configure it "properly" and see if that makes NBU
play fair.
OS is
Solaris 8.
Paul
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Can you elaborate?
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Sent: November 8, 2005 8:00 AM
To: 'Ed Wilts'; 'Asiye Yigit'
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Multiple data stream and bpend_notify script
Title: Message
I'm
not using cluster client.
I
backup C:\ ( and D:\ ) and system-state of each of the physical nodes,
using the name/IP of the restpective physical nodes.
the
two physical nodes shareSAN attached volumes in several cases, and share a
HP SCSI drive array in several other
Title: Message
-Original Message-From: Paul Keating Sent:
November 8, 2005 12:05 PMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backuping
Up Cluster 2003 Server
You
can force the restore regardless of disk signature.
from
page 12 of the HA SAG.
The cluster
-Original Message-
From: Paul Keating
Sent: November 8, 2005 1:02 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Very ODD problem with NB5.1MP3a + 2 Solaris
Clients
yep, completely different subnets and routes, but for some reason, I'd
bet that when you try to do
Title: Message
Why
can't you do FULLs more often?
If
it's a backup window thing, then it might be a good candidate for Synthetic
FULLs.
Paul
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Piszcz,
JustinSent: November 9, 2005 2:54
If I understand correctly, it is a licensed feature, like Vault or
whatever.
Enter the appropriate license key and it will show up in the drop down
menu.
Paul
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Adrian Saidac
Sent: November 12, 2005
You can delete it, but the only way to delete it is to reboot the
system.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
WEAVER, Simon
Sent: November 16, 2005 7:15 AM
To: 'Jim Peppas'; 'Anthony Tocco'; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
If I remember correctly, that windows limitation was on network buffer
size, not the tape buffer
??
I could be wrong.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bob Stump
Sent: November 16, 2005 10:56 AM
To:
Also, a possibility is to use STK's ACSLS application.
You need a small machine, like an old Sun Ultra 10 or something to
install the SW on, and connect to the robotic controller and that
machine acts as the ACSLS host.
You then point all of your NBU masters at the ACSLS server.there
should
Title: Message
I have a fileserver
with a 800GigSCSI attached array configured as S
drive.
On Friday night it
had a full backup, and on Sunday the data was migrated to SAN attached disk on a
different, but same configuration server.
A manual full was
not performed, so when the schedule
-Original Message-
From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: November 28, 2005 8:49 AM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpstart for windows
I have no bpstart_notify.bat in there currently.
Nope
Do i just put the name
Title: Message
Do you, and if so,
HOW do you guys monitor network and tape throughput on your solaris
boxes?
any 3rd party
utilies, home rolledscripts, etc?
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 1, 2005 7:20 PM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL vs. Disk based backups
Hi Paul,
For slow clients, a dssu will work wonders for freeing up tape drive
time
Title: Message
Wowaren't labels pretty cheap compared to media costs? I don't know
that we even factor labels into our budget.
problem is more with the tapes than labels. The LTO tapes don't have the
little slide in port for non adhesive labels like the DLTs
do.
what
kind of robot are
: [Veritas-bu] enabling NDMP
the only time ive seen this is when the license key is
not entered at all or was slightly miss typed and a
different option was registered. for sure it doesnt
mean these are the only causes...
--- Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
SoI've enabled, NDMP
Title: Message
okso I have a
pair of LTO3 drives connected to a Netapp, but I haveonly LTO2 media in my
library.
Which device file do
I use?
Tape drive (nnn_nnn_03:12.80)
HP Ultrium 3-SCSInrst3l - no rewind
device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmpnrst3m
- no rewind device, format
If the tape isn't ful, you'll get jobs trying to write to it, failing
because the cart is write protected, then restarting.
If that's ok with you, then go for itI'd suspend it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Piszcz, Justin
Title: Message
good
luck.
we had
a consultant in from our veritas var, who worked for 2 months with his support
reps, and veritasended up dumping it.
from
what I've seen it's not worth the headaches.
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[mailto:[EMAIL
Title: Message
I've
seen this occasionally
never
found a solution, or worried much about it.
Paul
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
SimonSent: December 13, 2005 4:35 AMTo:
'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'Subject:
Title: Message
So
what you're saying is that you occasionally need to re-run a job 12+ times to
get a backup without a status 41 or 13?
Basically you're looking for a script that tells you which machines in
active policieshave not had a successfull backup in the last x
hours?
Paul
What were you upgrading from?
There were 2 issues I ran into with the scheduler in 5.0
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/268122.htm
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/274544.htm
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL
Title: Message
in a policy, I
specified 4 paths
/vol/vol1/nfs/home
/vol/vol1/nfs/apps
/vol/vol1/windows
/vol/vol0
(in that order)
I have specified max 2 jobs per policy, and "allow multiple
streams"
The first one, "home" didn't get backed up at all, but a FULL
ran on the other
Title: Message
Config
is:
"Allow
Multiple Streams" *check*
"Max
Jobs Per Policy" 2
-Original Message-From: Piszcz, Justin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 13, 2005 12:02
PMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubj
policies?
Paul
-Original Message-From: Steven
Cashman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 13, 2005
1:17 PMTo: Piszcz, Justin; Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
multistreams some don't run?
Check the logs to see why the home did not run. Did a j
streams fired up for FULLs/vol/vol1/nfs/home and
/vol/vol1/nfs/apps went active, and /vol/vol0 and /vol/vol1/windows
queued.
Odd, but it seems ok now.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Stueve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 13, 2005 2:03 PM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas
] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 13, 2005 2:35 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler problems with 5.1MP3A?
We were upgrading in this case from 4.5FP8.
William D L Brown
Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: [EMAIL
Title: Message
I don't know if my
CD is missing or if it's just not included in the standard media
kit.
Is there a specific
Netware disk in the media kit?
Paul
Title: Message
you
install the client on the two individual physical machines as if they were two
separate non-clustered clients.
then
you can run backups against any shared resource that flops between the two
physical nodes.
Paul
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL
Title: Message
depends on your shop.
if
your backups run betwen 20:00 and 06:00, and any vaulting/duplicating is done by
11:00-12:00, then you've got all afternoon to backup your catalog, providing you
don't have any restores to do, or backup jobs to respool.
basically, anytime yourcatalog
Do they stay up till a backup jobs starts? Did this happen after a
reboot or a new hardware install?
FC or SCSI?
The drives could be out of numeric order in the robot. (ie Netbackup
config thinks robotic drive#1 is really #2 etchappened to be a
couple times on unix systems when adding a
Title: Message
Yes.
You
install the Exchange Agent (actually just the windows client with some
additional config within Exchange and AD)on the Exchange Server(a
Windows Client in NBU terms) and install the associated Exchange key on your
Solaris NBU master.
Paul
-Original
Title: Message
-Original Message-From: Fernandes,
Eustace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 30,
2005 3:49 PMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Inline
tape copy slow
thanks for your reply.
30mb/sec that is double
Title: Message
In the
netbackup client on the windows system, there are settings to configure the
client name and server that it should talk to, same as the settings in the
bp.conf on a *nix box.
when
you start the client GUI on the machine, click file, then "specify Netbackup
machines and
Title: Message
Just
curiousthose of you who admin your own zones/FC
switches.
How do you zone your
drives/servers?
for each HBA port,
do you create a zone for the HBA port and all drives visable to
it?
ie. one HBA
and 3 drives = 1 zone?
ZONE_A =
Server1_HBA0 DRIVE0 DRIVE1
Title: Message
you
can't really duplicate tapes (Vault) without a second tape drive (source and
destination)
;o)
do you want to duplicate backup to your
HO?
IIRC,
vault/duplication must be between two drive on the same media
server.
Paul
-Original Message-From:
9, 2006 5:47
PMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k
script to stop AV service during backup restart when fin
ished
The below will work.
However, Trend Micro told us not to backup their software
with netbackup. It would
the bpstart_notify.bat from the CLI.
Paul
-Original Message-From: WEAVER, Simon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 10, 2006 7:07
AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Win21k
script to stop AV service during backup
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jeff Lightner
I wouldn't backup via autofs. First why backup via NFS rather than
backing up the filesystem from its native host? You still have the
network impact but don't have to worry about
Title: Message
I had
the same issues.
"disabling" Open File Backups it from the GUI didn't
work.
or
rather "not enabling it" from the GUI didn't work.
So.from the CLI of my Solaris NBU Master, I did the
following:
bash-2.03# bpclient -client client_name -update -WOFB_enabled
0
Title: Message
I previously
hadfour 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 portSun FC switches with a couple of Brocade
Title: Message
Yep...sure did.
Thanks
though.
-Original Message-From: Len Boyle
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 23, 2006 10:59
AMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] anyone
using LTO3 with Solaris 8?
Hello Paul
Gimpelev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 23, 2006 11:56 AM
To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone using LTO3 with Solaris 8?
Not sg devices, they need to be created separately.
paulg
On Jan 23, 11:25am, Paul Keating wrote:
Subject: RE
Title: Message
will changing the
storage unit in an incremental schedule in a policy be sufficient change
tocause the incrementals to backup everything on the
machine?
(need to change some
STUs in a schedule and don't want"fulls"to run
tonight)
I don't think so,
since if you use the
Title: Message
thanks.
-Original Message-From: Ambrose, Monte
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 23, 2006 3:42
PMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] policy
change.
Paul
It will not cause an
incremental
Title: Message
I've been looking
for some performance tuning infolike tuning the HBAs block transmit to match
the drives, etc, etc
Can't seem to find
anything.worse case, I can go to Sun
Paul
In other words, if you want root access, you can give it to yourself.
:o)
Paul
...can't imagine not having root to admin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: January 26, 2006 7:35 AM
To: Yoseph Leleputra
Cc: Brzozowski,
Exactly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Rock
Sent: January 26, 2006 11:07 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] login as unix user
* Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-26 10:32
Sounds like SSO is misbehaving.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Blaine Robison
Sent: January 26, 2006 11:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Dombrowski
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re:
Go to the website.
Go to the bottom of the page.
Enter your e-mail address and click edit options.
Then you will see an option to disable delivery.
You check the box, enter your password you created when you subscribed,
and click through.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
Title: Message
anyone using
them?
any tuning you've
done to maximize performance?
Paul
La version française suit le texte anglais.
Title: Message
I'm
currently backing up a pair of NetApp gf940 filers, using Netbackup 5.0MP4 on a
Solaris 8 master, with HP LTO3 drives in a STKL700 library.
The
master is configured asthe robotic control host.
Drive(s) MUST be dedicated to the filer in pre NB6.0
versions
I have
a pair
huge
- it may pay
us back on time savings.
-M
-Original Message
From: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:46 AM
To: 'Paul Keating'; Yosifovski, Tammy;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetApp/NAS - Backups
Just FYI
Brown
Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
30-Jan-2006 20:13
To
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
cc
Subject
[Veritas-bu] Sun GigaSwift (ce) cards
anyone using them?
any tuning you've done to maximize performance?
Paul
I haven't used rsync specifically, but am using Veritas Volume
Replicator.
Works well, without shutting down the daemons, but it's an always active
appliaction, rather than moving changed files, like rsync.,,so I don't
think that's much help.
I've thought about using exporting an FS via NFS from
Title: Message
I know it's suppsoed
to be bad mojo to use this command, due to it possibly creating inconsistancies
in the image db, but I've got a bunch of old catalog tapes, only written to a
few times, that I no longer need as catalog tapes...they were being used
back when we were
Title: Message
you
can't change the hostname after the netbackup install (err, well you can if
you're into masochism).
set
the machine up with the same hostname as your existing NBU master, but do it on
a lab network or similar.
or
don't put the system in NIS, so it doesn't register.
Title: Message
Ah
yes.or as I discovered..DMZ servers were using local hosts files rather
than DNS.was giving me status 21, however.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan (Contractor)Sent: February
Title: Message
it's
executable by root.
keep
unauthorized root out of your box...sleep well at night.
yes,
it's a security risk...yes, it can save your buttyes, you can shoot yourself
in the foot with it...you can even blow your whole leg off.
anything you can do with bpgp, you can
Title: Message
I've got close to
100 policies, each with 2-3 schedules, and almost every schedule has ITC enabled
(2 copies of every backup.)
I want to disable
ITC for a night to do some tests, but dang, it's a pain in the butt to change
them all.
I can't change the
global value for max
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 6, 2006 5:00 PM
To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] chaning ITC
I just tested and it looks like you need to just turn on the number of
copies to 1
erything gets logged on the powerbroker server, and only one person
needs root.
Paul
-Original Message-From: Hampus Lind
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 6, 2006 4:24
PMTo: Paul Keating;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: SV: [Veritas-bu]
Unadvertised utility in Ne
Title: Message
I'm running a
Sunfire V880.
4x 1.2 GHz
Ultrasparc III+ proc.
8 Gig
Ram
6 internal 72 Gig
disks.
1stpair disks
mirrored OS /, /usr, /opt, etc etc
2nd pair disks
mirrored /opt/openv (replicated to a standby system using Veritas Volume
Replicator)
3rd pair disks one
slice
random port assignment and use OS selected non-reserved ports
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 7, 2006 12:14 PM
To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Error 58 got me stumped
Hmmm - Prior to having my
money you might try a faster
technology like 10GbE or IP over Fibrechannel. Beyond that I think
you are looking at a media server.
Austin Murphy
On 2/7/06, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running a Sunfire V880.
4x 1.2 GHz Ultrasparc III+ proc.
8 Gig Ram
6
Some.however, the performance difference between clients with
NET_BUFFER_SIZE = 16k, and those set to 256k is negligable.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 8, 2006 6:36 AM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Title: Message
My
first thought is that you've got a NIC duplex mismatch somewhere along the
line..
client
is set to auto/auto and the switch end hardcoded or vice
versa.
Paul
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Title: Message
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
SimonSent: February 10, 2006 3:10 AMTo:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow
NetWrae backups.
Where
bash-2.03# man bpbackupdb
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Brooks, Jason
Sent: February 10, 2006 9:10 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
As I can see it now,
Disregard
Apparantly, specifying -m MEDIAID is all that's required...NBU figures
out the rest.
I was tripping it up, by trying to tell it to use a specific -tpath
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Paul Keating
Sent: February 10, 2006 9:43 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Gah!
Scratch that again...it succeeds but ignored the media ID you specify,
and backs up to one of the pre-configured media.
Back to square one.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Paul Keating
Sent: February 10, 2006 10:12 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas
How are your filers setup to point to the drives?
I ask because you mentioned storage unit group which is a shared
scenario.
Sounds like you have multiple STUs in a Storage Unit Group, and you have
the filers policies pointing to the group.
Have you tried pointing the policies to the specific
Profile A (most windows and some Unix):
Incrementals - 2 weeks
Fulls - 3 Weeks
Profile B (some windows)
Same as A
Plus:
Monthly Full - 1 Year
Profile C (Most Unix)
Incrementals - 7 weeks
Weekly Fulls - 9 weeks
Monthly Fulls - Infinite
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Message
Discovered something
in the lab that I found interesting...
if I back upa
NAS via NDMP (level 0), then do a FULL backup of the same unix style QTree, via
NFS, a few hours later.
subsequent level 1
NDMP backups backup *almost* the entire QTree.
It seems as if the
NFS backup
Title: Message
We
have 5 remote offices, each with 1 unix file server that's backed up, and 0 IT
staff.
We
back them up with a nightly incremental, a weekly synthetic, and a full once a
month. (about 24 hours for a full ~20 Gigs)
They
get backed up to a small DSSU sitting on a couple
and 100Mbps LAN. Mind bending stuff,
especially as each
Windows version changes the way it works.
I would be interested if anyone has worked out what works and
what does
not.
William D L Brown
Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
16-Feb-2006 13:05
Title: Message
It
should requeue immediately, if you have retries set greater than
1.
if you
have something configured, like 1 try per 1 hour, then it will try once, then
wait any hour before trying again, and retry over and over as long as the backup
window is open.
if you
have 2 per 4
I haven't played with it a lot, but my understanding is that you have
one script listed in the backup selections, and you create multiple
schedules, called full, diff, trans, etc.
When the backup launches, the schedule name gets passed to the client as
a parameter (argument) to the script.
You
They're pressuring you to go to Solaris 10, but no pressure to upgrade
NBU?
From the matrix I looked at a few days ago, I think support for Solaris
10 starts at Netbackup 5.0 MP4
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise
_Server/263839.pdf
Paul
-Original
Different from 5.0 to 5.1 I suppose.
You should have use VNETD for Connect back or whatever it says
checked
Paul
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Brooks, Jason
Sent: February 21, 2006 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Lightner;
Title: Message
a
storage unit should be a logical grouping of target devices for
backups.
media
servers cannot share storage units,so each media server must have at least
one STU.
if
policies are configured on a particular media server, then clients in that
policy will back up to that
Most folks are using nearline storage
SATA drives on lower end SAN arrays.
Big RAID 5 disksets.
Because of the way backup data is written, fragmentation is apparantly not a
big deal.
One place where disk excels is if you don't have the data to stream high perf
tape drives, disk can handle
Title: Message
Anyone know of a
veritas doc that covers installing a media server, and linking it to a master,
and the pros/cons/requirements of making the master vs the media server the
global device database host?
The SAGs seem to be
very light on the topic.
Thanks,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ra pa
Sent: February 27, 2006 8:54 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] DWDM Remote Copy - Please Share your Knowledge!
Very similar to my environment.
Questions
1)
Title: Message
I know it's a vxvm
question, but I'm guessing many of your are likely running
vxvm.
On one of my
Netbackup servers (lab system) I've got a process called vxsvc that seems to be
misbehaving.
This machine has
been running for about 18 months, and this only started last
week.
AMTo: Paul Keating; veritas-buSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
OT: vxsvc process runaway
Paul
What
I would do, is verify if any changes have been made to this server (ie:
applications installed, AV update ect) that could be causing a memory
leak.
As
an after thought, anything
Title: Message
I'm
guesing you're "sharing" the library between the scalar, and your two NBU
servers?
NDMP
drive sharing is not possible, so 1 or more drives must be dedicated to the
Celerra.
Have
you zoned at least one tape drive to be seen by the Celerra and ONLY the Celerra
(Not
lab.
Paul
-Original Message-From: Spearman, David
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 2, 2006 8:52
AMTo: Hindle, Greg; Paul Keating; veritas-buSubject: RE:
[Veritas-bu] New NDMP installation
The
answer to this is a must. We want to go to NBU6 for a lot of reasons. I have
heard lots o
-Original Message-From: Hindle, Greg
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 2, 2006 8:36
AMTo: Paul Keating; veritas-buSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
New NDMP installation
Paul,
I thought that in NB 6.0 you can share NDMP drives? Or am
I wrong?
Greg
From the Netbackup High Availabiliity System Administrator's Guide.
Performing Backups and Restores in a MSCS Cluster
The process of configuring and performing backups and performing
restores in a cluster
is similar no matter which clustering solution you are using. Guidelines
and
In the 18 months since my two L700's have been in production, for the
first 6 months, one library was doing nightly backups and daily
vaulting, then both libraries in use with Inline tape copy for the last
12 months, I've used 1 tape in the first library (25 cleanings) and
maybe a dozen cleans in
If the quorum is still ok, and currently belongs to the active node,
you should be able to just do a regular restore of C:\, D:\, etc, and
System_State, and reboot the box...should come back up and join the
cluster.
Most, if not all of what I posted below is only relevant if you've lost
the
And have you run:
set_ndmp_attr -auth filer_name user_id passwd
Paul
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If the client has an (back end) interface on the same subnet as the
media server, since backups are not session based, the client should, by
default, without any additional intervention, use that interface to talk
to the media server, even if the request goes to the front end of the
client.
If
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make
sure you have the latest mapping file from veritas.
even
5.0MP3 didn't recognize LTO3 out of the box
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SongSent: March 3, 2006 5:01 AMTo:
Well, if you currently have the following:
10.1.1.1media_server
10.1.1.2existing_client
And you added a new NIC to each box on a difference VLAN, then you would
add new entries in DNS:
10.2.1.1media_server-bu
10.2.1.2existing_client-bu
Your policy in Netbackup
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...then in your case, you're safe.
Paul
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This is the technote I was referring to.
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What
class media servers? how many GigE ports per media server?
Paul
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Jonathan (Contractor)Sent: March 9, 2006 10:55 AMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject:
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-Jonathan
From: Paul Keating
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09,
2006 11:00 AMTo: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor);
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
Improving Backup Times
What
class media servers? how many GigE ports per media server
It's not really that hard and fast of a rule
Netbackup doesn't know hcart from hcart2 or hcart3, but whatever type
the drive is must match the configured type of the tape.
If the tape is hcart3 and the drive is hcart2 (regardless of LTO gen)
it's gonna complain.
If you've replaced all of your
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