Re: [Veritas-bu] Bmr srt creation

2008-10-22 Thread Deiter, Scott
] : = Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc. Hanover, PA Voice: 717-633-3298 -Original Message- From: Marianne Van Den Berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:37 AM To: Deiter, Scott Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bmr

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmoprcmd in version 6.5

2008-10-14 Thread Deiter, Scott
. Hanover, PA Voice: 717-633-3298 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:57 PM To: Deiter, Scott; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vmoprcmd in version 6.5 Scott, Based on the vmoprcmd -Q output

[Veritas-bu] Vmoprcmd in version 6.5

2008-10-14 Thread Deiter, Scott
In the past we have used vmoprcmd -h vahfcnas1-old -d pr | awk '$1~/[0-9]/ {print $3}' to find the pending requests for a single media server. We have seen that the fields have been changed and that all the pending requests for all media servers are returned. Is there a replacement for this

[Veritas-bu] Media id generation rules

2008-10-09 Thread Deiter, Scott
At a remote site when the our local staff introduces new tape volumes into the robot the media id generated is not what is expected. When I do the robot inventory from the master server the media id generation rules are set and the media id created is what is expected.We are running

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problem

2008-09-12 Thread Deiter, Scott
You should be able to read(restore) from the 320's with either drive type. The 600 drives will not write(backup) to a 320 tape. Where is diversity when you need it ! Check the media type of volume 007082 and be sure one of your available drives is also this media type. Scott Deiter System

[Veritas-bu] New log files

2008-09-12 Thread Deiter, Scott
Upgrading to 6.5.2.a since July. One of the solaris media servers is filling the file system with log files in /openv/logs with these names. msrv:/openv/logs# lt | more total 5163736 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root other 46 Jul 11 11:40 51216-127-2160353436-080711-00.log -rw-rw-r-- 1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradering to NBU 6.5.2 soon because of Windows2008

2008-09-09 Thread Deiter, Scott
Despite all the errors we are moving forward with version 6.5.2.a across the enterprise. the latest headache is the use of window 2008 standard edition as a media server with quantum sdlt 600 tape drives. symantec has closed the case because it is not supported. It appears that windows 2003

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any one upgrade to Veritas Netbackup 6.5.2 yet?

2008-09-04 Thread Deiter, Scott
We have upgraded from 5.1.4 to 6.5 and then .2 and then .2.a I have never opened this many support requests with any softwhere vendor before. We still have two issues. Running a solaris 9x64 master media server. Policies at remote locations vanish. That is the directory in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any one upgrade to Veritas Netbackup 6.5.2 yet?

2008-09-04 Thread Deiter, Scott
, 2008 7:36 AM To: Deiter, Scott Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any one upgrade to Veritas Netbackup 6.5.2 yet? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Deiter, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have upgraded from 5.1.4 to 6.5 and then .2 and then .2

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5.2.a on Windows media servers

2008-09-02 Thread Deiter, Scott
Now that we completed the upgrade bouncing the services involves selecting some of 13 different entries in the services gui. What is the recommended way to restart the netbackup services on a windows media server? Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc. Hanover, PA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpschedreq in 6.5

2008-07-18 Thread Deiter, Scott
period of time using 6.5? Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc. Hanover, PA Voice: 717-633-3298 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:10 PM To: Deiter, Scott Cc: Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Bpschedreq in 6.5

2008-07-15 Thread Deiter, Scott
Still trying to get past all the changes from a recent upgrade 5.1.4 to 6.5 We have a script that uses the bpschedreq command to display a list of Policies that will be started by the scheduling for a single day. What is available in 6.5 to display the same information? Scott Deiter System

[Veritas-bu] drive usage report

2008-02-01 Thread Deiter, Scott
Just got a handfull of 196's on last nite's incrementals. Looks like a few new file systems on a unix machine pushed two clients out past the window. Nb 5.1 mp4 -- solaris 9 master -- windows and solaris clients. But where all 5 tape drives busy? I wondering how to get a report to

[Veritas-bu] Suspended tape volumes

2007-12-04 Thread Deiter, Scott
We are getting many tape volumes suspended that are not filled. I remember reading a setting that would suspend a volume after a backup was taken. Now I have not been able to find this information again. Where can we find these suspend settings. Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover

[Veritas-bu] New oracle backup planning

2007-10-26 Thread Deiter, Scott
We will be migrating a very large database application to a platform running redhat and oracle. So to use rman backups with veritas netbackup I'm assuming we only need the redhat client/licenses and veritas oracle agent licenses. We will be at version 6.4 by the time this migration takes place.

Re: [Veritas-bu] New oracle backup planning

2007-10-26 Thread Deiter, Scott
, 2007 10:17 AM To: Deiter, Scott Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] New oracle backup planning On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Deiter, Scott wrote: We will be migrating a very large database application to a platform running redhat and oracle. So to use rman backups

[Veritas-bu] Scheduling troubles

2007-09-07 Thread Deiter, Scott
Our netbackup environment has grown rather well with the rest of the business in the last 4 years. Still now looking to make the 5.1 to 6.x jump next January. I'm stuck with adding two more major backups to our schedule. The weekends are getting very full and although I can easily create a

[Veritas-bu] Very slow client

2007-08-15 Thread Deiter, Scott
We are running 5.1 mp4 across the board with a solaris 9 master media a few other media servers and numerous solaris and windows clients. on the master/media we just added a windows 2003 client only for system state backups. we cancelled these attempts because of performance. Less than 10K/sec

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 mp4 download

2007-08-07 Thread Deiter, Scott
We are planning the migration from 5.1 to 6.0-4. Not much input form the veritas support staff. Where does one obtain/download the installation media. I have not found anything interesting on their web site as of yet. Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc.

[Veritas-bu] Tape Cleanup

2007-04-23 Thread Deiter Scott
At a remote site we have mixed media types of dlt and dlt3 for the tapes all of which are sdlt(600 gig) tapes. The media density for the storage group was incorrectly set to dlt at the time we went from standalone drives to this robot . This is a twin drive sun branded robot. We need to change

[Veritas-bu] Media write errors

2007-03-20 Thread Deiter Scott
Is there a way to capture the status 84 errors and the media id associated with these in the last month? Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc. Hanover, PA Voice: 717-633-3298 Fax: 717-633-3101 ___ Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Restore senairo

2007-02-09 Thread Deiter Scott
I have been asked what we would plan to do if the following occurs. A restore is necessary at a remote site which contains a media server while the network connection to the master server is not functional. Waiting for the connection to be restored is not one of our options. I'm assuming that

[Veritas-bu] SSO problems

2007-01-26 Thread Deiter Scott
Trying to make a long story short. Solaris 9 master/media server netbackup 5.1 mp4 Two solaris clients slated for update to use sso Various windows and solaris clients Updated one client by installing netbackup 5.1 and mp 4 setup as media server. device config completed.

[Veritas-bu] DR Procedures

2007-01-16 Thread Deiter Scott
I have been asked to provide a list of tapes necessary to take to a DR site This should be updated daily and written to our DR directory. I'm trying to generate a report that would list all the tapes written in the last 60 days by volume pool I'm also trying to figure out how to get a list

[Veritas-bu] SSO configuration

2007-01-08 Thread Deiter Scott
Our new sun sl500 robot will contain 5 fiber connected tape drives along with it's own fiber connection. Currently we have four sun/solaris servers connected to the emc san one of these is our master/media server Our goal is to setup two of these as san media servers. Do we need dedicated

[Veritas-bu] Standalone drive issue

2007-01-05 Thread Deiter Scott
Recently we setup a remote facility with a new media server with a single standalone drive. 4 windows clients - two policies - two tape pools Netbackup 5.1 mp4 This is similar to 3 other remote facilities. The issue. During a backup attempt netbackup will request a tape that has already been

[Veritas-bu] New robot

2006-12-15 Thread Deiter Scott
Still in the beginning of installation of our new fiber attached tape robot. Just curious about existing policies that will not take advantage of the connection to the san. Will there be changes to these policies other than a new storage unit? Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover

[Veritas-bu] New robot

2006-12-08 Thread Deiter Scott
Next week we begin the installation of the new fibre attached robot. This will be zoned along with our clariion san. This san is connected to our two largest solaris 8 and 9 servers. What book do I begin with to enable netbackup 5.1 mp4 to use this new hardware. In our current setup all the

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media Server

2006-12-07 Thread Deiter Scott
I'm assuming if the master/media runs out of scratch tape within the local robot then it will request a scratch tape from the remote site. We have seen this with a local standalone drive that did not have tapes left in its assigned pool. At that time the backup requested a scratch tape that

[Veritas-bu] Vaulted Catalog backup expiration

2006-08-22 Thread Deiter Scott
Solaris 9 master/media server. Netbackup 5.1 mp4 We have a weekly vault set up to perform a catalog backup. These have a 21 day retention. Currently we have two tapes that should become available. What is necessary for the catalog backups to expire automagically? Below is a snippet of the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

2006-08-11 Thread Deiter Scott
Exactly. Homer is now accepting suggestions! Scott Deiter 717 633 3298 -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:53 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Deiter Scott Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status Windows 2000

[Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

2006-08-10 Thread Deiter Scott
SETUP: Windows 2000 and 2003 clients Netbackup 5.1 mp4 Solaris master/media The bparchive is setup as a user backup and scripted in a dos.bat file. PROBLEM: We have been forced to archive our sql tranasctions logs.

[Veritas-bu] Vaulting reports

2006-08-07 Thread Deiter Scott
We run two vault policies weekly and monthly. The catalog backup step on the weekly policy creates a catalog backup each week to be vaulted. These tapes get sent off-site. Retention period is 3 weeks. We have these two reports selected as email to operations and our admins. Picking

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 media server on solaris 10 sparc.

2006-07-31 Thread Deiter Scott
Title: Message One of our remote sites is struggling with two stanalone tape drives on a windows media server. The plan is to install a new media server with a 40 tape robot. Weneed to determine if we can run a 5.1 mp4 media server on solaris10. Scott Deiter 717 633 3298

[Veritas-bu] rman performance.

2006-04-17 Thread Deiter Scott
We are beginning the setup for hot backups for our large databases. The simple single threaded setup takes over 28 hours to run. We need to run the backup to two tapes concurrently. Solaris 9 master/media server L80 storagetek library with SDLT Solaris 9 client with oracle 9 The policy has a

RE: [Veritas-bu] rman performance.

2006-04-17 Thread Deiter Scott
Thanks to all. -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 3:48 PM To: Deiter Scott Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] rman performance. On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:14:05PM -0400, Deiter Scott wrote: We

[Veritas-bu] RMAN preferences

2006-04-07 Thread Deiter Scott
Netbackup 5.1 Solaris 9 master/media Solaris 9 client with 4 oracle instances. We are setting up oracle hot backups using rman/veritas. We already have this setup on another client with a single instance. For the Schedules within the policy. Do we setup a schedule for each instance? OR

RE: [Veritas-bu] backup speed

2006-03-22 Thread Deiter Scott
What config info is necessary to evaluate our performance? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:23 AM To: Deiter Scott Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] backup speed Hi Dieter

[Veritas-bu] backup speed

2006-03-21 Thread Deiter Scott
I have been watching this discussion and trying to compare with our config. Solaris 9 master/media server with a storagetek robot using SDLT tape. Many assorted windows and unix clients. All at 5.1 mp 4 One particular windows client is a NAS file server. This is backing up over a

[Veritas-bu] slow windows backup

2006-01-30 Thread Deiter Scott
We had in issue with two windows2003 clients. After getting slow response from the support folks we reinstalled the client softwhere. All is now working. The connect time went from 4-5 hours to 0. We also using VSS on these clients. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Remote site vaulting

2006-01-05 Thread Deiter Scott
Title: Raw Partition Restore We have recently set up one of our remote sites with one media server and several clients. All of these are windows. Locally we have a unix master /media server . I was asked to setup a vault for the remote location to track the tape movement and was also

[Veritas-bu] Remote site vaulting

2006-01-05 Thread Deiter Scott
? IIRC, vault/duplication must be between two drive on the same media server. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deiter Scott Sent: January 5, 2006 11:47 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject

[Veritas-bu] 4.5 to 5.1 upgrade

2005-12-16 Thread Deiter Scott
The upgrade is going rather well. Just a few nits. There is one we have not figured out. One of our 2 exchange servers is failing with a status 59. When attempting to do the client properties or connect from the master we receive "server not allowed access" this is the same from

[Veritas-bu] ] list all client version

2005-12-15 Thread Deiter Scott
I have been using the bpgetconfig command to query our client version. We are in the mist of upgrading to version 5.1. The query shows that the clients are 5.1, How do I verify that mp4 has been applied ?

RE: [Veritas-bu] Pending request for Tape

2005-11-03 Thread Deiter Scott
Here is the script we use. Of course there are three running. One for each site where the operators are located near the media servers. We have cron run this every 20 minutes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vikash Gupta Sent: