Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup

2007-04-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Anas What about configuring an offline SQL Backup, via the SQL GUI application? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sqlbackuprest .mspx#EOE http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sqlbackupres t.mspx#EOE Does this help? no license needed

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup

2007-04-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Office: +974-495-5170 Mobile: +974-534-2454 _ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:36 AM To: Anas Kayal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup Anas What about configuring an offline SQL Backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup

2007-04-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Authority Office: +974-495-5170 Mobile: +974-534-2454 _ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:43 AM To: Anas Kayal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup How was I to know this? If you are doing offline

[Veritas-bu] Odd Question - NBU BAR Utility

2007-04-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Guys Win2k3 environment with Master and 2 SAN I have a dedicated account used for monitoring / checking backups. Another team member needed to perform a restore, which worked great, but mentioned a small issue with the BAR tool. Using his own account, when accessing the BAR tool, then

Re: [Veritas-bu] Do you know if NetBackup supports Exchange 2007

2007-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Kathy I raised this with the Symantec Engineer 2 months back, and at that time, no version of NBU or Maintenance Pack supported 2007! I also found this http://support.veritas.com/docs/279048 My guess is, 6.5 clearly will, and other versions will require a MP ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line

Re: [Veritas-bu] Methods to Backup SQL 2005 mirror

2007-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Steve Well I backup sql2005 as a cluster. Agent is installed on 2 nodes, backup configured as a Virtual Name. I basically followed the sql agent documentation and through trial and error got it working, using Windows authentication (once the account was configured within sql to allow backups

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 SAN Media Server VCS?

2007-03-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Daryl Well this should work, because it sounds almost identical to what my file based cluster setup was (NBU software was installed as PHYSICAL name, storage unit was Physical name, but policy was the virtual name!) Have you added the servers to the permissions to access your master box?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe

2007-03-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2007 09:17 To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 Reports

2007-03-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
All Win2k3 NBU 5.1 Reports Module I know the reports are limited in this version of NBU, and I do not want to purchase additional reporting modules yet, as we may well be looking at going to 6.0, but does anyone use any of the info from the Reports Module and place it into Excel to create fancy

Re: [Veritas-bu] Howto check the approx. available space on a tap e?

2007-03-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Alex Each tape will be different depending on what media is written to! Media Lists I think may show you what is written to the tape But Netbackup will only chuck data onto the tape until it sees it is full Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe

2007-03-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Try an uninstall / reinstall perhaps? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe

2007-03-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Justin Sorry I have been away and busy ! Ok try uninstall / reinstall Try backup by IP rather than Server Name (odd I know!!) Turn off VSS from the Master Properties, Client and make sure its not set to use VSS or VSP Assuming its this one server, is there anything special about it, that may

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Restore Failure

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Robert Ok so what was the cause of the problem? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Neal,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Minimum Specs

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
You may find something in the Sys Admin Guide! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Daniel I can get away with a stop / restart of the NetBackup Client Service - however on 3 occasions I have had to perform a reboot after a maintenance pack! For VSP to be working, I think the software asks you to reboot, but again, you can sometimes get away with this. Regards Simon

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
] -Original Message- From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2007 07:14 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000 Simon In addition to this question, is it best to completely uninstall

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2007 07:26 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000 Simon Upgrading from 4.5 to 5.1 Daniel _ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000

2007-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2007 07:26 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup Client on Windows 2000 Simon Upgrading from 4.5 to 5.1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Return code 84

2007-03-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Chris First thing that strikes me is : 1) Driver / Firmware update on the Media Server 2) Verify the firmware on HBA cards (if using fiber) 3) Verify if it is using the same tape. If it is different, then 1 and 2 need to be looked at. I assume that as your post mentiones one media server, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status code 84

2007-03-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Did you not post this question yesterday, and ED Wilts and Myself posted some suggestions?? Or is there a difference? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Hardware required tool

2007-03-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Well there is no tool, but planning, design, documentation, scope, ect is your key to this ! Also, do your own research - what is good for one setup, may not be suitable for another! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cumulative or Differential for Catalog backups?

2007-03-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I am guessing you are talking about a feature in 6.0 ? As 5.1 does full catalog backups, I guess Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reuse netbackup catalogue tapes

2007-03-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Greg Think once the tape is deassigned, you do a bplabel -m mediaID Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU not backing up %windir%\registration folder onWindows 2003

2007-03-16 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Server 5.1 and 6.0 releases, and therefore, will not be available for restore. http://support.veritas.com/docs/280511 WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/15/2007 8:08 AM Sounds rubbish to me - can this be proved - I use it and have polcies with Win2000

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2007-03-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Sounds rubbish to me - can this be proved - I use it and have polcies with Win2000 and Win2k3 - not seen the problem! how was the restore done? was it to replace ALL files ? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)

[Veritas-bu] DSSU - Am I going nuts??

2007-03-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Ok some say yes :-) I am setting up DSSU - here is what I have done. Win2k3 Master NBU 5.1 MP5 + 2 SAN Media Servers - SSO connected robot - works great :-) I created 2 Disk Storage Units - names Server001 and Server002 - ok simple I set up Disk Staging, Set Max Jobs to 10 and Disk

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive woes

2007-03-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Jason If the firmware has been done, then that is most likely all of your troubles! I certainly have been down this road before, and took ages to finally resolve, but it was a case of reconfiguring all the drives again, and in fact updating the firmware for not just the drives, but the robot as

Re: [Veritas-bu] W2K3 (Standard or Enterprise)

2007-03-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Scott Unless you are going to cluster NBU, standard should be sufficient. Make sure your hardware specs are suited to the OS (is: if you have more than 4GB of RAM then Enterprise will be required). HTH Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium

Re: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU

2007-03-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
: Trotman, Kevin [CCC-OT_IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2007 15:57 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU This is rediculous. Re-read the knowledgebase article. It specifically says: The C2 crash has been found

Re: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU

2007-03-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU If it's turned off during the backup, then how would you see a problem? ;oD -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: March 7, 2007 1:48 AM

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Consolidation

2007-03-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Clem I recall Ed telling me off a while ago about this :-) the DB format is not recognised between the 2 operating systems. I do not believe it would work. You could configure your new OS, new NBU and import the tapes perhaps - depending on how many you have this could take a LONG LONG time !

Re: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU

2007-03-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Trotman, Kevin [CCC-OT_IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2007 16:14 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU In spite of your success

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Procedures

2007-03-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Both really ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jones, Courtenay [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Virus Scanning and NBU

2007-03-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
We run 8.5 and we don't exclude any of the files! During the backup window however, the services are turned off the Windows boxes! I have never seen a problem with 8,5 and NBU 5.1 MP2 and MP5 yet Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 51

2007-03-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
anything in your SysAdmin Guide at all ? Have you enabled any logging? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Experinces with VMWARE consolidated backup and N BU5.1

2007-03-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Looking into this as we speak ! Sounds good! Does work on 5,1 and 6.0 You need win2k3 (Hooray!) as your VCB Proxy Server :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 running on VCB Proxy Server

2007-02-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
] -Original Message- From: Dave Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2007 14:23 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 running on VCB Proxy Server Hey there, I am looking at this very same thing. Was reading

Re: [Veritas-bu] 58 Error

2007-02-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Daniel If it is affecting the one client, have you attempted to try a backup via the IP address? this would prove if it is name resolution (DNS / WINS). Ideally, DNS should be implemented. Confirm the client TCP/IP settings for name resolution as well. BPTM Logging should help, enable to max

Re: [Veritas-bu] 58 Error

2007-02-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 58 Error Simon I have never attempted a backup using just the IP so that will be something for me to test out. I also realized that it may be the DNS suffixes may be out of order on this client which may also

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow mailbox backups

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Guys There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with that! In fact I run a dedicated GSX Server that hosts TONS of win2k3 VM's and even clusters. So that is not going to be the problem. And all our backups are absolutely fine. anyhow thats another subject :-) Root point to start with is the end

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem on Win2k SP1 AD Servers

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2007 14:41 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem on Win2k SP1 AD Servers You can put in an exclude on the server to exclude that folder: I think its like c:\windows\systems32\ntsmdata

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow mailbox backups

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Ed Who says virtual machines are limited to 1 CPU ? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows master server died

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Dom There is nothing wrong with the choice of your version of Windows - it comes down to preferred choice, best solution, best platform, costs, planning, design - I am sure you took all of this into consideration when NBU was deployed, right ? (or a previous colleague whom you may have taken

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 running on VCB Proxy Server

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi All Topic of VM's came up this week, and its something I am trying to focus on more with our current environment. VMWare introduce a method called Consolidated Backups - Below is an extract of what it can achieve VMware Consolidated Backup (Consolidated Backup) - Feature that provides

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow mailbox backups

2007-02-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
JR Do one of the other - not both. You never got back to the list regarding any AV running, tracker.exe running or any other I/O disk based software that may be running on top of Exchange. (for example, if you have a file level AV software, kill it during the backup). Regards Simon Weaver 3rd

[Veritas-bu] Problem on Win2k SP1 AD Servers

2007-02-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Guys On a NBU 5.1 MP5 Master / Media Setup and a AD client MP5 5.1 Client I see the following logged 26/02/2007 02:46:53 - Warning bpbrm(pid=6616) from client CLIENTNAME: WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database (WIN32 21: Unknown error) 26/02/2007 02:46:53 - Error

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow....

2007-02-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mike L. Varney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2007 12:46 To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server Backup

2007-02-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
is nice, but nobody should be running a production Netbackup environment without reading the application vendor's documentation on how to actually backup and restore the master server. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server Backup

2007-02-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Anas This is where your NetBackup Catalog backups come into play, and your Disaster Recovery method to get the Server back in the event of a hardware or software problem. It should be in the Admin Guides. For the record, I dont backup the catalog backups via NetBackup as I believe they are

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow....

2007-02-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 February 2007 15:11 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Justin Piszcz; BRECHBIEHL Samuel Ext ROSI/DOSI Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Windows XP Pro pc

2007-02-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Greg I believe NBU 5.1 and MP5 do work - certainly done it here! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow....

2007-02-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
name in as a server on the Solaris master and media servers. -- M Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/23/2007 10:10 AM To WEAVER, Simon \(external\) [EMAIL PROTECTED], Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED], BRECHBIEHL Samuel Ext ROSI/DOSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow....

2007-02-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: BRECHBIEHL Samuel Ext ROSI/DOSI; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow What are the NBU Tools Simon? I primary use a UNIX environment here. Justin. On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote: Going

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java console is very slow....

2007-02-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Going to ask a daft question here On my NBU CD there is an option to install the NBU Tools on a Windows Desktop client. Is it possible to install those tools on a windows client and still talk to a unix box? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator

Re: [Veritas-bu] ejecting tapes

2007-02-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
In a Windows environment, for 5.1 I believe vmchange -multi_eject -w [-h HOST] may help? this can be found in the volmgr\bin folder Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Mysteriously down tape drives

2007-02-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Ok so the problems seem to be linked with the LTO3 drives - have you enabled BPTM logging at max on the server? Also, may sound daft, are you running the latest firmware for these drives? Also latest drivers? Netbackup relies on communication between the OS and the hardware - if it detects

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions about NetBackup Shared Storage Option (SSO)

2007-02-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hello Rongsheng Hopefully the following pointers will assist: Q1: The Shared Storage option is based on the number of tape drives you wish to share in your Netbackup environment Q2: Each NetBackup Media Server will require a Media License / SSO License. You may also know this as a SAN MEDIA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sneak Peek

2007-02-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hm not good. do not see any option to upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5. So looks like either an in-trim 5.1 - 6.0 - 6.5 or migrate from 5.1 - 6.0 ! Trouble is I still run NT clients too. When is 6.5 meant to be released Bob ? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain

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