Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups on one client hanging at the same point everytime

2008-12-23 Thread Marianne Van Den Berg
bpbkar log on the client should tell you what it's getting hung on. Also have a look at Event Viewer Application log. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of smehta Sent: 22 December 2008 17:42 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups on one client hanging at the same point every time

2008-12-23 Thread Kenneth Hansen
Hi, Sound like Spaldam is on to something here. If open file option is not setup you want to check that. Problem not using open file option on windows client is that unless it's able to read the file time out settings will be used. After xxx sec setup in client properties netbackup will seem to

[Veritas-bu] Backups on one client hanging at the same point every time

2008-12-23 Thread smehta
you are correct, it was a problem with a directory that the backup was getting hung on. Ran a defrag and the backup completed successfully. Thanks for your help smehta wrote: Hi, I have a Windows 2003 client with 6.5.1 NBU client pkg installed on it. My master server is a Solaris 10,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Standalone to Custered migration

2008-12-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Earlier this year, I replaced the master server cluster at a previous employer. We went with the same vendor, namely Sun, but while the old servers were still in operation I built the new servers in a cluster. According to Veritas support, even the node names of the nodes in the new cluster

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to disable the option Cancel Alljobs in Netbackup Java Console.

2008-12-23 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Only thing I can say is use the remote admin console for windows ( not the java console) as it does NOT have that option on the right-click. -Original Message- From: Kurian K Oommen [mailto:ko.kur...@in.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:28 PM To: Judy Hinchcliffe Cc:

[Veritas-bu] New Library upgrade procedure Scenario 1.

2008-12-23 Thread Dave Markham
Guys we have a strange upgrade predicament i could do with running by the scene. I am splitting this into 2 threads to find pros/cons of 2 solutions im thinking about. Also to try and keep the mail shorter. Current Situation :- Sun E220R (running Solaris 8) Netbackup Server with attached L1000

[Veritas-bu] New Library upgrade procedure Scenario 2

2008-12-23 Thread Dave Markham
Guys we have a strange upgrade predicament i could do with running by the scene. I am splitting this into 2 threads to find pros/cons of 2 solutions im thinking about. Also to try and keep the mail shorter. Current Situation :- Sun E220R (running Solaris 8) Netbackup Server with attached L1000

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

2008-12-23 Thread Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Roed, as you've been told several times, the media is being detected as DLT in your SL500 environment because you have a barcode rule (or the lack of one and a default set to DLT) in that environment that is telling NetBackup to do that. You need to add or modify a barcode rule that tells

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Library upgrade procedure Scenario 2

2008-12-23 Thread Martin, Jonathan
//We were faced with something similar here when upgrading from 4.5/5.1 and SDLT to 6.0 and LTO and more or less went with your Option #2. What we decided was to build an entirely new environment on new hardware to migrate backups to leaving the old environments intact. 90% of our data is kept

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp vs. SAN Media Server

2008-12-23 Thread rob worman
It looks to me like you're both right. If I may paraphrase: Ed: snapshots are handy for immediate user-initiated file recovery Curtis: in the described configuration, those snapshots will likely consume lots of space Maybe I'm missing some subtext here but I agree with, and see no

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Library upgrade procedure Scenario 1.

2008-12-23 Thread bob944
Sun E220R (running Solaris 8) Netbackup Server with attached L1000 tape unit + 4 x DLT drives. Netbackup 5.0MP7. Hardware is beyond old but customer is reluctant to upgrade. We have told them we cannot support the L1000 unit and their backups are at risk. It has gone EOSL and parts are

[Veritas-bu] Just how smart is Netbackup on restores? (Full/Cumu/Incr)

2008-12-23 Thread Donaldson, Mark
I've got a set of policies that follow a pattern of: Monthly - Full Weekly - Cumulative Incremental Daily - Differential Incremental If it's been 20 days from the last full, then what I need is the full backup from 20 days ago, then a big skip to the previous cumulative the incrementals from