Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun GigaSwift (ce) cards

2006-02-01 Thread william . d . brown
We use them and there is some tuning. I'm not near a system with them, but I do know we used the Sun documentation on these cards and set the TCP high watermarks to 65535. Some changes that used to go in /etc/system for 100Mb cards now go in a separate file for the ce cards. These in

RE: [Veritas-bu] Restore failure of Windows Domain Controller

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Marianne Well, my first thought would be to do a restore with the services stopped or set to manual, especially the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider Service. It might well be, that the files failed to be restored as the services was in use. HTH Simon

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO 3 Ultrium WIN2K03 NBU Optimization?

2006-02-01 Thread william . d . brown
If you look back in the list archives you will see this explained. HBAs and SCSI cards that use the windows miniport driver have a 64k limitation set by the maximum_sg_list parameter - or rather its default value as it is usually not defined. You can raise this in the registry settings for

[Veritas-bu] downloading NBU6.0 NOM media

2006-02-01 Thread Rolf C
Is it possible to download the NBU6.0 and NOM media somewere? It used to be possible to download the .iso's from the Veritas support site, but i can't find the media for NBU6.0 and NOM. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] NBU integration to MOM (Microsoft Operation Manager)

2006-02-01 Thread ida3248b
Hello All Has somebody attempted to integrate NBU into MOM ? We're runing NBU5.1MP4 in a windows environmemt and the management has choosen MOM as the monitoring tool. I've searched for a MOM management pack for NetBackup, but can only find one for BacupExec, maybe we could adapt this to

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU integration to MOM (Microsoft Operation Mana ger)

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Hi Michael We were in the same boat - advised that there is no MP for Netbackup, but apparantly, you CAN customise their Veritas MP for Netbackup. However, it may well be possible that 6.0 has the features to make it work with MOM Maybe a Symantec member can confirm this? Simon Weaver

RE: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin Well, bit of a tough question to answer, as there are SO many questions I would probably want to ask you, one of them being Is Netbackup the product for you !? How many client machines are you backing up? Are they a variety of operating systems? (ie: Unix, NT, 2003) Is Netbackup going to

[Veritas-bu] duplication speed

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Markham
People i am moving an infrastructure from one site to the other. As part of this we are splitting things between different trucks for resilience. I performed a full backup of the infrastructure yesterday and today am duplicating it. I run solaris 8 Netbackup 5.0 mp5S2. I am slightly

RE: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin Your welcome. As Netbackup is going to be the corporate standard, then you may want to make suggestions and evaluate the needs for your clients. For example, if you backup SQL, Oracle or Exchange DB, you are going to require add-ons - which are effectively license keys. These factors

Re: [Veritas-bu] duplication speed

2006-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:14:25PM +, Dave Markham wrote: People i am moving an infrastructure from one site to the other. As part of this we are splitting things between different trucks for resilience. How long did this backup take? I am slightly concerned as it reckons the job is

RE: [Veritas-bu] NetApp/NAS - Backups

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Keating
Since all the data would be transferred over IP to the unix media server, the perf shouldn't be much different than any other SAN attached High-Po unix or windows server..network would be your bottleneck. Played with it a bit, but didn't deploy it as the perf hit was too great. Paul

RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun GigaSwift (ce) cards

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Keating
Thanks. I set the hiwat, then came across this: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273288.htm Doesn't seem to affect me, so. Will look at the others. Clicking on the link http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hungsh/2001%20SUPerG.pdf didn't work, but going to http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hungsh/

[Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

2006-02-01 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I'm looking for some policy best practices / what is everyone doing to configure them? Do you create one policy per machine group (Database Servers, Web Servers etc..) or group them by type? Do you create one policy per type of backup (Nightly INC, Weekly Full) and put all your servers under

RE: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Jonathan Some examples of what I do: Policy for Win2k3 DNS Servers - includes Full Backups - Retention of 2 months and Incr Backups Retention of 3 weeks Policy for AD Servers Separate Month End Policies (Any weekly policies are disabled over the weekend period) I try to minimise the amount of

RE: [Veritas-bu] duplication speed

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Peppas
HI. I have seen that the percentage during duplication is totally off. You shouldn't take it seriously. Regards, Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:14 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] duplication speed

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Markham
I have 4 drives and am multiplexing things so all drives are in use which i suppose is how i backed things up in 8 hours and yes i gave 2048 set for frag size ( which i've just thought is 2 meg not 2 gig isnt itone to change ) I have worked out the duplication has picked its first image,

[Veritas-bu] linux OES backup

2006-02-01 Thread Bobby R Windle
Any one backing up linux OES using reiser file system. Want to here if you have any problems and what client and MP are you using etc... Bobby Windle ( Data backup Recovery ) W.L. Gore associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred) office: (302) 292-4026

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

2006-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:53:40AM -0500, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: I'm looking for some policy best practices / what is everyone doing to configure them? Do you create one policy per machine group (Database Servers, Web Servers etc..) or group them by type? Do you create one

[Veritas-bu] Database cleanup

2006-02-01 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Database cleanup Solaris 9 nbu 5.1 mp3 I was recently told by a Symantec engineer that I should be running this command once a week for database cleanup. Does anyone else run this? Are there any gotcha's that I should know about before I run this command? Touch

RE: [Veritas-bu] Database cleanup

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Here is the clarification :-) http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm Now, correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something I have found in the books, and I for one, have never used it. Thanks Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS

RE: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Hi Ed My apologies, that should be 200TB for the 300 clients :-) I guess you probably have to breakdown some of the streams to make sure they don't hit the TB limit ? Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Agreed with the Calendar schedule - the way our policies are set, its just easier to simply deactive the weekly policies and enable the monthly. Then as long as the monthly policies complete, deactivate the month ends and enable the weekly. Not that hard to do :-) Simon Weaver Technical

RE: [Veritas-bu] Database cleanup

2006-02-01 Thread Mike Andres
Title: Database cleanup I encountered a situation where the Master was busy doing backups all day every day so bpsched never had a chance to start a cleanup. Our catalog grew by a few GB every week until we found this technote: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm You don't need

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup issues with NDMP restores

2006-02-01 Thread Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR
Title: Message Hi We backup tons of data on the filer we have using Veritas Netbackup using NDMP. Our NDMP backups are for all volumes coming from the filerwhich are NFS mounted on UNIX hosts primarily used for oracle and weblogic. I have read lot of posts on the forum that "NDMP restore

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup issues with NDMP restores

2006-02-01 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Message Hello Sandeen The restores in general work. Unless you have a very old level of ontap and netbackup you should be able to restore down to single files quickly. The magic is that there is something called DAR, this means that you can restore up to 1024 files quickly. If you

[Veritas-bu] How to recover data from overwrited tape?

2006-02-01 Thread Jay Cheon
Hi All A few days ago, one of my customer had some mistake during manual expire tapes. Sometapeareneeded for restore thedata but the tape was already overwritten by other backup job. How to restore the data from overwritten tape? Anybody has experience about it? Any information would be

[Veritas-bu] Status 14 Error - 1 Client

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi All Got a new client that I installed the NBU Client and MP2 on (in line with my other clients) and attempted a backup last night. The activity log shows this: 01/02/2006 22:02:15 - positioning 7315L3 to file 79501/02/2006 22:02:15 - positioned 7315L3; position time:

RE: [Veritas-bu] How to recover data from overwrited tape?

2006-02-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message hi Jay Well, I am going to stick my neck out here, because reading the sysadmin media manager guide, I dont think it can be done. I dont think the IMPORT process is going to work on this either, as NBU will know about this tape, and its current image contents. The reason