Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Simon When you say data, what exactly do you mean ? Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: 08 November 2006 16:52To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU Hi all Quick question -

[Veritas-bu] Help with /etc/symlinks.translations

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Judge
Hi all, I am trying to map NT usernames to NIS usernames and home directories. I have modified the /etc/usermap.cfg for the accounts whose names differ, but I cannot find any documentation on how to use the /etc/symlinks.translations file for mapping the NIS home directory to a local path.

Re: [Veritas-bu] VNB 5.1MP5 : DSSU verses DSU

2006-11-09 Thread Clooney, David
Ray DSSU - stands for Disk staging Storage Unit , from the below I would think this is what you are after, whereas you write to the storage unit and then duplicate off to tape at a later stage. DSU - stands for Disk Storage Unit. For DSSU's you can set up schedules to write off to tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Dave In respect of knowing what client backup was on the monthly tape. For example if SERVER1 was backed up with a 1 year retention it is classed as a monthly backup. That tape is unloaded and placed into a safe / vault. If 5 months down the line they need to restore data for

[Veritas-bu] SQL Backups Status 2

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi all Win2k3 NBU 5.1 MP2 Need to implement SQL Backups online. got a license key, and applied that. I am reading through the manual, and starting to think this looks harder than it shoudl be! I have an SMS Server (systems management) that runs SQL 2000 and I need to do

[Veritas-bu] Ingres backup...

2006-11-09 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi all, If a want to start a script thats backing up Ingres on a client. How do I best start that script from the master with a policy? I dont want to start it from cron from the client.. Thanks and regards, Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 -

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backups Status 2

2006-11-09 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Title: Message Use SQL Server's built in functionality to write backups to disk and then pickup those files with file level backups. Unless you have a LARGE and UNWIELDY SQL Database that's your best option (and it saves you the SQL Database Client to boot!) Ok, that's just the way we do it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread Henry Kemp
If you want to work out which tapes are required for a restore either:-- through the admin GUi in the Backup, Archive Recovery pane select the files to be restored as usual and before clicking on the "Restore" button and it tells you which tapes you need-- if you prefer the command line then you

[Veritas-bu] Backup of Mysql...

2006-11-09 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi all, How do you all backup your mysql databases? Is there any database agent? Thanks 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]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ingres backup...

2006-11-09 Thread ida3248b
Hi Hampus I would use bpstart_notify to run the script that's backing up ingress Regards Michael On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:14:10 +0100, Hampus Lind wrote Hi all,   If a want to start a script that’s backing up Ingres on a client. How do I best start that script from the master with a policy? I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup of Mysql...

2006-11-09 Thread ida3248b
Hi Hampus I think there is a script called mysqlhotcopy There wasn't any database agent when I checked last, but that is some time ago. Regards Michael On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:21:13 +0100, Hampus Lind wrote Hi all,   How do you all backup your mysql databases? Is there any database agent?  

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backups Status 2

2006-11-09 Thread ida3248b
Hi Simon Make the dbbackup and dbclient directories under Netbackup/logs and raise verbose to 5, this usually gives a pretty indication of what problem is. Regards Michael On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:04:59 - , WEAVER, Simon wrote Hi all Win2k3 NBU 5.1 MP2 Need to implement SQL Backups online.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message GCheers Henry I have told them to use Activity Monitor and if a tape is needed, verify with the "Media" gui if it is in the robot. If not, find the tape it wants and chuck it in :-) Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backups Status 2

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Done that - its telling me it cannot see the SQL Server, even though permissions are applied. Account all looks fine from what I can see. NT Authentication too ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road,

[Veritas-bu] bpbkar null windows file

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Markham
Sorry for the strange topic. im trying to run a bpbkar32 -nocont ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES 1 null 2 null (or even c: instead of all_local_drives) on a windwos 2000 box with netbackup 4.5 client. Its very strange but it starts to create a file called 'null' which grows so i have to kil the process off.

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backups Status 2

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Jonathan We do it here, but for the record, this failed for MONTHS!! so, that is not my best option, but I intend to have a DB Backup Plan as well as the online agent. I dont normally give up, so will keep trying!! Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: bpbkart on unix

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Markham
Thanks ill try the required interface should it be /dev/bge1 or just bge1 ? Thanks Clooney, David wrote: Dave Are you sure your routing is correct, sounds a bit odd that by setting an interface you are not using performance improves. If need be add an entry to the clients bp.conf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread Weber, Philip
We take tapes out regularly, using a script that checks which tapes aren't going to expire until a certain month. When the script ejects these, it changes the volume group for the tape to be the month name. The tape then goes in the box similarly labelled with the month name. When a restore

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: bpbkart on unix

2006-11-09 Thread Clooney, David
Just bge1 D -Original Message- From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 November 2006 14:21 To: Clooney, David Cc: Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: bpbkart on unix Thanks ill try the required interface should

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication

2006-11-09 Thread Austin Murphy
On 11/8/06, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or just use Quantum DLT-S4s. 90MB/sec write times, 800GB uncompressed per tape and they fit in all the same Quantum Libraries as LTO3s. Not only do they fit, but Quantum charges the same price for LTO3 as they do for

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbkar null windows file

2006-11-09 Thread Bobby Williams
You are putting in an extra l (lower case L). The null devices on windows only has one lower case L. And the tech note shows only one. Bobby. From: Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/09 Thu AM 09:03:33 EST To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] Windows Differential / Cumulative Backups

2006-11-09 Thread Gary Williams
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Differential / Cumulative Backups

2006-11-09 Thread Darren Dunham
Because when you run your differential incrementals, the archive bit will be set. If you try to do a cumulative after a differentail (or the other way around), nothing has its archive bit in a state that says it needs to be backed up. Unix uses the data/time of the last successfull backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Or they can just watch the restore progress log which will specify that the tape is not in the robot. Paul -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: November 9, 2006 8:53 AMTo: 'Henry Kemp';

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

2006-11-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Darren Too many comments made, so in summary: 1) I look after my catalog, have my own DR plans, and offline / off-site storage for this, so I am not worried about this. 2) Agreed query the catalog or use AM - it tells you the tape. I am all for this It's the other site that has all these