Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don’t seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? *James McDonald* *System Administrator* *SAIC - IISBU* *410-312-2232* ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
What Update pack is running? What's changed in the environment? Anything recently updated like AV? From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Saran Brar Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] iSCSI and NBU 7.0 or
We are looking at new disk storage from HP that are iSCSI. I have heard that iSCSI is not a supported by NBU (current version 7.0) The compatibility list does not directly say (Hard to understand), only NDMP Direct copy Not Implemented. Any insight from the Collective would be helpful and yes resistance is futile. Thanks. ;-) James M. Caldwell NCCCS Unix Support Operation Systems Analyst caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7234 (Office) ___ E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and shall be disclosed to third parties when required by the statutes. (NCGS.Ch.132) ___ BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Caldwell, Jim TEL;WORK:919-807-7234 EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu N:Caldwell;Jim TITLE:Operations Systems Analyst ADR;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;200 W Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27603;Raleigh;NC;20699-5000 LABEL;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Caldwell, Jim=0A= 200 W Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27603=0A= Raleigh, NC 20699-5000 END:VCARD ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn't pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I'm having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a database error pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
One of our SA's was unable to log onto the server, so went back and saw that the logs for the server had filled up a large chunk of HDD space. I cleared them out and he was able to login. Does NBU have its own location for log storage, or does something need to be done to NBU after I cleared out the server logs? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:32 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Looks like EMM server down issue. did you check for free space on the master/emm server and any logging enabled which is creating heavy logs and eating up the space. Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:27:49 -0500 From: james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com To: saranb...@live.com CC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn't pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I'm having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a database error pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
Looks like EMM server down issue. did you check for free space on the master/emm server and any logging enabled which is creating heavy logs and eating up the space. Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:27:49 -0500 From: james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com To: saranb...@live.com CC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn’t pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I’m having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a “database error” pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don’t seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
Hi, Database error? Is your NB_EMMSRV running? Did you check the DB EMM logs? = /usr/openv/db/log Justin. On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, McDonald, James F. II wrote: I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn't pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I'm having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a database error pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] iSCSI and NBU 7.0 or
NDMP is typically (exclusively?) used for file systems. iSCSI is block. You should back up the data via host agents. On Feb 24, 2011 6:45 AM, Jim Caldwell caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu wrote: We are looking at new disk storage from HP that are iSCSI. I have heard that iSCSI is not a supported by NBU (current version 7.0) The compatibility list does not directly say (Hard to understand), only NDMP Direct copy Not Implemented. Any insight from the Collective would be helpful and yes resistance is futile. Thanks. ;-) James M. Caldwell NCCCS Unix Support Operation Systems Analyst caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7234 (Office) ___ E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and shall be disclosed to third parties when required by the statutes. (NCGS.Ch.132) ___ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
I would recommend opening a support case, especially when jobs are not starting when they are suppose to. Kevin On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Saran Brar saranb...@live.com wrote: Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don’t seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] iSCSI and NBU 7.0 or
is it an D2D series array? what's the use case? target for backup to disk (basic/advanceddisk), dedupe? On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Jim Caldwell caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu wrote: We are looking at new disk storage from HP that are iSCSI. I have heard that iSCSI is not a supported by NBU (current version 7.0) The compatibility list does not directly say (Hard to understand), only NDMP Direct copy Not Implemented. Any insight from the Collective would be helpful and yes resistance is futile. Thanks. ;-) James M. Caldwell NCCCS Unix Support Operation Systems Analyst caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7234 (Office) ___ E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and shall be disclosed to third parties when required by the statutes. (NCGS.Ch.132) ___ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Fiber Transport
I have a customer using FT Media Server over 2Gbit HBA and we can see 125MB/sec per target port. Check if SAN Client is able to read the data from fs. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Heathe Yeakley hkyeak...@gmail.com wrote: I picked up some Enterprise Client licenses to speed up the backups on some of my larger database servers. I've gone through the Fiber Transport guide and setup everything as the guide suggests. When I fire off my first backup, I'm only getting like 20 MB/s - 30 MB/s. Those aren't quite the numbers I was expecting. I've gone back through the guides and checked to see if there's some glaring mistake I've made and I can't find one. My question is this: For those of you that use FT, do I need to go into the OS and change anything on the HBA? Is there perhaps a setting in the OS or maybe on the firmware of the HBA itself that might be throttling my SAN bandwidth? Thanks. - Heathe Kyle Yeakley ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 58, Issue 25
Its in regards of Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy I would check the nbpemreq -subsystem 23 screen to see if scheduling was not disabled I would double check the switches, cant remeber it by hard. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
If you get low on space, EMM will shut down to save the database from corruption. I believe the default is 1% free, but can't remember. There will be a log entry in the emm log stating this was the case. This sounds like what could have been happening here because you could access at least the UI, but nothing else was working. I found a technote that explains it: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH47326 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH48007 NBU will put the logs in the same filesystem where you installed NBU, and are a combination of installpath\veritas\netbackup\logs and installpath\veritas\logs. I always put these two directories in a separate filesystem, but this is made easier since we run on Solaris and can use symbolic links. Once you get past your problem and things are working again, you need to make sure that your vxlogs (also called Unified Logs and these are the logs in installpath\veritas\logs) are not running at highest verbosity. This command will change all the vxlogs to the default level. installpath\veritas\netbackup\bin\vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o Default -s DebugLevel=1 -s DiagnosticLevel=1 You can substitute 0's in there to turn logging off. Also set the troubleshooting tab (or the registry) to 0 for the legacy logs (logs located in installpath\veritas\netbackup\logs). Note, after making either of these changes only some logs will be returned to this lower log setting a restart will be necessary to get all of them back to the new value. This technote gives more detail on the logs. Also look in the troubleshooting guide for even more detail about these logs. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH43251 If you want to move your vxlogs (unified logs) follow this technote: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH45907 Since you are on Windows, I dont' think you can relocate the legacy logs (installpath\veritas\netbackup\logs) natively. You could install cygwin and utilize that to create a symlink. Maybe someone else has another suggestion on this as well. Other ways to save space would be to limit the number of days you are keeping logs and enable compression of the catalog. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 02/24/2011 08:42 AM To McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com cc Saran Brar saranb...@live.com, veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Hi, If you ran out of space it could of screwed up the EMM DB. Check the logs for the EMM DB. Justin. On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, McDonald, James F. II wrote: One of our SA's was unable to log onto the server, so went back and saw that the logs for the server had filled up a large chunk of HDD space. I cleared them out and he was able to login. Does NBU have its own location for log storage, or does something need to be done to NBU after I cleared out the server logs? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:32 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Looks like EMM server down issue. did you check for free space on the master/emm server and any logging enabled which is creating heavy logs and eating up the space. Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:27:49 -0500 From: james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com To: saranb...@live.com CC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn't pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I'm having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a database error pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232
Re: [Veritas-bu] Fiber Transport
Hello, check this buffer parameters NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_FT and SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH1724 Hope it helps. Boris On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Bahadir Kiziltan bahadir.kizil...@gmail.com wrote: I have a customer using FT Media Server over 2Gbit HBA and we can see 125MB/sec per target port. Check if SAN Client is able to read the data from fs. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Heathe Yeakley hkyeak...@gmail.comwrote: I picked up some Enterprise Client licenses to speed up the backups on some of my larger database servers. I've gone through the Fiber Transport guide and setup everything as the guide suggests. When I fire off my first backup, I'm only getting like 20 MB/s - 30 MB/s. Those aren't quite the numbers I was expecting. I've gone back through the guides and checked to see if there's some glaring mistake I've made and I can't find one. My question is this: For those of you that use FT, do I need to go into the OS and change anything on the HBA? Is there perhaps a setting in the OS or maybe on the firmware of the HBA itself that might be throttling my SAN bandwidth? Thanks. - Heathe Kyle Yeakley ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists
This is indeed a valid issue and one that we were unaware was affecting us until this morning. The bpbkar logs on our clients are showing many many files being incorrectly excluded from our OS backups because of the use of wild cards in our exclude lists. Luckily, we have not run into any issues during DR or restore testing but this is probably down to the fact that we use FLAR's and don't have many, if any, requests for individual file restores. Having said that, there is definitely worry now that if a file level restore was requested, we could easily be missing data. We are looking into amending our exclude lists while we try and find out if this has been fully addressed in 7.0.1 or any pending releases. Thankyou for the heads up !! Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:14 PM To: giris...@yahoo.com; gstaff...@barclaycardus.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into this tomorrow. Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message - From: Girish Jorapurkar giris...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 18:24 Subject: [Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists To: Mark Glazerman mark.glazer...@spartech.com, Stafford, Geoff gstaff...@barclaycardus.com, veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Beware of the following bug in NB 7.0: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH135929 From: Mark Glazerman mark.glazer...@spartech.com To: Stafford, Geoff gstaff...@barclaycardus.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:30:57 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists We exclude .dbf, .DBF, .arc and .redo files from our OS backups because RMAN handles all of those during the database backups. No point in backing them up when they won’t be part of any OS restore. Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to From:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Stafford, Geoff Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:59 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists I’m hoping I can get a few peoples opinions on using *.dbf (or *.whatever) in exclude lists to avoid backing up Oracle (or whatever) database files. I’ve always been of the opinion that excluding the directory where the database files are is a better method as it doesn’t require NBU to evaluate each and every file that it attempts to backup so you have less of a load on the client and, in theory, there might be an every so slight increase in backup speeds. Our database environment, especially on the development/QA side, is very active/transient and new databases are popping up all the time on existing hosts resulting in backing up tons of tons of hot database files which are absolutely worthless. Putting procedures around creating new databases requiring them to notify us when they create a new database is The Right Way to Do It™ but that’s easier said than done in a dev/qa world. I’m starting to think that the time required to maintain the exclude lists is becoming more expensive than any performance benefits. So, all ye great NBU minds, what are your experiences with using *.dbf and have you noticed any ill effects on the client? ___ Barclays www.barclaycardus.com ___ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity who is the intended recipient. Unauthorized use of this information is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender by replying to this message and delete this material from any system it may be on. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
NetBackup logs are in C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\Logs Directory. Is your hard drive full where NetBackup is installed? NOTE: I stated C: Drive, but it could depend where you installed NetBackup From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of McDonald, James F. II Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:35 PM To: Saran Brar Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy One of our SA's was unable to log onto the server, so went back and saw that the logs for the server had filled up a large chunk of HDD space. I cleared them out and he was able to login. Does NBU have its own location for log storage, or does something need to be done to NBU after I cleared out the server logs? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:32 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Looks like EMM server down issue. did you check for free space on the master/emm server and any logging enabled which is creating heavy logs and eating up the space. Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:27:49 -0500 From: james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com To: saranb...@live.com CC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu I have restarted the services; I even rebooted the server just to be safe. Our program SA said he hasn't pushed an update on the system for a while now, so nothing has changed on the system that I know of. I tried rebuilding one of the policies (suggested by Scott Jacobson) but I still had the same issues as previously mentioned. Just to recap the issues I'm having: backups will not run (even manual starts fail to even start), servers listed under Host Properties will not stay connected, trying to access Storage Containers gives a database error pop-up and displays nothing, and trying to access the Activity Monitor hangs the Admin application. James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:25 AM To: McDonald, James F. II Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy
Starting to wonder what is in the Windows Event Logs, and if the disk space is a problem From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Holtz Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:09 PM To: Saran Brar Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; McDonald, James F. II Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 acting buggy I would recommend opening a support case, especially when jobs are not starting when they are suppose to. Kevin On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Saran Brar saranb...@live.com wrote: Have you tried recycling the netbackup services. In command prompt go to c:\program files\veritas\netbackup\bin\ bpdown -f -v bpup -f -v On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, McDonald, James F. II mailto:james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com wrote: We are running NBU 6.5 for Windows on Server 2003. Recently the policies have not started on their own and they need to be started manually each morning. This morning the NBU Admin tool hung/froze when I tried to view the Activity Monitor. I checked the Host Properties and none of the servers showed Connected, so I right-clicked and connected them. I manually started the policies and then tried to view them in the Activity Monitor, but it hung again. I closed down the application and re-opened and the Host Properties showed the servers as being disconnected again. I have not done much with the command-line, since up to this point, the GUI has been working great. All these issues have popped in the last few days and don't seem to be going away. Opinions, thoughts, suggestions? James McDonald System Administrator SAIC - IISBU 410-312-2232 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - mailto:Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - mailto:Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] using *.dbf in exclude lists
Well Geoff. What I do is run a SQL query on the DB everyday. This gets me the list of all files used for DB/LOG/Archivelogs/TEMP tablespace etc. Strip off the filenames, then sort/unique and update the exclude_list with the results. This way, I never have to worry about new FS, new DB datafiles in existing directories. Doing the same for DB2 as well. Works well for me. Hope this helps...Cheers. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Question about other backup applicattion
Hi, We are using Netbackup since the version 3.1 -3.2 times. We came from TSM which we used for several years. I have had no real pain with NBU, perhaps because we have a relatively standard environment. Now because we were a Sun/Oracle customer or support was going to move directly to Symantec also because for us the terrabyte licencing model was promising in our situation. Because of financial reasons management decided that we should see if this was the best way for us to go financially as well as technical. Now that we have looked closely on what is out there at the moment, I'm getting a bit confused about what Commvault promises. Is there somebody that has looked into Commvault in the last two releases and can tell me whether it's living up to it's promises or that is more a commercial driven product? I'm a bit lost in paradise! Kind regards, Henk van den Akker Meer informatie over WML en hoe u met ons in contact kunt treden, vindt u op de website www.wml.nl. De informatie verzonden met dit e-mail bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Gebruik van deze informatie door andere dan de geadresseerde is verboden. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking van deze informatie aan derden is niet toegestaan. WML staat enkel in voor de juistheid, volledigheid en rechtsgeldigheid van deze informatie indien deze informatie formeel (per gewone post) bevestigd is. In alle andere gevallen kunnen aan deze informatie geen rechten worden ontleend. NV Waterleiding Maatschappij Limburg - Handelsregister Maastricht 14602038 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
