Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow Copy ComponentsfromALL_LOCAL_DRIVES?

2007-07-25 Thread Curtis Preston
Yea, that's the one! --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:45 PM To: Curtis Preston; Conner, Neil; Justin Piszcz

Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow CopyComponentsfromAL L_LOCAL_DRIVES?

2007-07-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
No probs :-) - I agree, hate to see errors when they are not needed Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] Corrupt file system on Solaris 9. NetBackup 6.0 MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Hi Gang, I am hoping one of the NetBackup/SUN UNIX Guru's might be able to help here. We have a strange issue here at the moment. We have created a separate file system for NetBackup on /opt/openv. The /opt/openv filesystem filled with logs in the /opt/openv/logs directory. When doing a fsck

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

2007-07-25 Thread rcarlisle
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. ReneƩ Carlisle ServerWare Corporation _ From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

2007-07-25 Thread Flavio Huerlimann
Hi Tal As long as the DNS (and it's reverse lookup configuration) is working or a good host files exists, you also can backup the physical names, although they're not defined in the bp.conf (or registry). Just add the physical name(s) to the policy and back it up (just make sure you don't backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Corrupt file system on Solaris 9. NetBackup 6.0 MP4

2007-07-25 Thread rcarlisle
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

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

2007-07-25 Thread Shekel, Tal
Thanks I think that could cause a error on the passive node as this is for a Oracle cluster I may be able to pull it off if I get the script to check if the db is running locally and exit if it is not Thanks Guys Regards Tal -Original Message- From: Flavio Huerlimann [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow Copy ComponentsfromALL_LOCAL_DRIVES?

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Keating
-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: July 25, 2007 1:26 AM To: Conner, Neil; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow Copy

Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow Copy ComponentsfromALL_LOCAL_DRIVES?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Paul Keating wrote: -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: July 25, 2007 1:26 AM To: Conner, Neil; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-25 Thread Dyck, Jonathan
Ed, I 100% agree with what you've said below. For my traditional and small environment (only about 550 servers), what I've outlined is extremely useful, especially since it works for both Netbackup and Backup Exec clients in a similar manner. And no, a single report will never be able to get you

Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU on Nexsan MAID-enabled devices?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
I believe 6.5 is supposed to have exclusive support for this(?) if I recall seeing something about it in their 6.5 detail/PDFs. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Ed Wilts wrote: The Nexsan SATAbeast has some built in maid-features like parking the heads, slowing the drive rotation, and powering down a

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MP4 on RHEL5 Client:Installation problem

2007-07-25 Thread Andrew Stueve
As everyone is telling you, you need xinetd settings. Not a big deal. HOWEVER! This install is for linux 2.4 kernel, and RHEL5 is 2.6. Not a big deal, except the gcc changed. You have to make sure you have all the gcc 2.96 compatibility packages installed for legacy support. -Andrew Stueve

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Forester, Jack L
We upgraded to 6.0MP4 from 5.1 a little over a month ago. In general I think it's better than 5.1, but has anyone else noticed that certain operations take longer? Running vmoprcmd takes 90 seconds on our systems now whereas it used to take a couple of seconds before. Also, getting the media

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
MP4 fixed all of my issues, after that if I had the problem, re-installing or deleting/re-adding the media server seemed to help. It is hard to explain but the end result is vmoprcmd timed out and failed, if yours is working after 30 seconds, then I am not sure what could be causing that. It

Re: [Veritas-bu] Corrupt file system on Solaris 9. NetBackup 6.0 MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Patrick
You could also try fuser /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/* and see what process are being used. Regards, Patrick Whelan VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rcarlisle Sent: 25 July 2007 13:12

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Curtis Preston
I have a different way of handling that requirement. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:31 PM To: Curtis

Re: [Veritas-bu] Corrupt file system on Solaris 9. NetBackup 6.0 MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Dominik Pietrzykowski
Hi Clem, Make sure you log a sev 1 with support ASAP if you haven't already. In the mean time ... Might be best to apply MP4 to replace the files, I believe most of the lib ones are in there but make sure they are being updated as one of them is probably corrupt. Otheriwse grab them

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Shekel, Tal
Yes - It will still work The jobs will run as user jobs which are prioritised Regards Tal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 25 July 2007 19:10 To: Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Possible to exclude Shadow Copy ComponentsfromALL_LOCAL_DRIVES?

2007-07-25 Thread Curtis Preston
See below. Incorrect. If you specify F:\ a the only entry in the backup selection list and it does not exist, you will get a status 71. If you specify C:\, D:\ and F:\, and the system has a C and D drive, but no F drive, you will not get a failure. You will if you use multi-streaming because

[Veritas-bu] Re: NBU 6 MP4 on RHEL5 Client:Installation problem

2007-07-25 Thread rizalman_almasi
Shekel, Tal wrote: 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 Attached original message stripped from forum post that will be

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
I noticed there is a bug, in some cases, if NBEMM screws up, vmoprcmd can take a very long time and possibly time out FYI. Justin. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did notice that vmoprcmd does take slightly longer to run, but for me its only about 15 second difference. It

[Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT)
Have you guys ever used an external scheduler? I'm trying to figure out if that impacts Policy Prioritization or not. Since our backups aren't scheduled thru NetBackup (there are schedules, but no windows) does prioritization come into play or no? We're running 5.1 MP6. TIA, Kate

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Jared . Seaton
I did notice that vmoprcmd does take slightly longer to run, but for me its only about 15 second difference. It appears that running it in 6 generates better formatted output with more info, which may account for some extra time. But in general I have noticed that operations in the Java

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT)
They aren't user jobs, they are run with bpbackup -i. -Original Message- From: Shekel, Tal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:26 PM To: Justin Piszcz; Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread ckstehman
I also agree that things take longer, particularly starting NBConsole on Windows. = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/2007 01:50 PM To

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) wrote: Have you guys ever used an external scheduler? I'm trying to figure out if that impacts Policy Prioritization or not. Since our backups aren't scheduled thru NetBackup (there are schedules, but no windows) does prioritization come

[Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4

2007-07-25 Thread malabelle
Hi, I'm new to Nb. if I need to upgrade my clients to MP4, do I absolutely need to backup my master server (solaris 9) to MP4 too? or keeping it at mp3 is ok? Thanks, Marc-Andre Labelle +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Kenneth W Wilkinson
Yes. Other way not supported. kww -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of malabelle Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:31 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4 Hi, I'm new to Nb. if I need

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Allen, Jimmy
What is the bug and how do we fix it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Forester, Jack L; NetBackup List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 -

[Veritas-bu] Problem connecting Quantum i2000

2007-07-25 Thread David McWilliams
Has anyone run across this dilemma The following are connected via F/C switch: Quantum i2000 Scalar tape library 6 tape drives IBM RS6000 (Veritas 6.0-mr4 Master server) The switch is: IBM TotalStorage San16B-2 (switch) Problem: no robot ID to use for making ovpass Quantum provided one

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

2007-07-25 Thread Curtis Preston
While I agree with Justin's response, I really don't like using external schedulers for NetBackup unless absolutely necessary. The only real requirement I can think of that would force me to an external scheduler is multi-host dependencies, because external schedulers are really good at that.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Shekel, Tal
Looks like you have your answer You should also try keep any db agents at the same MP as the master I have seen issues from this with the Oracle agent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of malabelle Sent: 25 July 2007 18:31 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Patience required

2007-07-25 Thread Brooks, Jason
I had an issue, pre MP4, of the console on Win taking a good while to open. It started with some MP3 troubles, but MP4 cleared that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:27 PM To: