RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Manuals - Physical Manuals

2005-11-09 Thread Jim Horalek
Title: Message You have to buy them. Check with your Symantec Rep or Reseller Heres the SKU N160108 NetBackup,Windows,v6.0,English,Documentation Kit $300 list For Unix N16010B NetBackup,Linux/UNIX,v6.0,English,Documentation Kit $300 list Agemts and Options have ther own SKUS as well.

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

2006-05-04 Thread Jim Horalek
Also the afs limitation is for the 6.0 client only. You can still run Netbackup 6.0 server just use a 5.x client Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:55 PM To: Kathryn Hemness Cc:

[Veritas-bu] Moving media from one master to another.

2006-07-13 Thread Jim Horalek
Anyone know how to move media from on mastet to another master? Cavat old server is an Sgi(Unix) New server is Windows. Note: I'm not trying to keep the same hostname for the master. Bpmedia ?? NBU 5.0 Thanks. Jim ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Horalek
There are many VTLS on the market. And usually come at a steep price. Note you are actually purchasing disk at a premium prices with limited expandability. Adding cheap linux mediaservers with cheap raid disk is arguably a cheaper solution. jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Horalek
Title: Message Unfortunately no one has answered Juan's question. Any Data Domain, Reo, Septon, Falcon Storusers out there? Jim -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul KeatingSent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:52 PMTo:

Re: [Veritas-bu] SDLT 600 vs LTO3 ?!

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Horalek
Title: Message I've been told demand as fallen for SDLT. Sales of SDLT 600 are below 5% of LTO-3. Jim -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:46 AMTo:

[Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups.

2006-08-23 Thread Jim Horalek
Title: Message Some questions about RMAN Scripts and Netbackup Agent. If an Netbackup Job Fails(RMAN job) does this get sent back to RMAN in any way? Tivoli TSM supposedly does this now. Netbackup didn't in the past has anything changed. Can you do a RMAN duplex_copy directing streams to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on SSO

2006-08-24 Thread Jim Horalek
Out of the Licensing Guide NetBackup Shared Storage Option is licensed per shared tape drive, regardless of the manufacturer, type of device, or number of NetBackup Servers attached to the SAN. The NetBackup Shared Storage Option license is in addition to any required NetBackup Library Based Tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Horalek
You might want to look at the Netbackup Desktop/Laptop Option for backing up Pst's since I believe its designed to backup delta blocks not files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: Thursday, August 31,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup desktops Laptops

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Horalek
Actually there are three DLO's now. Backup Exec DLO-Does not do Deltas except for PST's(according to docs) Netbackup DLO (admittedly this is the same as BackupExec DLO) Claims Deltas though And Netbackup Puredisk. Deltas, Compliancy lot of other stuff. Agents maybe. Puredisk runs on Suse Linux

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup and VMWare Licencing

2006-09-19 Thread Jim Horalek
I believe Scott is correct. There were a few policy changes since the product 6.0 was delivered. Unfortunately they are not well documented. Vmware was a special case. Once license of each type to be backed up should all you need. However, the Symantec/Veritas License desk has the final say.(Tech

Re: [Veritas-bu] symantec and VERITAS merger good or bad?

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Horalek
Make sure you contact your local Veritas Sales Represenative. They can push support for fast response. This is standard operating procedure for any Hardware/Software Manufacturer. Your reseller is another channel to use. Don't just let Support push you around. Jim -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server Licenses

2007-04-03 Thread Jim Horalek
Netbackup 6 only has three mediaserver licenses. Netbackup Server (This similiar to 4.5 Business Server) Netbackup Enterprise Server (This does San and Non-San) Netbackup San Server (San only-Backs itself up only-No clients) San Server is 1/2 the price of a full server. There use to be a San

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Triva

2007-07-26 Thread Jim Horalek
Netbackup will ship on 34 CD's or 4 DVD's. Separate kits. Choose one. Not sure if you would get 34 CD's or just what you need. Jim _ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Horalek
On a similar note how does NDMP play with Disk de-dup? All of the de-dups I've seem are NAS devices. NDMP only talks to tape or VTL. Are there VTL's with De-dup that would solve the NDMP problem? Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 ssh installation?

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Horalek
Anyone running 6.5? Has Symantec updated the install-clients scripts for ssh installation? Jim ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 ssh installation?

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Horalek
Great. Thanks to all. Jim -Original Message- From: Kristofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:32 PM To: Jim Horalek Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 ssh installation? Yep, and sftp. # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sending email via Windows SMTP Service?

2007-10-18 Thread Jim Horalek
Complaints about blat are silly. Code it in VB and support it your self. http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=6915 Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Damour Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:09 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 3.4 Library Based Tape Drives license Howmany tape drives can be used?

2007-10-18 Thread Jim Horalek
Standalone tape drives are free. Only ones in a Library/Autoloader will cost you. You pay for each tape drive in a library you USE with netbackup. Whether or not Netbackup checks licensing is up to you to determine. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment Size

2008-03-03 Thread Jim Horalek
The Default Fragment size was orginally 2048 Megabytes. This was raised to 524,288 megabytes in 5.x or 6.x?? At least for disk. If I remember right, it was raised to reduce disk fragmentation with Disk Units. jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] zfs

2008-03-20 Thread Jim Horalek
Anyone install Netbackup 6.5 on a Master Server Solaris 10 x64 zfs filesystem. Any know issues? Thanks Jim ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 to 6.5

2008-03-20 Thread Jim Horalek
I'm getting ready to do Migration from a 5.1mp6 Sparc(V880-Sol 9) to a 6.5 Solaris 10 X64 server(x4500) (same hostname). I was planning on just doing a catalog backup and recovery to the new server but I'm doubting this will work. Instead I'll probably need to upgrade the V880 to 6.5.1 before I

[Veritas-bu] Auburn vs Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Horalek
The Symantec forums have been around for a while. They gotten much better. I have them as an RSS feed on my Google page. Bob Stump hangs out there a lot. The old farts hang out here. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob worman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server on a SUN Thumper?

2008-04-14 Thread Jim Horalek
Just as an asside, how many people are building Master servers on SATA? Thumper is a big box of SATA. Whats the performance of NBU 6.5 on SATA anyway? Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Bryer Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:52 PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advanced Client

2008-06-19 Thread Jim Horalek
Enterprise Client Its actually part of the Enterprise Client. The NetBackup Enterprise Client contains the functionality of the Standard Client plus many more advanced features that maximize backup performance while potentially reducing impact of backups such as Snapshot client (formerly known as

Re: [Veritas-bu] robtest

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Horalek
You might want to compare the output of tpconfig -d and scan. Make sure the robotic paths are the same. Scan will show the current path. tpconfig will show whats in the database. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Cheney Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup verify at write time

2008-07-29 Thread Jim Horalek
Nor will it tell you if your backups are any good. Only a restore will tell you that. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Pettinato Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:18 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exagrid

2008-07-30 Thread Jim Horalek
I think were slamming one vendor prematurely. All these de-dup devices work. But they are not all the same. They all have different features and solve differnet problems. You should test any device first to see if will be of any value in your environment. Jim -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Informix Backup failing with Error 13

2008-07-31 Thread Jim Horalek
Been a long time since I've done Informix but CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT? needs to be large 1/2 hour to 1hour. Same issues with Oracle. The time to get the database ready to start sending data can be significant. I believe the timeout values can be assocated with the User Account the backup is driven

Re: [Veritas-bu] Informix Backup failing with Error 13

2008-07-31 Thread Jim Horalek
Could be. Informix was on the Media Server. And like I said its a while ago. I just remember doing a lot of things to ~/bp.conf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:14 AM To: Jim Horalek

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas NetBackup Slow during out of office hours

2008-08-12 Thread Jim Horalek
The Advanced Disk option is now included in the Enterprise Client. It includes San Media Client and Server all the off host disk options lot of other stuff. The Enterprise Client is Tiered (1,2,3,4) roughly determined by the cpu count(or capability) though you will need your specifc model

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing 6.5.2 and going back to 6.5.1

2008-08-12 Thread Jim Horalek
A word of caution. I just rolled back 6.5.2A to 6.5.2 then to 6.5.1. I lost all my Storage Life Cycle policies and couldn't rebuild them. I kept getting an intermittent connectivity error. Nbstl -l was empty. (Master Suse Linux IA64) Happy ending I just re-did 6.5.2A and my policies returned.

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN only communication between a client and amediaserver ?

2008-11-10 Thread Jim Horalek
The San Client and Snapshotting are separate features, with 6.5 they are packaged with the Enterprise Client. Here the blurb on the CDW website NetBackup introduces a new client called the Enterprise Client, which combines all of advanced capabilities in one easy package. NetBackup Enterprise

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Vs Standard license

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Horalek
Standard Client - Client backups, Software Encryption and Bare Metal Restore. Enterprise Client includes, Snapshots, San Media Server, San Client, Vmware VCB, plus Standard Client Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] xen servers

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Horalek
Xen is licensed the same way Vmware is licensed. You need one license for each OS (windows,linux,unix) on the physical box. The maxiumn license count would be 3. (me thinks) You can also purchase the Enterprise Client the same way. However the Enterprise Client is Tiered based on the physical

Re: [Veritas-bu] Licensing Question

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Horalek
In a Nutshell the Enterprise Client provides Flashbackup. Flashbackup allows for the individual restore of files as well has the whole volume. As to whether you will use those features thats another story. Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Issues on Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Horalek
Martin, What was the issue with the Sun StorageTek 5320? Someone is trying to give me one. Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:11 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need ideas for doing restore from previous media

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Horalek
You don't need the tape license since standalone is free. You don't need a San for a San Mediaserver. A restore might work since its restricted to local backups. You might be able to duplicate it to another Full Mediaserver and do the restore from there. Jim -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec 12.5 License Installation

2009-05-21 Thread Jim Horalek
The is no difference between the Eval version and the current version. Alway install the latest. Adding a real license is done in the GUI probably under help. Installing a new or same version will not destroy the configuration. Though features that you may have been testing under the eval may not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Verifying Disk Images

2009-06-09 Thread Jim Horalek
You might try bpduplicate if desperation prevails. If you have a problem duplicating you'll get a error. Jim -Original Message- 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: Tuesday, June

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

2009-06-09 Thread Jim Horalek
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpgetconfig -s hostname or some variant. Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Susan K. Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:24 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site

2009-06-16 Thread Jim Horalek
Client pack is darn Huge. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:23 AM To: Spearman, David; 'Cornely, David';

[Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-06-25 Thread Jim Horalek
I have a bit of an oddity. I'm testing Synthetic Backups. I have Day 1 Full backup. Day 2 Incremental Day 3 Synthetic-Full Day 4 Incremental (and manually expire the Day 1 Full) Day 5 Full backup runs So it appears I need to keep the Full backup around even though the Synthetic Full

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-07 Thread Jim Horalek
Thanks all, Though keeping the orginal full around(to create other synthetics) does seem a bit strange. Hopefully Netbackup will mature to elimnate the constraint. Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Horalek
Yeh, I'm not crazy! Or at least about this one. Thanks Jim H From another JimH -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim H Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:59 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Horalek
As I stated in a previous post. The issue here may not be Synthetic Backups. An unsheduled Full backup(not synthetic) runs the next day !!!after I expire the original full!!! The original Full was run manually. Using Calendar based with no date to start. Remember this was just a test to see

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which is Best for My NetBackup Master - 32 or 64Bit Operating System ?

2009-07-20 Thread Jim Horalek
Defintely all new Media Server should be 64bit for any OS 32 bit will not be supported for Servers in future NBU releases. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Version - Quick Question !

2009-07-30 Thread Jim Horalek
Well there never has been a Master License. Netbackup Server is a Product for those who don't need or want another mediaserver. Netbackup is focused on the Large Enterprise. Hence Symantec pushs the Enterprise Server. You can do a lot now with just one server. 6-12 cores on a tier 1,2 server.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Standard or Enterprise

2009-08-24 Thread Jim Horalek
The Standard server license need an upgrade license to a full mediaserver. There is no sku to upgrade to a SAN enterprise server. (or Enterprise Client as the license might be called under 6.5 Jim From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Standard or Enterprise

2009-08-25 Thread Jim Horalek
I did a little more thing on this. You just need to buy the Enterprise Client, San Media server is included with it. Jim From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Horalek Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:54 AM

Re: [Veritas-bu] License required for backing up Hyper-V

2009-12-08 Thread Jim Horalek
Licensing is the same as Vmware. Your choice of many methods. A client is just one option -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu- boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WALLEBROEK Bart Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:30 AM

Re: [Veritas-bu] DC 48v disk storage

2010-05-13 Thread Jim Horalek
Dc is common in high density computing. It can deliver power much more efficiently. You have large bus bars running through your racks. Rackable(now Sgi) builds systems like these. Sun now Oracle makes a lot of DC telcom versions of their systems. Don't know about Storage though. jim

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Jim Horalek
Are the drives really there? # mt -f /dev/rmt/3cbn status Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ddobek Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:33 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject:

[Veritas-bu] Diaster Recovery

2011-01-14 Thread Jim Horalek
I've been using offline catalogs and have now switched to online catalogs (6.5.4) I've started duplicating the images using the duplicate_images script in the goodies directory. I'm not using any switches (except -dp and -dstunit) so its duplicating everything (all clients, all policies etc)

Re: [Veritas-bu] Diaster Recovery

2011-01-14 Thread Jim Horalek
Thanks j.onathan, But should I have a separate offsite_catalog pool? Or is it just more overhead and my dazed mind. The duplication script only call a single destination pool OFFSITE From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:02 AM To: Jim Horalek

Re: [Veritas-bu] Diaster Recovery

2011-01-20 Thread Jim Horalek
I like the inline method. Thanks, Jim From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of stefanos Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:07 AM To: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; Jim Horalek; 'Martin, Jonathan'; 'VERITAS-BU

[Veritas-bu] Dr email

2011-01-28 Thread Jim Horalek
My email system is broken. Does anyone know of any tricks to get the emails sent by the catalog backups. Perhaps a temp file. Red hat 5.2 Or is there a command to generate it? Thanks jim ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Dr email

2011-01-28 Thread Jim Horalek
So my recovery should be to just point to the last Catalog_Backup_FULL? Or the last Incremental? Thanks Jim From: scott.geo...@parker.com [mailto:scott.geo...@parker.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:15 PM To: Jim Horalek Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Dr email No, but the actual DR files

Re: [Veritas-bu] Dr email

2011-01-31 Thread Jim Horalek
. The Catalog Backup emails document the recovery process better than I can write. jim -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 11:51 PM To: Jim Horalek; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Dr

Re: [Veritas-bu] Existing Veritas Lic. Keys - Migration to 7.1.x

2012-02-02 Thread Jim Horalek
Getting new keys can be a pain. Hopefully you received your entitlement letter from Symantec. Otherwise start the process by placing a call to Symantec(ask for a new entitlement letter and double check the email address) . You can request eval licenses if your in a jam. It's not automatic. It

Re: [Veritas-bu] There are no files matching the specified criteria

2012-07-25 Thread Jim Horalek
You forget the obvious. DNS. Client Short names vs FQDN Jim From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] Archiving Solutions

2012-12-20 Thread Jim Horalek
What kind of archiving solutions are you guys using. I have a lot of temp data that people think the need for years. Stuff that can be recreated. HPC stuff. It's more a political issue. This is all file data residing on an IBM gpfs filesystem. We using Netbackup(Redhat x64) for backups. We

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups Or May A Red Herring.

2009-07-07 Thread Jim Horalek (Federal Edge)
To: Jim Horalek Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups From what I've read, and from what Curtis says below, you DON'T need to keep the original full backup around, once you've created at least one more synethtic full backup. You can do just one full