[Veritas-bu] Master server upgrade

List, I'm planning a Netbackup server upgrade from Solaris 8 sparc to Solaris 10 on CMT (T5120) and I wondered if anyone might have a check list or plan that might have been used to do a similar upgrade? The master is the only server in the environment. At a high level I know I need to do the

[Veritas-bu] data backup architecture

List, Just curious about the system architecture used in your environments to support backup. In my data center, my LTO drives are attached directly to the production SAN fabric. What I'd like to do is create a separate fabric using two MDS switches which are available to me and move the tape

[Veritas-bu] best way suspend backups

Say you're planning a weekend maintenance and want to suspend backups but want availability of the backup server in case a restore is needed. Do you deactivate policies or is some trick to prevent policy driven backups from starting and at the same time, leave the backup server available for

Re: [Veritas-bu] best way suspend backups

in. -Shyam On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.com wrote: Say you're planning a weekend maintenance and want to suspend backups but want availability of the backup server in case a restore is needed. Do you deactivate policies or is some trick to prevent policy

[Veritas-bu] restore not starting

List, This is probably a simple question but here goes... I start a restore the the restore just waits for media with the following message in the job details tab... 06/04/2010 12:12:58 - awaiting resource MXX010. Waiting for resources. Reason: Media is in use, Media server: N/A,

Re: [Veritas-bu] restore not starting

...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Victor Engle Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:23 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] restore not starting List, This is probably a simple question but here goes... I start a restore

Re: [Veritas-bu] restore not starting

of this media.I think nbrbutil ? will give you the syntax -Original Message- From: Victor Engle [mailto:victor.en...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 1:29 PM To: Hudson, Steve Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] restore not starting Thanks

[Veritas-bu] VMware clients

Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

drive LTO3 if I need to. Most of my DSSUs are 8 streams and push 70MB/sec to tape. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Victor Engle [mailto:victor.en...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:39 PM To: Martin, Jonathan Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

at 4:05 PM, Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.comwrote: So my question is how best to configure the DSSUs with the goal of optimized de-staging. I will have 6TB to configure as desired on the backup server. If I understand

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ed Wilts *Sent:* Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:45 PM *To:* Victor Engle *Cc:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging) On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.comwrote: Just

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

snappy. -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:45 PM To: Victor Engle Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging

[Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

Hello List, Just wanted to get some opinions about whether disk staging units are worthwhile. My backup server has two BasicDisk staging units with the storage units configured such that the data goes to disk and is then moved to tape. I have a tape library with four LTO-3 drives connected via

[Veritas-bu] Master server upgrade

List, I have a Sun v440 running solaris 8 and NBU 6.5 and want to upgrade. Are there any gotchas upgrading the master to solaris 10. Could someone share any experiences doing something similar? Also, is it possible to restore the catalog from this sparc solaris 8 system to a new linux/NBU system?

[Veritas-bu] ltid not started

List, I think this is probably normal behavior but I couldn't find confirmation in the docs. I have a media server which had a VTL configured. When the VTL was configured, the ltid daemon was running on the media server. The VTL is being replaced by data domain which will be used in non-VTL mode

[Veritas-bu] bpmedialist runs for a longtime

Hello List, I have a problem that cropped up fairly suddenly. When I run bpmedialist -l -mlist on a single piece of media it runs for almost 90 seconds. It was running just a few seconds and abruptly started running longer. As far as I can determine nothing changed with regard to configuration.

[Veritas-bu] Command line question

Is there a command to get a backup a backup history for a specific client over a specific time frame? Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu