Can anyone recommend any tools/logs to debug the following LiveUpdate error:
10/20/2010 2:21:19 PM - started process RUNCMD (5876)
10/20/2010 2:21:19 PM - ended process 0 (5876)
10/20/2010 2:21:39 PM - Info nbliveup(pid=3428) EXIT STATUS 11 system call
failed(11)
Thanks
-Alex
0n Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Can anyone recommend any tools/logs to debug the following LiveUpdate
error:
10/20/2010 2:21:19 PM - started process RUNCMD (5876)
10/20/2010 2:21:19 PM - ended process 0 (5876)
10/20/2010 2:21:39
Hi,
Does anyone know where symantec have relocated the Netbackup Digest ?
It used to be located at:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm
Or does it no longer exist ?
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Hi all,
Doing some test upgrades from 6.0MP4 to 7.0 on Win2K3 Standard SP2.
I get the following error upon the Installation step:
06-16-2010,16:57:53 : DEBUG: Error 2755: Server returned unexpected error
1601 attempting to install package \
0n Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:23:25AM -0500, David McWilliams wrote:
Tpconfig worked flawlessly. Robtest moved a tape from s1 to d1 fine, but is
giving SCSI errors when trying to move back. Devfsadm seemed ok. I'm
starting to suspect a physical tape library problem, which is of
0n Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:45:59AM -0400, NBU wrote:
Facing problem with SL500 Tape library as it goes in hang state and no
medias get mounted. All backup remains in queue.
This is observed once in 2 days time.
During problem Console also doesn't fetches any data from library.
0n Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
That said, we really like PureDisk technically. We still don't like the
price...
Well this is the confusing part. I thought as of NBU 6.5 PureDisk was dundled
in for free ?
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0n Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:01:54AM +1100, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:
I've recently moved some data to a different volume and did a full
backup after the move. I then updated the permissions of the data in the
new volume and as expected, the incremental backup backed-up the data in
0n Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:30:04AM +1100, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:
More info regarding this:
It didn't seem important at the time as the job finished with a status
of 1, which has pretty much always meant that it completed with the
exception of a few files due to open
0n Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:21:20PM -0700, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
If you ask me, you should be considering the OST interface, not the VTL
interface. It will give you a bigger boost in performance than the VTL
interface will, from what they've been publishing lately.
What is
Thanks!
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0n Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:40:47PM -0400, cpreston wrote:
Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
What is an OST interface ?
The OpenSTorage interface, a new way to use your Data Domain boxes (and
other boxes that support it) with NetBackup. It's not NFS
0n Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:53:22AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Without jumbo frames only-- with gigabit, I believe you will see less CPU
utilization using jumbo frames, but there are other problems to it-- for
hosts that do not utilize jumbo frames vs. ones that do you may get
Hi all,
Erm, just wondering if anyone knows why -a and -v are not documented in
tpautoconf(1m) ? Are they meant to be hidden options ?
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0n Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:47:04PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with using other linux filesystems for
NBU catalog hosting? I'm wondering if XFS would perform better over
time. Or perhaps I could make some tuning decisions on ext3 for better
0n Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:20:02AM -0400, NBU wrote:
I need to eject media from library through solaris server attached to it.
Can someone help me with the command format for ejecting medias through
solaris.
#mt -f /path/to/device/file rewoffl
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0n Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:58:40PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
It's taking me forever, but I'm still plodding along on developing the
outline for my latest book.
Which is what ?
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Hi all,
I have heard over and over again that as of Win2k3-SP2 it is possible to force
windows to use a larger blocksize than its default of 64KB e.g.
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907418], however, for the life of me I cannot
find out where to change this ? Is it a registry setting ?
Thanks
0n Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Boris Kraizman wrote:
Here is the tech note how to do it
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/244652.htm
Yes thats how we tweak the 'application' (netbackup), but if you're OS is
limited
to a certain BLOCKSIZE (e.g. windows pre 2003-sp2
0n Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:59:53AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
0n Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Boris Kraizman wrote:
Here is the tech note how to do it
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/244652.htm
Yes thats how we tweak
0n Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:06:59PM -0400, Hudson, Steve wrote:
Having a heck of a time getting my new Solaris 9 Media server to see
tape. The setup is an L700 with 4 LTO 3 drives with a Decru Appliance in
the path. Just spent 2 hours on the phone with Symantec support and got
0n Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:13:58AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
vmoprcmd -d ds?
#sudo /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmdareq -display
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0n Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:48:08AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
They did. An image on a DSU (not DSSU) can now span multiple storage units
within a group. I'm sure there were other changes but I'm too lazy to look
them up for you.
Is there a page that lists changes/feature etc for
0n Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:04:09PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
As always for big releases, check the upgrade portal. The 6.5 version is
at
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290185.htm
Now only if there was an RSS feed for the afforementioned upgrade portal :(
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0n Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a
Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a
tape library?
A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago
Curtis, what is your new book called ?
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0n Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:30:35AM +0100, Jenner, Steven wrote:
I have little experience of FreeBSD therefore cannot ascertain how true
the statement above is; therefore my question is, can FreeBSD v6.2 be
backed up by NetBackup5.1MP6 and if not can it be backed up by any
Hi all,
We are looking at tuning SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS to keep our
LTO{2,3} drives streaming, however, an interesting question has come up within
our storage group.
Since we interleave blocks from various hosts (grouped by windows, unix,
Exchange, Oracle, Sharepoint, etc etc)
Hi all is the default maximum block size for I/O transfers on windows still only
64KB ? If so, is this possible to change ? And is it bad practice on windows
hosts to change the block size ?
Context: We need to seriously look at tuning for LTO{2,3} drives.
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0n Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:04:03PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Hi all is the default maximum block size for I/O transfers on windows
still only
64KB ? If so, is this possible to change ? And is it bad practice on
windows
hosts to change the block size ?
Context: We
0n Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:47:56AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
That would depend upon the OS in question. Use find or xargs to get
around those problems.
Its a shell limitation. As Justin said use xargs(1) or find(1).
However, in the context of Netbackup, NFI why this would
0n Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:17:03AM -0400, Sesar, Steven L. wrote:
There are third-party backup applications which perform document-level
backups of Sharepoint - caveat emptor. They all rely on an extremely
slow and inefficient API that MS is not going to fix, as it would
0n Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:42:02AM -0400, Wayne T Smith wrote:
On at least versions 4.5, 5.0 and 5.1, this gives the platform, version
and maintenance pack level for the NetBackup for Oracle Agent.
If the same holds true for version 6.0 (I'm not there), your example
For the life of me I cannot find the definitive place where RMAN trace files are
stored ? Can anyone please enlighten me ?
I am suspecting /path/to/oracle/admin/db/ ... but then what ?
There is like 9 sub dirs under there:
drwxr-xr-x 2 ora920 dba 6144 Jun 20 13:03 arch/
0n Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:14:43AM +1000, Dominik Pietrzykowski wrote:
In /usr/openv/pack
Cat pack.summary
pack.summary exists on our master but not on the client we need to test for MP4
Oracle components. a locate(1) doesn't find .psummary either. Any other method ?
-aW
0n Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Steven L. Sesar wrote:
As you are yours. Bottom line: my company procured another backup
application, which provides much more functionality than NBU,
for the cost of renewing my NBU licenses for one year. Haven't had to
write a single
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend the command (unix) to list the actual version of the
Oracle client component installed ? i.e. have we got mp4 installed for this
oracle client ? I know there is:
#bpgetconfig -g hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au -L
Client/Master = Media Host
NetBackup Client
0n Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:21:24AM +0300, Anas Kayal wrote:
I have the same problem with SQL backups. I take full backups of the
entire machine and its impossible to distinguish which instance failed
and which succeeded.
Well, it looks like cutomising RMAN's FORMAT string could
Its part of the Advanced Client I believe.
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Anyone ? Curtis ?
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0n Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:36:29PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Hi all,
Certain behavior in NB6.0-MP4 is confusing me and I really want to know
conceptually if I have the following correct.
What I thought was meant to happen
Hi all,
Certain behavior in NB6.0-MP4 is confusing me and I really want to know
conceptually if I have the following correct.
What I thought was meant to happen:
* Within the NB GUI I am at the point of connecting to the required DBs.
* I am to login with an account that has SYSDBA privs
0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:18:12PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
Veritas Backup Reporter, on the other hand, is an add-on Symantec product
that is
a reporting product that is designed to compete with Aptare, Bocada, ,
TekTools, Wysdm, etc.
Which one is meant to work best ?
-aW
0n Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:17:04PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
I'm glad others recommended the book. It's kind of a tome, but it
covers a ton in backup recovery. It's focus is on cheap ways of doing
things, so you'll find NOTHING in there about NBU. That's the next
book.
0n Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:26:54PM +0200, Boris Kraizman wrote:
please include me as well :) I am in ESX world now as well.
ditto
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0n Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Carl Mathews wrote:
We are given the bpexpdate command to expire images.
Many time that command has be recommended by the list.
How should we expire images and keep the catalogs in sync?
Does it take more then bpexpdate?
For
0n Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:34:03AM -0700, sauderd wrote:
I spoke with the network guys in our shop and I got the following:
1. the IOS version is: 12.2, rev. 18 sfx 7 native
2. there is no minumum HW version
3. the hardware we're using is a Catalyst WS-X6748-GE-TX
4.
Can anyone save me some time and give me the magic command to do this ?
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0n Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:43:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On NBU 6.X the media catalog isn't just a database within Oracle server
SyBase DB.
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0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:06:52PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
* bpgp -- it's my favorite, unadvertised tool in NetBackup,
What does it do ? I ran it and saw nothing.
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0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:35:38PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
I also use it to temporarily turn rsh or ssh on so I can run a
command on a bunch of Unix hosts. When I'm done running the command,
I turn rsh or ssh off. That way I only have to turn it on for
the duration
0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:50:13PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Wow, going to grab this very quickly and archive it away for safe keeping.
On 4/30/07, Nardello, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/287433
Is there one for 6.x ?
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0n Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:35:38PM +1000, Dominik Pietrzykowski wrote:
Apr 16 17:32:11 server name last message repeated 18 times
Apr 16 17:32:13 server name VERITAS: No proxy found.
And a solution to fix it ?
Safe to ignore. [http://support.veritas.com/docs/280746]
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0n Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Clem Kruger (C) wrote:
It is better to combine a number of 100MB cards using CISCO trunking,
increasing the pipe size in that way.
Trunking is a method used to carry traffic for multpile VLANS over a single
physical link. Aggregation (aka
0n Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:23:05AM +0100, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
Guys
Win2k3 environment with Master and 2 SAN
I have a dedicated account used for monitoring / checking backups.
Another team member needed to perform a restore, which worked great, but
0n Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:14:15PM -0700, Jimenez, Daniel wrote:
In addition to this question, is it best to completely uninstall a
backup client and then install the new client? I have about 400 servers
I have to upgrade and it would be so much easier just to install it over
Hi all,
We are consistently having to reboot our servers (both windows and unix) to get
our LTO3 SSO drives back (after they mysteriously disappear).
Scenario:
For one reason or another we loose a drive and to get it back for example we
powercycle our library and our NB master can now see the
Hi all,
We are using NB 6.0-MP3. I would like to be emailed alerts if my SSO Drives are
not accessible by my SAN Media Servers. Is this possible ? And how ?
Cheers
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0n Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:43:01AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
On 10/16/2006 5:36 AM, Ilya Voronin wrote:
What about maintenance pack 4 for NetBackup 6.0?
There were rumors earlier this month that MP4 will be released on
October 15...
It has not yet been released. We
is there a CLI interface to the activity monitor ?
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Anyone else seen these errors ?
15/09/2006 8:45:49 PM - Warning bpbrm(pid=2652) from client
stlfp501.dsto.defence.gov.au:
WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database (WIN32
21: Unknown error
NB 6.0-MP3.
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Hi all,
I have a policy, whereby ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive does not apply to one host
in the policy. Can I still keep that host in the policy and add excludes just to
_that_ host ?
Cheers
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OS: Solaris 9. SAN Media Server.
When I exec() the /etc/init.d/netbackup script I am seeing the following errors
via syslog.
Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 625030
daemon.error] unable to obtain bound socket, no port number available for vmd
(0)
Jun
0n Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:05:07PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# $Id: backup_report.pl,v 1.1 1999/03/01 19:16:37 cswormr Exp $
#
# $Log: backup_report.pl,v $
# Revision 1.1 1999/03/01 19:16:37 cswormr
# Initial revision
#
It was
0n Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:05:11PM +0100, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
Bob
although sounds ok, the only drawback I see is:
1) People will forget to post a resolution
I agree. Sunmanagers and Tru64managers are run like this. _many_ people do not
end up posting their
Hi all,
Is there any command out there to list all clients within a single policy ?
In HP DataProtector I am able to grep through text files for this.
How about NBU 6.0MP2 ?
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0n Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Whelan, Patrick wrote:
I thought I would pass this on in case anyone else has run into it.
Environment:
Solaris Master 5.1MP4
HP-UX Media Servers 5.1MP4
If, in the policy, you specify a windows drive with a lower case
0n Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:13:54AM +0100, Dave Markham wrote:
Sorry for the off topic message but does anyone know any solaris forums
email or web which are free?
http://www.sunmanagers.org/. Best Solaris mailing list on the planet.
Note the etiquette. ie you get responses from
Hi all,
I have read through the NB Sys Admin Manual for UNIX to learn how to set up
authentication. The Manual is crap ! It gives people absolutely no background
whatsoever on the options available.
I am kinda stuck here. Can anyone recommend where I can read up on this stuff ?
And can anyone
Hi all,
One of the only reasons our Exchange Team want to continue to do nightly full
backups is bec by doing so they get a health check of their message stores
i.e. NB will detect any corruption and fail.
We want to whine them off of full backups and onto Full+Incr.
Can anyone recommend a tool
Hi all,
What are best practices when it comes to installing tape and robotic drivers on
Windows 2003 Server ? Out Of The Box Windows drivers or Veritas supplied Drivers
? Or Vendor Drivers ?
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Hi all,
A quote from Media Manager Sys Admin Guide
This wizard uses device discovery to auto-configure devices and add
robotic
libraries and drives to your Media Manager configuration. To perform
these
tasks, this wizard uses device serialization.
What is actually
Howdy all,
In some Veritas manuals, Veritas recommends that we install NB
Enterprise Server *first* and then the Veritas Tape Driver bundle.
But then in other manuals it says that we should install the Veritas
tape drivers first and then NB.
For example:
From Veritas NetBackup 6.0
Hi all,
Is it 'best practice' to use FQDN for our Master/Media Servers ?
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0n Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:49:25AM -0400, bob944 wrote:
Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations. This is the right one. :-)
What is best practice with regards to Volume Pools ?
We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our
data tapes.
Is
0n Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:57:48PM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
0n Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:49:25AM -0400, bob944 wrote:
Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations. This is the right one. :-)
What is best practice with regards to Volume Pools
0n Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:49:25AM -0400, bob944 wrote:
- - Customer privacy. Do you have two clients whose data should not be
mixed? Army and Navy pools, then. Related to this is restricting
access to a pool to a specified host (media server) if there's a Really
Good
Hi all,
What is best practice with regards to Volume Pools ?
We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data tapes.
Is it good practice to use the Netbackup Volume pool for this situation ?
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0n Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:34:12AM -0400, Paul Keating wrote:
Java.
All of our NBU servers are solaris, and I've had a hell of a time
getting the win32 console running on any windows box that is compliant
with corporate Windows deployment, so we've never used the win32
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use the NB 6.0 Admin Console in a
multiuser environment (Citrix) ? I am trying to make the NB Console a Published
Application but I am getting permissions errors. I strongly suspect the NB
console is putting strange entries in the registry.
Has
0n Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:37:43PM -0500, Major, Rusty wrote:
I've setup a new environment with IBM LTO3 drives. I set
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS to 256K, but got an error in the details stating the
drive only supported 64K and the job would not run. Sure enough,
changing it back to
Hi all,
I have a fresh installation of Solaris 10 1/06 s10s_u1wos_19a SPARC.
I have installed NebackUp 6.0 and am now attempting to install MP2.
I get the following error from ./Vrts_pack.install
snip
Running /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsyncinfo add_paths command ...
cannot
0n Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:18:29PM -0600, Scott Jacobson wrote:
Simrat,
I've seen many discussions in this forum about using 262144 for a buffer
sizes on Windows, and most of those discussions talk about it not being
recommend or successful based on Windows TCP/IP Stack size
Hi all,
We are looking at doing backups between remote sites (8 - 10 hour drive) across
our WAN using NetBackUp 6.0.
Can I please have thoughts and recommendations on what technologies NB6.0 offers
to enhance/embrace doing this type of backup ? Or even general principles one
must be aware of
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