think we all deserve better than misguided posts about your OS sucks, or
your hardware sucks etc...
I'm sorry for the flame. Just my .02
-Jonathan
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 4/30/2007 7:50 PM
To: Curtis Preston; Martin, Jonathan
I'm setting up this new Sun StorEdge 5320 and I'm trying to figure out
the username / password issue. The group owners of the box, don't want
to have Netbackup using their root (Administrator?) password to run
NDMP backups, and want to create a service account instead. Is that
possible? I don't
First NDMP backup proving to be a challenge...
NBU Enterprise 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2003 backing up a Sun StorEdge 5320
I'm running the first test backup of very little data on /array2 using
remote NDMP to my master/media server. I've configured the client w/
the root (administrator) password, and
We recently upgraded our storage on our Exchange 2003 cluster from a
locally attached Dell Powervault 220 to a HDS SAN solution and saw our
back times go from 8 hours to 45 minutes making no other changes. I'm
not sure exactly what our KB/sec was before, but we're seeing better
than 100MB/sec now
on! Silly penguin.
-Jonathan
From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:26 PM
To: K Chapman; Martin, Jonathan; Anas Kayal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Mailbox Backup
I've never seen 100MB/s
Linux version doesn't really matter when inputting the client. Just
make sure you select the standard policy type. It can say Windows for
all you care, the data will still get backed up. I do like to keep my
client list as accurate as possible but for Linux this isn't possible.
I think my
I'm pretty sure if you used VHS Media in a TLH compatible robot
Netbackup would use it. As far as support goes, my understanding is
that NBU 5.1 support is ending this fall, so once released LTO4's
support (if it exists) is going to be brief.
-Jonathan
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From:
I use Storage Unit Groups and used to use Any Available but IMO that's
a sad representation of load balancing akin to round robin DNS load
balancing. What I would like to see is NBU limiting the number of jobs
that a device can handle per max speed as opposed to per number of
streams as it is
Did anyone keep a copy of the 6.5 Beta Release Notes that were posted
here a month or more ago? I have the original email but the link
doesn't work any more. I thought I made a local copy but can't seem to
find it.
TIA,
-Jonathan
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I just upgraded several versions of the NBU Client (3.4, 4.5 and 5.1) to
a NBU Master running 6.0. It really is a mixed bag. My goal was to
upgrade everything to at least 5.1 and I did eventually get that done
but in the mean time I migrated lots of clients with mixed versions.
Old System -
Who needs the book? I live it. :)
-Jonathan
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Wilkinson, Alex
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:57 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bible for Storage Administrators
0n
You have to add the client to the list under Client Attributes, then go
over to the Windows Open File Backup tab and disable Open File Backup
There. 99% of my servers have no issues with open files. The few that
do, I've switched to VSS which sometimes works better than VSP. If that
doesn't
on. If there are
other volumes (E:, F:, G: etc..) and they are on arrays with multiple
disks, then you might want to separate them into separate policies.
-Jonathan
From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Jeff
I guess you can do it anyway that floats your boat. I personally try to
limit the number of policies.
We have policies grouping application and server.
We use the following parameters.
1 - script passes the schedule name (Weekly-Full) to .cmd or .sh
2 - RMAN script calls the $schedule
Message-
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:51 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Hudson, Steve; Wilkinson, Alex;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] [ORACLE] Policy Naming ... Best Practices ?
NBU isn't terrible at determining RMAN
filer -- media server --(sso)-- drive - works fine here.
filer --(sso)-- drive - varies, by compatibility.
-Jonathan
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Steve
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:09 PM
To:
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:32 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)
Which destaging issues are you referring to? I am guessing it might be images
that aren't cleaned up correctly? If so, I did
I'd check with your Symantec sales rep or reseller. I don't think you
can download it directly from Symantec.
-Jonathan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy
Skates
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:40 AM
To:
3rd here. I keep a log of all my tickets... Its really a mixed bag of
everything from Symantec Support being completely useless / I have to
support myself to on one occasion I spoke to a NBU / RMAN Guru. I guess
my issue with the logs is that their standard response is, send me some
logs, I'll
The perl script I have for this runs
vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 -rh $nbu_master -h $nbu_master to get the
output of all tapes in the lbirary
bpimmedia -L -mediaid $media -M $nbu_master
To parse the images on each tape / then sort to find the expiration of
the last image and then
vmquery -m
The LTO spec calls for reading / writing 1 generation back and reading
two generations back.
Therefore, an LTO3 drive can READ/WRITE LTO2 and LTO3 and can READ LTO1,
LTO2 and LTO3.
As usual, if you are going to be switching media type I'd test several
backups and restores.
-Jonathan
Netbackup isn't installed as a clustered resource. It runs on all nodes
independent of one another. Why would cluster configuration be any
different then a plain build on Windows?
-Jonathan
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I'd have to agree that the UNIX command line is much more flexible than
the Windows (unless you download a truck load of add ons) and that many
more UNIX gurus are familiar with their command lines than Windows are
familiar with theirs. That said, I have yet to find a script I couldn't
write in
Are you using hostname or FQDNs? For reasons related to DNS being a bit
fickle (and don't get me started with WINS) I've found it best to use
both the hostname and FQDN in the client configuration on several
servers here. I'm working on cleaning up DNS (years of neglect, I
assure you) and
You've got a number of options here, but we'll need some clarification
first. Are you using FQDNs for your Master and Media servers as well as
clients? Windows security is not going to be a concern as Ed said
below, as long as DNS lines up. Your master server's name will have to
remain the
Yes HP Media will work in an IBM drive and visa-versa. LTO is an
independent hardware standard that all manufacturers must adhere to and
qualify for. If you bought name brand media and it didn't work in a
known working drive from a different manufacturer I'd return that media
to the manufacturer
that. This was despite the standards at
the time.
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Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:35 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?
Yes HP
We disable the recycle bin. If you hit delete and hit yes it's gone.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:22 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu]
I've got an excel pivot table I use for a peek at this type of information,
I'll send it your way. Basically it looks at amount of data backed up in jobs
marked as fulls on a week by week basis. If your report looks something like
Server 1 - 50GB, 50GB, 0GB
Server 2 - 75GB, 75GB, 75GB
Server
How about talking to your network guys and bonding the two interfaces to the
same IP? There's been plenty of talk about it on these forums before. It
would bond the nics below the IP level so they can both share and load balance
the same IP's traffic. From a cisco perspective you're talking
Long shot here - nic drivers?
What's the actual error in the Netbackup console?
Are you restoring from a single master to client or is your production
setup master w/ media. Did you replicate those media servers as well?
If that's the client log, can we get the server logs or the other way
Does it fail at the beginning of the restore or the middle?
Are client and server version the same? I had a known issue similar
to this trying to restore from a 6.0 MP4 Master to a 5.1 MP6 client. In
the end Veritas was little help and I just upgraded to 6.0 MP4 clients.
Double check (as
I think we've come to a consensus here that NOM's reporting is terrible,
awful and/or completely useless. I think Curtis said it best when he
said people shouldn't expect an Operations Manager to produce useful
reports. Apparently you shouldn't expect to use it for much operation
either.
Do you perhaps see the library as an unknown device or an unknown media
changer? How is all of this zoned? I'm not familiar with the HP FCAs
but I'm assuming there is a utility you can load on the local box to
checkout your config. I'd double check on the switch and HBA that the
LUNs are
Only the robot control host needs to see the robot. That's usually
the master or first media server. If I'm not mistaken my config here is
as follows:
Zone 1
Master -- Robot Control
Zone 2
Master -- Drives
Zone 3
Media 1 -- Drives
Etc...
This assumes you are using all drives on all
To clarify, you can group DSUs and DSSUs in 6.0 but if the disk fills up any
backups writing to it fail. One of the 6.5 features is that when the DSU or
DSSU fills up the backups will move on to a storage unit with space. I'm not
100% sure exactly how this works, only read the product docs
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:22 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Paul Keating; Dyck, Jonathan;
VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question on Disk-as-Disk Targets NBU 5.1 MP5
I just reviewed the release notes for 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and here's my summary
We've got similar applications here, not necessarily a TB of data, but
users running an application can output easily 200GB in a day. Since
this data can always be re-generated we tend to exclude these files by
type and/or directory from backups unless specifically requested. If
you just HAVE to
I'm about to deploy two new 6.0 Master Servers. Sounds like the perfect
opportunity for testing. After the MP4 fiasco, there's no way I roll this out
into production without running it through some of my smaller environments
first.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL
You sure you are using MP5? I've got those issues with MP4! =P
/sigh - So much for an end to my duplication worries. At least when I
log calls the tech support numbskull can't tell me to wait for MP5.
-Jonathan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Login to the console on the media server pushing the data and go to
start -- run -- perfmon. Plenty of performance data in there for all
your needs. I doubt you've got a CPU issue unless you are running
serious NDMP / Flashbackup type activity. Where is this data coming
from? What kind of
a 2nd copy when there isn't. I don't want
NBU to think anything. How many copies its got and where they are
needs to be a cold hard fact.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:15 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan
Cc
I got a .pdf from Symantec with upgrade codes for 6.5
Haven't downloaded them yet, but I guess we're officially in business.
-Jonathan
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My guess is that you would get a performance boost using cumulative, because
NBU would only have to splice two backups. The full and the one cumulative
versus the full and a week's worth of differentials. You also get the added
advantage of if a tape fails you're covered (unless its your most
That isn't by any chance the same image that's not decompressing is it?
Oh man, that would suck big time.
Did you do complete backup and restore tests after upgrading to MP5?
-Jonathan
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prodsacnetworking
I'm not sure what the core is, but if you are backing up the disk
files or data that resides on the master / host then you have to specify
that host name in the policy. If you want data on the virtual disks
(not the virtual disks themselves) then you have to install the NBU
client on the virtual
Windows 2003
NBU 6.0 MP4
I'm trying to restore data to a remote master server of data that was
backed up here. My plan is to take a backup, fedex the media to the
remote site and copy the image files to the site into the images folder.
I'm testing this now, and I can see the server in the backup
. Forget
about Virtual Machines, this is just a standard file level backup of
that server.
-Jonathan
From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:32 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas
Whoops - forgot to set the failover restore server.
Now I'm getting - requested media id was not found in the EMM database
Will a phase 1 import of the media take care of this?
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:27 AM
To: veritas-bu
bpdbjobs will give you backup job start and end times.
-Jonathan
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ramaswamy savi
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:47 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)
Hi
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:30 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Steven L. Sesar
Cc: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE Backup question
Yep... Even talked with the VMWARE guy and says there is no linux on
that server
PM
To: Martin, Jonathan
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE Backup question
Yes... it looks like it was the DNS setup was wrong on the server?!?!
I am not a Windows guy, so I did not see that issue. The Windows guys
fixed it and the backup is running right now
Host Properties for your Master Server. Retention.
-Jonathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth
W Wilkinson
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:27 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Custom Retention
Anyone know anything about the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_NDMP touch file? Is
this even still valid? I can't seem to find anything about it in NBU
documentation, just a reference in the archives of this mailing list.
Is this worth investigating as a performance enhancer for NDMP?
-Jonathan
seems to be it for me.
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:31 AM
To: Len Boyle; Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance
I was under the impression
.
-Jonathan
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From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:16 AM
To: Dwayne Adams; Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance
Dwayne
Quite possibly right as we are using STK drivers
NBU 6.0 MP4 running on Windows 2003
I've got a growing list of media in the robot that stay perma-assigned.
If I run a vmquery on the media id it shows no expiration date, and
bpimmedia shows no images on the media. Yet, the media never revert to
scratch or ever get written to again. Some of
BPARCHIVE will not remove the data unless the backup completes
successfully - Status 0.
Even a Status 1 (skipped file or the like) and the archive completes but
the data is not removed.
-Jonathan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
IN3111 from ontrak. =)
-Jonathan
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:29 AM
To: Clooney, David; Martin, Jonathan; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bparchive
For the truly paranoid you
Fyi to all, putting the media into the library and moving it out of the scratch
pool did the trick. No Stage 1 import required.
-Jonathan
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From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:15 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu
wonder if this
is by design?
I smell a support call...
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:34 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Forever Assigned Media
I just
Go into your barcode rules add something like.
##L2 - hcart2 (current) Scratch
##L3 - hcart3 (new rule) Scratch
You might want to get rid of a DEFAULT rule in this case.
Netbackup will only use hcart2 media with hcart2 tape drives and 3 with
3 etc...
Depending on your version it
I'm testing on my first two NBU 6.0 MP5 on Windows 2003 and neither
perfmon seems to work anymore. I realize there is still the issue in
MP4 that you have to go to the console to see the instances but on both
MP5 boxes the instances show up, but the counters stay at -
Can anyone
I can see no direct links between Dev and Prod, but this is DR. If you
want to restore in DR any faster than a full catalog restore you are
going to have to do this. I robocopy (wanabe Windows rsynch) my catalog
every 6 hours to an alternate directory on the DR server (one way push,)
and when
I read the previous doc from this forum on Multistreaming NDMP /
Manually adding NEW_STREAM s but can you multiplex NDMP?
Thanks,
-Jonathan
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I've got 7 of these in the enterprise. We're backing up directly off
the attached Solaris X86 Box attached via Fiber. Standard Unix client.
I'm getting about 15-16MB/sec over the network. They are only ATA Disks
(/sigh) so I didn't expect much better. If you find anything for Lan
free please
All the Netbackup install packages come in Microsoft Scripted Install (.msi)
files. Any one of a number of management utilities can install these and
report on them. I've personally used Active Directory, SMS and Unicenter SD to
deploy them but there's tons of other options available. If you
/rant on
So I'm working a Netbackup / Oracle support issue whereby we're having
trouble restoring an Oracle database from a full backup (RMAN keeps
asking for incremental tapes we don't have.) The Support guy suggests
we backup the control file, database and archive logs in a different
order to
bpimmedia -L -mediaid ##
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson,
Steve
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:56 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Images on Tape
Hello All, I am having a
Follow-up
A few hours after I posted this I got a call from someone who works in
Symantec Tech Support QA who is trying to revamp their support.
Apparently my little rant got passed around. I explained a few issues
I've had and he seemed very receptive.
1) I explained that there is nothing
Yes, there is a Netbackup Sharepoint agent you have to purchase
separately similar to exchange and sql. It backups up the entire
sharepoint site and database. If you are running 2007 I'd checkout the
compatibility with NBU 5.1.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL
After consulting the:
Veritas NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / NetBackup Server 5.x Database
Agent Compatibility (Updated April 2, 2007)
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise
_Server/264318.pdf
I'd say manual backups or an upgrade to NBU 6 are in your
In the Windows gui you can run a general problems report and parse that
for them. I'm not sure how to parse this information from the command
line. Perhaps its in log file somewhere? Probably on the client.
Anyhow Reports -- Problems.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL
: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:27 AM
To: Lawler, Michael C.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Script to see skipped files
In the Windows gui you can run a general problems report and parse that
for them. I'm not sure how
I think if you run this FROM the client and don't specify a directory it
assumes you mean whatever directory you are in. Running it from the
master specifying a directory is required. I wrote a couple client
based scripts based on bplist a few months ago and it was a bit of a
pain.
-Jonathan
Wild guess here...
A) Less Activity on the List is a result of a more stable product?
or
B) Backup admins the world over saying the hell with it and leaving
early for 2-for-1 Margaritas?
-Jonathan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
I've got a perl script that parses the files in the directory for image name
and then runs a bpimmedia against them to see if they exist in the catalog. I
use it with my DSSUs to make sure they've been duplicated to tape. In your
case anything that returned no entity found would be a problem.
Is there a media full flag I can parse via the command line? I'm
working on a script for a remote site who only wants to remove full
media from the box. I can guestimate based on how much data is on the
media but when NBU gets to the end of a media, does it flag it anywhere?
Thanks,
OUCH! Support is one thing, will it work (with an older client
version)?
Anyone running 6.5 backing up Solaris 8 clients? What client versions
are you running?
-Jonathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Thursday,
My Symantec SE said at one point that as soon as Microsoft Released Exchange
2007 that binaries would be available to support it in 6.0. That was before we
paid for an upgrade to 6.0 a year ago. Six months ago our plans for Exchange
2007 got postponed so I haven't followed up or pressed this
I think what I'm reading here is that no one has done a true 1-to-1
comparison on Tape versus Deduplication / disk. I guess the next
question is, what would go into such a comparison?
1) Recovery Point Objective
2) Amount of Data To Be Backed Up
3) Retention
4) Cost of Hardware (Deduplication
, September 21, 2007 2:06 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?
Oh, I wouldn't say that. ;) We've been doing a lot of comparisons
lately, and the comparisons include all of what you listed plus the cost
differential in cost
My understanding with Netbackup Pure Disk is that you can manage it like a DSU
but in reality its a server with storage (not a media server) like most other
de-duplication softwares. I was quite excited to see the new functionality,
but when the Symantec rep told me that it pretty much negated
I think one of de-duplication's benefits is that even if 2% of your file data
changes it doesn't have to replicate that entire 2%. In my mind its similar to
byte level replication (although an entirely different technology.) Just
because Netbackup backs up 20GB of different files doesn't mean
Per my Data Domain rep - when a DSU image expires, NBU deletes it. Data
Domain's product then checks all the blocks associated with that image file and
removes any that are not shared by any other backups.
-Jonathan
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driven a box yet so I
really can't speak to it.
Anyone else?
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:38 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Script to label expired tapes
How long do you keep your catalog backup tapes?
-Jonathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gturner
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 3:28 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Log Data
Running 6.0MP4
Yes, but verify speeds before you buy. I've got 3TB of NDMP Backups
running at 6MB/sec. It takes FOREVER. We're currently backing up the
data via NFS shares at 20MB/sec until Sun / StorageTek can get their NAS
NDMP implementation fixed.
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
I've got some data on old tapes going back to 2001 - 2002. I've
imported them, (stage 1) and I've got some backups that span multiple
tapes that I do not have all the parts of.
Ex... Server, Full Backup, 1/1/2002 - Image 1 Frags 7-11
If I were to mount this do you think I can untar the data?
I am not aware of any Netbackup Patch for Windows that is separate from the
Maintenance Pack. Server or Client.
I'm running NDMP v3 and v4 to a 6.0 MP4 Windows environment. I had case open
with Symantec related to performance and he didn't mention any missing patches
when we troubleshot.
I've got a short stack of 5 media with no images on them that will not
revert to the scratch pool / expire. When I try to vmquery
-deassignbyid I get the following:
De-assign media by ID is not allowed for NetBackup media.
invalid media ID (8)
These media are not in the netbackup pool or is
We're a big Dell shop here in the US and I've got boxes nearing end of life /
on their 5th and 6th year of warranty support and Dell has had no issues
getting hardware to me within the support guidelines (4hr or Next Business.)
Granted we don't buy extended support for most of our machines /
Known issue covered here a few months back when it first got released.
Something about the MP5 version screwing up the gzip. Symantec tech
support has a fix for it.
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koping
Wang
Sent:
I've had to fire up our legacy NBU 5.1 environment to do some exchange
restores and they are all failing with the following / similar errors:
10/10/2007 1:33:28 PM - Warning bpbrm(pid=5180) from client pbcomx50:
WRN - error writing object: Microsoft Information
Store:\SG2\ILT1-MX02SG1
Overwrite Database tab is checked, database exists in a location that
exists and has plenty of free space.
-Jonathan
-Original Message-
From: K Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject
Piece of cake. Run the client setup.exe, run the patch setup.exe and
reboot. You are good to go. There are no separate oracle patches
client options to install.
If you need assistance configuring the polices, I can shoot you some of
my config to assist.
-Jonathan
Microsoft's Document
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?mfr=true
SET VARNAME=123
ECHO %VARNAME%
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ellis, Jason
Sent: Thu 10/18/2007 2:21 PM
I recently got asked to create infinity backups / archives. I always chuckle
to myself when people ask for infinity. Do they really realize how long
forever is or is it just pure CYA? What I've found is that an anyone who asks
for an infinity retention actually means - Just long enough that
I don't know. I, for one, am now thoroughly engrossed given Curtis' honor has
been impugned. =P
-Jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hall, Christian N.
Sent: Mon 10/22/2007 9:55 AM
To: Curtis Preston; Eagle, Kent; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
If you do replicate the data offsite, what are the costs associated with
bandwidth, disk storage, and maintaining the other site? Also, you
might want to consider de-duplication for multiple copies. If you are
running just off the replication, and your database goes corrupt you are
up the
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