Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?

2007-10-01 Thread McCammont, Anderson (IT)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: 01 October 2007 06:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments? ... These are odds based on the size of

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-13 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
http://www.ultrium.com/default.php compare who have passed compliance testing (Fuji, Imation, Maxell, Sony and TDK) who manufacture their own media, with those in the licensee section. media fully compatible among compliant companies' media and drives. Much as anyone hates being treated as a

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

2007-05-15 Thread McCammont, Anderson (IT)
Message- From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 May 2007 17:28 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); Clooney, David; Jeff Lightner; Jones, Courtenay; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Start NBU non-root Unfortunately, running cgi

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

2007-05-15 Thread McCammont, Anderson (IT)
My understanding from our Symantec account team is that 3rd Oct 2007 is EOSS (End of Service Support?) for 5.1 - ie. no new maintenance packs, EBFs etc. EOPS (End of Product Support) is 1 Dec 2008 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

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

2007-05-14 Thread McCammont, Anderson (IT)
Really, this is a bad idea. Putting suid on code that you don't own or haven't reviewed the source code of is a substantial security exposure. You're not only not buying yourself anything (the executables would still be running with and effective UID of root), you're also exposing yourself to a

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

2007-05-14 Thread McCammont, Anderson (IT)
2007 13:16 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); Jeff Lightner; Jones, Courtenay; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Start NBU non-root Much appreciated for your input Anderson, Can you suggest a better scenario in which you would be able to run NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix

2007-04-25 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
that's been outstanding for several years. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: 25 April 2007 18:21 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; 'Spearman, David'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix

2007-04-24 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and dedicate it to the particular media type. It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the barcode can be used to select the media

Re: [Veritas-bu] iostat not showing tape stats - SLES 9...

2007-04-23 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
Tape device stats aren't currently supported in the Linux distros that I've seen - the instrumentation isn't there in many of the block device drivers. I beleive this is also a limitation on HP/UX and some other BSD-derived O/S's but I'm not sure on this. If you're using SAN attached tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?

2007-03-26 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
As a colleague of mine once put it: 'BANANA - Backups Are Not Archives, NOT ARCHIVES'. Practise this mantra. You should really think about rearchitecting. That said, if your data isn't important to your firm and you're confident that you can restore from backups (you're making multiple copies,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives

2007-03-16 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
NBU will clean on two tapealerts - 20+21 CLEAN_NOW and CLEAN_PERIODIC. Check your drive firmware release notes though to make sure there's no tapealert issues in the rev you're running. There was a fix in 5.1MP4 to handle edge conditions that meant tapealerts could go unactioned. If you have

RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-16 Thread McCammont, Anderson \(IT\)
Title: Bpsched crashing if you have a hang,trussbpsched main and see whether it's blocked doing a msgsnd(). Do the ipcs -qA and look for CBYTES being close to QBYTES. If it is truss the rest of the bpscheds and see if any are attempting to do a msgrcv(). Increasing the queue varies