Re: [Veritas-bu] REQUIRED_INTERFACE, anyone using private backup networks?

As per my understanding , its not the problem of the entry required_interface in bp.conf , it seems to be the issue with the interface issue at OS level , trying communicating the client interface with the media /master , if this works your issue will be resolved .. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at

[Veritas-bu] Assistance require (stats_report in ACSLS )

Hello , I have found in one of your tech note that you have suggested a report stats_report in ACSLS . Can you help me to configure the same in my environment , currently i am using ACS 7.1.0 . Also not sure if it is getting generated , so require exact path where these reports are getting

[Veritas-bu] STK 9940 Drives Disapearing from Windows Server causing PEND-ACS

Greetings, We have been seeing SSO Tape Drive Disappearing in Windows Media Server running 5.1MP4 consistently. During backup Tape Drive loose connection to Media Server and drive Disappear from Device Manger. When I Scan tape drive through tpautoconfig -t ... I don't see drives.. Backup fail

[Veritas-bu] What's Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

Anyone has good idea what's maximum Number of Media Server we can share tape Drive using SSO. I have seen SSO Drives Shared among 20 Media Servers, 35 and 45 Servers. I'm just curious to know. Khajan. ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy settings are reverting

Did you use...seprate consoles...! I mean did you change settings using the windows console and now trying to view them using a java console. Get back to using the console that you used to make the changes. I had problems in this case. Try verifying the settings using commands. Regards, PP BIJU

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL and Tape or SnapVault.

Hi Pat, What strategy are you planning for VTL to tape, thats where we had problems. Vault takes long so you would need to have more physical drives or less data to be vaulted. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 7/27/07, Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large NetApp environment and I am

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie to Netbackup using VTL

I have tried answering a few of your questions. On 5/13/07, dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for everyone input. But i'm still abit confuse. Maybe who can help ans the following to let me have a better understanding. Let's say i have 100 LAN clients altogether in 4 locations backing up

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup

Hi Anas, Can u provide the restore logs..! Just click on Monitor Status (NB SQL agent), check verbose and click refresh. Just cut paste the necessary contents available in the large window...! These are just the basic error messages but reveal quite a lot. For indepth troubleshooting require

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Error 6 - RMAN logs no error

Hi List, Of late we have been seen a number of backups end with error 6 for parent stream, while the child streams end successfully. The DBA has been able to restore the data too. But we cannot ignore the error as it would be a confusion in event of a disaster. I have analyzed the DBClient

Re: [Veritas-bu] SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS number for HP LTO3 drives [C1]

Hi Team, What if I have both the ESL (LTO-3) and the VTL (Ultrium-2) drives on the same server. What to I set, is there any guideline for an environ with mixed set of drives. Regards, BIJU On 3/26/07, Chris Freemantle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Misha, Try 256 kB if you search on LTO-3

[Veritas-bu] 219 when number of jobs are high??

Hi, Just wanted to know if anybody has faced the issue of jobs failing with 219 when the total count of jobs on the system is high. Re firing the jobs after a few minutes succeeds, but not immediately. We are using Netbackup 5.1 MP4 on Solaris 9 Sparc 64 bit. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN

Re: [Veritas-bu] The communication between master and media servers

Hi Justin, Do you mean I shd make a storage grp per se Media server ?? I have media servers 1. mediaA - Ult3-1 2. mediaB - VTLA-1; VTLB-2 So I create 2 storage groups and group the STU. Regards, BIJU On 3/14/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Asiye Yi?it

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [C1]

Hi Misha, We have HP ESL Library and we face the same problem atleast once in a month. NBU 5.1 MP4 HP ESL 712 E The drives go dizzy and fail to respond, the management software the LCD panel all show thumbs up. The robtest works and i'm able to move media in and out. mt just hangs and

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [NC]

Hi Paul/Misha, Hey I forgot to mention that I get the same error message in /var/adm/messages Mar 5 22:07:40 vepanyup03 bptm[19156]: [ID 832037 daemon.error] scsi command failed, may be timeout, scsi_pkt.us_reason = 6 Just try mt -f /dev/rmt/drivecbn stat In all probability it will just

[Veritas-bu] Catalog backup gives error - media in use

Hi, While I'm trying to backup catalog via java console OR bpadm, I choose a tape or DSU for catalog backup, it does'nt work and ends with error media in use. I tried to expire the tape since it had only catalog backup, but does'nt work bpexpdate exits with error. Any clues would be helpful.

[Veritas-bu] Adding a media server - tpautoconf hangs

I was trying to add a media server to the existing setup. We have SSO license installed on the media server.! 6 drives SSO shared and zoned (FC via brocade 3850) with the media server. I can see the rmt entries in iostat -En (Both master and media are solaris 9 with Netbackup 5.1 MP4), my

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify exit status

I had thread going for RMAN backup failures..! Can the bpend_notify.$policy script check the RMAN logs and end in error. I want RMAN errors to reflect on the netbackup GUI. Regards, BIJU On 12/9/06, Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Status 74 is when the bpstart does not finish with a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: how to restore the data from one master server to another master server in netbackup 6.0

Just try this trick and trust me it works! Say my local master server is masterindia (10.16.17.22) and My offshore master server is masteruk (10.16.18.99) I know bring the tapes from masteruk to masterindia for restore, copy the image files via ftp, thus eliminating the need for phase1 and

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams

Of *Veritas Netbackup *Sent:* Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:16 PM *To:* Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams Hi All, I find it strange, say a RMAN backup has 3 streams, 2 of them complete and one of them does not appear et all. The backup would

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams

, that we coded in, was that if RMAN fails, the script will exit with an artificial exit code, which in turn, gets passed to the activity monitor. Now, anyone that looks at the activity monitor, can trust the exit status of any given Oracle backup. --Steve Veritas Netbackup wrote: Hi All, I find

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

We have ESL 712E and MPX=8 while the policy has a MPX=15, since I'm quite new to netbackup, my assumption is that the lower denom would override. We have got upto 40 Mbps with 2 drives for a LAN backup and thats quite a good show :) Just check whether u vault, if yes then take into

Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

Hi Chris, Just test this command on ur master *bpclclients* -allunique -noheader | grep $client_name anyfilename The next command, that I am not sure is updatedb ORACLE -ClientList anyfilename It will prompt for confirmation and you are done. Follow the steps Carl has given u to verify ur

Re: [Veritas-bu] Howto restore list of files

using the GUI quite simple..! Use the Backup Archive and Restore {left pane} - Select . master .source - be careful to select appropriate backup type here . destination - be careful ; the default is ur master server Somewhere on top of the bottom right pane is the image selection list. Select

Re: [Veritas-bu] installing client on linux

Do a bpcoverage -c client-name from the master/media server before setting out for backups. Regards, BIJU KRISHNANOn 11/15/06, Krzys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are tight, I had to add to hosts file on my client machine IP address of myserver, and thats what I did so I did pass that error but

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting

Hi, Well if you have a huge volume of data, then its imperative that you have a dedicated resource for backup operations and administration. Vault will definitely help you manage the offisite backups as it rolls out a eject list of tape ids, after duplication, which you can deliver offsite. We

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange speed problem...not the norm

Does the traceroute from master - client and client - master show the same path. If yes then its really complex, if no then check whethther any segment in between has been a victim of broadcast or huge data transfer. There is Symantec tool provided by support, run and send the output to support,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/20 03

] -Original Message-From: Veritas Netbackup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 October 2006 13:01To: NB List MailSubject: [Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/2003Dear All,Does any one have a checklist or doc on the pre-requisites required ona

[Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/2003

Dear All, Does any one have a checklist or doc on the pre-requisites required on a. Windows, ex: users, privleges e.t.c b. SQL 2000/2005 user and privleges, Info : Netbackup server on Solaris 5.1 MP4 Currently we face a uphill task almost everyday resolving SQL and Nt related errors. Sometime

[Veritas-bu] \\\\\ Raw FS backup : Sybase IQ /////

We have a new datawarehouse RDBMS, Sybase IQ 12.6 Since its not supported by Symantec, we have decided to backup {cold} the devices {raw}. The database is arnd 2.4 TB but the devices are arnd 5 TB, how much will netbackup have to backup. 2.4 TB or 5 TB. Regards, BIJU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

Hi Darren/list, Revoking this thread since its absolutely essential to me. I read the mails, went to office and did a grep Kbytes/sec log.100906 in the bptm folder. I found that no single value was above 22 Mbytes/sec, shd that mean that my vaults are not above 22 Mbytes/sec. Is there anything

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK1048576C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS64 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK64C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\NET_BUFFER_SZ 1048576What read speeds are you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement in NBU5.1

Hi Raghu, Please visit http://search.cpan.org/search?query=netbackupmode=all Are u a pro @ perl and newbie to netbackup or vice versa.! The foll is a set of perl modules for netbackup - all in one - http://search.cpan.org/~dutchman/NBU-0.90f/ Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 10/11/06,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Hostnames

Hi Jon/Eric, Well we use $hostname_NBI {NetaBackup Interface} for the client with a dedicated backup interface. And yes we use the hosts file at both ends. Jon, why shd we use the DNS service for resolution, what are its advantages over FLAT file resolution. Say my DNS server is down, would'nt

[Veritas-bu] Small files FS backup too slow

We have a Windows 2003 client, I have installed NB with MP4 patch. The D:\ drive has directories with small log files in thousands, now that we have increased the client timeout to 1800, the backups seem to start, but the estimation and backup of the files seem to take forever. Just while I was

Re: [Veritas-bu] How do we duplicate skipped images in vaulting

them. Any suggestions are welcome since I have run out of ideas. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNANOn 9/23/06, David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Veritas Netbackup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-23 01:41]: Hi All, We have partially completed Vaults (error 1), its possible that the VTL media is in use when

Re: [Veritas-bu] How important is Processing Power?

Hi Jon, Processing power is important, a month ago I had posted to the list and I got some real good inputs from our gurus. We use Sun Fire 6900 server with dual core processors, by merely upgrading to high clock speed processors, we have observed improved performance in read writes and also

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

Sorry to top post but I still am working on the same problem. My FS backups have'nt started yet. The server has SQL 2000 32 bit, support asked me to put 32 bit client and 32 bit MP4 patch. the system has AMD x64. And yes the SQL backups are still going fine. Support needs some log files which I

Re: [Veritas-bu] total full backup

Is there a command or script to retreive clientwise backup size for the last 24 hrs. We have multiple data streams per client. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNANOn 9/13/06, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your Master Server is some kind of UNIX bpiamgelist -hourago 24 | grep IMAGE | awk

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Veritas Netbackup Basically I would like to use less media ids and hence increase tape utilization. the VTLs can grow from 5GB and above. Can you set the tape size to start at a value higher than 5GB? I still really

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

] wrote: -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Veritas Netbackup Basically I would like to use less media ids and hence increase tape utilization. the VTLs can grow from

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

KRISHNANOn 9/7/06, Veritas Netbackup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Paul, My privlege, the following section shd suffice, though I can mail u the entire doc offline {Pls let me know}. Its the CDL Admin guide available from EMC powerlink that describes, and I had got some inputs from the EMC support

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

Hi List, We have a Clariion Disk Library with MPx set to 4. At the momment the admins fire backups and after 4 streams of backup are started, a new media is used to write the backup. Since the CDL tapes can grow from a minimum of 4 GB to whatever size is available in the volume, it seems to me

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

(DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Veritas Netbackup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2006 12:46To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuningHi List,We have a Clariion

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

Hi Lewick, What would true image restore do and what are the consequences. I would really like to know such options which can speed up backup - The other day we enabled Stripe for a SQL backup and we have got double the throughput. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 8/30/06, Lewick, Taylor [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

Hi All, We have a strange problem, client = Windows 2003 x64 Netbackup = 5.1 MP1 We get error 13 while backing up the FS on the server, the backup does not even begin, it just waits for first write and then times out. The beauty is that the SQL backups are working notrmally. Any suggestions

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning

@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning We have around 3,000 policies and it takes about 40 minutes for BPSCHED to get through them. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Clooney, DavidSent: Tue 8/29/2006 5:56 AMTo: Shekhar Dhotre; Veritas Netbackup

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning

Hi, Our netbackup master-media server a SF6900 with 4 dual core CPU's and 16 Gb of memory is 100% utilized all the times. The only time it gets some respite is during the afternoon, when users do not want to load their system with backup processes. Even with 20 Active backups our server

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Hi Greg, Even after reading the whole thread makes me fully confused now...! I'm a little-new to netbackup. We use CDL - to HP ESL and use the Ent Netbackup 5.1, the vaulting feature has been already setup. So what could be different in our environs Do let me know so I can understand finer

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

, differential is the changes since the last backup BC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veritas Netbackup Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:00 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

We backup a CIFS network drive, which stores scanned images on a windows machine, to which it is mapped. Since Images are'nt modified they are just read. The application team claims that the drive gets updated with 4 GB of data everyday. We have used a cumulative Incremental backup type and it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Linux

And one step aheadin case you do not get coverage...restart the netbackup service 1. Login as root 2. service xinetd restart The xinetd daemon will restart the netbackup daemons and might solve the problem. Installation is pretty as justin has explained, the only problem u could however

[Veritas-bu] EMM Peroformance Tuning

Guys, Have you guys have any Tuning Parameter for EMM Database? I've Doc from Veritas I would like to know real environment Paramaters and experience Regards, Khajan. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Upgrade; Drives in AVR instead ACS

Guys, We've Windows Media servers with STK LibAttach 1.1 and 1.3. When we upgraded NetBackup Enterprise 6.0 MP2 to MP2 all drives coming up with AVR mode. We downgraded back to MP2 , All drives came up with ACS... Anyone fixed this issue... We found out that STK Libattach 1.4 MP3 resolve this

[Veritas-bu] How do we expire media with duped images??

Hi All, We use a VTL for backups and vault the data onto tapes. We have 4 vault policies. We would like a set of comands or scripts which can help us 1. get a list of images which have been duped, and expire them. 2. find media ids on VTL corresponding to the duped images. Sort and extract