Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP
#1 You can't multiplex NDMP backups, so you need multiple tape drives to run multiple parallel streams. Also, you need to increment the maximum jobs per client in your master's global attributes to a value greater than, or equal to the number of streams you want to run concurrantly, and finally, if you have mulitiple streams configured in the same policy, you must either uncheck the limit number of jobs per policy option in that policies attributes, or check it and set the value greater than, or equal to, the number of concurrant streams you want to run. #2 is correct. NDMP backups should *NOT* be fragmented. You can do an NDMP backup to a STU with a set fragment size, but you may not be able to restore.the backup and restore complete with Status 0, but no data is restored. Same goes if you do an NDMP backup to a NON-fragmented STU, then Vault or bpduplicate to a fragmented STUyou will not be able to restore from the duped imagehowever, if you have fragmented images that you are not able to restore from, you can duplicate that image to another STU without a frag size set and it will reassemble the image with fragments, and you will be able to restore/recover from the new image. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tschida, Tom (STP) Sent: January 9, 2007 10:34 PM To: Len Boyle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP I would like to run multiple jobs (policies) in parallel. Currently, only one job will run at a time, and additional jobs will queue. I'm running NB 6.0 MP4, by the way. Tom -Original Message- From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:17 PM To: Tschida, Tom (STP); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP Hello Tom, The answer to question 1 depends on what you mean by multiple jobs per filer. First of all are you looking to do multiple jobs in parallel or just do multiple volumes or qtrees. In the ndmp policy you can list multiple volumes or qtrees in the policy with optional new stream statements. You can also define multiple policies with one or more volumes or qtrees in each policy. So you could have policy-netapp1-vol0 /* for vol0 */ Then policy-netapp2-vol1 /* for vol1 */ Orpolicy-netapp2-vol-xyz /* for flex vol xyz */ These names are just made up, but they should give you the idea. It all depends on what you want. I have not looked at question 2 for a while, so with a fuzzy memory I will say yes. Remember the netapp is doing the backup and it does not know from netapp's fraq's. netbackup does have the netapp put netbackup labels on the tape. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tschida, Tom (STP) Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:57 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP All, Hopefully these are two quick and easy NDMP questions for the group: 1) How do I enable multiple jobs per filer with NDMP? 2) In a Dell tech doc, it specifies setting the max fragment size per NDMP storage unit to 0. Is that really the recommended setting? Thanks much. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific ___ 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 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] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
Was there any response to the original question here? Im interested in testing network performance from a client using netbackup. Cheers Weber, Philip wrote: Bit of a problem if you've got icmp (and ftp, and...) disabled between most servers clients like we have. Is there anything similar that can work over the NetBackup ports which obviously will be open? Phil -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM To: Ellis, Jason Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they then run through some program which spits out a .pdf. The tool utilizes ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit pipes. Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning your network options. For my money its much better to isolate the local disk with bpbkar32 null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ 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 - Egg is a trading name of the Egg group of companies which includes: Egg plc (reg no 2448340), Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd (reg no 3828289), and Egg Banking plc (reg no 2999842). Egg Banking plc and Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and are entered in the FSA register under numbers 205621 and 309551 respectively. These members of the Egg group are registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 1 Waterhouse Square, 138- 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NA. This e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete it from your mailbox. Internet e- mails are not necessarily secure. The Egg group of companies do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by the Egg group of companies in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. This communication does not create or modify any contract. ___ 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] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
Just an update, seems to be a drive issue. I was able to write 160GB image to another tape drive using the same tape. I updated the drive firmware, power cycled the server and all the tape drives on the SCSI channel. I'll be placing a service call on the drive today. This is still kinda goofy.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Invalid error number when checking client properties
Hi! I've got a problem with NetBackup 5.1, where the master is a Windows Server 2003 system. The client is Solaris 10 Sparc. On the Solaris client, I installed the Solaris (9?) client software. Now I added the client to some policy on the Windows server. After that, I selected the client in the list of clients and clicked on properties. The NBU GUI, which is run on the Master Server directly, then does some stuff and finally errors out with the message Invalid error number What might that mean and how would I go about resolving this issue? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Media Server
Simon, Sorry I'm replying so late. But looking at the 6.0 Media Manager Admin guide I have, p365 is in an Appendix dealing with the vm.conf file. Am I missing something? Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:25 AM To: Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Media Server Jason Sounds ok, but isnt there a process to follow in the Media Manager Guide on NBU 6.0? Looking at a PDF here - P365 onwards? Sorry do not know much about 6.0 - can certainly give links for 5.1, but may not prove to be too helpful in this setup Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 December 2006 14:44 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Media Server We're currently running 6.0MP3 on Windows 2k3 SP1 on both our master and media. Due to problems with an NDMP device, we need to convert our media server to Linux. My thoughts on this, without reading, are this: 1) Build new box, install NBU 6.0 with NDMP and patch up to MP3 or 4 (will upgrade master then too) 2) Get new media server 'happy' and functional. 3) Alter all policies pointing to old media server to new media server 4) Decommission old media server Problems here? Should I stick with the same name, for less headaches? What about restores down the road - e.g., if a box was backed up by the old media server, blue.mydomain.com, would the restore go through red? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2034 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 This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - 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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] different Exit Status from bperror and bpdbjobs
Same backup ID. I run bperror on it and see that it successfully completed. I run bpdbjobs and see that it it had exit status 228. This is disturbing. Any one know why bperror and bpdbjobs don't agree? # bperror -U -jobid 1852058 -hoursago 72 TIMESERVER/CLIENT TEXT 01/09/2007 00:39:24 nbserver clientXX added backup job (jobid=1852058) for client clientXX, policy VAR_LOGS, schedule daily part 0 to NetBackup scheduler work queue 01/09/2007 04:59:09 nbserver clientXX started backup job for client clientXX, policy VAR_LOGS, schedule daily on storage unit IBM_nbserver 01/09/2007 04:59:46 nbserver clientXX client clientXX handling path /var/logs/prd . . . . . . 01/09/2007 06:10:45 nbserver clientXX CLIENT clientXX POLICY VAR_LOGS SCHED daily EXIT STATUS 0 (the requested operation was successfully completed) # bpdbjobs -most_columns -jobid 1852058 1852058,0,3,228,VAR_LOGS,daily,clientXX,nbserver,1168321164,019881,1168341045,IBM,1,,400640,6,,100,11192,root,1,0,1,99,,nbserver,4,7,0,,,0,0,1852057,627,1,11199,0,,,1,0,0,clientXX_1168336753,, ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
THE PX series Media Access port is pretty sad at best. Its potentially a work around, but we don't use it here because its terrible. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
I had an issue a few years ago on solaris 8. During the nightly backup window, the master would lose contact with the library so as long as a backup didn't need another tape, things would keep running, however, once another tape was required, then I was in trouble . . . I had to reboot the master to fix the problem. Turns out I needed an isp driver patch and once that was applied things we all good! I would confirm that your master is patched with the recommended cluster and if that doesn't work, then I would open a case with SUN . . . http://icbc.com/ Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage Database Administration Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 250-414-7650 Fax: 250-978-8003 Cell:250-213-9295 910 Government St. Victoria, BC V8W 3Y8 www.icbc.com http://www.icbc.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:02 AM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it. It's actually very easy to do. I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are only the Admin GUI and the Backup Restore GUI. The rest of NetBackup is distubuted in binary form. That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those mission critical servers. -- M Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/2007 12:44 PM To Jack Forester, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veritas List veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] Adding a media server - tpautoconf hangs
I was trying to add a media server to the existing setup. We have SSO license installed on the media server.! 6 drives SSO shared and zoned (FC via brocade 3850) with the media server. I can see the rmt entries in iostat -En (Both master and media are solaris 9 with Netbackup 5.1 MP4), my tpautoconf -t just hangs, no output even if I keep it running for hours...! Any ideas as to where I could be going wrong, is a SSO license reqd on the media server too for tpautoconf to work. Regards, BIJU KRISHNAN ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
I guess I didn't phrase my question very well, as we are testing the Java update as well. I wrote a little perl script so I could identify all of the installed JREs on my servers. Any time we do patches or updates, I always worry that we've overlooked something small but critical that will break things in a major way. I tend to follow the philosophy that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I wonder why Sun gave Java the ability to do DST rather than using the functionality of the underlying OS. Mike L. Varney wrote: Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it. It's actually very easy to do. I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are only the Admin GUI and the Backup Restore GUI. The rest of NetBackup is distubuted in binary form. That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those mission critical servers. -- M Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/2007 12:44 PM To Jack Forester, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veritas List veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
I submitted a ticket with Symantec on this issue. Here is there response. John Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Known issues for the NetBackup Java Administration console (all versions): All currently supported versions of NetBackup (5.0, 5.1, 6.0) use the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.0 for the NetBackup Java Administration console. The JRE does not use the operating systems time zone database. Instead it has it's own implementation of time zone information and DST rules. Version 1.4.0 of the JRE does not contain the updated time zone information for 2007 and will cause the NetBackup Java Administration console to switch to DST on the wrong day. This will cause any reports in the NetBackup Java Administration console to report the wrong start and end times for jobs in the Activity Monitor. The NetBackup Java Administration also passes time zone information to other NetBackup commands such as bpplinfo, bpschedule, bpplsched, bppllist, and bpplschedrep using the -tzo setting. This can potentially impact the scheduling of backups. The upcoming NetBackup 6.5 release has an upgraded JRE version 1.4.2, which has accounted for the new DST rules. Hence this issue would not exist in NetBackup 6.5. There are workarounds to solve the problem for the NetBackup 6.0 and 5.x releases. Workarounds for known DST issues: There are two options for updating the JRE to properly handle the transition to and from daylight savings time. Option1: Using tools to update the JRE Time Zone Database There are tools available from Sun, IBM, HP to correct the time zone database in the Java Runtime Environment. It will be necessary to download and run this tool in order to update the NetBackup implementation of the JRE. For Solaris and Linux systems go to: http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html a) Under the Installation section select the link to the Sun Java SE download site b) On the downloads page select the JDK US DST Timezone Update Tool - 1.0 from the list to download the update tool. b) It will be necessary to log in using a valid Sun Online account to download. There is an option to register and create a new account if needed. c) Once you are logged in agree to the license, this is required to download the tool. d) Click on the Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition - US DST timezone tool 1.0.0 to download the tzupdater-1_0_0.zip file e) Extract the files to a temporary directory on the system. (ex. /tmp/javatz on Solaris and Linux, C:\javatz on Windows) f) Update the NetBackup implementation of the JRE. For Solaris and Linux systems: # cd /usr/openv/java/jre/bin # ./java -jar /tmp/javatz/tzupdater2006p/tzupdater.jar -u -v For Windows systems: % cd install_dir\VERITAS\Java\jre\bin % java -jar C:\javatz\tzupdater2006p\tzupdater.jar -u -v For AIX systems go to: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/dst/index.html a) Click on the download link for the appropriate platform b) Extract the files to a temporary directory on the system (ex. /tmp/javatz) c) Edit the /tmp/javatz/runjtzuenv.sh file and set the configuration values JAVA_HOME=/usr/openv/java/jre NOGUI=false DISCOVERONLY=true d) Launch the IBM Time Zone Update Utility for Java. This is a GUI utility and the system DISPLAY setting must point to a valid system. # export DISPLAY=hostname:0 # sh /tmp/javatz/runjtzu.sh e) Select Interactive Mode and click Start f) Enter the location of the NetBackup implementation of the JRE (/usr/openv/java/jre/bin) and click Update g) Select Exit once the upgrade is complete For HP-UX systems go to: http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/DST-US.html a) Click on the JDK - TZupdater 1.0 link b) Accept the license and fill in the required contact information then click Finish c) Download the tzupdater_1.0.tar file d) Extract the files to a temporary directory on the system (ex. /tmp/javatz) e) Update the NetBackup implementation of the JRE. # cd /usr/openv/java/jre/bin # ./java -jar /tmp/javatz/tzupdater.jar -u -v For Tru64 platform, there are no tools available for updating the timezone database. There is no updated JRE available for this platform with the DST fixes. So Tru64 will continue to have the issue for 6.5 release as well. Hence the second workaround as suggested below will be the only way to resolve the problem for Tru64. Option2: Manually changing the DST through the Java GUI The following steps can be manually performed in the GUI to work around this issue: 1. Launch the NetBackup Java Administration console. 2. Go to File Adjust Application Time Zone... 3. Check the Use custom time zone box to set a custom time zone. 4. Verify the base time zone and offset are set correctly. These should be inherited from existing time zone. 5. Under the Daylight savings time starts section select Absolute date from the Use method: pull down. Then enter the correct
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
It's probably because Java is advertised as being platform independent. If you had a compile for an OS that didn't do DST (OS400 maybe?) it would be nice if the Java did. However for most of us it's a bit of a pain. I wasn't even aware of this Java TZ stuff until we got the notice from HP sometime back that specifically mentioned Java. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM To: Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules I guess I didn't phrase my question very well, as we are testing the Java update as well. I wrote a little perl script so I could identify all of the installed JREs on my servers. Any time we do patches or updates, I always worry that we've overlooked something small but critical that will break things in a major way. I tend to follow the philosophy that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I wonder why Sun gave Java the ability to do DST rather than using the functionality of the underlying OS. Mike L. Varney wrote: Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it. It's actually very easy to do. I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are only the Admin GUI and the Backup Restore GUI. The rest of NetBackup is distubuted in binary form. That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those mission critical servers. -- M Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/2007 12:44 PM To Jack Forester, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veritas List veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
I'm still waiting to see if we're contacted by an application vendor (Windows), but heavily reliant on java. That said, I tried to run the tzupdate on a Windows box (with java console), but it blew up looking for zipfile or jarfile stuff. Haven't looked any further. Thanks for bringing this up. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:53 PM To: Jack Forester, Jr.; Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules It's probably because Java is advertised as being platform independent. If you had a compile for an OS that didn't do DST (OS400 maybe?) it would be nice if the Java did. However for most of us it's a bit of a pain. I wasn't even aware of this Java TZ stuff until we got the notice from HP sometime back that specifically mentioned Java. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM To: Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules I guess I didn't phrase my question very well, as we are testing the Java update as well. I wrote a little perl script so I could identify all of the installed JREs on my servers. Any time we do patches or updates, I always worry that we've overlooked something small but critical that will break things in a major way. I tend to follow the philosophy that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I wonder why Sun gave Java the ability to do DST rather than using the functionality of the underlying OS. Mike L. Varney wrote: Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it. It's actually very easy to do. I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are only the Admin GUI and the Backup Restore GUI. The rest of NetBackup is distubuted in binary form. That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those mission critical servers. -- M Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/2007 12:44 PM To Jack Forester, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veritas List veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
Good point. I used to admin an AS/400 way back in the day (V1R3) and I had to remember to reset the clock at the beginning and end of DST. I'd hope that by now IBM would have made that automatic. Jeff Lightner wrote: It's probably because Java is advertised as being platform independent. If you had a compile for an OS that didn't do DST (OS400 maybe?) it would be nice if the Java did. However for most of us it's a bit of a pain. I wasn't even aware of this Java TZ stuff until we got the notice from HP sometime back that specifically mentioned Java. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM To: Veritas List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules I guess I didn't phrase my question very well, as we are testing the Java update as well. I wrote a little perl script so I could identify all of the installed JREs on my servers. Any time we do patches or updates, I always worry that we've overlooked something small but critical that will break things in a major way. I tend to follow the philosophy that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I wonder why Sun gave Java the ability to do DST rather than using the functionality of the underlying OS. Mike L. Varney wrote: Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it. It's actually very easy to do. I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are only the Admin GUI and the Backup Restore GUI. The rest of NetBackup is distubuted in binary form. That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those mission critical servers. -- M Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/2007 12:44 PM To Jack Forester, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veritas List veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX. Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java wouldn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE. Any thoughts? -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
On 1/10/2007 8:22 AM, Dave Markham wrote: Was there any response to the original question here? Im interested in testing network performance from a client using netbackup. The best test I've found is iperf. You've got the backup to the null device to test the read performance from the file system, and then you've got iperf to test network performance. After that, it's the media server's problem. .../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
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
On 1/10/2007 11:11 AM, Jack Forester, Jr. wrote: This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. I've asked Graeme at Aptare to comment as well since StorageConsole is java-based. When I hear back, I'll post to the list (or one of you Aptare guys can finally learn to post :-)). .../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
[Veritas-bu] Non-zero exit status on bpstart_notify help
I've written a bpstart_notify and bpend_notify script for a client. I want the script to exit with a non-zero status if there is some kind of fatal error. So, on the potential fatal error routines I placed an exit X, where X is equal to a non-zero status. During testing the script supposedly exited with a 14 (per my log file), however the activity monitor didn't reflect a status code 73, and the bpend_notify script still kicked off. I'm running Windows 2003 and doing this with Windows NT shell scripting. I did some testing with a little script and in theory if I tell a script to exit 14 the error level should be 14. Any thoughts? Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Data Protection Team IndyMac Bank, La Mirada Datacenter Phone: (714) 520-3414 Mobile: (714) 889-8734 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding a media server - tpautoconf hangs
Greetings I was having the same problem at my Data Centre but later on it was resolved after re-installing it as media server and with corrrect Maintenance Pack. Also u can fire the following command to view the details truss -p tpautoconf -t The mismatch between gdb(global database) was also resolved as it prompted for it during installation. Now during the device configuration it shows the proper number of drives in the Netbackup Device configuration wizard. Try to work out with the above solution.. Thanks Regards, Gaurav Rakheja, Retail Technology Group, ICICI Bank Ltd, Netbackup Admin Team, Zenith House, Mahalaxmi Mumbai +91-22-2490 6087 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::BLOCKED::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.icicibank.com/ blocked::BLOCKED::http://www.icicibank.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veritas Netbackup Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:04 AM To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] Adding a media server - tpautoconf hangs I was trying to add a media server to the existing setup. We have SSO license installed on the media server.! 6 drives SSO shared and zoned (FC via brocade 3850) with the media server. I can see the rmt entries in iostat -En (Both master and media are solaris 9 with Netbackup 5.1 MP4), my tpautoconf -t just hangs, no output even if I keep it running for hours...! Any ideas as to where I could be going wrong, is a SSO license reqd on the media server too for tpautoconf to work. Regards, BIJU KRISHNAN -- This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have erroneously received this message, please delete it immediately and notify the sender. The recipient acknowledges that ICICI Bank or its subsidiaries and associated companies, (collectively ICICI Group), are unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of/over the contents of the information contained in e-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of ICICI Group.Before opening any attachments please check them for viruses and defects. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
Yes, seeing as your running LTO2 tapes and getting less than expected! 200GB I believe you should get :-) Or something close to that! Again, could be the type of files backed up Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 14:41 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape Just an update, seems to be a drive issue. I was able to write 160GB image to another tape drive using the same tape. I updated the drive firmware, power cycled the server and all the tape drives on the SCSI channel. I'll be placing a service call on the drive today. This is still kinda goofy. This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - 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] How much space is needed for a backup?
Greg Depends on the size of the disk. you may well be best to configure VSP for a specific volume. Also found that VSP does slow the backup process down, and in many cases, still did not capture the open files correctly. As a rule (from the old 3.4 days) I think you had to calculate at least 10% for the cache based on the amount of Data backed up (ie: 100GB Drive, then 10GB cache or something like this). Leaving the default, allows VSP to consume all of it - slows the backup down, to a point it brings the backup to a halt! Cannot comment on Solaris, but on Windows it left a large tmp file that can be cleared down by using a sysinternals tool or reboot :-) - File was something like vspcache.vsp In many cases, I found turning it on or off made no difference to the files backed up, but the speed was dramitically improved. HTH Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2007 13:37 To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] How much space is needed for a backup? Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Curious-How much free space is needed to perform a backup with VSP turn on and how much is needed when it is turned off? I guess at what point will a backup fail because there is not enough disk space free on the client? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP1 This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - 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] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
Really? I haven't used that particular model, but that reminds me of the OLD Quantum 4x100 libraries (forgot the model number) from years ago. I'm pretty sure that you can open the CAP on an ADIC (now Quantum), STK (now Sun) and IBM library without taking the library offline. (Anyone want to say different?) Is this just a PX510 thing, or is this all Quantum (non-ADIC) libraries? Am I right about the other libraries not having this issue? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: Sponsler, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:31 AM To: Curtis Preston; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
