Re: [Veritas-bu] URGENT HELP - Advice

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Paul That was for a different policy - but yes, well done on remembering that :-) the policy in question was writing 4 streams to 2 drives. Got to admit, I am on LTO3, have the same setup, but I can restore the data is almost the same time it took to backup ! So slightly puzzling ! When this

Re: [Veritas-bu] End of Life dates for 5.0 and 5.1

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Thank you Ed 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Do you not keep month end backups for 12 months? I do not know of a way of doing this, other than importing the tapes that may have been used for this job (assuming you know what they are). I dont think NBU behavior works like this - its a fixed retention period (that I can see). You could

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Weber, Philip
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: 20 July 2007 01:29 To: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions What we have actually done here is to push the failures back on

[Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Does anyone have some perl code, that they wouldn't mind sharing, that chops up bpdbjobs -report -all_columns, with filelist count , number of tries etc,? Regards Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and

[Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Hi I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 9) and 6 media servers (RHEL4, Windows 2003). I´ve just created the 101st policy. The problem I´m running into is that apparently the scheduler is simply ignoring the backup window configured (it was supposed to start at 8pm but

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Clooney, David wrote: Hi All Does anyone have some perl code, that they wouldn't mind sharing, that chops up bpdbjobs -report -all_columns, with filelist count , number of tries etc,? After field 31 its difficult to calculate if anyone has something like this I

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Dave Markham
I haven't got a script but you may find this useful http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/How_do_you_decipher_the_output_of_%22bpdbjobs_-report_-all_columns%22%3F Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Clooney, David wrote: Hi All Does anyone have some

[Veritas-bu] How to archive old Novell data

2007-07-20 Thread Patricia Harmon
Here is the issue that we need to solve. We have some older unused data on Novell servers. We use NetBackup 5.1 mp6 to back up the servers now. We need to identify data that hasn't been used for example 3 years and backup it, then delete it. What would work with NetBackup to do this sort of job?

[Veritas-bu] host ip doubts

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Sigrist
Hello all, Solaris 10 Netbackup 4.5_SP6 Today I was looking at the “Activity Monitor” and saw that one of my scheduled backups didn’t run. I tried to run manually and received the same error: RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00569:

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Weber, Philip
I've got a script which I was going to post after checking it for site-specific stuff, but I think the page at that link is far more comprehensive! Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: 20 July 2007 12:26 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Mike Andres
Here's a script I wrote a while ago. Haven't used it since 4.5 so I can't say for sure if it runs on the current versions. -mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 6:26 AM To: Justin Piszcz Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Mike That will certainly prove useful Dave -Original Message- From: Mike Andres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2007 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Justin Piszcz Cc: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns Here's a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Well I know of a site that had 120 policies, but never reported an issue. Although its alot, I am not personally aware of any recommendation that states what the limit should be. Are you sure the frequency is right and the policy is enabled correctly ? If at all possible, can you

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Keating
Aptare also has a built in report that shows you all hosts in your environment that have had multiple successive backup failures. Would be had to miss a red this server has not backed up for the last 10 days warning. ...Whether the server is down, or just not backing up for another reason.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Liddle, Stuart
Hi, we are running NB 5.1 MP6 with around 1100 policies and over 1600 clients. We have been having problems with the scheduler not starting things when they are supposed to start. The one thing that is very important is to have the proper settings in the /etc/system file for shared memory.

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Liddle, Stuart
OK...I find this useful: cat bin/jobsac #!/bin/sh # use bpdbjobs -all_columns to capture the following: #jobid, status, policy, schedule, client, path # # handle the command line argument case $# in 0) BACKUPSERVER=`hostname` ;; 1) echo $1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Keating
sounds like the frequency is interfering. if your frequency is set to 12 hours, adn the job last ran at 2pm, it doesn't matter that the window is set to open at 8pm, the job will not queue untill 2am. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Peter Buschman
This has been posted before and might need some tweaking for NBU6. Results are returned as a hash. Cheers' --PLB ## ## bpdbjobs_parse() ## ## This function is derived from the following Veritas command: ## ## /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs ## ## --PLB 12/19/2001 ## sub

[Veritas-bu] Win 2k3 x64 Tape drivers?

2007-07-20 Thread tburrell
Anyone out there running Windows 2003 media servers- x64 version? We are looking at switching over from 32-bit, but can't find any tape drivers. Symantec's web site does say that for IA-64 you should use the MS drivers, but we can't find anything about x64. x64 is working very well for us

Re: [Veritas-bu] host ip doubts

2007-07-20 Thread ckstehman
Try adding a REQUIRED_INTERFACE = dns host name where dns host name is resolves to the IP address of the interface you want to use to your bp.conf file = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks All The response has saved me loads of hours. Appreciated Dave From: Peter Buschman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2007 15:31 To: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Wayne T Smith
I, too, agree the 2-week retention should be addressed ... quite risky. A few thoughts ... I recently tested Aptare StorageConsole and one of its out-of-the-box displays is close what you're looking for, I think. When we obtain a license, I'll be discarding many scripts ... one of which sort

[Veritas-bu] Quick Poll Question: Who here uses NBU Reporter Tool?

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
What is more important for the server that will be running it? 1. CPU or 2. Disk and number of IOPS it can perform? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Thank you very much, guys. I feel a big relief knowing that people out there has more than 100 policies running. The policy schedule is calendar based. I´m going to check deeper to see what´s going on. Thanks again. edson On 7/20/07, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds like the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Poll Question: Who here uses NBU Reporter Tool?

2007-07-20 Thread ckstehman
We do not. We use Aptare for our reporting. = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/20/2007 01:45 PM To

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Curtis Preston
I've got customers with THOUSANDs of policies with no major ill effects. In 6.0 I'd say there are no effects at all. In pre-6.0, I'd say that there is some slowness getting all of the jobs running in a multi-thousand job environment (takes a while for the scheduler to read the config for that

[Veritas-bu] BARCODE Issues

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Bally
All, Need a little help from the group. I have installed a new remote media server with a Dell TL4000 with LTO3 drives and barcodes are as follows 0610001L3 and I mask the L3 with barcode rules. When I perform a inventory of the library it comes back and shows the slots populated, but

Re: [Veritas-bu] BARCODE Issues

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Bally wrote: All, Need a little help from the group. I have installed a new remote media server with a Dell TL4000 with LTO3 drives and barcodes are as follows 0610001L3 and I mask the L3 with barcode rules. When I perform a inventory of the library it

Re: [Veritas-bu] BARCODE Issues

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Bally wrote: All, Need a little help from the group. I have installed a new remote media server with a Dell TL4000 with LTO3 drives and barcodes are as follows 0610001L3 and I mask the L3 with barcode rules. When I perform a inventory of the library it

Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions

2007-07-20 Thread Brandon Zermeno
There are certain environments here that require only a 2 week retention, no matter what. In this environment we run full backups everyday and when the data set is in the 80 TB range, well that just more then I need to deal with. We have been running this way for years with no major issues. Leave