Re: [Veritas-bu] How to regain disk space from failed backup to DSU

2008-04-18 Thread Johnson, Eric
I have had this happen to me. The file system log corrupted and the disk was returning I/O errors, so there were partial images on the DSSU, but it purged the associated catalog data when the backup failed. Try the bpexpdate to expire the images first. If NetBackup tells you the image doesn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem installing 6.5.1 on REL 5.1

2008-03-19 Thread Johnson, Eric
Besides the missing libstdc++-compat libraries, also check to see if you have SELinux set to Enforcing mode and if there's SELinux errors being logged. If so, you might have to set it to Permissive mode. Eric -Original Message- From: seanharv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

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

2008-03-12 Thread Johnson, Eric
I sync'd our production NetBackup 5.1MP6 installation to a test server we have (normally used for DR) and upgraded that to 6.5, then patched to 6.5.1. Everything worked as documented, no problems were encountered other than one inconsitency that NBCC caught (there was a frozen tape with expired

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

2008-02-12 Thread Johnson, Eric
I believe this is only possible if you're using NBAC/VxSS with each operator logging in with a different username, and then enabling logging for bpjava-msvc. Even then, you have to trace back in the log a bit to see the user. It's sort of a nuisance. If anybody knows a better way, I'd like to

[Veritas-bu] LDAP authentication

2008-01-29 Thread Johnson, Eric
NetBackup 6.5.1 master server on Solaris 10 update 4. System uses LDAP to authenticate logins vs. Active Directory on Win2k3 R2. This works fine for local and SSH logins. Using it to authenticate NBAC logins doesn't seem to work though. The root broker is running on the master server and is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Johnson, Eric
On Windows, this info is in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\vrts\nbe\/N/B/E/Login/Lists\vr ts-nbe-/Admin/Console (yes, they actually used forward slashes in the names..) There is a key called host/List that contains the list. Eric

[Veritas-bu] VxSS/NBAC

2008-01-24 Thread Johnson, Eric
In planning our upgrade to NB6.5, I've also been looking at the NBAC feature. Is anyone here using it in it's complete implementation (ie, including client authentication) and have any comments about it? Is full client auth overkill? It seems like the certificates that are issued via the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Are my SQL DBA's lying to me?

2007-10-12 Thread Johnson, Eric
Hi Bobby, I believe they are telling you the truth. I've set up the MS SQL agent as well, and every database comes through as it's own backup job. I'm not aware of any way to alter this behaviour, but I haven't really looked into it. Eric From: Bobby

[Veritas-bu] Backing up a SAN

2007-09-25 Thread Johnson, Eric
How do most people back up SAN data with NetBackup? Currently, we have a legacy setup where the NB client on each SAN-connected host system backs up the SAN mounts that it sees as a regular file system. Obviously, this is very inefficient as it puts load on each client and requires additional

[Veritas-bu] Restore must be resumed prior...

2007-09-11 Thread Johnson, Eric
I've noticed lately that when we perform our test restores, they frequently complete with a status 1 (Partially successful) and the warning of Restore must be resumed prior to first image expiration on DATE. There doesn't appear to be any other error on exit either in the GUI or in the error log,

[Veritas-bu] Library changed

2007-07-18 Thread Johnson, Eric
Hello, Our current libraries (a Sun L25 and a Sun L700), are configured so that they do NOT show the Media Type suffix when NetBackup 5.1MP6 does an inventory. So a tape with a physical label of AB0123L2 shows as AB0123 and no NetBackup media ID generation rules are required. In a DR situation,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-09 Thread Johnson, Eric
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots Johnson, Eric schrieb: You can control whether the .zfs directory for snapshots is visible or not woth the zfs set snapdir=visible filesyste option. I know - but how does that solve the problem? If .zfs were visible, wouldn't this make even more

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Johnson, Eric
You can control whether the .zfs directory for snapshots is visible or not woth the zfs set snapdir=visible filesyste option. From the zfs manpage: snapdir=hidden | visible Controls whether the .zfs directory is hidden or visi- ble in the root of the file system as

Re: [Veritas-bu] Inline tape copy performance

2007-03-06 Thread Johnson, Eric
I get 20-30MB/sec with the inline copy from our DSSU. Without the inline copy, the speed is 40-50MB/sec. So yes, we see the 50% speed hit. Not sure why. Eric From: Santos, Tarso D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:49 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB51MP6 Backups hanging after Sol10 patch-Fixed

2007-02-26 Thread Johnson, Eric
Turns out the fix for the hanging backups we were experiencing with the latest Solaris 10 patch cluster with NBU5.1MP6 were indeed related to the ip:do_tcp_fusion kernel parameter. Although Sun claims this bug was fixed in 118833-24, it still exists in 118833-36. The suggestion was to turn it off

[Veritas-bu] NB51MP6 Backups hanging after Sol10 patch

2007-02-15 Thread Johnson, Eric
We've installed the latest Solaris 10 patch cluster (we were at kernel 118822-24 before I believe, we're now at 118833-36). Since then, backups that go from network to tape will randomly freeze up and stop writing data, although the job sits there and looks active. Sometimes it will take a few

Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging Speed

2007-01-03 Thread Johnson, Eric
You can also look at the 'bperror' output, as it will show the speed for each fragment was copied to tape. It's rather inconvenient though. Eric -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:57 AM To: NB List Mail

[Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 ZFS

2006-09-27 Thread Johnson, Eric
Has anyone used the ZFS file system with NetBackup 5.1 and can comment on any issues or gotchas? We'd like to move our catalog and two DSSU file systems from UFS to ZFS. Does ZFS report a full file system status in a way that NetBackup can understand so that it will expire old images on the DSSU

[Veritas-bu] Destroyed DSSU

2006-08-23 Thread Johnson, Eric
In planning for disaster recovery, I've been examining different situations that aren't a complete loss of the NetBackup system. One is where our DSSU unit is lost (file system corrupted beyond repair, or whatever). Obviously, this leaves you with no images in a location that NetBackup thinks

[Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question

2005-12-16 Thread Johnson, Eric K
We are in the early stages of migrating from Legato NetWorker to Veritas NetBackup 5.1. As part of our migration, we are adding enough disk space to hold one week worth of backups before they are staged to tape. When configuring our disk (approximately 9.6TB before RAID in a Sun StorEdge 3511