[Veritas-bu] Catalog Inconsistency with DSSU

Folks, I have a 5.0 MP4 installation on a Windows 2000 SP4 server that has a SATA array attached and configured for disk staging. Backups appear to be working okay but I ran a bpdbm consistency 2 check recently in preparation for a proposed upgrade to v5.1 and have discovered the

[Veritas-bu] Merging v5 and v6 Data

Folks, I have a question regarding merging data from separate NetBackup domains. Does anybody know if you can import tapes from a v5.x system into a v6.x system? Regards, Paul Esson Senior Consultant Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766

[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client NAS Snapshot Method

Folks, Is anybody out there using this functionality? If so can you tell me if copying the NAS Snapshot to tape via NetBackup's Advanced Client NAS Snapshot method results in a full volume copy or is it just the Snapshot/pointers that are being saved. I have seen conflicting documents on this

[Veritas-bu] 64-bit v 32-bit binaries - comparative performance

Folks, Has anybody out there deployed the 64-bit binaries for NetBackup and have you measured the performance difference? I know I am hoping for much here, but I will ask the question anyway. Has anybody run the 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit OS then upgraded to the 64-bit binaries? What sort of

[Veritas-bu] Difficulty restoring Windows 2003 Servers With SP1 and above

Caleb, Which directive are you using for the system components? There is a known issue with using the System State directive on Windows 2003, you should be using Shadow Copy Components or All Local Drives to ensure all objects are secured. Regards, Paul Esson Senior Consultant Redstor

[Veritas-bu] VCS Clustered NetBackup Master Server

Folks, I'm looking for some guidance on configuring a clustered NetBackup Master Server. Can anyone share their experiences with me? The basic configuration is a two node (V445) Solaris 10 cluster using Storage Foundation Standard HA 5.0. The application is NetBackup 6.5 (Master Server).

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Device Configuration in a Cluster

Folks, I am looking for advice/understanding of device configuration in a cluster scenario. My specifics are Solaris 10 Master/Media with NetBackup 6.5 atop Storage Foundation HA in a two node topology. The robot is a Quantum Scalar i2000 with FC drives. The only reference I can find

[Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS

Folks, Is anyone out there using Media Servers with multiple NICs on separate networks? I am trying to understand how to force clients to use specific interfaces on the Media Server when sending backup data or receiving restore data. Do I need to create multiple storage unit and Media Server

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS

PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2008 13:35 To: Esson, Paul Cc: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS Greetings Paul, OK, I guess I mis-interpreted your question, apoligies. My initial

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS

Carl, It is v6.5 on Solaris 10 and I guess I have some experimentation ahead! Regards, Paul Esson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2008 13:30 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS]

Travis, Very good point! I was neglecting the network routing aspect. So if I create multiple SERVER= entries for my Media Servers with the appropriate hostnames (resolving back to the correct IP addresses) and put these lines in the relevant bp.conf files on the clients then the routing

[Veritas-bu] Export/Import of Policies Between NetBackup Installations

Folks, I have checked the archive and found some discussion on this topic but found no confirmation that the following is possible. I have a 5.1 master server (Windows 2003) and am about to build a new 6.5 master server (Solaris 10). I have 100+ clients and was looking for a process to

[Veritas-bu] LTO-4 on Linux

Folks, Has anybody out there configured LTO-4 drives on Linux Red Hat ES 4? I recently swapped out a pair of LTO-2 drives for LTO-4 drives on a v5.1 Media Server and have seen no throughput performance improvement. I did the same test on a Windows 2003 Server using the same data and saw

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cardsunder RHEL5?

Jason, Where did you get the Red Hat specifics from in your post? Do you have a reference document you could share? Regards, Paul Esson -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 May 2008 09:45 To: Esson, Paul Cc: Jason Slagle; veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Changing Master Server Platform

Folks, Our company has decided to change Master Server platform from v5.1 on Windows 2000 to V6.5 on Solaris 10. We have a large catalog with retention times of several years on the images and 2000 plus LTO-1 tapes. The plans also included moving to LTO-4 and introducing disk. I have

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster

Folks, I am in the process of building a v6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 in a VCS 5.0 framework. I have done the basic install and tested the application will failover between the two nodes. However, I now want to configure a couple of FC attached tape drives for the catalog backups and am

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster

15:55 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Master in VCS Cluster Paul, Configure the devices on whichever node is active, then failover to the second node and run through the device configuration wizard again for that node. Then you should

[Veritas-bu] Large volume client migration

Folks, Does anyone have experience of large volume client migration from one NetBackup Domain to another that they can share? I am looking at having to define a process for moving several hundred clients from a v5.1 Domain (Windows 2000) to a new v6.5 Domain (Solaris 10). I was intending to

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster

Folks, Has anybody out there got NetBackup for Solaris running on a VCS Cluster and can answer a question or two? The set-up using the cluster_config script assumes a very basic cluster configuration. If you want more elaborate storage and NIC resources for example, do you simply build

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2008 16:16 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup in a VCS Cluster Paul, Yes, that's what we have done. Shared disk was mirrored with SRDF, so we ran the script and then create a SRDF resource

[Veritas-bu] bulk import of images

Folks, Anybody out there successfully automated a large volume import of tape media into NetBackup? I am curious as to how you controlled the processing, given the potential conflict in using available tapes drives for example and how you validated the success of the phases of the import. We

Re: [Veritas-bu] bulk import of images

Jonathan, Thanks for quick the response. A copy of the script would be welcome to get me started. Regards, Paul Esson From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2008 01:42 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration

Folks, I am looking at having to migrate policy information between two NetBackup Domains (Windows 2000/5.1 MP6 to Solaris 10/6.5.2) My intention is to capture the existing information via a script or series of scripts and to use that same data as source information in creating the new

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration

:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2008 12:38 To: Esson, Paul Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Information Migration Instead of creating policies from scratch, I would suggest copying the entire db/class folders to the new netbackup server and modify it. -Shyam On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:16 AM

[Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server

Folks, I have just installed and configured a 6.5 Master Server on Solaris 10 that is also clustered using VCS. I have done the OS device configuration and presented my two tape libraries (6 x LTO-4 drives each) to both nodes in the cluster and am now ready to do device configuration within

Re: [Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup Clustered Master Server

Renee, Thanks for the clarification. Regards, Paul Esson From: Renee Carlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2008 13:29 To: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Device Configuration on NetBackup

[Veritas-bu] Non-root administration

Folks, Can I ask the group with UNIX Master Servers how they administer NetBackup? We have just moved up to 6.5 on Solaris 10 from 5.x and discovered the nonroot_admin script is gone. I could re-apply the equivalent manually but this method obviously has limitations. I need to be able to

[Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type

Folks, Anybody out there using EMC Disk Library as a VTL and has experienced similar? I have just installed NetBackup 6.5.2 on Solaris 10 with 2 x EMC DL 4000s and 2 x Quantum Scalar i2000s. There are 4 x Solaris 10 Media Servers that are configured to see dedicated drives from the DLs

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2008 12:28 To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to determine robot type The key is that the robot needs to report which drive number has which serial number. Are you seeing this in the scan output (along

[Veritas-bu] Device Strategy

Folks, Could I ask the group for opinions on my device configuration strategy? We have built a new 6.5.2 backup domain with a Solaris 10 Master (clustered over two nodes using VCS) plus 4 x Solaris 10 Media Servers and 2 x Windows Server 2003 Media Servers. We also have 2 x Scalar i2000

[Veritas-bu] Cross-Platform Remote Admin Console

Folks, We have just installed NBU 6.5.2 on Solaris 10 with a mix of Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003 Media Servers. We have a temporary requirement to allow the Windows Media Servers to run the Admin Console with a Change Server to the Master Server. The only trouble is that the response

[Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class

Folks, Can someone explain how I add Solaris _x86_10 as an operating class in NetBackup 6.5? Do I have a separate client to install or is it simply a case of running the new_clients script? If the latter what is the syntax? I see the new_clients script in bin/goodies and the comments

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class

To: Esson, Paul Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris_x86 hardware class Paul, I believe you need to install the Solaris 10_x86 client software on the master server. This is one of the questions in the initial install script, where it asks if you want to install

[Veritas-bu] robtest

Folks, NetBackup 6.5.2 Solaris 10 Master Server, Solaris 10 Medias, EMC Disk Library + Quantum Scalar i2000 Tape Library Anybody out there know robtest well? I have an issue with a robot where I can't inventory it. I don't get an error, just no information on slots at all - it's as

Re: [Veritas-bu] robtest

be mapping issues etc. as was indicated by Paul. -sj Esson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/10/2008 10:26 PM Folks, NetBackup 6.5.2 Solaris 10 Master Server, Solaris 10 Medias, EMC Disk Library + Quantum Scalar i2000 Tape Library Anybody out there know robtest well? I have an issue

Re: [Veritas-bu] Most recent stable release?

Bart, Did you do the catalog migration yourself? We are looking at a similar migration from dissimilar OS platforms and expected to get Symantec involved. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited -Original Message- From: WALLEBROEK Bart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2008

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disc Staging Area Full

Jonathan, Could you share your scripts? I have little scripting knowledge at the moment but am learning and some reference scripts would be of use. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor LTD -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2008 13:41 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP7 update on Clustered Media Servers help

Dave, I have done some work on a 6.5 VCS cluster and additionally touched a frozen file in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cluster on the active node to disable the NetBackup agent monitor after freezing the service group. This process is detailed in the 6.5 HA Admin Guide. Regards, Paul Esson

[Veritas-bu] Vault Deferred Eject Problem

Folks, My set-up is NBU 6.5.2A on Windows 2003. We use Vault for ejecting off-site media and use the deferred eject option. Unfortunately, our library has developed a fault on its Import/Export mechanism and the eject job has stalled. If I remove the tapes manually by opening up the