[Veritas-bu] BE error

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
Get this error from the remote agent on the BE server it self Final error: 0xe000fe30 - A communications failure has occurred. Final error category: Server Errors For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-65072 and the corresponding error in the application event

[Veritas-bu] Media sever on netbackup 5.0

2008-01-25 Thread Abhishek Dhingra1
Dear All, Master server running on 5.0 is now not used but is up and has valid images, and the media servers connected to the master servers are not up. How can i change the ownership of the media's from the media server to the master server, please suggest. Abhishek Dhingra IBM Global

[Veritas-bu] full and incremental resetting

2008-01-25 Thread Dave Markham
Guys can people just confirm something. If i have a full backup using a weekly_full tape pool and say run it on a Saturday. Then have cumulative incremental running in the week using a daily_inc pool on Sunday - Saturday (obviously the full will run on the Saturday as its the schedule seen

Re: [Veritas-bu] Last execution time of a backup policy

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
This is the quickest way, but not the safest way. I don't mean to split hairs, but this has bit me in the butt before. In 4.5, a client did not always create a STREAMS file if the policy was not marked to Allow multiple data streams. That was the original reason for the STREAMS file. Even in

[Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof encountered

2008-01-25 Thread ssloh
Hi folk, Anybody encountered problem below before. Would like to check if the error message means that it has problem opening the catalog ? 00:14:40.582 [12683] 2 logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 10.84.14.41.36024 TO 10.84.14.41.13721 00:14:41.182 [12683] 2 get_long: (2) premature end of

[Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI login screen?

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
We have retired some servers and I would like the host name from showing up as an option in the Java GUI login screen. Anyone know where that info is stored? Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 ___

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof encountered

2008-01-25 Thread ssloh
Currently NBU Catalog stores in NFS about 80GB out of 100GB - Original Message - From: Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'veritas-bu' veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2008-01-25 Thread Rusty . Major
You have to upgrade to 5.0 MP4 or later first in order to upgrade to 6.x. Symantec recommends the latest MP available for whatever 5.x version you upgrade to. Either way, the upgrade to 5.x will keep the policies in tact, and so will the upgrade to 6.5. If you want your policies dumped out,

Re: [Veritas-bu] One Client Per Policy

2008-01-25 Thread tim burlowski
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. If you want to weigh in on the topic, I'll keep the poll open for four more days. thanks, tim On Jan 23, 2008 11:08 PM, tim burlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vote this for thread of the month. Since there was so much talk on this topic I made a

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

2008-01-25 Thread Hadrian Baron
Yep, NDMP will grab ACLs, but you may want to double-confirm the compatibility of SSO + Netapp NDMP. For some reason I remember it used to be not possible until a new Netapp revision came out. What version of Data Ontap? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Unix Media Servers is a SSO environment.

2008-01-25 Thread Meidal, Knut
We're no longer doing SSO, but I don't think there were any fundamental issues in our environment sharing 16 LTO drives across 4 windows and 4 Linux media servers. We were using 5.1MP4 at the time, on Windows Server 2003 and RedHat Linux 4 The drives were mapped through Decru DataForts, but I

[Veritas-bu] Duplication

2008-01-25 Thread fredfox52
Does anyone have an easy way of duplicating data from disk to tape for a specfic time window. I'd like to duplicate the data that was backed up from 8pm - 9am Tu-Fri. I do not want to run inline copy or multiple copies. Any ideas? Netbackup 6.0 MP5 - Windows 2003 SE SP2 Thanks.

[Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

2008-01-25 Thread Mark.Donaldson
Long title, huh? I know I could dig into the docs but you guys are usually faster. Right now I backup our one Netapp CIFS as a unix NFS mount. I miss all the ACL's but that's not a big problem with this share since it's pretty much all owned by the same group. Discussion in a meeting today

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
Excellent. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 _ From: Johnson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name

[Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread amure1
Hi Guys Thanks for you help I managed to do it Bobby's way before I say your post Paul. But when I need to do it again I will try your way as it seem alot easier to remeber for a newbie like me lol [Laughing] Thanks again and see you all soon.. Marcus

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
Any Solaris server will work. All you care about is that the client type matches so that the master bundles up the right pieces and ships it off to the target's /tmp directory. .../Ed On Jan 25, 2008 11:07 AM, weberp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't work if you can't get to the admin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

2008-01-25 Thread Randy Samora
I think you brought up all of the concerns I'm dealing with; all those thingies windows needs. A Full backup and restore of the system/boot drive and a catalog recover is probably going to be my safest bet. Just let NetBackup do what it's supposed to do. Thanks, Randy -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
A simple way that I can think of is to pretend to do an install to a remote Solaris server (perhaps your admin server). Let it copy the tree over to the target but don't install it there. tar up the tree from /tmp and then you can put that on your central admin server for subsequent deployment.

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 LiveUpdate policy management hint

2008-01-25 Thread Larry Fahnoe
Hello, One of the features of 6.5 that we were anxious to try out was the use of LiveUpdate to push out patches. We run a Solaris master, so managing the UNIX clients was always easy, but the Windows clients were often lagging behind with their updates. Upon playing with LiveUpdate I stumbled

[Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread amure1
Hi Bobby Thanks for your reply... Is this done in the configuring multiple copies option (in the policy menu), then switching the two around as I have tried this option? not sure if i have to do something else apart from changing pool names around so pool B is the first one? dont want to

[Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

2008-01-25 Thread Randy Samora
I'm about to try something that I seem to recall accomplishing before years ago but I drank a lot back then and I may possibly be experiencing the geekiest form of déjà vu imaginable. So I thought I'd bounce the idea off of you and maybe someone can verify that this is going to work. My

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof encountered

2008-01-25 Thread ssloh
Currently NBU Catalog on NFS is about 80GB out of 100GB - Original Message - From: Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'veritas-bu' veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof

[Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread amure1
Hi simple question for all you pros... I set up a backup schedule that is set to backup to two volume pools at the same time.. I have restored from the first pool (Pool A) and now what to restore from the second (Pool B) but cant get backup,archive and restore to switch from the tape in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof encountered

2008-01-25 Thread ssloh
Currently the NBU catalog size in NFS is 80GB out of 100GB - Original Message - From: Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'veritas-bu' veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 233 premature eof encountered

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
Has the nfs server filled up? Is there space left? Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:11 AM To: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] full and incremental resetting

2008-01-25 Thread Randy Samora
As long as the schedules are part of the same policy, you are correct. The incremental will be all of the changes since that Wednesday Full. Thanks, Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:56 AM

[Veritas-bu] semaphore issue

2008-01-25 Thread Dominik Pietrzykowski
Anyone seen this on a Solaris 10 server # ltid -v # Error in getting semaphore # Ltid keeps on dieing and it complains about semaphores. My other Solaris 10 servers are fine but I have two with this issue. Both use different hardware and no you don't need to tune the kernel on

[Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 CCR

2008-01-25 Thread Khan Imran A
Hi Has anyone tried to backup Exchange 2007 CCR target server using NetBackup 6.5.1? I read somewhere that Symantec were only supporting target server backups of CCR Configs from 6.5.2, any ideas when this will be released Kind Regards, Imran Khan, Solution Architect

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media sever on netbackup 5.0

2008-01-25 Thread Rusty . Major
bpmedia -movedb -m mediaid -newserver hostname of new server -oldserver hostname of oldserver -oldserver may not work if the host isn't there, but omitting this option should be successful. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP, catalog backups stealing tape from scratch pool

2008-01-25 Thread Rusty . Major
Tim, yes, once they are expired they go back to scratch and can be re-used just like any tape. No more catalog tape header issues. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Tim Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:55 PM To: Rusty R Major Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Jack (Systems Network)
these older instructions (CLI parts, anyway) work in our 6.0 environment: How to change a duplicate copy to be the primary copy http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/265334.htm HTH, Ron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Christopher Robin Zimmerman
We have retired some servers and I would like the host name from showing up as an option in the Java GUI login screen. Anyone know where that info is stored? Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 If you're on a UNIX system, poke around

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Johnson, Eric
On Windows, this info is in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\vrts\nbe\/N/B/E/Login/Lists\vr ts-nbe-/Admin/Console (yes, they actually used forward slashes in the names..) There is a key called host/List that contains the list. Eric

Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
This is not supported. Whether or not it will work is a different question. We're going through a similar exercise for our Solaris master that we're upgrading the OS on. One of the issues you've got is that there is an install database. With your approach, this won't end up on the new server so

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread weberp
That won't work if you can't get to the admin server from the master, will it? Or have I misunderstood you? I'm slowly getting there I think by stripping all the dross out of the ftp_to_client script. ewilts wrote: A simple way that I can think of is to pretend to do an install to a remote

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Keating
You can search for the relevant backup image by hostname date, or whatever other parameters you want, under catalog in the GUI. Select copy 2 under copies menu item, do a search, and when you find the approriate image, right click on it and select set primary image. Paul -- -Original

[Veritas-bu] VCS Clustered NetBackup Master Server

2008-01-25 Thread Esson, Paul
Folks, I'm looking for some guidance on configuring a clustered NetBackup Master Server. Can anyone share their experiences with me? The basic configuration is a two node (V445) Solaris 10 cluster using Storage Foundation Standard HA 5.0. The application is NetBackup 6.5 (Master Server).

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
You can only restore from the primary copy. You will have to promote Pool B tape to primary to restore from it. Or you can expire Pool A tape. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Solaris Client Install

2008-01-25 Thread Weber, Philip
For NetBackup 4.5 - 5.1 we had a script which let us install Solaris clients from a central admin server (not a NetBackup server). This was because we have firewalls between the servers and clients, can't use ftp, can't ssh between the master and clients, etc. So our script : hacked the client

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Williams
You will have to use the command line bpchangeprimary command. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of amure1 Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:49 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie needing help will silly question

2008-01-25 Thread Martin, Jonathan
You have to set the Copy #2 (Pool B) Copy to the Primary Copy. Investigate bpexpdate with the -npc switch. Netbackup does not automatically do this for you. You might investigate taking out the copy #2 instead of the copy #1 to make this sort of thing easier. (Switch which copy writes where in

[Veritas-bu] Windows Unix Media Servers is a SSO environment.

2008-01-25 Thread Mark.Donaldson
In the early days of SSO, mixing Windows and Unix media servers sharing the same drives via SSO was, to put it kindly, painful. Any experience with the current software set? Anybody mixing Windows Unix painlessly (sharing the same drives via SSO)? -M

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Hoke
On UNIX, for the Java GUI, you'll need to look in ~/.java/.userPrefs/vrts/nbe/NBELoginLists/vrts-nbe-AdminConsole/prefs.xml -Tim On 1/25/08, Johnson, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Windows, this info is in the registry:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

2008-01-25 Thread Len Boyle
The ndmp backups of netapp filers back up the acls on NTFS and mixed volumes. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:16 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Unix Media Servers is a SSO environment.

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
We've been doing it since at least 4.5 and I think 3.4. Works fine. We're currently at 6.5.1 with Solaris 10, Solaris 9, and Win2003 64-bit. .../Ed On Jan 25, 2008 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the early days of SSO, mixing Windows and Unix media servers sharing the same drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication

2008-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Jan 25, 2008 11:04 AM, fredfox52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an easy way of duplicating data from disk to tape for a specfic time window. I'd like to duplicate the data that was backed up from 8pm - 9am Tu-Fri. I do not want to run inline copy or multiple copies. Any ideas?

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

2008-01-25 Thread Mark.Donaldson
It came in with v7.2 of Ontap, IIRC. We're good on that (finally!). -Original Message- From: Hadrian Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:50 PM To: 'Len Boyle'; Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: Re: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen?

2008-01-25 Thread Abdelrahman, Karim
/veritas-bu/attachments/20080125/ 0ebca21a/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:02:55 -0600 From: Tim Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone know how to remove a host name from GUI loginscreen? To: Johnson, Eric [EMAIL