Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 MP4 Testing

2006-11-24 Thread Falk, Martin SZ/HZA-ITDS2
Short Info to you all, I upgraded 9 installations of Netabckup 6.0 MP3 to MP4. I also upgraded NOM from MP2A to MP4. For the Netbackup installations: OS was AIX5.3 and Windows 200x - Master and Media Servers involved NBU looks quiet stable to me, all of my major bugs seem to be fixed. For NOM

[Veritas-bu] Storage unit number of drives

2006-11-24 Thread Dave Markham
Guys is there anyway to create a storage unit and use only a certain number of drives? Im Netbackup 5.0mp4 on sol9. I have 5 drives available in a L700 3 of which are Shared SSO. I want to create a storage unit of 3 drives ( 1 shared and 2 not ) so that a network based job doesnt tie up 2 of the

[Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

2006-11-24 Thread mkiles
Hi All I am going through the NetBackup for Oracle Admin guide, it mentions that you can have multiple schedules in the policy with different retention periods. That is you can have a FULL backup schedule with retention period of 1 year and an INCREMENTAL backup schedule with retention of 1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

2006-11-24 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I was under the impression that RMAN backups were supposed to have INFINITE retention and that RMAN took care of expiring the images, there by keeping the RMAN catalog in sync with the NetBackup catalog. Otherwise RMAN will think there is a good backup, but NetBackup has expired it, if the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

2006-11-24 Thread mkiles
I am talking about NetBackup expiration only, RMAN catalog should be cross checked with NBU catalog, periodically to keep both in sync. In my case I dont use RMAN catalog, I use control file. Thx --- Whelan, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that RMAN backups were

Re: [Veritas-bu] Running NetBackup 5.1 in a zone on Solaris 10

2006-11-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On 11/24/2006 12:45 PM, Jason Ellis wrote: We might be looking at migrating from Windows to Solaris 10 SPARC and being Solaris 10 certified I know that Sun's best practice is to recommend that you do not run anything in the global zone (unless it requires direct kernel access like NFS). I

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

2006-11-24 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Just for the record, last night setoff a policy which normally streams 5 jobs to 2 drive. This time, configured for 3 streams to 3 drives. Just got into work and found its MUCH SLOWER than the week before !! So I will revert back !! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows