On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:58:22PM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Is it 'best practice' to use FQDN for our Master/Media Servers ?
Yes. Not just for for NetBackup, but in general, use FQDN whenever
possible.
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the DNS is
updated.
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could be
different on every host, but the serial numbers stay the same.
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of policies using the same DSSUs and have not run into any
issues with doing this. The only time we have dedicated DSSUs is for
databases and that's to guarantee that their last backup is on DSSU for
a restore.
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across all clients.
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote:
Hi All,
I am
to recover the catalog from both the
tapes?
You should recover from the last one it wrote. If that tape was
unreadable, you'd go back a generation to the other one. If that one's
bad too, work on your resume :-)
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::Info:: No /usr volume on test-backups.mysubdomain.domain.com
This entry is not what you listed above.
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Has anyone recently done any research into NetBackup encryption or is
using it today? Thoughts and opinions? Are you using software-based
encryption or encryption appliances? If the latter, which are you using
and which others have you looked at?
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jumpstarted. You'll get all your logfiles back, any users you have
added, any custom changes to config files that were post-jumpstart, etc.
In what could be less than 20 minutes, you'll have your system as
current as the last backup. Much, much faster than jumpstart.
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$ at the problem today.
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is on the road map. You should contact Veritas and see
where they're at in the development process.
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drives.
All of the streams from a single DSSU still go to the same volume pool.
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a scheduled restore, which I don't find as of
now. Otherwise, it's a midnight worknight.
Do a command line bprestore and schedule it via cron (or whatever
scheduler you have handy).
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sure you're legally compliant. Some future
release may enforce licenses, but the current releases don't.
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MP2 comes out.
SAN-attached storage (which is where /usr/openv is currently).
We'd really like an active/active cluster config...
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and
AS to be supported but not WS.
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like doing that. DNS and the appropriately configured routing tables
are all we need.
This works like a charm and the right thing happens.
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no trouble finding media.
Are they using different volume pools? A tape can't be in multiple
volume pools so some jobs could be fillling up the end of tapes with
space, whereas a job that requires a different volume pool will need to
pull from scratch.
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:19AM -0800, Geoff Hazel wrote:
Why do some tapes hold twice as much data as other tapes?
Compression.
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) and
then can't allocate another one.
NetBackup tries to pack similar retentions together so it's possible
that it found room on a tape with daily retentions but couldn't find
tapes with the same retention as the jobs that failed.
Moral of the story is to buy more tapes...
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. If you're
using frequency-based scheduling, which most of us do, then it's next to
impossible to figure out.
So yes, you answer your first question, but it likely won't help you
determine what you're looking for.
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itself).
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The nice thing about NetBackup is that it's very flexible. The bad
thing about NetBackup is that it's very flexible.
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your CPU suggestions?
Thanks for the pointer to the doc! 180 pages of great info.
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the master is *NOT* supported. It's undocumented, unsupported, and is
non-trivial.
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and do
the right thing.
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better at this and you can schedule
catalog backups any time you want and consistency is ensured. I haven't
seen 6 yet (waiting for MP2 at the end of March) but this is one feature
I'm really looking forward to.
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the automatically invoked catalog backup, then you're
correct. If it's a manually-invokved catalog backup, then regular
backups can go at the same time.
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Problem:
I have a few tapes:
L00123
L00124
L00125
I need to find the status of these tapes across multiple master servers.
# vmquery -m L00123
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and then get all pissy b/c the drive it
wanted to use was unavailable.
# bperror -S pissy
generates an error :-)
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make no attempt to mount the next tape on the
same tape drive, it actually appears to make explicit attempts *NOT* to
do that. We've always seen NetBackup rotate jobs to the next drive so
that you don't end up beating your first tape drive into the ground.
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= Surely its not actually a file number
and its only written 23 files in 2 hours.
Are those 2GB file fragments? If so, that's about right - 46GB in 2
hours or 23 GB per hour - that's better than 5MB/sec. That would put
your total time to complete at about 13 hours.
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-based scheduling, you can tell
it to ignore certain days for say your weekly and do the monthly backup
instead. We don't like calendar-based scheduling very much since it's
much, much harder to deal with failures.
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this and there is no consistent easy way of getting the
version for all clients.
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NetBackup's control. There's nothing they can do to
stop that.
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the library, checking the vault to
empty the cap first. NetBackup takes care of the rest. We have a
Solaris master, 5.0MP6, with an L700, but just fire up the GUI on our
Windows media server since it's easier.
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patches.
Sigh...
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are on the other end of a fibre/scsi bridge).
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to manually update
each client (and usually reboot).
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. If every backup you've done in the
past year has not yet expired, there's hope for you right now, but if
not, there's nothing in NetBackup to report on expired tapes and images.
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to create a single large array.
All of this assumes that all backups are created equally. If there is
some stuff that you need to guarantee stays on disk for a week, you may
need to set up individual DSSUs for that stuff (we're doing this for
some Oracle databases).
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, NBU can automatically start using dssu2. We're not at 6.0 yet
here, but that's what I've heard.
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that a lot of customers have
upgraded and are having no problems. However, a lot of other customers
are having lots of problems. You feeling lucky?
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get a formal response if this is important to you.
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are there to keep the catalog up
to date at the DR site?
I've had a quick look through the Veritas web site but haven't found
anything that documents best practises for cases like this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm a long-time VMS bigot who was very reluctant to use a non-native
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remotely retrievable version number is
beyond me, but if you're running Windows, you need to examine registry
settings just to find out the version.
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on memory and will flush all of your
jobs. Of course, if the robot is down, you may find that interesting
enough to page on...
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work:
- shut down NetBackup
- edit the STREAMS file for server1san and include the full backup entry
from server1
- start NetBackup
If you try this and it works, please let me know.
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I've heard that NetBackup 6 takes a fair bit more memory than 5. Has
anyone seen any Veritas documentation that supports this? How about CPU
requirements?
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are not enough.
Mark Donaldson posted a script recently that gives you an endangered
file system report. If it's not on the report, it's probably green. It
could be a good start for you. Mark, we recently appreciate that
script!
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vacation but it hasn't quite
made it yet. I believe it's available to ship to new customers though -
it's the upgrade from earlier releases that's a bit more tricky.
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. Works fine.
We're actually doing this for Oracle today too but are in the process of
rolling out the database agents.
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