[Veritas-bu] Best way to convert Master to Media?

2008-04-17 Thread Tony T.
Hi all, I have an environment that was set up a while ago and possibly not in the best configuration: two separate locations about 5 miles apart, each with one Master server. Bandwidth between the sites is a T1, so I am not sure if it is feasible but we will be upgrading soon from 5.1 to 6.5 I

[Veritas-bu] NOM not sending Email alerts?

2008-04-10 Thread Tony T.
Hi all, I got my previous NOM issue taken care of (not seeing the Builtin domain) but now have another hurdle: NOM is installed in two seperate environments and are both having the same issue: emails are not being sent out when configured in an alert policy. The odd thing is, reports can be

[Veritas-bu] Problem with NOM: NOM_BuiltIn does not exist.

2008-04-07 Thread Tony T.
Hi all, Trying to install Network Operations Manager on a lab box here, I went through all the steps that were outlined in my class and I am up against a hitch: When I go to log in at http://host:8181/nom , the instructions say to change the domain to: [EMAIL PROTECTED](vx) Except, no such

[Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?

2008-03-31 Thread Tony T.
Has anyone seen this before? I am trying to install the 6.5 Admin Console to my laptop, and every time it gets to the end and I see this message: The Veritas Netbackup install was interrupted before it could be completed I searched the Symantec support site but all the references I see to this

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 config listing

2008-03-31 Thread Tony T.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Barber, Layne Mr CTR US DISA GS4M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that a lot of the 6.0 setting are now stored in the emm database. Does anyone have a listing of all available setting for NBU 6.0? Thank You, Not sure if this is what you mean, but give it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?

2008-03-31 Thread Tony T.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Michitsch, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 65 admin console doesn't work on Vista. I had the same issue. Per Symantec, it will not work on Vista and there are no plans for it in the next dot release. That's good to know, at least I can stop banging my

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot install Admin Console: Install interrupted?

2008-03-31 Thread Tony T.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bill Tsukahara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony, Unless I'm not understand what you mean by 65 admin console, I upgraded to 6.5 a week ago and I am running the Admin Console on Vista. Bill Hmmm, guess we have two different answers then? Earlier: The 65

Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU

2008-03-31 Thread Tony T.
- Brick level backups of Exchange...not nearly as good as Backup Exec *runs out of the room* On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will have some product-specific information in it. I'm

Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-12 Thread Tony T.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Quick Q - when you realised the problems, were you able to plan to REVERT the systems back ? Simon Revert back to 5.1? I realize now that there should have been a plan to do that; Symantec

Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-12 Thread Tony T.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *not sure I would agree - it seems that going from 5.1 to 6.5 or even 6.5.1 should be the easier upgrade path.* *maybe careful planning is the key? * Honestly, I don't know how much more we could have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-11 Thread Tony T.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM, rascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so we found an interesting issue now with our upgrades. Right now our master/media server is experiencing issues with hot catalog backups (to tape). Here are some interesting, fun facts: 1. our master server is an aix

[Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-04 Thread Tony T.
Hi all, I am interested in hearing about any of the upgrades that you have done, mainly going from 5.x to 6.5 There seem to be quite a few environments (in my area) that are looking to upgrade, and I am putting together some documentation that asks questions to better prepare for it. I am still

Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

2008-03-04 Thread Tony T.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Scott Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of a 5.1 to 6.5.1 upgrade in my stagging environment (Windows Master, 4 Linux Media Servers) as of yesterday and today. When finished, I'll be heading east to upgrade the operations there. Upon

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.5 training

2008-03-03 Thread Tony T.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Elena Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took Veritas NetBackup 6.5 for Solaris Administration in November. Facility is in New York City on Madison Avenue (midtown) I was very pleased with the training, esp. the instructor who was open to lots of technical

Re: [Veritas-bu] How do you use NBCC?

2008-03-03 Thread Tony T.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Sean Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It made for support to look at it and you really have to let them check it out. We went through the process and it took multiple passes and fixes of problems in our catalog before we are ok to do the upgrade and the

[Veritas-bu] How do you use NBCC?

2008-02-28 Thread Tony T.
I have an upgrade project coming up, going from 5.1 to 6.5 I have been doing some research and it was suggested that I run the utility NBCC (consistency checker). Downloaded and ran it on a test box, and I don't really get what it is supposed to tell me. Not only that, the last line in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation

2008-02-20 Thread Tony T.
It's NTFS and you're creating and deleting a lot of files on the volume so of course it will fragment. Either defragment the volume or set the minimum threshold lower so that more files get deleted when the cleanup process runs to reduce the fragmentation. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation

2008-02-20 Thread Tony T.
On Feb 20, 2008 11:10 AM, Martin, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found through testing when we first added some 16TB of storage for Disk-2-Disk that your fragmentation is going to be directly related to how many simultaneous streams you write to a DSU/DSSU at a time. In my testing,

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1: Disk staging causing heavy fragmentation

2008-02-19 Thread Tony T.
Has anyone heard of this issue? I have an environment where NBU 5.1 (plans to get to 6.5.1 are in the works) is backing up to disk then staging to tape. The admins tell me that the area where the backups are going gets very fragmented after each backup. It is a Windows box, using NTFS.