Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Schedules

2011-06-01 Thread Alley, Chris
We use a similar set up, except we do the monthly on the first weekend of the month. An example of one of our policies is... Daily - Mon - Thursday Weekly - Every Friday EXCEPT for the first Friday of the month Monthly - First Friday of the month I also have retries allowed after runday

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by VeritasNetbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread Alley, Chris
This is mostly correct. Every year on our maintenance renewal we would have the same discussion with Symantec as there was always some internal confusion on licensing. Essentially the rule is you are required to have 1 license per OS type per physical machine. So if you had a single ESX

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 Question (rollback)

2011-05-05 Thread Alley, Chris
If you have the SAN/Server space, what we often do for upgrades and server lease returns is the following. One thing to keep in mind is that our /usr/openv dir is its own mount point. Build an identical server Shutdown NetBackup Copy /usr/openv on original server to new server's /usr/openv

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients

2011-03-28 Thread Alley, Chris
is prohibited.  If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original. -Original Message- From: Kevin Holtz [mailto:klh1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 6:31 AM To: Alley, Chris Cc: Justin Piszcz; VERITAS-BU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients

2011-03-27 Thread Alley, Chris
I have been getting a bunch of 24 errors as well. We have an ongoing ticket with Symantec on the issue. It SEEMS to be related to our newer servers that are connected to our 10gb network. Our Exchange backups seemed to suffer the most from these errors and we actually have had to limit those

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients

2011-03-27 Thread Alley, Chris
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Alley, Chris Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 6:12 PM To: Justin Piszcz; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients I have been getting a bunch of 24 errors as well. We have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients

2011-03-27 Thread Alley, Chris
. -Original Message- From: Len Boyle [mailto:len.bo...@sas.com] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:22 PM To: Alley, Chris; Justin Piszcz; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help with status 24's on windows clients Check the nic drivers and the new tcpip offload features

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question for NetBackup 7.0 Dedup userORData Domain users

2010-08-25 Thread Alley, Chris
: Remember that the built in de-dup as a limit on the amount of data it can keep track of. Over that amount you need to use a de-dup appliance. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Alley, Chris Sent: Tuesday, August 24

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question for NetBackup 7.0 Dedup userORData Domain users

2010-08-25 Thread Alley, Chris
to, the ratio has been much closer to 10:1 or 15:1. -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:35 AM To: Mark Glazerman; stefanos; Travis Kelley; judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; Alley, Chris; veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Question for NetBackup 7.0 Dedup user OR Data Domain users

2010-08-24 Thread Alley, Chris
We are looking to change our backups to a disk based deduplication solution, and 2 of our options are to utilize NetBackup 7.0's built in dedupe (Client and Media server) or to put a Data Domain box in. I wanted to see if I could get some real world feedback on what you guys have been seeing in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master server upgrade

2010-08-13 Thread Alley, Chris
I have done something similar several times in our environment for either lease returns or to perform a fail safe upgrade. What we have done is as follows... 1. Build out the replacement server as close to the original 2. Present a LUN to the old server and copy /usr/openv to the new LUN 3.

[Veritas-bu] Clustering and NBAC questions

2009-10-06 Thread Alley, Chris
I had a couple of questions and I was hoping one of you may have some ideas, tips, advise, anything. :-) Right now we have a single NetBackup 6.5.4 master server running on RedHat Linux ES 4.0 and as far as security is concerned we are just using OS level security. i.e. users are created at the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clustering and NBAC questions

2009-10-06 Thread Alley, Chris
Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:01 PM To: Alley, Chris Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clustering and NBAC questions On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Alley, Chris cal...@kforce.com wrote: I had a couple of questions and I

[Veritas-bu] Windows Sharepoint Services

2006-01-16 Thread Alley, Chris
I apologize in advance if this question has been asked/answered already. I am running NetBackup 5.0 MP5 with Linux Master and Media servers and I am looking to backup Windows Sharepoint Servers. From what I have seen NBU will backup SPS (Sharepoint Portal Services) but I haven't seen anything