Paul,
Configure the devices on whichever node is active, then failover to the
second node and run through the device configuration wizard again for that
node. Then you should be all set. The device configuration wizard will
show the server name as the server it is scanning, but when you look
. Someone,
somewhere, may have had a good experience with it...but I haven't seen it
yet so I can't recommend it. Also is the BMR factor I mentioned.
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Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:46 AM
To: rcarlisle
Cc: Veritas-bu
With the Master server controlling the EMM database in 6.x, I like to keep
the robotic control on the master just to centralize all media operations.
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N.sorry, just feel pretty adamant about it. We have had a
couple of customers insist on trying it and have always had to back them
out. The Thumper does not seem to react very well to the Sybase database
and you get lousy performance. Another thing to note...the x86 platform
does
Is anyone using NetBackup with CA's ESP Scheduler?
Is it supported?
Is there a plugin from CA for NetBackup to use it?
Any issues with it?
Any other information you can share would be helpful
Thanks.
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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My understanding right now is that this is a bug with VMware tools and that
a call should be opened with VMware
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Anyone doing Exchange 2007 offhost snapshot backups successfully with 6.5.1?
I have had a case open with Symantec for 2 months and still no
success...just wondering how prevalent it is out there? Would love to hear
feedback.
Renee
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Anyone have a good way of changing the Recorded Media ID (or even better
ignoring it) on media that was originally written by NBU, then had to have
new barcode labels assigned. The media do not have any images on
themjust reusing them from another environment. Even though it would be
a pain
? Thanks.
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM
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Renee,
I just select them thru the GUI and make sure that uncheck the box Verify
Kevin,
Got it ...learn something new everyday. Thanks so much, what a big help.
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Anyone using any pre/post freeze scripts to quiescent databases before the
VMware Consolidated backup kicks off that they would be willing to share?
Second question...anyone else having any issues with Mapped VM backups not
finding individual files when trying to do a restore from normal
It is pretty well documented that any area you use for disk staging should
be defragmented regularly.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:37 PM
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Installs are still kind of ugly...but now with 6.5 you can use LiveUpdate
for patching. That will at least make that process easier.
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You can turn auditing on in the JAVA GUI, if you use that. However, the
tracking will be on the system that anyone logged in on. You can tie that
down to one system and that would allow you to control it a little better.
I know that Aptare also does track some changes from within the GUI...but
I was just wondering if anyone out there is successfully doing Exchange 2007
snapshot backups yet? I am working with a client and we are trying to get
them to work without any luck so far. We have applied the Storage
Foundation 5.0 hot fix, as well as two binaries. One that replaced the
Yes, you can install multiple versions of the GUI. Just install them to
different directories. Uninstall will only uninstall the most recent
version, so if you ever want to get rid of older versions you have to remove
them manually.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Clarification, You can have multiple versions of the JAVA GUI. I am not sure
on the Windows NetBackup administration console. Have not tried that.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Windows 64 bit does not support remote installations. It's not documented
really clearly...but it is documented. I ran into it on a 64 bit cluster
install.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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If these servers in your environment are SAN media serves, you may want to
consider changing them over to SAN clients anyway.
Reneé Carlisle
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Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, December
Look at Synthetic Full backups or flash backup.
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ServerWare Corporation
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Jonathan
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:24 PM
To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills);
Not sure what version of NBU you are running, so I am assuming 6.0try
the NBU command line manual:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/279299.htm
There is one for 5.x and 6.5 as well if you are not running 6.0
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Ok, I am coming from more of a Unix admin side of the house and trying to
learn more about NBU with Windows. So, for all you Windows NBU admins I
have some questions about snapshots and exclude lists:
1. I know VSP is supposed to be enabled by default, which is better to use
VSP or VSS (in an
Did they say why?
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby
Williams
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:20 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled
One of
I have done an in place upgrade on an environment that had a Solaris Master
server with a Windows 2k3 media server in an SSO environment. As long as
you follow the upgrade guide very closely and do all the preliminary steps,
things went very well. I did not have any issues in the upgrade
Sounds like you have a fairly simple environment. Your plan sounds just
fine. Just read the release notes and the upgrade guides and follow all the
steps...especially before you go from 5.1 to 6.5. Do not upgrade without
running the database consistency check and following the recommended steps
Jason,
See answers below:
Reneé Carlisle
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:15 AM
To: rcarlisle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] BMR Restore - Windows
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:35 AM
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] BMR Restore - Windows
Should be!
Does the boot CD show you
; rcarlisle
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Novell alternate client restore
Renee,
Just like any other alternate client restore, change the destination to the
alternate client in the Backup Archive and Restore Destination Clients
tab.
The only other consideration could be with the target names
I am new to BMR and having trouble getting a windows client to restore. It
gives giving me an error about not finding a network configuration. When I
look under the current configuration for the windows clients...I notice
that it finds the network interfaces, but there is nothing listed under
Anyone know what the steps/syntax is for doing an alternate client restore
on a Novell target system?
Thanks.
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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My knowledge of Novell is pretty limited and I am trying to set up some
targets that only back up specific directory structures. Here's the
scenario:
On system A:
There are three directories right under the server level I only want to
backup up two of them. I never need the third one. The
Normally I would agree with the wait until mp2 scenario, but this is not a
.0 release...this is still built on the 6.0 platform. Not only that, after
the issues with 6.0 I know that Symantec took extra precaution with this
release. That being said, I have come across three bugs so far with 6.5.
I have a client on 6.5 that is backing up a 5.1 NT server and it is working
fine
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Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:25 AM
To: mark wragge;
I can think of an issue. When you create a storage unit, you need to
define what drives are in it. Let's say I have a tape library with 10
drives, but I only want to use 4 of them for disk staging. If I create a
storage unit, I am limited to those four physical drives. If I want to
leave
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:48 AM
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - disk staging Units
I'm not yes seeing this as a problem,
Doesn't
Awhile ago I asked for help on the Java GUI hanging. I just wanted to
follow up and let you know that it is a minor bug in 6.5. Symantec is
working on it. It only hangs on some systems and only on host properties.
The Windows Administration Console still works as an alternative.
Renee
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:07 PM
To: 'David Rock'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Firewall configuration setup
No connect back for each client under the firewall configuration tab? With
6.0, you were only
the parameters to start it and get the service
running. BMR is working great now.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:58 AM
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That's always the way I have seen it as well. If you have a server with
tons of small databases, you sometimes get better performance is you just do
a data dump to a file and back up the file systems.
Reneé Carlisle
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From: Martin Ruslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:34 AM
To: rcarlisle
Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Admin password change issue
Hi Renee
Veritas Consolidated Backup for VMWare does require an enterprise client
(formerly called advanced client) license.
Reneé Carlisle
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When I was installing NOM, I entered a new admin password, but it apparently
did not take. I tried following the instructions to change the password on
Windows and it says to open the Symantec Product Authentication Services
GUI, when I try to run the GUI from start programs, it just never
Does anyone know how the list of systems to connect to gets populated in the
Novell non-target browser? Thanks
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Hi all, I am new to BMR and trying to load up a boot server on a Solaris
platform. The BMR documentation says that bootp, NFS, and tftp is required
on all Unix Boot servers, but Solaris does not support bootp. I have tftp
turned on, is that all I really need? If I do need bootp, how do I enable
Is Vmware tools loaded on all your vm's?
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Subject: [Veritas-bu]
You will need 1 Master/Media Enterprise Server or NBU Server license
(depending on what you want to do...Enterprise server will give you the
option to do more advanced stuff like snapshot backups. Sounds like you
probably just need NBU Server for now.
2 Library Based Drive licenses and nn
When I asked, this is the official response I received, although just
because it has not been qualified does not mean that it will not work:
The VBR server has been tested in VMWare. Of course, there are sizing
considerations that will impact performance here, so sufficient resources
(memory,
David,
I don't have access right now to a default file, but look for some header
like this at the bottom of the file:
#
# might want to mail this info to someone
#
There should be a line there with a placeholder, just change that to the
user name you want to send the mail to.
Reneé
Yes they have.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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It was announced earlier that Aptare has been certified with 6.5...I am
guessing that assumes you are on the latest version of Aptare.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Rochester Office
1250 Pittsford-Victor Rd.
Building 100 - Suite 150
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phone:
Sorry, no ndmp in this 6.5 environment to test for you. Can you just grab
everything for that day and not just the originator id. It may give them
more than they need..but at least they would get information.
FYI...6.5 going well at this site as well. Heavy duty testing with DSSU
units this
sorry, answer yes and exit the script...don't try and run and install if the
pkg hasn't been removed. You did do a remove with upgrade, correct?
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Look for a file called
rm /usr/openv/bin/driver/snapct110_x i
if it exists, remove it and try the pkgrm again
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:47 PM
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* rcarlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-25 19:39]:
Can someone please help me
No, 6.0 and 6.5 do not have anything like that, although it would be good.
I have not heard anyone in development mentioning this being a possibility
even in the 7.0 releasebut who knows. The 7.0 release is supposed to be
the security focused release. Here is a kind of an out-of-the-box
I would go to 6.5. I have done a few upgrades already and things are fine.
I am not sure what you were reading, but Solaris 8 is still supported in
6.5. See attached compatibility matrix. As for Oracle, not sure I would
need to more details. If there is a lot of data you might want to consider
Do you have a link to the document that you pulled that information out of?
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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When you do get it opened, I would also suggest you request they make the
call a TSAnet issue. That will allow them to join forces with Oracle
support to solve the case together rather than putting you in the middle of
it.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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It should
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Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Data to a
I have a Linux client that fails every first attempt of their backup with a
status 59 - Can't connect to client
Second attempt connects immediately every time and completes successfully
Only one nic in the server
Client name set correctly
All DNS resolutions to master server appear correct
Blade
my top two picks would be Aptare Storage Console or Veritas Backup Reporter.
Either of those will meet your requirements, are fairly intuitive to use,
have a pretty high degree of customization, and produce a lot of nice canned
reports.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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What is your goal for Synthetic fulls? Are you running the incrementals to
tape or disk? Are you running the fulls to tape or disk?
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
Sent:
Mike,
I have tried it in BetaLot's of GREAT new features and it appears to be
a very stable release. You should be able to purchase it now from your
sales rep or VAR, but the code is still a couple of weeks away from release.
Last I heard it may be around the week of the 20thbut a
Either A - Don't change the hostname or B- hire consulting to come in and do
it for you. NBU does not like the master server name changed.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Sent: Thursday, August 02,
No, it is only valid with 6.5 clients
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth W
Wilkinson
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:35 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5
I
Are you using VCS? We have done a lot of cross site clustering with VCS.
One solution is to have a storage unit at each site, and customize the
online and offline scripts to change the policy to point to the correct
storage unit.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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From:
Clem,
In 6.0 on Solaris, I have seen when the logs fill up that sometimes some
defunct emm database processes stay out there that don't necessarily show
with a bpps -a. I would suggest bringing down all NetBackup services and
then do a ps -ef and look for any netbackup, emm, or defunct
Most people put their emm server and master server on the same system.
Although you could split them, I don't know anyone who actually is.
Theoretically, you could have more than one master server pointed to the
same EMM server. If that was something warranted in your environment, it
might make
Nothing changed between 5.x and 6.06.5 will have changes to the
licensing structure. Nothing official until it is released.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Sent:
1) Older versions of the NBU Oracle agent used to require you to bounce the
database to relink the binaries..that is not the case anymore. You should
not have to bounce Oracle to upgrade the system.
2) Yes, PBX does need to be installed on all media servers as well as the
master server.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename string
-machinetype api | cluster | master | media | ndmp-mediaid string
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Sent: Friday, June 29,
I was involved with the beta program. The release was pretty stable, even
in beta, and has some really cool features. The article does not even talk
about things like the lifecycle management capabilities, shared storage for
disk and the SAN client. I would not hesitate to move to 6.5.
Sorry, one more thing...integrated BMR without having to make boot disks for
Windows and live update for patching...including being able to push patches
to a windows client from a Unix master! Cool stuff
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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The mount point does not need to exist, but you might want to be very
careful to double check that the exclude list extension is spelled exactly
like the policy name...including case.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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6.0 Was a MAJOR rewrite of code that was long overdue. I think issues were
to be expected. 6.5 is a regular enhancement release so I don't expect you
will see the same challenges as going to 6.0. I think part of the delay in
releasing the code was to make sure it was as stable as it could
Sorry, good caveat...but you won't need to go to 6.0 as an intermediary
step.
Reneé Carlisle
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From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:31 PM
To: King, Cheryl
Cc: rcarlisle; Ed Wilts; WEAVER, Simon (external);
veritas-bu
No, you should be able to go right to 6.5
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:22 PM
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Does anyone know of any scripts to gather configuration data from a 5.1 mp2
Windows media server. I first went to the support script, but the one on
the system was very small and did not do anything when I ran it.
Reneé
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REQUIRED_INTERFACE is only valid for client initiated backups. So, it is
very important to use in multiple nic environments with database agent
backups since, technically, they are client initiated. With non-database
scheduled backup, the client will respond back over whatever interface the
Greg,
Great questions. I would say that it depends on the audience. Any
reporting tool on the market for NBU today can give you this information in
different slices. Many clients do track this information and it is a
great way to get a quick health check of the environment. If you are
easier.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:12 AM
To: rcarlisle; NB List Mail
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate
Thanks. These reports are for monthly metrics and upper
Abhishek,
One important thing to be aware of is cluster configuration. If your master
server is clustered, this may be a much hardeer upgrade and you may really
want to look at consulting. Version 5.1 and above significantly changed the
way NBU works with clustered master servers. I don't
Make sure that your Exchange server client is running at the exact same
level as the Master/Media server. You could have problems with your
Exchange restores if they are not at the same level. I would suggest that
any server that has a database agent is at the same level as the
Master/Media
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