[Veritas-bu] using set_ndmp_attr

Ok I have a situation which I need have the correct syntax for the set_NDMP_attr command. When you run this command to authorize your media server to access a netapp filer is stores this info in a file on the media server. Where is this file located? And can it be edited manually? We have a bad

Re: [Veritas-bu] using set_ndmp_attr

Ok we figured it out and were able to delete the bad entry. Sorry but thanks Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:45 AM To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] using set_ndmp_attr Ok I

[Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate

How does everyone track this? Do you count just total successfully backups vs. the number of attempts? And how do you handle a backup that failed 3 times but ran good on the forth? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged

Re: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate

: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:46 AM To: Hindle, Greg; 'NB List Mail' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate Greg, Great questions. I would say that it depends on the audience. Any reporting tool on the market for NBU today can give you

Re: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate

From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:28 AM To: Hindle, Greg; 'NB List Mail' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate Greg, Vision is Symantec's big user conference. It is coming up next week in Las Vegas. It is definitely worth

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Username

Yes use set_ndmp_attr -auth filername id password Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:43 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Username I'm setting up this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda

Here is the procedure we use... ** Warning this procedure will delete and destroy all images on the tape. Do this only if the need is there. It is recommended that you allow netbackup to naturally scratch the tape first before removing it from netbackup. This procedure assumes that you want to

[Veritas-bu] Tape errors

nb 5.0 mp7 Solaris 9 does anyone have a script that scans the logs for tapes that are getting read / write errors? I had a bunch of drives go offline the other night and it could be due to a bad tape or tapes and was wondering if anyone had a script that they run to scan for this condition.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups very slow

We also use NDMP in this manner. We have found that some volumes on the NAS backup slower than others. We are still looking into the issue but our issues is these volume are snap mirrored and for exchange and these backup twice as slow as the regular volumes we have. Check to see if these are snap

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups very slow

PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:17 AM To: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups very slow Hi There 3020 configured for NDMP backups has three vols they are as follows - /vol/exch_vs1 - this is snapvalt volume on a 3020 filer snap

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP volume backups

We only use 1 stream for NDMP. Since these are typically large files/volumes to begin with we wanted the restore process to be short. So we deiced to turn off streams. However, we are moving to 6.0 soon so we may change this because 6.0 allows sharing of drives between filers. Greg

[Veritas-bu] Drive cleaning

I know the recommended way is to have the library do hardware based cleaning when it needs it, but I also know that netbackup can clean the drives as well. What are the pros and cons to having netbackup do the drive cleanings? I am seeing allot of alerts in our logs about no cleaning tape

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup administration console

nb 5.0 mp7, Solaris 9 We primary use the netbackup java interface to monitor our master servers. The other day a member of the backup team installed the netbackup administration console on the Windows XP pro workstation. However, when he clicks on the activity monitor you get no display, it will

Re: [Veritas-bu] os sees the drives; netbackup does not see the drives with sgscan

Sounds like you might have to rebuild your sgdrivers. From /driver folder Do a ../sg.build all -mt 10 -ml Rename the sg.conf in the /kernel/drv folder Then do ./sg.install http://saifulaziz.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/how-to-configure-drive-on-solaris-for-veritas-netbackup-4/

[Veritas-bu] replacing a drive

nb 5.0 mp7 Solaris 9 We have replaced 2 drives in our L700 robot and I want to correct netbackup and make it see the 2 new drives but do this without having to shutdown netbackup. I am looking at using tpautoconf with -replace_drive option. Is this what everyone else uses when they need to

[Veritas-bu] Does anyone cluster their environment?

Solaris 9, nb 5.0 mp7 Ok here is my setup and what we want to do. We have 1 master and 6 media servers. 3 media servers are site1 and 3 at site2 with 1 master controlling both sites (their is a 4gig pipe connecting the 2 sites) . At each site we have 2 Storagetek L700 libraries and a EMC CDL

[Veritas-bu] Compatibility chart

I need to find the chart that has all client version and what OS they support. I need to know what the latest clients version are for HP UX, Solaris 8.x, 9.x and Wintel servers. I cant seem to find this chart anymore on the Symantec website. Greg This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Compatibility chart

Thanks to all who responded! Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Stump Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:27 PM To: Hindle, Greg; NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Compatibility chart This is usually readily available

[Veritas-bu] stopping backups to a media server

Solaris 9 nb50 mp7 I need to bring up a media server but not have any jobs run on it? what do I need to stop on the media server or master to prevent jobs from being sent to the media server to run? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or

[Veritas-bu] force restore option

nb 5.0 mp7 Solaris 9 I have a media server that is down at the moment for maint and I have to run a restore. Both media servers connected to the same master. All I need to do is add the force restore statement to the master bp.conf file and then have the master rereads its bp.conf right? add

Re: [Veritas-bu] force restore option

To: Hindle, Greg; NB List Mail Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] force restore option For restoring that is all you need. For backing up you'd need to point your policy to the storage unit associated with the other media server. Also some operations will be slow due to timeouts trying to connect

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading to 6.0 planning

Thanks for the input. Greg -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:14 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading to 6.0 planning On 3/21/2007 12:36 PM, Hindle, Greg wrote: Solaris 9 nb 5.p mp6

[Veritas-bu] Upgrading to 6.0 planning

Solaris 9 nb 5.p mp6 We are starting the process planning to go from 5.0 to 6.0. We currently have 1 master and 6 media servers. Would anyone like to share their plans in upgrading? Did you setup a separate set of 6.0 servers and then import the db? Did you make a copy of your 5.0 hard disks

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media server - Creating fileSIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK ?

Yes they need to be created locally for each media server that you wish to change these settings on. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schmid Stefan, Bedag Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:05 AM To:

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

I use only fulls... We back up to tape as well as a filer path. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:26 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cumulative or

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ststus code 223 ????????

Try deleting that server out of the policy and then re adding it again. Or you may need to delete the whole policy and recreate it. I have had weird things like this as well and the only answer was to delete and re add. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits

David, How do you track policy changes? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Rock Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:10 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits * Ed Wilts

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits

: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits * Hindle, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-20 14:27]: David, How do you track policy changes? They have recently added a policy audit module that you can access the same way you would accecss an automated report. We are currently on 6.0.14, I

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits

Thanks! Greg -Original Message- From: Liddle, Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:39 PM To: Hindle, Greg; David Rock; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits Greg, I can tell you that we run

[Veritas-bu] Reuse netbackup catalogue tapes

What is the best practice in reusing old netbackup catalogue tapes? It is just to use the bplabel to erase the internal label? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives

Good point, never thought that netbackup did not know when the drives were being cleaned. This explains allot! I have Storagetek L700 robots and use hardware based cleaning. How can I switch this to get netbackup to clean the drives after xx hours of use? Greg Greg -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] bperror -backstat -hoursago 24 does notreportalljobs

We had the same issue even though the DST patch was applied. We had to restart netbackup and then everything was ok. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:18 PM To: Sixbury, Dan;

[Veritas-bu] Backing up Windows XP Pro pc

nb 5.0 mp3 Solaris 9 Can I install the window server client on a XP box to back it up with Netbackup? Does Symantec have a workstation edition that can be installed? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup pool tapes

Thanks! Greg From: GAURAV RAKHEJA /RTGSADM/INFOTECH/BKC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:58 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] netbackup pool tapes Use following command bpexpdate -ev media_id -d 0

[Veritas-bu] Moving media from one media server to another

all servers Solaris 9 nb 5.0 mp 6 All media server connected to the same master. Each media server is connected to its own L700 robot. We want to move scratch tapes from one media server to another. I have been told by Symantec support that we can move these tapes but we should delete them from

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Status 71 for one Client

This is gong to sound stupid but I have tried this before and it worked. Try deleting the entire policy and recreate adding all the clients back in. its simple I know but worth a try. We had weird issues with some policies in the past and but doing this it fixed the issue but we never found out

[Veritas-bu] backing up through firewalls, opinions?

nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 What is the recommend practice of backing up servers through a firewall? Do you use the vnet option or any ports? Should we use one data stream or multiple data streams?. To multiplex or not to multiplex? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare

nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Does anyone use netbackup 6.0 and the Aptare reporting software? With NOM being part of 6.0 is there still a need to have Aptare? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are

[Veritas-bu] Nb 6.0

Solaris 9 nb 5.0mp6 Can you have a nb 6.0 master and have the media servers be nb 5.0? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do

[Veritas-bu] moving assigned media

Solaris 9 nb 5.0 mp6 Is there any easy way to move assigned media from one volume pool to another? We have recreated our volume pools to meet new internal standards but I have a bunch of tapes that cannot be moved because they are assigned. The last time I talked to Symantec they said it was

[Veritas-bu] Error 14's

nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We have been getting a high number of error 14's lately. What are the possible causes and fixes? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you

[Veritas-bu] remote admin java program for nb 5.0

Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I am looking to download a 5.0 remote admin java client fro my windows xp laptop so I can remotely manage 5.0 servers. I have a new laptop and someone here has misplaced the 5.0 cd that has this on it. Any help? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are

[Veritas-bu] How much space is needed for a backup?

Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Curious-How much free space is needed to perform a backup with VSP turn on and how much is needed when it is turned off? I guess at what point will a backup fail because there is not enough disk space free on the client? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 Read/Write LTO2

Boris, we have the same thing here but with LTO1 and 2. We have a L80 that has 4 drives one LTO 1 and two LTO 2. We use all lto1 tapes in the robot. LTO 2 will read and write LTO 1 tapes. So I would imagine that LTO 3 can read and write LTO 2 tapes. Configure the drives as lto3 and just use LTO

[Veritas-bu] NDMP backups just stop

Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We are having a weird issue with our ndmp backups. We have 18 filers and this failure is random and never the same filer back to back. What happens is the backup starts, goes active in the activity monitor and pushes some data and then just stops. No errors at all, nothing in

[Veritas-bu] Firewall setup

Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We have a DMZ zone setup that has 10 servers in it. We back up these servers through our firewall. We occasionally get connection errors. I would like to know if anyone else out there would be interested in sharing their setup, port ranges etc on how they backup servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Firewall setup

Technologist -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: 18 December 2006 13:06 To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] Firewall setup Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We have a DMZ zone setup that has 10 servers in it. We back up

[Veritas-bu] Shoe shining

How can I tell if my SDLT and LTO3 drives are show shining? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix/Linux file sizes question

across a tech note on the issue. I am trying to get him to send me the link to it so I can post it here. Greg -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:30 AM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix/Linux

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix/Linux file sizes question

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:38 AM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: Justin Piszcz; NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix/Linux file sizes question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The log file or the catalog? Strange as the log file locations (/usr/openv

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disable ndmp overwrite existing files

I don't think you can turn this off because of the nature of the NDMP protocol. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier BRUN Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:57 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Deactivated policy's

:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:13 PM To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] Deactivated policy's Nbu 5.0 mp6 Solaris 3 Does anyone have a scrip that will list deactivated policy's? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain

[Veritas-bu] Bp.conf setting question

Title: Bp.conf setting question Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I am having an issue with NDMP backups just stopping during backups. No errors at all. I want to increase the verbose setting without having to increase the setting for all of netbackup. I have other settings like, vault_verbose=5, in my

[Veritas-bu] Creating a backup image for DR purpose

Title: Creating a backup image for DR purpose Solaris 9 nb 5.0 mp6 Is there something in netbackup that allows for an image to be created for a entire server very quickly for a DR restore situation? I am not looking for file by file backup like we do know but something that runs very

Re: [Veritas-bu] Creating a backup image for DR purpose

Ok So BRM can do this then? I am running 5.0 is there a version that runs under 5.0 or do I have to have 6.0 installed? Greg -Original Message- From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:02 AM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re

[Veritas-bu] Windows file exclude script

Title: Windows file exclude script Does anybody have a script that pushed out file excludes to window servers? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup server clustering

Title: Netbackup server clustering Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We are thinking of cluster our master server. Does anyone else cluster their server? Can someone send how they did this and why/advantages? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional

[Veritas-bu] Error 14, weird problem

Title: Error 14, weird problem Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I am running a differential backup on a Windows 2000 server and it keeps failing with error 14 tar file write error 40. When I look at the backup it keeps hanging when it tried to backup a particular file

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

NB is probably freezing all of these tapes and that is why you ran out of tapes. Do you have the correct bar code rule setup for these new tapes? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006

[Veritas-bu] Linux to Solaris 10 master

Title: Linux to Solaris 10 master We have a netbackup 5.1 server running on Linux. Our UNIX team wants to replace this master server and run Solaris 10. Does netbackup store the catalog different under Linux than it does under Solaris? Are there any gotcha's I need to worry about when

[Veritas-bu] Merging Master servers

Title: Merging Master servers We have 1 Red hat Linux netbackup 5.1 master server that we need to merge with a Solaris 9 netbackup 5.0 master server, Symantec support will not help with this. Anyone out there done this or know the best way to do this? The Linux master will be replaced with

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 advantages?

Title: 6.0 advantages? What advantages do you see in 6.x over 5.x? What things are better and easier etc. I need to get some points to be used for planning a 6.0 upgrade. Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged

[Veritas-bu] 185 error

Title: 185 error Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I am running 2 restores from different clients on different dates and I am getting a 185 error. Tar did not find all of the file to be restored. I have never seen this error before and I am not sure how to even troubleshoot this. All the tapes NB asked

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows client exclude

Yes. As long as netbackup has access tot he client you can access the client through the GUI. go to host properties then clients and then the windows box you are trying to backup. Double click then Click on windows Client and you will see exclude lists option. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Managing Tape Rotations

Title: Managing Tape Rotations I am not sure I follow your plan. If you have tapes in a tape pool say "production data" and these tapes are vaulted out of your robot to a offsite volume group say "company_offsite", these tapes should remain in the original tape pool by design. If the tape is

[Veritas-bu] Copying a tape

Title: Copying a tape Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I have a few bad tapes that I need to transfer the data from. The tape I am going to needs to be promoted to the primary copy as I would be deleting the from tape out of netbackup. I want to make sure I am doing this right, so what command should

[Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?

Title: Bad tapes how do you track? Nb 5.0 mp4 Solaris 9 Ok We from time to time get read / write errors on tapes. When this happens we clean the drive and write protect the tape and put it on our bad tape rack never to be used again except if a restore is needed (we try to restore form it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?

t; to keep track but is very manual so this is why I was looking for a better (automated) way to track bad tapes. Greg From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:43 AMTo: Hindle, Greg; NB List MailSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?

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[Veritas-bu] General Thank You

Title: General Thank You I just want to say thanks to all who have helped me and others on the list. I ask questions from time to time looking for answer and to confirm what I am thinking is the right path others would take. I dont always say thanks to each person who responds so consider

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Hostnames

Title: Client Hostnames We use fully QDN's here. We add 2 nics to each client one with its public name and the other with a private name with NBU at the end. This NBU interface is configured in the same vlan as our netbackup servers. Both names are in DNS. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 show shining

On 9/25/06, Hindle, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok good. Our NDMP backups are running 50-80mb/s, with spikes as high as 100mb/s. But that is direct filer to drive by FC. I am more concerned about going over our IP netbackup and making sure that netbackup is setup correctly to achieve

[Veritas-bu] LTO3 show shining

Title: LTO3 show shining Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Ok Maybe this has been said before but with all the talked about show shining LTO3 FC drives. Currently I have NDMP backups going to my LTO 3 drives. Early next year when we buy more LTO3 drives we are changing over our non-ndmp backups to go

[Veritas-bu] DB backup

Title: DB backup Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 I have my catalog backup configured to go to 2 online disk areas instead of tape. It will alternate form one file system (directory) to another. My question is I also want to put a copy on tape as well. How can I do this? The catalog config only

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 show shining

. Greg -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:20 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 show shining If your speeds are 27MB/s, you get Shoe Shining - 27MB/s is the minimum you are supposed

[Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

Title: Backup through firewalls Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Do any of you backup servers through a firewall? What issues do you see in terms of failures? What ports do you typically open up for successful backups? Do you do anything special in the policy's for servers on the other side of a

[Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

Title: Backup up db database Nbu 5.0 mp3 Solaris 9 What is the fastest way to backup up the db? We have backups that run 24 hours, so there Is not time we dont have backup running. What is the best way to back the db up? Any ideas? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

Title: Message Thanks Paul. Yes we want to move the L700 media and robotic control and all to a new server. This will allow us, among other things, to shut down one server for maintenance while the other server stays up and runs. Another question. Can I move the media based on volume group

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

backups. So the tapes are in separate volume groups and tape pools. We are also adding a 3rd media server that will control our EMC VTL when that goes fully into production later this year. Greg From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:34 AMTo: Hindle

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers gotcha. So you've got 2 media servers and each controls 2x L700s, so you've got 4x L700s in total? are the NDMP backups "remote" to the media servers? or are your filers connected

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

I am talking about enterprise vault add on for netbackup. It has been around for a few years now. Its not well meshed with netbackup (yet). Greg -Original Message- From: Rob Worman (home) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:59 PM To: Hindle, Greg Cc: Darren

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup DB inconsistency ?

Title: netbackup DB inconsistency ? Can you share that? I would like to see it if you can share it. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, TaylorSent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:43 AMTo: Wessam Aly; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBCC, perl my version

Title: netbackup DB inconsistency ? Thanks for sharing this! Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewick, TaylorSent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:30 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBCC, perl my version This only works on

[Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup

Title: Permanently removing a tape from netbackup Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 What is the recommended way, best practice to permanently remove tapes from netbackup? We have some tapes they will be removed from one master and shipped to another location to a different master. But I want to make

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues

This might sound dumb, but after you moved the library did you run a inventory from netbackup? I have seen this error before when netbackup thinks a slot has one type of media and it find another. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Title: VTL images to tape Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We are getting ready to use EMC CDL VTL solution. One thing we see is that we need a script that will run everyday, possibility several times a day to copy the images from the VTL tapes and write them to physical tape. Does anyone have a

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Title: Message Paul, The vaulting in 5.0 does not allow images to be copied from a VTL to tape. The option is in the software but it does not work. We have confirmed this with Symantec that the vault was written for tape to tape copies not for VTL to tape. Even though netbackup sees that

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

. We could have EMC do the VTL to tape process but that would be done outside of netbackup and adds another step for restores. We elected not to go this route. Greg From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:17 PMTo: Hindle, Greg; Paul

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

: Hindle, Greg; Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape Can someone please confirm (or not) this? We're considering now NOT upgrading to 6.0 but instead keeping our 5.1 environment and adding a VTL. THANKS! -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Are you using enterprise vault to get your images off from the VTL to tape? This is what I am referring to. There is an option in enterprise vault that says vault the images and du0liacte them to tape. This option does not work if you are trying to vault from the VTL. You must use a script to get

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Good questions that they cannot answer. Enterprise vault was and is not part of netbackup per se. It was written outside of netbackup and then connected to netbackup. But vault does run outside of netbackup to a point. So just because netbackup can see the VTL as a tape it does not mean that vault

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 22, 2006 1:17 PMTo: Hindle, Greg; Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape Can someone please confirm (or not) this? We're considering now NOT upgrading to 6.0 but instead keeping our 5.1 e

[Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

Title: Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting We are looking at reporting software for Netbackup. We are looking at Storage Console from Aptare. But I understand 6.0 with Nom also has reporting built in. We are currently running 5.0 mp6 but are planning to upgrade to 6.0. Is anyone using NOM and

[Veritas-bu] VSP question

Title: VSP question Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 If VSP is turned off / disabled for a client, will netbackup still back up open files and open registry keys? A co worker is telling me that with VSP off open files will still be backed up. And the way to tell is to run a backup with VSP turned off

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

Good luck. This has never worked for us. Very rarely do we get a full system restore of windows and have it boot just fine. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam HazariSent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:48 AMTo: WEAVER, SimonCc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

Does anyone have a tested, working restore procedure to recover a windows server failure and crash? I would love to see what steps you do to recover a windows box. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam HazariSent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:48 AMTo:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

, July 10, 2006 8:57 AMTo: Hindle, GregCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore So what was the fix ? Thanx -Shyam On 7/10/06, Hindle, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good luck. This has never worked for us. Very rarely do we get a full

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

. But no matter what we could not get it working. Greg Hindle Constellation Energy Data Management Recovery Room 500, 1068 N. Front St. Baltimore, MD 21202 410-470-1552 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:10 AMTo: Hindle, Greg; Shyam HazariCc

[Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

Title: Emc VTL and netbackup question Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 EMC CDL VTL Ok here is the situation. We are testing this Emc CDL VTL. We backup data to the VTL and now need to get the data on the VTL copied to physical tape and then expire the image on the VTL. We were trying to use vault to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

Title: Message Yea that was one idea we came up with as well. But that means we have to go and change all of our policy's over. But it is on the table as an option. Thanks for confirming what we were thinking. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul

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