Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 and Disk Staging

2006-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
is normally quite poor so I know I've got a NetBackup issue somewhere. We have pretty much a 24*7 backup window with lots of slow small, slow big, and some fast, clients. I think that describes most of us... Do your fast clients drive the LTO directly at a good speed? .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6

2006-09-21 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] LTO3 performance

2006-09-15 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] 6.0 scheduler issues

2006-09-12 Thread Ed Wilts
in the currently-available binaries or if your issue is diferent. .../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 6.0 Performance Very Slow

2006-09-11 Thread Ed Wilts
to recommend. .../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 and Database clients

2006-09-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On 9/11/2006 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will flashbackup help speedup my lotus notes database agent backups? No. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] backup 1K files that can't be restored? (was Re: Fameat last.)

2006-09-09 Thread Ed Wilts
), but lots of production restores since. We've got an open case trying to restore from a flashbackup archive, but all of our other restores have gone the way they should have gone. I have no idea what the 1K files stuff is all about. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fame at last.

2006-09-07 Thread Ed Wilts
absolute no issues with their support organization nor their efforts to make things better. .../Ed No, I don't speak for the company I work for. This are my personal thoughts. You really think I have the authority to speak for my employer? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup running on fedora 5

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
Linux. You should also consider upgrading your master server to the latest MP. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
and NBU 4.5, recover your catalog to it, and then upgrade it to 5.1. Then sit there for a few more months and finally upgrade that to 6.0 MP4 or MP5. It will be a multi-step process, but you'll get to a good supportable configuration in the end. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN

Re: [Veritas-bu] Q about status 134

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
at 5.1, we configured 6 tape drives per media server even though we had 3 servers trying to talk to a total 8 tape drives. Sure we got a lot of 134s, but they didn't hurt anything. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] User Restores?

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
this in the future... You could, I suppose, develop your own scripts to do this but it's a non-trivial problem to determine if a user can really, really restore a file from backup (what if it's the same file name but the copy on tape has different ACLs?). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any Gotchas migrating from 5.1MP5 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
that we've logged with Symantec - many of them were critical. Many are closed but critical issues remain. Symantec has confirmed the bugs - it's a matter of them getting around to fixing them (they've been working hard, but they're not done yet). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-04 Thread Ed Wilts
for a production environment or just contain minor patch fixes. .../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 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-23 Thread Ed Wilts
to create any more support issues than they have to and they could create more problems for you than they solve if they give you bad bleeding-edge code. I've already had to back out of one set of binaries (although they typically get better and better for us). .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] FW: NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-23 Thread Ed Wilts
Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU Storage?

2006-08-20 Thread Ed Wilts
waits and waits as images are destaged, but if they don't destage fast enough, your backup job to DSSU will fail with a 129. Working with DSSUs takes some trial and error and a bunch of knowledge about your backups and their sizes. .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112

Re: [Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
tapes and be done. .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
Jorgensen, Bill wrote: Sept 15! Focus on nbpem, nbjm, and hot catalog backups. We've got recent nbpem and nbjm images and it's still broken. They're working on the issues but they're not quite there yet... .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Scheduler Problems?

2006-08-16 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed Ed Wilts mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mounds View, MN 55112 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp ?

2006-08-15 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] bpgp ?

2006-08-15 Thread Ed Wilts
the new files out. Worth a try on a couple of test servers perhaps? We do this all the time - we do not have remote shell access. Initially installing a client requires this but upgrading a client does not. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Linux

2006-08-11 Thread Ed Wilts
common Linux distributions include an NFS server. I wondered if there was a way to do this in an easy way or anyone provide some assistance or a link? The easy way is to install the client, add it to a policy, and start backing it up. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-11 Thread Ed Wilts
jobs, queued jobs, completed jobs, etc. The screen shots on Aptare's web site don't currently include the Command Center dashboard, but it's been there in every release I've run over the last few years. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

2006-08-11 Thread Ed Wilts
the StorageConsole agent has crashed on the master and not updated the portal properly (and have received fixes for those) and my major self-inflicted pain when I upgraded to NBU 6.0 but didn't reconfigure StorageConsole...it mostly worked but not everywhere it does now. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR Admin Guide 5.1 MP5

2006-08-10 Thread Ed Wilts
for a system disk restore are fully documented in the VMS PDF - make sure you read this if you're a VMS admin. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] SDLT 600 vs LTO3 ?!

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Wilts
for day-to-day operations. Any real world horror stories or analysis anyone had done would be appreciated. From what I gather reading the list mostly everyone has gone LTO / I don't think I've seen SDLT 600 mentioned once!? SDLT is a dying technology... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive 800 and 252 status error

2006-08-03 Thread Ed Wilts
your messages file for disk errors. You may have a bad drive or a bad subsystem (or flakey ISLs on a SAN). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Jobs won't go active

2006-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
6 does allow you to create STUs on the fly 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] Multiplexing

2006-07-31 Thread Ed Wilts
, though, test and see what's acceptable in your environment. We all trade off backup times vs restore times and what's acceptable for you may not be acceptable for me. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-07-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:15:56PM -0400, Deiter Scott wrote: We need to determine if we can run a 5.1 mp4 media server on solaris10. On Sparc, yes. On Intel, no. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/263839.htm .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command Line??

2006-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
it's no secret that customers are requesting this. I guess it just hasn't made it to the top of the priority list. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solais 10 client on 4.5?

2006-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
, Veritas has never supported a client at a higher version than the master (with the exception of the VMS client which had the smarts to deal with it). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler woes with Ver 6.0 + MP3

2006-07-26 Thread Ed Wilts
the first 6.0 release (maintenance paks I believe are targetted for quarterly releases). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler woes with Ver 6.0 + MP3

2006-07-25 Thread Ed Wilts
can you hope that the case that's triggering your errors are the same as mine in which case you'll eventually get a fix, or you can log a call and make sure. Keep your fingers crossed. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler woes with Ver 6.0 + MP3

2006-07-25 Thread Ed Wilts
is still to be avoided for customers still running a 5.x release. .../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] Advanced Reporter in 5.1 = 6.0 NOM?

2006-07-21 Thread Ed Wilts
not require a separate license. .../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] Generating list of all active clients !!

2006-07-20 Thread Ed Wilts
if ($6 == 13 ) retention = 7 years if ($6 == 14 ) retention = 10 years print ,$2 :, type ,every,frequency, days;,retention,retention } /^INCLUDE/ { if ($2 !~ /NEW_STREAM/ ) print ,$2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7 } .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific polices?

2006-07-20 Thread Ed Wilts
fixed our scheduling issues. .../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] Please help !!!!!! !!!

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Wilts
of backups before? How did you do your archives - with an rman policy, a cold database backup, or did you put the database into an archive log mode? If you use the command line and do a bplist, do you see any files in your archives? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific polices?

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Wilts
)? Since neither fulls nor incrementals are running right now, when you create the new policy, just manually run whichever full is due to be on the safe side. I believe that it will do the right thing though (if it runs at all) and pick up where it left off. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix Master, Windows Media server possible?

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
on the peculiarities of the individual systems. The biggest difference is the stability of the platform. With Windows, you'll find yourself rebooting whenever you have any tape drive maintenance - add, replace, etc. With Unix, you can just restart NetBackup (which can be a pain by itself). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server Hostname Change

2006-07-17 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] Master Server Hostname Change

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
the changes, but ideally you'd contact Symantec Professional Services to do the work for you. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Upgrade Checklist

2006-07-13 Thread Ed Wilts
agreement, go with MP3 If you don't, don't even think about going to 6! .../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] NBU 6 Backup selections browsing

2006-07-13 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] Backup Speeds Revisited

2006-07-13 Thread Ed Wilts
or so times we've across it. .../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] Vault Catalog?

2006-07-13 Thread Ed Wilts
. In the first step, just make sure you set up a selection criteria that doesn't match anything you want ejected. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Roll back to previous MP

2006-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:56:48AM -0600, Dustin D'Amour wrote: How do I roll back to a previous maintenance pack? Restore from your backups. Hey, this is a backup group - what kind of response did you expect? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Upgrade Checklist

2006-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
paying attention, it's easy to miss. Until you need a restore. .../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] Frustration Growing...

2006-07-11 Thread Ed Wilts
me a 5.1 Media Kit. Try: NB_CLT_51_5_M_283093.tar from: ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/ All the supported clients should be in the kit (except for VMS which they insist on selling media for separately). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 Drive Speed Poll

2006-07-11 Thread Ed Wilts
and you're there. What speeds have other members gotten when doing speed testing to LTO3 drives? We've done no tuning yet (the drives just went in) and we're topping out at around 55-60. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread Ed Wilts
situation? We went straight from 5.1 MP5 to 6.0MP2. We never ran 6.0MP1. We're not at MP3 plus patches (and awaiting more!). MP3 is certainly better than MP2. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-07 Thread Ed Wilts
issue you have been highlighting for a bit. We use calendar-based backups on our fulls. I will pay close attention to the info you relay. I just received a patch for nbpem and nbjm. They've just been applied so I'll know more about how well it works over the weekend. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] encryption

2006-07-06 Thread Ed Wilts
unencrypted (or discovering the hard way that one of your users moved a file to a different client that wasn't encrypted). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Barcodes?

2006-07-06 Thread Ed Wilts
labels :-) .../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] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-06 Thread Ed Wilts
they can get it out of the ICU quickly. .../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] Backup Windows 2003 server in another domain

2006-07-05 Thread Ed Wilts
resolution in place and everything works nicely. .../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] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-03 Thread Ed Wilts
5.x, no you most definitely should not. We've had MAJOR issues since upgrading to 6.0MP2. The scheduler has caused us a lot of headaches :-( .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?

2006-06-30 Thread Ed Wilts
been working them with backline engineering support ever since we upgraded a few weeks ago. Unless you really, really *need* 6.0, stay away for now. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)

2006-06-30 Thread Ed Wilts
will not be restorable. You can back up Exchange live and get a status 1 - you won't get anything useful on a restore of it either. Anything higher is what I class a failure. Anything that's not restorable is a failure, no matter if it's a status 1 or higher. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?

2006-06-30 Thread Ed Wilts
very very stable, rock solid and well put together. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. When you finally *need* (not *want*) the features of 6.x, then look at upgrading. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Install Tests

2006-06-29 Thread Ed Wilts
and then kill it. You'll generate an error 150. 2. Start a job and then suspend it. You'll generate an error 157. You can also call the script directly and pass in the arguments that it lists. Nothing says that it has to be NetBackup that calls it. Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help needed

2006-06-27 Thread Ed Wilts
for the client licenses. There is no way you can see from the system how many clients you have licenses for. If you don't have the paperwork, contact your sales rep. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk-Based backups having empty finalfragments

2006-06-22 Thread Ed Wilts
you who are telling them the wrong thing. 1GB, by SI standards, is 1000MB. Seriously, I was raised and trained in binary too, but the buggers changed the standards on us in 1998. one gigabyte 1 GB = 10^9 B = 1 000 000 000 B http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk-Based backups having empty finalfragments

2006-06-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:54:15PM -0400, bob944 wrote: When computer logic becomes decimal-based, I'll start using kibibytes. There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't :-) .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fronting backups with disk then bleeding off to tape.

2006-06-20 Thread Ed Wilts
under 6 vs. 5? I know there is a watermark feature. Also, how come when I bled data off to tape under 5.1MP4, it did not remove the images from disk? Must I manually purge that data? Thanks, Justin. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backup

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Wilts
like a beta 2 release than an MP2 release. .../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] How to configure Block Level backups ?

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Wilts
/275912.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] 6.0 Upgrade Question

2006-06-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:56:45AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: The master server should be upgraded first, then the media servers, correct? Correct. Read the installation manual - it's *very* important. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can Netbackup work on a DHCP network

2006-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
. That defeats the purpose of DHCP but then DHCP for servers doesn't make much sense anyway. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] check backed up file

2006-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
was backed up and that's an expensive operation. A better method would be to create a separate policy for just that file and then do a standard backup_exit_notify script when that policy completes. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Staus code 42

2006-06-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:36:04AM -0400, Shyam Hazari wrote: Anyone seen this error message ? Is a 64bit windows client supported under a 5.1 NBU ? The 64-bit client became supported with 5.1MP4. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to only stop new disk to tape jobs from starting

2006-06-08 Thread Ed Wilts
jobs now have a priority to them - that would allow you in the future to set them at a lower priority than your other jobs. That doesn't help you right now though... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Obtaining NetBackup client details

2006-06-05 Thread Ed Wilts
the information but there are lots of cases where you simply get the information remotely. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu search engine missing

2006-06-05 Thread Ed Wilts
that the school is hosting so much information about Veritas products. But without the search engine it would takes subscribers like me hours to find what we need by sifting through those Zip file files. It would be nice if you can put the search engine back. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup modules

2006-06-04 Thread Ed Wilts
have any other NetBackup servers, you'll need to purchase the master server license. If you already have a master server, you'll need to purchase a media server license. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists on Linux - Again!!!

2006-06-02 Thread Ed Wilts
1000G 1000G46M 100% /apps/netbackup/dssu /dev/vx/dsk/osiris_san01/apps2c 2.9T 2.3T 605G80% /apps/netbackup/dssu2 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-31 Thread Ed Wilts
is *NOT* supported for servers with 5.x. You can run 32-bit Windows on a 64-bit machine but that's not what the original posted asked. 64-bit NetBackup server binaries on 64-bit Windows requires 6.x. .../Ed Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/30/2006 8:51 PM On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:38:16PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-30 Thread Ed Wilts
doing for the same reason... .../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] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Ed Wilts
. If you start your next backup and selected the files created since 12:00, you'd be okay. Now of course you could select the same file twice (e.g. if the file was created at 12:05 and the directory was processed at 13:00)) but that's a far better problem than not backing it up at all. -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Status Codes HTML Format or Web Link

2006-05-17 Thread Ed Wilts
to have a list of the most common NBU Status Codes and use the PDF for the ones that I do not see often (if at all) bperror -S statuscode Pick whichever are common in your environment and format away... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
are cheaper than Sparc-based systems. .../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] Upgrading 5.0 to 5.1

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
(to answer Kate's question - it's because we wanted 64-bit Windows support without making the major jump to 6.0) and it went nice and smoothly. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
market leader here. Since you're in Canada, stick with Red Hat for support. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
we replaced our master, the problems went away. /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] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
Krishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As its network read error, we checked the network settings and found to be 1000 Gbps auto. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris vs. HPUX

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
of a fight, but we bought a new V490 and stayed with Solaris. -- 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] clients on media id

2006-05-12 Thread Ed Wilts
-client corpftp.bck.mrll.com -media Media ID Last Written Server -- 001757 05/11/2006 19:11 stptape2ms.bck.mrll.com Nice and easy... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Win2k3 Client Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Ed Wilts
the client, and it doesnt! The most common cause of this is an out-of-date client. Update the client and your 71s will go away. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have an StorageTek SL500 library?

2006-05-11 Thread Ed Wilts
. After all, it's the big customers who bought them in the first place. .../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] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
concerns about NetBackup and Linux support, contact your Symantec reps. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
tell you something about their Linux commitment too - after all, I'd put SLES in the same category as RHEL for enterprise-quality (even though I've never worked with SLES). I've not looked at NetBackup support on SLES at all. .../Ed ;-) -sj Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/10/2006 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
is commited to RHEL 3 - why won't Symantec commit to it? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 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

[Veritas-bu] Decru appliances LTO3 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Ed Wilts
per appliance are you using? 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] Restore is faster than backup

2006-05-06 Thread Ed Wilts
especially be true. It's quite likely that NetBackup has to do a lot less work to do your restore than to do a backup. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd DSSU Behavior

2006-05-05 Thread Ed Wilts
this for every media server too. Also look at the size of the destage - by default they'll only destage 25GB at a time (and kick off 4 simultaneous streams). Drop the number to 1 like Shane said, and increase the size to a high number. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB51 support for Redhat 4?

2006-05-04 Thread Ed Wilts
. Is there anyone running a NetBackup server on Redhat 4? If so, are you using 32- or 64-bit? According to the compatability matrix, it's currently supported. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/263839.htm -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] RE-SEND: Migration of NB 4.5 Solaris to NB 6.0 RHEL4

2006-05-04 Thread Ed Wilts
problem, I'd take the Solaris server to NBU 6 and then copy everything to Linux, keeping the same host name. Do not change the host name - make that a separate project. My guess is that the migration isn't going to be all that bad... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

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