Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 for System State backup

2009-12-24 Thread Khurram Tariq
System state on Windows 2000 is backed up by using VSP. Can you check the VSP cache folder on the clients. I've seen NetBackup not cleaning this folder up causing drives to be full also cause 71 errors. Also is it possible for you to send us the backup selection list from the policy? Regards,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cookbook to use alternate NIC for client backups.

2009-12-22 Thread Khurram Tariq
My two cents in addition to Ed's procedure since you may have NICs (on master media) in both networks. - Make an entry in DNS for the IP of the NIC you're going to use for backups. Call it something like servername-nbu. - Put REQUIRED_INTERFACE = servername-nbu in the client's bp.conf. This way

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 for System State backup

2009-12-11 Thread Khurram Tariq
Are there any particular drives on the Windows 2000 host that you're getting the error on? On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:04 AM, mince netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: hi still getting system state backup status 71 for Windows 2000 server machines on netbackup, any ideas?? Michael

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 for System State backup

2009-12-03 Thread Khurram Tariq
We recently went through the same issue. First of all this is not a NetBackup problem so don't take a lot of heat for it :) Now the solution. There is a VSS rollup package from MS which fixes this problem. You can get it from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349 If your Windows team builds the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Res: jnbSA NOT working from OpenSuse Box

2009-11-24 Thread Khurram Tariq
You don't have to switch IDs to be able to run jnbSA since you're prompted for a user ID password by the java console for an authorized user. Regards, Khurram ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Deactivated policies

2009-11-23 Thread Khurram Tariq
Use the following command to generate a comma separated list: *# /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist -allpolicies -L | nawk -F':' 'BEGIN{print Policy Name,Active};/^Policy Name/{printf $2,};/^Active/{print $2}'|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/, */,/'* On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:08 AM,

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup configuration for Exchange 2007 CCR

2009-11-17 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi All, I'm interested in finding out how you guys set NetBackup up for Exchange 2007 CCR clusters. Our exchange team wants us to backup from the passive node of the CCR cluster. Due to the data size we have to install SAN media server on the passive node. Since we're only backing up system

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you help me please

2009-11-17 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi Nizar, Create a new policy and in the backup selections list choose Windows 2008 On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:20 AM, nizar motasim nizar1...@hotmail.comwrote: Dears I had upgraded my system to windows 2008 with Exchange 2007 cluster ,and now have Veritas 6.5.2 also I have new library

[Veritas-bu] Exchange CCR Configuration

2009-11-10 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi All, I'm interested in finding out how you guys set NetBackup up for Exchange 2007 CCR clusters. Our exchange team wants us to backup from the passive node of the CCR cluster. Due to the data size we have to install SAN media server on the passive node. Since we're only backing up system

Re: [Veritas-bu] Regex in Java console

2009-07-01 Thread Khurram Tariq
I haven't been able to get it to work no matter what I wrote in there. Here's an example...supposed if I want to filter the jobs which are running for more than 20 hours (this is just an example I know it can be accomplished by looking at the current time putting a 20 hour old value in start

Re: [Veritas-bu] Regex in Java console

2009-07-01 Thread Khurram Tariq
I realized the error I was making. I was writing my regex as if it were being used for grep, I was missing the dots. Thanks. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Regex in Java console

2009-06-30 Thread Khurram Tariq
, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: Where and what are you trying to do? -- *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Khurram Tariq *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists

2007-11-06 Thread Khurram Tariq
In my experience multi-streaming had to be disabled to make exclude lists work the way they should work. For e.g., if P: in your backup list is configured to be a separate stream in the policy then you'll see errors and that particular job will fail. Regards, Khurram On Oct 31, 2007 11:12 PM,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any takers yet?

2007-06-20 Thread Khurram Tariq
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/datasheets.jsp?pcid=2244pvid=2_1 On 6/20/07, rcarlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was involved with the beta program. The release was pretty stable, even in beta, and has some really cool features. The article does not even talk about things like

Re: [Veritas-bu] How do i use Exclude_list and Include_list in solaris9 with NBU6 for filesystem backups

2007-06-19 Thread Khurram Tariq
I've got two questions 1) Does the exclude_list work if the client is an older version of NBU? Say server is NBU6MP4 and client is NBU5.1? 2) Also does it work if the backup is started manually from the console? Regards, Khurram On 6/18/07, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the FS

[Veritas-bu] Restore from an alternate media server

2007-06-18 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi All, Now here's the scenario. I've got two SAN media servers in my NBU 6 environment (servera serverb). I have done a file system backup on servera and trying to restore it on serverb. Now when I start the restore I see servera as the media server being used for the restore and the restore

Re: [Veritas-bu] Permissible values of SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS

2007-06-15 Thread Khurram Tariq
Gents..anything??? On 6/15/07, Khurram Tariq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gents? Anything? On 6/14/07, Khurram Tariq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the guide doesnt say max values, its just that values till 256k are printed in a tabular format and there's no mention of being able to put

[Veritas-bu] Permissible values of SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS

2007-06-14 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi All, I was wondering what are the max values one can put in the files SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. The NetBackup 6 Tuning Guide talks about max values of 256kb and 16 respectively. Regards, Khurram ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Spam: NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup

2007-06-13 Thread Khurram Tariq
help too much if they are on a huge volume and they take up a small % of the space. Cheers, Tim -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Khurram Tariq *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 June 2007 6:07 PM *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Spam: NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup

2007-06-13 Thread Khurram Tariq
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[Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup

2007-06-12 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi All, We have just migrated to a NBU 6 SAN based environment. We have a server with a large number of small files (100k to 4MB) and its performing quite poorly on SAN based backup (5MB per stream). Can anyone advise some tuning parameters to improve this speed? The library is L500 with FC

Re: [Veritas-bu] Spam: NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup

2007-06-12 Thread Khurram Tariq
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Serious master issue...

2007-02-14 Thread Khurram Tariq
Where is ur /usr/openv/netbackup/db located? Local disk or SAN? What RAID level is configured there? Maybe the disks on which /usr/openv/netbackup/db is located are not performing optimally. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup and Oracle RAC

2007-02-11 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi Ahmed, There's a chapter on backing up Oracle RAC in NetBackup for Oracle Systems Admin Guide. We backup only one node from our two node RAC setup and this is how Vertias has recommended in their guide as well. This is an extract from our RMAN script: RUN { debug io; ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch01

[Veritas-bu] Multistreaming from a single file system

2007-02-09 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi, Can we do multistreaming from one filesystem? I want to do this because the subdirectories on a filesystem contains tens of thousands of small files and the backup runs quite slowly (i'm sure of shoe shining too). The filesystem is structured like this: Mount point: /abc/def Sub

[Veritas-bu] Excluding directories

2007-02-08 Thread Khurram Tariq
Hi Gurus, I'm looking at doing the following I'm not really sure if it is doable or not. The idea is that I want to backup 3 directories from 4 servers using one NBU policy. The catch here is I want to exclude some directories from being backed up from one client. An example of the idea is: -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Excluding directories

2007-02-08 Thread Khurram Tariq
Of *Khurram Tariq *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:02 AM *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Excluding directories Hi Gurus, I'm looking at doing the following I'm not really sure if it is doable or not. The idea is that I want to backup 3 directories from 4 servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving media from one media server to another

2007-02-08 Thread Khurram Tariq
You should delete the tapes from the scratch pool or else they'll remain visible in the pool without a robot type, robot host etc after the eject. Its a matter of house keeping if nothing else. Regards, Khurram On 2/8/07, Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All media server connected to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup and restore speeds

2006-12-23 Thread Khurram Tariq
How are you doing the backup? Via a dedicated network or SAN? And what is the bandwidth of the medium you're using? For e.g., we have a dedicated gigabit LAN setup for our NetBackup environment and can pull data as fast as 100 MB/s (yes its megabyte). You just need to play with the buffer

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem : unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available

2006-12-23 Thread Khurram Tariq
Basic question: Do you have any tapes in the scratch pool? If yes then I'd say find a time to restart netbackup. When you shut it down ensure that all its daemons have disappeared then start it. Regards, Khurram On 12/23/06, Jim McD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've seen nbu go crazy and