[Veritas-bu] BMR Server and Solaris 10
Hi, Our bmr server running on solaris 10 doesn't seem to be updating the web gui. It appears that BMR is functioning besides the lack up updates on the web interface. Clients are running bmrsavecfg without a problem I'm kinda on the un supported side of the BMR matrix with solaris 10 as per http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/265373.htm I just need to get this functional enough until NB 6.0MP1 comes out. Any sugestions? Karl
[Veritas-bu] Re: BMR Server and Solaris 10
Just to be clear, BMR 4.7 NB 5.0 MP5 Solaris 10 Karl Rossing/fhcc wrote on 11/25/2005 08:37:50 PM: Hi, Our bmr server running on solaris 10 doesn't seem to be updating the web gui. It appears that BMR is functioning besides the lack up updates on the web interface. Clients are running bmrsavecfg without a problem I'm kinda on the un supported side of the BMR matrix with solaris 10 as per http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/265373.htm I just need to get this functional enough until NB 6.0MP1 comes out. Any sugestions? Karl
[Veritas-bu] Will 6.0 MP1 arrive this year or next?
I'm looking Solaris 10 BMR client support, which may not be in MP1.
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disaster recovery configuration
We have are a small company. We only have 1 Master Server with 14 clients. Our master server runs on Solaris. This is what we do for our cold dr process(no available hardware) and our warm dr process(availible hardware). Protecting the server == Solaris allows you to create an image (or flash archive) of your server. We create the flash archive(down all the daemons) and burn it onto a Dual Layer DVD. The Solaris OS Installer is what allows you to apply the flash archive to a server. After the system is booted we run tpconfig and fix up what broke. Works great for Solaris 8 and 10. Protecting the Clients == We run BMR. It's a great product for moving servers around. The only issue we have is the lack of support for Solaris 10 BMR clients. It's great for moving servers onto different hardware. We currently don't have a HOT DR solution. It sounds like that is what your trying to do. I'd love to hear what you come up with. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/09/2005 04:06:11 PM: We're starting the process of building out another data center as a disaster recovery facility. One of the things I don't yet know how to configure is NetBackup. We've got a single Solaris master server today and will obviously be putting a Solaris backup server at the DR site. We will also have a tape library there that will be doing regular backups as well as handle any disaster recovery restorations. Should I do a global cluster configuration for NetBackup? If not, and I configure the 2nd server as just a media server, how do I promote it to be a master? What support mechanisms 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Production 6.0GA
I might have to upgrade NB to 6.0GA for various reasons on my production box. I realize that it's not recommended to upgrade until mp1 but i'm kinda stuck. I'm thinking of leaving my clients at 5.0MP5. I'd like to run dssu's and bmr on 6.0GA. I have no need for NDMP or Vault. Has anyone upgraded their production system to NB Server 6.0GA?
Re: [Veritas-bu] Production 6.0GA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/15/2005 12:03:37 PM: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:25:24AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have to upgrade NB to 6.0GA for various reasons on my production box. I realize that it's not recommended to upgrade until mp1 but i'm kinda stuck. I think that MP1 is due out this week. However, in our discussions with Symantec, MP2 looks like it might be the upgrade point for us. I opened a service call on When will MP1 be availible. As of this morning's update, it's December 22nd. They will not give me information on what the bug fixes are in MP1. Karl
RE: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question
In NB 5.0, i have noticed that one DSSU(a) can't delete the contents of another DSSU(b) if it needs more space. example: /export/dsu is a single partition /export/dsu/daily all information has been duplicated to tape /export/dsu/monthend needs more space, but can't/won't ask /export/dsu/daily to delete some information. Currently, your better splitting off a slice for each DSSU. Which leads to wasted space. Maybe that has changed under 6.0. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/16/2005 01:20:42 PM: Veritas says to create a different filesystem for Full and Incrementals, due to the backup sizes generally involved and how many files have to get deleted for each when cleaning a DSSU. Future versions of NetBackup sound like they'll do a much better job of handling staging disks. Some light reading for you: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/270101.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/270079.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/268777.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/265305.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/278169.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273532.htm Depending on what you're using for back-end storage, EMC also has a pair of whitepapers/briefs you can get on running backups to disk. They should be available from their webpage somewhere. Effective Write Bandwidth with CLARiiON ATA Disk Drives and RAID 3: Backup-to=Disk and Streaming Media EMC Backup Storage Solutions: Backup-to-Disk Guide with VERITAS NetBackup Have fun. =) - John Nardello Your backups are only as good as your restores. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:51 AM To: Johnson, Eric K Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Johnson, Eric K wrote: We are in the early stages of migrating from Legato NetWorker to Veritas NetBackup 5.1. As part of our migration, we are adding enough disk space to hold one week worth of backups before they are staged to tape. When configuring our disk (approximately 9.6TB before RAID in a Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA array. NetBackup server is a Sun E450 running Solaris 10) are there any recommendations for how it should be separated out into volumes? Is it better to have one large volume? Many small volumes? What are the advantages and disadvantages to the given volume sizes from a NetBackup perspective? With 5.1, a job will fail if the DSSU fills up. There are no mechanisms to throw a bunch of volumes at it and let NetBackup chose. With 6.0, this problem is supposed to go away. For now, I'd think that you would want 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, 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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Tutorial's
Symantec put up some netbackup flash tutotrials. 1.) How to view logs for a specific originator ID using the vxlogview -o command 2.) How to create and configure a Disk Storage Unit 3.) How to configure Hot Catalog Backups They can be found here: http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Server
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 MP1 Released
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Server/
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 DSSU's
Hi, I have a SAN with two DSSU's on the same partition(probably not the best thing).I need to free up some space on my DSSU's because I'm running out of space. Should i be using rm on the files i want to delete? Thanks Karl
RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 DSSU's
Steven Cashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2006 10:21:35 AM: Also be aware of how DSSUs operate. They will keep images that have been moved onto tape available on the disk until the disk starts getting full. Then as NBU needs more space it will start removeing older images. DSSU drives are almost always near full You should work to remove 2 DSSU pointing to the same device for this reason. Yea i found that out. I just need to free up some space until i'm able to partition the disk. Which means i might have to rm anyway. Karl
[Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl
RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
The server i'm having high fragmentation is a Lotus Domino server. I talked to lotus and they do not recommend defragmentation while domino is running. I'd probably need a 4 to 8hr outage window to defrag the drive. Today i had a small outage window on the server so i upgraded the Raid Controller Firmware, Server Bios and Upgraded the broadcom GB drivers. For the time being the backup server isn't having slow backup performance since the updates. Yeah! So i have some breathing room until i can get a long outage window. In the past, slow performance has shown up after two weeks. At anyrate, i still need to defrag the drive. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/13/2006 09:32:56 AM: Diskeeper may be worth a look, HOWEVER, I haev had MAJOR issues with this product trying to run after a backup as it appeared to clear the archive attribute. Fragmentation is an issue, so where poss, try to defrag when backups are not required or may JUST before a FULL Backup (that way keeps the archive bit !) Good Luck Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 20:11 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files. However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10% of our reason for slow backups and that 90% pertained to network configuration. I guess what I'm getting at is that, if you mean the backup used to take 5 hours and now it takes 6, then likely fragmentation is an issue. However, if your backup times are 20 hours and they should be five, then you've got bigger issues than running scandisk on your hard drives. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:23 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to Upgrade Sun hardware and upgrade OS as well....
I believe the drives in the 220r and 440 are interchangeable. You should be able to put your 220r drives into the 440r and boot off of those drives. With luck you have the 220r drives mirrored to another drives. So if things go south, you have something to move back to. Then the tricky part might show up because the 440r might not be architecturally similar to the 220r. My hunch is that they are architecturally which will make the boot super easy. If they are not, dust off the most recent Solaris 8 (02/04 was the last release)install media that you have. Run an upgrade on the 440r with the 220r disk installed. That should apply the driver updates you need to boot. After that it's a matter of cleaning things up. My guess is that your running NB 3.4. Which will run fine on Solaris 8. Don't go to solaris 10 with NB 6.0 if your planning on using BMR. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/17/2006 09:37:25 AM: Well.. We are now in a fire fighting mode... There are jobs hanging all over the place! And it looks like a issue with the env and not really a NBU issue We have the following env: 1 Sun 2.6 master 220r 2 gig ram 2 cpu(s) controlling 16 media servers... We have available a 440r 8 gig ram 4 cpu(s). I need a start on how to move NBU from the 220r to the 440r Note: Keeping the same hostname. Joe Despres... This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose.
Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/23/2006 07:18:06 AM: Netbackup version 5.1.4. Solaris 9 master/media server. Our windows file server (win2003) backup has just started taking a very long time for the shadow copy components. Normally a 10 minute backup is now taking over 5 hours. The backup of the C and P drive are running at normal times. We just went threw poor performance on our lotus notes server. We updated the BIOS, raid controller firmware, raid driver, which improved performance. We just got threw doing a defrag(98% fragmentation) last night. So i'll know tomorrow how much faster it is. I'm curious to know if anybody else has seen this after applying the windows January patches? No but we don't patch often either.
Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone using LTO3 with Solaris 8?
Did you get the latest mappings.txt? Here is the NB 6.0 version... http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281082.htm I think the wizard uses mappings.txt... an updated st driver might do the trick also patch 108725-22 for s2.8 Karl Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/2006 08:30 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] anyone using LTO3 with Solaris 8? I previously had four LTO2 drives in each of two librariesdo to a bad GBIC in a switch, and several subsequent events, one drive wasn't visable, so my backup server was only seeing 7 drives. Last night, I replaced the 8 port Sun FC switches with a couple of Brocade 3800s that were released from another project, and added an additional 3 LTO3 drives in each library. I did a /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/sg.build, followed by an sg.install I've added the following to the /kernel/drv/st.conf HP Ultrium 3, HP Ultrium LTO3, ULTRIUM3; ULTRIUM3 = 1,0x36,0,0xd639,4,0x44,0x44,0x44,0x44,3; I can see all the drives when I do a: bash-2.03# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev all eight LTO2, and six LTO3 devfsadm, or a boot -r picks up all the devices properly, and creates all the proper device files, but sgscan sees only the 7 LTO2 drives. I used tpconfig to remove all of the old drive configs and re-ran the GUI device configuration wizard, but it sees 7 LTO2 drives, and 2 drives of unknown type. sg.conf is up to date with all WWN maps, etc.so sg.conf isn't reporting any errors about unmapped WWNs. I used tpconfig and manually configured all 14 drives and can exercise them using robtest, but sgscan and the device config wizard still see the same. any idears? Paul
[Veritas-bu] win2k DC restoration
Hi, I'm doing to DR testing. I have a unix master and i'd like to restore the BMR boot/win2k domain controller. In past versions of windows, I have installed windows to c:\winnt.dr and then restored the server and set the boot.ini to boot from c:\winnt With win2k, i can restore the system state, so if i want to restore my domain controller, can i install windows to winnt and then restore the c: and system state to get the server back? Karl
RE: [Veritas-bu] win2k DC restoration
Microsoft has a document about dissimilar HAL's... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263532 It doesn't seem to cover moving from SCSI to ide. Which i think is my current problem... Karl Spearman, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2006 09:11:17 AM: In restoring a DC the steps are very straight foward but slightly different from a DR restore of a member server 1. Load the correct version of windows (standard, enterprise, whatever) and make it a member of a workgroup with the same name as the domain 2. Create the disk layout (C, D, E, etc of appropriate sizes) 3. Load NBU agent 4. Reboot the server and on reboot F8 the system and choose the DOMAIN CONTROLLER RESTORE MODE 5. Restore the entire system EXCEPT boot.ini 6. After the restore reboot, the system will come up and resync with the other DC's (if any). Resync can take up to 45 minutes depending on your network. David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:02 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] win2k DC restoration Hi, I'm doing to DR testing. I have a unix master and i'd like to restore the BMR boot/win2k domain controller. In past versions of windows, I have installed windows to c:\winnt.dr and then restored the server and set the boot.ini to boot from c:\winnt With win2k, i can restore the system state, so if i want to restore my domain controller, can i install windows to winnt and then restore the c: and system state to get the server back? Karl
Re: [Veritas-bu] Request for feedback on NetBackup 6.0 MP1
In case you missed it In-Depth Troubleshooting Guide for Exit Status Code 41 in NetBackup Server (tm) / NetBackup Enterprise Server (tm) 6.0 http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/278422.htm Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/25/2006 01:50:40 PM: We're in the process of moving from our 4.5FP8 system to 6.0MP1 (everythin new). The major problem we're seeing, are ERROR 41's as we start loading up the media servers. These would occur in batches and appear on the more heavily loaded media server. Any 6.0 environments out there experiencing the same ? /Steve --- On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Tarik El Mansouri wrote: All, Has anyone already upgraded its NetBackup solution from 5.1 MP3 to6.0 MP1 ? My customer environment is composed of Windows 2003 servers, Exchange clusters, SQL and Notes databases. Veritas Security Services are also implemented on the master server. Any feedback will be appreciated. Best regards, Tarik ___ Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images
I have a client that is using 1.8GB. in /opt/openv/netbackup/db/clientxyz. I went into master server catalog and deleted the client images /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/clientxyz is still about 1.6GB I also ran /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -compress -client clientxyz How do i go about pairing it down? Thanks Karl
Re: [Veritas-bu] /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/03/2006
03:09:47 PM:
Right command ... wrong parameter ;-)
Try .../bpimage -cleanup -client clientxyz
catstore is still too big...
/usr/bin/find ./ -type d -name catstore
-exec du -sk {} \;|sort -n
49309 ./113400/catstore
49592 ./113300/catstore
347548 ./113800/catstore
394647 ./113500/catstore
394725 ./113700/catstore
442168 ./113600/catstore
maybe i should mention that i upgraded to NB 6.0 at
the end of december. I wonder if it left some junk in the trunk ;)
[Veritas-bu] windows bpstart and bpend
I'm running NB 6.0MP1 much like Solaris, bpend and bpstart run with each stream. How can i get them to run only once per backup. Thanks Karl
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
Two things come to mind 1) problem with emm386/himem and the dos nic driver 2) boot floppy image on the bmr server is corrupt I havn't had a problem with 1) but i have had a problem with a corrupted floppy on the server with BMR 6.0MP1. I had to contact support and have them walk me threw deleting the image in the BMR/netbackup database. You are not at the point of the mac address yet. that will come later after windows is installed. Count on more fun to come. Hope that helps. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2006 01:10:20 PM: I'm testing BMR and trying a somewhat complex restore for the first try. We've done a BMR backup of one of our Windows servers and I am trying to restore it to another box, our old BackupExec server. Both are Dell boxes, but different models. I've created a custom boot disk using the DOS NIC and MSD drivers for the restore client. I've looked through the BMR Sys Admin guide and saw several references to doing something with the new MAC address, but I never saw what to do. So, here's what happens: With the boot disk in, started a restore process and rebooted the restore client. It goes through the normal post operations and then: Starting PC Dos... IBM RAMDrive ver 3.10 virtual disk C: Disk Size: 2048K Sector: 512 bytes AllocationUnit: 2 Sectors Directory Entries: 64 And then it just sets there. I've tried generic boot disk, custom. I've copied the current config on my BMR'd Windows box, and tried the restore with that config. Still nada. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 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 - BMR Boot - Windows
And do you have it documented how to delete the archived images? Shareable? Unfortunately not. You will need to contact support. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
Re: [Veritas-bu] Images Directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/13/2006 09:34:13 AM: To all: This is kind of urgent. What is stored in the directory /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images. We all off a sudden are filling up our / file system after activating a new set of policies and it seems that this is the culprit. Any input would be great. I assumed that this is where the backup images are. If this is the case and it has to do with the catalog has anyone effectively moved the images directory to somewhere else via a link or what not. Thanks in advance. Lee Logan We kind of ran into the same problem. One of our clients had a huge images directory. I'm still working threw the problem, but the reason why that client had a huge images directory was that it had millions of files being backed up every night. A nightly cron job was generating thousands of files every day. Our work around was to exclude that directory and drop the nightly number of files to under 300K from a couple million. try a du -sk /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/* | sort -n should give you an idea of where things are growing and then check the number of files being backed up using the Client Backups report. Don't rm /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ directory. It will cause you problems in the future. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
RE: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
But I dont understand the issue with the Windows Boot Server. We require this on all of the other platforms. The Boot Server can be an existing NBU client doesnt have to be an NBU server, doesnt have to be dedicated to being a Boot Server it can be an application server. It can be protected as a BMR client as well by using the BMR CD-Based SRT. In fact, the Boot Server service is always idle unless you are building an SRT, or doing a restore which is not very common in the day to day operation of NetBackup. You could even wait until you have to do a restore, and then build a Boot Server and SRT. In 4.7 i could use a Solaris server as a boot server for both windows and solaris. In 6.0 i have to use a windows server as a boot server. I have to restore my solaris server and then i have to build or restore(eg: ntbackup) a windows server in order to bmr boot windows clients.That takes a little bit more planning. Anyway, it sounds like that will be moot with winPE/BMR. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] still have a large db/images/clientxyz directory
I have expired all the clientxyz images, but the client images are still sitting at 2GB even though i did a bpimage -cleanup. NB 6.0MP2. Any susgestions? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
Hi, I'm getting slow DSSU - LTO2 tape drive performance. I think the problem is related to the SAN since the DSSU uses two mount points(/dssu1 and /dssu2). I'm seeing 16MB/s on one LTO2 drive and 27MB/s on the other LTO2 tape drive using iostat. Both drives are LVD connected to the same card but using a different port. Under ideal circumstances, how fast should i be able to read data off a dual port 2Gb/s hba assuming it's directly connected to the storage? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 08:52:26 AM: Tools like iometer on Windows and Bonnie on Unix can help you benchmark your disk subsystem. You can also do backups to the null device. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm. This allows you to have bpkar32 process data locally, and elmiinate network connectivity and tape performance from the picture. Thats awesome, I'll do that later this afternoon on the dssu's. So far i was doing cp /dssu1 /tmp and iostat'ing that BUT as /tmp fills up so does swap. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
RE: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 09:39:23 AM: Here are some tests you can run : TEST CLIENT DISK READ SPEED 1) Read the data and write to /dev/null: a) with tar timex tar cvf /dev/null /dssu1 With this, i was able to determine that the problem is related to the HBA/FileSystem and not the tape drives. Netbackup server gets no more than 50MB/s while another server with more ram get 100MB/s(as checked with iostat) I'll work on the filesystem first and then unconfigure and reconfigure the FC ports if needed. Thanks Roy! Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. v
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 Compress Catalog Bug
Admins, I've been having problems with a particular clients db/images directory. It seemed that some images were not being deleted. It turns out that bpdb isn't able to delete compress catalogs that expire. It essentially orphans them which leads to you're client images growing. The bug ID is 897766. You should contact veritas in order to get a work around. Apparently the fix is slated for MP3. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
In the end, the SUN box in question needed patch 119130-16.zip and for some reason, smpatch didn't know it needed it. System is now running at full speed. Thanks to all that helped out(Ed, Roy and Paul) Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] Renaming NB 6.0MP2 servers
I'd like to rename a NB 6.0MP2 master server. In fact, i want to clone my master production server and rename it at our DR site. As far as i know this isn't really supported yet. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 BMR
Hi, I'd just like to verify something. As it relates to windows servers, SRT's are kept on the windows boot server but driver/servicepack packages are kept on the netbackup master. I'm thinking that in the event of a DR, netbackup master is cloned and all i have to do is install a BMR boot server on any computer and add the SRT's. Then the packages should flow from the netbackup master. I know this is changing with winpe boot sometime in the future. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you.
[Veritas-bu] DSSU/bpduplicate Question
Copy 1 is considered the data sitting on the DSSU Copy 2 is considered the data copied to tape I'd like to do some testing, so i'd like to create a 3rd copy. Doing a manual relocation isn't possible since the data is already to tape. Would i just run bpduplicate manually? My assumption is that the new tapes will be copy 3. Copy 3 tapes will end up in our DR server. The DR server is a 2 week old clone of the current master. When i merge the copy 3 tapes in, will the DR server know that the tapes are copy 3? Will it need copy 2 or maybe copy1? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] cold catalog backup
Hi, I'm trying to disable cold catalog backup configuration. For some reason the 6.0MP2 gui(NT and jnbSA) won't allow me to remove the two tapes assigned. Is there a command line equivalent? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging in Netbackup Ver 6.0 MP2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/28/2006 02:06:16 PM: Hi Have Netbackup Server Base Edition Ver 6.0 + MP2 installed and configured on my UNIX machines. Have One master as well as Media configured to backup 25 clients. Wanted to create a DSU for temporary disk staging area to be dumped to tapes at a later time. Follow the procedure given in the docs to create the DSU but I just do not see the Low Water Mark stuff enabled for me to anything nor do I see any checkbox to state that this is a temp staging area. I thought that functionality of disk staging was available under Netbackup Server Base Edition. I'm guessing you mean DSSU. Anyway, i have noticed that you can no longer set the high and low water mark with MP2. Specifically using the Windows Gui connecting to a Unix master/media. I'm pretty sure you could set it in MP1 and GA. MP3 ;) should be out any day now. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP2 Shared Memory Issue?
Admins, We have one 6.0 MP2 Master/Media server running on Solaris 10. The server has been running fine for a while (uptime: 19 days). I was running debug vxlog (level 6) logging. I also had the bplogs (open/netbackup/logs/bpxyz) cranked up to five but turned all that down to one yesterday. Restarted netbackup. A good portion of our backups did not run correctly last night. Here is some of the more salient entries in the problem log. system call failed - Not enough space (at bpdm.c.3311) could not allocate enough shared memory for backup buffers backup of client xyz exited with status 89 (problems encountered during setup of shared memory) Now here is what i have found confusing, Solaris 10 now has resource controls for most of their shared memory settings. For example, setting msginfo_msgmnb has no effect: * NOTE: As of Solaris 10, System V IPC tunables are unnecessary. The * msginfo_msgmnb tunable has been replaced with a resource control; * the assignment below has been left to provide compatibility with your * previous settings. For more details, see the Solaris 10 What's New * document, or the Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual. set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=65536 I'm waiting for veritas technical support engineer to get back to me. I'm left wondering if there is an issue with MP2. Have you run into a problem with MP2 shared memory? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Dell Perc Drivers for BMR
The version of the DOS driver can also greatly affect the restoration speed. Drivers from broadcom.com have worked better for me than the one that were on support.dell.com but you're milage may vary. :) Karl Ray Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/2006 05:55 PM To Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Dell Perc Drivers for BMR You don't need a DOS driver for the Perc RAID cards. The disk read and writes are allowed using interrupts through the Adapter BIOS. You will need to make sure you have the right DOS network driver. If it is the Dual port Intel-Based GigE, then make sure you hae the correct E1000.DOS driver - the one made for that card. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Dell Perc Drivers for BMR We're trying, yet again, to test a BMR restore on a Dell server. In order to get it to boot, I've been trying to find a DOS driver for a Dell Perc 3/di RAID controller. The only ones I've found are either on a boot disk or Windows only. Has anyone had success in using BMR with this, or a similar Perc controller? Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] General Q - Gathering Backup Requirements How-to
Hadrian, The May 2006 issue of storage magazine had an article on just that topic BUT i don't think it answers you're question directly. From: http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magLogin/1,291245,sid35_gci1188735,00.html === The DR plan specifies only system RTOs, not data center RTOs. Most companies that have negotiated RTOs have negotiated these numbers for individual systems. For example, a common RTO is that any system in the data center must be recovered within four hours. While this works fine for operational recoveries and system-level outages, it doesn't work when the entire data center is lost. It's usually assumed that a system that needs to be recovered is given access to all system resources. For example, a large database server that needs to be recovered is given access to all 20 tape drives in the tape library. But what happens when 20 or 100 servers need to be recovered? They can't all be given access to all 20 tape drives in the tape library. This is quite possibly the most difficult conversation that needs to occur between IT and those business units that need a DR plan. It brings to light one of the core problems with traditional backup and recovery: In a true disaster, it's fairly certain that the storage department isn't going to meet its RTOs or RPOs. Unless your company is able to live without its data for several days, the only way to have an entire data center's data available after a disaster is if it was recovered before the disaster happened. Traditionally, this has been accomplished with replication. Depending on the amount of data, it can also be accomplished with other technologies. But realistically, the working RPOs and RTOs of most companies don't allow the recovery of an entire data center to begin after a disaster. === It's a good magazine and the subscription is free, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/14/2006 01:28:09 PM: I have the task of documenting RTO and RPO across our Enterprise and had some questions. I feel like asking Departments how soon do you need restores will yield arguments and confusion. Do most people present a few different solutions and cost and say pick one? I somehow feel like the need to get data on How much money do we loose every minute of downtime is going a bit high level, but NECESSARY for establishing the RTO / RPOs in a realistic manner. What do you guys/gals think? Any help for a burgeoning SAN / Backup engineer would be helpful :) Hadrian Baron Network Engineer VEGAS.com Office: 702-992-4853 Cell: 702-553-5699 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup and Database clients
will flashbackup help speedup my lotus notes database agent backups?___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Article
Storage Magazine has an article on the problems in NB 6.0 and the people that had to deal with it. http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magLogin/1,291245,sid35_gci1214739,00.html___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] BMR 6.0 Testing
Hi, we are trying to restore a windows server using Netbackup 6.0. The boot server is a win2k3r2. We are having troubles reading the SRT. Is there something we are missing? Can an SRT reside on win2k3r2?___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Server 2003 AD Restore
I'm trying to do an AD restore of 2003 server using NB 6.0MP3 using http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f66ee9e4-96d7-4f74-a2fe-d669194bf5a21033.mspx?mfr=true The restore works fine, i reboot the server and things seem to work for a while. Then the server seems to loose it's marbles. Active directory seems to just barf. DNS and Login's no longer work.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] BMR 6.0MP3 Fast Windows Restore CD/DVD
Sometimes it pays to read the release notes on Maintenance Packs. In this case MP3. All Windows BMR Boot Servers now contain a new wizard to assist in creating a CD image to be used for the Fast Restore feature. This new feature is an exciting fast-windows-restore feature to the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) option. This feature can perform a complete restore of a Windows system in as little as 15 minutes. This feature means it is no longer necessary to create DOS-based floppies or CDs. In addition, this new feature enables BMR to operate in a low-infrastructure mode, where the BMR Boot Server, Windows Shared Resource Tree, and the Prepare-To-Restore step are no longer mandatory to restore a Windows System. For a description of how to use this new feature, along with feature requirements and limitations, please refer to the Symantec TechDoc #283726. This document can be accessed on the Symantec Support Web site using the following URL: http://support.veritas.com/docs/283726 No More DOS boot disk!___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] DSSU's, 191's and Imports
I have a single master production NB 6.0MP3 server. I also have a separate DR NB master. The DR master is a clone of the Production NB server using Solaris 10 flash archive. I do daily backups of the Prod NB server using DSSU's. I get error 191's from time to time because of lack of media in my autoloaders(2). The 191's usually occur on 200+GB images. I'm importing the Prod NB tapes into the DR NB server. Now the incomplete 191 images get imported from tape Number 123 but tape number 124 actually has the complete image. So i have to figure out which tape had the 191(tape 123), expire that image and then go and import tape 124. This is a pain to figure out. Is there a way to avoid importing images that have finished with 191's? I suppose the best way might be with a hot catalog backup and thus avoiding the scanning of each tape. Or i can add more tape to the rotation and thus maybe avoid the 191's all together.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] W2k3R1 DC Fast Boot BMR
I just want to verify a couple of things. We are in the process of BMR'ing two W2k3R1 servers using the BMR Fast Boot (NB 6.0MP3)CD/DVD in a test environment. I'm asking because the DNS Server service stops every once and a while on the BMR'ed DC's. The two DC's in question are also trying to connect to other DC's in the domain but can't because they are on a test network. Also, BMR'ed domain members can't connect to the DC's. They seem to loose their credentials but still think that they are part of the domain. Is there any added tasks needed to complete after the W2k3R1 DC's get rebuilt? Do we need to do any ntdsutil commands?___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 Bug
We ran into a bug with 6.0MP3 while testing our BMR. The Contents of c:\windows\sysvol gets restored to c:\windows\sysvol\domain instead of c:\windows\sysvol\widgets.ca Symptoms are that you are able to login to the AD server only with cached credentials. All other user accounts don't work. The DNS server also crashes after a bit. In my eyes, this is a pretty nasty bug because you probably can't do an authoritative restore. This could be a BMR restore issue or a NB Restore issue. We currently have an open case with veritas as does one other person. Trying to save some of you some grief.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...
whoops... I guess i got confused with my v240's bge's that aren't supported. thanks for the clarification. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/04/2006 11:32:46 AM: that is not true, I think you can trunk ce interfaces too... I did it on E4500 that had two ce0 and ce1 interfaces and they were 1000MBit Chris On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last i checked, you can only trunk 10/100 ports together. GB ports are not supported. That makes sense since the server's I/O would be severally bogged down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/01/2006 11:57:00 AM: Thanks all... Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43 Tel mob: +46 (0)70 - 217 92 66 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Darren Dunham Skickat: den 1 december 2006 17:02 Till: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Ämne: Re: [Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris... I`am new to solaris and wonder if anyone know if it's possible to = trunk/team several network cards under solaris? If so, how do you do it?=20 All versions of Solaris support IPMP in software. This allows for a bit of outbound load sharing, but isn't really appropriate for load balancing incoming data (as you might want on a netbackup server). It does provide you with failover though, and you can balance the incoming traffic manually. If all you need is failover, then it may be sufficient. SunTrunking is an extra application that you can run on Solaris. It only supports certain hardware in certain combinations. It's a cost purchase for versions prior to Solaris 10. Solaris 10 can use SunTrunking as well, but also allows for link aggregation of any networking hardware that uses gld3 drivers. This is built into Solaris and doesn't require extra software. IP Mulitpathing (IPMP) and Link Aggregation configuration details should be in the administrators guide for the version of Solaris you have (if supported). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu !DSPAM:122,4574524a253872050917973! ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging Speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/03/2007 08:57:06 AM: Never done DSSUs before. I'm watching all my destaging happening during the week from this weekend's backups I noticed the duplication jobs don't have a write speed on them. How can I tell how fast the data is being written during destaging? I suppose I could script something to compare job duration with amount of data written on the tape but I was hoping there would be something easier / better? The lack of netbackup destaging stats is annoying. Pretty much the only thing you can run is iostat -xn 10 and watch the output. If this is a solaris, you can also try dim_STAT http://dimitrik.free.fr/ which will give you historical stats of iostat, mpstat, vmstat, etc... ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers
We get between 6MB/sec and 12MB/sec on single streams going to a NB 6.0 MP3 server running Solaris 10 over the LAN. The data gets staged to the SAN and then gets backed up to LTO2 drives. I have noticed a significant increase in backup speed with BroadCOM copper GB adapters by simply upgrading the Microsoft provided driver to a Broadcom driver. We currently like version 9.81d. It's kind of hit/miss with broadcom, some versions of the driver seem to work better than others. This http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm document helps you gage the backup disk speed on you're NB client. It's particularly useful in ruling out the local drives as a bottleneck. Bobby R Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/05/2007 07:36 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers I'm curious to hear what kind of speeds (mbs/sec) others are getting backing up windows servers. Running Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 mp6 under Solaris10 on master/media servers. a.Using brocade 2g ports 48000 director. b.IBM Ultrium LTO Gen2 drives c.Sun branded Qlogic 2gb cards. single port feeding each tape drive. d.The storage on the windows servers is FC attached Hitachi Tagmastore 9990. (Very fast drive configuration.) e. Servers are HP G5's also 64 bit. Some are 32 bit. Seems 32 bit servers are actually faster. note: Some of my other backups such as Solaris, Linix and Netware can get as much as 20 mb/sec with this configuration. So why are the windows servers so slow? Any one have some kind of idea what may be a cause? Or it is what it is! Windows! Bobby Windle ( Data backup Recovery ) W.L. Gore associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred) office: (302) 292-4026___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
Windows fileshare data. Word, excel, Visio, text and image file formats. I'm currently writing to a different tape using the same drive. Maybe the fujifilm tape is the problem. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2007 09:33 AM To '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape Karl What sort of Data was being written to the tape? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2007 15:01 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape I'm having a case of the Mondays. On Friday i upgraded to MP4 from 6.0MP3. The MP4 upgrade seems to have gone well. A backup this weekend only used 125GB of tape and then required a 2nd tape. I should get closer to 200GB of data on an LTO2 tape. The tape positioned itself to file 1. I'm wondering, why didn't more data get written to the LTO2 tape? Karl This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
I applied the latest kernel patches on friday. went from -22 to -24. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-118833-24-1 When i upgraded to MP4, i also did not delete the sg driver and re-install. It said something to the effect The sg driver was not update, if you wish you can delete it and re-add it using the following commands It's interesting that there is a firmware upgrade for the SUN L8 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCHtype=collectionsmax=50language=enqueryKey5=116622toDocument=yes we have two L8 autoloaders. I grabbed a new tape(Purple Ultirum 2) dropped it in the same drive(HP) and backed the system up. I still got 125GB on one tape. So I now expired the tape and are using the 2nd tape drive(HP) to rule out a drive problem. What is weird is each drive backed up 400+GB of data on a single tape over the weekend. So two 400+GB tapes got written to. I just need to verify that tape abc got written by tld0 and tape xyz got written to by tld1. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape
Just an update, seems to be a drive issue. I was able to write 160GB image to another tape drive using the same tape. I updated the drive firmware, power cycled the server and all the tape drives on the SCSI channel. I'll be placing a service call on the drive today. This is still kinda goofy.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 6.0 Mp4 Weirdness
I'm having issues with netbackup not see'ing newly added tapes in our two autoloaders. A DSSU is assigned to each autoloader. For some reason, the inventory works but the manual relocation does not find any available media(errors 191 and 96). The server is NB 6.0 MP4 running on sparc with Solaris 10. Normally I have enough tape BUT i'm still fighting with my other tape drive (lto2 only backing up 125GB of data to the tape) I'm on hold with veritas support waiting for an agent(23 minutes) to route the call. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading from 5.1MP5 to 6.1 in Unix env.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007 08:35:05 AM: (4) Is there a suggested fall-back plan needed in case of major problems with the upgrade. Create a Solaris flash archive (man flarcreate) before upgrading. That will give you an easy way to roll the whole system back should you need to. More info can be found on http://docs.sun.com The flash archive might not be practical if you have a Large (100GB) catalog. (5) Any issues out migrating from 5.8 Solaris to Solaris 10. Make sure that you are on the latest Kernel patches. Some Solaris 10 sun4u kernels had large shared memory problems(118833-16). I have been using kernel patch 118833-24 for a week now, no real big problems.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP4 Bug
I found a bug in MP4. If a w2k3sp1 server has DFS enabled, the system state (or in 2003 speak shadow copy components) does not backup. The bug didn't exist on MP3. Veritas has a fix. I still can't believe that this got threw. Maybe they need to buy a couple more QA servers. Ug. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 DSSU Behavior
My comments are below but i thought that I'd start with my config. Sun V240 Solaris 10 Master/Media(There is only one) 4GB of Ram Dual 1.5Ghz Two scsi LTO2 Autloaders. Each Autoloader has one LTO2 drive. Each autoloader is on a separate LVD channel. 1 dual port 2Gig fibre channel card. One Gigbit Ethernet SX Fibre Card The SAN has four 2GB fibre channel ports. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2007 02:10:58 PM: What are the advantages / disadvantages of assigning multiple DSSUs to the same volume? Slow speed. What i have done is connect each DSSU to it's own Fibre Channel Port. This way i can (in theory) get 60MB/Sec per port. This was done on Solaris and I only have two DSSU's. I have to say that i did not bench mark 1 volume for two dssu's. It might be beneficial to run a bkkar32 on the DDSU to see how fast you can pull data off. Example - I've got a 2TB volume on a media server (/array or E:\) that has two folders on it, DSSU1 and DSSU2. Both are configured with a 98% High Water Mark and 80% Low Water Mark (defaults.) The issue that I'm having with the high water mark is that Solaris doesn't delete the data fast enough. So for the time being, i have dropped the high water mark to 90%. I also try to make my DSSU's 1.5x larger than one nightly backup. This way, if i have tape drive issues, i can deal with them in the morning. bitch One things that bugs me is that the final destination volume pool. If i want to move data to a different volume pool, I have to change it and remember to set it back to my daily. For the time being I'm sending my monthend data to the drive directly. Shoe shinning be damned. /bitch___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup
Simon, I schedule this threw cron. Cron actually submits all our backups. We didn't really get bitten with the Scheduler/EMM problems on NB 6.0 PreMP3. Emm was acting goofy when scheduling manual relocations (again pre mp3) but thats fixed now. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/25/2007 01:05:09 AM: Karl Can you schedule this? Might be an idea to if you can :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 January 2007 16:12 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup We do a nightly shutdown, copy, startup and then backup of our progress db's. we might be able to get a shutdown, backup and startup of the db's in the same but the copy give the programmers the opportunity to look at yesterdays data. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2007 12:49:23 AM: Hi Tim Snap! same problem! Got a MySQL box and cannot back it up! The agent will not talk to it, therefore I configured MYSQL to do its own backup and on the odd occasion, take MYSQL down and take an offline backup of the DB! Thats just what I do - may not agree with others ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 January 2007 00:00 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup Hi, Do we just use the normal NBU MSSQL agent to backup MySQL or is a normal file backup OK? there doesn't seem to be any special agent for MySQL. Cheers, - Tim Wilkinson I.T. Support Officer Science Corporate Information Systems Defence Science Technology Organisation Department of Defence Tel: (02) 96921484 Fax: (02) 96921562 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR restore error
It the 2003 client a Domain Controller? I ran into a bug regarding the restoration of the sysvol. Veritas released an ISO of the BMR boot cd that fixed our problem. It's not fixed under MP4. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 04:35:33 PM: Hi! I?m getting this error below when trying to restore a Windows 2003 client with BMR. NBU 6.0 MP3 Failed to restore system files, rc=5. Verify Netbackup configurationand retry. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Simrat___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ZFS
I'm toying with the idea of running zfs on my DSSU's. This way i can compress the data to the dssu as it's being written thus decreasing the amount of space needed for the dssu's. It might not be the best flow client - NB Server - DSSU write the data with zfs compression zfs uncompress - tape I'm wondering if anyone has done it. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare
Spoke to support today. They just ADDED some more support personnel. W00T!___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare
aptare. Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2007 12:23 PM To NB List Mail veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare who? Symantec or Aptare? -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 2, 2007 5:59 PM Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare Spoke to support today. They just ADDED some more support personnel. W00T! La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] DSSU Script
I'd like to build a script that expires dssu images the image has been relocated to tape. What command should i use to check if the image has been written to tape? I'm thinking of generating the list images from a directory listing of the dssu. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU Script
My dssu resides on a zfs volume. 6.0MP4 doesn't know when a zfs volume is full and therefore apparently doesn't make room for new images. Apparently this will be fixed under mp5. Karl Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/15/2007 07:24:14 PM: On 2/15/2007 5:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to build a script that expires dssu images the image has been relocated to tape. I'd like to ask why you want to do this... The images will expire if they're no longer needed, and the DSSU-based image will be used first in case a restore is required. By manually deleting them yourself, you're increasing your restore times. I'm thinking of generating the list images from a directory listing of the dssu. Be careful here because the directory names changed between 5.1 and 6.0 and it's possible for a DSSU to have files of both naming standards on the same DSSU. It's also possible for a future release to incorporate different names. What problem are you actually trying to solve? .../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] Sneak Peek
*cough* thats a pretty big list of enhancements. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/20/2007 01:42:37 PM: NetBackup 6.5 BETA version of the Symantec Veritas NetBackup (tm) Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linux (last updated 2/16/2007) http://support.veritas.com/docs/287075 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots
Have you tried a symlink into the snapshot dir? Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2007 10:27:42 AM: Hello. On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the backup window as short as possible, I'm creating ZFS snapshots just before the backup policy gets run. I do that manually with a script, eg. like this: zfs snapshot pool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]. This creates a snapshot, which is accessible over /pool/Teamcenter/. zfs/snapshot/backup. The .zfs directory is completely invisible: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /opt $ sudo zfs snapshot pool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /opt $ ls -la /pool/Teamcenter/ total 116 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 22 Feb 27 14:33 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys5 Mar 8 17:15 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12 Nov 14 15:51 TT_DB drwxrwxr-x 21 dev1 pdmusers 62 Jan 11 20:11 dev1 [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /opt $ ls -la /pool/Teamcenter/.zfs total 3 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jan 12 18:50 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 22 Feb 27 14:33 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2 Jan 12 18:50 snapshot How do you guys actually backup ZFS snapshots? I don't really want to go the route of having to add /pool/Teamcenter/.zfs/snapshot/backup to the Backup Selections of a policy, as this would mean, that the Backup Selections would have to be updated, when a new zfs is created. I don't like this. How do you do that? Alexander Skwar ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Baremetal on master server
We use a solaris flash archive to protect our solaris master server.If you add in a hot catalog backup, you're pretty much set. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2007 02:37:49 AM: No, Unfortunately BMR needs master server to do restores stefanos -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hermawan Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:25 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Baremetal on master server Dear All, On NBU 6 , Is it possible to use baremetal to protect master server ? Do we need key in baremetal license on master or only on media and client. Thanks HMW ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Preventing Media Expiration when doing a Catalog restore
Hi, We are restoring a catalog tape to our dv environment(same server name). The catalog db seems to be expiring the images we are testing with since time has progressed past the expiry time. Is there a way to tell the catalog db to not expire any images? If i do an import, the images will expire from the time of the import. Shouldn't the same thing happen for Catalog restore? NB 6.0MP3 running on Solaris 10. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing Media Expiration when doing a Catalog
I think i ran into a bug with /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire or the catalog restore. I tried to re-import the catalog tape of that were expired but the images did not show up. The images and catalog i'm looking for are 3 weeks old while the retention is 2 weeks. So NOexpire either doesn't work or I think the netbackupDB was possibly re-applying the transaction logs after the restore. I restored a 1 week old catalog/images and i can see them fine. I'll find out in about 1 week if NOexpire works. I'm not sure if i'm going to place a service call with Symantec about this or not, it depends on how much time i have to log everything they need. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2007 10:37:20 AM: We are restoring a catalog tape to our dv environment(same server name). The catalog db seems to be expiring the images we are testing with since time has progressed past the expiry time. Is there a way to tell the catalog db to not expire any images? I came across this information in the past and wrote it down, but I am not sure how well it works. But reportedly touching /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire will tell netbackup to not perform any expiration. I figure it's good for a decommissioned or DR server that is not actually performing any active backups and doesn't need the space. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] clients in hosts files and forcing NICs to FULL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/12/2007 12:41:01 PM: what's best for your environment. As for Windows, I'm not too clear on that. But if you never want to run into any issues, it's way best to lock speeds and duplex on BOTH sides. That way you can never go wrong. We don't lock ports BUT i have noticed a difference with drivers. Sometimes the vendor supplied (eg Dell) broadcom/3com/intel are old and don't perform as well as the ones available from the NIC manufacturer. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] MSSQL Agent Restores
We are thinking of getting the NB 6.0 MSSQL agent. Can you restore all the MSSQL DB's without SQL running? Or does MSSQL have to be running with master.mdf Thanks Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone take the plunge to 6.0MP5 yet?
I only installed on my windows management station running vista. The admin console seems to work better now in vista. Thats as far as i'll take it maybe even for this year. Karl Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/07 05:35 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Anyone take the plunge to 6.0MP5 yet? Reports? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/17/2007 01:10:06 AM: Having spoken to a Symantec tech recently who keeps close tabs on the dev side in the US, it doesn?t help when people hold off. He mentioned a lot of people held of for 6.0MP1 so a lot of the issues didn?t get fixed until MP2+3. Interesting corporate culture, I guess they are expecting us to QA their product. When we don't do it fast enough, it's our fault. I'm of the opinion that the scheduler holes should have been caught and fixed before 6.0 got released. I'm not about to upgrade to 6.5 any time soon. I don't have the time this year to certify my DR for 6.5 and I'm sure that I'll find bugs with NB/BMR somewhere. It's certified on 6.0MP4 and will stay there till 2008. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/17/2007 08:05:42 AM: Their QA really dropped the ball with this release. I think you have it right on with this. For instance some of the BMR bugs we have seen should have been caught in their QA. They should have caught the fact that AD wouldn't restore on a Win2k3DC when BMR'ed. This took weeks to show them and get things resolved. Good thing we caught that in our yearly testing. NB is huge in scope. I'd like to know what their QA process is like. Maybe one day I'll run into the NB product manager. Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up a SAN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/25/2007 07:28:28 PM: With NetBackup 6.5, you have the option of a ?SAN client? which is essentially a media server client but without tape drivers. This allows you to access your SAN-based data and write to a SAN-based disk storage unit. No network traffic is involved except for the catalog data. Wow that looks neat, so i did a bit of research. I couldn't find much on the symantec site but i did find this: http://www.dns.at/dnsat/unternehmen/promotions/447a6170c5fabb4a9bf068f6143dd41d.0.0/Veritas_NetBackup_6_5_Clients___Agents_-_Factsheet.pdf SAN Client?The SAN client offloads backup traffic from the LAN and allows for fast backups over the SAN at approximately 150MB/sec. The SAN client can send data to a variety of our new disk options and allows you to back up and restore to disk over the SAN. Data is sent to media servers via SCSI commands over the SAN rather than TCP/IP over the LAN to optimize performance. SAN Clients are supported on all major platforms. So the SAN client seems to be part of the Enterprise Client. My question is, can the Enterprise(SAN) client be used with a Database client. I'd imagine that it can. Karl ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LotusNotes backup strategy
We have several Domino servers and have been able to utilise point in time restores. Our win2k3 mail server backs up 350GB at 10-12MB/sec using the notes agent. Doing an off-line backup we are able to do 25-30MB/Sec We are hoping to move our mail server in the new year back to Solaris. We hopefully should see 25-30MB/sec backup times. We still do nightly FULLS and have touched lightly on daily notes transaction only backups. They seem to work fine. Our notes admin will be implementing a notes archive server before year end. The hope is that our daily mail backup volume will decrease and that we can move data to the archive server on a quarterly basis. The archive server will be backed up quarterly while the email server will be backed up daily. I don't think we will be using veritas Vault. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/05/2007 01:48:09 PM: We use the notes agent, and write about 380GB of data to tape, coming from two servers. The mailboxes are split by alphabet. Average throughput to tape is about 8 to 10 MB/sec from each client, and we do a full backup every night. We keep the weekend fulls at a different retention than the weekdays, and backing up this much data makes a recovery very simple. I have reviewed the incremental notes backup, and it appears to only get the transaction logs. We have not tested a restore from this type of backup, so I don't know how well it works. I think we might just be lucky so far that we've never needed to roll a data file forward from logs. Usually we're restoring the entire .nsf file and letting users attach to the current and previous one to manage the differences. Along with the full .nsf backups for mail, we also get the transaction logs. I don't think I've ever needed to use them. -Jon Hi Boris, We did transaction log bkups until recently, as we were never able to get our point in time recoveries to work. I suspect that it's because of the length of time it takes to do the database backup (couple of days for just over 1TB over the LAN). We also multi-streamed the transaction and database backups to ensure that the transaction log file(s) would be reinitialized. I'm still VERY interested in seeing how other sites are doing their Notes backups/restores. /Steve --- On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Boris Kraizman wrote: Hi Steve, I have to get back to this topic. Do you do transaction log backups using NBU add-on database agent for Lotus Notes? How it works for you? We are still doing file level backups with regular NBU client for Windows. I was asked to evaluate transactional log backups as well, we have a few mail servers with 0.5TB data on each. We backup them over LAN, I am thinking to convert them into SAN media backup servers. Any useful information on how you do the backup for Domino environment would be really helpful. I saw Jerry also responded on this topic. Jerry, could you please be more detail how you do VSS or I can see you do the array based solution with local copy cloning, correct? Does anybody do transactional log backups for Domino Notes? Any pros and cons? Curtis? maybe you can get back on this one. Thank you, Boris On 5/15/07, Steve Quan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We've been wrestling with this for quite some time, and very curious to see how other sites are managing their Lotus Notes backups. We're running NBU6.0 MP4 (servers and clients). The database is just over 1TB and we do transaction log backups. Thanks, /Steve ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Some info on my experiences with 10GbE
Devon, Good to hear that T2000's are screamers. What are the library/tape drive specs. Are the drives FC attached? or are they attached via scsi to the media server? Thanks, Karl From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peters, Devon C Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:12 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Some info on my experiences with 10GbE Since I've seen a little bit of talk about 10GbE on here in the past I figured I'd share some of my experiences... I've recently been testing some of Sun's dual-port 10GbE NICs on some small T2000's (1Ghz, 4-core). I'm only using a single port on each card, and the servers are currently directly connected to each other (waiting for my network team to get switches and fibre in place). So far, I've been able to drive throughput between these two systems to about 7500Mbit/sec using iperf. When the throughput gets this high, all the cores/threads on the receiving T2000 become saturated and TCP retransmits start climbing, but both systems remain quite responsive. Since these are only 4-core T2000's, I would guess that the 6 or 8-core T2000's (especially with 1.2Ghz or 1.4Ghz processors) should be capable of more throughput, possibly near line speed. The down side achieving this high of throughput is that it requires lots of data streams. When transmitting with a single data stream, the most throughput I've gotten is about 1500Mbit/sec. I only got up to 7500Mbit/s when using 64 data streams? Also, the biggest gains seem to be in the jump from 1 to 8 data streams; with 8 streams I was able to get throughput up to 6500Mbit/sec. Our goal for 10GbE, is to be able to restore data from tape at a speed of at least 2400Mbit/sec (300MB/sec). We have large daily backups (3-4TB) that we would like to be able to restore (not backup) in a reasonable amount of time. These restores are used to refresh our test and development environments with current data. The actual backups are done with array based snapshots (HDS ShadowCopy), which then get mounted and backed up by a dedicated media server (6-core T2000). We're currently getting about 650MB/sec of throughput with the backups (9 streams on 3 LTO3 tape drives - MPX=3 and it's very compressible data). Going off my iperf results, the restoring this data using 9 streams should get us well over 2400Mbit/sec. But - we haven't installed the cards on our media servers yet, so I have yet to see what the actual performanee of netbackup and LTO3 over 10GbE is. I'm hopeful it'll be close to the iperf results, but if it doesn't meet the goal then we'll be looking at other options. -- Devon Peters ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Jumbo Frames
I'm wondering if you can clear something up for me, how do people tend to configure their 1GbE ports for jumbo frames. We currently don't have a separate backup network. I don't really want to create a separate backup network right now just to for jumbo frame support although vlans might help with that. What happens when non jumbo'ed (non netbackup) frames get sent to the jumbo framed ports? From what i have been reading, your network speed will be slower but how much? Thanks, Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows
Bobby, We get 12MB/sec(350GB) from our Windows Notes netbackup client to our DSSU on our Solaris Master/Media Server. This is what we have done to increase performance to 12MB/Sec 1.) Set Lotus Domino scheduled tasks to happen outside of the backup window 2.) Made sure we have the latest nic and storage drivers. 3.) Both of these take time. Format is probably the best way to clean things up. a) Run a defrag when Domino offline b) Backed up lotus domino (offline) using the plain netbackup agent(Not the Domino agent), reformat the data drive and restored from tape. We get 30MB/Sec with an offline backup. We are planing on setting up an Lotus archive server. Which should decrease the backup volume on our notes mail server. The backup policy of the archive server has yet to be determined but it will most likely be a monthly archive and then backup. Our notes mail server would continue to backup with daily fulls. I hope this points you in the right direction. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/01/2007 09:36:41 AM: Any one have any creative ideas of how I can get faster backups from a windows server. We are running Lotus Notes on a Windows Intel box. The server is a Compaq G5. We are backing up 400 - 500 GB every night of mail files. The daily weekly backups are doing disk backup - data de-duplication. The backup through put is 6 mb/sec to 6.5/mb/sec. The monthly backups are going to LTO2 tape. Getting may be 7 mb/sec to tape. Either way backups are taking to long. ( 16 -18 hours ). Any one have any creative ways I can get backups in a shorter window? Looking for some ideas to get the window down by 50% - 75%. thanks Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] bpsetconfig in 6.5.2
I read that bpsetconfig will apparently be able to manage include/exclude lists for all operating systems. https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=324861 I'm wondering if the -e and -i flags are in 6.5.2? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Win XP client Deduplication
I have 75 windows client that I would like to backup over the wan. I can't use DLO since we don't have a Windows Domain. I would like to do client deduplication. I have a few questions in order to verify what I understand. Is there some deduplication built into NB 6.5.2/6.5.3 Win XP client? If I have to purchase PureDisk 6.5, I have further questions. 1) If a client has two files with the same data, do both files get sent to the Netbackup Server? 2) If I have two clients with the same files, do both files get sent to the Netbackup Server? 3) Do I need to update the Netbackup Client to support PureDisk? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Win XP client Deduplication
I was reading the Getting Started Guide http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_PureDisk_Remote_Office_Edition/303546.pdf We currently have a SUN T1000 running Solaris 10U4 with 16GB of Ram. We don't have any media servers. In order to use PD, We will need to add a server with two dual core processors and 4GB of ECC RAM if I'm putting all the PD services on a single node and a bunch of disk. The PD server would run PDOS/SUSE Linux. Am I correct? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups - Tips and tricks
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mark Glazerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some the Quality Engineering folks and product managers are reading the list too... We're not complaining about the engineering on this - although we would have liked for the bug not to have happened in the first place, all we're asking for is that if a data loss bug is acknowledged, customers get notified as quickly as possible. Symantec, help us understand. Right now, Symantec gives me the impression that We QA our products and QA is expensive but nothing more. How are these patches QA'ed exactly? How big is the staff, how big is the LAB, is there automated testing? It would be nice to know why their QA process missed it and how they are going to rectify the process going forward. I'd expect their QA to be rather large and something that they can be very proud of (via blog posts, youtube videos, webcasts and even Vision Sessions) Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] sgscan cannot see robot after library power cycle
T1000 S10U4 master There was a power outage on the library and now sgscan cannot see the robot. /dev/sg/c0t5l0: Processor: SUN StorEdge 3120 D /dev/sg/c0t8l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t8d0): SEAGATE ST33LSUN300G /dev/sg/c0t9l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t9d0): SEAGATE ST33LSUN300G /dev/sg/c1t1l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/0): HP Ultrium 3-SCSI /dev/sg/c2t0l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0): ATA HITACHI HDS7280S I'm thinking of running /usr/sbin/modinfo | grep sg 126 7bb72da8 1718 97 1 sysmsg (System message redirection (fan) 188 13d4320 35d0 285 1 sg (SCSA Generic Revision: 3.6) 232 7b7cc000 2168 49 1 msgsys (System V message facility) 232 7b7cc000 2168 49 1 msgsys (32-bit System V message facilit) /usr/sbin/modunload -i 188 /usr/sbin/modload sg The machine in question also servers up NFS home directories. I don't want those to drop. Do you think that will bring the robot back? Are there side effects to doing this? Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.3 - What is your experience?
Anyone know if setting exclusions for all client types using bpgetconfig and bpsetconfig made it into 6.5.3? more info here: https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=324861 Steve Hedberg wrote: NetBackup 6.5.3 has recently entered into a First Availability program. We in NetBackup development are excited with the comments and results we’ve seen with this new version in production and in test systems. What has been your experience? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] jnbSA/bplist issue
Hello, Netbackup 6.5.1 Master running on Solaris 10. Netbackup 6.5.1 also running on Solaris 10. The client policy is to only do a daily differential will a 3 month retention. My assumption is that once the data expires, Netbackup will redo the diff and catch up. I'm only seeing two weeks of data in jnbSA/bplist and as such I'm missing data to restore. Could this be a jnbSA/bplist bug or could it be a corrupt catalog? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Live Update Questions
My hope is to install 100 windows clients with 6.5GA and point them to the Live Update(LU) server so that they can be updated automatically to 6.5.4. We have a Solaris 6.5 master server. I need to install the LU software on it. I can't seem to find the proper media. Does anyone know where I can download a copy of the LU Add-on? Our maintenance is through SUN if that makes a difference. It seems that LU is baked into the Windows Clients. I should not need to install any additional software on our windows clients for it to work. It also seems that LU is not baked into the Solaris clients. It seems that NB_LUA_6.5.4_326410.tar needs to be installed on the LU server. Am I correct about this? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions
I would like to set windows client exclusions using bpsetconfig on our solaris master server via the command line. More information can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/setting-and-getting-excludeinclude-lists-without-bpgp I was hoping that the feature would exist in 6.5.4 It does not appear to be in 6.5.4 -bash-3.00$ /opt/csw/bin/sudo ./bpsetconfig -e /opt/openv/netbackup/windows.exclude -h host.domain.com unimplemented feature Can anyone else confirm this? Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions
Unfortunately i still get unimplemented feature. I guess I will open a case and see if it's availble on 6.5.5 So Unix to Windows does not seem to be supported. Karl Jim H wrote: Give it a try this way. I have done it this way for windows clients from a windows master, but not from a unix master. bpsetconfig -h hostname filename Entries in your file need to be like this. exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\* exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc\* exclude = E:\ exclude = F:\ +-- |This was sent by jhilt...@excite.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions
I finally got arround to place a service call with SUN about this. They in turn, placed a service call(320-231-464) with Symantec on it. It seems that bpsetconfig sends a BPCD_SET_EXCLUDE_LIST_RQST that the windows client does not interpret. Setting the exclude using jnbSA does work BUT it's kinda of a pain to manage. bpsetconfig not setting excludes from a unix master to a windows client seems to not be a bug. There maybe support in the future. Who knows when that will be. We don't have an account rep with Symantec so putting in an RFE is a bit of a pain. With luck a really large customer will want this feature. Anyway, that's it for now. Karl Karl Rossing wrote: I would like to set windows client exclusions using bpsetconfig on our solaris master server via the command line. More information can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/setting-and-getting-excludeinclude-lists-without-bpgp I was hoping that the feature would exist in 6.5.4 It does not appear to be in 6.5.4 -bash-3.00$ /opt/csw/bin/sudo ./bpsetconfig -e /opt/openv/netbackup/windows.exclude -h host.domain.com unimplemented feature Can anyone else confirm this? Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7
Ed Wilts wrote: It's also not free. You will pay for each terabyte of pre-duped data. ZFS de-dup is for us openSolaris folk. Now available as of build 129. Although it's not a tape solution and I don't think opensolaris is officially supported. I'm looking forward to testing this out with Netbackup. Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
