From some strange Oliver-Stoneish planet, Jeff Lightner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
The downside to an article like this is that pinhead execs
instead of deciding to fix the problems may decide it is
better to suppress forums like this and start lawsuits for
libel to do that.
and followed that
For some investigation and other work, I did phase 1 bpimports of a
few tapes. Now the work is done and I won't be doing phase 2.
Is there a way to tell netbackup to forget the phase 1 step? I'd
rather not have the 'bpimport -p' output cluttered with these old
tapes forever.
I didn't
You didn't specify the release. Assuming pre-NetBackup 6.0 cold catalog
backups here.
1. Is All catalog information which I need to restore/backup
contained in the master server.
Restore, yes.
I mean if one media server has gone, does the
information in master server contains the
While I find that RMAN backup configured by the DBA has completed
sucessfully, the RMAN logs tell a different story.
First, have your DBA demonstrate a successful RMAN backup to a channel
of type disk, which requires only two RMAN commands totalling seven
words. That will have no NetBackup
Windows 2000 and 2003 clients
Netbackup 5.1 mp4
Solaris master/media
The bparchive is setup as a user backup
bparchive is a user archive, not a user backup. Details are important.
and scripted in a dos.bat file.
PROBLEM:
We have been forced to archive
That is correct. You MUST have the fulls and incs in the SAME
policy for the incs to work. Otherwise, they have nothing to
compare against and have no way to actually do an incremental
backup.
Correct enough, in the context of explaining NetBackup to the neophyte
as you and the previous
I haven't been able to find the answer to this question in the SAG...
Be sure you're familiar with the DR procedures section of the
Troubleshooting Guide, and the Release Notes and the Impact Guide as
well (Veritas support site, NetBackup 6 manuals).
Your plan:
- v5master, v5media, two weeks
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:14:41 +0530
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I am in the midst of trying to import images on a remote disk
unit (Data
Domains). We have a separate NBU 6 server at the BCP site.
The data was
backed up in our production environment. We used the bundled
replication
software (within the arrays) to replicate the data to the BCP
site.
importing all of the expired tapes with the Phase 1 import as follows:
bpimport - create_db_info -id Ax
I then looked at the dates and found the tape that contained
the first part of the image I needed to restore the full
backup. I then tried the Phase 2 import as follows:
Hi Bob
Re: the EOM - End Of Media - any ideas why then, that
Netbackup is reporting status 84 for them? Just bit
confused why it only seems to be happenign on
the Media Servers and nothing else
Simon - found your posting in v3#62. Can't tell from your description,
but I'll guess that your
Need one urgent help, MY company has asked me to implement the
Netbackup buffers,
So you, as a responsible professional, have by read the Backup Planning
and Performance Tuning Guide, by now, correct? What are your questions
after that?
It would be irresponsible to muck around with
Dudes is there any way of saying how much space is left
on a particular tape? I have had a look around but am a
bit lost.
Yeah, run bpmedialist and compare with vmquery.
That answer makes no sense.
Dave, a tape holds as much as it holds, period.
In contrast to a disk (has _exactly_ so
Looking to take the plunge to 6.0, we need to for SPS2003
backups. I am looking for a checklist for the upgrade
process. We are a Windows shop, I have a 2003 Master,
1 x Win2k3 Media server and 4 x Win2k SAN media servers
that I need to upgrade. All servers are at 5.1 MP4.
The 6.0
I'm not able to see the staging option in the New Storage Unit option
dialog window. I've updated the Remote Administration Console to MP3
and still unable to see it. Is this a bug in the GUI and is there a
work around through the CLI that I can get this turned on and working?
You'll want
The group I work with is expecting 160-200MB/s megabytes
per second on an LTO3 with compression. [...]
So nobody gets 160-200MB/s even with 2:1 compression?
You missed the previous poster's (Wilts) point: you haven't isolated
tape speed from the process of getting data to it. Read the
I'm finding the open file thing a bit hit and miss to be honest.
Demystification summary: VSP is default: on only if you install it
(why would you install it and want it to default to off?) and the
installation of VSP's predecessor included a boot to make it active.
You first control VSP by
Exclude the 1's as I dont class them as failures :-)
Which might be why NetBackup defines stat 1 as partial success _and
keeps the image_. Final status = 1 yields a restorable image; status
1 does not (archives excluded). I think we agree that stat 1 beats the
heck out of stat 1.
That said,
[...] I'm in no doubt whatsover of the importance of a
valid catalog backup. The reason for the issue is simple -
there are 50-100+ jobs running at any time of day. There
is never any inactivity for long enough to get the 80
gigs-worth of catalog data backed up via the
normal method.
I'm running disk-storage-unit backups (not the disk-staging
storage units) on a NB5.1MP3 Solaris 9 server. I've
configured my storage units for a 2000MB fragment size.
Occasionally, I run into backup images which exactly fill the
fragments exactly and bpimagelist shows a final zero-sized
shaking head
Ed, Ed, Ed...
/shaking head
You need to quit dating yourself and give some credit to the
programmers
who tried to get it right while dealing with people like you who are
telling them the wrong thing. 1GB, by SI standards, is 1000MB.
Seriously, I was raised and trained in
Looking at seeing what exams are out there for NBU 5.1 -
based in the UK, info seems a little vague.
Does anyone happen to know what good training stuff is out
there, or exam to take perhaps to obtain a certification?
-
From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:39 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: Wilkinson, Tim
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, Windows, excluding files
We are backing up some databases (SQL and SharePoint) and
using agents
to backup the actual
I have started migrating data over to a Win2k3 R2 file server
and I am
experiencing Error 41's (go figure) and so I wanted to breakout the
different volumes into streams but I get and Error 69, that
states invalid
file specification (missing ':'): NEW_STREAM
this is what I have in my
Which run days did you have checked. The one for the start
of the start
windows, The end day of the start window or both.
I checked 'em all--recurring days of week, Sun-Sat. Just looked at the
test server, and it's done a calendar-based backup each night at the
start of the 2300-2200
Support had me stop Netbackup and remove the file and then start
Netbackup. I was told it would recreate that pempersist
file. It did
recreate the file but did not help get my fulls to run. I was using
nbpemreq -predict -date XX/XX/ XX:XX:XX with different dates and
times to try and
I have years of experience with frequency based scheduling but I have
always shied away from calendar based. Today I made my first
attempt and
Gone over to the dark side, have you?
I cannot see where I made a mistake. Please review this and help me if
you can. Thanks.
Here is the
Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 2, Issue 45
[not only quoting a whole digest, but a digest
where a reply had quoted all of a _previous_
digest in it... sheesh!]
Okay, some evil virus has gotten into the list, causing at least SIX
people to quote the whole freakin' digest in their list
Does anyone knoew if the HP ESL322e has a facility to clean
drives as I cannot get NetBackup to do it!! I have so far
performed it manually, but I have never seen the drive
^^^
require a clean yet..!
^^
Then
I'm sure I have a setting wrong somewhere, but one of my huge backups
has decided that it wants to take over all 4 drives in our jukebox
when it does full backups.
I use streams but would really like to set it so the policy can use a
maximum of 2 drives at any one time so other policies can
Im not cleaning it on a regular basis :-) only twice in 7 months now.
But wondered if there was an easy automatic way. Trawled through the
HP
site, but could not find anything of relevance.
Amen. I can never find useful stuff on IBM's or HP's sites, though I
have found rich technical gems on
I just had an afterthought!! Lets ASSUME I remove the policies and
volume pools?
What if I have to do an IMPORT of 3 year old tapes??
What happens?
You just import them, phase 1 (build metadata file) and 2 (build files
file); the import depends on nothing. I'm piggybacking on Carlos'
Our library is an *intelligent library* and we handle all
cleaning thru it on a time basis, not mounts. [...]
This is _so_ not recommended. [1]
able to determine the lowest usage point of all of our drives per
library in each 24-hour cycle and for each day of the week.
We then set
up
Out of interest, do you know if this holds true for multiplexed tapes,
i.e. can be read using tar?
Not without preprocessing, AFAIK. The placement of the multiplex
headers is described in the SAG, but not the layout. I figured out part
of it a few years ago while working a different issue and
Bob
Correct, in order to do any import, thte tape MUST be known
by NetBackup, however if its expired,
That betrays your mindset (not beating up on you, just pointing out that
you're thinking in terms of your current system and 3-year-old tape
scenario; I'm encouraging you to think
Any opinions to the differences of a tape in
FROZEN or SUSPENDED state?
What questions do you have _after_ reading the descriptions under Media
Lists Report, Media Summary Report and Media Server Properties in
your System Administrator's Guide, Volume I, for starters?
I have a problem that we have a policy for a filesystem which
contains a
large number of files with a differential backup and it fails
with status 41 (network connection timed out) I tried first
to increase the CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT to 1800 and it worked for
some time then failed again with
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=33554432
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100
33554432 * 100 = 3,355,443,200 = 3GB
I have 32 GB physical memory available.
I am getting error 89's and would like to make more shared
memory available.
I don't know why the system admin is only presenting 3GB?
There are
B. Because of that, as I said earlier, no tape software ever made,
AFAIK, makes such an assumption.
[...]
Then you are obviously not as old as me :-(
Might be--cut my teeth on 200bpi, 7-track and rememeber 3-inch-wide
tape. :-)
Way back, ICL had something called FMS (Filestore
B. Because of that, as I said earlier, no tape software ever made,
AFAIK, makes such an assumption.
[...]
Then you are obviously not as old as me :-(
Might be--cut my teeth on 200bpi, 7-track and rememeber 3-inch-wide
tape. :-)
Way back, ICL had something called FMS (Filestore
I used Frequency for years, I highly suggest Mastering the
Calendar Based Scheduling, it is much better than Frequency
scheduling I have found. It rocks. Specially if you have
To each his own. Glad it's doing the job for you; my experience has
been that it's useful when there's a need to
I think if you turn on software compression this only applies
to the data in-flight, i.e. it is compressed by the client but
decompressed by the server, regardless of the type of storage unit.
^^
What makes you say this?
link. Even on a WAN many WAN routers use
frequency is measured from when the backup ends
Many posters have made this statement; please state your sources as this
is demonstrably false.
Policy Name: DEMO-prod-std
Include: /
Schedule: full
Frequency: every 1 hour
Daily Windows:
Thursday
In reference to 1 day - 24 hours, how does the Frequency
option work compared to the Calendar option?
Does Frequency start at Midnight to Midnight? Or can the
start be set on the start time?
Frequency means, um, frequency. Length of time from the last
successful backup run of a given
Now the policy is set for ALL LOCAL DRIVES for the client.
[...]
checked what Activity Monitor shows, and for some reason, it
thinks the client has a U: Drive.
Logged onto the client, and it doesnt!
Yet, if I run the client in its other policy, it doesnt even
see a U: Drive - Only in
3) originator collects replies and posts resolution or
further enquirers
Laudable goal; not gonna happen. Hardly anyone who didn't learn in
ARPANet or Usenet days has ever _seen_
reply-to-me-I'll-post-a-summary-to-the-list, or other responsible
behaviors in a mailing list: trimming replies,
I'm a little confused by the datacenter documentation in Veritas
Support. It looks like the FP7 8 and 9 are not cumulative, and the
documentation says you must install them on top of FP6, which is
cumulative. My question, is that I need a bug fix present in 8, is 9
cumulative back to 7 or
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I agree with your comments about throwing the tape away.
However, can we assume this scenario:
Full Backup Friday of critical Server. Completed all ok, but
during the job a status appeared (Media Write Error, or
Media Position Error) although only once.
Sunday Server Dies
Come in
I have had this happen to me on multiple occasions. I have had
no good explanation for this NBU behavior from Symantec/VERITAS. My
Jeez, how hard is it to key in frozen media at support.veritas.com?
And the first one listed is... ta-da!... How to troubleshoot frozen
media on Unix and Windows.
I wanted to use the collect disaster recovery info, but as
I do not have a key, I cannot use it!
[...]
Once the Server is up, its a case of restoring the Data via
NBU - which works. But I would like to review the possibility
of a faster solution.
Buy the BMR option.
[...]
With my old NBU
27/04/2006 18:40:54 - positioning 0622L3 to file 87
27/04/2006 18:42:14 - Warning bptm(pid=3888) cannot locate on
drive index 0,
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
27/04/2006 18:42:18 - Error bptm(pid=3888) ioctl (MTREW)
failed on media id
0622L3, drive
I asked a question similar to this, in regards to whether
NBPUSHDATA needs more disk space, but I am still not entirely sure.
The response Jim made indicated, that Netbackup leaves the
current DB intact and perhaps creates a new DB - but surely
this means more disk space.
nbpushdata
Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am surprised by the number of people using a single volume pool for
data backups. What about mixed retentions on media?
What about them? NetBackup *never* puts different retentions on a tape
unless you force it to with the MULTIPLE_RETENTIONS_PER_MEDIA
I have just discovered that the windows event logs are not
backed up as
part of a All_Local_Drives backup. We were hoping to recover an event
log that was deleted and there are no backups of these logs in the
directory that they are located in on a windows server. There is no
mention of a
perhaps examine the output from:
bppllist policy_in_question -U -L
And, from the client, with logging set to 5
(bp.conf VERBOSE = 5)
the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbkar and bpcd log files.
It will give an indication of how it is choosing the paths to follow.
We use the
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:42:58 -0400
From: Carlisle, D Renee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I checked all that and it looks good=2E Sg=2Econf is
identical, major numb=
ers and minor number convention on the HP looks the same
(they don't exist =
on sun) no mention of compression or errors in
Tape Library: IBM 3584 partitioned into production and test
environment
Operating System: Solaris 9, Windows 2003, HP-UX 11i
Netbackup: 5.1 mp3
Just upgraded from STK L700E LTO-1 library to a IBM 3584 LTO-2 library
All of a sudden tape compression is not working on any flavor
I've read the official Veritas documentation on using wildcards to
backup files on Windows and I want to know if anyone has come up with
something better. Basically Veritas says for 4.5-5.1 list everything
you want to backup, then exclude all of it, and then include using
wildcards.
To
I am currently running NBU 3.4GB on solaris 8 and would like
to upgrade to solaris 10 and NBU 6.0.
Are their any documents on what files I need to save. Or
As others have pointed out, you need to read the manuals. Get AT LEAST
the Installation Guide for each step (support.veritas.com).
Don't have the admin guides :-( I looked at the example,
For everyone's info, all NetBackup manuals are on the installation media
and downloadable
from support.veritas.com:
click NetBackup Products, NetBackup Enterprise Server
click Compatibility Reference
select Manuals Documentation,
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