If you have a policy naming convention (and you'd better for that many
policies), configuring things like exclude lists is no more difficult with
70 than with 7. I'd actually argue that it's the other way around.
I blogged about this a while back, and was surprised at the positive support
For those of you that are seriously interested, here is the actual format
taking advantage of policy and schedule names that made our life easier. I
should also state that we stood up extremely well to 5 audits over the past 4
years (BCP/vaulting audit, internal audit regarding records
We get around 6-8 restore requests/day. And yes, I take advantage of
Inline Tape Copy and have a copy available across dark fiber at a
separate campus and the other copy vaulted 90 miles away. If we have
time, I rerun (or dupe) any status 84's we get. I'm using IBM for tape
- 3590's and 3592's
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We get around 6-8 restore requests/day. And yes, I take advantage of
Inline Tape Copy and have a copy available across dark fiber at a
separate campus and the other copy vaulted 90 miles away. If we have
time, I rerun (or dupe) any status 84's
I have experience with StorageTek, but never used HP. For the IBM
library, you turn off NBU cleaning mgmt and let the library handle it.
I'm not sure of their current alogrhytm - it used to be the number of
feet of tape that passed the heads or if the drive reports errors. When
a cleaning tape
We have 8 Clariion VTL's and have a retention period of a week for
everything. We use In Line Tape copy for weekly and monthly backups
for offside storage. We are looking to use SRDF to replicate these
VTL's, but this may just take too long.
Brian, what replication software are you using to
We have fiber DWDM in place, so the drives appear as if they are locally
attached fiber drives. I'm in the process of doing some BCP work which
has different RPO/RTO than most things, so we are currently looking at
options for replication. We are already replicating the mainframe
environment,
Having worked with Brian and crew a few years back, when it was just 3000 policies, I must say it worked great then. It was just as easy to manageas the 50 or so policies I inherited where I am working now, perhaps even easier because all the policies I have now were created with no plan in
Takes a couple seconds with a little ad hoc command line scripting.
At a previous job, we had 3000+ policies.
One client per.Sometimes several policies per client.
The scheduler realy didn't like it (this was in the 3.4 days),
so we had a custom scripted scheduler that was called from cron.
Hi All
I was wondering what policy design some of you have followed for large
Oracle environments
I am busy doing a redesign of an Netbackup environment which backs up
about 70 DB's spread across about 30 servers (some of which are cross
sites)
I am doing my best not to end up with a solution
Can 5.0 or 5.1 support LTO-4 in the LTO-4 mode to utilize encryption? It is
not a choic in the definitions of tape drives, so how could it be supported?
Anyone using LTO-4 with encryption yet?
How would you transfer the encryption keys to NetBackup as a DR or altenate
site?
Bobby.
I don't think LTO4 encryption is depended on Netbackup as encryption is
happening at the drive, not at NBU.
I have talked to local Symantec reps and they projected support for LTO4
drives from NBU within 6 months.
In order to manage keys you need IBM EKM software which is in its
infancy stages.
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Pre 6.0 the device config for each media server and some media information was
stored on the media server, post 6.0 this is all in one place, the EMM
database.
The database uses a real server engine and since it's handling requests from
all other servers there's a bit higher load on the
Hi Doug
I would be interested to find out whether you had come to some resolution on
this as we have a similar issue whereas our bptm logs indicate that it waits
agaes to issue the SCSI reserve, the tape gets mounted however the RESERVE only
happens sometimes up to 30 mins later.
Any ideas ?
Basically, the answer is you have to go from 4.5-5.x-6.0. and there is no
NetBackup 6.1. (there's Puredisk 6.1 but that's something different)
There are consulting services available to help you out with this.
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Coincidentally, I wrote this just last week:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Data#58;#58;Dumper;
# Each line of bpdbjobs output has a fairly long, complicated format
# described in the PDF#58; NetBackup Commands for UNIX and Linux.
my $lineformat =
nbsp; #91;
nbsp; nbsp;'jobid', 'jobtype', 'state',
Pre 6.0 the device config for each media server and some media information was
stored on the media server, post 6.0 this is all in one place, the EMM
database.
The database uses a real server engine and since it's handling requests from
all other servers there's a bit higher load on the
Hi,
Does anyone out there have a standard procedure that is used for NetBackup
restores of Lotus Domino Databases using the agent? I can't seem to apply the
transaction logs correctly, I always get the error 'Invalid Notes Path'. I'm
guessing there is something you need to do with the
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 backups...
(hope your screens large enough to make out the headings...). Great
way to stop sys admins
It looks like a problem with the inetd deamon. Some Linux systems have
xinetd.conf Not sure how you check.
It is trying to add the netbackup deamons to your inetd configuration and
can't find it. I would start there
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Carl Stehman
IT Distributed Services Team
Until you have an [x]inetd process running the system wont be able to
listen for bpcd connections
You can start bpcd in standalone mode (bpcd -standalone) on the client
for the time being
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Hello all,
Im trying to reinstall an unix client on a solaris 9 box and netbackup
4.5_FP6. I followed the procedure described on VERITAS NetBackup 5.1
Installation Guide for UNIX (Uninstalling UNIX NetBackup Client Software).
When I tried to reinstall the client, I received:
Dave,
I ended up doing the following steps
1 - Down the library and powering it off
2 - Removed all drives and robots from master server and all media
servers.
3 - Stopped ALL NBU services on master and all media servers.
4 - On master server and all media servers I Deleted all files under the
You could completely disable the Volume Shadow Copy service on the Windows
client if you don't want Shadow Copy Components:\
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hello,
We set ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES for all of our Windows hosts and let the
Yeswe have a policy naming convention:
SiteCode-BusinessUnit-ServiceTier-Dataset-Component
For example, we might have a policy called:
usto-core-std-exchange-app
Which is a backup policy for the Exchange servers. It's a Standard tier
backup, meaning it get's daily backups retained
Will that fail backups or will it skip the Shadow Copy Components?
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could completely disable the Volume Shadow Copy service on the Windows
client if you don't want Shadow Copy Components:\
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
On
In 5.0/5.1 MP5 there is a bug
The major issue we saw with one policy for one client specially Windows FS that
When a stream/drive backup fails for a Win client, it tend to pickup all the
multi streams drives irrespective few were done successfully earlier
Which tends to backup duplicate
There will be no errors for the backup job, but in the Event Viewer you
will see an error that Volume Shadow Copy service was trying to start but
that it is disabled and cannot start.
Jared M. Seaton
Recovery Administrator
Mylan Laboratories Inc.
304-554-5926
Justin Piszcz [EMAIL
Shadow Copy Components:\ will not be backed up if Volume Shadow Copy
service is disabled.
With ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES as backup selection, NetBackup calls the VSC service
to create the Shadow Copy Components:\. When the service is disabled,
Shadow Copy Components:\ cannot be created therefore it is
This doesn't really address all of the issues. In order for this to work,
you have to know what the schedule of the jobs are supposed to be. We've
got a ton of backups that only run monthly and another ton that only run
semi-annually. Unless I sit down with a calendar, telling when the last
Wow, you've gone the opposite way (one policy per drive). Ouch!
I've had the scenario you describe work just fine with multistreaming --without
doing what you're doing. For example, if A, B, C, D were supposed to do a
full, and then one of them failed, it would only re-run the one that
But don't you WANT shadow copy to run? It's now the official way to get
a stable image of a running drive, right?
What extra stuff is getting backed up that you want to exclude, Justin?
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse
I want to exclude the registry backup for all Windows Backups.
Justin.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Curtis Preston wrote:
But don't you WANT shadow copy to run? It's now the official way to get
a stable image of a running drive, right?
What extra stuff is getting backed up that you want to
That's true, but it won't work if it's outside of the backup window ... It will
then fail with a status 196.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:54 PM
To: Kohli, Vidit;
You're saying if you manually re-run a backup via the activity monitor during
the daytime, it will fail with a 196? I didn't realize that.
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Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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Already tried to exclude Shadow Copy Components:\ and System_State:\ no go
for either, its not needed in my environment, is 1-3GB and sometimes
causes failures with various clients, its a waste of time/resources and it
will never be needed. I have never had any luck excluding it though.
On
Don't use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES then.
Specify C: D: E: ... instead. List all the drives possibly in use for all the
clients in the policy - clients with fewer drives configured won't complain.
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin
* Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-24 18:21]:
You're saying if you manually re-run a backup via the activity monitor
during the daytime, it will fail with a 196? I didn't realize that.
That would make sense because re-running is functionally similar to
rescheduling a job, which takes
Yeah but the Windows guys usually handle their own backups and we use
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and they set the include/exclude-- otherwise, I would do
that.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Conner, Neil wrote:
Don't use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES then.
Specify C: D: E: ... instead. List all the drives possibly in use
For restoring data from recycled tapes and non browsable .. can we do
it while restoring indexes from offsite catalog tapes ? if so please
could someone share on how we can do this without affecting browsable
images.
Env : NBU 6.0 MP4, Solaris 10
Thanks in advance
Raghava
I learned something today!
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Rock
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:44 PM
To:
That hasn't been my experience. If you configure a drive F: and there
isn't an F:, you get a job that fails with no such drive. I don't
like failures.
My opinion is that ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is a good thing, and backing up an
extra GB or too is a small price to pay. The risk of what happens when
Status 71 - None of the Files exist Curtis :-) !
Reading this thread, there seems to be either a lack of understand on the
imporantance of Shadow Copy Components. My recommendation is that you leave
well alone. If you do A_L_Drives, then a Win2k3 box WILL include this by
default. If your policy
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