm not sure
Dave,
The 6.5_CLIENTS2 tarball should be the one you need. That should be the one
with the Linux client files in it (1 is HP-UX, AIX, etc. and 3 is mostly
Solaris). The file you downloaded is the actual NetBackup installation for a
master or media server.
Once you install the client, then you
Here are the basics:
1. Basic Disk Staging
Backup to Disk First then a Destaging schedule duplicates the backup image to
tape media. Once the image is successfully destaged to tape, it is then removed
from the disk depending on how your low/high water marks are set. You need
enough disk space
Are you running this under Solaris? If so, have you turned off tcp fusion?
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:53 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.3 on
Regarding the tape-drive based compression though, I think by default the drive
does not compress (actually I'm fairly positive this is the case). The driver
has to instruct the tape drive to enable hardware compression. In the case of
solaris, this is done based on which device you are
What version of NetBackup as well? If it's 6.5.X you might be able to check the
unified logs in /opt/openv/logs and see if they tell you anything. I know
whenever I do policy manipulations they show up in there.
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Run /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/get_license_key then delete the old trial
key and Add the new one.
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:27 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject:
Has anyone used the Snapshot client (or snapshotting in general) to backup a
MySQL database? I have some 24/7 MySQL databases that I can't shutdown to
export all their files (these are some very large databases and it would take
too much time) and I've been looking for a better way to back them
Generally you should run this by your Symantec sales rep. since they are always
the foremost authority in what you need in terms of licensing.
This is what I think you will need, but again, check with your sales rep.
You need 3 NetBackup Enterprise Licenses... which ones depend on your
Upgrade to NBU 6.5.2A, it fixed a lot of issues with duplication.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:06 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] DSSU De-Staging
I have to disagree with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES being a good thing in some
circumstances. I recently went from using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to specifying each
of my disk slices (/, /usr, /var, /opt, etc.) and breaking them out with
NEW_STREAM on my UNIX servers for a very simple reason. Using
Yes there is (for NBU 6.5.X anyways),
Under the Master/Media Server properties, click on the Bandwidth menu option
and then you can put in the IP address you want to throttle. The value is in
KB/sec so 2.5MB/sec would be 2500 KB/sec.
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I think what he means is that if he uses in-line copies, he loses one tape
drive per in-line copy which due to the small backup windows would be a
problem. I would seriously look into Storage Lifecycle Policies, because then
you can configure a policy to do a backup at 8PM and then instruct the
What version of 6.5 are you running? 6.5.1?
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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:52 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating Large Images to Multiple
The Enterprise Base license does NOT include vault. You have to purchase the
Vault Base license which will then give you the 4 drives to start with.
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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:03
If you're going straight to tape (i.e. not using disk staging) then you can use
a Storage Lifecycle Policy to do this.
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:50 AM
To:
Generally you license the number of drives in the library that will be
participating in Vaulting operations.
The Base License gives you the Vault functionality plus 4 drives that can be
used for vaulting purposes (in-line tape duplication, ejection, multiple
catalog backups, etc.)
Each
SLPs can essentially mimic all the functionality of vault without the nice
reports that vault can generate. Though in order to use them, you have to have
intelligent hardware (VTLs, AdvancedDisk, Tape Libraries, etc.) instead of
dumb hardware (BasicDisk).
You can pretty much craft the SLP to
It would be far better to do a catalog search for the images in question and
have netbackup expire them immediately. Manually deleting the image files (even
if they will expire in a few days) can have unintended consequences especially
for catalog consistancy. Once the images are expired,
Have you run a devfsadm? Also, what Solaris kernal are you running? There was
an issue with a patch that basically destroyed the sg driver.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Rossing
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:31 AM
To:
The single most important thing to remember with calendar based backups is that
after midnight, it's a new day
So consider these scenarios:
You have a backup job which kicks off every Friday, and the backup window opens
at 6PM and closes at 6AM the following day.
The job queues, starts
, Matt R [EQ] wrote:
The job queues, starts, runs into an issue and re-queues itself except this
time doesn't get to start until after midnight Here is where the
Retries Allowed after Runday checkbox comes in.
Thanks Matt for that wonderful explanation. Just to clarify... so what was
the real
I doubt it. The OS Compatibility Matrix says that for Windows 2008, the minimum
client is 6.5.2... Now, you MIGHT be able to use 6.5.1, but I doubt it. I'm
pretty sure that there will be code changes introduced with the 6.5.2 client
that allows it to work under Windows 2008. If you have a
Well, why can't he set something up like this:
Media Server #1: Library Control + 4 Drives
Media Server #2: Library Control + 4 Drives
Media Server #3: 4 Drives with Media Server #2 being the remote host
controlling the library
You don't need anything special to do this (such as the SSO).
#2 and that the drives are controlled
by media server #3. This robot can then be added to Storage Unit groups or
policies, etc
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:00 PM
To: Clausen, Matt R [EQ]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas
According to both Symantec support and Symantec Education Services you can't
run a media server at a higher patch revision then the master. The order of
upgrading needs to be (in this order): master server(s) -- media server(s) --
client(s).
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I actually had a call with Symantec on this issue a few weeks ago The
destaging job would start, get maybe a few sub-jobs in and then just hang (or
exit with a Status 50). To make a long story short, I had to do some DB stuff
with Symantec Backline Support on the phone and apply 6.5.2 in
Is the SL24 the FC or SCSI one? Generally though once the device is available
to the OS, NetBackup should be able to use it. The MPT Driver problem listed
here is more of a Solaris 10 issue then a Solaris 8 issue, so you should be
fine.
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I just ran into something similar. I had a Storage Unit Group that consisted of
two libraries with two tape drives each, but only one library would ever get
used. I ended up having to remove all the Storage Unit Groups that had these
libraries in them, recreate them and then make sure the
I remember running into a problem when I was still running 6.0 (MP1 or 2 - been
awhile) where it would just stop doing scheduled jobs out of the blue. This was
a standalone master/media server, but in order to get it working again I had to
stop/start all the NetBackup processes. I ended up
I've seen a couple of whitepapers out there on them, but the Sun Enterprise
T5220 servers seem to scream as a media server. I'm actually redoing my
NetBackup environment as well and I'm going to a Dedicated Master Server + 3
Media Servers (each Media server in a different location).
My master
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