The majority of our NFS mounts are not backed up on the server that's
mounting them.
We have cross mountpoints checked but follow nfs unchecked.
We mount all NFS servers to a central machine and back it up there. We
consider this more managable than trying to decide on what server a
You're right - user-defined backups won't break into multiple streams.
You can do multiple bpbackup commands. If you do them in rapid
succession, NetBackup will usually multiplex them correctly onto a tape.
Something like:
for dir in Microsoft Information Store:\*SG*
do
bpbackup -p policy_name
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:04 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] multistream a user-defined backup.
Yes, but the problem with the full backup is it truncates the logs, and
we do not want that to happen. SO form what you're
parent_start_notify parent_end_notify.
Documentation says they run on the client but it lies. It only runs on
the master server.
and backup_exit_notify still works on the master server.
Before 6.x, there was no equivalent to the parent starts end scripts.
It was a constant search to find a
I don't know of anyway to do this. You might be hosed on this one.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Darren
Dunham
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:42 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate specific
Netbackup, by default, uses mtime for incrementals. It can be
configured to use C-time in bp.conf but that's not usual at all.
More here: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/200644.htm
-M
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy
Doering
Are you confusing volume pools storage units? I can see hardware
encryption tied to a tape drive set much more than a volume pool.
That said, if you really want to get rid of volume pools, be careful
with data that doesn't live together well. Oracle data oracle
archived redo should live on
I've got a set of policies that follow a pattern of:
Monthly - Full
Weekly - Cumulative Incremental
Daily - Differential Incremental
If it's been 20 days from the last full, then what I need is the full
backup from 20 days ago, then a big skip to the previous cumulative
the incrementals from
We have a dedicated media server built on an AMD box running RHEL 5.2
(2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 03:51:21 EDT 2008 x86_64).
Over time, our LTO2 drives will go down one by one. A scan doesn't
seem to show any issues but if I vmoprcmd -up them, they'll just go
down again. After I
the
only Linux media server in my environment. (We're using the native lto2
drive, too - supposed to be part of this OS).
-M
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:33 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: veritas-bu
...@radian.biz]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:30 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives.
One drive may easily have needed cleaning for longer... or are you
saying the two that advertise that are a disjoint set from
Not yet - I'm mixed version for NB across the enterprise - I thought I'd
stablize on one version before I involve RH.
From: Andrew White [mailto:adwh...@inchix.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:39 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: Donaldson, Mark; veritas
for the bridges? It might be worth upgrading the firmware
if so...
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:48 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: veritas-bu
Your don't alert if retry was successful automatically excludes the
idea of a real-time monitor.
It's a bit like saying Don't alert if you're going to succeed in the
future.
We solved this by creating an after-the-fact monitor for our backups -
it searches the bpdbjobs output daily and parses
in the volume of one-off
failures, most of which we wouldn't restart anyway and would just leave
for the next night's cycle.
-Original Message-
From: Travis Kelley [mailto:rhat...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:47 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu
Note: Anything initiated on the client side, though, ie: user-backups
user-archives, is going to use the first server in the bp.conf file.
-M
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of W.
Curtis
If server B has no G drive and servera has no C, then you can put the
superset in one policy
C, E, F, G
It doesn't error as long as one thing in the backup include list exists.
Adding things to an exclude list works but does slow your backup - the
backup process builds a list of all things on
:39 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; jlight...@water.com; aaa aaa
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] [Q] How to check Veritas client 6.5
daemonrunningonLinux
I checked my DELL server which have Netbackup client 6.5 install in it
(Redhat 4.7). I have everything you guy mention in here, but I still
got:
Backup
Can you post the policy for this client?
From: bbb bb [mailto:mcc...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 5:33 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; jlight...@water.com; aaa aaa
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] [Q] How to check Veritas client 6.5
daemonrunningonLinux
I
ah - good.
I was going to say that freezing media, in the bpmedia -freeze sense
will still allow your images to expire.
When I get a legal freeze, I duplicate those images to another pool of
tapes with a long, long retention. (I go 8 years - infinity is a
loong time) (unless directed
There's nothing to restart on a client...
(This is a client option)
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:33 AM
To: Geyer, Gregory
Cc:
Are you guys using the native support for Ultrium drives when you have a
Linux media server (I'm all LTO2 but I'm also wondering about the later
versions).
It's come up at a sister site and we're not sure what to advise.
My one Linux media server is using the 2.6 built-in drivers but it's
also
You got multiplexing backwards.
Multiplexing is multiple backups going to a single drive. Your drive
transfer rate means you want a single backup going to multiple drives.
Unfortunately, this isn't possible.
You'll need to break up your backup into multiple images and send it to
multiple
Here's how we did it...
We identified a critical subset of our servers for audit purposes - we
don't test all servers for backup/restore audits. I have a special
backup policy that backs up a dummy file on each critical audit server.
I have a script on each audit server that restore this test
I'd drop the -all_columns - it takes forever and gives you way more
than you need.
What you need is probably in the first couple columns or in the
-most_columns output at the worst.
You might also consider using a backup_exit_notify script on your master
server to record client, policy,
Why not just bplist?Good for a one-off.
Otherwise, I'd use bpimagelist to list my images, limited to my
filesystem only, full backups, generate a bpid list, then use bpflist to
search those for evil file types.
-M
From:
Is the data domain a DSU for netbackup?
When you say you're backing up to it, can you give more details?
-M
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Monday, March 09,
with other arrangements but easier to make this assumption first. It
think it's accurate to what you said earlier.
Hope this helps.
-M
From: Hickman, Tony [mailto:tony.hick...@sbmoffshore.com]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:16 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Donaldson, Mark
To: Donaldson, Mark; Hickman, Tony; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] how to copy backups from data domain
totapew/netbackup 6.5
Only problem with the script is OP says he has a Windows master. He'll
have to figure out the way VBS or BAT way of doing
Well, the answer is use bplabel.
How is it not working for you?
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hudson,
Steve
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:33 AM
To:
don't use robtest - use tpreq tpunmount. NB's vm manager tracks that
better.
From: Hudson, Steve [mailto:steve.hud...@ironmountain.com]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:08 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu;
veritas-bu
Have you tried vmoprcmd -reset ?
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/269577.htm
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:50 AM
To:
While I'm thinking of it, this (vmoprcmd -reset) may be a good way to
clear the drive rather than using robtest.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, March
Direct SCSI access through VMware is difficult and I'm not even sure
you'd want to try it through a virtual device.
I'd recommend a bare-metal build for a media server.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]
Pull!
BLAM!
;)
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Heathe
Kyle Yeakley
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:51 AM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction
Hello
bpimmedia works fine for this. just give it the unix path of the disk
storage unit.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Rongsheng Fang
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:29 AM
To:
With unix Permission Denied is usually an NFS mount thing.
I'll bet you a nickle it's on an NFS mount and the permissions in the
export table on the NFS server aren't allowing root on the client to
function with full permissions in that mountpoint. (root=clientip)
-M
semi-ugly but you can get it out of the image database:
bpimagelist -d 01/01/1970 | awk '$1==IMAGE {print $2}' | sort -u
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez,
Daniel
Sent:
You could do something like this...
bpmedialist -mlist -rl 9 -l|awk '{print $13,$7,$1}'|sort -n -k1 -k2
This will print, respectively, pool number, tape expiration date (epoch
time) and tape number.
You'll have to do a little conversion after the fact to convert pool
number to pool name and
Subject line pretty much says it all - we have a handful of LTO1
cleaning tapes and no more of that kind of drive. I've got other
cleaning tapes marked as good for both kinds of drives so I suspect
we're good to use the LTO1 cleaners in LTO2 drives.
Any issues you guys know of?
-M
Hi,
The source of the raw information is the image database. Here's a
script for you. Note, this doesn't take into account multiple copies of
one image - it's just a total of the image sizes, ie: sourced data. If
you want to have total data written onto the tape, multiply the $19
param by
USB drives can be very slow.
Have you tried restoring the files to a hard drive and seeing if the
problem lies there?
How are backup speeds on that same client?
Lastly, are the backups heavily multiplexed? That'll slow restores as
the tape has to be seeked to find the distributed backup
If I create a policy that uses inline-tape-copy to make an offsite copy,
I see two pieces of wierdness that I don't understand.
The first is that if I select a storage unit group for my destination,
the tape pool, tape owner, etc. grays out. It's not like my tape pools
are tied to a specific
that it is not a best practice to do so.
Depending on what version of NetBackup you have and your business
requirements, you may want to look into disk-staging/duplication (6.0),
Storage Lifecycle Policy (6.5.x) to create multiple copies.
/Girish
- Original Message
From: Donaldson, Mark
I think this is a mistake.
Media type (hcart, dlt, hcart2) etc is just a label - part of the media
database. It exists per tape regardless of the backups on it. Volume
Pool is what's usually assigned through backup creation. You can change
the media type (via the vmchange) command regardless
.
From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:38 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; mvdb...@stortech.co.za;
VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT
You also have the issue
So this is a new Netbackup install and the old DLT tapes are from the
old installation? Is using the old catalog as a base for the new a
possiblity? Then you wouldn't have to import any tapes.
To read the DLT tape, you'll need a DLT drive, of course. Why not just
label them as DLT just for
Off-Topic but you guys are the biggest group of Admins I know.
I need to take an HP training course. It's offered 1500 miles away in
Boston or via a Virtual Classroom. Any of you have experience with
HP's virtual training courses?
-M
___
Veritas-bu
Some people swear by the one-client, one-policy method. I'm not one of
them.
The only reason I can see to do this is the ease of turning off backups
for a client. In 9+ years of doing Netbackup, I think I've done this
less than a half-dozen times. Even with multiple clients per policy,
you can
Use robtest to log into the library and run a mode command. It
should tell you the total number of slots.NBU will use whaterver the
mode command reports.
Our Scaler 10k library reports 130 slots lower than physical slots. The
scalars can be bought smaller than physical.
You have to pay
If you backup the database with only one image, the bpstart/bpend_notify
will work.
However, bpend_notify does run with every image completion, as you've
found so it's no good for multi-image backups. bpstart_notify also runs
with every image starting up so your preparation script might run
You can skip the If statement at the beginning and instead rename the
batch file to only work with that particular policy.
In general
bpstart_notify.batAll policies
bpstart_notify.policyname.bat only works for policyname (but for
all its scheds)
bpstart_notify.policyname.schedname.bat
From: Steve Bally [mailto:steve.ba...@radisys.com]
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 2:18 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup
Mark,
Yes, this is a dump from vRanger, then NBU comes by and backs up the
files
/post schedule jobs.
HTH - Mark
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:10 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Dustin Damour; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup
Error 58 is a can't connect error. Err 57 is if it can't reverse
correctly and authenticate the server or if the list of allowed servers
in the client is wrong.
We just pounded a bunch of these to death on a handful of servers.
A quick test is to telnet host bpcd from the master server. If you
There's two ways to do this, one is dependable, the other is less so.
The undependable way, and I don't recommend it, is to configure media
sharing and then time all the times to occur at different times. With
luck, they'd all grab the shared tape, mount it locally, and write all
the backups
Can you give an example of what you're looking for?
-M
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:49 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu]
Here's what I use. I gives output that looks like below, totals by
client, then broken down by policy.
Run it without options for a 24-hour report or specify a number of hours
on the command line to see greater depth. Change the
y...@yourdomain.com at the top of the script for your mail
Exclusion files are client-side only. If you put one on the master
server, it doesn't function for the clients.
Certainly it's something we, the user community, have been requesting
for a very long time.
-M
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
standard for my 6.5.3 install now are:
libacl.i386
libstdc++.i386
xinetd
(The last seems obvious but for some reason it's missing on half our
servers).
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
Apologies for the slow response - I was on vacation.
My earlier message to this board has the script as an attachment
rpt_client_totals.
It's a shell script, I don't use extensions as a rule on scripts.
-M
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
I have done a full system restore, or attempted to, and it doesn't work.
Somewhere along the way, you start over-writing the library files linked into
the running bpbkar executable and then the restore will die.
BMR is an exception, but just doing a full restore from root downward doesn't
Kraizman
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: dave.mark...@fjserv.net; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; John Nardello
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.
2009/6/8 Donaldson, Mark mark.donald...@staples.com
I have done a full system
A little late to this party but here's another version.
#!/bin/ksh
PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
echo Client \t OS Level \t Release
echo =\t =\t ===
for c in `bpplclients -allunique
...@administaff.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version
Note on Marks script, the command does not show the fourth position on
the version 6.5.3.1 all I am
}else{r=p}
printf(%-22s\t%-25s\t%s\n,'$c',os,r)} '
done
From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:53 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi
It's controlled by two lines in your bp.conf file on your master server:
KEEP_JOBS_HOURS = 192
KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 192
I keep 9 days with mine.
-M
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
NB recurses by default. It's hard to stop.
You'd have to do this by using an exclude file on the client, I suspect.
If your filelist includes:
/top/dir_to_backup
You might try to exclude
/top/dir_to_backup/*/
That might do it. I've never tried it, though. Make sure the trailing
slash is
I get it all the time. No worries.
-Mark
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:17 AM
To: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; Donaldson, Mark;
sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc
Per policy excludes are implemented already. Have been since at least
v3.
Client Global: /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list
Policy (all scheds): /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.policyname
Policy Sched:
/usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.policyname.schedname
-M
-Original Message-
Yes, they're on the client, but they can be limited to function on that
client for only one policy or policy sched combo.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dbergen
Sent: Thursday, June 11,
Hi all,
We're using the Netapp Snapmanager for Exchange software to make
Exchange backups right now. We use it to quiesce Exchange in some way
and create a Netapp snapshot of the drives. Those drives are mounted to
another NT server and backed up as drive letters.
The upshot of this is
Decommissioning an NB 6.5 Media server:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/306838.htm
Before you turn it off, though, change your policies to use a storage
unit that goes directly to tape then use vault or bpduplicate to copy
your remaining disk images to tape. Expire the disk images once
Two potential helps:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277049.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276889.htm
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent:
Aww, heck. You don't need to backup Mac computers. Everything made by
Apple is perfect. If a file gets deleted you don't need it. Trust it -
it's a apple. It anticipated your future disuse of this file and just
proactively took care it for you.
Oh - and the big black box that appeared in
If it's being manipulated via the GUI, here's one way. Write a wrapper
(I use a Unix alias) for jnbSA that has something like this in it like
this:
jnbSA -l $HOME/jnbSA/jnbsa.1016.log -lc
..or...
jnbSA -l /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/jnbsa/$USER.`date +%y$%M%D`.$$.log
...or similar.
Unless you're doing something special in yours, the backup_exit_notify
(note - no .sh suffix) doesn't send email by default.
-M
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
Glazerman
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:53
The emails on NB are per-image. They don't take into consideration the
retry attempts.
There's no built-in features for that.
-M
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Fernandes, Eustace
Sent: Tuesday, June 23,
By default, though, Netbackup is pouring email out for every backup through a
different script or executable which I've never found. By default, the mail
lines below are commented out.
If anyone knows Netbackup's usual facility for spam, I'd love to look at it to
see if it could be
You're not going to do it without partitioning the library. Hints in
another thread suggest it might be possible by using a another software
package as an interface but stock Netbackup will limit you to having a
library connected to one, and only one, master server.
The Master Server holds your
If a drive is visible to one and only one server because of zoning ,
then SSO isn't necessary. SSO is used to share a single drive among
multiple media servers. Each server uses it in turn but then releases
it after use to be used by a different server. While you may be
licensed for SSO, what
The way I understand SSO, is if you're using anything more complicated
than a stand alone tape drive, then you need SSO (I could be totally
incorrect here, this is me trying to summarize SSO in 20 words or
less).
This isn't the case. SSO is used to share a single tape drive among
multiple
Have you increased your timers yet? Client_read_timeout springs to
mind...
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:11 AM
To:
Direct connect fiber is possible but there's no device sharing this way.
This may not be an issue if you don't have SSO licenses.
However, frankly, switches add flexibility for later changes - if I had
a switch available to me, I'd use it even if I ended up with
point-to-point zones built in
LTO1 LTO2 is where I had my crossover point.
You can go into the media database (vmchange) change the media type on
the LTO3 tapes to be the same as your LTO4. The drives will read
write these tapes, they'll dumb down to the format automatically. I
marked mine with a comment that reminded me
If you did it too fast, changes to policies can take up to 10 minutes to
be implemented (by default).
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Heathe
Kyle Yeakley
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009
Force the assignment? vmquery -assignbyid
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:49 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this hack to
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
Yeah - what the other guys implied.
There's lots of possibilities, first stop is the details under the job
viewer - that should tell you what the job is waiting on.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]
I got a script for this (tracking graphing drive utilization) but it's
slightly hosed now. Give me a bit and I'll post it out again.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Checkout the bpcoverage command. It compares the filesystems on a
client versus the policy list and will tell you what is and isn't backed
up and by what policy.
bpcoverage -c client_name
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
that's waaay to complicated for a simple email. There's a whole manual
on vaulting - probably best to dig into that.
Simply put, though, it's the automated duplication, ejection,
reporting of backup images and tapes. I use it to create scheduled jobs
that destage backups from disk-storage
Nope - shouldn't work that way.
If you look at the tape with vmquery, does it have an Assigned date?
Are you confusing volume expiration (tape age, visible with vmquery) with image
expiration (visible with bpmedialist)?
-M
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From:
Just inserting them into a drive should be enough. After they're in,
look at vmoprcmd -d ds on the media server that sees that drive.
The ExtMID is the External Media ID - supplied via the robot's interface
- the RecMID is the on-tape media ID - it's the from the header info.
When you find it,
I'm using a 10G fragment size. Just a guess at a ballpark figure
between too small too large.
-M
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
william.d.br...@gsk.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 16,
And database size. Every fragment is another record in the image
database.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:38 AM
To: Justin
Heh - funny how my old scripts pop up on here every now and then...
This one is still good but I had to go to gawk on Solaris 8 instead of
awk. I've got a couple policies now that have listings large enough
to bomb-out the elderly awk on Sol 8.
-M
From:
I suspect politics over technology. The LVM layer in windows, I
believe, is a port of Veritas VM. I suspect that there's a deal that
says All new tech must work on Windows - since it's hard to port from
Windows to *nix, it tends to say on Windows.
Just guessing.
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If they're run too closely together, it, for some reason, picks a new
tape - it must be a way to delays caused by mounting positioning.
I've seen this in backups, too. On my third backup of the set, it
picked the first tape.
One way around this is to put a list of images to be backed up in a
Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide:
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NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover
NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec
Enterprise Technical Support.
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Huh?
Should be easy, I'd think. Why would I need Tech Support?
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