Re: [Veritas-bu] Library management software for L180/L700

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Anderson
The horizon management software isn't software that you load on your PC.  It is a physical module that is plugged into the Library and is then access over the internet via a web browser. Hope that helps From: Dushyant Mehta scorpio21...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0MP5 - 5.1MP4/6 RESTORE BUG

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Anderson
Justin, Yes we had exactly the situation. We determined with the help of our friends at Symantec / Veritas that there was indeed a bug and they sent a replacement binary for bpbrm.exe for our windows media servers. In actuality what was happening is that when the restore was initiated

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pure Disk for NBU

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Anderson
Pure Disk is great if you don't need system disaster recovery capabilities and only want to protect the actual data. It does single instance storage so you save on disk space but it is also licensed by the terabyte so it can get expensive if you have lots of systems. I believe the cost is $1,000

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a multi-tape catalog backup under NetBackup 5.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Anderson
Justin, We do multi-tape catalog backups everyday. Here's how we do it. create a standard policy to backup the images directory to tape. /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images We do have an exclude not to get the masters images. Then we configure the catalog to backup to do the following (this is a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup failed due to media unavailable ?

2006-03-22 Thread Michael Anderson
Also check to see if you have an expiration date assigned to the tapes that has passed. Along with that ensure that the tapes haven't passed your assigned Max Mounts. I have gotten caught by the max mounts before. --- Naidu V. T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , One of my backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Comparison with NDMP backup

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Anderson
Yoseph, You provide little information on what you want to compare,, this is like saying please compare fruit to fruit. If you want to compare my environment where we were backing up 40TB of NAS data via NFS mounts from a Solaris box to SDLT1 Drives in an SSO NBU 5.1 environment to what we are

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and VXSS

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Anderson
From what I have heard from Veritas, they recommend that the VxSS and NOM server be one in the same. --- mkiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far I havent seen even single positive reply, I have gotten few very negatives. Can someone from Veritas shed some light? My questions are more

Re: [Veritas-bu] DLO information

2006-02-14 Thread Michael Anderson
NetBackup DLO is a standalone application that essentially moves data from the desktop / laptop to another storage location. There aren't any ties into NetBackup at all so you don't have to install server to use DLO. Backup Exec DLO is an actual module that plugs into Backup Exec Server.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP oddity

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Anderson
Charles, I have witnessed the same thing in my NDMP arena and opened a case with Veritas that went all the way up to engineering without resolution. We determined the cause but there is no fix at the moment and will need to go into a MP. They didn't feel that it would make it into MP2 due in

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp/NAS - Backups

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Anderson
This is in the compatability list: http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_DataCenter/251713.pdf You will notice that for the EMC product line it says support for SSO, which lacks in the NetApp line. The issue is that NetApp doesn't support SCSI Reserve/Release. They use

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL vs. Disk based backups

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Anderson
Yes we to are a veritas / netapp shop. The features look extremely interesting until you look at the pricetag that is attached. Veritas charges per gig for the storage behind the technology even though they have nothing to do with that storage. From what we have seen equated to our needs, it is