Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

6.0 still continues to support NT. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:08 AM To: 'Weber,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Old Issue Back with MP4?

I have seen that happen as well and we are running 6.0 MP4 (W2K3/SP1). All of our backup end up exiting with a status 50 and I have to reboot the master server. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Start NBU non-root

Could you use sudo functionality? Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:42 AM To: Justin Piszcz Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to6.0 MP4

NBU 6.0 MP4 has 64 bit windows client support already. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:19 PM To: Jeff

Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to6.0 MP4

Yes, they definitely are Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:50 PM To: Jones, Courtenay; Jeff Lightner; Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP performance

We see 70 MB/sec straight out of the box. EMC NSX Celerra. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Liebling Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:49 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Directed Backups and Restores

Thanks everyone! Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones -Original Message- From: Chris Freemantle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jones, Courtenay; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Directed Backups

Re: [Veritas-bu] java administration console

What kind of master server are you running? If it is Windows, I just use the Windows Console Netbackup client - it is seems a bit more stable (the client, NOT the o/s) than the java client... Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre

[Veritas-bu] Client Directed Backups and Restores

Enviroment: Master/Media: W2K3/NBU6.0MP4/LTO3 Clients: HPUX/Itanium/11.23 How do I remove the ability to initiate backups and restores from the client level? I have some not so smart people doing development and they just did a restore (client directed), destroyed all of their most recent data by

Re: [Veritas-bu] Start/stop scripts

Do you have multiple drives on the system? Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:27 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Required network interface w/NBU 5.1/6.0 for Windows

If you access the client properties via the Master Server, it is under a tab called Universal Settings. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis,

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP performance tuning on LTO 3 drives

What kind of filer are you using? We are using EMC's NSX, and they provide a tuning guide that we used. We are seeing consistent 90MB/s + speeds Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3

There is a separate CD for 6.0 called 'UNIX Clients that will have the client software on it. Also, if your master server is running on a UNIX platform, you can push the unix client to the boxes. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] stopping backups to a media server

Well depending on how you have your storage unit configured... We have all our media servers that we use for backup in one Storage Unit group, and we have one media server that hosts the drives that we use specifically for restores. We have removed that media server from the Storage Unit Group

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [NC]

I dont what kind of support contract you have, but you need to be able to talk to the backline. We have CSS, and we get pushed through to them immediately. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [NC]

To: Jones, Courtenay; Len Boyle; Veritas Netbackup; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [NC] Even without CSS you can get escalations when you get BS answers. Rebooting the robot shouldn't be an every day event

Re: [Veritas-bu] NFS Backups

We have done something similar ... NDMP Enviroment: EMC NSX - holding gazillion of files NFS - HPUX 11.11 - holding gazillion of files (gazillion is a technical term there :) ) There is no question that NDMP is the way to go. With a bit of tuning and some trial and error, we are pushing 80+

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup not seeing correct Barcode Label

Have you checked your barcode rules to make sure no one has made any changes? Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Systems Engineer, Raleigh Technology Centre From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Features

We use NOM right now, but we are currently evaulating Aptare for SOX (Which sucks) reasons There is a ton of information that is captured in NOM, but there is not an easy way to capture all of the information in the format that management wants to see. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup shadow copy components on Win2003 X64

We are running 6.0 MP4, and we have successfully backed up multiple Windows boxes with Shadow Copy turned on. I don't know if this is an option in 5.1, but you can specify in the NBU master server whether you want to use Shadow Copy or VSP. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones -Original

[Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Procedures

Enviroment: NBU 6.0 MP4, W2K3 Master Server, HP ESL Library (LTO3) We contract with Sungard for our yearly disaster recovery exercise. This will be our first year going through with Netbackup, so we are running through the steps here in our lab. We have gone through the catalog recovery as

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem on Win2k SP1 AD Servers

You can put in an exclude on the server to exclude that folder: I think its like c:\windows\systems32\ntsmdata There is a technote on Veritas's website that you can either disable the service or exclude it... I just excluded it Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones

[Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Restored to Linux Boxes

Enviroment: NBU 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2K3 machine We have a fairly large VMware shop in house for all of Windows boxes. To back up these VM images, we end up taking tarballs of the VMDK files, and dropping them to a Windows boxe with several large attached luns. This works flawlessly... But, we

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Restored to Linux Boxes

to be attached to our Linux boxes. Thanks for the help... Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones -Original Message- From: Sander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:40 PM To: Jones, Courtenay Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups

[Veritas-bu] NDMP SSO

Enviroment: NBU 6.0 MP4 - W2K3 Master/4 Media Servers NAS - EMC Celerra We are trying to work through implementing SSO with our NDMP backups. I know this is new for 6.0, but has anyone done this and how is working for you? The documentation is rather sparse for SSO and NDMP. Regards,

Re: [Veritas-bu] tracking bpduplicate activity

I don't know if money is an issue, but Vault can handle image tracking. Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones SBS Unix Admin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Dykzeul Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:01 PM To:

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 MP3 and NOM

Is there anyone out there running NB 6.0 MP3 and Network Operations Manager? I am trying to get some reporting out for the management type people, and we are running into the following error message: Operation Manager: Job Monitor failed. We can report on everything except the status of jobs,

[Veritas-bu] Backup and restore speeds

Enviroment Information: Netbackup 6.0 Enterprise Server, MP 3 1 x Master/media Server 5 x Media servers (currently 3 implemented) (all Win2k3) Library: HP ESL712, 10 Ultrium-3 Fibre Channel drives We are currently seeing the following backup and restore speeds to the following clients -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Celerra NDMP tuning for NBU

Have you tried using the EMC performance guide for the Celerra and backup software? We were able to increase our performance quite a bit following their recommendations. We were getting 90MB/sec but we have a couple of Clarions Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones SBS Unix Admin

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Scripting Question (NBU 6.0 MP3)

Enviroment Information: Netbackup Master Server - W2K3SP1/NBU 6.0 MP3/LTO 3 We are currently deploying Netbackup into our datacenter enviroment (we are currently using Storage Data Protector). I have one backup that requires a script to be run before the backup kicks off, and one that needs to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Scripting Question (NBU 6.0 MP3)

2:35 PM To: Jones, Courtenay; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Scripting Question (NBU 6.0 MP3) I believe in Windows, it is located in C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\goodies. There are bpstart_notify.bat and bpend_notify.bat scripts. You can modify

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0/Windows Master Server/NDMP/LTO3

PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:23 PM To: Jones, Courtenay; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0/Windows Master Server/NDMP/LTO3 Hello Courtenay, A few questions. Which storage unit, with what os and what os level are you using for the NDMP backups

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0/Windows Master Server/NDMP/LTO3

We are currently deploying Netbackup 6.0. We are working on optimizing on our NDMP backup. We currently have a Windows 2003 master server performing the NDMP backups to a HP ESL 712 (LTO 3 drives). Our write rates are currently only about 70 MB/s. Can anyone make suggestions for trying to increase