Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions

2007-12-18 Thread Bobby Williams
I just checked a 3 month backup from last night (I don't have any 6 month). It started @ 1197958489 (12/18/07 00:14:49) It says that it expires @ 1205993689 (3/20/08 01:14:49) A difference of 8035200 seconds; or 133920 minutes; or 2232 hours; or 93 days I have seen it documented somewhere that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions

2007-12-18 Thread David Chapa
can find it, I'll post it here. Chapa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions I just checked a 3

Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions

2007-12-18 Thread Kristofer
(GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions I just checked a 3 month backup from last night (I don't have any 6 month). It started @ 1197958489 (12/18/07 00:14:49) It says that it expires @ 1205993689 (3/20/08 01:14:49) A difference of 8035200 seconds; or 133920 minutes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions

2007-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
7 279 9 months 8 365 1 year 9 24855 infinity [snip] - Original Message - From: Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dave markham [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:01:56 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-25 Thread Dyck, Jonathan
without a doubt why an entry is or isn't in them. Thanks for the comments Ed. Cheers, Jon -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:19 PM To: Dyck, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retentions This doesn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-24 Thread Dyck, Jonathan
: [Veritas-bu] retentions I, too, agree the 2-week retention should be addressed ... quite risky. A few thoughts ... I recently tested Aptare StorageConsole and one of its out-of-the-box displays is close what you're looking for, I think. When we obtain a license, I'll be discarding many scripts

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Wilts
To: Wayne T Smith; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions Just to chime in on the Aptare reports... They have an automated report (out of the box, but not really) you can cron/windows schedule to run that will give you the following details on full

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-23 Thread Pavankumar Gajula
and fix RAC. From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:10 PM To: Brandon Zermeno; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retentions How about setting a longer retention period and _expiring_ backups if the conditions

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Do you not keep month end backups for 12 months? I do not know of a way of doing this, other than importing the tapes that may have been used for this job (assuming you know what they are). I dont think NBU behavior works like this - its a fixed retention period (that I can see). You could

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Weber, Philip
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: 20 July 2007 01:29 To: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions What we have actually done here is to push the failures back

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Keating
. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: July 19, 2007 8:29 PM To: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions Aptare StorageConsole absolutely does this. Bring up

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Wayne T Smith
I, too, agree the 2-week retention should be addressed ... quite risky. A few thoughts ... I recently tested Aptare StorageConsole and one of its out-of-the-box displays is close what you're looking for, I think. When we obtain a license, I'll be discarding many scripts ... one of which sort

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Brandon Zermeno
it up to Oracle to take 2 weeks 4 hours to try and fix RAC. From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:10 PM To: Brandon Zermeno; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retentions How about setting a longer retention period

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread Cornely, David
As far as I know once images expire they are deleted from the Netbackup catalog - as a result (and as you state) it is not possible to unexpire images within the catalog via bpexpdate. The only option is to manually import the images off the tapes, assuming you know what tapes have the images you

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread David Rock
* Brandon Zermeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-19 15:50]: We had an issue where was server was down for over 2 weeks and the last full backups expired. The retention for this environment is 2 weeks. After the tapes expired the App team decided they wanted to restore. Now management wants Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread Brandon Zermeno
was not an option. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:38 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions As far as I know once images expire they are deleted from

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread Ed Wilts
This is what I am looking for. We have had nothing but useless junk from Command Central and Advanced Reporter and I have no faith in the latest version Backup Reporting. Does Aptare manage to show you when the last backup was run successfully? Aptare StorageConsole absolutely does this.

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread Martin, Jonathan
so importing was not an option. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:38 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions As far as I know once images expire

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-19 Thread Curtis Preston
How about setting a longer retention period and _expiring_ backups if the conditions you're looking for have happened? As long as I'm at it, I think a two week retention period is crazy. You should always have AT LEAST three full cycles. (IOW, if you're doing a full backup every week, I