Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird error 54/41

Might be a long shot, but a few weeks ago, we had a major issue w/ errors relating to Networking. Came to find out that the antivirus we were running was causing the issue, check that out as well, we had McAfee 8.5 patch 4. I have the tech note that McAfree sent to us to resolve the issue.

Re: [Veritas-bu] bparchive

I believe the clients also talk to the master regardless of what type of backup you are running. The ports are open by defaults to enable that communicate to happen. I am not sure if there is a separate port for archive backups, what version of NBU are you running? Might want to engage a

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World

Funny you asked the question as I am going thru the same procedure. DPM is really targeted to the smaller - midsize environment they are by no means an enterprise backup / recovery tool. Gartner group has CommVault and Symantec rated as one two respectively. DPM has it's limitation such as it

[Veritas-bu] Error 13, 14, 23, yada yada yada on NBU 6.0 w/ MacAfee.

Information for my NBU colleagues. We came across something in our environment about a month or more ago where we had a very large number of jobs fail with various network related issues. And it was random clients or random media servers. We went thru and upgraded our backup infrastructure,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

I support a large backup infrastructure 10 media servers 1 master with a remote site intergraded into ours. Over 1000 clients. Our fulls are typically in the neighborhood of 30tB, daily incrementals are typically around 8tb. Using a HP ESL712e w/ 20 LTO3 drives, utilizing SSO. Mutiplexed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

We just did the same thing, but fortunately for me the two different sites had different media prefixes so I got lucky. The only issues we ran into was getting the other site's library to intergrate successfully, but it wasn't that big of a deal. If you are running vault, you will need to

[Veritas-bu] Multiple jobs going to an incomplete status

NBU environment: Totally Windows 2003 Ent all media servers have 4 gig of ram Fiber NICs (NC6136) NBU 6.0 MP4 Am running into an issue where I am getting a large number of incomplete jobs. And they all seem to be from a single media server. I have gone thru three different Symantec

Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

Actually I just received this link from Symantec who state Free Download. This is what they use to analyze the network...I know because right I am running into an Network utilization overload I am guessing. http://apparentnetworks.com/sas/310. Thanks Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Over 2 million files to backup - how long?

If you have multiple drives (D: / E: etc etc) you can try multistreaming. NBU will take each one of those drive letters and create child jobs and will run each child job simultaneously as compared to sequential. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: kjbaumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Quick question

Running NBU 6.0 MP4 across the board, totally Windows. let's say you have a full job scheduled to run on Friday, say 5:00pm start window. And you also have Monthly jobs set up scheduled to run on the last Friday of the month with the same start window (5:00). Is NBU smart enough to take a look

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick question

Very good...thanks for the info. Thanks Dan From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:17 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick question The scheduler will schedule one job per window

Re: [Veritas-bu] 1 TB limit ?

I can tell you that I am backup 4 servers that are over 4TB in size, we are now multistreaming, but at one time we were not and the jobs eventually did finish (4days). Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Michael Graff Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007

[Veritas-bu] Question regarding Media Status.

What are the differences between the following Media Status: Suspended MPX Frozen Suspended Full MPX Frozen Suspended MPX Frozen MPX Frozen I know media will go to a frozen state if there was a hardware issue. But what about the other categories? Thanks Dan Cruice This

Re: [Veritas-bu] sso help

Also forgot to mention, for Tip #2. Stop and Disable the Removable Storage Management service. Under Manage computer / Services. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:45 AM To: 'Justin Piszcz'; X_S Cc: VERITAS-BU

Re: [Veritas-bu] sso help

We have had similar issues. What type of Library are you running and what type of servers (HP) / What OS? Here are a few tips I received from HP. Tip 1. Disable Tape Device Polling. Start -- Settings -- Control Panel -- HP Management Agents -- click on the Storage tab, check Disable

Re: [Veritas-bu] sso help

Yea...we were having issues where a drives would lose a path for no apparent reason, we also had a drive once or twice just simply disappear. So we have had luck with it. Another tip HP filled us in on, is with persistent bindings, there is no sense on have your robot control host having

[Veritas-bu] VxSS

Anyone using VxSS? I have a totally Windows Environment running NBU 6.0 MP4...dedicated network, master / media servers are all in workgroups and clients are controlled via Host files residing on the Master / media servers. My environment is shared between two separate groups (call it group X

Re: [Veritas-bu] Host Name Change on Master Server

Good luck...I don't believe this is supported in any of the current releases of NBU. I highly suggest you contact Symantec on this one, do not just do it or you are going to run into a boatload of issues. Thanks Dan From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some suggestions

Any idea where this setting is adjusted...on the client side or the media server side? Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some suggestions

restores. True? If so that won't work, I get individual file restores all the time for these servers. Thanks Dan From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:57 AM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some suggestions

Good info...thanks Tom...Something I'll look into. Now does anyone have a sizing recommendation for DSSU. Right now the business retention for fulls (10tb) (Once a week) is 30 days, and Incrementials (running about .5 - 1TB per day) is also 30 days. Thanks Dan -Original Message-

[Veritas-bu] Need some suggestions

The setup... Client: Windows 2003 Svr 6 TB of very small files...Word, Excel etc NBU environment 6.0 MP4 all Windows...media and master node. LTO3 drives SAN Attach (FC) Mutlistreaming enabled 1GB isolated network Multiplexing enabled, and don't laugh it is set to 20...I know I

[Veritas-bu] Dilemma...need some info.

Well, I have a dilemma and need my fella NBU guys to provide me some ammo. My management is looking into alternative backup solutions. I am ok with looking at other vendors that specialize in one or two products...we are looking into CommVault and dare I say it...Microsoft's Data Protection

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled

What was the reason? Thanks Dan From: Bobby Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:20 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled One of my co-workers was registered for the 6.5 NB Admin on Solaris class. He

[Veritas-bu] Error 13 update

I am still battling with my Error 13's...I have tried everything short of replacing the nics...things I have done... Updated NIC drivers... Turned off Multistreaming... Tried moving to VSS (this worked on one of my servers) Tried moving one of the affected servers to a new media server. I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 13 update

Agent DB backup works fine. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: November 5, 2007 1:21 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 13 update

Re: [Veritas-bu] General questions for everyone

2000-client / 8 media server environments I cared about at the time.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 From: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

[Veritas-bu] AVR on drive status

A totally Windows Environment, I came in this morning an found two bad LTO3 in my ESL712e Library, and all my drives under Activity Monitor à drives are list as AVR for the Control...what is this and how do I get rid of it? Thanks Dan Cruice This message (including any attachments)

Re: [Veritas-bu] AVR on drive status

A good ole fashion reboot seems to have cleared my problem… Thanks Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:53 PM To: Paul Keating Cc: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

[Veritas-bu] General questions for everyone

Say you have over 900 clients to backup from 5:00pm - 8:00am...20 LTO3 tapes drives in a library. 99% of the environment is Windows including my media servers / Master node and I am running multiplexing (20) in some cases. Right now 90% of all my jobs kick off at 5:00 on the dot. Seems that many

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4

6.5 is being consider a new release, however 6.5 is using the same database as 6.x so there is no database merge as with 5.x to 6.x. From what I understand the install is rather painless, and runs thru very much the same way as a MP install did. Symantec has changed the way they are labeling

[Veritas-bu] Error 13

Anyone have an idea how to fix an Error 13? Totally windows environment. 10/23/2007 4:40:55 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=5400) socket read failed, An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (10054) 10/23/2007 4:40:56 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=5400) could not send server status

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sending email via Windows SMTP Service?

Below is how we have our nbmail.cmd, about 30 lines down is the only thing you will need to modify, however nbmail relies on blat so if you can't use blat, you may be SOL... @REM $Header: nbmail.cmd,v 1.3 2003/06/25 18:07:46 $ @REM @REM bcpyrght @REM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

the trick. So now I turn to my fella NBU friends are there any gotcha's or issues with MP5 and does anyone know how long it has been out? Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:20 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help 6.0MP5 has problems if you use a compressed catalog and there are other issues as well. On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: Well...my issue is not resolved, I have gone to the extent

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 for VMware - Failed to get VM ServerInfo List

Can your master server see your Virtual Center server? Assuming you have a Virtural Center server. Be sure you can at least ping it. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: frankm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:46 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

? Keeping in mind I can lose those images. Yea...this is fun.. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: BOGAC DAGDEVIR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:04 AM To: Nardello, John; Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Preston, Douglas L; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

I have an open case w/ Symantec, and they have NOT said it is impossible...at least not yet!!! Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:27 AM To: Justin Piszcz; Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and Exchange 2007

You will need to go to 6.5 if you plan to backup the Storage groups via NBU, MS changed the database layout, now as to how to:...not quite sure, however what we have been doing to get around this in the meantime is creating a ntbackup job (assuming you have enough space) and backing up the SG

[Veritas-bu] Need some help

I rebuilt two media servers and renamed one. And no like a dope I did not following the retiring the media server whitepaper that Veritas so gracefully wrote. So now I have an issue. My entire Master / media servers are Windows 2003 6.0 MP4. The issue I am having is getting all the media

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

-Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:04 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help Hm.. Put the old one back and do it properly OR.. Use: (workaround

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

, 2007 3:20 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help That sounds right, do a test restore to make sure it works! Justin. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: Old one back in is not an option

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

but then it lets you remove the old media server/tape drives (at least in Linux). Justin. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: It works fine, but the I can't get rid of the old media servers from the Devices Hosts. They are offline / deactived, but when I go to delete them I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help

Yea...I figured that...but there has to be a way to clean out the EMM database... Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:10 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to label expired tapes in a VTL

I have a similar question...I think I have retired three media servers, well actually rebuilt two with new names and new IP and renamed the third...(All Windows 2003 NBU 6.0 MP4) I know NBU does not like renaming...and no like a dope I did not follow the retire media server documentation. Lesson

[Veritas-bu] Master node as a VM

Anyone running a Windows 2003 Master server node as a VM? Is this even supported by Symantec... Thanks Dan This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended

Re: [Veritas-bu] De-Dupe with NBU PureDisk

Something else worth looking at is datadomain...we just had a rep come is a review it with us, we are looking to try to get a demo box in here. Might be a little cheaper the PureDisk especially, since Symantec has changed the priceing of their product. I believe they are moving to a per data size

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 or 6.0MP5

Any gotcha when you did the upgrade? Are you running it in production? Or Dev / QA? Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:58 PM To: Mike Kiles; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 or 6.0MP5

As far as the reporting tools, NBU 6.5 will break Bocada. Not sure why, but we had Bocada in here last week discussing our options, and they simply said Bocada will break. And they would not give us a ETA as to when they will have NBU 6.5 support for Bocada. But they did say they are working on

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 MP1 - When?!

November Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Dmitri Smirnov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:50 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 MP1 - When?! Anyone know when MP1 for 6.5 will be published? I believe the latest

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 or 6.0MP5

Ohh the infamous question...well w/ 6.5 you now get BMR for free and 6.5 will support Exchange 2007 backups...good things...and from what I was told by Symantec (take it as you will) is 6.5 is using the same engine as 6.0 so the upgrade is not as pain full as 5.x to 6.0 prior MP1. They packaged

[Veritas-bu] Backing up permissions and users

Couple of questions: Keeping in mind my environment is 100% Microsoft, no UNIX / LINUX. Currently running NBU 6.0 MP4 Is there a way to just backup ACLs of a folders / subfolder? Is there a way to determine from a previous backup what the permissions were to a particular folder? When

[Veritas-bu] Tape encryption

Looking for some information regarding tape encryption, anyone out there using it? And if so what kind of tape degradation did you experience. We are being asked to implement it and we are just trying to figure out what we are going to need. Our environment is mixed with Windows and UNIX, all of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape encryption

still get all the backups done with the window. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Austin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:59 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape encryption I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Unit Recommendations

We had a very similar situation where we have backups running for 3 days. We were getting very good thru put but just the volume of data getting backed up was killing us. We had Mutliplexing enable which helped but still running for days. We just implemented Multisteaming on our bigger servers,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41

. Thanks Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:50 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 What OS is on your

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41

It's hit or miss on them...They are not new w/ regards to ESX, probably about 6 months old. Thanks Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:09 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?

I am pretty new to the whole NBU environment, pretty much got involved w/ 6.0MP4 so I missed the fun of the 6.0 roll-out. What is the consensus w/ 6.5? Even thought it was just released, what is the comfort level within the NBU environment? Do you guys think this release will be minimal with

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?

for August 23rd. And according to her that release date has been published. Thanks Dan From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:18 AM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Steven L. Sesar; Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE Backup question

6.5 does have a LINUX client... Thanks Dan From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:15 PM To: Jeff Lightner Cc: Martin, Jonathan; Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE Backup question

] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:27 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Steven L. Sesar Cc: Martin, Jonathan; Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE Backup question 6.0 (and 5.1 and probably earlier) have Linux clients but they're aimed at RedHat

[Veritas-bu] Synthetic fulls Diff Inc VS cumulative Inc

When performing a synthetic full, what should I use, a differential Incremental or a cumulative incremental?...and why? Thanks Dan Cruice Deloitte Technology Service Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Direct: +1 610-479-5179 Fax: +1 610-479-6179 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic fulls Diff Inc VS cumulative Inc

Right now we are running Incrementals to disk and tape the same w/ the fulls. Thanks Dan From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:19 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE

[Veritas-bu] Issue w/ Multistreaming backups NBU 6.0

I have a backup that was running for 3 + days. I've instituted multisteaming which took that 3 day backup down to 21 hours. Now within that same policy I have Fulls and Incrementials, Now my Incrementials that at one time took about 45 minutes to an hour are now running for 24 hours plus, Why