[Veritas-bu] Improving Duplication Performance from DataDomain Restorers

Here's my set up. I have a Sparc T2000 with 16 1.2Ghz cores and 16Gb of RAM running Solaris 10. I have three DataDomain restorers, two DD460s and a DD565. These are connected to a dedicated backup gigabit backup network and jumbo frames are implemented on the DataDomains and the T2000

[Veritas-bu] My Experiences with DataDomain Restorers

I've been using DataDomain restorers, the 460 and 565 series for almost three years now and here's my opinion of them, good and bad. Good: DeDuplication - DataDomain's de-duplication claims are accurate and the deduplication performance is impressive. I'm seeing compression ratios of 4:1

[Veritas-bu] ZFS backup problems

I have two servers that I've configured with ZFS filesystems but I haven't had a chance to test them with NetBackup yet. Do ZFS filesystems that are mounted via the /etc/vfstab versus the ZFS mounting facility file back up properly with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive? Jamie

[Veritas-bu] Problems Uninstalling BMR 6.5.2

I upgraded my Solaris 10 NetBackup master to 6.5.2A by doing a clean install of 6.5 and then upgrading to 6.5.2A and everything went well up until the point where I wanted to start backups. nbemm would not start and nothing I could do would make it start nor would it run in console mode. I tried

[Veritas-bu] Backing up network drives in Windows

I have several policies that back up network drives through Windows and I use the UNC path for them. You have to enter this manually but it insures that if the drive letter is changed the filesystem is still backed up. Jamie Jamison Network Systems Administrator Zymogenetics - Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 24, Issue 60 - Changing media server for restore

Today's Topics: 1. Changing media server for restore (Paiz, Eduardo) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:11:32 -0400 From: Paiz, Eduardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing media server for restore To:

[Veritas-bu] MS-Exchange Server Backup Problems With MS-Exchange policy type.

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[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.x to 6.x upgrade

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. I am currently at 5.1 MP6 on Solaris. Does anyone have any recommendations on whether I should upgrade to 6.0 or 6.5.1? What are the pros cons for going directly to 6.5? Thanks, Chris. The pros

[Veritas-bu] LTO2 restore problem on LTO4 tape drive

I'm having problems restoring a cumulative incremental standard policy backup stored on an LTO2 tape on an LTO4 drive. The density settings for the LTO2 tapes on my system is HCART, for LTO4 it's HCART3. I've run restores where I've set one of the LTO4 drives as density HCART in the device

[Veritas-bu] Type 84 errors on NDMP backups on 6.0MP5

I upgraded to 6.0MP5 a few weeks ago to fix the notorious pempersist problem where NetBackup refused to run any of my scheduled policies or let me manually start backups. I had been running 6.0MP4 because MP5 had a bug that caused all of my NDMP backups to fail and to get things running I had to

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

So I just got a SpectraLogic T950 tape library, and after some initial teething pains it's up and running and it's wicked fast, but being an impatient little monkey of a NetBackup administrator I'm wondering if I could make it wicked faster. My primary backups go to DataDomain restorers and then

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0MP4 not expiring old backup images

I use DataDomain restorers as my primary backup system and then duplicate the images from the restorers to tape. The backup images residing on the restorers have a retention period of 1 month and I duplicate them to tape using vaulting policies that create secondary copies with either a two month

[Veritas-bu] Slow offline backup problem on NetBackup 6.0MP4 Solaris 10 resolved

I posted a query to the list a few weeks ago asking if anyone else had seen problems with offline catalog backups taking excessive amounts of time a Sun T2000 running Solaris 10 and with NetBackup 6.0MP4. Several people e-mailed me informing me that Veritas recommends using the hot catalog backup

[Veritas-bu] Incredibly Slow Offline Catalog Backups In NetBackup 6.0MP4

Ever since I upgraded to NetBackup 6.0MP4 I've noticed that my offline catalog backups are incredibly and painfully slow. When I was running 5.1MP5 it took between 1 and 2 hours to back up my approximately 150Gb catalog. After the upgrade the offline catalog backups take well over four hours to

[Veritas-bu] LTO Generation 4 tape throughput with on-drive encryption

I'm researching the purchase of a new library with LTO generation 4 tape drives and am interested in using the on-drive encryption to encrypt my backup tapes so that if a box of tapes ever falls off of the Iron Mountain truck I'm not having to explain things to the board of directors and legal,

[Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question

I'm currently backing all of my systems up to DataDomain restorers with a one month retention period for the copy on the restorer and then duplicating from the restorer, using NetBackup Vault, to tape with a six month retention and sending the tapes offsite to Iron Mountain. Recently we decided to

[Veritas-bu] Backing Up Network Drives in Win2003

Due to some problems with the NDMP implementation in our NAS head I'm forced (temporarily I hope) to back up NAS volumes by mounting them on a server and creating a policy that allows metwork drives to be backed up. On UNIX this works just fine, NFS mount the volumes, set up the policy and watch

[Veritas-bu] Type 1 Error on Duplication Caused by Image Already Existing

I've seen this error before on duplication jobs when I was running tests and manually duplicated an existing image. But what would cause this to happen with images that were automatically duplicated? TCB1:duplicate.log.1_en failed batch dup: 03:12:51 INF - Duplicate of backup id

[Veritas-bu] DataDomain ddr460 restorer storage unit setup practices

We are in the process of implementing DDR460 restorers in our NetBackup environment. Backups will go to a DDR460 restorer with a three week retention and from there will be duplicated to tape and also replicated to DDR460 restorers at a remote DR site. Right now I have one storage unit created on

[Veritas-bu] Queue v. Requeue

I'm running NetBackup 5.1MP5 on a Sun V880 server with 4CPUs and 8Gb of RAM. My tape storage is IBM Ultrium LTO Gen 2 drives on a fiber connected L180 library. Lately I'm seeing a lot of jobs requeue when I watch my backups kick off. Other jobs just queue up and sit there but some jobs queue and

[Veritas-bu] Type 24 (socket read failures) on NetBackup vault duplication jobs

I've had three duplication jobs fail out with type 1 errors in the last two days. When I look at the detailed status for each job I see the following: 10/30/2006 4:44:55 AM - positioned K01306; position time: 00:00:00 10/30/2006 6:44:56 AM - Error bpduplicate(pid=10559) host kira.zgi.com backup

[Veritas-bu] Determining Number of Additional Client Licenses in NetBackup

I'm auditing my NetBackup environment to make sure that I have the number of licenses I need for clients and I'm finding the bpminlicense command somewhat unhelpful. When I run the command bpminlicense -list_keys -verbose I get output that looks like this file version= 0x0304

[Veritas-bu] What Is the Command for Re-reading the bp.conf File Without Restarting the NetBackup Service

There is a command you can run that will re-read bp.conf and as long as certain changes have not been made, will dynamically update your running NetBackup configuration to match the new file. Can anyone tell me what this is? Thanks, Jamie Jamison

[Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - more information - NT Alternate Data Stream

OK, I looked at the logs for bptm and when I try to do an NDMP restore to my NetApp filer this is the kind of error I see: -BEGIN ERROR LOG-- 10:57:24.191 [14265] 4 apu.zgi.com: NDMP_LOG_NORMAL 0 RESTORE: Fri Aug 4 10:57:24 2006 : We have read 2712480 KB from the backup. 11:02:24.193

[Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR Type 5 on Solaris Server with 5.1 MP4

I'm trying to restore a file from an NDMP volume and it fails with 'status 5 - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR'. When this happens nothing shows in the console of my NetApp filer and the message I get on the backup/restore console is WRN - Cannot restore from filepath /vol/volW5a,