Re: [Veritas-bu] how to get script working

2010-04-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, SACHIN ARORA sachin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Need to auto generate a report from windows master server. I have created a small batch file below : cd c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd bpimagelist -client usaroc9050as070.gepc.xerox.com -U

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 / De-Dupe?

2010-04-02 Thread Ed Wilts
appliance (or the software) is worth the price is to evaluate it. You may even find, like we did, that it's suitable and justifiable for some of your data but not others. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 / De-Dupe?

2010-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
primary VMware storage on our NetApps and cut our storage requirements in half. We've got 2 similar sites doing de-dupe on their archives on the NetApps - one gets 66% and another 13%. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 / De-Dupe?

2010-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
Thanks all, but I was specifically referring to the De-Duplication provided by NBU7. Same answer - it's essentially the PureDisk engine and it's going to depend on the data stream. We use PureDisk. It's great for office documents and lousy for TIFFs. .../Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] AFS backups / restores with Solaris or Linux

2010-03-31 Thread Ed Wilts
. AFS will continue to be supported with NetBackup 5.x clients running under 5.x or 6.0 servers. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedi http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to telnet bpcd from remote machine

2010-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
Do you have SELinux set to enforcing? If so, there's a bunch of work that you need to do. See http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337118.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:34 AM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can NBU 6.5 database be imported into NBU 7 / Upgrade with fresh O/S NBU install steps

2010-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Can NBU 6.5 database be imported into NBU 7 / Upgrade with fresh O/S NBU install steps

2010-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
will happen if you log a call on your Windows 2008 R2 6.5.x master server? Are you going to be satisfied with them telling you to downgrade away from R2 or upgrading to NUB 7.0 before they help you? Is your management happy with suspect and guess? I know mine wouldn't be. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can NBU 6.5 database be imported into NBU 7 / Upgrade with fresh O/S NBU install steps

2010-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
to work for Symantec and they test a LOT more things than I could ever hope to test. It's not quite infinite, but hundreds of them outnumber the 3 of us on our storage team. Kudos. I suspect you work for the government, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ed+wilts+netbackup The first link returned will show

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can NBU 6.5 database be imported into NBU 7 /Upgrade with fresh O/S NBU install steps

2010-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Martin, Jonathan jmart...@intersil.comwrote: I, and many other members of this forum work on quasi-supported or completely unsupported systems every day. We understand the risks involved, we take necessary precautions, and often we succeed. And many other

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 master servers with netbackup 6.0 MP4

2010-03-23 Thread Ed Wilts
SSO allows you to share drives between a master server and multiple media servers. It's not meant to share drives between 2 master servers. A master server controls access to all of the tape drives within a robot - you can't have 2 masters with this control. I don't know how the logical

Re: [Veritas-bu] 32 KB for BCV Based Tape backup

2010-03-22 Thread Ed Wilts
a perfectly valid 32k backup for the original backups. This is similar to the questions we see about status 1 completion codes. For some, it's a problem. For others, it isn't. That's why they pay us the big bucks - to figure out which is which. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

2010-03-22 Thread Ed Wilts
your recovery to look like. Don't focus on the BACKUPS - focus on the RECOVERIES. If you have no plans to recover, don't bother backing it up in the first place. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

2010-03-20 Thread Ed Wilts
using NetBackup. That's what we do with most of our SQL and Oracle databases As always, after you've put your backup solution together, test a recovery of that database and see if it still works. A Google search for netbackup sql server express will certainly help you. …/Ed Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-5 tape, what will it be called in NBU? hcart2?

2010-03-19 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Wilts
Symantec just published their first Late Breaking News article for 7.0. Keep an eye on the LBN updates as you get closer to your update. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/341271.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Wilts
be. It's close, but from an enterprise support perspective, close isn't good enough. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Single File Deletion

2010-03-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:44 AM, McDonald II, James F. james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: I was recently informed that someone I work with has had files stored on our file server that should not have been there. They have since deleted the original files, but the copies that are stored in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name

2010-02-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:36 AM, lookn4me netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I plan to replicate a production environment on a test server, but I need to change the master server name as the test environment will not be isolated. Anyone out there have success with the process? The

Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name

2010-02-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM, lookn4me netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Yes you correct, I am looking to copy the catalog and its database to the new host in order to test upgrading and locate break/fix issues prior to the upgrade. I need to have as much of the master server

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2010-02-20 Thread Ed Wilts
One way to solve this problem is to use encryption. Use a key-per-tape procedure and when the tape images expire, destroy the key. There will be no way to ever get that data back and the tape can sit in your scratch pool for years. .../Ed On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, bruceephx

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7 - Licensing Changes?

2010-02-17 Thread Ed Wilts
Vmware licensing is also simplified. You don't need a license per guest OS type any more. One license will let you back up both Windows and Llinux guests on the same hardware. .../Ed sent from my Google-powered phone On Feb 17, 2010 3:10 AM, mfrank netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Linux and BMR

2010-02-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Wilcox, Donald A (GE, Research) wil...@ge.com wrote: I have recently had an issue with BMR for Oracle Linux. The BMR portion of the backup will fail. I was told by Symantec that if I changed the /etc/release file to something other that oracle linux it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7

2010-02-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:48 AM, hsyashwanth netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: The features of netbackup 7 looks interesting. I would like to try the beta version. Can any one let me know where I can download the new version? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/341272.htm

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade from Netbackup 6.0 to 6.5

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Mohammed Ahmed ahmed.itengin...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to upgrade VERITAS netbackup version from 6.0 to 6.5 i would require to have procedure in upgrading the server version, Post upgrade issues noticed, how to update clients, and how can i setup NOM

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup and vStorage question

2010-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
I'm not a VMware guy but I believe that vStorage is part of VMware. It's up to NetBackup to use those APIs to do the backups. That's all part of NetBackup 7 which has gone FA and is due to go GA in another week or so. It looks really, really good and once we get NBU 7 installed (probably March

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration

2010-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
from SPARC to x64. I can't comment on whether or not it will work, but I'm pretty sure it's unsupported. You can/should open a case with Symantec to verify. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is the Symantec/Veritas ftp site just hosed?

2009-12-24 Thread Ed Wilts
I've been using ncftp for just about forever and it's still working fine. I just checked using ncftp within cygwin on my home desktop. ncftp ...ckup_Enterprise_Server show anon-password NcFTP@ auto-ascii

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec Encryption

2009-12-23 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jimenez, Daniel daniel.jime...@owb.comwrote: I would like to get an idea on how I can setup a low cost AES 256 encryption on Backup Exec. It can be software or hardware based. Any assistance would be appreciated. The current versions of Backup Exec support

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts Thanks, Scott Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org 12/17/2009 1:45 PM On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, smpt sm...@peppas.gr wrote: Dedupe works really good. But be careful

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
-term historical data, then you'll need Analytics (or a 3rd party product). .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
(CLI, Java, Windows Admin Console, OpsCenter). I personally think that we'll always have a CLI but that OpsCenter will replace the other two. I have no facts to back that up. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cookbook to use alternate NIC for client backups.

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
It really is as simple as that. You don't need to use the required interface stuff at all. Let the network stacks do the routing. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, smpt sm...@peppas.gr wrote: Dedupe works really good. But be careful, it is not the solution for all systems . It's also not free. You will pay for each terabyte of pre-duped data. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact

Re: [Veritas-bu] EXT4 Filesystem

2009-12-15 Thread Ed Wilts
that basic backups and restores will work. I would expect that extended attributes or ACLs may or may not. FlashBackup is extremely unlikely to work. Those are my guesses but if ext4 is important to you, look it up in the official compat docs. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Net Backup errors after Upgrade to Rel6.5

2009-12-09 Thread Ed Wilts
on 6.5.4. Still the multiple channels was not working. Does the Database Server needs a reboot? Oracle needs to be restarted after new agents are installed. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication question

2009-12-08 Thread Ed Wilts
bpexpdate -copy The key thing to remember is that NetBackup doesn't like to manipulate tapes - it likes to manipulate images. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Implementation

2009-12-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Watkins, Robert (AITC) robert.watk...@va.gov wrote: Load it on 1 master, NO - do not load NOM on a master server. Dedicate a single server to be your new NOM server and follow the manual on how to install and configure it. The install is not for the week -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Net Backup errors after Upgrade to Rel6.5

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Wilts
what version of the agents are installed. There are NetBackup technotes out there that detail all of this. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Janardhana Babu Donga jbdo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Availability of 6.5.5 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Ed Wilts
Nov 30 14:09 NB_6.5.5.alpha_5_337775.tar ncftp ...ckup_Enterprise_Server .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Contact Me Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote

Re: [Veritas-bu] Images On Media

2009-11-24 Thread Ed Wilts
between the initial restore and when it's resumed. 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. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] RV: Netbackup 6.5.4 and Enterprise Vault 8.0

2009-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
the new policy of EV with agent. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/329620.htm See also the related documents listed at the bottom of that page. /Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VBR Setup Q's

2009-11-20 Thread Ed Wilts
set of scripts. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] License check NBU 6.5

2009-11-17 Thread Ed Wilts
of the virtual machines and virtual servers in your environment. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware backups to remote VMware Backup proxy server

2009-11-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Mark Glazerman mark.glazer...@spartech.com wrote: Is backing VMware machines feasible to a remote VMware Backup proxy server over a T1 line ? We’re talking about 4 Virtual hosts with about 200GB of data between them. Doing some simple math, a T1 at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Library

2009-11-04 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU Cleanup

2009-10-30 Thread Ed Wilts
I think I posted a script to do this a long time ago. Unfortunately the file naming pattern changed with NBU 6.x and I don't know if I have an archaic version of the script lying around. I'll let you search the archives for something named along the lines of validate_image. It requires cygwin

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.0 to enter beta this week

2009-10-26 Thread Ed Wilts
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336166.htm Have fun! .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp VTL Direct Tape Creation and NetBackup

2009-10-26 Thread Ed Wilts
where they do help. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR Client - Windows 2008 SP1 - Status 1 for BMR Collect Dis

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, RyanV netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: BMR doesn't support Windows 2008 clients at this time. This is coming - it's on the tentative roadmap for the Denali release (7.0.1, available around Aug/2010, subject to change). .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2009-10-19 Thread Ed Wilts
at the current location will be controlling both physical tapes drives as well as a virtual tape drive at the old site. If I configure both tape libraries with the same range of volume labels, will this confuse the Media Manager Volume Database? Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Customer Forum

2009-10-16 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

2009-10-13 Thread Ed Wilts
might be another story. Now I would expect you (or somebody) to eventually test this. And then report back, because I'm thinking about a Solaris to Linux migration too :-) .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual

2009-10-13 Thread Ed Wilts
install Win2008 on the bare metal, we can push over 100MB/sec to disk. Put a Win2008 guest in ESX on the same hardware and the disk I/O tops out at about 30MB/sec. Your idea is a good one (in theory), but be very cautious about performance along the way. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Orphaned scratch tapes

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Wilts
on them. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec Device Driver Package or Official HP Vendor Drivers

2009-09-30 Thread Ed Wilts
if there is a preference or is this now considered an option if you do not have the drivers available? Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

[Veritas-bu] Senior Storage Systems Engineer position in St. Paul, MN

2009-09-26 Thread Ed Wilts
-clerk-0930-2009_3139333436.htm .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone Backing up 2008 R2?

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Wilts
OK, my comment is for WS08, not WS08 R2. For R2 support, Urs appears to be correct - 6.5.5 as per this technote: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/333092.htm .../Ed On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, brad.hillebrand

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line question

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Wilts
) that this document needs to be updated for currently supported versions of NetBackup. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpplist Policy Script

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Jimenez, Daniel daniel.jime...@owb.comwrote: I found the script below that pulls the policy and storage device from Netbackup but it is for Unix and was wondering if anyone knows how to translate this to Windows? http://cygwin.org/ 1/2 a :-) Seriously, we

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line question

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a command to get a backup a backup history for a specific client over a specific time frame? It really depends on the level of detail you want. Your best general purpose bet is something like Aptare

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone Backing up 2008 R2?

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, brad.hillebrand brad.hillebr...@gmail.com wrote: Server and Client version 6.5.3 installs fine. In management console, added as a x64 windows2008 client. Host properties show as OS “UNKNOWN 6” and OS Type is “OTHER”. On regular 2008 servers, it shows as OS

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication DSU questions

2009-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
list. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Corruption (How to Troubleshoot)

2009-09-11 Thread Ed Wilts
I would guess that the line terminations are getting you. Windows has cr/lf and Unix just lf. Since you're backing up the file in a binary fashion, when you restore it to another platform, your terminations aren't going to match what the OS expected. This is also one of the reasons that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need urgent help with backup jobs reporting

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Wilts
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Hi, Have you looked at bpdbjobs? bpdbjobs bpdbjobs -most_columns bpdbjobs -all_columns Other than that, bperror -backstat -by_statcode -U Will give you a nice summary. Justin. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Filesystem Backed Up Verification

2009-08-24 Thread Ed Wilts
). There are very rare cases where this will not work (e.g. a scheduler bug that doesn't schedule the job in the first place). .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy[...]

2009-08-24 Thread Ed Wilts
supposed to do well. Unfortunately, it's not supposed to do much :-( .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy, from the Client

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Wilts
. You need to ask the master. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrate master server to new hardware

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Wilts
the hostname? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 6.5.4 and Hyper-V

2009-08-14 Thread Ed Wilts
needed to enable the flashbackup-windows policy type? I'm not a Hyper-V customer, but the Advanced/Enterprise Client is required for all of the other Flashbackup policies so I'd be surprised if it wasn't for Hyper-V. The online compatibility lists will probably tell you for sure... .../Ed Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Change server list on windows clients.

2009-08-13 Thread Ed Wilts
and put 1 entry per line. 2. bpsetconfig -h $CLIENTNAME $SERVERFILENAME Check the list with: bpgetconfig -M $CLIENTNAME SERVER That might work from the media server... .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Difference b/w NB5.1 and the latest version

2009-08-11 Thread Ed Wilts
that you visit the 6.5 upgrade portal: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290185.htm The 6.0 upgrade portal is at http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285223.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media error stops entire backup

2009-08-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:06 AM, annym netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Hello community, this last weekend I had an error on one tape. This tape is in a tape robot and the error indicates media error for this tape. The problem however is that I had hoped that Netbackup should handle

Re: [Veritas-bu] NETBACKUP WITH ENCRYPTION OPTION

2009-08-07 Thread Ed Wilts
your media servers will typically be bigger/better/faster than the clients. Get bigger and you're into something like the DataForts. Get even bigger and you go for something like the Brocade encrypting blade/switch. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBakcup Service Set to Automatic 6.5.3 SAN CLIENT

2009-08-06 Thread Ed Wilts
any enterprise monitoring services, say NetIQ, it complains because a service is configured for AUTOMATIC but is stopped. So we either have to train our admins to ignore these stupid messages or set the service to manual or disabled. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBakcup Service Set to Automatic 6.5.3 SAN CLIENT

2009-08-04 Thread Ed Wilts
client setup. It's not like anybody can accidentally start using the SAN client... .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU and Clustered MSCS fileserver, Flashbackup?

2009-07-30 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Spellacy, Sean sean.spell...@viha.cawrote: I have recently added to my job list a Fileserver cluster made up of four win2k3r2 machines with roughly 5TB of data on them, millions of files. As expected this takes a relative eternity to backup. I was hoping to

Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM upgrade problem to 6.5.4

2009-07-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Kalusche, Dan dan.kalus...@andersencorp.com wrote: Just wondering if anyone's run into this one… I've upgraded the master to 6.5.4 to bypass a HP patch problem on some clients. I've attempted to upgrade the NOM server to 6.5.4, but it'll hang about 3/4 of

[Veritas-bu] Admin console unable to fetch data classifications or storage life cycle policies

2009-07-24 Thread Ed Wilts
data classifications of SLPs anyway, so it doesn't bother me much except these timeouts should not be happening. I have a similar issue, although worded differently, running the java admin console directly on the master. Any ideas which daemon is hosed? Thanks, .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Wilts
:-) .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-20 Thread Ed Wilts
but it's not a mandatory requirement yet. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
is that high that you are saturating a mirrored disk, then you've got major memory constraint issues to deal with. Fault tolerance is the least of your problems. Disks do exactly 3 things: 1. They read 2. They write 3. They fail .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing DSU data files.

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64 Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
-bit. 64-bit Windows ha's been a more stable platform for us than 32-bit. Microsoft's general direction also appears to towards 64-bit. My recommendation would be to go with 64-bit unless you have a compelling reason to keep it at only 32-bit. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question in regards to command-line add/config of Windows Clients

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
the Windows Open File Backup options and apply them. man bpclient e.g.: bpclient -client newserver.example.com -add -WOFB_enabled 0 -WOFB_FIM 1 .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question in regards to command-line add/config of Windows Clients

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
with bpsetconfig -h. 2. Connect to the client (bpsetconfig) a. Set timeouts to the standards that you have in your environment. b. Under the Windows Client - Client Settings 1. Set the Communications buffer size to 1024 kilobytes .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP

Re: [Veritas-bu] interview questions

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
recover very often (if ever, unless you have a good DR plan). .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Selection List

2009-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
dadsadhoc Thanks, Sushil .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media to load?

2009-07-13 Thread Ed Wilts
requests. The problem is non-trivial because although you may get notified of a single mount request, the actual job may need multiple tapes (and DSSU-based images) so you need to search for them all. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Drive Statistics

2009-07-10 Thread Ed Wilts
misleading is that your performance will vary based on everything else that's going on as well as writing really small images to tape. Performance analysis is really hard in NetBackup - many of the tools you would like to have simply aren't there. Good luck, .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives

2009-07-02 Thread Ed Wilts
, are they? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue

2009-07-01 Thread Ed Wilts
,and then the clients, especially those using special agents like this one. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Macintosh Client for Netbackup 6.5

2009-06-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, zeelander netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Is there a Mac client for Netbackup 6.5? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/303344.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site

2009-06-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: It's popping up... [snip] I expect that there are still quite a few packages to go so be patient a little longer... It sounds like people are starting

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site

2009-06-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Harpreet SINGH harpreet_si...@ctl.creative.com wrote: Dear Mr. Ed Wilts, May I know where I can download ver 6.5.4. Had you followed the link I gave to the 45-day digest summary, http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm, you would have found

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site

2009-06-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: It's popping up... [snip] I expect that there are still quite a few packages to go so be patient a little longer... It sounds like people are starting to download before the whole kit has been uploaded and it's doing nasty

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site

2009-06-15 Thread Ed Wilts
NB_6.5.4.winnt.x86_326385.exe I expect that there are still quite a few packages to go so be patient a little longer... .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Exam ??

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
. These are not legal and if you're discovered to have cheated, you will likely lose your certification. The purpose the certification is to prove that you understand the topics, not that you memorized the answers to a pre-defined set of questions. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up cluster after failover

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
letters are the same between the systems. The vir1 policy would back up just the volumes that are floating between the hosts - for example, E: F:. You have to make sure you don't try to back up the data volumes in the OS policy or you will get a status 71. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up cluster after failover

2009-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewilts at ewilts.org (ewilts at ewilts.org) This is the problem, the business owners don't care about the OS or local drives. They do an SQL back up and have it written on one of the floating drives. The only thing we are backing up

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