Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC

2006-10-11 Thread ida3248b
You could do something like this Put the database in backup mode split a BCV of Take the database out of backup mode Mount the BCV on media server Run a file backup of the mounted BCV dismount BCV Of cause every backup will be a full backup I assume you have looked into incremental with RMAN

[Veritas-bu] How can I find some backup job cost time ?

2006-10-11 Thread 黃祥益
Hi all : I want to find some backup job's backup cost time during the past period time . For example , backup job A backup window : 1:00AM ~ 2:00 AM backup frequency : 1 time/day I want to know the job A real backup cost time on 2006/01/01 ~ 2006/10/11 (every day) How can I use the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC

2006-10-11 Thread smpt
You can use more RMAN streams and buffers (10 streams with 256k buffers) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:10 AM To: Nardello, John; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Copying a tape

2006-10-11 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg Would BPDUPLICATE do the job for you ? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Hindle, Greg

Re: [Veritas-bu] Have to get rid of STK L180

2006-10-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Title: Have to get rid of STK L180 Hi Cheryl, You and others on this list could donate all your old equipment to us here in South Africa. I would make sure that the equipment would find a good home in our underprivileged schools. I myself assist and mentor underprivileged youngsters

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trying to implement synthetic backups

2006-10-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day Larry, Synthetic backups will not save you space as you will still be creating a full using the last full and the incrementals. You will however save time as you can have the synthetic backup run in the off peak backup time, thereby decreasing you backup window. This can save time if

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC

2006-10-11 Thread Jeff Lightner
We use RMAN for a backup of a smaller (300 GB) DB. It doesn't require stopping the database. For a large (2 TB) Oracle DB we do the BCV thing outlined below. You don't have to run Oracle on the media server because you do a standard rather than an oracle backup. (E.G. do not use RMAN - just

[Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement in NBU5.1

2006-10-11 Thread Raghunath kandakur
Hi all, I am looking out for help for writing perl scripts for performance enhancement in Netbackup 5.1 . Pls advise me.. Thank u all, Regards Raghu __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1

2006-10-11 Thread Whelan, Patrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raghunath kandakur Sent: 11 October 2006 15:32 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1 Hi all, I am looking out for help for

[Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

2006-10-11 Thread Sponsler, Michael
Title: Managing Tape Rotations I'm trying to work out a good tape rotation policy, and I'm trying to get vault to work the way I want it. Basically the tapes are replaced every month, and rotated back in every 6 months (they get erased when rotated back in). With Vault, I've noticed that the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

2006-10-11 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message what version are you running? I can't Vault a tape to the same Volume Pool it is already in. All of my Vaulted tapes are in pool nameslike the original name with a "_Offsite"suffix..ie."Exchange_Offsite" Paul -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

2006-10-11 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Managing Tape Rotations I am not sure I follow your plan. If you have tapes in a tape pool say "production data" and these tapes are vaulted out of your robot to a offsite volume group say "company_offsite", these tapes should remain in the original tape pool by design. If the tape is

[Veritas-bu] 2 Master Servers controlling Robotic Library

2006-10-11 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi again NBU 5.1 MP2 + 2 SAN Media Servers Win2k3 I am not a fan of 6.0, although I have decided to take the plunge and evaluate a clean install + MP3. My current setup uses an HP ESL fiber channel tape library, that is controlled by my 5.1 NBU Master and 2 SAN Media Servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

2006-10-11 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Title: Managing Tape Rotations If you're just looking for a view of what is in your ATL then right click on the column name and go to filter (in the windows gui.) Filter by slot and put in "" which will give you nothing but the tapes in the library. I've got tape retentions going back 5

[Veritas-bu] DSSU's, 191's and Imports

2006-10-11 Thread Karl . Rossing
I have a single master production NB 6.0MP3 server. I also have a separate DR NB master. The DR master is a clone of the Production NB server using Solaris 10 flash archive. I do daily backups of the Prod NB server using DSSU's. I get error 191's from time to time because of lack of media in my

Re: [Veritas-bu] unix to windows using CLI

2006-10-11 Thread Vip Cert
Sending this question again to list since I did not got any response. Thanks From: Vip Cert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unix to windows using CLI Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:31:49 -0600 Hi, I am not an expert of backup but I have a

Re: [Veritas-bu] unix to windows using CLI

2006-10-11 Thread Ellis, Jason
Check out the UNIX and Windows command guides for NetBackup 6.0 on the VERITAS/Symantec support site: support.veritas.com There should be all the command line options for both the backup and restore commands. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] unix to windows using CLI

2006-10-11 Thread Paul Keating
Check the manpage for bpbackup. You list all the files you want backed up in a textfile, and feed it to bpbackup with the -f option. Once backed up, a regular restore of all files in that image will drop everything on the destination box. Keep in mind the file attributes and ACLs will be

Re: [Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

2006-10-11 Thread Sponsler, Michael
Title: Managing Tape Rotations I am not sure I follow your plan. If you have tapes in a tape pool say "production data" and these tapes are vaulted out of your robot to a offsite volume group say "company_offsite", these tapes should remain in the original tape pool by design. If the tape

[Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Darren Dunham
I'm testing some vault duplication on a Linux master server. Since 'iostat' doesn't seem to show tape activity, is there any other way of calculating the speed? A completed duplication shows elapsed time, but not data transferred. Is there some log file that would contain the amount that was

Re: [Veritas-bu] symantec and VERITAS merger good or bad?

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Horalek
Make sure you contact your local Veritas Sales Represenative. They can push support for fast response. This is standard operating procedure for any Hardware/Software Manufacturer. Your reseller is another channel to use. Don't just let Support push you around. Jim -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Paul Keating
Is this linux specific? I don't have a linux box handy to check, but I'd imagine iostat would do exactly that. On solaris, I use iostat with the -xnp args and follow it with the interval time and number of intervals. For example: iostat -xnp 5 100 Gives me 100 shots on 5 second intervals of

Re: [Veritas-bu] symantec and VERITAS merger good or bad?

2006-10-11 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
I didn't realize we had local sales reps anymore... Our extremely responsive former sales team was replaced by some Symantec guy who takes AT A MINIMUM 3-4 weeks to reply to an email. I'm NOT IMPRESSED! I'm not sure if he's overwhelmed or what. What I DO think, tho, is that Symantec has given up

[Veritas-bu] Large Windows Clients

2006-10-11 Thread Iverson, Jerald
in our nb6mp3 linux master/media environment i have one win2k3 client that has 6TB of data that i need to backup in a certain amount of time. is there still a SAN Media server in netbackup 6.0? i haven't found too much information on the symantec/veritas web site for 6.0. would i install the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Darren Dunham
Is this linux specific? In the sense that I can't use 'iostat' to check the speed, yes. I think windows would have the same issue as well. In the sense that NetBackup isn't reporting on the speed, then I imagine it's common to all platforms. I don't have a linux box handy to check, but I'd

Re: [Veritas-bu] symantec and VERITAS merger good or bad?

2006-10-11 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I'm not sure if it makes any difference but we're only about an hour away from the former Veritas headquarters in Lake Mary, FL and we get SUPER SUPPORT from our local rep. I've got a response from any email I send her in 3-4 hours, and the pre-sales tech support guy gives me better tech support

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Liddle, Stuart
I think the iostat command for linux is differentBUT...You can look at the bptm log files on your media server and get information about the duplication speeds. look for successfully wrote and successfully read in the bptm logs to get write and read speeds for the duplication process. You

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Darren Dunham
look for successfully wrote and successfully read in the bptm logs to get write and read speeds for the duplication process. I guess that's good for after the fact. My problem is that I have some multi-terabyte images. Trying to know when they'll finish is tough. Hopefully most of the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On 10/11/2006 3:01 PM, Darren Dunham wrote: Now that my duplication is complete, I can hand-calculate the average throughput for the entire operation. But that's not available to me during the process to see how it's going We have made engineering aware that this is a number we'd like to

Re: [Veritas-bu] symantec and VERITAS merger good or bad?

2006-10-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On 10/11/2006 3:17 PM, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: I'm not sure if it makes any difference but we're only about an hour away from the former Veritas headquarters in Lake Mary, FL and we get SUPER SUPPORT from our local rep. Our offices are a few miles from the NetBackup engineering

[Veritas-bu] script writing for netbackup

2006-10-11 Thread Raghunath kandakur
Hi all, need to learn writing scripting using perl in netbackup, guide me pls. thank u all, __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com