[Veritas-bu] Need to Monitor Multiple Master Server through Admin Console

2009-02-21 Thread NBU
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1)

2009-02-21 Thread Michitsch, John
We upgraded out master and two media servers to 6.5.3.1 (in order to backup a standby Exchange CCR node and Windows 2008) this week and our full backups this weekend are running incredibly slow, about 1/3 the normal speed. The client agents have not been upgraded, they are at v. 6.5.1. Do you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to Monitor Multiple Master Server through AdminConsole

2009-02-21 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Using the admin console on a master server On each of the master servers put add all the other master servers to the 'others servers' list (a SERVER entry in bp.conf) Using the admin console from your pc Had your pc name to the 'other servers' list for each of the masters. -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1)

2009-02-21 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
I thought you need 6.5.3 to do exchange 2008 backups That means the client needs to be at least at 6.5.3. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michitsch, John Sent: Saturday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL issue

2009-02-21 Thread bob944
Update from my DBA - these are transaction log backups, and he added a new database - since the TL will fail if there is not a backup, that is what caused the issue. Why would NetBackup not see this? He claims his SQL scripts ran through and finished, but the parent jobs never

[Veritas-bu] VMWAre and Hyper-V backup and recovery; plus Solaris..strategies and approaches???

2009-02-21 Thread Siano, James C
Hello What product mix and configurations are being used to backup and restore/recovery VMware and Hyper-V systems. How are folks setting up in order to provide for individual file recovery and entire open-hot images? Client per machine or physical, host, other product mixes? My focus

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1)

2009-02-21 Thread Michitsch, John
Correct, but we are not doing the Exchange or 2008 piece yet, just OS level backups. From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: 21 February, 2009 10:49 AM To: Michitsch, John; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5

Re: [Veritas-bu] Experiences with Netapp backups

2009-02-21 Thread Dean
We're using NDMP to FC tape for weekly fulls, and NDMP to a disk staging STU on the master server for daily differentials. It's very reliable. The only issue I have is the performance. For the FULLs, we write to 2 tape drives in parallel. We get about 50-60 MB/sec to each drive. I know the drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Tape Writes and Retentions

2009-02-21 Thread Dean
1) Will each week of writes have a separate 5 week retention? Yes 2) Can the tape be written to again (over week 1 space on tape) by week 6 or will something else happen? If the tape is not full, yes, it can still be appended to by backups that have the same retention. But it won't write over