Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows

2011-03-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Donaldson, Mark mark.donald...@staples.com wrote: A couple versions back, both versions of OS versions of NetBackup, there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While officially supported many people reported problems with device

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiplexing on destaging basic disk dssu

2011-03-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Patrick netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.ukwrote: Is there a way to do the above? If so how? Short answer: no. Longer answer: It's been requested multiple times and is being considered for a future release. There are ways to configure yourself around these

Re: [Veritas-bu] iSCSI and NBU 7.0 or

2011-02-24 Thread Ed Wilts
NDMP is typically (exclusively?) used for file systems. iSCSI is block. You should back up the data via host agents. On Feb 24, 2011 6:45 AM, Jim Caldwell caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu wrote: We are looking at new disk storage from HP that are iSCSI. I have heard that iSCSI is not a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fiber Transport

2011-02-23 Thread Ed Wilts
The first check you need to do is to see if it's a NetBackup transport limitation. Do one of the various tests to see if you're reading off the file system fast enough (a backup to the null device is documented in a technote somewhere). .../Ed On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Heathe Yeakley

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Fred M 77fre...@gmail.com wrote: My employer is requesting I evaluate PureDisk and DataDomain for de-duplication. One of the selling advantages of the PureDisk appliances is that you only buy the de-dupe licenses once. All hardware eventually gets old. When

Re: [Veritas-bu] update_dbclients

2011-02-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Nate Sanders sande...@dmotorworks.comwrote: So when updating from 6.5.6 clients to 7.0.1 via the update_clients script, I should expect it to also update the installed Oracle agent as well? Even if it was not installed before, it will be after you update.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server

2011-02-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bryan Bahnmiller bbahnmil...@dtcc.comwrote: Ed, Rusty, Have you noticed if the load on the DNS servers has gone down? I remember building an HPUX master server with thousands of clients. Our master server hammered the DNS server. We ended up configuring a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server

2011-02-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: If this is version 7.0.1, there is a hostname caching 'feature' now in NetBackup (Which I do NOT like, Symantec!!!). It caches the IP for each host configured in NBU and sometimes this can result in the incorrect IP being tied to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netabckup server registry entries change after each reboot

2011-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Saran Brar saranb...@live.com wrote: I would like to share with all of you a very strange problem with a windows 2003 server. Whenever the server is rebooted, its netbackup server registry entries change. Have anyone faced this kind of problem. Please help.

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 First Availability announced!

2011-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH147815actp=RSS The marquee features of NetBackup 7.1 include: - Disaster Recovery - AIR: Auto Image Replication - Virtualization - Linux single file restore for VMware - Smart Policies for VMware -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Mixed Backup Policies.

2011-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Harpreet SINGH harpreet_si...@ctl.creative.com wrote: To facilitate, I have configured the Backup Policies in such a way that they are tied up with one to one with designated Slot ID in Tape Library. I have separated out the UNIX backup and Windows Backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 7.0 and licenses

2011-01-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, ccosta@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading to NBU 7.0, do I need to replace the 6.5.5 licenses with 7.0 licenses? I don't think you need to but you should. Every new NetBackup release incorporates something different in the license keys. You should have

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1

2011-01-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: Is anyone using it? Any initial results/comments? It's out of beta but I suspect that the beta customers are still bound by an NDA until it's FA. The FA release is expected this month. .../Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 71

2010-12-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, ccosta@gmail.com wrote: We have a 2-node Windows 2008 clustered client. I have two policies configured: one policy has the real host names and local drives (C: / D: ). The other policy has the virtual cluster name and shared drives configured. Both

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpstart and bpend for Linux is required

2010-12-21 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Raed Abdalkarim raed.abedalka...@tdmgroup.net wrote: I need to run bpstart and bpend scripts on a client (CentOS machine), my master server is windows 2003. Could anyone send me those scripts please? You'll find sample scripts in

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup for Oracle configuration

2010-12-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Mark Glazerman mark.glazer...@spartech.com wrote: The oracle agent comes as part of the netbackup 7 client now. Although the Oracle agent is bundled in the client, remember that it is still separately licensed... .../Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution

2010-12-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Conner, Neil n...@mbari.org wrote: Catarc does not work if your catalog is NFS mounted I don't think that an NFS-mounted catalog is supported, is it? Certainly Symantec won't support the EMM database on NFS even though Sybase officially supports NFS-based

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution

2010-12-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chapman, Scott scott.chap...@icbc.comwrote: Kind of a side question… does Symantec support SAN disk for the catalog these days? I know they didn’t used to support that, but the catalog is getting a bit big these days to keep running it off of internal disk…

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, please top urgent

2010-12-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:29 PM, nizar motasim nizar1...@hotmail.com wrote: 12/9/2010 7:50:13 PM - positioned 2974LT; position time: 00:00:05 12/9/2010 7:50:13 PM - begin writing 12/9/2010 9:03:16 PM - Error bptm(pid=5808) cannot write image to media id 2974LT, drive index 0, The request could

Re: [Veritas-bu] RHEL 6 and NetBackup 6.5 and 7.0

2010-12-03 Thread Ed Wilts
The earliest release I would expect to see client support in would be 7.1 (aka Denali) which just exited beta (according to a public seminar I was at today). RHEL 6 is so new, however, that it might not have made it in there yet. 7.1 won't ship until Q1/2011. I would GUESS that if you stuck to

Re: [Veritas-bu] how to fix a vss writer

2010-12-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:24 PM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: Does anybody know who to fix the Exchange vss writer? Mine currently says failed. I need to get it back to stable. My exchange 2010 backups are failing and I think it is because of the writer. Here's the Microsoft

Re: [Veritas-bu] New netbackup master server spec

2010-11-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM, xgtdec netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: 64 Gig, would you think thats a minimum, if you could afford more would nbu 7.0 use it? Any other general Spec considerations you would take? There are a lot of it depends here. It depends on how many jobs you're

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 811

2010-11-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:30 AM, shekhar deshingkar sdeshing...@gmail.comwrote: as we have received error code 811 resources requester failed on master server what could be the possiblities failure of the alerts. where i can check the failure logs of netbackup with error codes,could someone

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error code 811

2010-11-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM, shekhar deshingkar sdeshing...@gmail.comwrote: Could u please give detail netbackup commands using Unix for tuning the netbackup ?

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup training

2010-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
I've been working through the web-based NBU 7.0 training (to fill in the blanks before my cert exam). There's not much in there that doesn't also apply to 6.5. By the time a new admin will get to the advanced features of 7.0, you'll be there anyway. BTW, unless you really don't like your new

Re: [Veritas-bu] Right product

2010-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:42 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: trying to purchase a 6.5 SAN Media License and SSO! Company have come back with this description, which I cannot tie in with what I need. symc netbackup enterprise server 7.0 TIER 1 is the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Right product

2010-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: What is the difference between tier1 license and tier2? For Windows/Linux/SolarisX64 servers, Tier 1 is for 1 processor socket, Tier 2 is 2-3 sockets, Tier 3 is 4-7, and Tier 4 is 8 or more. Is

Re: [Veritas-bu] importing images - media ID problem

2010-11-14 Thread Ed Wilts
.../Ed Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN ewi...@ewilts.org -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of skylane Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] image cleanup process - run time

2010-11-12 Thread Ed Wilts
A couple of years ago we had this in a cron job and would find backups occasionally failing with a status 228. I don't know if it was specific that the release we were running at the time but I'd suggest being careful about triggering these cleanups manually. .../Ed On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Script.

2010-11-10 Thread Ed Wilts
Here's what we use,. Change the SrcClient DstClient variables and then stick in your list of files to restore. If you want to change the restore path, edit those lines or comment them out. If you need to change the type (e.g. 13 for Windows files), change the restore command at the bottom.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP exclude

2010-11-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Nate Sanders sande...@dmotorworks.com wrote: How do you exclude certain paths from an NDMP job? Unlike a regular host you can't put an include/exclude file on the client.. You need to check a couple of places. First, in the NetBackup NDMP guide, you'll find

Re: [Veritas-bu] Centos/Linux Client Install.

2010-10-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Ulises Rodriguez ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is an RPM 32x,64x client install for Linux/Centos? Not yet. Symantec has been talking for a while about native packaging for the client kits but they're not available yet. I

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.x or 7.0(?) for Windows 2008 R2 64-bit + DFSR.

2010-10-06 Thread Ed Wilts
. We're having a bit of fun with one of our DFSR hosts and we're running 7.0.1 on both the server and the client. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 on Win 2k

2010-10-06 Thread Ed Wilts
and tell it NOT to use VSP. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to setup/use Netbackup Opscenter in 7.0

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Wilts
64-bit system. Sybase apparently really sucks on Linux/Unix as the database gets large - this isn't a problem for EMM where the database is typically fairly small but is a real problem for OpsCenter where you can have millions of rows in your DB. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Digest ... ITS GONE! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-10-01 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkin...@dsto.defence.gov.au wrote: Does anyone know where symantec have relocated the Netbackup Digest ? It used to be located at: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm Or does it no longer exist ? It doesn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR implementation for two cluster servers

2010-09-28 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired Backup ID Doesn't Free Up Some Space

2010-09-27 Thread Ed Wilts
delete the last image on the tape, I'm not sure that NetBackup will truncate the tape and put the end-of-tape marker at the end of the last image. This is one of the reasons why it's a bad idea to mix retentions on the same tape. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org

Re: [Veritas-bu] FlashBackups - Q A:

2010-09-23 Thread Ed Wilts
on the client) for nothing. In general, because of this (bad, IMO) design, I create a single policy per FlashBackup volume. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] need help with mass tape copy

2010-09-23 Thread Ed Wilts
, make sure they're in the library, and then duplicate the image. If you're lucky, you can fit all of the 9940 tapes in the library at once. If not, you have a lot of groundwork to do. I think that Symantec could sell a tape migrator option for NetBackup .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-21 Thread Ed Wilts
or the server is going to have to compress all that data again after it comes off of tape. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] old policies

2010-09-09 Thread Ed Wilts
but does not... One client per policy solves a lot of problems. You can then just deactivate the policy... Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recommended FC array for D2D2T process

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:51 PM, mitch808 netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: I've run into a lot of folks using either Promise FC arrays or NexSAN arrays. They are lowend boxes with RAID cards, that do nothing more than act like a JBOD. A NexSAN array is not a RAID card - our lower end

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

2010-08-25 Thread Ed Wilts
Option is $4,995 per 1 Front End TB or $1,750 per 250 Front End GB. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

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

2010-08-24 Thread Ed Wilts
and then incrementals for life... Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] watching a running job (part 2)

2010-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
to avoid that ugly CIFS/NFS mount point so you're not walking the directory tree down a network path. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Nate Sanders sande...@dmotorworks.comwrote: So

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to find out which media server is backing up which client...

2010-08-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Joseph Despres jdesp...@csc.com wrote: Looks like I opened my mouth and stuck my foot in it. bperror doesn't look back 1 week... It can but the default is 3 days I think. For longer-term reporting, look at OpsCenter or a 3rd party reporting tool. Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to find out which media server is backing up which client...

2010-08-12 Thread Ed Wilts
for the client name, look at each of the policies for that client, and then each schedule within that policy to find the storage units. Given the storage unit, you can then track down the media server - or more than one media server if you do stuff like media server load balancing. .../Ed Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] windows 2008 cluster backups

2010-08-09 Thread Ed Wilts
no attempt to figure out what virtual servers have what resources. It's why I continue to claim that NBU *tolerates* active/passive clusters but doesn't really *support* them. The same holds true of Veritas clusters. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sudden DSSU Flush problems

2010-08-06 Thread Ed Wilts
be? What happens if you try and tar up the files and send them to the null device - do they go as fast as they should or are they slow too? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Private branch

2010-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups from Netapp using Netbackup

2010-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
on day 2, block 3 on day 3 and then restore, you'd need all 3 incrementals. With file-based incrementals, you only need the last one. If you're backing up to disk, the first option isn't so bad. With backups to tape, this would be horrible. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups from Netapp using Netbackup

2010-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
top a million bucks with the media servers and the de-dupe licenses. And that doesn't include the disk to put it to. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6-7 upgrade

2010-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, David McWilliams davidk...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone know of any upgrade guides kicking around? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/332137.htm Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups from Netapp using Netbackup

2010-07-27 Thread Ed Wilts
using jumbo frames. And that was to 1 head in the 3140 cluster. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server getting reboot everytime the backup runs.

2010-07-26 Thread Ed Wilts
and contact Microsoft if you can't figure it out. This is NOT a NetBackup problem. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
approximately every 24 hours. As you've said, customers do have the ability to bump themselves up to a better RPO. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
. The odds are high that you'll have only 1 or 2 master servers. I can make a lot more money for my company solving hard problems than researching stupid one-off issues in a release that the vendor won't even support. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maintenance Mode

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
to guess that since clusters are tolerated but not really supported that this feature is not going to work very well for clusters either (or other hosts with virtual server names). .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tarr'ed up /tmp/bp dir doesn't seem to work anymore...

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Wilts
/extract_java bp.22354/java/NB-Java.tar.Z bp.22354/java/JRE.tar.Z bp.22354/bin.tar.Z bp.22354/move_libs bp.22354/tar bp.22354/version bp.22354/.sizes .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts Thanks.. Joe Despres* Backup Engineer

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Wilts
the backup hardware or media. A RHEL subscription can be had for $349 per year. My personal opinion is that the $349 per year should not break the business case. .../Ed Disclaimer: I'm a Red Hat Certified Engineer so I obviously have some bias to go along with my experience. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging off Virtual Tape Library

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Wilts
. .../Ed Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging off Virtual Tape Library

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Wilts
for less cost than Symantec wants to charge you, go ahead and script it. Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7 Opscenter

2010-07-08 Thread Ed Wilts
://www.aptare.com :-) Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Ed Wilts
server? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts We have a case open with Symantec, but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else has run into this issue. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging Flush

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Wilts
in the catalog? That was a common bug and required a manual cleanup. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging going slow

2010-06-29 Thread Ed Wilts
to a double-disk failure. I've done several recoveries for our Windows Server Team because they're configured large RAID-5 sets and had double-disk failures. ../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging going slow

2010-06-25 Thread Ed Wilts
configuration issue, the dd should also have been slow. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] More vStorage w/ NBU 7 Observations...

2010-06-25 Thread Ed Wilts
2010/6/24 Ed Wilts ewi...@ewilts.org 2010/6/24 Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabre...@gmail.com On Tuesday 22 June 2010 09:59:22 thomas.h...@sungard.com wrote: No surprise, there are some bugs in v7.0 pertaining to vStorage that will be addressed in v7.1 (due to be released in August 2010) Where

Re: [Veritas-bu] More vStorage w/ NBU 7 Observations...

2010-06-24 Thread Ed Wilts
. Bookmark this page: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=15143 And this page: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging going slow

2010-06-23 Thread Ed Wilts
gave up on using DSSUs for the majority of our backups because the performance hit was unacceptable. If you find a solution, I'd really, really like to hear about it. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and Millions of Files

2010-06-21 Thread Ed Wilts
applications with hundreds of millions of files. Purchasing PureDisk licenses for that much data is prohibitively expensive. As long as Symantec insists on a per-TB license for PureDisk, we will continue to make as little use of it as we can. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Celera Backup Question

2010-06-21 Thread Ed Wilts
server and do a traditional Windows backup. /Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec NetBackup Combination

2010-06-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Adrian Soetanto adrian.soeta...@bentoel.co.id wrote: Is it possible to backup using Backup Exec (version 12) and then restore it using NetBackup (version 6.5)? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/295433.htm .../Ed

Re: [Veritas-bu] Large Full schedule, DSSU and Shoe Shinning

2010-06-09 Thread Ed Wilts
of the host. The host's net data speed is that which is achieved after the factoring out of data compressibility. In other words, you should be seeing about 60MB/sec from NetBackup (assuming 2:1 compression) to meet the minimum LTO-4 drive speed of 30MB/sec. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP

Re: [Veritas-bu] isilon backup accelerator

2010-06-07 Thread Ed Wilts
backing the data up using either CIFS or NFS will miss the rest of the security information. No approach is perfect so you have to decide what is going to work best in your environment. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

2010-06-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:21 PM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: Heading off topic, but for the benefit of those who had a heart-attack thinking they were out of support with 5.1 clients as they ARE supported with NBU 6.x Master/Media servers. Change ARE to WERE. All of 5.1 has already

Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP versus VSS

2010-06-01 Thread Ed Wilts
? What could be the possible reasons? Does VSP plays some part in making the CPU utilisation high? VSP is evil. Don't try and debug it - just quit using it. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Incorrect File List being Built

2010-05-26 Thread Ed Wilts
found a reference to it in the NBU 5 Windows guide. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media write error 84

2010-05-26 Thread Ed Wilts
everything from beginning to end and see if you can narrow it down. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Unit

2010-05-24 Thread Ed Wilts
sense. You could go with something like a Windows or Linux server with locally attached disk. Not ideal, but it's archive data, right? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX-Client version issue

2010-05-20 Thread Ed Wilts
= 6.5 Version Number = 65 NetBackup Installation Path = /usr/openv/netbackup/bin Client OS/Release = HP-UX B.11.11 Cipher = Patch Level = 6.5.4 Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange status 13 during bpstart script

2010-05-19 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Dave Markham dave.mark...@fjserv.netwrote: What we've found out is that its the firewall between media and client which is cutting off this connection after 2 hours. The bpstart script is still running on the client but after the firewall tcp timeout of 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 and MSCS Cluster

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Wilts
servers. NetBackup tolerates Windows clusters - it really doesn't support them as well as it should. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts Thank You in advance Chris C

Re: [Veritas-bu] DC 48v disk storage

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Wilts
expect that if you work with a reseller that sells into the telecom industry, they'd be expecting your queries. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Wilts
for vnetbackup vmware best practices. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Off Topic: Firmware and driver versions?

2010-05-12 Thread Ed Wilts
nothing else. If there's a bug that I've run into that I need to fix, then I'll bump the priority. It's always a fine juggling act between being current, supported, and meeting the business requirements, all the time balancing that with your available time. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN 11.2 and Netbackup bug

2010-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
current. This isn't a case of NetBackup having bugs - it's the impossibility of supporting a release of an application that wasn't available at the time NetBackup was released. Oracle 11g R2 is fairly current. NetBackup 5.1 is 3 MAJOR revisions old and is well beyond its End Of Life. Ed Wilts, RHCE

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU and Clustered MSCS fileserver, Flashbackup?

2010-05-06 Thread Ed Wilts
the MSCS resource group. ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/341279.pdf Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts Is this true? This does not work or this is not supported? Is anyone using

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-05-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Martin, Jonathan jmart...@intersil.comwrote: I wouldn't take advice on this matter from someone who worked with disk staging units for at least a year and gave up. We worked extensively with Symantec on this issue. We were in regular contact with the customer

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

2010-04-28 Thread Ed Wilts
but it's HARD. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

2010-04-27 Thread Ed Wilts
anything for you. Use bpexpdate to change the expiration date of existing images. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-04-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.comwrote: Just wanted to get some opinions about whether disk staging units are worthwhile. My backup server has two BasicDisk staging units with the storage units configured such that the data goes to disk and is then moved to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Jobs Que up but will not Start

2010-04-13 Thread Ed Wilts
RHEL. For NetBackup 7.x, *only* 64-bit clients are available although you can use on a 6.x 32-bit client with a 7.x master/media server. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] Purging hosts from Symantec OpsCenter

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:34 AM, nez netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: We've been running Symantec OpsCenter for some time now and we see dead clients in OpsCenter. We have 96 unique clients, OpsCenter however shows 140 unique clients. Most of the false clients are old clients, servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Type de stockage pour données déd upliquées

2010-04-06 Thread Ed Wilts
should really not be an issue. Some days I really, really wish Symantec would update their support documentation to say why something isn't supported. We don't know if it's because they didn't test it or if they tested it and it failed. There's a HUGE difference. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups

2010-04-06 Thread Ed Wilts
for an NDMP policy: ■ Wildcards in pathnames. For example, /home/* is an invalid entry. ■ Individual file names. Only directory or volume names are allowed. Page 47. Happy reading. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] convert NDMP tapes

2010-04-06 Thread Ed Wilts
://www.dataconversion.com/. I'd be surprised if companies like Ontrack coiuldn't do it as well. Use the search engines :-) Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

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