Typically we wouldn't promote the duplicate (copy 2) to primary first.
We'd simply set its retention:
bpexpdate -backupid backupID -d infinity -copy 2
Then for the original (copy 1) we'd set it to expire immediately:
bpexpdate -backupid backupID -d 0 -copy 1
We wouldn't specify
When you use -X you're telling it to open an ssh tunnel. Typically that
sets the DISPLAY variable and updates the $HOME/.Xauthority file on the
host and for the user to which you're attaching. Due to this you should
NOT set the DISPLAY variable after login as it is the tunnel session
that sets
There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they
will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez,
Daniel
Sent:
We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that.
Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU?
From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE
Generally speaking what we do here is backup to Data Domain then
duplicate the image to tape and send the tapes off site once a week.
Prior to Data Domain we backed up to tape then duplicated to tape and
sent the dupes offsite once a week.
There was a time we sent tapes off every day but that
It's been a while but it seems to me that once we went to 6.5 on the
master we had to upgrade the clients that were running the Oracle to
make RMAN backups work reliably. We also had to update the media
servers. For standard OS clients we were still able to do the backups
from 5.1 so it appears
Make sure you understand that fibre for the Data Domain is an add on so
costs extra. In our planning we were going to do fibre but didn't order
the add on so ended up having to do GigE with NFS mounts instead. To
get throughput we wanted we had to work on doing network aggregation.
Nice link - wonder why they haven't updated it for 5 or 6.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel
Otto
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:04 AM
To: sm...@peppas.gr; Ed Wilts;
Suspend wouldn't prevent expiration though it would prevent use of the
tape.
Also you shouldn't change expiration on the tape but rather the image
you're interested in.
To determine images for a specific policy in a given date/time range:
bpimmedia -L -policy policyd -d MM/DD/CCYY
Since you know the completion time and elapsed time from the RMAN output
you could figure it out by doing:
bpimmedia -L -policy policy -d 06/14/2009 017:00:00 -e 04/27/2008
18:30:00
The end time (-e) is the one shown for completion (padded a little) and
the start time (-d) is subtracting
saying RMAN isn't that good at keeping track of things I'd
have to say I agree but that's something the Oracle folks should
address.
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:30 PM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: veritas-bu
First you need to learn to distinguish what you're running from a Linux
standpoint. Typically you can determine the Distro and version by
typing cat /etc/issue and on Fedora/RedHat/CentOS you can type cat
/etc/redhat-release.
You also need to run uname -a as it will tell you the version of
We've used this little perl script for years and run it from NRPE plugin for
our Nagios monitoring system. It doesn't require NPRE/Nagios though.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
##
# 122002jda
# This script
Why does a bundle intended for RedHat would have comments about Suse?
Anyway what you need is the compat-libstdc++-296 package. (Note that in
this name the 296 is actually part of the package name rather than the
version - there will be version information after the package name.)
You can
I concur - I've seen more frozen tapes due to drive/robot failures than
due to any intrinsic fault in the tape itself.
Also when we DO destroy a tape because we suspect or know it is bad it
is only AFTER all the images on it have expired. Remember that there
might have been images on the tape
It gives a warning that the file changed between the time it was
selected for backup and the time it actually backs up. Since the
initial listing is only a list it can't back that up - it has to backup
the actual file as it is when it gets to it.
From:
I imagine for the same reasons they bought the new library in the first
place (e.g. age of library, support/parts etc...) plus the added reason
that it takes up floor space in the data center. Data center managers
often frown upon keeping old equipment just in case especially if
there isn't a lot
Not sure if this works for Windows media servers but you can go into the
Java GUI for master and select Media Servers. In there select all the
hosts, wait for it to populate OS etc... then right click and select
Properties and make your changes there.
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From:
Is it just this command or everything? I've noticed when a catalog
backup is in progress everything else seems to be hung until it
finishes.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
These are indications of UNIX/Linux man (manual) pages. The (1M) and
the (1) are sections of man. Typically 1 = User commands and 1M =
administrative commands. However, it is somewhat arbitrary as to who
defines what as what. For me most NetBackup commands are
administrative as we don't have
Another vote for SSO.
Whoever dedicated the 2 drives per server doesn't understand SSO. The
person that suggested they were conservative was being too kind. The
adjectives I would use for them would suggest they rode the short bus to
school.
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From:
We upgraded to 6.5.4 on Friday and ran a test vault session. We killed
it because it was finding images but was not duplicating them properly
on the proper hosts My coworker will be calling following up with
support this morning but I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this
and already
6.5.4 64 bit sounds like someone is stuttering...
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Spearman, David
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:40 PM
To: 'Cornely, David';
Or to restate that - you can have multiple exclude lists - one for each
policy on the client.
Just append the policy to the exclude.list its relevant for:
e.g.
POLICY SERVER-OS
POLICY SERVER-DB
In SERVER-DB you're backing all of /database/prodDB and all of
/oracle/prodDB without any excludes.
It does for 6.0 versions...
Release
===
6.0.0.0.4.4
6.0.0.0.4.4
6.0.0.0.4.4
6.5.0
6.5.0
5.1.0
By the way - the formatting is slightly off due to long Linux OS Levels
(for my RHEL systems) and also the Release column was a bit short for
those 6.0 versions so I modified it
Whenever a cold catalog backup has kicked off it seems to stop all other
activity in NBU since 6.x. I think it is normal albeit somewhat
disquieting when you don't expect it.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
NetBackup is essentially doing file level backups rather than block level so it
can't do the in file delta. If you have a need for doing that then you should
look at the data deduplication technology out there such as Data Domain, Avomar
and others. If you look through the archives you'll
To see which media / backup IDs etc... were used for a given policy:
bpimmedia -L -policy policy -d MM/DD/CCYY HH:MM:SS -e MM/DD/CCYY
HH:MM:SS
Where policy is the policy used to do the backup, -d specifies the start
of the time range in which you're interested and -e specifies the end of
If NBU can be used to read NDMP backups can it be used to bpduplicate
them with the target being the new NDMP?
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
william.d.br...@gsk.com
Sent: Thursday, June
:49AM -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
If NBU can be used to read NDMP backups can it be used to bpduplicate
them with the target being the new NDMP?
Duplication shouldn't be a problem. You don't have to understand a
format to duplicate data.
I don't see why the target would be a different NDMP device
NetApp countered the offer by raising their bid to $30/share like EMC's.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D98J6CN03.htm
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sesar,
Steven L.
Sent:
We use HP-UX master for our 6.5.x install and backup many Windows
machines (along with HP-UX and Linux).
For backup VLAN we just have a separate NIC in both master and clients.
We modify hosts file on the master to add the NIC of the clients. We
typically specify the client names as clientb
I thought in 6.x it didn't really matter which was the SCAN-HOST - that
is to say setting priority is no longer important?
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Marianne
Van Den Berg
Haven't used Avamar but have used the Data Domains.
In general I like EMC hardware but their Clariion support is done BADLY
out of India IMHO. Prior to buying anything other than Symmetrix to
them I'd be asking where the front line and 2nd tier support is. If
they tell you India then I'd
http://view.mkt2lead.com/?j=fe621670756c05797d12m=feed12787d6103ls=fde
617797267077a701c7976jb=ffcf14
May be of interest for those of you using Data Domain units.
Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments.
--
CONFIDENTIALITY
We have some ancient HP-UX 10.x systems that we now backup on an old NBU
5.1 install to an old 2 drive unit we have. There is no reason to make
the rest of your infrastructure hold back due to ancient clients.
Also pointing out that the hardware, OS and the backup solution (and
likely
We don't use Clear Case but a couple of ideas occur to me:
1) You can shutdown the Clear Case DB then backup the filesystems
or raw devices where it is stored. (We do this for Oracle DBs on vxfs
filesystems that we don't use RMAN for as well as one older Oracle DB in
raw space - mostly
It depends a lot on what you mean by LUN and how you're backing it up.
Is the LUN mounted as a filesystem? Is it a LUN on which you have
raw database stored? Some other thing?
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
You might hint as to where the jobs are. Someone in Hawaii might want a
new job but eschew postings in Alaska.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
jforres01
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:07 PM
4:46 PM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Looking for Advanced Netbackup Admins
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jeff Lightner jlight...@water.com
wrote:
You might hint as to where the jobs are. Someone in Hawaii might want a
new job but eschew
Right - it saves you SOME tape (assuming it is not all unique as
mentioned below) because you do initial backups to disk and only send
your duplicates to tape. While you can get major
compression/deduplication on the disk images the duplicates on tape will
be the same size they always were
Or because it is a file in the UNIX/Linux sense but not in the backup
sense.
Examples of these would be Door files in Solaris and anything in /proc
on Linux.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]
By Solaris do you mean OpenSolaris? These are Intel boxes.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 10:34 AM
To: Schaefer, Harry;
I've not done it on SuSE at all. If it is a 2.6 kernel probably you
could make the RedHat Linux 2.6 client work.
Since I don't really know SuSE I can't be sure.
A couple of things I have seen on RHEL4/5 clients:
1) You have to be sure xinetd was installed BEFORE Netbackup. Otherwise
What version of NBU was this? We’re running sever HP-UX media servers at 6.5.1
without having seen this kind of issue.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nathan Kippen
Sent:
If NBU can see it then you can use the bpduplicate command to copy the
image from Data Domain to tape.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of jeff
kaplan
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009
.
From: Wilcox, Donald A (GE, Research) [mailto:wil...@ge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:19 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; jeff kaplan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] dedup/replication
It is my understanding that Data Domain deduplicated images get blown
back up
Resolving search lists doesn't mean they have to be configured correctly
everywhere. Just for the server and the client involved in the
current problem. That is to say while it needs to be configured
everywhere to make each client work when their turn comes in the
schedule it is a red herring
We use short names.
Also we actually have a separate VLAN for backups so for most hosts we
put in a hostnameb short name in the master's host file.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Not doing 6.5.3 yet but from my UNIX (HP-UX) master to install on RHEL5
I do the following:
1) Create a Client policy so it knows what version of the client
software (Linux, HP-UX etc...) to install. I select RedHat 2.6 as OS
for the that. I do it in the Java GUI.
2) From command line on the
OST apparently costs $$$
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hickman,
Tony
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:02 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] how to copy
10:12 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; Hickman, Tony; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] how to copy backupsfromdatadomaintotapew/netbackup6.5
That is indeed correct... in the summer of 2008 we were quoted $12,500 per year
for an OST license on a DD560 plus an extra $2800 for 1 year
You can use the bpduplicate command to copy one backup image to another.
The source image can be Data Domain and the target can be tape. If you
know scripting it should be fairly easy to create a script that calls
this command. Type man bpduplicate for more details on the command.
Look at the
: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:31 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Hickman, Tony; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] how to copy backups from data domain
totapew/netbackup 6.5
Is the data domain a DSU for netbackup?
When you say you're backing up to it, can you give more details?
-M
Only problem with the script is OP says he has a Windows master. He'll
have to figure out the way VBS or BAT way of doing it.
From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:42 PM
To: Hickman, Tony; Jeff Lightner
Why not just do a bpflist on the backupid to determine what files it
had?
What I typically do is:
bpimmedia -L -policy POLICY -d mm/dd/ccyy hh:mm:ss -e mm/dd/ccyy
hh:mm:ss
where -d = start time and -e = end time of the backup you're interested
in.
Or use bpimagelist:
That reminds me of the old joke memo about being on your manager's
Special High Intensity Training list...
-Original Message-
From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:24 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; patrick.swee
Here we don't concern ourselves with the number of policies. We try to
make the names as consistent as possible to insure what we're backing
up.
We'll backup the operating system on every system and name policy for
each as hostname-OS. The exclude lists for those policies would
generally have
If you're running RedHat Linux then sendmail comes with the distribution media.
If you didn't install from there you can or you can just do yum install
sendmail to install it from RedHat yum repositories.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Why single me out for this? I wasn't asking - I was answering.
As to what is valid for this list I don't think anyone made you the
arbiter.
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:59 AM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Servet
There is no daemon running on the RHEL client usually. Instead
xinetd should be listening on the port and start the client process when
a request is made.
By default xinetd is NOT installed on RHEL. The NBU Client is brain
dead so assumes you have inetd when it doesn't find xinetd running.
Actually it depends on how long your timeout is set. If you've set
things to timeout in 2 hours then 6 attempts would take 12 hours. You
might want to know long before that. On the other hand, setting the
timeout lower risks having the backup abort if it takes a long time
normally (e.g. a
In fact in places I've worked that we used a scheduler (Maestro/Tivoli
Workload Scheduler) we did have it abend on non-zero exit status. That
is actually default behavior.
At one site we actually wrote wrapper scripts to set exit status on the
backup script so that if it was an status 1 from NBU
I used pdfedit not so much to annotate but to modify a PDF report
someone sent me once. This was on Linux. Not sure if they have a
port to Windoze or not but it is Open Source so has no cost.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit
-Original Message-
From:
I think it's a little different.
The OP was asking how to do something presumably legal except if done in
response to pending litigation.
The news article suggests someone who was planning something quite
malicious presumably of harm to Fannie Mae itself rather than any
attempt to hide
-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of tburrell
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:36 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable
Jeff Lightner wrote:
I think it's a little different.
The OP was asking how to do something
We have some old 10.20 clients here. The client version is:
NetBackup-HP-UX10.20 3.4patchJ0850740 installed back when they were
new.
However, NBU 6.x won't talk to clients that old so we have smaller 5.1
Master with a small 2 drive unit set up to backup these systems and a
couple of other
I'm assuming you want to be able to use the tapes as scratch tapes. If
so then I'd suggest just loading in the drive and doing a simple tar to
the tape - that will overwrite the header information.
Of course if you KNOW that there is a possibility legal might NEED
these tapes for litigation
I meant to say do NOT really rather than do really.
By the way this is all my opinion. I'm not a lawyer so follow the
advice at your own risk.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sepaton presented themselves to us as an alternative to Data Domain
(data deduplication on hard drives). When I read the info they sent me
it seemed that I'd have to buy at least as much storage as I already had
because first copy isn't compressed. We didn't have the floor space
for that so
If you use an external scheduler such as $Universe or Tivoli Workload
Scheduler (a/k/a Maestro) then you can make all the backups dependent
upon one another although I wouldn't. There is no need to rerun the
middle tier backup just because the DB backup fails or more importantly
no reason to
Message-
From: monalisa.ku...@wipro.com [mailto:monalisa.ku...@wipro.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:11 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] socket read and write error
Hi,
Thanks fr the reply bt we have not made any change in the n/w but all
You might want to degauss even before sending out to such a company.
At least one poster on this list noted how he had gotten used tapes
that were supposedly wiped but on checking he found other people's data.
As for us we degauss any bad tapes after images have expired in NBU. We
don't destroy
We're running 6.5.1 and not having this issue.
Also FYI - Upgrade from 6.5.1 to 6.5.3 would not be as painful as the
one you just went through. From 5.1 to 6.0 there was a major change in
the way things were done. We upgraded from 6.0 to 6.5 with no real
issues.
-Original Message-
By the way many of the commands have a -h host option. You don't
have to go to the various hosts - you can just add the flag and issue
the command from the master for each of your media servers.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Interesting.
The following thread says in part:
On further investigation, this stupidity is specific to SuSE and Gentoo
which have patched glibc to support mdns. Debian has an nss-mdns which
is the sane way to implement this functionality.
A real nerd would hack Linux to replace the OS on his Blackberry then
write a Perl script there to parse his wget downloads of the posts from
the site. :p
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
Not that I've ever found.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves with design of NBU:
1) They put it right next to the Cancel Job button.
2) They use EXACTLY the same text when asking you to confirm cancel all
as they do when canceling a single job.
3) The highlight goes away so you are not
!
-Original Message-
From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:19 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; ko.kur...@in.ibm.com;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to disable the option Cancel
I'm seeing status 23, 24 25 (socket errors) on various backups for the
past couple of weeks but don't know why.
Network seems to be OK.
On looking at troubleshooting it suggests running Netbackup
Configuration Validation Utility (NCVU).
On going looking for this I don't have it on
to kill.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:18 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NCVU download for NBU 6.5.1
God, PRESERVE us from bad puns...
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sweeney,
Patrick
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:01 AM
To: 'debbie.l...@jmsmucker.com'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
We saw lots of issues with RMAN backups until we upgrade the clients to
match the master when we went to 6.x.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:15 AM
To: Clooney, David
Cc:
11:36 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu;
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] client - jbpSA
Cheers Jeff, any specifics as all looks good so far?
Would hate to have overlooked something.
Regards
David Clooney
Enterprise Storage
] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:03 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows media server OFFLINE
When running vmoprcmd on my UNIX master it shows my windows media server
OFFLINE. Both are running NBU 6.5.1
The media server's name
Of course the fact that Symantec makes their own anti-virus product has
nothing to do with the fact that NBU has issues with someone else's.
:-)
We're using Symantec Anti-virus here and having no issues by the way.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Could someone send me a list of the processes that should actually be
running on a Windows 6.5.1 media server? I had lists for 5.1 and 6.0
but not for 6.5.
e.g. for 6.0 I had:
Netbackup Compatibility Service
Netbackup Device Manager
Netbackup Client Service
Netbackup
When running vmoprcmd on my UNIX master it shows my windows media server
OFFLINE. Both are running NBU 6.5.1
The media server's name is atmbks01.
I attempted to run vmoprcmd -activate_host -h atmbks01 which resulted
in:
EMM database error (196)
I also ran vmoprcmd -hoststatus
Did you run insf -e after you ran the ioscan? On HP the ioscan will
detect the new hardware but doesn't create the device files
(/dev/rmt/*). You have to run insf -e to install do that. After
you've done that running ioscan again will show the hardware paths to
the drives associated with the
We saw this morning on a backup of MS-Exchange to Data Domain.
I see a prior question about this to a Falcon store with no answer.
The Data Domain volume isn't down but is running over 90%. Would we
see this message if the intended backup wouldn't fit in the remaining
space of the DD?
SUN = Solaris = UNIX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve
Fogarty
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:49 AM
To: Hudson, Steve
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to find out who cancelled a Backup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:36 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error nbjm NBU status: 800,EMM status: Disk volume
is down resource request failed
D'oh! I should know better than that - I just had a class at end of last
month that had SUN x86 boxes running Linux so I guess it is possible to
have Windows on Sun as well.
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error nbjm NBU status: 800,EMM status: Disk volume
is down resource request failed (800
My opinion is that it is better to use exclude lists. That way you have
to be explicitly told NOT to back something up rather than be told you
SHOULD back it up.
When the day comes to do a restore it won't matter that you had a policy
that they needed to tell us about new filesystems - you'll
We've been using two DDs for a year now. Its deduplication/compression
claims are valid. We use one for UNIX backups and one for Linux
backups.
We've had some challenges because we'd intended to do fibre but found
out the fibre options for DD are extra but got left out of our original
From a Linux standpoint IA64 = Itanium (very specialized and only runs
64 bit) and x86_64 = the 64 bit x86 compatible stuff (more generic) from
Intel and AMD that can run 32 bit apps.
IA64 != EM64T - you're using the x86 based chip when using EM64T.
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Oops - meant to say we use one for UNIX/Linux backups and one for
Windows backups.
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Ouch!
Funny - it made me lookup up DD's symbol - Their NASDAQ symbol is DDUP.
Gotta love that.
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The Twelfth of Nover... :p
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Jonathan
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FYI / I just got a note from Symantec that First
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