I am trying to configure a BE agent in NBU OpsCenter. The agent software is
installed on the OpsCenter server, the agent is configured, and the data
collector for BE is successfully configured. However, the data collector never
starts. The only error I see in the agent logs is: Home
-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Renee Carlisle
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:55 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] BE Agent in OpsCenter not starting
I am trying to configure a BE agent in NBU OpsCenter. The agent software is
installed
Having a communications issue with BMR and I am at a loss as to where to go
next in trouble shooting. Here is the environment:
Solaris 10 Master server recently upgraded to NBU 7.0.1
One NIC connected to a backup network
Recently set up to use DNS due to new requirements with
Have a strange situation going on hoping someone can help with.
Environment:
Global Cluster NBU 7.0.1 Solaris Master Server
W2K8 Media server in data center A and B
Physical AIX boxes in data center A
AIX domains on VIO server (sorry if this is the wrong terminology, not that
familiar with VIO
with VIO
greetings... can you ping everything ok? is this vlan configured across the 2
sites?
FreeBSD rules
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From: Renee Carlisle rcarli...@serverwarecorp.com
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 11:49
Was hoping there may be some NBU/Informix gurus out there that can help me with
some onbar questions. My familiarity is more with RMAN:
NBU Version: 7.0
Informix Version: 9.4
OS: AIX 5.3
1. Does the Informix onsmsync process need to be run with each NB Backup?
2. What is the
Forget question 3, found this technote:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH29536
Reneé Carlisle
Was hoping there may be some NBU/Informix gurus out there that can help me with
some onbar questions. My familiarity is more with RMAN:
NBU Version: 7.0
Informix
Check into synthetic fulls...especially optimized synthetic fullsthat way
you are only really doing a differential every night and letting NBU handle the
creation of the full...this should dramatically shrink the time it takes to do
the backups.
From:
Is anyone out there using a Data Domain with the OST plug in for NetBackup?
(Especially if you are running NBU 7) Can someone give me a rough idea what
kind of performance numbers you are gettingjust looking for an average mb/s
per stream on typical backup jobs. Don't need a lot of
Can you go into robtest and try and query the drives and move tapes into a
drive, unload a drive and move a tape back into it's slot? That is a good
beginning test for the health of the drive?
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Yep, if you are just running a small test you might be running into an issue
where you don't have enough data to kick off the SLP...for testing, set up the
following on the Master server:
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/LIFECYCLE_PARAMETERS add the value:
Vault's basic function is to manage offsite tapes. If you ship tapes off to
Iron mountain or some other destination, vault makes it easy to manage ejecting
the tapes, creating audit reports etc. From your set up with the VTL
capabilities, the SLP route is probably the best source for actually
You do not need an agent if the Master is 7 and it is for monitoring a NBU
master server. Yes, there is an engineering binary to fix the polling issue.
Contact support.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Installation and setup have been great. It works very well so far in the
environments that we have installed it in.
Some gotchas:
Listen carefully when they say be careful in planning. Once it is configured
it can't be reconfigured. Make sure the disk, credentials, IP, etc that you
want to
I've tried the rename, even with the document, in the exact order...and still
had issues. I believe Symantec is hoping to have a supported option in a 7.x
release
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent:
Exchange 2003 GRT Backup to DSSU storage unit is successful
Multi-streamed, one storage group per stream
Restore from Disk is successful
NBU 6.5.4
Staging to tape fails with premature end of file encountered
Any ideas?
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I am looking for any input to challenges (technically, operationally, or
politically) people have had with running multiple NetBackup Domains in their
environment within the same data center or local geographic area. Not really
looking for details and specifics, just high-level ideas. Thanks
Nope, you have to have a Windows 2003 server to act as the VCB Proxy Server
(VMware requirement). Ideally that server will also be a media server, but it
doesn't have to be
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Yes, the DB license key should be installed on the master (not a second key) to
enable the policy.
From: Mark Glazerman [mailto:mark.glazer...@spartech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:33 AM
To: Renee Carlisle; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: RE: EVault Licensing
Renee
Veritas Backup reporter has built in heat charts for tape drive utilization and
throughput
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
michael.ket...@orange-ftgroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 12,
Yes, we have installed it at a number of our clients. I find it to be easy to
install and configure and have seen little to no performance impact on
performance. I am a big fan of the product.
Renee
ServerWare Corporation
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From:
Keep in mind if you do BMR backups..it adds to the catalog space as well
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Todd Jackxon
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:46 PM
To: Stafford, Geoff
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
David,
I saw this in a posting a few months back...since we resell the STK line I hung
onto it in case I ever needed itit may or may not resolve your issue...let
us know:
Symptoms
Users of NetBackUp version 6.x cannot configure a new SL3000 tape library.
When installing a new SL3000 tape
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To: Renee Carlisle; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3
Thanks Renee
Unfortunately we have applied the device mappings your technote
specifies.
Regards
David Clooney
Enterprise Storage Services
Internal X66059
External +44 20 8760 6059
david.cloo
One thing you might want to consider for the future..if you have your quarterly
backups in a separate schedule, set up multiple copies of that schedule (in
line tape copy). From that you can write your disk copy and tape copy for your
quarterlies at the same time and set the retention for a
I have checked a number of compatibility guides for both Symantec and VMware
and still can't get a straight yes or no answer on VMware Consolidated Backup
support for Virtual Machines using NFS. The environment is a NetApp array.
Will NetBackup support nfs for virtual machines with the VCB
Matt...ooops you are right...we did that too it must have just been missed when
we documented the process.
From: Clausen, Matt R[EQ] [mailto:matthew.r.clau...@embarq.com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:32 AM
To: Renee Carlisle
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu
Ed,
Curious to know what issues/what type of clusters you had trouble with? What
method were you using? We generally use http and have updated clients in a
application cluster without any issues.
Renee
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
and servernames lower case for unix/windows
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Coporation
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:10 PM
To: Michitsch, John
Cc: VERITAS-BU
for your live update server?
I also want to make sure you are not combining it with your Windows Live
Update server? What method are you trying to use for LiveUpdate? Let me know
and I will get you out some updated documentation.
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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What version of NBU?
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Travis Kelley
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:36 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Real time failure
Has anyone used the drive name rules in NBU 6.5 with the wizard? I set them in
the wizard, create the rule, and run the wizard and yet the rule for the drive
name does not get picked up when the drive is created.
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To: Renee Carlisle; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMware VCB policy
Hi Renee.
There are a couple of reasons why this might happen.
Most common issue is DNS. For example, the Virtual Center server might not be
resolving correctly from the VMware Backup Proxy. You can
When trying to search for Virtual Machines in a VCB policy, the search keeps
failing with cannot connect on socket error. I have double checked
credentials, tried both the ESX server and the Virtual infrastructure server,
tried both ports 902 and 443 (which should be the correct one for VCB
Tim,
I find it helpful since I get information here quicker than the blog. Is 6.5.3
still on track to come out this month?
Renee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tim burlowski
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:23 PM
To:
If it is just for restore purposes, why don't you just force all restores to go
through the master server? While you technically can run a 5.1 media server in
a 6.5 environment, you wouldn't want to for very long. Personally, in an SSO
environment..I wouldn't want to do it at all. If you
What version of NBU?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:59 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Decommission Issue
Hey guys
I have a server that was shutdown before we could decommission the
I thought this was fixed in 6.5.2a which was just released
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navarro,
Eddy
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:21 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and
Have you ever been able to run the vcb backups from NBU? The only thing I
can think of is how did you format the disks on the backup proxy
server...did you use quick format or full format? I know there is an issue
when you try and use the quick format option.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare
Or it is teaching us to not run the Master Server on Windows J LOL
JK
Reneé Carlisle
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris
Kraizman
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:51 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: Ed Wilts; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject:
You are right in your process. Run the device configuration on Node A when
it is active, including all your media servers (not the inactive node), fail
over to the Node B and repeat the process. When the server list comes up,
you may notice the actual node name shows in the list, but once you
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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We are getting an error on our VCB backups that says: Snapshot creation
failed: Custom pre-freeze script failed. but there isn't a custom script on
the system. The VM is a Windows 2003 server and all VMware tools are up to
date. The backup worked one day and failed the next day with this
With SSO check to see if it caused a hang on communicating with ltid or
vmd...that could trigger the failover as well.
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From: Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07/13/2007 12:32 PM
To: Jeff Lightner , VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
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