For what it's worth we see the same thing with a Scaler i2000 (nbu 7.1.2 on
windows)
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:38 AM
These may help
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=HOWTO44542#v53308011
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=HOWTO44491
David Spearman
County of Henrico
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
We occasionally get an sso drive locked on our win2003 system, but it's always
the netapp that won't let the drive go.
David Spearman
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday-02-March- 2011 11:43
Hi Simon,
Works fine, lasts a long time. You may notice some degradation in throughput on
individual VM’s as opposed to physical servers but nothing a little careful
scheduling can’t get you around. I really like the idea that my offsite backups
are vmdk’s which can be restored and hooked up
Judy, try this
CD to Windows\System32
Net stop vss
Net stop swprv
regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 vss_ps.dll
Vssvc /Register
regsvr32 /i swprv.dll
regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll
regsvr32 es.dll
regsvr32 stdprov.dll
regsvr32 vssui.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 msxml4.dll
I have run in to a strange one with version 7.0.1. Running on a W2K3R2 master,
backing up vfilers on a netapp 3170 via ndmp. The backups work, but for some
reason the byte count is now double. I know for a fact it has not doubled to
tape or I would have an extra 10 LTO-4 tapes being used. When
Now that you mention, yes, I am having the same problem.
David Spearman
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of deasnutz
Sent: 18 October, 2010 12:19 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
It's as good as any way to install and I have never had one ask for a reboot
yet. If you choose to uninstall/install it won't need a reboot either.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Justin,
On the attributes page of the policy if you have Enable granular restore
checked, and if the DB backup completed without errors you should be able to
open the DB backup and browse through it. However if that is not the case then
you have some interesting times ahead. Yes, you can do
Rather a lot simpler than NBU, but it is a simpler product.
%/whereveryouinstalledBE/Catalogs is the data you want. That being said we
always backup our entire BE server so we have everything anyway. Keep in mind
with BE 9 and up you are running an instance of MSDE or SQlexpress. BE
I have been going over the release docs on 655 and can't quite determine if
this version supports granular restore of a linux vmdk, ie, a vmdk that is a
redhat server. I this can be done with a windows vmdk without using a client
license, but rather doing a 2 stage restore. The question is, can
Justin,
I have it running in my lab right now. It seems to be running quite well (in a
limited lab sort of way). I can't put my finger on anything in particular but
it feels better than 6.5.4. We are still running 6.5.3 in production because I
never could get comfortable with 6.5.4, especially
. Directing the job to tape gives me more
expected results.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
From: Nathan Kippen [mailto:nate.kip...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:34 AM
To: Spearman, David
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP to basic disk
We
For what it's worth Symantec just sent out an alert with these 2 links.
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/338410
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/338003
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
It was my understanding (and it was also noted in a Veritas white paper) that
one could do an NDMP backup to basic disk starting with 6.5.2. We are running
6.5.3 and will probably jump to 6.5.5 soon. Unfortunately when I try nothing
happens. No error messages, no failures. Everything looks
While my master and media servers are doing fine after a system rebuild and hot
catalog restore I have run into another problem. I can not seem to recover any
data that was written out to DSU. The disks are fibre attached to the master
server. When I try to restore an exchange public folder I
: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:43 AM
To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One last problem with master server failure
Hello David
I am clutching at straws here, but take a look at these docs
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/294767.htm
http
Piszcz; Spearman, David
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One last problem with master server failure
Justin
Apologies - I see you sent the same Technote
Did not realise this.
Simon
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com
Will do on the check, as for best practice? As usual around here we do anything
but, but it is something to be corrected.
-Original Message-
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:19 AM
To: Spearman, David; Justin Piszcz
-Original Message-
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Spearman, David; Justin Piszcz
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One last problem with master server failure
Dave
This is going to sound
Last week I posted a help me when our master server crashed. W2K3R2
enterprise with NBU 6.5.3. The folks out there helped us get rolling on the Hot
Catalog restore which worked fine. However we came across another problem. The
two obvious symptoms were error 42's on backups, and when mapping a
One of the more interesting things is when I went to load up 6.5.4 linux client
update it immediately told me I had to have the nb_jav_654 update available
also. Annoying. Once it’s there all you have to do is the client update and it
automagically sucks in the java update.
David Spearman
I am trying to get ndmp running to our NetApp. (everything is working on ndmp
to Celera) I have fc zoned the Scaler library to the NetApp and the Scaler
seems to be happy enough with zones and lun mapping. However the NetApp is not
playing nice. I have been through the Ontap 7.3 tape backup
with separate
WWPN's for the ports on the blade, the NetApp will only look at the WWNN. So if
you have 2 drives down 1 port and another 2 drives down another port, the
NetApp will think those are the same 2 drives - with failover paths...
Bryan
Spearman, David sp...@co.henrico.va.us
Sent
NB_CLT_6.5.X_somenumber.tar, available on the ftp site
ftp.support.veritas.comftp://ftp.support.veritas.com
David Spearman
County of Henrico
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Doug
Sent: Friday, March 27,
Dave,
Assuming you have access to the licensing portal you can download all
the master software from there. It is still a painful thing to wind
your way through but it is available. After that the patches can be
downloaded from the ftp site.
https://licensing.symantec.com/acctmgmt/index.jsp
Chris,
Are all the schedules in that policy set to calendar? Schedules within a
policy either need to be all calendar based (or not)
David Spearman
County of henrico
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
BlueChris69
Sent: Tuesday, November 25,
Jeff,
For what it's worth
We have a similar setup except we use a scaler i2000. Ours is a single
large partition. All of our partitioning is done with tape pools. I
frankly don't care which drive gets which job or uses which tape, just
so long as the stuff ends up on tape.
David
None of our group has had any problems and we are all running sp3.
David Spearman
County of Hnerico
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:44 AM
To:
We have a cisco network with a 1gb backbone. At this point we are
hammering the network when we run backups. We have tried link
aggregation on the backbone and the nics on the master/media servers
with very poor results. A lot of failed jobs. We have tried this with
5.1, 6.0 and now 6.5 with
Use setup, not the msi installer
David Spearman
County of Hnerico
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dy018
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:09 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation
Easy question...deep in your heart which do you feel the most
comfortable with? The rest is nit picking.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aa0406
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 3:15 PM
To:
My reality is simple, 120 windows boxes, 45 RH linux. Because you can
push client software to clients with the same OS as the master server I
find having a windows box a lot less work. If you had more linux clients
then
I also find configuring the windows clients much easier since everything
Prior to 6.5 I had the bpclclient command available to get a quick list
of my clients. Apparently Veritas in their infinite wisdom has taken
this useful little command away. Does anyone know what command might
have take its place and the syntax? Thanks.
David Spearman
County of Henrico,Va.
That's got it, thanks all
dds
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:48 AM
To: Spearman, David
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpclclient command
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Jason,
Given your present setup have you just considered shutting down the
services on the media server you are going to replace, using your backup
system to make a backup, then restoring to the new hardware? As
heretical as it may sound to the NIX community windows has a really good
plug and
Tim,
I thought I might add what I suspect is another side effect of 6.5.2a.
We have been running 652 with no problems except for the hot catalog
backup critical policy. Hot catalog works fine until you put in critical
policies. However when we went to 6.5.2a our two media servers would
drop
I will throw this one out for everyone. In test after test what we found
was 65536 size and 128 num buffers worked best. We are a mixed Win /
RedHat shop (with other stuff thrown in) . Win2k3 master and 2 media
servers to an i2000 with 10 lto4 drives. We make sure the size is set on
all the
It's on the installation CD. Pick server install / console only. You
will need to add your pc name to the server list on the master.
David Spearman
County of Henrico
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis
Peacock
Sent: Thursday, July 17,
I'm going to take a guess that you are talking about a Hot Catalog
backup. If so go into the properties of the policy and select the
Disaster Recovery tab. Make sure you have a valid path and most
importantly a valid user ID that has permissions to write to that path.
(Sorted this one out
Mark,
Don't leave us hanging, what were the changes to nbrb.conf?
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graff
Andersen
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:26 AM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); Paul
Folks,
For what it's worth McAfee is versatile enough to get around most of
this. What we do is exclude the nbu folders on the master/media servers.
On all the clients there is an advanced setting to not scan files being
backed up. So nothing is scanned by the backup. I don't care about that
We have recently moved from 6.0 mp4 to 6.5.1 (windows). The first major
problem we have run in to is multistreaming. Even though our policy is
set up identically as on 6.0 when the job kicks off it sets all the
streams in the queue but the streams only run one at a time. The other
streams are
.
-Original Message-
From: Stefaan Margot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:17 AM
To: Spearman, David
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 multistreaming problem
David,
have you
We just installed our new nbu 6.5.1, w2k3, scaler i2000 with lto4 fc
drives. Everything installed correctly, the systems recognized the
drives and the nbu discovery process also discovered everything. However
no drives actually show up since the device manager service keeps
downing itself. We are
I haven't seen it on NBU yet, but it is normal on a backupexec 11d
system backing up some legacy SCO systems we have.
David Spearman
County of Henrico
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent:
It is usually recommended by the manufacturers NOT to defrag DSU's. (At
least that was what we heard from EMC)
David Spearman
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:37 AM
To:
Beats me, we leave ours strictly alone. However, that's an emc
recommendation.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:53 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Defrag DSU?
James,
NBU has been able to do mailbox level backups for some time now
(includes version 6 and before). If you already have a valid exchange
client license all you have to do is set the policy up. Careful reading
of manual is suggested.
However it would appear that the code writers for
Sure it can, if you have done a mailbox backup. Once licenesed you pick
exchange as your policy type. You then have the ability to back up the
entire DB (good for DR etc) or a mailbox ot public folder backup. The
mailbox and public folder backups are granular down to the individual
messages.
Len,
Whether this is applicable or not I don't know, however we have found
with w2k3 that in order to make a restore work that includes sys state
the target must be at the same build level as the data you have on your
backup. So if your data was of a w2k3 SP1 system then you need to build
the
For what it's worth I have gone both ways successfully with
non-programic file types using NBU 4.x and 5.x. Haven't tried it with
6.x yet.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Friday,
X64 absolutely requires a 64 bit client. It is not to be confused with
the Itanium client. You have to go to the Symantec licensing portal to
get at the x64 client software. Works just fine.
David Spearman
County of Henrico
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Rudy,
We run w2k3 master and media servers. Haven't had any problems other
than the usual gripes posted on the forum. It does severely limit
scripting albeit I suspect some hotshot VB type could. We have a fairly
simple system and are quite happy with the windows solution.
David Spearman
Daniel,
Our DBA's won't touch the Veritas solution for MS-SQL or Oracle. They
are firm believers in exporting the database(s) to flat files and
backing those up. Don't ask, I don't know why. Suffice to say they are
the DBA's and we just do as we are told.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
You may also want/need to make an entry in /etc/hosts that includes your
master server. We found that helped and do it automatically now.
David Spearman
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Friday,
Rongsheng,
We use nbu6mp4/sso/ndmp to back up celerra cifs servers. It is easier than with
5.1 but works fine with one word of caution down below.
You need to zone the fibre so the celerra sees the drives. Setting up the
library is specific to that box. Once all the fibre stuff is done you
Douglas,
For what it's worth. We do NDMP with virtual cif servers on an emc
celerra (clariion disk space of course). Does the throughput increase?
Yes and no. Sure, it shoots the data down the line faster however NDMP
is a single threaded job. One NDMP job, one tape unit. In truth I can
multiplex
Thanks everyone for your replies,
David Spearman
County of Henrico
-Original Message-
From: David Chapa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:03 PM
To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE
We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon.
At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion
cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3
tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives
while the
Jason,
For what it's worth. We have two circumstances where RH3 and BMR
(nbu6mp4)have problems. One is servers inside a DMZ, the other is with
servers that have two nics running. The odd thing about the dual nic
servers is that if you run the discovery option a BMR restore will work
even though
We have almost the same setup albeit with one master/media and one media
server, including the %$#*)^% Celerra. SSO requires only the license to
implement. Plus a use of the wizard after all your media servers can see
the drives, I am assuming FC here. The fun part comes with the afore
mentioned
We had a meeting with our new sales rep and local support engineer
(sales). To say that we unloaded on them would be putting it mildly.
They are aware that their support structure and web site is in the
toilet. They also know that nbu 6.0 was released without a proper
shakedown. We specifically
it will get through, but probably
not.
David Spearman
County of Henrico
-Original Message-
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:12 AM
To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec ?!Support?!
David
Where
Try using this switch option
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Windows Server
2003,Enterprise /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /3GB
If you want more info on the switch settings go to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original
Jason,
Please do open a case. We also have a case open but with no resolution. Maybe
if we get enough cases open Veritas will take notice.
David Spearman
County of Henrico
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brooks, Jason
Sent: Thu 10/19/2006 9:22 AM
To:
Juan,
Welcome to the world of mailbox backups. They will always be slow since
the job actually has to open the mailbox to record what is in them.
Hence the need for the exchange admin ID running the nbu service.
However 23mb/s is a bit on the low side. We had the same problem for a
while but
Title: Message
I
won't recommend any of them, but we use McAfee with no problems. We do exclude
on access scanning in the veritas folder of course.
Davud
Spearman
County
of Henrico, Va.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Title: Message
The
Problem
Dell PE servers running RH3 with emulex
9000 fibre channel cards connected to Clariion disk space. When running a BMR to
a stand alone system everything works as advertised. However if the system has
an Emulex 9000 card in it the BMR job would always fail since
Title: Message
We
have had success using BMR to a RH3 server. Works fine, lasts a long
timeright up to the point you put an emulex light pulse fc card in the
server. Then everything goes down hill. The BMR job complains about the PCI
order being out of whack and that one
In a nutshell
1. Load OS and client on the target, partition if necessary
2. Reboot, F8 on the reboot
3. Pick Directory Services Restore Mode
4. Restore ( I prefer using the master)
5. Reboot, you have your DC, it will automagically resync with any other
DC's if in place.
Note: If this is a true
as Exchange/AD goes that is to be expected since the AD you see
on a w2k or w2k3 DC is a direct descendent of Exchange 5.5
dds
-Original Message-
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:09 AM
To: Spearman, David; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
veritas-bu
We are trying to get BMR running for testing purposes. Our goal is to
use this on our RH3 linux systems. At the moment we are not having a lot
of success.
Our system
W2k3 master/media
W2k3 media
Scaler 2000 library
RH3 BMR server
We have followed the manual religiously and I do have a support
Every media server you want to share the drives with has to have the SSO
license.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan (Contractor)
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:29 AM
To: veritas-bu
Title: Message
Tim,
Windows is the easiest restore in the entire venue. From scratch, load
the OS (patched to whatever level your version of NBU requires) and leave it in
the workgroup mode with a workgroup having the same name as the domain it was
in.Load the nbu agent, partition the
Mike,
First things first, verify the devices in question are available in the
OS. It sounds like that is where you lost the hardware. You should be
able to delete the devices in your hardware manager then rediscover. If
the OS still can't see the devices then you need to find out what that
Title: Message
We are having an odd
problem between our EMC Celerra and the NBU6mp2 system. If we interrogate the
Celerra for available drive paths it causes the Celerra to panic and move to
it's backup datamaover. This occurs usually on a second or third interrogation.
It can be done with
Title: Message
The
values can also be found in the registry
HKLM/SOFTWARE/VERITAS/NetBackup/CurrentVersion
It is
a string value in that key called Exclude
David
Spearman
County
of Henrico, Va.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Title: Message
We use
it on both our master/media and media servers, no problems at
all.
David
Spearman
County
of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chaves,
Jan Amcil L.Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:01
Title: Message
Paul,
we do use SSO, with one master and one media server, but we also throw ndmp in
the mix. We do indeed limit the total count of our master and media servers to
the drives actually available, 4 drives on the master and 6 on the media server.
However, since the two servers
Title: Message
Cheryl,
I
can't speak for everyone but we upgraded from 5.1mp4 directly to 6.0mp2 and have
had no real problems related to the application. We have a W2K3 master.media and
another W2K3 media server attached to a scaler 2000. I have tested it fairly
well including restores to
Title: Message
Depends
If the
system in question is in a policy with other systems that use all local
drives/system state directives thenyou just want to exclude the entire driveon the
client exclude list (like E:/ F:/
) no * required. If you happened to have a file(s) on any of the
Sent: 19 April 2006 10:53To: 'Spearman, David';
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
Evaluation of Netbackup 6.0
Thanks, I got the software via another method and
using a key as a test now.
Has anyone upgraded a 5.1 MP2 Master and 2 SAN Med
Title: Message
Paul, you are quite right, it has always been a bit pecuilar, but
discovering devices with ndmp hosts (SSO option) has really brought this problem
to the fore.
dds
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Title: Message
In
windows system it is an upgrade. The installation guide isn't quite correct. We
just did our system, win2k master/media and win2k3 media, SSO to a scaler 2000
with 10 drives. NBUPUSHDATA sort of works. We had to upgrade both boxes to 6,
then disable the media server before
Title: Message
It is
not dependent on MP1, I just finished upgrading to 6.0 about 15 minutes ago,
loaded mp2 sans mp1
Of
more interest was the minor nosebleed I went through to import the EMM. As
stated in Justin King's post it did not work as advertised. However we have a
simple system,
Simon,
I can only tell you what we do
W2k master media plus a w2k3 media server (5.1mp4), everything attached
to an ADIC scaler 2000 with 10 drives, SSO shared with master media and
media servers.
The master server is set to use 3 Max Concurrent drives (which means our
master server will never
Title: Message
We
have a new EMC Celerra being installed and will be backing it up via NDMP, or so
I have been told.
What
we have
w2k
master/media 5.1MP4
w2k3
media 5.1MP4
ADIC
scaler 2000 with 10 LTO-2 drives (san attached to the
servers)
The
ADIC has been presented to the Celerra
In a mixed environment use the sys_state directive. NBU will detect w2k3 and
change the directive to shadow copy on the fly.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brooks,
Jason
Sent: Wednesday, February 22,
Title: Message
Justin,
We did
our 4.5 to 5.1 upgrade quite a while back. No issues, no problems. Just as the
note says, master, media client. Unix and w2k clients you can do at your
leisure, w2k3 needs to go to mp4 most rikkitik ora DRfullrestore will blow the
sysstate and you will have
Title: Message
In
restoring a DC the steps are very straight foward but slightly different from a
DR restore of a member server
1.
Load the correct version of windows (standard, enterprise, whatever) and make it
a member of a workgroup with the same name as the domain
2.
Create the disk
As I recall it only needed a reboot id VSP was used, but it has been
awhile.
David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.
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Greg,
If
your using a gui just go to Host Properties / Clients then open the client in
question. In 5.1 the excludes will be under Windows Client. Otherwise you are
looking at hacking the registry.
David
Spearman
County
of Henrico, Va.
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Mark,
I
believe you will find the key is togive the server at the DR site the same
name as the CLUSTER name of your production system. We recently did something
like this except in the opposite direction (going from a single machine to a
cluster). We just made sure the
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To my
knowledge it is one client per license. However like most client type licenses
you only need one to make it all work. I suppose Veritas (Symantec) is trusting
the customer to be ethical.
David
Spearman IT
County
of Henrico, Va.
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Obtaining NB client host properties from command line
Is
bpgetconfig what you are looking for? Maybe, "bpgetconfig -M
client-name |
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All
very true, which is way it's a good idea to run dumpcfg out to a text file on
all the nodes.(mine is on the root of all the nodes) The dumpcfg command
tells you what the drive signature of the external drive(s) prior to the
disaster. You can always pull the file from tape
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