Re: [Veritas-bu] 100% disk to disk

2013-09-12 Thread Steve Quan
For the sites that have gone completely to disk, did you have to make adjustments to your retention period(s) ? I'm also curious on how you're handling your archival requirements ... Thanks, /Steve -- Message: 1 Date:

[Veritas-bu] reimport image

2012-10-19 Thread Steve Quan
Speaking of reimport, I've always found it a chore to find the media containing expired images. I remember it being very easy in NetWorker (Legato) as it was simply a matter of running a query of the backup which ID'ed the media, then performing the required import. How does one do query part

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 78, Issue 8

2012-10-17 Thread Steve Quan
Thanks guys (Jeff and Joseph) ... what you say regarding the restores make sense. I suppose I went off on a tangent as this discussion reminded me of a similar incident. We were surprised about the unexpected size of a client's incrementals, and later discovered that the full had expired

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 78, Issue 7

2012-10-16 Thread Steve Quan
I would have expected NBU to *keep* the info about the full backup until the subsequent differentials/incrementals have expired, however, I believe that NBU would determine that the cleaned out files from it's DB (expired) have not been backed up, and include them in a subsequent incremental,

Re: [Veritas-bu] nndmp drives down after netapp upgrade to 8.1.1RC1

2012-08-08 Thread Steve Quan
Can you turn on verbose logging on the affected filer and see what the logs say ? Also, from the filer, can you mount/rewind/etc a tape ? I'm curious about this NBU msg: Device serial number for device at path /dev/nrst1a does not match drive adic_drv03 /Steve snip we have a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7

2012-07-08 Thread Steve Quan
How are your tape storage units configured (just 1 for the 2 drives) ? Does the queuing (for the allocated tape drive) happen only for the 6th job/class ? /Steve -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:12:46 +0200 From: Hagman, Rob rob.hag...@centric.eu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Job is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

2012-07-01 Thread Steve Quan
This technote appears to match what you describe, http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH164532actp=searchviewlocale=en_USsearchid=1341160999890 Taking a look at the client bpcd log should also provide additional info if the above technote isn't amatch. /Steve

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 73, Issue 20

2012-05-28 Thread Steve Quan
Sounds like the firewall (ipfilter ?) or tcpd (inetd) is blocking port 13782 from your master/media server(s). From your master, can you sucessfully telnet using port 13782, to the Solaris10 client ? You mention telnet from the master below, but just verifying that you used the bpcd port#.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9

2012-05-14 Thread Steve Quan
Per the information, it appears to be media server related ...---NetBackup status code: 10Message: allocation failedExplanation: The system memory allocation fails because of insufficient system memory available. A possible cause is that the system is overloaded with too many processes and not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 7

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Quan
It will be interesting to see how many sites here are using LTO5 drives, and what their experience has been so far. With the greater throughput, are you using morepowerful media servers ? Is there a way of using LTFS with NBU ? /Steve

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 7

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Quan
Any indications from the lights on the tapedrive before it's reseated ? Can you get logs from the library ? /Steve From: veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 7 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:00:02 -0500 Send

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 19

2012-03-25 Thread Steve Quan
Per the following (high-lighted), it appears that NBU cannot determine the backup file specs ... Can we see what the filer logs show when this occurs ? +++ 1. Enable NDMP Debug Logging on the NetApp Filer by running the following commands on the Filer:ndmpd debug screenndmpd debug 702.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 11

2012-03-19 Thread Steve Quan
Before the catalog restore, did your master see itself as a FQDN (pbcobk01.intersil.com vs short name of PBCOBK01) ? Do you use the FQDN when the master/media servers are registered ? /Steve Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 11 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:21:07 -0400

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 11

2012-03-16 Thread Steve Quan
What seems to stick out, is the target OS is 64bit (vs the original 32bit OS) and the problem only shows up after a good catalog restore /Steve --- From: veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 11 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Live Update Questions

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Quan
It'll be interesting to see how other sites are using LiveUpdate for Unix and WinX clients. Also any positive/negatives would be appreciated. /Steve --- On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Karl Rossing wrote: Thanks Rob! I managed to get it going by simply following Renee's instructions.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBakcup Service Set to Automatic 6.5.3 SAN CLIENT

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Quan
We noticed that on the new unix clients as well. They've added an rc script (nbclient) for BMR and the san client. /Steve --- On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote: Guys I got clients that are SAN Attached client, but NetBackup is starting a Service that is always failing on

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Steve Quan
We've found that if the files are within nested directories, DAR is disabled, even if we choose ALL the files. /Steve --- On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Marianne Van Den Berg wrote: We got 'caught' by the same thing - found this in the NDMP Admin Guide: Note File-level DAR is supported;

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone here use disk-to-disk-to-tape?

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, I see this as well. I believe that's normal behaviour as the check for the high water mark is done before it starts writing the image. /Steve -- On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: Say you have 4 clients, each have 10TiB of data on them. For disk staging you only have 1TiB on each

Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Quan
I'm surprised about the locked in comment. Can you explain ? We were a Legato NetWorker shop that was persuaded to go the Veritas NetBackup route because of their pricing. Seems that they've gotten more expensive and our experience since NetBackup 6.0 didn't help either. Other backup vendors

Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Quan
notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Steve Quan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/2008 03:53 PM To Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu, BeDour, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup I'm surprised

Re: [Veritas-bu] Shared memory issue with Solaris 10

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Quan
Sure, NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS 64 SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144 /Steve --- On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, NBU wrote: Steve, Can you share what is the Number / Size of data buffers set in your environment. +-- |This was sent by

Re: [Veritas-bu] Shared memory issue with Solaris 10

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Quan
We have Solaris10 master media servers here without any changes to /etc/system but I'm also interested in what others are doing. /Steve --- On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dave Markham wrote: I'd be interested in this too, as i'd heard you didnt need to bother with /etc/system tuning in Solaris 10.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Quan
Is anyone using ZFS for this ? /Steve -- On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote: I second Ed's recommendation of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). Not just for NetBackup but for most filesystems (including those for terabyte databases). The options one has for controlling things such as

[Veritas-bu] Data deduplication vendors

2008-01-18 Thread Steve Quan
I remember seeing comments about the advantages/disadvantages of a few vendors' implementation of data deduplication but I can't find it :( I'd appreciate comments from sites that have evaluated this. Thanks, /Steve ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-09 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, Does anyone have an Aptare tutorial for newbies ? From the comments on this list, I get the impression that it's very easy to use, however, I seem to be having a tough time with it :( Thanks, /Steve --- On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, X_S wrote: we started not too long ago with Aptare. so far

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Quan
I second this request :) I see the occasional traffic, but it's mostly about how great the product is :) :) A similar format to this list would be nice. /Steve --- On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, X_S wrote: does anyone know of an aptare forum out there? i am a new user to aptare and it would be nice

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Quan
We have about 650. /Steve --- On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Nardello, John wrote: 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Quan
it at all. Thank you, Boris On 11/1/07, Steve Quan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is also a BIG issue with us (over a terabyte). We'd hoped that doing incrementals through transaction log backups would help (with the added bonus of point in time restores), but that unfortunately, didn't help

Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows

2007-11-01 Thread Steve Quan
This is also a BIG issue with us (over a terabyte). We'd hoped that doing incrementals through transaction log backups would help (with the added bonus of point in time restores), but that unfortunately, didn't help. /Steve --- On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bobby R Windle wrote: Any one have any

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Quan
/Steve On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Martin, Jonathan wrote: I stand corrected. Curtis has all the answers and he's sitting on them. =P Worrying about multiplexing settings and tape failures? Come on, that's about as soft a cost as you can dream up. -Jonathan -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade media server RHEL3/4-RHEL5 question.

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Quan
I ran a clean install and specified the name of the master server per the prompts, installed/configured the sg driver and tape drives, then applied MP4, and restarted everything (master and all media servers :) /Steve --- snip Any unforseen issues or it went smoothly for you?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade media server RHEL3/4-RHEL5 question.

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Quan
We did this (Solaris8 to Solaris10 media servers). /Steve --- On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Quick question, With NBU6.0MP4, since all is held on the master server, I can simply take a media server out of service, re-format it, install RHEL5 and either unpack/setup everything

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sol10

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Quan
We're running Solaris10 on our media servers (for about 3 weeks now). /Steve --- On Thu, 17 May 2007, Kenneth W Wilkinson wrote: Anybody running Solaris 10 and NB6.0? Any issues you see with it? kww ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sol10

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Quan
for months.everything worked fine till one fine day when our load gradually, and unexpectedly crossed some random boundary. Paul Also contemplating Linux on Sun X-series hardware -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Quan Sent: May

[Veritas-bu] LotusNotes backup strategy

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, We've been wrestling with this for quite some time, and very curious to see how other sites are managing their Lotus Notes backups. We're running NBU6.0 MP4 (servers and clients). The database is just over 1TB and we do transaction log backups. Thanks, /Steve

Re: [Veritas-bu] Many false 50 errors and 200 errors

2007-03-26 Thread Steve Quan
I've noticed the error 200's Fortunately, they stopped after a few days. /Steve --- On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever since we upgraded to Netbackup 6.0MP4 on March 12 , we have started seeing alot of what I call false 50 errors. ( we usually get these when we stop services on

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Quan
Is there a newsgroup/forum I can go to for tips/hints on how others are using Aptare with NetBackup ? Thanks, /Steve -- On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Hindle, Greg wrote: Ok Thanks. This is a Aptare thing. Good I am trying to convince my management here to buy this product. Greg snip

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues

2006-09-12 Thread Steve Quan
We had this one for the LONGEST while :( /Steve --- On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Jerry wrote: Not sure if any of you have been burned by this one, but it surprised me today. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281780.htm I found out that random fulls had been skipped for months on my new

Re: [Veritas-bu] odd occurance, network restore using NDMP drive

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Quan
Take a look at doc 231959 (for versions lower than 6.0), nbemmcmd is used for NBU6.0 /Steve --- On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Paul Keating wrote: Very cool. So just add that line to the vm.conf and bounce the daemons? Thanks, Paul -- -Original Message- From: Steve Quan [mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific polices?

2006-07-20 Thread Steve Quan
The latest nbpem binary we got (last night) seems to have corrrected our scheduling problem. We'll be monitoring for the next couple of days. /Steve --- On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Ed Wilts wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:00:00AM +1000, Wilkinson, Tim wrote: It may be an obvious question but I ask

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 Drive Speed Poll

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Quan
Hi Justin, Is the data coming directly from a SAN (vs network) or direct attach ? Thanks, /Steve --- On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote: This is on an HP shelf connected via 06:01.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)

RE: [Veritas-bu] BMR

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, Sure, I'd be interested. /Steve --- On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Ray Schafer wrote: I could set up a Webcast and go through an overview of BMR 6.0 - actually running through how to set it up and configure it, and then demonstrate some of the features including the configuration editor (used to

RE: [Veritas-bu] Storage Networking World

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Quan
Are there any local backup type groups in the Toronto, Canada area for poor folks like me who can't travel ? :) /Steve --- On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Paul Keating wrote: Sounds like we've got some of the same interests..though I'm less interested in the 5.x stream as we hope to be on 6.x by end

[Veritas-bu] Solaris10 client on NBU4.5 FP8

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, Does the 4.5 FP8 client work on Solaris 10 ? /Steve ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Quan
Can any of these tools monitor for restore tape mounts, *AND* display a list of any additional tapes (with it's Volume Group if it's not in the library) required ? /Steve --- On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, King, Cheryl wrote: That's what OpenView Operations (OVO) does. You run an agent on the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Request for feedback on NetBackup 6.0 MP1

2006-01-25 Thread Steve Quan
We're in the process of moving from our 4.5FP8 system to 6.0MP1 (everythin new). The major problem we're seeing, are ERROR 41's as we start loading up the media servers. These would occur in batches and appear on the more heavily loaded media server. Any 6.0 environments out there experiencing