RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and VSP on Windows
Title: Message Well we dont back up desktops - so outlook would not be open. But I have found NBU 5.1 to perform backups with status 0 all the time. the only time I see a "1" status is if there is a file it cannot open, but even so, its not been a critical file. When you enable VSS/VSP - take a look at this document. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/276739.htm Might be of a point of reference. One of my sites was continually getting 156 messages and they called Veritas... (before calling Symantec. Guess what they told them to do??) Answer turn off VSS Well it was disabled, and the backups have worked solid since. I also come from a NBU 3.4 with OTM was used (open transaction manager) and that still had issues, although in some cases, it was ok. I dont list .pst files :-) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 May 2006 23:40To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and VSP on Windows Not yet - I'm still looking at it in a test environment. How would you backup open windows files on Windows 2000 without it? It's quite likely that people leave Outlook open on their desktop at the end of the day and in the past this has caused open file issues (as well as any documents they might be working on). From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 May 2006 2:55 AMTo: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and VSP on Windows Cons: Backups can fail with status 156 Pros: Well I dont use it - and even with AD, its not even used. and yet it still gets backed up! VSP/VSS within Netbackup will need disk space. Have you tried it yet? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 May 2006 06:55To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and VSP on Windows Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie to Netbackup (but learning shed-loads rather rapidly) and have a question about VSP for open file backups. I've had some people who use this and others who don't although I've not had any reasons for either case. I'm wondering if it's generally a good idea on things like Windows file servers (where especially pst files are often open), DHCP and DDNS servers (non Active Directory DDNS). On Windows 2003, it seems VSS is better for open file backups (although this may be wrong). What are the cons with using VSP? Cheers, - Tim Wilkinson I.T. Support Officer Science Corporate Information Systems Defence Science Technology Organisation Department of Defence Tel: (02) 96921484 Fax: (02) 96921562 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Re: Help! All Tapes From Scratch
Nor was I bob :-) I was creating a scenario about tapes with status 84 or 86 and the ability to recover ALL data from those tapes :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 May 2006 00:53 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; WEAVER, Simon Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Re: Help! All Tapes From Scratch I agree with your comments about throwing the tape away. However, can we assume this scenario: Full Backup Friday of critical Server. Completed all ok, but during the job a status appeared (Media Write Error, or Media Position Error) although only once. Sunday Server Dies Come in Monday, and you can ONLY restore from Fridays Backup! Are you telling me that its VERY unlikely Netbackup will restore ANY Data from the tapes it used? Simon, I wasn't addressing your fried-robot situation earlier, so let me clarify. Backups that were successful are restorable unless the tapes were damaged. If the backups weren't successful (0 or 1), there is no data to restore. (The rest of this note is probably too long, too pedantic and too boring for anyone without a masochistic streak. You've been warned. :-) If you were referring to losing data in Amazing. So, in your environment, it's considered more cost-effective to risk losing data or fail another backup than to throw out a $50 tape? my point was to the nature of magnetic media[1]. A successful write doesn't guarantee that you can read that block later (maybe a bit of oxide flakes off, for instance). And that's best case. Now, when a tape has already demonstrated that it has flaws (the write error you mentioned above, for instance), we _know_ it has at least one problem spot and that tape is much more likely to cost you another backup versus a tape without known problems. Or, worse, the drive's retry logic gets a successful write on the 17th automatic retry, you think the tape is now good, and next month you're trying to recover that payroll master file and that block just isn't quite good enough to read any more. Nobody's happy. So, since an uncorrectable write error (the only ones you're going to see since the drive/driver hide the self-corrected ones) means the backup job is a failure--no data is retained, do I want to use tapes with problem histories for that payroll master server? Or anything else? Since the _only_ reason to do backups in the first place is to be able to restore data--and if we're restoring, we must _need_ that data, I think not. - bob p.s. In another lifetime, I was involved on the vendor side with a customer who cooked his mainframe. Two different times. Wound up replacing the entire room full of equipment both times--the boxes that weren't flat dead on Monday were flaky and intermittent so everything got tossed. I don't know the specifics of your weekend incident, but I wouldn't trust anything in the room, hardware or media, without at least thoroughly testing it. 1. Especially sequential media (tape versus disk). There are many mechanicals involved--head alignment, tracking, wear, drag, dirt--and these change from drive to drive. The same type of drive may be built by different companies, or with different mechanical revisions, or firmware changes. The tape can stretch, wrinkle or get its edges damaged by use, temperature/humidity and improper storage. But the oxide... there's where the variables really are. It can flake, get scratched, pick up a thickness of crud, be worn down and just plain be manufactured with flaws. Always has, which is why mag media devices/controllers/drivers all have error compensation measures, including retry logic. You can write the same data to the same tape in the same drive and get different results. With a disk (and all start conditions identical), data X gets written to sector Y, every single time. With tape... all you can guarantee is the order of the data. There are gaps between blocks and between tape marks. A common drive/ctrlr/driver response to write errors is to back up, wipe out the failed block, erase a bit of tape and try again--now everything downstream is being written to a different place than before. Gaps are not all consistent. Some drives vary the tape transport speed to match the data rate... Lots of variables. Lots of possibilities for a bad tape to pass a subsequent test--or a good one to fail tomorrow. Some reasons to replace flaky hardware and media at the flaky stage--not waiting until it is flat down. And good reasons to make duplicates. This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium
RE: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Software Planning for Win2k3
Title: Message Hi Does anyone do any DR planning with Netbackup on windows in the event of a Disaster, or Server dies and replaced with new hardware. See note below Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: WEAVER, Simon Sent: 28 April 2006 16:48To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Software Planning for Win2k3 Hi again I wanted to use the "collect disaster recovery" info, but as I do not have a key, I cannot use it! So I wanted to know what alternative solutions companies in an Win2k3 AD larger environment are using. For the main OS I use GHOST, which is "OK", but wondered if anyone else had any alternative products that work well with Win2k3. Once the Server is up, its a case of restoring the Data via NBU - which works. But I would like to review the possibility of a faster solution. If anyone is in a Win2k3 environemt (or NT/2000), I would love to hear opinions on this. With my old NBU 3.4 I must have had a license to do a BMR, because I created either a CD/floppy disk that was inserted into the server, connected to the Master Server and restored the data. It worked, but took time... Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Promote Media Server to Master Server
Bart Well depending on who you talk to, its either impossible or it is possible :-) From what I have heard, there could be a way to allow a media server to be upgraded, but like you cannot find any documents. Oh hang on, just found this.. Not a lot of help though :( http://forums.veritas.com/discussions/thread.jspa?threadID=62374 Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: WALLEBROEK Bart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 May 2006 13:38 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Promote Media Server to Master Server Is there a way to promote a Media Server (Windows 2003 cluster) to a Master Server (Windows 2003 cluster) in NBU 6.0 ? I've looked in all the docs I could get but nothing to find. Best regards, Bart Wallebroek Swift Backup Administrator ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing client name - Not appearing in client h ost list
Title: Message the client that was changed? did you remove the Netbackup Client software, remove all traces of the old name from your master server and then reinstall the client software as if you are treating this as a new machine? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Snyder, Guy C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 May 2006 18:40To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Changing client name - Not appearing in client host list Someone changed the name of one of my clients and it does not appear in the GUI client host list. All systems are Windows 2000 on NetBackup 5.1MP3. I cannot see what needs to be done to bring this back into the list and make it an active client again. The IPAddress did not change and I updated my windows host file with the new name. Guy CSnyder |Systems Analyst |Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services Unisys | Suite 102, 3605 Vartan Way|Harrisburg,PA 17110 | 717.526.1125 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
[Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment
Hi All, I'm after a away to extract the files that are contained within an individual BackupId that has multiple "Fragments" (File number ona Tape). If I have a single backup image and it spans many "Fragments" / File Numbers, on the media, is there a way to extracta listing's of those files froma singleFragment/File Numberusing a single backup id, though the are multiple Fragments for that single backup? (sorry but I've repeated myself here!) I know I can get a complete listing of a specific backup using bpmedialist and give the backup id etc. But using the Images on Media control( from the GUI), I can see the multiple Fragments on the Tape with the File Numbers, so there must be a way somehow to relate this back into the NetBackup DataBase to use it! This has come about from an historic NDMP system I've had to recover from and for the particular directory, they are 27 Fragments, and I know how to extract the NDMP backup using a SUN system, but I didn't know which file on the tape to skip to. I have managed to extract the data. But I'm hoping I can get a better solution to what I've done, by creating a TOC for each of the Fragments and grep-ping for my data to extract! Thanks Regards Andrew WilkinComputer Systems Analyst Department of LandsPanorama AveBATHURST, NSW, 2795, AUSTRALIA Ph: 61 2 6332 8397Fx: 61 26332 8457E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]WEB: www.lands.nsw.gov.au http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au ***This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Lands.This email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.***
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup IRC Channel ...
Id be interested in that definitely. There wasnt one last time i checked on efnet. Dave Barber, Layne (Contractor) wrote: Start one? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 09:47 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup IRC Channel ... I don't think so. On 5/3/06, Wilkinson, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there one ? -aW ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] solaris off thread
Thanks people. Have subscribed. Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:13:54AM +0100, Dave Markham wrote: Sorry for the off topic message but does anyone know any solaris forums email or web which are free? http://www.sunmanagers.org/. Best Solaris mailing list on the planet. Note the etiquette. ie you get responses from individuals and you then must post a SUMMARY. Doesn't work like this list. -aW ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
Title: Message are the 2 mount points on two different LUNs or just two points on the sme LUN? if different LUNs are they the same RAID group? same type of disk for both? (SATA vs FC?) how are you connected to disk? dual port HBA one 2gb port per diskmount? or are you using something like EMC Powerpath or HDS HDLM and only using one port, with the other as failover, or both load balanced, or one port per LUN? Do you have any other LUNs mounted via on of the ports? You saythe tape drivesare connected to a single card, but are they daisy chained to one port on the card or is it a dual port/controller SCSIcard? In other words, more infor please -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: May 4, 2006 5:07 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speedHi, I'm getting slow DSSU - LTO2 tape drive performance. I think the problem is related to the SAN since the DSSU uses two mount points(/dssu1 and /dssu2). I'm seeing 16MB/s on one LTO2 drive and 27MB/s on the other LTO2 tape drive using iostat. Both drives are LVD connected to the same card but using a different port. Under ideal circumstances, how fast should i be able to read data off a dual port 2Gb/s hba assuming it's directly connected to the storage? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu.
RE: [Veritas-bu] Inventory failed: Unknown error
What version of NBU? On what system is it running? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iacaruso, Bob - BLS CTR Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:27 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Inventory failed: Unknown error I just started receiving the following errors in attempting to inventory my two libraries Inventory failed: unknown error -- -1073741616 or Inventory failed: Cannot connect to robotic software daemon (42). I receive these messages with both libraries (Overland Neo 2000 and Adic Scalar 24). My devices are connect to NetApp filers via FC and using NDMP for communication. The filers see each library and tape drive (via sysconfig), set_ndmp_attr works fine as well as robtest. The environment has been working for almost a year without any problems. Any ideas on how to resolve? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Inventory failed: Unknown error
NBU 5.1 M5 on Windows 2000. Today I removed any reference to the Overland Library, rebooted and now I'm able to inventory my ADIC. I then re-added the Overland library w/drives and I get same Inventory failed error when I try to inventory the robot. Thanks Bob -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:42 AM To: Iacaruso, Bob - BLS CTR; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Inventory failed: Unknown error What version of NBU? On what system is it running? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iacaruso, Bob - BLS CTR Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:27 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Inventory failed: Unknown error I just started receiving the following errors in attempting to inventory my two libraries Inventory failed: unknown error -- -1073741616 or Inventory failed: Cannot connect to robotic software daemon (42). I receive these messages with both libraries (Overland Neo 2000 and Adic Scalar 24). My devices are connect to NetApp filers via FC and using NDMP for communication. The filers see each library and tape drive (via sysconfig), set_ndmp_attr works fine as well as robtest. The environment has been working for almost a year without any problems. Any ideas on how to resolve? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 08:52:26 AM: Tools like iometer on Windows and Bonnie on Unix can help you benchmark your disk subsystem. You can also do backups to the null device. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm. This allows you to have bpkar32 process data locally, and elmiinate network connectivity and tape performance from the picture. Thats awesome, I'll do that later this afternoon on the dssu's. So far i was doing cp /dssu1 /tmp and iostat'ing that BUT as /tmp fills up so does swap. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
RE: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
Here are some testsyou canrun : TEST CLIENT DISK READ SPEED1) Read the data and write to /dev/null: a) with tar timex tar cvf /dev/null /dssu1b) with bpbkar timex /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar -dt 0 -r 888 -nocont /dssu1 /dev/null2) Read the data and write to /dev/rmt/0cbn: a) with tar mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew timex tar cvfb /dev/rmt/0cbn 512 /dssu1 b) with bpbkar mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew timex /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar -dt 0 -r 888 -nocont /dssu1 /dev/rmt/0cbn From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:17 AMTo: Ed WiltsCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 08:52:26 AM: Tools like iometer on Windows and Bonnie on Unix can help you benchmark your disk subsystem. You can also do backups to the null device. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm. This allows you to have bpkar32 process data locally, and elmiinate network connectivity and tape performance from the picture. Thats awesome, I'll do that later this afternoon on the dssu's. So far i was doing cp /dssu1 /tmp and iostat'ing that BUT as /tmp fills up so does swap. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
RE: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 09:39:23 AM: Here are some tests you can run : TEST CLIENT DISK READ SPEED 1) Read the data and write to /dev/null: a) with tar timex tar cvf /dev/null /dssu1 With this, i was able to determine that the problem is related to the HBA/FileSystem and not the tape drives. Netbackup server gets no more than 50MB/s while another server with more ram get 100MB/s(as checked with iostat) I'll work on the filesystem first and then unconfigure and reconfigure the FC ports if needed. Thanks Roy! Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. v
Re: [Veritas-bu] Iron Mountain NetBackup
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:16:45AM -0700 or thereabouts, Shane Liebling wrote: 6.0's Vault has Iron Mountain ftp file generation and upload built in, though I don't know if you want to upgrade. Our company hasn't. We just snip Shane- I apologize, but I think you are mistaken on two points: (1) the NBU Vault capability that Wayne is asking about (to produce an Iron Mountain FTP file) is not new to 6.0; it has been a feature since 4.5 FP3, IIRC. (2) there is no upload capability. Vault writes the IM text file in a certain format (the one used by Iron Mountain's internal tracking software) to a user-specified directory on your master server. It's then up to the user to transport the file to Iron Mountain. (but it wouldn't be too hard to automate it using a .netrc file and the Vault hooks to run a notify script at the end of a vault job.) HTH rob have a script or two that checks for the contents of the library, takes that and runs it through bpmedialist looking for FULL tapes. It then tosses those tapes and their expiration dates into a file. We then have another script to upload that to ironmountain run through cron. -Shane On 5/4/06, BeDour, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups. We are changing offsite storage sites and have selected Iron Mountain. I 'm just beginning to look into the ftp file that we will be sending to Iron Mountain and have not talked to their people yet about this. I remember past posts referring to Iron Mountain and NetBackup. I did a search and couldn 't find much. Is there anything already set up in NetBackup to create this ftp file? Is Vault required? If someone out there is doing this without vault can you share how you are doing it and any scripts associated with it ? Thanks in advance Wayne BeDour IT Unix System Administrator PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 Compress Catalog Bug
Admins, I've been having problems with a particular clients db/images directory. It seemed that some images were not being deleted. It turns out that bpdb isn't able to delete compress catalogs that expire. It essentially orphans them which leads to you're client images growing. The bug ID is 897766. You should contact veritas in order to get a work around. Apparently the fix is slated for MP3. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] Odd DSSU Behavior
I've been noticing that I'm frequently, if not daily, receive a 191 on a duplication job. So, today, I dug a bit deeper. Here's what happens: The parent scheduled relocation job kicks off and spawns the first relocation job. At some point during that job's running, a second one kicks off and ends with a 191: 5/5/2006 2:14:05 PM - Error bpduplicate(pid=10876) Duplicate of backup id Readpac_1146810660 failed, file write failed (14). 5/5/2006 2:14:05 PM - Error bpduplicate(pid=10876) Status = no images were successfully processed. 5/5/2006 2:14:06 PM - end Duplicate; elapsed time: 00:01:53 no images were successfully processed(191) 5/5/2006 2:14:06 PM - Error bptm(pid=2976) unable to read bpduplicate message, network read error (h_errno = 10054) When looking at the details of the first running relocation job, I found that the image, Readpac_1146810660, was already relocated by the first job once the second tries to grab it. Does NBU not keep track of the fragments on relocation? Is there some config, related to multiple jobs, that should be changed? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Export and Import NetBackup configuration
Hello, Does anyone know, if I can Export the NetBackup configuration from an existing NetBackup server and Import it to a new server on another site? NetBackup: 5.0 with MP2 OS: Windows 2003 Ent. SP1 Thanks
RE: [Veritas-bu] Iron Mountain NetBackup
Thanks for the responses, but so far it sounds like Vault is required to produce this record, correct? At this time we do not have or plan to purchase Vault. Anyone out there doing this with Iron Mountain without Vault and care to share how you are doing it? Thanks Wayne BeDour IT Unix System Administrator PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rob Worman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Iron Mountain NetBackup On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:16:45AM -0700 or thereabouts, Shane Liebling wrote: 6.0's Vault has Iron Mountain ftp file generation and upload built in, though I don't know if you want to upgrade. Our company hasn't. We just snip Shane- I apologize, but I think you are mistaken on two points: (1) the NBU Vault capability that Wayne is asking about (to produce an Iron Mountain FTP file) is not new to 6.0; it has been a feature since 4.5 FP3, IIRC. (2) there is no upload capability. Vault writes the IM text file in a certain format (the one used by Iron Mountain's internal tracking software) to a user-specified directory on your master server. It's then up to the user to transport the file to Iron Mountain. (but it wouldn't be too hard to automate it using a .netrc file and the Vault hooks to run a notify script at the end of a vault job.) HTH rob have a script or two that checks for the contents of the library, takes that and runs it through bpmedialist looking for FULL tapes. It then tosses those tapes and their expiration dates into a file. We then have another script to upload that to ironmountain run through cron. -Shane On 5/4/06, BeDour, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups. We are changing offsite storage sites and have selected Iron Mountain. I 'm just beginning to look into the ftp file that we will be sending to Iron Mountain and have not talked to their people yet about this. I remember past posts referring to Iron Mountain and NetBackup. I did a search and couldn 't find much. Is there anything already set up in NetBackup to create this ftp file? Is Vault required? If someone out there is doing this without vault can you share how you are doing it and any scripts associated with it ? Thanks in advance Wayne BeDour IT Unix System Administrator PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd DSSU Behavior
I wager you are running Netbackup 5.1MP4... We just ran into this at my workplace. This feature was introduced in MP4. Here is what to do: echo 1 /usr/openv/netbackup/MAX_STAGING_JOBS Take a look at this technote (now missing from veritas' site) if you need to clean up your dssu due to the 191's: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Ieb2QUFwcn0J:seer.support.veritas.com/docs/267636.htm+manually+clean+dssu+veritashl=enlr=client=firefox-astrip=1 Hope it helps. -Shane On 5/5/06, Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been noticing that I'm frequently, if not daily, receive a 191 on a duplication job. So, today, I dug a bit deeper. Here's what happens: The parent scheduled relocation job kicks off and spawns the first relocation job. At some point during that job's running, a second one kicks off and ends with a 191: 5/5/2006 2:14:05 PM - Error bpduplicate(pid=10876) Duplicate of backup id Readpac_1146810660 failed, file write failed (14). 5/5/2006 2:14:05 PM - Error bpduplicate(pid=10876) Status = no images were successfully processed. 5/5/2006 2:14:06 PM - end Duplicate; elapsed time: 00:01:53 no images were successfully processed(191) 5/5/2006 2:14:06 PM - Error bptm(pid=2976) unable to read bpduplicate message, network read error (h_errno = 10054) When looking at the details of the first running relocation job, I found that the image, Readpac_1146810660, was already relocated by the first job once the second tries to grab it. Does NBU not keep track of the fragments on relocation? Is there some config, related to multiple jobs, that should be changed? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Server
I am trying to install a standby NetBackup server on a different site but on a same domain. I am looking for any documentation that suggests how to set this server up? Do I create a second master server? Your help is appreciated.
Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd DSSU Behavior
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:58:26PM -0700, Shane Liebling wrote: I wager you are running Netbackup 5.1MP4... We just ran into this at my workplace. This feature was introduced in MP4. Here is what to do: echo 1 /usr/openv/netbackup/MAX_STAGING_JOBS Note that you need to do this for every media server too. Also look at the size of the destage - by default they'll only destage 25GB at a time (and kick off 4 simultaneous streams). Drop the number to 1 like Shane said, and increase the size to a high number. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
