Consider this a posting then Ed. =)
Did several Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 migrations at my old employer of huge
(1+ TB) NetBackup 6.5.x Masters, including keeping the catalog info and
changing the hostnames. Spent a few weeks with rsync copying stuff from the
Windows Master to a new Solaris
Just to ask the obvious question - how does the vendor expect you to perform
backups of their proprietary system ? Do they have any recommendations that
might help ?
- John Nardello
Your backups are only as good as your restores.
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From:
. =)
- John Nardello
From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com]
Sent: Thu 4/8/2010 9:59 AM
To: Jonathan Dyck; Nardello, John
Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions
With the sticking
auth.conf syntax is :
domain\login permissions
For example :
MYDOMAIN\user1 ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL
MYDOMAIN\user2 ADMIN=AM+BPM+DM JBP=
Be aware that as of 6.5.2 I think it was, the domain has become case
sensitive in the login screen. So if you have it capitalized in the
auth.conf file, the
Make sure you remove any entry that looks like :
* ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL
=)
- John Nardello
From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@imb.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:11 AM
To: Nardello, John; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE
I have to ask - given that it's unsupported anyway, why upgrade if it's
already working ? Looking for a new feature ?
- John Nardello
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Conner,
Neil
I'd lean towards doing one of two things.
1)Tell them if they don't want to use the agent, then they have to
dump their DB to a flat file and you'll back that up for them. No
worries about the DB being left down that way, but it can take a unholy
amount of space depending on the instance.
SAN Media Server just means it can only back itself up, as opposed to
backing up other clients. I don't believe there's actually a requirement
that you have SAN though. =)
That said, it wouldn't surprise me if you hit a wall if you tried
restoring it through your SAN Media Server to another
Probably depends on how Veritas/Symantec has NetBackup coded, as to
whether it checks your effective authorization when you run the command,
or does some kind of check on whether your UID=0. 'man rbac' had a bunch
of info on how to modify code for that, no idea if they read it though.
=)
If you
Command to modify the barcode is below. Pretty easy to use it with a
quick loop to set all the barcodes = media IDs.
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -barcode $MEDIA -m $MEDIA
- John Nardello
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Same cleaning tapes for all the LTO drive types Mark, you're good to go.
=)
- John Nardello
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:51 AM
To:
:12 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Barcode rules
Nardello, John wrote:
Command to modify the barcode is below. Pretty easy to use it with a
quick loop to set all the barcodes = media IDs.
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -barcode $MEDIA -m $MEDIA
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/
or
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/search.html
- John Nardello
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Randy
Samora
Sent: Tuesday,
If you've got any reporting software trying to query your Master that
can cause this issue as well (i.e. VBR, Aptare, Bocada, etc).
Shutdown the local service or tell the app to stop monitoring the Master
for the duration of your upgrade.
- John Nardello
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Is the VBR agent running against the Master in question set to breakup
jobs ?
- John Nardello
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DiskJockey
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:42 AM
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Subject:
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter - Question for a VBR Guru
Nardello, John wrote:
Is the VBR agent running against the Master in question set to breakup
jobs ?
- John Nardello
VBR agent is running on Master - not exactly sure what you're
Careful Mark, remember that you get what you pay for. =)
- John Nardello
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark
Glazerman
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:41 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Domain
for that or still having you dump database info via CLI, but they'll be
able to give you the commands to straighten things out.
- John Nardello
From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:44 AM
To: Nardello, John; VERITAS-BU
If you go all the way to NB 6.5.2 or higher (and I'd definitely
recommend not stopping there), you've got an additional optional
available for bpmedia that does not require the old servers still be
around. The work seems to happen entirely within the EMM database and is
a heck of a lot faster than
USAGE: bppolicynew policy_name [-v] [-M master_server,...]
bppolicynew policy_name -sameas existing_policy_name
[-v] [-M master_server,...]
bppolicynew existing_policy_name -renameto policy_name
[-v] [-M master_server,...]
- John Nardello
-Original
Don't forget the massive hit your SLAs are going to take while your
staff figure out how to troubleshoot just the simple Networker errors
(i.e. client backup failed), let alone anything complex that may hit
your environment (i.e. Networker Master stops functioning for
non-obvious reasons). Even if
bpimagelist has a -media option that kicks out the tape used, so you
should be able to throw something together using the output of
bpimagelist -hoursago 24 -media -l (or -U if you want it pretty, etc).
User friendly output looks like :
Media ID Last Written Server
6a - Installing new clients.
- automated methods (i.e. deployment software)
- CLI
6b - Updating existing clients
- automated methods (i.e. deployment software, LiveUpdate, etc)
- CLI
Also:
7. Policy/schedule tweaks per user requests
8. Supplying backup configuration information
Yes, when you use the Windows filesystem compression the OS has to
uncompress the data before it sends it to NetBackup. Filesystem
compression does a wonderful job of slowing down your backups and
beating on the disks.
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I could see some problems if your ACSLS setup has watch_vols going (all tapes
are not visible to all servers automatically). Enabling Media Sharing across
all media servers could then open the door to NetBackup requesting a tape mount
on a server that can't actually see that tape maybe.
Not
$ grep nbpem /usr/openv/netbackup/nblog.conf
116.L10nResource=nbpem
116.OIDNames=nbpem
View last 5 minutes-worth of nbpem log entries (or something along these
lines) :
$ vxlogview -p 51216 -o 116 -d all -t 00:05:00
Good luck !
- John Nardello
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From: [EMAIL
into their own mold.
I just don't know enough database stuff to understand everything it's
doing. =)
- John Nardello
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From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:06 AM
To: Michael Graff Andersen; Nardello, John
Cc: Veritas-bu
Has anyone had the time to look around at the various binaries included
with the internal ASA database in /usr/openv/db/bin ? In particular,
I've been playing with dbunload and was wondering if there's anyone who
knows something about ASA or Sybase who could explain why it dumps what
look like a
The last time I looked into individual sudo rule access to NetBackup I
came up with something on the order of 450-odd sudo rulesfor a small
Master.
Remember, we're talking about full read/write/execute/create/delete
access to the vast majority of the NetBackup directories. This includes
the
Removing a NetBackup 5.x Media Server :
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/230047.htm
Removing a NetBackup 6.x Media Server :
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/289139.htm
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Maybe I missed the original thread topic.what's the problem again ?
Seems like ftp access works for me via web browser still.
ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_
Server/
And at the risk of making my throughput rate drop like a rock, looks
like 6.5.2
But did you clear _enough_ space though ? EMM will actually refuse to
start unless it has 1% of the total volume available as free space (by
default). Technote 286020
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/286020.htm
Alternately, Technote 283693,
There are several places this could be messing up.
1) Did you set up VxSS correctly on your VBR ?
2) You need a VBR agent running on a server for each Master OS
version. For example, if you've got a Solaris 10 Master, you need a VBR
agent installed on a Solaris 10 server. If you've
Depends on how much money you want to throw at your setup I guess. =)
Most of our large catalogs are quite happy living on the SAN. Of course,
our SAN is DMX3s, dual-pathed to separate fabrics and switches, and runs
to two different physical HBAs on the servers themselves.
Even if you're
Start watching your message queue numbers on your Master, might be time
to bump them up a bit. We saw this frequently on our largest Windows
Masters and ended up having to increase the heap sizes quite a bit on
them.
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My favorite technote of all time, if slightly dated. =)
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm
Contains info on running cleanups manually, as well as info on a
why-the-heck-isn't-it-a-default!!! touchfile.
If you want to see what NetBackup has been doing for cleanup lately (all
one
1) Do a normal /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files ftp
client to some Solaris 10 box in your environment.
2) On the client you'll now have a /tmp/bp directory on the client
with all the needed files and stuff you need to automate future
installs.
3) Hack the
Count yourself lucky you haven't used LVM on AIX. I keep dreaming of
ways to get the SAs to install Storage Foundation onto our AIX boxes. =)
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Tuesday, April 01,
I'm assuming you have multiple hostnames defined for the Master/Media
servers, one per interface ? If so, welcome to the fun word of EMM
aliases. =)
# mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nbemmcmd -machinealias -help
NBEMMCMD, Version:6.0MP5(20060530)
Help requested.
Usage:
nbemmcmd -machinealias [-brief]
NB_51_5_M_283089.winnt.x64.exe is the full installer, since it didn't
exist before that release.
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:13 AM
To: Dave Carpe;
We have several setups with 64-bit Windows media servers (newer
fileservers) pointing at 32-bit Masters (older Windows boxes).
Also have 32-bit Windows Media servers pointing at 64-bit Solaris
Masters.
No issues apparently. Restores have been working fine.
- John Nardello
-Original
Shoot, sorry, didn't read that as closely as I should've. You need to
install the full installer NB_51_4_M.winnt.x64.exe first, then you
can patch it. The full install showed up under MP4 first.
- John Nardello
From: Nardello, John
Sent: Thursday, January 24
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278938.htm
And no, nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling does not carry over across daemon
bounces or reboots. If you want to not have jobs trigger immediately
after those actions, you'll need to either disable your NB startup
script or be really quick with
Since you've brought this to mind then, anyone want to reveal the
largest number of clients they're reporting on through Aptare ? Just
curious if some of our Aptare slowness is due to the several thousand
clients we report on or something on our server.
- John Nardello
What, you've only got two engineering binaries applied ? You should try
harder to break stuff, we've got 6! =)
We keep making cracks about not needing the next MP release at all since
we're already running it...
John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd try either:
nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename string -machinetype api | cluster |
master | media | ndmp-mediaid string
or
Inside the GUI, Devices--Hosts, then right-click on your server name
and choose Remove device host.
Sorry if you've tried one or both of these already, the early part
And after it's been documented, you'll be adding a chapter in your next
book that covers it in detail? =)
- John Nardello
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis
Preston
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:41 AM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc:
This is the only one that came up when searching for NBCC. This version
says it only runs on NB 5.x servers.
- John Nardello
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From: Wilkinson, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:49 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Nardello, John
http://support.veritas.com/docs/286545 (posted 4/25)
Within NetBackup, this repair will automatically occur when accessing the
calendar dates of any schedule (Figure 1). This could include the Calendar
Schedule tab or the Exclude dates tab within a backup policy or the disk
staging schedule
I don't mind the feature necessarily, it's Microsoft's definition of
critical I'm concerned about. If the file was truly critical, then I
wouldn't be able to access the Calendar features through the Java GUI
and have them work. Or heck, even have NetBackup function at all.
And yet Java works
http://support.veritas.com/docs/287433
Confirmed you can still download it too.
- John Nardello
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Barstow, Allan (SN)
Cc:
Forget checking the sched log shudder. bpconfig is your friend. =)
C:\PROGRA~1\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmdbpconfig -U
Admin Mail Address:
Wakeup Interval: 30 minutes
Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 15
Backup Tries: 2 time(s) in 12 hour(s)
Keep Error/Debug Logs:
Last info I heard from my Account Manager on NB 4.5 support:
..full support stopped on 7/1/06. From there we still take calls and
troubleshoot the product but will not release any more fixes, etc. That
continues until 4/29/07 at which time we can't dedicate any more
resources to supporting the
ACSLS 7.1.0
last patch applied was PTF835586S
two SL8500 libraries
Currently running NB 6.0 MP4 on the two environments that hook into this
ACSLS server, no problems. Heck, even when we were below MP4 I don't
think we had ACSLS problems. =) Very stable application.
- John Nardello
Possibilities:
1) Take a look at whether you can use the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files script to rsh or ftp the
files to the clients.
1a) Hack the install_client_files script to use scp and sftp if you need
to bypass a firewall or don't allow unsecured protocols like rsh/rcp.
In the restore GUI, select all the images the file might be in. Then
there's an icon on the far-right of a pair of binoculars you can hit, or
go under the Actions menu and select Search backups.
The window displays the file name, size, backup date, modification date,
and path for each hit.
Of
Has anyone else noticed yet that you can no longer move media ownership
between Masters running NetBackup 6 ? So much for our typical site decom
procedures
Trying it gets you a -1 exit status (invalid error number), and the bptm
log will show the following:
13:19:02.685 [1240.4812] 4
NB 3 4 Technote digest for the month:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NETBACKUPDC_digest.htm NB 5 6
Technote digest for the month:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm
Always interesting reading. =)
- John Nardello
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Yep.
64-bit binaries are not available until 5.1 MP4 though. These are full
installers, not patches.
NB_51_4_M_280424.WINNT.IA64.EXE
NB_51_4_M_280590.WINNT.X64.EXE
http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NBUESVR_view_DOWNLOAD.htm
- John
Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
I've also seen that issue when you install software that
doesn't support that version of the Client's OS. For example, installing
NetBackup 5.1 onto a server running HP-UX 10.20. Just a thought.
- John Nardello
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry
Couple of quick things that'll hopefully provide someone some ideas of
what to expect.
I've got it running on an older test box (v480) with Solaris 10. 4 900
MHz CPUs, 16 GB memory. I'm monitoring three NB 6 servers and the load
on my NOM server usually looks like:
load averages:
Technote talking about Linux kernel tuning recommendations:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/263755
A little old but I doubt the variables have changed any.
- John Nardello
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathryn
Hemness
Sent: Monday,
Is anyone using NetBackup to back up a server that has files archived by
TSM's HSM product ? Does it handle the stub files okay, or would doing
this result in pulling everything back from the archive ?
NetBackup 5.1 MP4 or better, if that matters.
I'd appreciate any tips or pointers on pulling
?
-Chris
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Nardello, John
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:58 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and HSM ?
Is anyone using NetBackup to back up a server that has files archived
The big problem is that with two media servers thinking they both own
the same tape, they'll each go through and happily overwrite the other's
images. I've seen a tape marked as FULL on one media server and barely
used on a second - not pretty.
Your best bet is going to be to expire the tape
Title: Message
SET
CLIENT=%computername%.%userdnsdomain%
- John Nardello
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner,
MikeSent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:26 AMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Client
Installation Questions
Hi
Is anyone else is trying to manage NetBackup client versions through
Marimba (http://www.marimba.com/)? I'm especially interested whether
anyone has pulled off doing it with Windows clients yet and what kind of
impact this has (if any) on the host when you push out an upgrade.
Just wondering.
-
Tried it at version 5.1MP3. Eventually got a note from Symantec saying
that they were giving up implementing it in our environment.
It produced a quite noticeable amount of lag accessing the GUIs, and
since they weren't able to get AD to work here it would've required
managing 60-odd users'
See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/275107.htm
A new Solaris 10 feature, Containers or Zones allows the
configuration of global and non-global zones. NetBackup Server is
supported only in a global zone.
I'd be interested if you can pull it off anyway though. =)
- John Nardello
Title: Message
Under
Windows the bp.conf entries are all stored in the registry instead. Just go into
the host properties of the client through the JAVA GUI and it'll look much the
same as a UNIX client. Go and configure yourSERVER and MEDIA_SERVER
entriesas normal.
If you
get another
Veritas says to create a different filesystem for Full and Incrementals,
due to the backup sizes generally involved and how many files have to
get deleted for each when cleaning a DSSU. Future versions of NetBackup
sound like they'll do a much better job of handling staging disks.
Some light
From the MP4 readme:
Etrack Incident = ET313352
Description:
Disk staging only submits one duplication job at a time so it
was unable
to make use of idle tape drives.
Additional Notes:
Up to four bpduplicate jobs are submitted at a
Took a while to dig this info up - you'd think something this important
would be in bold flashing letters at the top or something
From the NB_CLT_51_3S2_M patch release notes,
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280098.htm
-
Etrack Incident = ET494041 ET494466 ET498548
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