We had some recent hardware issues with tape robot and had to re-do
robotics config on NBU.
Meanwhile we had storage unit marked as inactive for the SLPs using that
robot for a duplication stage.
Now that the storage unit has been marked as active we have about 300
queued duplication jobs and
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On May 20, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Rusty Major rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote:
I would say if you aren't having the issue with NBSL, I would not patch it.
The only damage we see
HLU 255 maybe a windows limit.
We have 4 paths per LUN on the backup vStorage API server, and probably
around 30 LUNs zoned across 3 target arrays. No issues so far. I would
like to know what the vStorage API or NBU maximums are though.
On 7/27/2012 9:35 AM, Anurag Sharma wrote:
VMWare
Here is a back of napkin idea that may be worthwhile.
NBU upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 and 7.0 to 7.1 were not very painful at all
in my experience. On of the new things you get in 7.1 I think is SLPs
that can duplicate images to a different master server.
You may be able to upgrade you 6.5 env
We are having some issues testing a restore of a 1.4TB EMC Celerra PFS
backup
The backup was done with vbb format and no DAR (set HIST=n), filesystem
has approx 20 million files and 1.4TB.
Backup was to an OST storage unit via network.
I have tried recreating the restore filesystem twice.
On 5/10/2012 6:27 PM, David Stanaway wrote:
aborting operation - no mover progress
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/ndmp-restore-failed
Hmmm. STFW, I will.
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7.1 ?
On 3/16/2010 8:02 AM, David Stanaway wrote:
I'm getting very frustrated about having to re-invent the wheel to
reproduce the functionality of Storage Lifecycle Policies for my
Synthetic Full backups.
For those not aware, Synthetic backup images for some dumb reason that
hasn't
You can do NDMP backups to OST via LAN transport to the media server.
All you need to do is setup your ndmp credentials in NBU and on your NAS
device. At least this worked for me with a VNX-File NDMP backup.
If you want to transport NDMP backups via SAN to the DATADOMAIN, then
you would need
If you are in a CPU dense, memory lean environment, the vSphere
Enterprise for 6 core CPUs is a good reason. Similar for SRM.
I'm awaiting 7.1.0.3 to get fully baked to test/deploy myself.
On 12/20/2011 11:16 AM, . . wrote:
Anyone else being pressured to upgrade to 7.1.0.3 to support vSphere5
On 12/8/2011 2:13 PM, mpjames wrote:
I can't make this restore work - and it's possible that it can't be done. But
here goes.
Our SAN was originally presented as a mapped drive on a Windows server. So we
had MS-WINDOWS policy types for backing up content. Now we have a new SAN
with NDMP
On 11/30/2011 11:02 AM, smpt wrote:
• Disaster recovery is not supported with encrypted backups.
Therefore you must not encrypt backups used for Disaster Recovery restore
This is true only if you do not replicate the keys. With library KMS you must
have a replicated KMS and with netbackup
On 11/29/2011 12:59 AM, novice123 wrote:
Dear All,
During a risk assessment exercise, I realized that my backup admin does not
encrypt data in backup tapes. He argues, it is not required as an adversary
cannot recover/read data from the backup tape, assuming its stolen, if he
does not
We have some appliances with a proprietary backup that backup to a
replicated CIFS share. It is all in the same 'disk pool' on the datadomain.
The NBU OST 'files' are in a directory for the lsu under /ost on the
'filesystem'
This is on the DD660, perhaps a different story on the larger units,
How about vStorage CBT differentials?
Anyone actually have a problem with the registry, certificate store etc
not coming back to the point in time of the differential backup?
I am torn if I should keep doing my incremental /synthetics including
system state as well as periodic vStorage fulls,
I am fairly certain SAN LUNs are explicitly supported and infact that
allows one of the new DR protections for the master made available for
7.0. I have it bookmarked at the office.
On 11/15/2011 4:11 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
In point of fact it only says NO to NFS/CIFS.The original
If you are doing any MSCS clusters you will have to use client based
backups for them.
For Windows guests, you can do file level vStorage restores from vmware
API proxy backups. It is a flash backup so if it is a large VM,
restoring just 1 file might take a little bit longer than a traditional
We have seem similar issues when we exceed the max streams on the DD
system. Synth jobs take up 3 streams, duplication jobs take up 2
streams, so you need to be careful with the max jobs on the storage
unit. If this is happening you will see messages logged in your daily
autosupports (No
When did this get announced?
I have been bugging our EMC Backup rep about this, I would have figured
they would have been all over giving me the news.
On 9/30/2011 1:14 AM, smpt wrote:
Hello,
Just a hint.
If you will use NBU and DD with BOOST, the synthetic backups are instant. NO
reading
On 9/13/2011 4:18 PM, Sanders, Nate wrote:
Is it possible to regenerate vault report emails? We have NBU
Enterprise 7.0.1 and the matching OpsCenter. I need to regenerate the
Detailed Distribution List for Vaults from June and July. Or, I just
need to grab these files from disk or backups.
We have no issues with GRT Sharepoint restores from OST (At least on
6.5.4 and 7.0.1 with DataDomain OST). What doesn't work is SLP or
duplication. You will want to have non GRT backups as well if you
want optimized offsite duplicates or tape copies. I didn't bother
with
Checkpoints create a new file for each checkpoint.
On 9/7/2011 1:17 PM, Rusty Major wrote:
I have always understood it that Checkpoints were saved in a log on
the client and, therefore, wouldn't affect dedupe ratios at all. I
haven't ever verified that, nor did a quick search yield anything.
=~ /^[a-zA-Z\\\/]/) {
$res = 'BASICDISK';
}
return $res;
}
On 6/1/2011 12:37 AM, David Stanaway wrote:
What kind of backups are these?
GRT backups and Synthetic backups to my knowledge result in dataloss
if used with an SLP expecting the SLP to function.
On 5/31/2011 7:40 AM
What kind of backups are these?
GRT backups and Synthetic backups to my knowledge result in dataloss if
used with an SLP expecting the SLP to function.
On 5/31/2011 7:40 AM, Patrick wrote:
Hi All,
I have a strange question which may be related to my misunderstanding
of how SLP works.
I
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We have done this with DD OST plugin, NBU 6.5.4 and Exchange 2007. The
problem is that GRT backups could not be duplicated manually, or with an
SLP. It would do horrible things. Currently not using GRT for exchange.
We are using GRT for sharepoint, but also running non GRT fulls to
duplicate
With 6.5.4, there was a EEB we needed to apply for duplicate to tape to
not use the wrong media server as the reader for the second scenario.
We would have a 50/50 chance of the remote media server being used to be
the reader for the image duplicating to tape.
EG: copy 2 in the NJ SLP being
The is an MSSQL backup client, and Oracle and probably a few others.
On a system I have with postgresql, I have a pre-backup script that runs
a pg_dump and checks for success before backing up the system (Including
the pg_dump).
Setting up the backup and doing the restore will just require
The cleaning process is pretty simple. I haven't even really found a
need to look at it since initial install.
the NBU image cleanup is what frees up the backup image files via OST.
The daily cleanup on the DD then cleans up the compressed fragments that
are no longer referenced.
If your EMC
We are doing snap backup from the CCR Secondary copy with good
performance. What does take a little time (Not much, but we do see it)
is the exchange consistency checks and log replay on the snapshot. We
have a similar amount of data to you. What disk subsystem do you have
for the exchange
supports it.
Dupe to Tape
On 1/9/2011 5:28 AM, Urs Krolzig wrote:
Hello
did you already check this?
Clarification to Multiple Copy Synthetic Backups feature
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH77692
For me this worked with 7.0.1.
Regards
- Original Message -
*From:* David Stanaway
SLP policies can be checked for compliance also.
I have a daily script that check for any incomplete SLP images and sends
backup admins a nastygram. It has not fired yet due to fast opt dupe on
out datadomains :).
My only gripes with SLP (and they may be addressed with an EEB or with
7.1,
I just had the very same issue not related to NBU AFAIK. Client OS W2K8.
Instead of rescanning from disk mgmt and seeing the extra space there,
then launching diskpart to extend like I normally do, I ran rescan
command inside diskpart and did extend. Volume shows as taking up all
the space in
You should only use the cluster name in MSCS for managing the cluster.
Create a new cluster group, IP and name for your clustered application.
On 11/8/2010 1:01 PM, deasnutz wrote:
So I have a microsoft cluster, two nodes and a cluster hostname.
Do I also need another name/ip for the
I guess that rules out backing up clusters system nodes with
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and excludes for the shard disks.
Do you have an ETrack on that I can follow the status of before I update
these clients?
On 10/14/2010 4:27 AM, Michael Graff Andersen wrote:
Hello
I am very interested in the
Find out and let me know :P
There is a touchfile to allow the synth to write 2 copies at the same
time. One to disk, one to tape. I wish the NBU developers would get off
their asses and enable SLP as a backup target for synthetics. This
omission is pathetic to have been left as a known issue
The MSSQL backup agent is a little peculiar.
You need to sign in to the server and run the agents GUI to set up the
credentials, then quite the GU and launch it again, then you can
successfully setup the bch script.
The schedule has a frequency/window for the launching of the bch script,
but
Try unchecking the allow retry after calendar day (Not sure how it is
worded exactly).
Why do you have a calendar based schedule for your daily? Looks like you
just need it for the weekly/monthly.
On 9/21/2010 4:02 PM, THELEN, ROBERT M (ATTSI) wrote:
I have seen Calendar based backups do
Is anyone doing such a thing and do you have any words of wisdom on how
best to do this?
I am looking to set this up for some VMs with windows 2003 and windows
2008 OS on ESX 4.0 with RMDs mapped to some back end Clariion LUNs on a
snapview enabled Clariion.
1) Policy start
2) VSS Snapshot on
Note, the prefered backup type would be flashbackup full/inc schedules.
On 8/25/2010 4:25 AM, David Stanaway wrote:
Is anyone doing such a thing and do you have any words of wisdom on how
best to do this?
I am looking to set this up for some VMs with windows 2003 and windows
2008 OS on ESX
We wouldn't be able to do our backup replication to DR without the
de-dupe levels we get from DD.
We are seeing 30x dedupe on nightly backups which are mostly Incr
backups, and full backups for DBs and Exchange. If you are concerned
about minimizing your data utilization for your site to site
I had that problem when we had too many jobs active on the storage
server exceeding it's max streams. Do you have an unusually large number
of clients that start at that time?
On 5/25/2010 1:44 PM, mbatt...@bloomberg.com wrote:
Hi All,
We are facing a peculiar problem , where policies
On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote:
Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up
VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and
which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup
server is solaris.
Thanks,
Vic
I have my nodes in mscs clusters in my regular ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES system
policies, but I have policy specific exclusions for the cluster resource
drives on them. I then have specific policies for each cluster with the
specific disk resources in its backup selections corresponding with the
virtual
Sorry, no answer for you, but if/when you do find out, please let the
list know. I did not know the key transerver from KMS to media server
was insecure.
On 5/3/2010 6:18 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hello,
I have had a case open since last week, still waiting for Symantec to
contact me.
I
Can I do a user backup from a pipe?
Specifically, to get the output of pg_dumpall without needing an
intermediate file sent to NBU
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It is just a tar file.
You could find the tape file # and position with mt and cat the file out.
I have not tried to recover an incomplete tar file, but I am sure there
are tools out there.
On 4/19/2010 3:18 AM, Markus, Istvan wrote:
NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no
Are you asking me?
On the client Manage Computer - Disk Management
Pick a volume, properties, Shadow Copies and you see a dialog that shows
the permitted space for shadow copies per volume and where the volume
used for shadow storage.
On 4/15/2010 2:22 AM, NBU wrote:
Hi David,
Where exactly
Did you increase the limit of size for the volume shadow copies? Limit
defaults to 1G per volume. On out exchange servers that got used up
pretty quick and the shadow copy instance of exchange runs out of space
and gets aborted. I don't recall if that resulted in a 50 status.
It is easy to fix,
These number aren't that hot compared to DataDomain from my use of it.
We are seeing 86TB of backup images occupying 4.4TB of phys disk.
On 4/1/2010 12:07 PM, Jon Bousselot wrote:
I set it up in a small test environment, and started backing up three
clients into a deduplication pool
With the Raw Partition restore for flashbackup-windows we have seen you
need to set the restore option to overwrite. I haven't used the
Standard flashbackup policy
On 3/31/2010 6:16 PM, khester wrote:
We have been trying to restore about 1.5 TB of data to our File Server which
is a newly
You could test behaviour pretty easily.
We do TIR (with move detection) backups which behave differently (And
better IMHO).
On 3/23/2010 1:52 PM, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
This occurred to me on the way to work. Does the NB client for windows
reset all the archive bits on files after the
I'm getting very frustrated about having to re-invent the wheel to
reproduce the functionality of Storage Lifecycle Policies for my
Synthetic Full backups.
For those not aware, Synthetic backup images for some dumb reason that
hasn't been explained to me cannot be managed by an SLP and you will
The limitation for the number of 'active' keytags in the keygroup
dictates that you don't rotate they keys too often. It is pretty easy to
cycle the keys out of the keygroup and recover them back in if you need,
so don't let that stifle your desired rotation config. Just make sure
you have a
I'm using IBM LTO4 in a Dell ML6010 (Rebadged ADIC i500) with KMS and
SSO with no issues at all.
I am using W2K8 X64 with NBU 6.5.4
We are using the IBM Drivers for the LTO4 as per compat matrix.
We are a pretty small tape environment in the scheme of things though,
with the library drives (2
winmgmt /regserver
winmgmt /resyncperf
On 2/21/2010 1:42 AM, David Stanaway wrote:
I just had a problem with this same error on a windows 2000 client. This
was on a new 6.5 install.
At the very end of the install, the installer connected to the windows
event logs through
I just had a problem with this same error on a windows 2000 client. This
was on a new 6.5 install.
At the very end of the install, the installer connected to the windows
event logs through WMI I think but this failed due to WMI repository
being corrupted somehow. The install rolls back at this
We have a MSSQL server with ~200 very small databases. This takes a very
long time to backup as each DB spawns a new job that needs to get qued
then start up the media session etc.
We used to back it up with Legato pretty quickly, but now the lag is
quite noticeable and it eats into our
system_dc_linux_synth_01_1264276827_INCR.f
On 1/21/2010 8:46 PM, David Stanaway wrote:
We are seeing quite a few of these on out 6.5.4 w2k8 master/media setup
and can't account for them as the chain of Full/Diff-Incr are good.
Has anyone else come across these when by all accounts they should have
succeeded?
NBU
Is it possible to get a NOM alert whenever a job goes into incomplete
status?
EG:
Loss of communications cause a backup with checkpoints to suspend. I
want to know right away, not when it eventually times out or fails. I
can't seem to find the right trigger to catch in the NOM alert policies.
Has anyone had any good success with any tools (Preferably able to pull
inventory from NBU vault offsite inventory) that can work with a hand
scanner to audit a vault (Not a robot, but a bunch of tape containers).
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We are seeing quite a few of these on out 6.5.4 w2k8 master/media setup
and can't account for them as the chain of Full/Diff-Incr are good.
Has anyone else come across these when by all accounts they should have
succeeded?
NBU support is unfortunately not being very illuminating.
multistreaming. Kudos to NBU support for solving this one.
On 12/17/2009 8:39 PM, David Stanaway wrote:
Okay,
so I have a problem with backing up MSCS clusters with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
backup selections.
The cluster nodes not holding the volume attempt to backup the volumes
and fail. This was easy
Anyone have policies (Pre/Post command scripts/backup selections) for
backing up KMS, NOM and VBR?
I am kind of surprised there aren't specially crafted backup types for
these.
ENV: NBU 6.5.4 Windows
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I was trying tp download the docs for KMS so I can see the valid states
for a key so I can expire one out.
While I wait for it to get back, I need to purge a key out of a keygrp?
is it:
nbkmsutil -keygrp ENCR_FOO -keyname key1 -changekey -state expired
nbkmsutil -keygrp
I have 6.5.4 and it is copying from the correct storage unit, I just
have 2 media servers sharing a storage unit and I would like it to use
the shortest path from src to dst.
EG:
I have:
MEDIA1
/ \
OST LSU
The policy is multistream enabled, so each local drive and windows
special save directives get a job stream.
Here is an EG:
clients:
CNODE1
CNODE2
CVIRT1
policies:
CVIRT_full_win
Type: MS-Windows
Backup Selections:
Q:
R:
Exclusions: None
Schedules:
Full (Full)
Daily
Okay,
so I have a problem with backing up MSCS clusters with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
backup selections.
The cluster nodes not holding the volume attempt to backup the volumes
and fail. This was easy enough to fix with policy specific client
exclusions, and these exclusions for the clustered volumes get
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