Boris
As per my technote earlier, assigned volumes should not be moved and
cannot. Unless you get Symantec Professional Services in.
Refer to my earlier email. duplicate the tape so that the new tape is
written to the new pool ??
Simon
From:
Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd
legacy Unix systems.
Now, what I was
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: Retaining Date for 20 years+
Simon,
A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a
library with LTO4 drives only.
I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then
bpduplicate
they are disposing of it now!! So I guess I should leave them to it.
From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:49 PM
To: sm...@peppas.gr; WEAVER, Simon (external);
mark.phill...@unisa.edu.au
Vic
At the moment, I am doing client based backups. Am looking into VCB /
VMware backups and integration with NetBackup 6.5
I know v7 offers a hell of alot more, but I am not in a position to
upgrade yet!
Not saying what I am doing is right, but its better than nothing.
-Original
Sushil
Status 54 means NetBackup could not communicate with the client. (In
most cases timed out connecting to the client).
As for 6, I see them when doing redo logs - If there is nothing to
backup it fails with this code.
In your case, I am not sure. bpbkar and backint logging should be
84 is usually when you get errors writing to a disk. To the best of my
knowledge, it does not sound like a disk full message. But I cannot tell
you what error message may be related to that off my head.
May need to enable BPDM logging on the Server (verbose=5)
How much space have you got now?
Are your clients the same version of Windows?
for example, if you have Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Servers in the
same policy, you may run into problems with backups.
Shadow Copy Components is only known by Windows 2003 and 2008 Systems.
System State is known by Windows 2000.
What Status
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Simon (external)
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:59 AM
To: Nate Sanders
Cc: Sanders, Nate; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media write error 84
Ok that's cool. Anything in your logs to indicate a potential problem at
the time of failure
Hi Kevin
I do not want to be a downer on Clustering, as I quite like MS
Clustering, but the reason why I would be looking at Clustering the
Master is due to High Availability of that application.
However, please bear in mind that if you have 1000+ jobs running while
the Master Cluster fails
Luciano
My name is Simon Weaver (1st name Simon!)
You dont have to do what I tell you :-) It was only a suggestion!
I have quite a few SAN Media Servers, with SSO - connected to the same
library over Fabric.
I only suggested it for 2 reasons
1) It backs up itself
2) Faster over fabric than the
From the description its unclear if this SAP Server is a lan based
client or an actual SAN Media Server.
A San Media Server (that is the SAP System backing up itself) and having
direct access to the Tape Library using SSO over the fabric would help.
But again, this assumes the client is not a
Ive been using NBU since 3.4 on Windows (Great platform isnt it !!!) and
have to say I do use CLI alot, more so for indepth troubleshooting.
Has its uses!
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Have to say, that because I have it off to a tea, Its quicker to install
it manually, than waiting for our SMS Admin to do it :-(
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Have to agree with Ed here. I spent many, many months mucking around
with SAN Media Servers, and configuring Disk Staging Units, that then
write to tape!
I came across 2 major problems:
1) Performance was slower than LTO3 drives (FC attached, with SSO)
2) Writing from disk to tape (using the
I had this question a while ago, as a Linux Master could push the client
out, but from what I can see, the Windows Master cannot do this
feature does not appear to be there !
Simon
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Dave
Is it just this one client?
Wondered if the client needed a bounce? Sounds like the activity from
the client is not being passed back to the Master.
If its one client - Reboot it perhaps if possible?
Simon
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Hi All,
Setup - Win2k3 SP2 Master and new RedHat5 Server, as VM. Tape Drives are
LTO4 in Robotic Sun Library.
Currently holds 2TB's data
question. Backups over lan for this VM takes around 15hours.
Files are a real variety of sizes. Without paying out anything
additional, is there anything on
Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:48 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; McDonald II, James F.;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
Hi,
Good idea
Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
Hi,
Reboot the master, run robtest and run s d does it show the drives
OK
: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
Hi,
Reboot the master, run robtest and run s d does it show the drives
OK?
Justin.
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. [mailto:james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:02 PM
To: Justin Piszcz; WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
Justin,
Here are the results I got from the commands you
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
There are two Status Codes that show up in the Activity Monitor. Here
they are:
4
Patrick
Does VMOPRCMD help ?
Simon
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan,
Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:42 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu]
Have you rebooted the Master just in case?
Anything changed to cause this problem?
Have you enabled any logging?
Simon
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of McDonald
II, James F.
Sent:
, by doing a robot
inventory.
01L4 was not included in the inventory, but I'm almost positive
it's
in there.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: McDonald II, James F
Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
Hi,
Reboot the master, run robtest and run s d does it show the drives
OK
Hi
Status 50 can be a little random.
Here is a Guide on Status 50, although it covers 5.x
you would need to enable logging on the Client (If its windows then
c:\PRogram files\Veritas\Netbackup\logs\BPCD and BPBKAR as an example).
You may need to provide more info (ie: Platform of clients,
Ok anything logged in the Windows Clients?
Did you enable logging, as per the document I sent over to you?
Anything changed in your NetBackup environment? For example, clients
upgraded to a newer version or Maintenance Pack?
Usually, from own experience, I see this when the NetBackup processes
Hi adrian
I use BMR to protect the System itself (ie: The Exchange Cluster).
However, I have a seperate policy that uses the Exchange Directive backups, in
the form of making use of the NetBackup Exchange Agent, which is a seperate
product.
Therefore, BMR will not protect the Exchange Database
All,
If anyone out there is using this tool, in conjunction with any other
Windows based Backup method, is there a chance they could contact me
direct (as I know this product is not really part of this forum).
Just wanted to ask a few Q's about this.
Regards
Simon
This email (including any
You can take SQL down (stop the services) - run backup to perform a
file level backup, but when you got a 24 x 7 environment, this is not
practical.
Best method is to get your SQL Admin to backup the Databased to Disk,
using the built in SQL Backup tool or get the MS-SQL-Server Agent option
Keep hold of them, you never know :-)
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Lightner, Jeff
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 8:08 PM
To: Justin Piszcz
Cc: Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
We have recently been given the chance to goto 7, but only recently got
1 environment to 6.5.4 six months ago, and still have another
environment in the process of still being moved from 5.1 - 6.5
VMWare components would be the only real interest for me.
Simon
Justin
Sorry, I had the same problems with LTO3 and I could not get this to
work.
Ive moved to LTO4 now, and have to say I am impressed with the
compression we get now and if anything, its faster and better.
But I would be interested to hear from others as well :-)
Simon
-Original
DAvid
What NBU version you got?
I had 5.1 and had the same sort of issues.
Went to 6.5 and now as well as the Parent Job kicking in, all DB's run
as well at the same time.
Simon
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Bob is 100% correct here. the time taken to even discuss this is more
effort than configuring a Policy that has the ALL LOCAL DRIVES Directive
:-)
For anything to do with Windows, you definetely WANT to back it all up!
dont ignore files! Unless you really, really have to !
If you need help get
Evening all
As per the subject line, I would like to talk to anyone that has NBU 6.5
and Enterprise Vault 7.5 from Symantec deployed that are archiving data.
If anyone can assist that would be good. Happy to raise on the list, but
its not fully down to a NBU problem.
Regards
Simon
This email
Sorry, but I just realised that I wanted to talk to someone about EV
File System Archiving portion of the EV product.
Simon
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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:05 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Hi Joe
Where possible, and to prevent Symantec coming in and charge for their
Consultancy, keep the name the same as the original Host Name.
Simon
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Hello
I have a guide that can be downloaded here
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278562.htm
If you can create a folder called BPBKAR that may help and will create a
log file to assist.
Any error messages in the Application log on the Windows 2008 Server?
I take it, that this is a
Jeff
Good idea about not touching anything again...
One colleague a few years back, done a Firmware upgrade to a Tape
Library on a Friday and went on a few weeks vacation.
On the Monday, a new person, totally unaware of the backups found every
single one was failing. took 2 weeks to resolve.
Hello Sagz
Importing media and tapes from a 5.1 system into a new 6.5 is fully
supported, and will work.
Just please remember that it is a 2 step process.
1 Hour to read the header
4 Hours to read the entire tape.
There is a section covered in this in the Sys Administrators Guide, but
you can
Layne
Do you perform the restore on the actual client itself or from the
Master?
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Barber,
Layne Mr CTR US DISA CDM242
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Just
I have a SAN Media Server, using SSO to a tape library, its own
dedicated STU.
Now this backup job can be configured over the LAN or directly accessing
the Tape Drive.
LAN speeds are half than what they are accessing the tape drive over the
Fabric.
It could be the terminology, as SAN
Netbackup should be more than happy to talk to the stand alone drive.
Then it is a case of importing the tape (or tapes) that is needed for
the restore. if you have an inventory of what was on the media, then you
should be ok.
NOTE: It can take up to 4 hours to do a full import of a single tape.
Thomas
FT Server is only required if you want to backup SAN Clients (ie: Standard
NetBackup clients, configured to talk over the SAN directly).
This is covered in the Admin Guide for Shared Storage - Google it, it can be
downloaded :)
Simon
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From:
Absolutely, but I was giving one example for 1 tape :-)
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From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:28 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] I inherited a mess.
Hi
Tom
If the San Media, is going to talk to the Master Robot, then you will
need an SSO (Shared Storage Option) license as well.
Essentially, its the license file that is different. When you install
the software and prompted for the license key, enter this, then choose
MEDIA SERVER and follow the
I aim for 99% - In almost all cases, the system is setup to self
behave and re-try jobs if it has failed after a certain amount of
hours.
I have left a backup system for weeks, and it has been problem free.
Simon
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
You may find its not supported (I think they refer to Symantec
Consultancy for this), but I had done one before on a Windows
environment, and although not supported at the time, it had worked for
me.
Simon
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Michael
Under the NetBakcup 6.5 portal, there is an inplace upgrade document
that is always worth a read.
What version are you on at the moment?
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290185.htm
The 5.x to 6.5.x upgrade documentation is here
Hello
There are no details about your environment, and there are many reasons
why you may be seeing frozen tapes.
My suggestion, is to read this link here.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/249632.htm
Simon
From:
is
fine,
Ntbackup system state backup works
disabling multistreaming doesn't fix the problem
any other suggestions??
Cheers
Michael Ince
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon
of things to look for. It may also be that NetBackup is
trying to protect something on those tapes.
Simon
From: nitin.giz...@wipro.com [mailto:nitin.giz...@wipro.com]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:49 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU
Hi
To backup exchange while it is online, you do need an Exchange License.
6.5.4 offers extra features, support for newer products / technologies.
you may want to read this to get a better understanding.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/318350.htm
As always, ensure you have a good
Hi All
I have logged 2 calls with Symantec over this now, and between them, it
seems to be a debate of who's problem this is.
So while that is going on, here is the problem I am being faced with.
Scenario:
1 x Master 6.5.3
2 x SAN Media 6.5.3 Servers running Enterprise Vault Placeholder Service
Well I was using tpconfig -delete - drive x where X was drive number on
Server.
Seems odd really. Must be a Windows feature :)
From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr]
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:51 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu
If the job is set off manually, then it will not re-try. When scheduled,
the host properties can be set to retry job an number of times.
I am not aware of a way to do allow a job to re-run after its first
failed attempt. But I am 90% sure when I have kicked off a manual job
for a client, it
hi all
No idea why, but one San Media Servernow reports the above on 1 drive.
Cannot bring it up !
re-run device config wizard, it can see all drives, completes the
wizard, but drive wont come up !
Any other suggestions?
Windows device manager can see everything
Thanks
Regards
Simon
This
seems a restart of the master services sorted it.
Not nice to do when you have critical backups running :-(
TFN :)
_
From: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:29 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Ive suggested this !
Suggested to look at the System, Application logs, disk space, ect, ect
!
It's crazy we devote our own time to respond, that surely they could
take the time to either say yes done this or Thanks everyone you
fixed it !!
Least we would know where we stood !
Simon
James
Any reason why you are using VSP and not VSS, assuming its a Win2k3 box
?
Simon
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of James
Osbourn
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:27 AM
To:
What about if you use NTBackup?? Anything in the APPLICATION or SYSTEM
Log when you get the 71?
for Win2k boxes, you must be using the System State Component in the
policy (unless you are using All Local Drives).
deleted the other emails about this, as I had no response from you
before.
Simon
Evening
Pretty sure I know what the answer is, but has anyone been able to do a
restore of NBU Master x86 to NBU Master x64 same hardware, just
different processor based OS.
I have a problem with the hardware vendor has been unable to resolve,
and I need to move off legacy x86 hardware to newer
Anything logged in the SYSTEM or APPLICATION log at the time of the
backup?
Can you do an NTBackup directly to disk?
If this works, try a new policy and try the backup again?
Simon
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Any news yet or links at all?
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/333092.htm
Soon me hopes!
Regards
Simon
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, December 02, 2009 2:24 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Availability of 6.5.5 ?
It's on the FTP site. It doesn't look quite complete yet (The
LiveUpdate UNIX packages have 1of3 and 2of3 but not 3of3) but it's
getting there.
ncftp
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Availability of 6.5.5 ?
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/downloads.jsp?pid=15143
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Simon (external)
Sent
: [Veritas-bu] Availability of 6.5.5 ?
NB_6.5.5.winnt.x64_337791.exe
That one exists for sure. Just updated out test box.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:46 AM
To: Huddle, Stephen R; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Availability of 6.5.5 ?
Stephen
The search is there, the download does
Is there anything in the Windows Application log at the time of the
Backup to give an indication as to why it may have failed by chance?
Also are you running just 6.5 or any release update pack?
Simon
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Carlos
But if the answer is Yes , then they need help :-)
One workaround I got from Symantec was to reinstall/repair the latest update
file on the client.
not sure if you have done this or not?
Simon
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Good news! Worth noting this one down :-)
Thanks
Simon
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From: Liliana Windver [mailto:lili...@emet.co.il]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:40 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
Subject: Re
Hi All
I am now looking into VMware / NetBackup Integration and Configuration.
I have Technote 289771 available, dated 2008 - Anyone know if there is
anything newer available to download.
cheers
Regards
Simon
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Pretty sure I am just using NBMAIL.CMD and backup_exit_notify.cmd
commands under the BIN directory.
It simply send an email from an SMTP Server to an email address and
reports the status on ALL jobs (ie: 0, 1, higher, ect)
Simon
From:
Hi
Some pointers here...
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/254809.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/274059.htm
Also, it is covered in sys Admin guide Volume 1, roughly from page 430
onwards.
Hope this helps a bit..
Simon
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From:
See below from my own working views.
Hi
Been working with Netbackup for a couple of years and you sort of get
set in the way that you do things.
There are curtain parameters that you always set the same, like Maximum
jobs per client = 99.
Allow media overwrite = I tick all of them ...
Adrian
With all my Full Backup Policies, I have the option ticked for BMR.
Essentially, you would want to enable BMR for all critical systems that you
would need recovering !
Directives should be ALD - This came from Symantec, but I do have 2 policies
that are multiplexed with streams for
Hello David
I am clutching at straws here, but take a look at these docs
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/294767.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281004.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/294217.htm
Has anything else changed or maybe recovered slightly
, November 02, 2009 4:01 PM
To: 'Justin Piszcz'
Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One last problem with master server failure
Still looking into that. All the disks are present, I can read/write to
them. The quick and dirty messages are
11/2/2009 9:51
Justin
Apologies - I see you sent the same Technote
Did not realise this.
Simon
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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:04 PM
To: Spearman, David
Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject
than
root (ie: Instead of G:\ being the DSU, something like G:\DSU_Backups)
Simon
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From: Spearman, David [mailto:sp...@co.henrico.va.us]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:11 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Justin Piszcz
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject
]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:20 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Justin Piszcz
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One last problem with master server failure
Will do on the check, as for best practice? As usual around here we do
anything but, but it is something
. Sort of reminds of the time I
took my trusty .45 and took aim at my right foot. Thanks for all your
help.
dds
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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Spearman, David; Justin Piszcz
Cc: veritas-bu
Hi
If it is behind a firewall, look for a device setting that stops SAP/Oracle
online backups running.
One of our devices was causing the backups to fail all the time, and it was
after checking the firewall settings, we discovered a port reset problem,
which according to Netbackup, aborted the
Adrian
Its best to ensure the clients and Master / BMR Server is at the same
patch and revision levels at all times, where possible.
Simon
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Adrian
Soetanto
We do a mix and match, but for our 1TB+ DB's we use the online agents
for SQL.
Saved doing offline dumps to disk, when space is limiting.
Plus backups speeds are quite good. But if you do not want the agent,
then the SQL DBA will have to ensure the SQL Dumps are set to goto
disks and the
Adrian
I could be wrong here, but BMR goes back to the last current configuration
date and time. So if the A backup was a FULL and has the BMR info on this,
then it would go back to A first.
This is the behaviour I see, and as I said, I thought it was default.
As an example, I have a Server
Before I answers this, can you goto the Main Administration console, goto Bare
Metal Restore Management, then Hosts, then BARE METAL RESTORE CLIENTS.
Fine the client. On the right hand side of the window, you should see 3 colums,
that read:
Name
type
Time
As I take it, the last time BMR ran,
Hi
I do have some 5.1 clients, but to be honest, this is due to other
factors stopping me upgrading them.
I would try to upgrade the clients where possible, to take advantange of
all the features 6.5.x offers.
If you are getting a status 54, it sounds like comms issues Between your
new upgraded
John
Maybe I am doing it wrong, but this is what I do ...
1) Single .bch file called SQL_Backup.bch with the following:
OPERATION BACKUP
DATABASE $ALL
SQLHOST CLIENT
NBSERVER MASTER_NBU
MAXTRANSFERSIZE 0
BLOCKSIZE 7
ENDOPER TRUE
This is created for a policy called SQL_FULL_BACKUPS. This allows
Hi All
Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients.
Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons?
While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a Media Server,
but does not really explain if you can use a Master Server for this
(even though a
Hi all
Anyone using this as an alternative to the NetBackup VBC Media Server
scenario?
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html
We are looking into this, due to the costs of the Symantec products.
Anyone got any views on this one?
Simon
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Hi there
Well this is NetBackup Professional (as I mentioned yesterday in my
email to you).
There will be very little support. The link you provided was out of date
and updated here...
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/267848.htm
but I am puzzled why you are running it Symantec (I
Morning John
You do need a SQL License on the Master, and the Policy must be a SQL
application policy for the backup.
Failing this, you can configure SQL Server to do offline backups to a
flatfile on a local or Network drive. Then NetBackup treats it as a
single file and backs the file up
Hi everyone,
Back in the early days of 3.x of NetBackup, there was always a
requirement to use the Veritas Approved Drivers for NetBackup.
With 6.0 and onwards, is this still a real requirment? I have been going
ahead and using the latest HP / IBM Vendor drivers where required, and
to date, have
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Vendor Drivers
The trend from Symantec, and other vendors, has been to away from
providing their own device
Matt
Windows is improving - alot more than people expect!
Plus it is a requirement now.
Windows 2008 (the successor to Windows 2003) is also proving itself to
be a very stable OS.
Simon
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Mark
Most likely a wrong guess :-)
Regards
Simon
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