Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple data stream and bpend_notify script

2005-11-08 Thread Ed Wilts
. Works fine. We're actually doing this for Oracle today too but are in the process of rolling out the database agents. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] YAPAMT

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Wilts
vacation but it hasn't quite made it yet. I believe it's available to ship to new customers though - it's the upgrade from earlier releases that's a bit more tricky. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need success script

2005-11-11 Thread Ed Wilts
are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP1 -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN

Re: [Veritas-bu] Custom Reports

2005-11-16 Thread Ed Wilts
are not enough. Mark Donaldson posted a script recently that gives you an endangered file system report. If it's not on the report, it's probably green. It could be a good start for you. Mark, we recently appreciate that script! .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-17 Thread Ed Wilts
I've heard that NetBackup 6 takes a fair bit more memory than 5. Has anyone seen any Veritas documentation that supports this? How about CPU requirements? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] events sufficient to send a page

2005-11-22 Thread Ed Wilts
on memory and will flush all of your jobs. Of course, if the robot is down, you may find that interesting enough to page on... -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] tricking netbackup

2005-11-22 Thread Ed Wilts
work: - shut down NetBackup - edit the STREAMS file for server1san and include the full backup entry from server1 - start NetBackup If you try this and it works, please let me know. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Way to get revision with 5.1?

2005-11-28 Thread Ed Wilts
remotely retrievable version number is beyond me, but if you're running Windows, you need to examine registry settings just to find out the version. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 4.5 client on RH4 - supported?

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Wilts
. The developer for this client has done a superb job (and I'm a long-time VMS bigot who was very reluctant to use a non-native backup client). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Technology question

2005-12-09 Thread Ed Wilts
and get a formal response if this is important to you. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Disaster recovery configuration

2005-12-09 Thread Ed Wilts
are there to keep the catalog up to date at the DR site? I've had a quick look through the Veritas web site but haven't found anything that documents best practises for cases like this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] Production 6.0GA

2005-12-15 Thread Ed Wilts
that a lot of customers have upgraded and are having no problems. However, a lot of other customers are having lots of problems. You feeling lucky? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes.

2005-12-15 Thread Ed Wilts
/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question

2005-12-16 Thread Ed Wilts
to create a single large array. All of this assumes that all backups are created equally. If there is some stuff that you need to guarantee stays on disk for a week, you may need to set up individual DSSUs for that stuff (we're doing this for some Oracle databases). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question

2005-12-16 Thread Ed Wilts
, NBU can automatically start using dssu2. We're not at 6.0 yet here, but that's what I've heard. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Growth Stats

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Wilts
. If every backup you've done in the past year has not yet expired, there's hope for you right now, but if not, there's nothing in NetBackup to report on expired tapes and images. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] MP4

2006-01-05 Thread Ed Wilts
to manually update each client (and usually reboot). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem getting file server backed up. code 84

2006-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
are on the other end of a fibre/scsi bridge). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin ished

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] seleclt statement for client version

2006-01-14 Thread Ed Wilts
patches. Sigh... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] moving client from one policy causes a full backup!!

2006-01-19 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving tapes from offsite to onsite how to?

2006-01-19 Thread Ed Wilts
the library, checking the vault to empty the cap first. NetBackup takes care of the rest. We have a Solaris master, 5.0MP6, with an L700, but just fire up the GUI on our Windows media server since it's easier. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] login as unix user

2006-01-26 Thread Ed Wilts
NetBackup's control. There's nothing they can do to stop that. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup List

2006-01-28 Thread Ed Wilts
this and there is no consistent easy way of getting the version for all clients. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] duplication speed

2006-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
= Surely its not actually a file number and its only written 23 files in 2 hours. Are those 2GB file fragments? If so, that's about right - 46GB in 2 hours or 23 GB per hour - that's better than 5MB/sec. That would put your total time to complete at about 13 hours. .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

2006-02-01 Thread Ed Wilts
-based scheduling, you can tell it to ignore certain days for say your weekly and do the monthly backup instead. We don't like calendar-based scheduling very much since it's much, much harder to deal with failures. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to determine which drive was used for backup

2006-02-02 Thread Ed Wilts
make no attempt to mount the next tape on the same tape drive, it actually appears to make explicit attempts *NOT* to do that. We've always seen NetBackup rotate jobs to the next drive so that you don't end up beating your first tape drive into the ground. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: [Veritas-bu] No response concerning tape alert?

2006-02-03 Thread Ed Wilts
and then get all pissy b/c the drive it wanted to use was unavailable. # bperror -S pissy generates an error :-) -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help finding the status of tapes!

2006-02-08 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Problem: I have a few tapes: L00123 L00124 L00125 I need to find the status of these tapes across multiple master servers. # vmquery -m L00123 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Email Notification from Netbackup 5.1 (Windows)

2006-02-08 Thread Ed Wilts
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can a 4.5FP_6 media server backup a 5.1 client?

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
and do the right thing. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
better at this and you can schedule catalog backups any time you want and consistency is ensured. I haven't seen 6 yet (waiting for MP2 at the end of March) but this is one feature I'm really looking forward to. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
the automatically invoked catalog backup, then you're correct. If it's a manually-invokved catalog backup, then regular backups can go at the same time. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpmedia -movedb problem

2006-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
the master is *NOT* supported. It's undocumented, unsupported, and is non-trivial. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.x Minimum hardware recomendations

2006-02-17 Thread Ed Wilts
your CPU suggestions? Thanks for the pointer to the doc! 180 pages of great info. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Purpose of Storage Units

2006-02-21 Thread Ed Wilts
. The nice thing about NetBackup is that it's very flexible. The bad thing about NetBackup is that it's very flexible. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Media Server Backup Another Client

2006-02-22 Thread Ed Wilts
itself). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] schedule list?

2006-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
. If you're using frequency-based scheduling, which most of us do, then it's next to impossible to figure out. So yes, you answer your first question, but it likely won't help you determine what you're looking for. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] schedule list?

2006-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:08 PM To: Barber, Layne (Contractor) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] schedule list? On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:54:06PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Why does one class only have trouble finding free tapes?

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
no trouble finding media. Are they using different volume pools? A tape can't be in multiple volume pools so some jobs could be fillling up the end of tapes with space, whereas a job that requires a different volume pool will need to pull from scratch. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN

Re: [Veritas-bu] Why don't tapes hold the same amount of data?

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:19AM -0800, Geoff Hazel wrote: Why do some tapes hold twice as much data as other tapes? Compression. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Why does one class only have trouble finding free tapes?

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
) and then can't allocate another one. NetBackup tries to pack similar retentions together so it's possible that it found room on a tape with daily retentions but couldn't find tapes with the same retention as the jobs that failed. Moral of the story is to buy more tapes... .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nemanja-Backup network problem

2006-03-02 Thread Ed Wilts
like doing that. DNS and the appropriately configured routing tables are all we need. This works like a charm and the right thing happens. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] How come NetBackup 5.1 MP4 Enterprise Server is not officially supported on RedHat 3.0 WS?

2006-03-08 Thread Ed Wilts
and AS to be supported but not WS. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating NBU Enterprise from Unix to Windows

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Wilts
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question in regards to high availability of the catalog.

2006-03-17 Thread Ed Wilts
MP2 comes out. SAN-attached storage (which is where /usr/openv is currently). We'd really like an active/active cluster config... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup for solaris: determining how many clientlicenses there are ?

2006-03-21 Thread Ed Wilts
sure you're legally compliant. Some future release may enforce licenses, but the current releases don't. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] on the subject of disk based backups....

2006-03-23 Thread Ed Wilts
$ at the problem today. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] v6.0 NOM on Solaris 10 x86

2006-03-23 Thread Ed Wilts
is on the road map. You should contact Veritas and see where they're at in the development process. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] on the subject of disk based backups....

2006-03-23 Thread Ed Wilts
drives. All of the streams from a single DSSU still go to the same volume pool. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scheduling Restores

2006-03-23 Thread Ed Wilts
a scheduled restore, which I don't find as of now. Otherwise, it's a midnight worknight. Do a command line bprestore and schedule it via cron (or whatever scheduler you have handy). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR

2006-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
jumpstarted. You'll get all your logfiles back, any users you have added, any custom changes to config files that were post-jumpstart, etc. In what could be less than 20 minutes, you'll have your system as current as the last backup. Much, much faster than jumpstart. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Encryption

2006-04-08 Thread Ed Wilts
Has anyone recently done any research into NetBackup encryption or is using it today? Thoughts and opinions? Are you using software-based encryption or encryption appliances? If the latter, which are you using and which others have you looked at? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trouble installing NetBackup 6.0 (log attached)

2006-04-11 Thread Ed Wilts
::Info:: No /usr volume on test-backups.mysubdomain.domain.com This entry is not what you listed above. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog question

2006-04-14 Thread Ed Wilts
to recover the catalog from both the tapes? You should recover from the last one it wrote. If that tape was unreadable, you'd go back a generation to the other one. If that one's bad too, work on your resume :-) -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level

2006-04-21 Thread Ed Wilts
across all clients. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level

2006-04-21 Thread Ed Wilts
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:47 PM To: Sean Clarke Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote: Hi All, I am

Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU/DSU experience

2006-04-28 Thread Ed Wilts
of policies using the same DSSUs and have not run into any issues with doing this. The only time we have dedicated DSSUs is for databases and that's to guarantee that their last backup is on DSSU for a restore. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Out-Of-The-Box or Veritas Drivers ? [recommendations please]

2006-04-30 Thread Ed Wilts
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] device serialization ... what is it ?

2006-04-30 Thread Ed Wilts
could be different on every host, but the serial numbers stay the same. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Microsoft Exchange Backups ... [recommendations please]

2006-04-30 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]

2006-05-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:58:22PM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: Is it 'best practice' to use FQDN for our Master/Media Servers ? Yes. Not just for for NetBackup, but in general, use FQDN whenever possible. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]

2006-05-01 Thread Ed Wilts
the DNS is updated. .../Ed Thanks, Rockey J. Reed Lead Solutions Specialist Consulting Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB51 support for Redhat 4?

2006-05-04 Thread Ed Wilts
. Is there anyone running a NetBackup server on Redhat 4? If so, are you using 32- or 64-bit? According to the compatability matrix, it's currently supported. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/263839.htm -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] RE-SEND: Migration of NB 4.5 Solaris to NB 6.0 RHEL4

2006-05-04 Thread Ed Wilts
problem, I'd take the Solaris server to NBU 6 and then copy everything to Linux, keeping the same host name. Do not change the host name - make that a separate project. My guess is that the migration isn't going to be all that bad... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd DSSU Behavior

2006-05-05 Thread Ed Wilts
this for every media server too. Also look at the size of the destage - by default they'll only destage 25GB at a time (and kick off 4 simultaneous streams). Drop the number to 1 like Shane said, and increase the size to a high number. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore is faster than backup

2006-05-06 Thread Ed Wilts
especially be true. It's quite likely that NetBackup has to do a lot less work to do your restore than to do a backup. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

[Veritas-bu] Decru appliances LTO3 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Ed Wilts
per appliance are you using? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
concerns about NetBackup and Linux support, contact your Symantec reps. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
tell you something about their Linux commitment too - after all, I'd put SLES in the same category as RHEL for enterprise-quality (even though I've never worked with SLES). I've not looked at NetBackup support on SLES at all. .../Ed ;-) -sj Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/10/2006 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
is commited to RHEL 3 - why won't Symantec commit to it? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have an StorageTek SL500 library?

2006-05-11 Thread Ed Wilts
. After all, it's the big customers who bought them in the first place. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Veritas-bu] clients on media id

2006-05-12 Thread Ed Wilts
-client corpftp.bck.mrll.com -media Media ID Last Written Server -- 001757 05/11/2006 19:11 stptape2ms.bck.mrll.com Nice and easy... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Win2k3 Client Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Ed Wilts
the client, and it doesnt! The most common cause of this is an out-of-date client. Update the client and your 71s will go away. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
we replaced our master, the problems went away. /Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
Krishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As its network read error, we checked the network settings and found to be 1000 Gbps auto. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris vs. HPUX

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
of a fight, but we bought a new V490 and stayed with Solaris. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
are cheaper than Sparc-based systems. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading 5.0 to 5.1

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
(to answer Kate's question - it's because we wanted 64-bit Windows support without making the major jump to 6.0) and it went nice and smoothly. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Wilts
market leader here. Since you're in Canada, stick with Red Hat for support. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Status Codes HTML Format or Web Link

2006-05-17 Thread Ed Wilts
to have a list of the most common NBU Status Codes and use the PDF for the ones that I do not see often (if at all) bperror -S statuscode Pick whichever are common in your environment and format away... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Ed Wilts
. If you start your next backup and selected the files created since 12:00, you'd be okay. Now of course you could select the same file twice (e.g. if the file was created at 12:05 and the directory was processed at 13:00)) but that's a far better problem than not backing it up at all. -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-30 Thread Ed Wilts
doing for the same reason... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-31 Thread Ed Wilts
is *NOT* supported for servers with 5.x. You can run 32-bit Windows on a 64-bit machine but that's not what the original posted asked. 64-bit NetBackup server binaries on 64-bit Windows requires 6.x. .../Ed Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/30/2006 8:51 PM On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:38:16PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists on Linux - Again!!!

2006-06-02 Thread Ed Wilts
1000G 1000G46M 100% /apps/netbackup/dssu /dev/vx/dsk/osiris_san01/apps2c 2.9T 2.3T 605G80% /apps/netbackup/dssu2 .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup modules

2006-06-04 Thread Ed Wilts
have any other NetBackup servers, you'll need to purchase the master server license. If you already have a master server, you'll need to purchase a media server license. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Obtaining NetBackup client details

2006-06-05 Thread Ed Wilts
the information but there are lots of cases where you simply get the information remotely. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu search engine missing

2006-06-05 Thread Ed Wilts
that the school is hosting so much information about Veritas products. But without the search engine it would takes subscribers like me hours to find what we need by sifting through those Zip file files. It would be nice if you can put the search engine back. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to only stop new disk to tape jobs from starting

2006-06-08 Thread Ed Wilts
jobs now have a priority to them - that would allow you in the future to set them at a lower priority than your other jobs. That doesn't help you right now though... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Staus code 42

2006-06-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:36:04AM -0400, Shyam Hazari wrote: Anyone seen this error message ? Is a 64bit windows client supported under a 5.1 NBU ? The 64-bit client became supported with 5.1MP4. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can Netbackup work on a DHCP network

2006-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
. That defeats the purpose of DHCP but then DHCP for servers doesn't make much sense anyway. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] check backed up file

2006-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
was backed up and that's an expensive operation. A better method would be to create a separate policy for just that file and then do a standard backup_exit_notify script when that policy completes. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Upgrade Question

2006-06-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:56:45AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: The master server should be upgraded first, then the media servers, correct? Correct. Read the installation manual - it's *very* important. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backup

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Wilts
like a beta 2 release than an MP2 release. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to configure Block Level backups ?

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Wilts
/275912.htm -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fronting backups with disk then bleeding off to tape.

2006-06-20 Thread Ed Wilts
under 6 vs. 5? I know there is a watermark feature. Also, how come when I bled data off to tape under 5.1MP4, it did not remove the images from disk? Must I manually purge that data? Thanks, Justin. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk-Based backups having empty finalfragments

2006-06-22 Thread Ed Wilts
you who are telling them the wrong thing. 1GB, by SI standards, is 1000MB. Seriously, I was raised and trained in binary too, but the buggers changed the standards on us in 1998. one gigabyte 1 GB = 10^9 B = 1 000 000 000 B http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html .../Ed -- Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk-Based backups having empty finalfragments

2006-06-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:54:15PM -0400, bob944 wrote: When computer logic becomes decimal-based, I'll start using kibibytes. There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't :-) .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help needed

2006-06-27 Thread Ed Wilts
for the client licenses. There is no way you can see from the system how many clients you have licenses for. If you don't have the paperwork, contact your sales rep. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu

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