Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server offline after upgrade to NBU6.5

2009-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Koping Wang wrote: Sorry, I should put a better subject line. And my OS is Solaris. I am upgrading netbackup form 6.0.4 to 6.5.4. Everything goes smooth except one media server. Almost at the end of the upgrade I got this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server offline after upgrade to NBU6.5

2009-12-18 Thread Koping Wang
Thanks Justin, I found the problem. The media server can not resolve the fully qualified host name of the master server (EMM server). Thanks Koping From: Justin Piszcz [jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:08 AM To: Koping Wang Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Harpreet SINGH
Dear All, How about the backup Reporting feature. ? With Warm Regards =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harpreet Singh Chana Phone : (O) 6895 - 4326 Fax :(O) 6895 - 4991 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Notice The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Scott Jacobson sjaco...@novell.comwrote: Are you saying what seems to be included as with this upcoming release; an imbedded feature and it will still cost? Yup. The binaries are installed as part of the media server install. Hmm, what else in v7.x will

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Harpreet SINGH harpreet_si...@ctl.creative.com wrote: How about the backup Reporting feature. ? There is a part of the backup reporting feature (OpsCenter) that is included for free with NetBackup 7. There are some features that you have to purchase an

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Karl Rossing
Ed Wilts wrote: It's also not free. You will pay for each terabyte of pre-duped data. ZFS de-dup is for us openSolaris folk. Now available as of build 129. Although it's not a tape solution and I don't think opensolaris is officially supported. I'm looking forward to testing this out with

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Rusty.Major
The binaries for Exchange and MSSQL are also included in the Windows client, but you have to license them before using, so this model is not new. It would be nice if Symantec clarified what is and is not included, though. It would be nice if they cleaned up the licensing model, too, while they

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server offline after upgrade to NBU6.5

2009-12-18 Thread Rusty.Major
Yep, 6.5 is very picky about this. So is the Java GUI. Adding the FQDN to the hosts file has resolved a number of connection problems with the Java GUI. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: On another note, I had been under the impression that OpsCenter (similar to NOM) was the new and only way to manage NetBackup. I was corrected by a Symantec Rep who stated that the classic Java GUI (and I would assume the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mountpoint.

2009-12-18 Thread Iverson, Jerald
bpdbjobs has the information you may need. unfortuneately the -most_columns options doesn't show the file system per jobid (at least 6.0 didn't, 6.5 might), so you must use the -all_columns. this then gives you output with a variable number of fields per line, so you have to use logic to parse

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mountpoint.

2009-12-18 Thread Martin, Jonathan
What version of NBU are you using? I dump this data regularly using the -all_columns and write it to a SQL database, and while I get a last path backed up field, I do not get a path field. Here's a single line of output from my NBU 6.5 MP3 on Windows 2003 master.

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Rusty.Major
I agree, Ed. The same rep did tell me that the Java GUI will eventually go away. And since Ops Center will be/is web based, I would assume that would make the Windows Admin Console go away as well. I was glad to hear that the GUIs will be sticking around, as I had thought we were getting forced

[Veritas-bu] Cookbook to use alternate NIC for client backups.

2009-12-18 Thread William Brown
Does anyone have a short cookbook how to correctly setup a 2nd interface on a Unix (Solaris) client, so all backup traffic uses that NIC? http://support.veritas.com/docs/269879 has some detail which I was expecting, like using on the Client REQUIRED_INTERFACE=FQDN of backup NIC It does not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cookbook to use alternate NIC for client backups.

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM, William Brown william.d.br...@gsk.comwrote: Does anyone have a short cookbook how to correctly setup a 2nd interface on a Unix (Solaris) client, so all backup traffic uses that NIC? 1. Install NIC and give it an IP address on a different network than the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19

2009-12-18 Thread bob944
so I have a problem with backing up MSCS clusters with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup selections. The cluster nodes not holding the volume attempt to backup the volumes and fail. This was easy enough to fix with policy specific client exclusions, and these exclusions for the clustered volumes get

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread smpt
Java is part of netbackup 7. At least at the beta2 (I just check and install it) stefanos From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rusty.ma...@sungard.com Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 7:37 PM To: Ed Wilts Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mountpoint.

2009-12-18 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0500, Martin, Jonathan wrote: What version of NBU are you using? I dump this data regularly using the -all_columns and write it to a SQL database, and while I get a last path backed up field, I do not get a path field. Here's a single line of output from

[Veritas-bu] Automating NBU ejects w/vmchange - Solaris

2009-12-18 Thread fullejn
I am currently using this one-liner to eject all tapes from a list. It works in that I can build a tape list and save me the headache of entering tape # by tape #, but I still have the aggravation of having to interact with the command as it prompts me to confirm every eject with a keystroke.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Automating NBU ejects w/vmchange - Solaris

2009-12-18 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:01:02PM -0500, fullejn wrote: I am currently using this one-liner to eject all tapes from a list. It works in that I can build a tape list and save me the headache of entering tape # by tape #, but I still have the aggravation of having to interact with the

[Veritas-bu] BPLIST question

2009-12-18 Thread Rusty.Major
I'm trying to get bplist to give me output on some images made for an SAP backup. All I keep getting is EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found. These backups run daily and I know I have images, I just want to know the filelist for each one. I have used the following syntax: bplist -C clientname

Re: [Veritas-bu] BPLIST question

2009-12-18 Thread हेरंब ओक
Please check whether you are mentioning the exact client name as of registered in netbackup. If it's FQDN in netbackup you have to mention FQDN for bplist command too On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:56 PM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: I'm trying to get bplist to give me output on some images made

Re: [Veritas-bu] BPLIST question

2009-12-18 Thread Rusty.Major
Disregard. I had to put the policy type in. I now see that the default is Windows (13)...which makes sense, these aren't windows backups! bplist -C clientname -t 17 -R 999 / The above does work for me. I thought I had tried it, but apparently not. Thanks to those who responded. Rusty Major,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Automating NBU ejects w/vmchange - Solaris

2009-12-18 Thread Stier, Matthew
-sec 1 Set interactive timeout to '1' second. This is not documented in the vmchange manpage, but you can find information on Google by searching vmchange sec 1. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19

2009-12-18 Thread David Stanaway
The policy is multistream enabled, so each local drive and windows special save directives get a job stream. Here is an EG: clients: CNODE1 CNODE2 CVIRT1 policies: CVIRT_full_win Type: MS-Windows Backup Selections: Q: R: Exclusions: None Schedules: Full (Full) Daily