Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
restores regularly. There are lots more but this is a start... -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architecture advice

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
it doesn't work. On Solaris 10, watch the tcp_fusion system parameter. We've found that it has to be disabled on master servers but enabled on media servers. Log a call before you do your upgrades so they can be ready for you if you do run into problems. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring when no image in NetBackup History (NetBackup 6.0)

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
* the image expires. Once the image has been written, the policy is no longer relevant - you can delete the policy and the data will still be there until the image expires. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring when no image in NetBackup History(NetBackup 6.0)

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
. If NetBackup sees it as a valid tape to throw in the scratch pool, you're not going to like the outcome. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule

2008-03-31 Thread Ed Wilts
a script on a different system that validates those backups and makes sure the retentions are what they're supposed to be. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade Media Server 6.5 on Tru64 is failed.

2008-03-31 Thread Ed Wilts
of this install. That file can be deleted after you are sure the install was successful. # # -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule

2008-03-30 Thread Ed Wilts
backup? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

2008-03-28 Thread Ed Wilts
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule

2008-03-28 Thread Ed Wilts
than going in and manually selecting those 4 dates in the year for each policy? I can do last Friday of the month but not last Friday of the Quarter. Just wondering if there was an easier way. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

2008-03-28 Thread Ed Wilts
can be more accurate in calculating a catalog size. If they can't, you're not going to have enough information to make a useful prediction. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
at all since it was upgraded about 6 weeks ago. That site just chugs along... I don't think our issues should prevent you from going forward but of course you do need to be careful. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
than 6.5.1, nor the other way around. There are edge cases in every release that a few customers will see and most won't. Unless you're at 6.0 MP4 in which case most of us saw the edge cases :-(. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
came up with, we're not going to be able to get more specific than that. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
LT03 tape drives. Using the document I arrived at 8 CPUs 4.6 GB RAM Trying to get a server that can handle the NICs tape drive at full tilt peoples experiences with using this document or other methods of sizing Regards Michael 2008/3/26, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 26

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
been in discussions with them about that. It's a good start, but you certainly can't use it to spec out a system if you're not an experienced NetBackup admin. If you don't have the experience, I suggest you engage a consultant or reseller that does. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)

2008-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm almost positive that 6.5 supports DSU cascading in a single job, just like tape and virtual tape. DSUs do span. DSSUs don't. Symantec got it half right. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up

2008-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
, not NetBackup's. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up

2008-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
, but that would be extremely rare. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] lto4 fc bottleneck

2008-03-21 Thread Ed Wilts
and then you can get away with only 2 of them. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:21 AM, gina_fle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I was running only six LTO4 drives that is capable of 120MB on a 1GB fiber hba, would that be a bottleneck? 120 x 6 = 720MB even though the switch is 1GB? -- Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can a Single NetBackup Client talk to Multiple Master?Media?

2008-03-20 Thread Ed Wilts
or library in an office environment unless you like dealing with failures caused by heat fluctuations, dust, and all of the other stuff that people tolerate but equipment doesn't. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] Aptare StorageConsole web forum now available

2008-03-18 Thread Ed Wilts
to see if anything new has popped up. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups

2008-03-14 Thread Ed Wilts
of data across a slow line over a long period, but if somebody takes a double-disk failure in their RAID5 set and wants to restore 200GB, be prepared to do a restore to a portable USB drive and to ship that via FedEx/UPS... /Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] Operational issues - NBU Iron Mountain

2008-03-13 Thread Ed Wilts
developed any elegant hooks into the Vault process to cleanly hold back tapes? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-12 Thread Ed Wilts
is always key but this alone doesn't guarantee a successful outcome. Part of the planning, however, should include a fall back plan... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Encryption - NetBackup 6.5.1

2008-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
appreciated. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 25 can't backup clients

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Wilts
better. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup / Less Data?

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Wilts
that data up... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup / Less Data?

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Wilts
is support for Flash Backups. How it really handles Windows compressed volumes is going to be interesting... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup restores

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Wilts
those lines. I'm not that good with Windows though - try it with a test volume first (unless you like restores :-)). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] market coverage of tape libraries and SAN switches

2008-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
NDA. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] market coverage of tape libraries and SAN switches

2008-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
, don't use software encryption (or compression). We've got multiple Decru appliances and we can top out writing over 100MB/sec. As long as you don't saturate the appliances - and I believe the practical limit is 2 LTO-3 drives per FC520 - encryption is nearly a realtime operation. .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] market coverage of tape libraries and SAN switches

2008-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
- after all, McData was spun off of EMC in the first place. I don't know what they're doing now - their spec sheets on the Connectrix line lists the Brocade equivalents first and then Cisco. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 MP6 for Linux

2008-02-26 Thread Ed Wilts
via FTP - this appears to be valid. ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/ .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?

2008-02-21 Thread Ed Wilts
for high-volume work though. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is BMR worth it / How long does it really save you?

2008-02-20 Thread Ed Wilts
data. You may not even partition the drives the same as what you had. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation

2008-02-19 Thread Ed Wilts
the fragmentation. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Speaking of NTFS:

2008-02-15 Thread Ed Wilts
the volume offline for a long time... We don't use SAN Media Servers but hope to test the SAN Client sometime...it's on the TODO list. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State

2008-02-15 Thread Ed Wilts
when you have the client in multiple policies (common for clusters) and you have to keep them all updated on a regular basis. And I'm just willing to bet at least a cup of coffee that the vast majority of backup admins aren't told when an OS is upgraded. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN

Re: [Veritas-bu] Defrag DSU?

2008-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
install the Windows Java Gui to our desktops it fails saying that a DLL is missing. When we fix the DLL issue we get an error saying that the 6.5.1 Java Gui is incompatible with the 5.1 MP5/6 systems. Any one else seen this behavior before ?? Thanks…. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
. Exceed) on a Windows workstation like the UNIX master could? What do you have against RDP? RDP to your 5.1 master and fire up the admin console locally. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] process flow

2008-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
-9818675370 -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Defrag DSU?

2008-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
on Windows and see how much fun you have. I do like your idea of dropping the threshold to a low value to empty it out more frequently though. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade from 6.0 MP4 to 6.5

2008-02-12 Thread Ed Wilts
install the new features that are included in 6.5 (like BMR). The rest of your base functionality will work - I believe our master might still running with a 3.4 key while we wait to straighten out our license keys with Symantec/Veritas. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] who has deleted or de-activated a policy?

2008-02-12 Thread Ed Wilts
(unless you send these logs off to a secure syslog server somewhere). We have a text file containing our own changelog. If we catch somebody not updating the changelog when he's made a change, we let him have it. Peer pressure works fairly well. /Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] General Advice - Flash Backups

2008-02-11 Thread Ed Wilts
Client (aka the Snapshot Client). .../Ed Thank you -- *From:* Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 11, 2008 3:55 PM *To:* WEAVER, Simon (external) *Cc:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] General Advice - Flash

Re: [Veritas-bu] General Advice - Flash Backups

2008-02-11 Thread Ed Wilts
- there were multiple streams active on this server at the same time. This job was writing directly to LTO-3 drives at about 33MB/sec over a GigE network. We don't use SAN Media Servers at all - in my opinion, they're evil when sharing tape drives. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] login through veritas

2008-02-09 Thread Ed Wilts
are precisely the same rights they can use to hurt us (not unlike the Secret Services carrying guns while protecting our president). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP Files

2008-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
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[Veritas-bu] Fwd: VSP Files

2008-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
a clean install to 2003 I'm using NB 6.0MP5. Well the question I got is how do I change these files to VSS as from what I gathered from the posts these don't fill up the drives and if they do what other options do I have.. Thanks Marcus :D -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: VSP Files

2008-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
that it works for you does not discount the documented and acknowledged fact that it fails for some people some time. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reconfig Storage Units

2008-02-05 Thread Ed Wilts
configuration of one of my storage units. Which daemon should I restart? I can not restart Netbackup entirely. Netbackup 5.1 mp4 on Solaris -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] login through veritas

2008-02-05 Thread Ed Wilts
this ports. The service definition determines what username to use - on my VMS systems, it's not the SYSTEM account. You can telnet to the port on the client, but you won't get a shell. telnet never has, and never will, equate to running a shell. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter

2008-02-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Feb 4, 2008 4:33 PM, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I've done the head-to-head but I recently asked my salesrep for a quote on VBR to see if it might be worthwhile be switching. VBR is considerably more expensive than Aptare's StorageConsole. However, I will add

Re: [Veritas-bu] login through veritas

2008-02-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Feb 5, 2008 3:47 PM, Pedro Espinoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 1:42 PM, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the system administration guides, there is a great explanation with diagrams of what the communication paths are - i.e. who talks to who. Ed, I have been

Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Wilts
with the library. What are you trying to accomplish? .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Wilts
always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing vault return dates

2008-02-03 Thread Ed Wilts
you've seen... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Catalog on NAS

2008-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Jan 31, 2008 11:28 PM, dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if NBU catalog is store on a NAS storage instead of SAN or localdisk? This was just discussed within the last week or so. This is not supported due to NFS locking issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Max Fragment Size for Disk and LTO4 Based Storage Units

2008-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
can't destage fast. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] drive usage report

2008-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
busy? I wondering how to get a report to determine if there was more time available that was not being used. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Another bpstart, oracle and streams question

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Wilts
once per backup. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Max Fragment Size for Disk and LTO4 Based Storage Units

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Wilts
that we don't have much of a significant delay in individual file restores. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

2008-01-30 Thread Ed Wilts
is generally getting better with every release with the exception being the early 6.0 days where the rearchitecture of some of the internals caused a significant setback in stability. They're over that now. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 174 in NB.

2008-01-30 Thread Ed Wilts
be 23 releases behind either... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-30 Thread Ed Wilts
to bodge it by creating a symlink /usr/bin/gunzip on each client for the duration of the upgrade. Does anyone know a way around this? Or am I missing something. Solaris 9 clients, Solaris 9 master. (Our Solaris10 servers are OK, having /usr/bin/gunzip). thanks, Phil -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nonexistent Services Since Upgrade to 6.0.

2008-01-30 Thread Ed Wilts
Manager* Did I skip a step or can someone tell me how to make the errors go away? They're not causing any problems but I get phone calls late at night from our monitoring team when they see the errors. Thanks, Randy -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] What's Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Ed Wilts
-bu] What's Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1 Anyone has good idea what's maximum Number of Media Server we can share tape Drive using SSO. I have seen SSO Drives Shared among 20 Media Servers, 35 and 45 Servers. I'm just curious to know. Khajan. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
6.5.1 clients since I didn't want to transfer the kit across the WAN 20+ times. It worked just fine. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
trying to re-write mine? I know there are options to transfer the client files via sftp/ssh now, but these still won't work for us. Master/media : Solaris 9 NBU 6.5.1. Clients : Solaris 8/9/10. thanks, Phil *Phil W* -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
of NetBackup after the new server comes back up or are ALL of the NetBackup files installed in the NetBackup installation folder? Has anyone ever tried this? Thanks, Randy -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Unix Media Servers is a SSO environment.

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
via SSO was, to put it kindly, painful. Any experience with the current software set? Anybody mixing Windows Unix painlessly (sharing the same drives via SSO)? -M -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
this? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP4, catalog backups stealing tape from scratch pool

2008-01-24 Thread Ed Wilts
Corporate Information Systems Defence Science Technology Organisation Department of Defence Tel: (02) 96921484 Fax: (02) 96921562 Email:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Last execution time of a backup policy

2008-01-24 Thread Ed Wilts
one by one, but it will take forever. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] tape limit?

2008-01-24 Thread Ed Wilts
, - Tim Wilkinson I.T. Support Officer Science Corporate Information Systems Defence Science Technology Organisation Department of Defence Tel: (02) 96921484 Fax: (02) 96921562 Email:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN

Re: [Veritas-bu] The NBU FAQ needs you

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
- it's no free, but you need to get a current license installed first. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] 71 errors

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] 71 errors

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
can upgrade whenever a backup is not running. In some future release, Veritas has said they'll no longer VSP by default. Why 6.5 wasn't that release is beyond me. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 71 errors

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
for these clients. Any ideas why it is trying to back this up? I have just noticed this since going to 6.5.1. Symantec just published this article: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/295492.htm .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5

2008-01-22 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] UNIX doesn't like windows space

2008-01-22 Thread Ed Wilts
# bplist -C daddywarbucks -t 13 -R 2 -nt_files -s 01/01/2007 -e 01/22/2008 /C/Program Files/VERITAS/NetBackup # bplist -C daddywarbucks -t 13 -R 2 -nt_files -s 01/01/2007 -e 01/22/2008 /C/Program\ Files/VERITAS/NetBackup .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] date calculator

2008-01-22 Thread Ed Wilts
days Sat Jan 16 00:00:00 CST 2010 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] One Client Per Policy

2008-01-17 Thread Ed Wilts
not have a single policy per client though. Databases and wannabe clusters without cluster-wide filesystems are the common exception to this rule. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups only writing to one storage unit group member

2008-01-15 Thread Ed Wilts
up each image in the catalog and that takes a *LOT* longer - it's no longer practical to scan the DSSUs every 5 minutes. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups only writing to one storage unit groupmember

2008-01-15 Thread Ed Wilts
- without some good metrics you can only guess that you're done destaging before the next set of backups start up. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backup using Netbackup

2008-01-11 Thread Ed Wilts
information Os : Solaris 10 (sparc 64bit) Oracle : Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 Standard Edition Veritas Netbackup 6.0 MP4 -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

[Veritas-bu] OS/400?

2008-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
it into NBU somehow, I'd appreciate hearing from you. If you've tried and failed, I'd appreciate hearing that too. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

2008-01-04 Thread Ed Wilts
but for our main data store, the DD stuff doesn't justify itself. DataDomain is a good tool, but not necessarily the right tool for every job. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How Many Engineers Does It Take To Backup a Lightbulb

2008-01-04 Thread Ed Wilts
? If you can put that into writing, then that's your justification. Industry averages don't mean anything - what matters is how well your team is doing the job for your organization. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

2008-01-04 Thread Ed Wilts
?pcid=2244pvid=57_1 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup upgrade to 6

2008-01-04 Thread Ed Wilts
://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285223.htm -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error Status code 196 - URGENT PLEASE !!

2007-12-30 Thread Ed Wilts
ran. In this case, since nothing is running anyway, it won't hurt to reboot your master server. Once NetBackup is back up, manually submit one job to see if it starts to run. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any BMR with Linux clients success ?

2007-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
to find that recovery CD? Are you regularly updating that Knoppix CD with a current NetBackup client or are going to find yourself with a 4.5 client when your master server is up to 7.6? Are you testing that CD? Do you have a copy of that CD in your offsite storage location? -- Ed Wilts, RHCE

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Installation: 6.0 MP4 or 6.5 MPx ?

2007-12-19 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2007-12-14 Thread Ed Wilts
and can be pinged -- -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] backing up MS cluster

2007-12-13 Thread Ed Wilts
where resources were moved but NB didn't pick the drive up on the new owner-node. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is this possible?

2007-12-13 Thread Ed Wilts
recommendation would be to re-image the system and configure it as a media server in the new master's environment. This will be much less troublesome than trying to undo the current config and have it join the new master. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 6.5

2007-12-12 Thread Ed Wilts
Server versions only). Thanks *Regards* *Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator* *EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)* *Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU* *Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- *From:* Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0 mp4 and Exchange 2007

2007-12-11 Thread Ed Wilts
NB version 6.0 mp4 to backup and Exchange 2003 mailstore in a Windows enviroment. Now we want to upgrade to Exchange 2007, and take backup of the cold cluster. Anything I have tp prepare to have this to work? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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