[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-21 Thread Sagz
wow a lot of great info. Thanks for the replies. Here is the story to date: We found the old robot and drives (ADIC Scalar 100) but we are having trouble with it (don't know why... its only been sitting for 6 years). So I'm thinking of doing a tape import route. After talking to my vendor

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-21 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I've imported many SDLT220 media written with NBU 5.1 into my 6.5.3 master without issue. -Jonathan ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-21 Thread Sagz
well good guess I better get started! on a side note. I got my Red hat 7.1 box running NB 5.1 back up and running. The robot (adic scalar 100 with two lto-1 drives) is alive but the picker seems broke so I can't teach the robot or get it to inventory tapes. in an effort to restore jobs

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-21 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:54:32PM -0500, Sagz wrote: The catalog still shows the tapes in the robot but as I said... I can't do a tape inventory. When I start a restore job it just sits there... I imaging getting hung up on the bad robot. If the robot isn't working, you can select the

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Of Sagz Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:03 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. wow a lot of great info. Thanks for the replies. Here is the story to date: We found the old robot and drives (ADIC Scalar 100) but we are having trouble with it (don't

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-14 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:47:47AM -0500, Sagz wrote: I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname and

[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-14 Thread Sagz
Ok... got the old system backup and I was trying to do a catalog backup to disk as the robot no longer exists and I get a media write error (status 84) I have two storage units setup currently and I set the catalog to backup to one of those but its not working with above error. should I

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
. HTH Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sagz Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:48 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. I have a problem

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sagz Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:48 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Absolutely, but I was giving one example for 1 tape :-) -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:28 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. Hi

[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread Sagz
I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3 media and a different hostname and catalog this was decommissioned about 3

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
the tape into netbackup, then you can do the restore. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sagz Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:48 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] I

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread Rusty.Major
-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU cc Subject [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess. I have a problem. I'm new to Netbackup. Currently we have a 6.53 install with a Spectra Logic t950 robot with LTO-4 Drives and LTO-4 Media. However there used to be a different server with LTO-3 drives and LTO-1-3

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread Kris Kirby
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: Importing is a 2 phase process. You have to read the headers of the backup image off the tape first, then actually read the contents of the image to populate the metadata into the catalog. It's pretty simple, and you can read the details

[Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread Sagz
Update: I actually found the old server but it won't boot (redhat 7.1) I was able to mount the filesystems to try and grab the catalog. Where could I look? i have access to /usr/openv/netbackup thanks +-- |This was sent by

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread Dean
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/client_name (where client_name is the name of the host you are trying to restore data from) In there will be directories based on the ctime the backup was originally taken. The directory names will by something like 123400, where 1234 are the first 4 digits of

Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.

2010-01-12 Thread hkyeak...@gmail.com
I'm out at dinner right now, and I'm therefore not near my NetBackup documentation, but I believe you'll want to check /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/lt;clientname When I get home I'll check my notes to see if I'm correct. Good luck! - Heathe Kyle Yeakley -- Sent from my Palm Prē Sagz