Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN Recovery issue and Netbackup 7.1.0.2

2013-12-13 Thread Len Boyle
Ok this is my understanding, and you will have to look at the logs to make sure. My understanding is that each tape channel defined in rman translates to one netbackup child job on the backup server. Or a sequence of netbackup jobs. These 6 jobs have all the normal scheduling issues. On

Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

2013-11-19 Thread Len Boyle
Simon, What is the os on the media server. Are both the lto4 and the lto5 using the same drivers. The same hba's. If the same make and model are the configs the same. Can you mount a tape on the device and write on the tape using dd to see how the drive preforms without netbackup in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP ESL G3 Tape Library Barcode Issues

2013-11-05 Thread Len Boyle
Simon If you go to the java admin gui to the Media and Device management == Media Robots TLD(0) or whatever your robot is Then netbackup should show you the volumes that it has picked up in the inventory. One column should be the full 8 char barcode if the tape library passed on all 8

Re: [Veritas-bu] Post upgrade 7.5.0.5 issues?

2013-05-16 Thread Len Boyle
The technote has an url to enable the download of an eeb to fix the issue. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Kohli, Vidit Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:16 PM To: Justin Piszcz; 'Dwayne Adams';

Re: [Veritas-bu] Post upgrade 7.5.0.5 issues?

2013-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
You most likely will not see this bug with ndmp. We do not see it with our master that does ndmp jobs mostly, as there are relatively few ndmp jobs. They just happen to be mostly large jobs. If you have the java admin client you will want to upgrade to 7.5.0.4 or greater as there is an ndmp

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 tapes being used for Catalogue backups

2013-01-31 Thread Len Boyle
Can you post the details from the catalog job in Activity Monitor There should be multiple jobs for the catalog backup. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of redplumptomato Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position

2013-01-16 Thread Len Boyle
Dennis Do you have bptm logging turned on with a verbose level of 5? If so what is in the log for this tape request. I assume the tape is in a tape library? If so does the tape cart get moved to the tape drive? What is in the system logs (messages, syslog, windows event log) for this request?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Automatically check Netbackup for activity and jobs starting ?

2012-12-19 Thread Len Boyle
There are many ways to check. You might need more than one method to pick up all the reasons that netbackup can fail. I was going to address the issue about netbackup standing still. We have been seeing issues with netbackup failing to do backups. Which version/release of netbackup are you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sharing STK L700 RObot between two master servers !!

2012-12-10 Thread Len Boyle
It has been a long time since we did this, but at one time we shared an STK L700 between multiple masters. It required a license for ACSLS. At that time we had to pay STK for the license for ACSLS. We ran ACSLS on a separate server. A tape drive was assigned to one master or another. There

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Settings on NetBackup Client (Windows)

2012-11-28 Thread Len Boyle
Rusty A few adds here. The network buffer setting would have to be changed on the media servers also. There are also setting for the tcp stack which could be affecting you transfer speeds. The networking settings are affected by the os in use and the settings. It turns out that sometimes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem during the Phase 1 part of a tape import

2012-11-16 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Wayne, See if this url will fix your problem. I have not tested this but it looks like it should do what you want. See this url for changing the media id to be different then the barcode.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backup problems

2012-08-27 Thread Len Boyle
Do you have the netbackup ndmp debug logs turned on. The new ndmp logs can be quite large. If so do you see any more detail for the issue. The easy and first answer given is that a path does not exist. But as you know the 99 error can have many other causes. Do you have the debug level set up

Re: [Veritas-bu] Experiences with changing KeepAliveTime on Windows Master Media servers ?

2012-06-13 Thread Len Boyle
We changed the timeout on the master to be 15 mins less than the timeout on the firewall. We found that the oracle folks had to change a timeout for Oracle has the rman sockets were opened from the client end of things. We could have changed it on the client side of things. -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice / Experience - NetApp and NBU

2012-05-10 Thread Len Boyle
I believe you need both a ndmp license for netbackup and the netapp. If you have DAR configured for the backup and restore a trival restore should only take a few mins. I believe the first time we tested dar it took 5 mins to restore a file. And that included mounting and positioning the tape.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Setting up Windows Media Server

2012-04-26 Thread Len Boyle
What does windows report for the tape driver in device manager. In the past veritas supplied their own tape drivers, but I believe that they are moving away from that. I am not sure if Quantum supplies a driver for their library. But it may be a driver issue. If everything is ok with the driver,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning tape setup Quantum i6000 Library

2012-02-03 Thread Len Boyle
cleaning should not be used. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edumailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]mailto:[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning tape setup Quantum i6000 Library

2012-02-02 Thread Len Boyle
What is the make and model of you tape library. A number of them require that the library do the tape drive cleaning. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 4:17 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape/media errors/HP LTO-3

2011-12-14 Thread Len Boyle
Justin, Are you sharing the tape drive between systems. Is there any change one system could have the tape drive in use and another system could issue a rewind command to the tape drive? Are you using SSO? len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF)

2011-12-13 Thread Len Boyle
Justin, Do you have a library that will show you a little more detail on the error from the log that is within the tape drive and or the tape library. Also the code that shows up on the led display on the front of the tape drive. If any. We have been having issues with some lto-5 tape drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multipath question

2011-12-07 Thread Len Boyle
Hi Justin, The IBM 3500 includes the function to allow you define multiple logical libraries. Each gets a virtual view of the handbot. We do not have the HA library feature, but my understanding is that if you have one or two handbots it does not change the view your backup server sees for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issue with exchange storage group on Netbackup

2011-12-06 Thread Len Boyle
Have you looked at the ESE app event log messages to see if they give you more detail on the problem? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of cekwedi...@paletteng.com Sent: Tuesday, December 06,

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 6.5: can't find any media device ??

2011-11-10 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, Did you install the netbackup sg driver? Which drivers are you using? len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rico78 Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:51 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores from Cumulative incremental backups

2011-11-02 Thread Len Boyle
John I have never worked with the option, but you might want to look at the tir feature. An option you can set in the policy. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of john_ausi Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec 2010 R2 Job Rate Very Slow

2011-10-23 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Brian, It depends. Which exchange server are you using. Are you writing to a backup folder or to a virtual tape drive This may not be the only or the best method. If to a backup to disk folder and you have multiple daq's or storage groups then you can put them in different jobs. If you

Re: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec 2010 R2 Job Rate Very Slow

2011-10-23 Thread Len Boyle
the data off of the exchange servers, then our limit is the gige card len From: Brian Marsee [mailto:bmar...@rts.com] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:54 PM To: Len Boyle; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: BackupExec 2010 R2 Job Rate Very Slow Hi Len, Using exchange 2010

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status Code 800 again - Please help!

2011-09-01 Thread Len Boyle
Or maybe a bad volume pool. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne T Smith Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:50 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status Code 800 again - Please

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Options???

2011-08-30 Thread Len Boyle
Does the EMC CNX 5700 support ndmp backups with netbackup? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of comire Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:47 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup status 13 after installing EMC VSI storage viewer 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1

2011-08-29 Thread Len Boyle
Have you tried turning on the netbackup client logs and increasing the verbose level to their max value. If it is hanging on a file the log should let you know where it has a problem. I am not sure if netbackup prints out file is going to look at or at the file is has just finished backing up.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library

2011-08-02 Thread Len Boyle
Jim That was a nice summary. I assume that these are Quantum tape drives? What you say about the tape drives w ith the control path and the serial interface to the library is the same for IBM tape drives and an IBM 3584 tape library. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapes mounting in ACSLS but not Netbackup

2011-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
It has been a long time since I worked with ACSLS. I would assume if you can mount with robtest that you have your acsls volume assignments correct. My fuzzy memory says that the netbackup acsls daemons have their own logs. If so what do they report. Is the log verbose level set to 5 for bptm?

Re: [Veritas-bu] multipathing with tapes on Linux?

2011-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
David, I think the answer depends on what you mean by multi-pathing, and the maker of the tape drive. The new IBM tape drives include two ports. But I think that it is only for failover. And I suspect that the support would only be in the IBM tape driver. Which was released with it's source

Re: [Veritas-bu] Port 1556 on clients?

2011-07-25 Thread Len Boyle
Try looking at this Symantec/netbackup tech note http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH136791actp=searchviewlocale=en_USsearchid=1311646427656 We find it helps to open the netbackup pbx and vnetd ports. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore issue

2011-07-10 Thread Len Boyle
It might be possible. In general one has to remember that the ndmp device is generating the backup stream using native utils. I believe that for netapp ndmp they use the netapp dump command which came out of same source as solaris. See this entry

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

2011-06-22 Thread Len Boyle
Good Afternoon, I have some questions. Are you using luns defined on emc storage. Does the emc storage have the vss support installed. Does your policy include the system state (this may be called something else like shadow copy ...) If yes to these, is the lun for the windows system disk

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 OpsCenter

2011-06-10 Thread Len Boyle
Check to see if you have a problem with nbsl. This is the interface between admin interfaces and netbackup. See if the daemon is running and if it core dumped. There have been known issues with it. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 / Windows 2008 R2 / Hyper-V

2011-05-06 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, Check out this web site. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landingkey=15143 I am pretty sure you are going to want to look at the 7.0.1 or 7.1 levels. Even if you see that the level is supported, you might need hotfixes as the first suppot does not normally

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 media server backup issue

2011-05-06 Thread Len Boyle
Jim, You might want to look at locks. Are there any message that help in the aix system logs. Trying checking your client settings for waiting for locked or in use files for the aix media server. I do not know if this is the problem, just a thought. len -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] why oh why!!!! Did Symantec REALLY say this

2011-05-05 Thread Len Boyle
Good Afternoon, It would be nice if Symantec could design the client to master interface to be more generic, without hurting performance. Put the smarts for handling client differences in the client and not on the master. Then they should be able to handle not only newer client support needs

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 11G backup with netbackup 6.5.6

2011-04-26 Thread Len Boyle
Pranav The last I heard the database loads the netbackup library at startup and to reload it one has to bounce the database. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pranav batra Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:29 AM

[Veritas-bu] snmp for tape libraries

2011-04-26 Thread Len Boyle
Good Afternoon, We have IBM 3584 tape libraries also known as IBM TS3500. We have been using SNMP to alert us for errors, but our current software for this process needs to be improved. As part of the solution I wanted to check what other folks were using for this. What are others using and

Re: [Veritas-bu] LT04 Encryption.

2011-04-25 Thread Len Boyle
Uli, Can you tell us a little bit more about your hardware. Which vendor makes your tape drives and tape library? Out experience is with IBM lto4 and lto5 tape drives in IBM 3584 (aka TS3500) tape libraries. I believe that the tape drive support should be pretty much the same across vendors,

Re: [Veritas-bu] LT04 Encryption.

2011-04-25 Thread Len Boyle
Hello The IBM library managed code for the 3584 allows one to control the encryption with volser ranges. We did not want to go that route, so we control it with netbackup volume pool numbers. The low volume pool numbers do not trigger the encryption at the tape drive, the higher ones do. So

Re: [Veritas-bu] LT04 Encryption.

2011-04-25 Thread Len Boyle
. -Original Message- From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 5:32 PM To: Len Boyle; 'Justin Piszcz'; 'Ulises Rodriguez' Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LT04 Encryption. Very useful info. Is the IBM solution free of charge or you have to pay from

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 60, Issue 5

2011-04-04 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Nizar Netbackup is having problems writing to the tape drive. Do you have the netbackup bptm logging turned on? If so it will be a good source for information on this problem. Depending on the problem you might have to up the verbose level for bptm to 5. You might also look at

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

2011-03-27 Thread Len Boyle
Check the nic drivers and the new tcpip offload features in windows server. You might have to go to the nic oem's web site vs using microsoft's or the server oem drivers. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Issue with NB7 on Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Len Boyle
Good Day Mike, Is the backup with the errors a full backup? If it happens with full backups you might first look at the client os system. Are you using 32 or 64 bit os. I can not remember if solaris 10 still support 32 bit. If 32 bit you might have some addressing issues. Check the os logs

Re: [Veritas-bu] update_dbclients

2011-02-14 Thread Len Boyle
I believe that the db agents are installed and updated in the same process used for the client backup/archive code. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Monday, February 14,

Re: [Veritas-bu] setup special account for backup ????????

2011-01-12 Thread Len Boyle
There are several thoughts. If you can upgrade to 7.1 it will have linux install packages as a method of installing the client. If you have an account on the linux client that can write to /tmp you can use the install method using sftp to write a directory in /tmp with all the install

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring a Oracle backup from production to DR netbackup

2011-01-12 Thread Len Boyle
You can have more than one bp.conf files on the client. You can have one in the normal location of /usr/openv/netbackup/ for the std unix install. Or you can have one in the home directory of the Oracle userid used for the Oracle instance. Therefore you can have different bp.conf files for

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

2010-12-09 Thread Len Boyle
At a first look, it appears that you have a tape drive issue. Can u look at the tape lib logs, the os logs? Can u mount and test a tape in the tape drive? From: nizar motasim [mailto:nizar1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 04:29 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2008 R2 client backup issues

2010-11-29 Thread Len Boyle
The netbackup 7.x os software compatibility list reports that they support windows 2008 R2 clients. I believe they also support 6.5.x but you may need an eeb. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] how to find which stream did not back up?

2010-11-10 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Allen, The simplest thing to try is to create a different policy for each path. Then you have one path one return code. And if the backup for /vol/vol3 fails, the retry is only for /vol/vol3 and not /vol/vol1-3. You can limit how many jobs will run on a netapp with the maxjob per client

Re: [Veritas-bu] SYSTEM STATE Backup - W2K8 R2

2010-11-09 Thread Len Boyle
Do you have any eng binaries applied the 6.5.5 binary set? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:55 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Database Manager service terminated error 21

2010-10-31 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, Do you have any other app or system event errors at that time? Is netbackup creating any windows dmp files. Do you have the netbackup debug logs turned on. If so what do you see in those logs. In the log bpdbm? len -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backup failing with 99

2010-10-31 Thread Len Boyle
Saran May be a problem with the tape drive or the tape drive config or the tape drive cabling. What type of tape library do you have? Can you tell us a little more about the tape drives and how they are connected to the netapp filer. Can you issue the netapp commands . sysconfig -t .

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM 3584 microcode 7422 ?

2010-10-29 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Michael, We are on much newer level. What is you reason for asking. Are you looking to stay at an old level? Or looking for a reason to upgrade? len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with ejected tapes injecting after upgrading from NBU 6.5.4 to 7.0

2010-10-27 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Michael Are you using the gui or the cli methods to eject the tapes. If the cli, can you post you syntax? len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:49 AM

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 system state backup errors

2010-10-14 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Doug, We have been working on a similar issue. Our failure was with the system files. We hooked up a usb drive to the blade server and ran the following command. The wbadmin command will only accept a volume for the output when doing the systemstatebackup backup function. Wbadmin is the

Re: [Veritas-bu] None of the slected hosts could be contacted

2010-10-08 Thread Len Boyle
I have one thought of things that you can look for. I am not sure if it is all still true, but netbackup stores the master host name in multiple places. I do not believe that sysmantec has a tool or doc set that would enable us to know all the settings. And they can be different in different

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbackup and socket read error (23)

2010-10-05 Thread Len Boyle
Do you have a firewall between the media server and the client that might be timing out the client? The place to start is toe turn on logging. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Andy

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

2010-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, My understanding is that the netapp on disk is keeping track of changed blocks, but that backup software that is written the backup to tape understands files. So the backup software is reading the whole file including both the unchanged blocks and the changed blocks and

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

2010-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
moving the whole file around. But the complexity of the backup meta data increases. From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:43 AM To: Len Boyle Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups from Netapp using Netbackup On Tue, Jul

Re: [Veritas-bu] Shadow Copy Components failing!

2010-07-17 Thread Len Boyle
Hi Sachin This is my understanding, The Shadow copy components/system state backups for current windows systems always use vss for the backup. The Shadow copy components/system state backups are a two stage process. The first stage backups up the components to files written to the system

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Len Boyle
This may not be a bad message if you do not have a tape cart in the tape drive. You may want to insert a tape cart in the tape drive and try the mt command again. If that does not work, you will have to look at the solaris commands for installing tape drives. len -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Fulls fail w/error 99

2010-06-23 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Roy Do you see anything of interest in the netapp /etc/messages file? Might it be a problem with the tape cart or the tape drive? What is the make and model of the lto-4 tape drive and the library? Do you see anything of interest in the tape drive/library error logs. Is it always the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trying to perform a restore with specific events/scenarios

2010-05-12 Thread Len Boyle
Good Evening, You can generate a list of files to restore in a file and pass that file as input to the netbackup restore command. I believe this feature as listed below is basically the tsm -ifnewer option . I wonder if the netbackup folks would accept this new feature requrest. len

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

2010-05-10 Thread Len Boyle
I was told that netbackup 6.5.6 was released last week. There is an EEB fort 6.5.5 that we had installed a little while back. Our Oracle DBA's reported that it seemed to work in their testing. I do not know about other levels then 6.5.5, 6.5.6 and 7.0. At the time we were checking, netbackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Len Boyle
Netbackup supplies a modified copy of tar with the netbackup client. You can even download the source code from the netbckup support web site. The source changes include the support for multiplexed tapes. I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this version of tar as

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd issues

2010-04-19 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Kevin, Which model of tape drives are you using? Which model of tape carts are you using? How old are the tape drives? How old are the tape carts? What messages are you seeing in bptm for the tape? You might have to search back a bit from the freezing to find the reason that netbackup is

Re: [Veritas-bu] KMS encryption

2010-04-01 Thread Len Boyle
Dwayne, Can you show the errors in the bptm log with verbose set to 5? Also do you have any system errors showing scsi errors for the problem? len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Adams, Dwayne Sent: Thursday, April

Re: [Veritas-bu] 32 KB for BCV Based Tape backup

2010-03-22 Thread Len Boyle
Sounds like the bcv devices are not mounted for the streams that report 32KB. So you are backing up the mount point and not the to be filesystem. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Len Boyle
Tal, I can only speak of the IBM LTO4 tape drives, I assume the others are the same. IBM says that each block of data to be written to the tape is compressed or not then encrypted. They do not compress blocks that would grow if compressed. Regards len -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2010-03-01 Thread Len Boyle
Yes we have done that From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To: Veritas veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Mon Mar 01 13:47:29 2010 Subject: [Veritas-bu] (no subject) Hello All, Can we load backup exec

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2010-03-01 Thread Len Boyle
, 2010 2:03 PM To: Len Boyle; pranav_vent...@hotmail.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] (no subject) No conflicts at all? David A. Chapa NetApp 720-272-8452 Mobile ch...@netapp.commailto:ch...@netapp.com mailto:david.ch...@netapp.comwww.netapp.comhttp://www.netapp.com

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.x to Puredisk cluster

2010-02-17 Thread Len Boyle
I believe that the 37TB is per any puredisk complex instance and is post dedupe. This is with the lastest and greatest out this year. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Chapman, Scott Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT drive?

2010-02-17 Thread Len Boyle
This may be a permission problem. My fuzzy memory says that we have done this in the past. By default the netbackup services run under the local SYSTEM account which has by default root access to the local file systems. But no special privs for remote file systems. You might try to change the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: error 21

2010-02-08 Thread Len Boyle
Sachin, Interesting that the bpcd test fails, I assume sometimes and sometimes not. Do you have a firewall between the master and client server? Are there multiple paths between the master and client? When netbackup fails the bpcd test can you make any other connections between the two servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

2010-02-04 Thread Len Boyle
Did the dns domain change. Is the master server defined has a host name or a fully qualified domain name? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO tape label / sequence?

2010-01-15 Thread Len Boyle
William, We have seen this extra label checking on a unix (solaris) master also. With our master at 6.5.3 it is not quite so pretty. I believe that there are several known methods for the serial number that comes from the tape cart and the serial number recorded in the netbackup data base to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Run a script for restoring Oracle database

2010-01-07 Thread Len Boyle
Muhadi You have to use a script running rman. I have never tried to schedule the script from the master server/policy but it might work. For checking things out you might want to try the script by hand first. You have to do several things with the bp.conf file on the target of the restore.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec Encryption

2009-12-23 Thread Len Boyle
What kind of tape drives are you using. The lto-4 tape drives support AES 256 encryption. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:58 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec Encryption

2009-12-23 Thread Len Boyle
An LTO-4 should read and lto-2 tape cart. But it will not be able to write an lto-2 tape cart. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:06 PM To: Jimenez, Daniel Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4

2009-12-20 Thread Len Boyle
John Which unix at what level(s) are you seeing this problem? Thanks len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of John Meyers Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:24 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 for System State backup

2009-12-16 Thread Len Boyle
Disabling multistreaming will not fix the system state backup problem, it will only change the return code to a status of 1 if the rest of the backup works. Which in most cases does. We have submitted enhancement request to netbackup to change the code such that an unique status code and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Barcode label oddity.

2009-11-30 Thread Len Boyle
Jeff, What is the library make and model. Are you using different virtual libraries in the LTO3 library. If so any chance that the library number to nbu does not match those in the vm.conf Or that the LTO3 library has different rules on how to present the barcodes for the library? len From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACS status = 29

2009-11-13 Thread Len Boyle
Good Evening, Do you have the tape drive cleaning set for library control or netbackup control. We found we had problems when netbackup was set to do the cleaning. We found a technote that for the stk (now sun) ACS controlled libraries one must let the library control the cleaning and not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup client insatlaltion - solaris

2009-11-12 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Sachin, Can you try the ssh method of the netbackup install script? This may be allowed where ftp is not. Or the sftp method may be allow. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of SACHIN ARORA Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Media LTO4 Tape Drives

2009-09-29 Thread Len Boyle
We had several problems with lto-4 tape drives a while back. The problems were fixed with a couple of firmware upgrades for the tape drives. Our tape drives are IBM's. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sotack,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

2009-09-10 Thread Len Boyle
For netbackup bptm Also you can view system error logs, depends on the o/s, like syslog or dmesg, or windows event logs, etc, tape library logs, etc. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: Frozen Tapes

2009-09-03 Thread Len Boyle
It can also be a bad tape drive which is both the device with the problem and the device reporting the error. If the tape drive is broken, it may not tell you that it is broken but falsely that the tape cart is broken. We have also seen times when something in the netbackup header is out of

Re: [Veritas-bu] NETBACKUP WITH ENCRYPTION OPTION

2009-08-07 Thread Len Boyle
Hello, Unless you also enable client compression when you enable the client side encryption, you lose the tape compression. How much you lose depends on how much compression you had. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World

2009-08-06 Thread Len Boyle
The last time I looked at DPM, it looked like a nice product, if a site was Microsoft only with products that worked with VSS. But unless they have updated it, the product does not work with other OS's. The first pass of DPM only wrote to disk. If a site wanted an offsite tape copy, they had

Re: [Veritas-bu] FW: Added New IBM LTO4 drives and getting 0x04 and 0x06 tape alerts during backups

2009-07-19 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Patricia, You might want to try to upgrade the lto-4 firmware. When we upgraded one of our systems to use lto-4 tape drives we had a few problems until we upgraded the firmware to the 89B2 level. We are now testing the 94D4 level. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] sgscan panics new Solaris 10 media server

2009-07-15 Thread Len Boyle
Do uou have a crash dump. If so have you looked at it? From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Marianne Van Den Berg Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:47 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] sgscan

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Question

2009-06-18 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Steve, I do not know if the Decru LKM can do this. But we are planning to do LTO4 native encryption with IBM tape drives in an IBM 3584 tape library. We found that the EMC RSA key manager will handle keys for the LTO-4 tape drives. But to do so you have to have the IBM EKM (Encryption

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up cluster after failover

2009-06-12 Thread Len Boyle
Are there more then one cluster group. We found that we would be given a cluster name, but there might be 3 or 4 different groups that could move between the physical nodes. So we might have vir1 and group2 on node 1a and group3 on node 1b. Which would then lead to the 71 errors and netbackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any subfolders

2009-06-11 Thread Len Boyle
It is in the registry -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dbergen Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:20 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder

Re: [Veritas-bu] FINALLY DONE!!! 5.1 - 6.5.2 Upgrade !

2009-06-01 Thread Len Boyle
Simon, You might want to look at putting the new logs on it’s own volume (filespace) so if you fill the space you do not trash other things. You can move it’s location to netbackup with a command. The new logs can really grow if you have to debug a ndmp problem. Regards len From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive is assigned with a tape loaded ...Yet no tape in the tape drive...

2009-04-24 Thread Len Boyle
Check on the netapp side, what does it report. Does it show the tape drive as in use. Is there an active ndmp job using the tape drive. Try the storage show tape command And the sysconfig -t command Try the ndmpd status and session kill commands len From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Know issues running a Solaris Netbackup master server and media servers on Solaris 10 ZFS file system

2009-04-22 Thread Len Boyle
Netbackup has problems if the zfs file system fills beyond those of other file systems. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Allen, Jimmy Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:39 PM To:

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