Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-22 Thread WALLEBROEK Bart
Carl, That is something I heard as well from a SUN support guy a while ago. As of NetBackup 7 Media and Master software is only supported on a 64-bit OS. Personally I don't believe this is a bad thing. 64-bit OS'es are around for quite some time now so it is time to adopt. What I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:10 AM, WALLEBROEK Bart bart.wallebr...@swift.comwrote: That is something I heard as well from a SUN support guy a while ago. As of NetBackup 7 Media and Master software is only supported on a 64-bit OS. Personally I don't believe this is a bad thing. 64-bit OS'es

[Veritas-bu] Ejecting tapes no longer works under ACSLS/6.5.x?

2009-07-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hello, I have used the same syntax from 5.1-6.0MPX and never had a problem: $ sudo /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -h backup-host -api_eject -map any -res -ml C10666:C04731:C10506:C01438:C03726:C04107:C02069:C01829:C04453:C03791:C10958:C03838:C03635:C03787:C10312:C10151:C10585:C07186:C07468

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ejecting tapes no longer works under ACSLS/6.5.x?

2009-07-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
Found the issue, if there is a single tape in your list that is not in the robot, the eject will fail. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have used the same syntax from 5.1-6.0MPX and never had a problem: $ sudo /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -h backup-host -api_eject -map

[Veritas-bu] ACSLS Vault

2009-07-22 Thread X_S
ckstehman, i may have missed it but what in ACSLS do you need that you have to be at 6.5 or greater? we've been using ACSLS since NB 4.5 1. we use automatic here for both our sl8500 and powderhorn. in automatic mode, you have less commands to run in ACSLS to enter and eject tapes. 2. we

[Veritas-bu] VCB doesn't work with drive's multiplexing

2009-07-22 Thread ssloh
Hi Guru, Environment running W2K3 R2 Enterprise Server SP2 with Netbackup 6.5.3 and VCB 1.5 Two LTO4 FC drives with following setting in tape storage unit Number of Drives: 2 Max MPX/drive:2 Max job per client = 99 So, I am expecting 4 VCB snapshot streams to the two tape drives.

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS Vault

2009-07-22 Thread Howard Sherman
CAP mode manual means that in order to enter tapes, you have to issue the ACSLS enter  capid command to put the CAP in unlocked mode so that you can enter tapes. CAP mode automatic means you don't have to issue the ACSLS command, that the CAP at rest is unlocked. This setting is more

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32

2009-07-22 Thread ckstehman
I now understand that the 64 bit requirement is only for Sun systems. -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 WALLEBROEK Bart bart.wallebr...@swift.com

[Veritas-bu] Tru64 and LTO4 drives

2009-07-22 Thread Heathe Kyle Yeakley
Hello list, The data center in which I work recently purchased a Spectra Logic T380 and T200 tape library running IBM LTO-4 tape drives for our local and remote site, respectively. After zoning the libraries in, installing the device mappings files from Symantec support and what not, I

[Veritas-bu] MSEO queries for new Solaris install

2009-07-22 Thread Dave Markham
Guys i'm upgrading existing backup infrastructure by introducing a new server and upgrading NBU to 6.5.4 on Solaris. I've then got to install and configure MSEO 6.1 so we can encrypt some database backups. I've been reading through all the pdf's and its just a bit of a minefield. Is there any

[Veritas-bu] SAN Client on RHEL5

2009-07-22 Thread william . d . brown
I'm having a problem with the SAN Client on RHEL5 x64, has anyone on the list got this working? I've managed to get it to work on Solaris and AIX, but on RHEL5 it cannot find the devices. The OS is great, it finds the ARCHIVE Python devices as soon as they are zoned in, creates the 'sg'

[Veritas-bu] ACSLS

2009-07-22 Thread David McMullin
One thing I found that is helpful on our ACSLS is this command: cmd_proc_shell - allows you to run acsls commands in a shell script. So for example, this will dismount all drives from one LSM ( I have separate scripts so I can be particular ) # cat dismount.all.0.ksh #!/usr/bin/ksh # # uses

[Veritas-bu] Second Device Path

2009-07-22 Thread Donaldson, Mark
According to the Whitepaper... http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_i mplementing_highly_available_dr_with_veritas_netbackup_01_08_13599373.pd f ...the Second Device Path can be used as an Active/Passive failover in the event of primary path failure (to your

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores with a twist

2009-07-22 Thread Hudson, Steve
Fellow Netbackup and NDMP guru's , I am having a restore issue with NDMP and wanted to see If anyone has seen this... I recently moved my NDMP infrastructure from serverA to serverB. Everything is running fine. The serverA machine is the Master/Media server and serverB is a plain old Media Server.

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-22 Thread Dennis Peacock
We are running Solaris 10 boxes, Netbackup 6.5.3.1 1 master server 4 media servers SL8500 tape library with T10Kb drives Just got back from a Disaster Recovery Exercise at Sungard in Philly. What we discovered is: Full Catalog backup does NOT backup /usr/openv/db but DOES backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-22 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
I just checked by catalog tape ( I always do fulls) And I do find /usr/openv/netbackup/db on the tape listing class and images and other items. So I checked the catalog config and see in the file list that I specify the catalog to backup that dir. My list Master:/usr/openv/netbackup/db

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-22 Thread Dennis Peacock
Judy, Do you show anything under /usr/openv/netbackup/volmgr/database? I don't show a single file or directory under that directory. The only thing that spurred this was when we were at DR last week and the media pools were not there after the catalog import. I wish there was a way to post a