Re: [Veritas-bu] licenses quote / part number description

2007-07-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
In NBU 6.0 you are looking at a new master server license. They are the same thing in NBU6. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ejecting a recalled vault tape

2007-07-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I don't use vlteject for this, I do an eject, I use the windows gui and just highlight the media and right click eject. Not sure what the equiv would be to use the command line. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining Number of Additional Client LicensesinNetBackup

2007-07-19 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Unless you used something like esxranger to backup the vmware server instances to a physical machine then used the existing license to backup the images. Esxranger is licensed per cpu of the esx box. If it has 4 cpus you would need to license 4 to backup that esx box. Doug Preston Systems

Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining Number of Additional Client LicensesinNetBackup

2007-07-19 Thread Preston, Douglas L
. -Original Message- From: Austin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:49 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Cc: Paul Keating; Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining Number

[Veritas-bu] Error bptm(pid=3956) SCSI RESERVE failed (reserve unit scsi command failed)

2007-07-13 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Staring 3 days ago I have been seeing a lot of the following error on one of my media servers. Has anyone seen this before and do they have a possible cause or solution? NBU6.0 MP4 Adic Scalar I2000 library 14 SSO drives 7/13/2007 9:26:33 AM - begin Duplicate 7/13/2007 9:26:34 AM -

Re: [Veritas-bu] DR copies of hot catalog backups

2007-06-15 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I write 2 copies of the catalog at once, one to my offsite catalog pool and one to my on site catalog pool, then I use the vaulting option in NBU6 and specify under additional pools to vault the offsite catalog pool. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status Code 29 - Oracle Database Backup

2007-06-11 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Have you checked the help for result codes yet? This is what it says for 26 Under problem A command could not be executed. This can occur because the permissions of the command do not allow it to be executed, or there is lack of system resources such as memory and swap space. Under

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server logging.

2007-06-05 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Did you stop all your netbackup services and activities before deleting the directories? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - removing 'dead' clients (Windows Master)

2007-05-29 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Delete the client from all the policies that it is in and it will be removed from the client list. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow

2007-05-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Actually you will have to add the client to that list then turn off windows open file option. At least all of my servers had to be manually added to that list. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alerts in NBU NOM

2007-05-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Did you try removing the tape using the command line or the GUI for NBU? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alerts in NBU NOM

2007-05-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
There is a way to acknowlege the alert and clear it. Open Nom, go to monitoring, alerts, details. Find the alert you are getting and check it. On the left pane find tasks. You can click acknowlege to acknowlege it and click clear to clear the alert. This should stop you from getting the alert

Re: [Veritas-bu] Installing NB6.0MP4 Linux Client

2007-05-18 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Try adding your master server to your /etc/hosts fileI found that my *nix machines all required the entry in /etc/hosts formated like this 111.111.111.111masterserver.domain.name masterserver Also make sure in your bp.conf in /usr/openv/netbackup that you have the master server listed as

Re: [Veritas-bu] adding a linux client

2007-05-11 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Only linux clients I see when adding my linux clients is Redhat, Suse and IBM. I am not sure if you need the license to see them or not as we have 35 unix client licenses and it works with our Solaris, FreeBSD and Redhat clients. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Retention change

2007-05-10 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Just going forward, all previous backups will remain at the previous retention levels NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda

2007-05-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:34 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda Have you tried this: bpmedialist -m L00162 Note the media server that it belongs to. bpexpdate -m L00162 -d 0 -h media_server This command will expire the images, remove

[Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda

2007-05-04 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Using NBU 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2000 sp4 Any help would be appreciated. I am having a problem with some media that wont expire and wont deaasign that have no valid images on them. Below are the things I have tried to deassign them and expire them I have also tried to set the expire via the gui

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup client types

2007-05-01 Thread Preston, Douglas L
We went with server protect license for all our clients and it works with workstations also. I am not sure workstation license will work with servers. I prefer to have the ability to add a new client as soon as it is required regardless of workstation or server when the need arises instead of

Re: [Veritas-bu] New technote for Windows NetBackup Masters

2007-04-30 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Yes, I found that nice little bug during my backup window for a volume that can only be backed up during a very tight time period, when setting up a special backup policy for a few of our servers that require specific date backups. Once the files are installed though it does not fix it again.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion

2007-04-25 Thread Preston, Douglas L
. -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:33 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion We have

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix

2007-04-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Do you have a mulyiple partition license for the I2k? We have a 16 partition license on ours. So far we only have the 14 LTO2 and 800 slots. Once I can convince the powers that be in the money side of things I would like to add a few LTO3 and a couple hundred slots for the LTO3 tapes. At that

[Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion

2007-04-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is anyone doing NDMP backups with NBU 6.0 MP4 and EMC Clariion SAN device? I am pushing for an NDMP license to backup the 24TB of disk so I don't need to pull most of it across the lan. I have 4 san media servers that backup 12TB buit the other 12 are spread across a lot of machines and I don't

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Certifications

2007-04-20 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Yes bprestore does exist in windows Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Certifications

2007-04-18 Thread Preston, Douglas L
If you find a good way to automate this please pass it oon, I have to do restores on all our servers every 60 days. It is a real pain doing them via the gui on windows master server NBU6.0 MP4 Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 5.1MP5 to 6.0MP4 problems

2007-04-16 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I don't know obout Solaris but in Windows you need to run nbpushdata to move your data to the new database format from 5.x to 6.x, It was iin the upgrade procedures for upgrading from nb 5x to nb 6x Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104

Re: [Veritas-bu] clients in hosts files and forcing NICs to FULL

2007-04-12 Thread Preston, Douglas L
We use 100 Full Duplex on all cards and swich ports of our servers except ont the GB nics which require auto negotioate to use the GB speed. I like hosts files because they are there when even when someone does stupid things to the dns servers. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax

[Veritas-bu] Media Server Licenses

2007-04-03 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a separate media server license other than san media server licenses? When I request we get a couple of media server licenses I was told that veritas said that the only media license is the san media license. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone

[Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3

2007-04-02 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I am trying to install the NBU 6.0 client on Redhat Enterprise release 3 and the cd is lables Linux server and client. When I try to install it will only install server and states that to install cli9ent I need to mount the client cd. There is no separate unix client cd for NBU 6.0, I have one

Re: [Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3

2007-04-02 Thread Preston, Douglas L
, April 02, 2007 10:37 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3 There is a separate CD for 6.0 called 'UNIX Clients that will have the client software on it. Also, if your master server is running on a UNIX platform, you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows mediaservers

2007-03-20 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I have Windows 2000 Master server and 4 Windows San Media Servers, I backup Solaris, FreeBSD, Redhat Linux and windows servers, I have no issues ever with any of thee *nix servers, Only problems I ever have are with the windows side. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood

Re: [Veritas-bu] (46) server not allowed

2007-03-19 Thread Preston, Douglas L
If you are still having the problem, open regedit on the client. Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config There is a multi-string key entry for Server Add your master server name in the data for that key If the key does not exist add it as a multi-string key and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup jobs not kicking off any more....

2007-03-13 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Under your C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\jobs folder there is a file called permpersist stop all your services and delete this file and restart your services. This should fix the problem Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email

[Veritas-bu] Adding second master server NBU 6.0 MP4

2007-03-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I am in the process of building a new server to act as a second master server in NBU 6.0 MP4. Can more than one master server share the same EMM database server? Or would I be better off to have separate EMM databases for each master server? I have plans to partition my Adic Scalar I2000 in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade/Migrate master server from 5.0/Linux to6.0/Solaris

2007-03-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Databses are different between 5.x and 6.0 You will need to upgrade existing servers and convert your databases to the new EMM format. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
. -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:25 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty

[Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
When running bpexpdate -deassignempty I get the following error message. Does anyone have a possible fix for this error? I have over 300 tapes that have 0 valid images that were assigned between 2005 and 2006 that I would like to get put back in my scratch pool. G:\Program

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
be corrected. -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:25 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate

Re: [Veritas-bu] status 202, 205, 219 and 58

2007-02-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
What I found out when I was getting tthese errors was someone on the network was doing scans of the servers for hardware and software and it was doing reset on the network card and sometimes on the HBA's on the master server and the media servers. We had them block scans on the netbackup master

Re: [Veritas-bu] Serious master issue...

2007-02-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
How much memory is in your master server, is the swap area used growing? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
] On Behalf Of GAURAV RAKHEJA /RTGSADM/INFOTECH/BKC Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:24 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault Hi, I have some idea as were facing the same problem two months back. If you want

Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
/RTGSADM/INFOTECH/BKC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:07 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault Hi, Make a policy for vault eject Select policy type as vault In the backup selection list

[Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
NBU 6.0 MP4 Win 2k Master server My offsite policy which has been working for 3 years has suddenly quit doing ejects of duplicated media. I even tried creating a special vault job just to do the eject and it too fails to eject the duplicated media. The duplication process works fine, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Change retention of all tapes(question)

2007-01-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a way to exclude vaulted images using your commands below? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO configuration

2007-01-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
You can share the HBA's that are connected to the san but create a seperate zone for the master/media servers to the tape drives. We have an ADIC I2000 with 12 drives 700 slots 1 Master Server 4 San Media Servers, They share the same HBA's with the San. We have seperate zones for San and zones

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, MP4 Anyone had issues with hot backup email notifications?

2006-12-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I had that same problem after applying MP4 I found my notification cmd files were moved to C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\goodies.6.0 and new ones were placed in the bin folder. I just copied the original cmd files back to the bin folder for it to work. If you are using unix master

[Veritas-bu] Disabling File list / size estimate on backups.

2006-11-01 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a way to disable the file list estiimate for file number and size that happens before a backup begins? I have a NB 6.0 MP3 media server with approx 50 million files and 3 TB of disk. It is taking over 30 hours to back up the system, part of that 36 hours is file list building that

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