[Veritas-bu] Error 1053 when starting Netbackup Client Service again

2006-05-23 Thread ida3248b
Hello All I'm getting Error 1053 when trying starting Netbackup Client Service on an another Windows 2003 SP1 machine netstat -a and netstat -an are also have very long response times Have tried restart the services on the Netbackup Master server, to get rid of any hanging bpbrm connections.

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 Error 46 Server not allowed access

2006-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi Another site has tried to implement 2 SAN Media Servers. Unfortunately, they appear to have ran into some problems, and as such, from the Master Server, under host Properties / Media Server all media servers show a status of (46) Server not allowed access. If I refresh,

Re: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

2006-05-23 Thread Richard.Hall
On Tue, 23 May 2006, bob944 wrote: There are now VTLs that compress the data going to disk; they always have a bit of a gamble as to how well they can mimic the way the real tape compresses data; I'm told they just use very conservative estimates, to make sure the disk

[Veritas-bu] STK tape drives on AIX

2006-05-23 Thread Marianne van den Berg
Title: STK tape drives on AIX Hi all Anybody out there using STK tape drives (9840 9940) on AIX 5.2 ? If so, I would like to know which drivers you are using. I have noticed that the STK drivers do not support extfm (extended file marks). According to the Device Configuration Guide

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 Error 46 Server not allowed access

2006-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Guys Sorted my problem - appears to have been cabling related! stopping and restarting the services appears to have bought things back inline Thanks Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up IIS

2006-05-23 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I backup plenty of IIS here and ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES gets the job done. Alternately if you just wanted to backup IIS you would have to backup the Registry (System State or Shadow Copy Components - same thing) and the directories themselves, usually c:\inetpub with wwwroot and ftproot under

Re: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

2006-05-23 Thread bob944
B. Because of that, as I said earlier, no tape software ever made, AFAIK, makes such an assumption. [...] Then you are obviously not as old as me :-( Might be--cut my teeth on 200bpi, 7-track and rememeber 3-inch-wide tape. :-) Way back, ICL had something called FMS (Filestore

Re: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

2006-05-23 Thread bob944
B. Because of that, as I said earlier, no tape software ever made, AFAIK, makes such an assumption. [...] Then you are obviously not as old as me :-( Might be--cut my teeth on 200bpi, 7-track and rememeber 3-inch-wide tape. :-) Way back, ICL had something called FMS (Filestore

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0Mp2 issues

2006-05-23 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Brandon, Have you opened a problem ticket with netbackup support, They are working on a replacement file for nbpem that hopefully will fix the nbpem problems without creating new ones. Or place a call for any netbackup module that core's. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5253

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Hickey
One issue I encountered in the past (was working with NBU 4.5 at the time) was that frequency based backups did not respect the calendar based backups; i.e.: if there was a window, and the calendar full ran the night before, then the frequency based full would run anyway. But, for the reasons

[Veritas-bu] BMR Web Cast recording

2006-05-23 Thread Ray Schafer
The BMR 6.0 Webcast was recorded on April 26th. It includes the demo of the new Fast Windows restore capability that will be available in 6.0 MP3.View RecordingRecording DetailsSubject: NetBackup Bare Metal Restore v6.0: Tech Overview/DemoRecording URL:

[Veritas-bu] Exclude lists

2006-05-23 Thread Mohamed Wahdan
Hello,I have a problem that we have a policy for a filesystem which contains alarge number of files with a differential backup and it fails with status41 (network connection timed out) I tried first to increase the CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUTto 1800 and it worked for some time then failed again with

[Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Covington, Garrett
I run Solaris9 - NBU 5.1mp4 Is there a good way to output the number or tapes within a pool or robot, ie: to count the number of SCRATCH tapes within a robot? Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c:

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi, vmquery pn scratch b | grep i hcart | wc l will give you the nr hcart tapes in scratch pool. Cheers, Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43 Tel mob: +46 (0)70 - 217 92 66 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprungligt

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Markham
I use this script because it actually tells you the amount of scratch in the jukebox currently and not using the netbackup databases of what it thinks is in there. Hope its of use. You will just need to change the P1000 bit in the awk statement to match whatever string gets the path of your robot

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Mark.Donaldson
yeah -but not limited to in-library tapes. I'd suggest: vmquery -rn 0 | grep -c Scratch Where the "0" is your actual robot number and the "Scratch" is the name of your scratch pool. -M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hampus LindSent: Tuesday, May 23,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude lists

2006-05-23 Thread Mark.Donaldson
Even if the paths are in your exclude list, they're scanned by Netbackup. If it's the millions of small files problem, then you'll spend a lot of time doing this. If I see an error 41, though, I start looking for connection issues. Hostname lookups, network problems, forward/reverse issues,

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Bobby Williams
vmquery -pn `vmpool -listscratch | tail -1` -b | grep -v NONE | wc -l That would get you scratch. vmquery has switches to let you pick pools or robots or both From: Covington, Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/05/23 Tue AM 11:26:33 EDT To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type--let's get it r ight

2006-05-23 Thread Mark.Donaldson
Time for my two-cents on this. I think it's from the start of the job. The image name for a backup is based on the start time of the job, not the completion time. I'm not going to prove this but it's pretty easily checked if you want to. The STREAMS file in the client entry in the database

[Veritas-bu] Using NBU SAP Agent in a MSCS Cluster ???

2006-05-23 Thread Ed Scheef
Folks, We just brought up SAP in a MSCS cluster. So far, I've been unsuccessful in getting our NBU 5.1 SAP Agent to work in the cluster. Any direction about how the SAP agent should be configured in a MSCS cluster, versus running on a stand-alone machine, would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Hall, Christian N.
vmquery -pn Scratch -b | grep -iv none | wc -l -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:55 AM To: Covington, Garrett; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Bluejay
Is there a good way to output the number or tapes within a pool or robot, ie: to count the number of SCRATCH tapes within a robot? You could do something like this, which assumes TLD libraries and works with Netbackup V4.5 on Tru64: #!/bin/ksh # Show the number of free tapes, and the total

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Device Daemon not starting

2006-05-23 Thread Greg Coleman
Small 2 node config. 1 master, 1 meda. Media has 1 L500 tape library w/ 1 DLT drive. Solaris 9 112233-07 NBU 6.0 MP2 ltid fails to start on the media server though the library/drive are configured and visible via tpconfig and sgscan. The ltid log file displays the following cryptic message

Re: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

2006-05-23 Thread Dan Pritts
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 03:50:58AM -0400, bob944 wrote: link. Even on a WAN many WAN routers use compression to improve throughput. I never thought of this. Cool. Do you have an example that I can study? Google for WAN Acceleration these appliances typically use many techniques to

[Veritas-bu] bprestore command

2006-05-23 Thread Matthew Johnson
Hello all and thanks in advanced for any responses. We currently have data on server that is being end of lived. With that said we are thinking of using NetBackup specifically the bprestore command and performing a redirected restore to the new server. Using the GUI is going to time

[Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2006-05-23 Thread Peters, Devon C
I've been doing some testing with a Sun V40z server running RHEL4, so I figured I could share some of my experiences with you... The V40z has the following 2 Opteron 844 CPUs 8GB RAM 2 Intel Quad Pro/1000MT cards (8 1Gbit ports total) 2 Emulex LP1DC HBAs (4 2Gbit ports total) 18