[Veritas-bu] Backup using Storage Level Flash for DB (FC,BC,SI)

Hi Jeff, Thanks for sharing your experience on your enviornment. I might need to clarify further, this method of backup does work but i guess it varies from different environment setup. From your main reason that you stated, i've no doubt about what benefit it brings but i'm not convince this

[Veritas-bu] Backup using Storage Level Flash for DB (FC,BC,SI)

Hi Guys, Anyone currently deploy any form of backup using the mirror copy from the SAN and mounted to an alternate host or media server to backup the flat DB files? IMO, such setup should remain as fast backup and recovery for adhoc, emergency purposes and not use for daily backup. The

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate to multiple drive

Hi, I wish to duplicate certain images in a week based on schedule name and would like to duplicate to multiple drives. For example i have 14 drives and 2 media servers are assigned to perform the bpduplicate, i require each media server to use at least 4 drives at the same time to complete

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate help

Hi Guys, Currently, i'm trying to use bpduplicate to duplicate my vaulted images from VTL to Physical Tape. When i ran the command for the 1st time, it manage to find the image that i want to duplicate into TapeA (backupsize around 70GB). The target volume pool is empty hence it will pick

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate help

Hi thanks for the information. Yes, i'm using NBU.6.5.3 at the moment. I think i may need to wait awhile more before triggering the next duplicate command. I waited ard 3 mins plus before triggering the next duplicate command...think nbu need more time. I've 2 physical tape drives and 10

[Veritas-bu] DSU Question.

Hi, I'm still in the mist of a backup design to use either a DSU or a DSSU target for my interim backups. Would like to know if there's a limitation in the number of streams if the storage unit is a DSU? I also assume multiplexing will not be a issue if the target is DSU right? Another

[Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

Hi, Anyone has the following setup in their environment? I read about some VTL from EMC, IBM, HP, etc having storage products such VTL that ables to do low-bandwidth replication using LAN or WAN. If incoperate this with NBU, imagine i have a master server on siteA and control a media server

[Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

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[Veritas-bu] MSEO Agent Backup Error

yafets wrote: Hi, Do you have solution for this problem? can you share it to me, coz i facing in this problem today Regards Yafet Hi, 2 Things you need to do after your converted your mseo drives. 1. Add the media server host in the MESO Security Server using its full

[Veritas-bu] Configure Flashbackup on SAN Disk

Hi NBU Gurus, Yesterday i've justed installed SNC in one of my solaris8 server and tried configuring flashbackup as this server has millions of files. I've did a some test on the local HDD (eg /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2) and the backup went through wiith no problem. I'm using nbu_snap as it snapshot

[Veritas-bu] EMM server failed to process the request (78)

Hi, Anyone of you encounter the thread title error message while using the NBU GUI device wizard? The exact pop up error message goes like this in bold below Could not list cache. Undefined Error EMM server failed to process the request (78)

[Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

Hi, I've run the .msi installer and it gives me the below error message Error 1723, There is a problem with this window installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Is there something wrong with the OS? Regards

[Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

Hi Thanks for your reply, Using the exe was what we did in the first place, i'm jus trying out installing using the .msi as suggested by Martins to see if there's any difference but apparently still the same problem but different error messages. Regards

[Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

Hi, do you mean renaming netbackup.dll to any other name before running the install? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

The netbackup.dll i think only existing after installation (correct me if i'm wrong), i do not find any netbackup.dll file in the installation CD. Right now i'm not able to install the netbackup client. After looking thru the installation log, below are the last 2 line where it stop during

[Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

Hi all, Anyone experience while installing NBU 6.5 Window Client on Window2000SP4 machine, during validaing install process, the installation failed and an message saying the process was interupted. We check the event viewer of the machine and we saw an error message saying cannont connect

[Veritas-bu] MSEO Agent Backup Error

Hi Bill, I've tried reducing the buffer size as what you stated but the problem still persist, do we need to change the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS as well? we are setting at 256 at the moment. Regards +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] MSEO Agent Backup Error

Hi Bill, thanks again for the reply. Really appreciate your help as not many administrator doing MSEO for their environment. I do not have access to the server now, so i cant extract the cgsb.log now. I think there are no communication problems between all my MSEO SAN Media Server and

[Veritas-bu] MSEO Agent Backup Error

Thanks Bills for your input, i'll give it a try later, I've also found error from SAN Media Server syslog , Could not process the request because somthing was missing from server and vmtape error1 Are you familiar with these errors? Thanks

[Veritas-bu] MSEO Agent Backup Error

Hi all, I'm configuring a NBU6.5.2 SAN Media Server (Solaris) using MSEO configuration for it backup. After confguriing the backup policy with the keyphase, my backup after running 1mins plus flags out status 84 with device busy error. There are no other jobs running but i'm not sure how come

[Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup Cache Parition

Hi Guys, Anyone of you has experience in flashbackup using solaris advanced client. Is the cache partition a mandatory requirement for Flashbackup? If it is, then anyone know the workaround? Thanks Regards +-- |This was sent

[Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup Cache Parition

at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 15 July 2008 09:20 To: VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup Cache Parition AFAIK you need a small raw partition for it. On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, dy018

[Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup vs Normal Backup

Hi, Recently i was told by symantec that using Flashbackup to backup the raw device will greatly increased the backup and restore time. After reading through the admin guide abt the advanced client, i also understand that flashbackup also able to do file level restore instead on restoring

[Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup vs Normal Backup

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[Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup vs Normal Backup

at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dy018 Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:33 AM To: VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Flashbackup vs Normal Backup Thanks everyone for your input. BTW Ueli, can

[Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library

Hi, Anyone using vmchange to eject tapes? I'm using the command below, it manage to eject the tapes BUT the command didnt end properly as the command spawn another tldcd process but didnt go off after eject. I can only kill that spawned process in order to do a tape inventory. Anyone know

[Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library

I'm still using NBU6.0, upgrading to 6.5.2 soon So you command below vmchange -e -sec 1 -res -m $MEDIAID -mt $TYPE -rt tld -rn $LIBR -rh MASTERSERVER -v $GRP -rc1 $SLOT You are ejecting one tape at a time i'm i right? If that is so, you need to do a vmquery to find the mediaid slot no before

[Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library

Thanks guys, i think the -w option is what i needed. Without this, the NBU will just eject the tape without proper end process of the tldcd. Thanks alot for the contributions +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via

[Veritas-bu] .free shrunk by 1024 bytes, padding with zeros

Thanks for the info, but i think the example that you stated, the 10gb that shrunk to 1gb, is this backup? or shld i say restorable? Some one email me saying that the file that flag out this error might be corrupted. I guess these error files in that backup image will not be restorable. But

[Veritas-bu] .free shrunk by 1024 bytes, padding with zeros

Hi there, Anyone understand during status 1, we get this error message .free shrunk by 1024 bytes, padding with zeros. What exactly cause this error? Does that file size changes before and after the backup? hence flagging out tis error? Thanks

[Veritas-bu] NBU Catalog on NAS

Hi Guys, Anyone know if NBU catalog is store on a NAS storage instead of SAN or localdisk? We can cases where the catalog is on the NAS as we encounter status 233 and this don't happen if we using SAN. Any experience to share?

[Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

Hi Guys, Recently i was ask what's the industry standard for large enterprise backup success rate? Anyone know where i can find such info? Any backup administrator able to share their experiences roughly what percentage of their average daily backup success rate? Thanks

[Veritas-bu] Multiple Vault Jobs

yes, i'm using NBU 6.0 but not very sure abt this limitation tho. The job is running but no duplicate jobs trigger. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Restore must be resumed prior to first image expiration

Hi, Anyone encounter such a error during restore? My Master is using NBU6.0MP4 My Client is using NBU5.1MP6 - WINNT Client I tried restore small files and its ok but when i restoring some folders with bigger files, i cant. Is this a bug or are there setting need to set during restore? I check

[Veritas-bu] NBU Vaulting: Status 50

Hi, Anyone here encounter status 50 (client process aborted) during Vaulting? I'm doing a daily vault only duplicating 1 copy to tape. No problem. I'm doing a weekly vault that duplicate 2 copies (1 onsite, 1 offsite). I always enounter some status 50 during my weekly vaulting but although it

[Veritas-bu] Invalid Images in DSU - How to clear?

Hi, Currently one of my media servers is using its large localdisk as a DSU in my netbackup domain. What i realised was that some of the failed backup jobs or some backup job that i cancelled, the images already created in the disk but in actual fact, these images is not registered in the

[Veritas-bu] Re: Invalid Images in DSU - How to clear?

Yes, i understand that the images can be deleted. But what if there are vaild images that are registered in the catalog together with those backup failed images, how am i going to tell which images to delete?? +-- |This was

[Veritas-bu] Re: Invalid Images in DSU - How to clear?

Oh i see. The DSU will be a temporary staging area and i'll have a daily vaulting to do duplication to tape. I just need to verify that the images are in the catalog, not necessarily to be duplicated to tape. So can i ask you, if your script happened to verified that the image is not in the

[Veritas-bu] Re: Netbackup 6.5 bp commands

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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 bp commands

Hi all, Me currently doing POC on netbackup 6.5 and i found out some of the bp commands no longer exists. One of the command i usually used during new client installation, beside telnet the backup ports from master and media, i'll also do a bpdir from my media and master to confirm the

[Veritas-bu] Cost of VTL vs DSU

Hi, anyone having both VTL and DSU in your backup environment? or anyone here did a compare between the both? I just need to know the Veritas Licenses cost for VTL and DSU if i want to implement a 20TB Disk Storage. Thanks

[Veritas-bu] Help: NAS Disk as a Storage Unit?

Hi, Can a media server mount a NFS disk shared out by a NAS and use that mount NFS disk as a DISK Storague Unit? I know it can be done using SAN Disk but what abt NAS? Anyone implement before? Thanks +-- |This was sent by

[Veritas-bu] Vault and Duplication

Hi all, Anyone knows Vaulting very well? Currently, we are planning to do the following LAN clients backup via VTL. One full backup every end of each week. After all successful full backup, i'll be using vaulting to do duplication without eject to keep in the tape library as to cover

[Veritas-bu] The data is invalid

Hi all, Have any of you guys encouter such errors when backing up window clients? ERR - failure reading file: D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\NETWORK\log\listener.log (WIN32 13: The data is invalid. ) Usually i got The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a

[Veritas-bu] Re: oracle hot backup

Can anyone explain the advantage and disadvantage of using control file as compare to using Recovery Catalog DB? I heard from one DBA is that using Recovery Catalog DB will enable more RMAN features as compare to using control file? izit true?

[Veritas-bu] Re: Netbackup 6.0 Tape rotation

When all NetBackup data on a volume has expired, the volume becomes available to other applications, depending on whether the volume originated from a scratch volume pool. Volumes originally pulled from a scratch volume pool are returned to the scratch pool, and volumes assigned from a

[Veritas-bu] Re: Multiplexing Query

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[Veritas-bu] Re: Multiplexing Query

Sorry for the confusion. I was trying to say there are 3 policies altogether for the 3 clients. So its only 3 policies not 9. I'm not using data streaming. But i term of VTL context, was jus wondering if i use data streaming to Virtual Tapes, i still can de stream all the images from

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

Hi Some of you mentioned abt backing up client using multiplexing to VTL and then do de multiplex when duplicating to actual LTO tape. How is the process done? Using a special policy? Or bpdbplicate/Vault already able to do it automatically for u? This de multiplexing is different for disk

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

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 thru their media servers in their repective locations and the NAS will backup directly thru

[Veritas-bu] Multiplexing Query

Hi all, Would like to find out somemore info abt multiplexing using netbackup. Example. If i have 3 clients and 3 policies for each client using same storageunit and same volume pool. My storageunit have 3 drives and i set it to 3 concurrent drive write. The policies of the 3 client i set

[Veritas-bu] Newbie to Netbackup using VTL

Hi everyone, I'm new using VTL with netbackup. I was hoping anyone here already implemented such a setup in their current environment and hope share your general setup plan? I'm now planing for such a setup and only have experience using normal tape libraries. I understand that VTL able to