Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 74, Issue 12

I have architected this extensively in one vendor's environment. With a well-designed architecture, all of the issues that you mention (except not having secondary servers to mount the images on to do the backup) can be mitigated. For example. You can check the state of the tablespaces

[Veritas-bu] Question about SUSPEND behavior

the suspend script ran. I guess we expected that the tape would go to SUSPEND mode when the write finished, but 4. above seems to belie that expectation. Can anyone comment on the expected behavior if an attempt is made to suspend a tape when it is writing? Thanks, Mark Mark Hickey

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question about SUSPEND behavior

] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:27 PM To: Mark Hickey; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question about SUSPEND behavior Hello, You cannot change the attributes of a tape when the tape is in use. I had the same problem with you and my solution was to make the script

[Veritas-bu] Number of clients one NBU admin can manage.

Folks, Assuming a mix of about 50% VM and 50% physical clients, and a large ( several hundred) Oracle and SQL Server (almost 2000) presence, are there ant rules of thumb about how many clients a NBU backup admin can handle? Thanks ___ Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

- basically doing tape-to-tape copies every day to filter out the expired data). There are pros and cons. Sorry, I have nothing to add to what Mark has said, other than to call out his no vendor does it :) Mark Mark Hickey Principal Technical Consultant HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS 62 Beach Road North

[Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

pools for policies with different retentions to pull from 2. Suspend the tapes from each backup session until all the images have expired. Mark Mark Hickey Principal Technical Consultant HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS 62 Beach Road North Weymouth, MA 02191 O 781.331.3508 C 781.254.6441 mark.hic

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup all or nothing

time you backup the filsystem, and then after that, you only backup the pieces that change, while still realizing the benefits of Flashbackup. Mark Hickey Technical Consultant HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS 55 Abigail Adams Circle North Weymouth, MA 02191 O 617.395.8568 C 781.254.6441 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 13, Issue 16 - exchange mailbox backup perf

to drop it down. Anas Mark Hickey Technical Consultant Storage Management HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Northeast Region P 617-395-8568/M 781-254-6441 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 3, Issue 23

that contains, among other things, the command output you are looking for. Mark Hickey 1. NBU script (Bobby R Windle) - - Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:41:51 -0400 From: Bobby R Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5253

the definitions via the command line to exclude the frequency-based backups when we wanted a calendar based backup instead. I'll try to dif up the script and post it to the list. Mark Hickey East Region TC Hitachi Data Systems Message: 6 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:01:52 -0400 From: bob944 [EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] RE: Veritas-bu digest, Vol 1 #4696 - Slow ITC performance

Paul, The fact that you get half of the speed of a single backup for a ITC backup may be telling. Since ITC does it's duplication on the client (i.e.: two backup streams to the media server) as opposed to on the server (i.e.: one stream from the client and two streams to the media from the