Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone on here own a StorageTek SL500 ?[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-10-05 Thread Rockey Reed
Justin If your data is fairly static you may find the built in deduplication of NBU to be a benefit. Contact your Symantec system engineer for more information. The time spent on this could save you money and administrative burdens. Thanks, Rockey Please excuse short reply and spelling or

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapes not staying in Volume pools (NBU6.5)

2007-12-19 Thread Rockey Reed
John, If you are using special barcode sequence for the weekly backups then set up a barcode rule (inventory, advanced); otherwise, what is the problem with letting the tapes come from scratch and being put into the correct pool. They will be assigned by pool name and retention.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Dilemma...need some info.

2007-11-08 Thread Rockey Reed
Howdy, If you're considering CV you may want to look into Backup Exec as well. The key question missing for this forum to really help you is; what itch is your management trying to scratch? Are they looking for cost breaks, a more reliable tool, or a Windows centric application? Give us

Re: [Veritas-bu] Incremental backs up all files

2007-11-01 Thread Rockey Reed
Duncan, You should set the LUN as a virtual node and create a policy to back up the LUN. Remember, for a full to be in effect within NBU the full must be ran as a scheduled job within the policy that contains the client. So when the LUN moves to another client all backups will be full until the

Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP in 6.x

2007-10-29 Thread Rockey Reed
Rusty, Make sure you virus scan is set to ignore .VSP file. VSP will be required of W2K servers; whereas, VSS should be used on W2K3. Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 18, Issue 47

2007-10-26 Thread Rockey Reed
If you have multiple STU create an STUG Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WALLEBROEK Bart Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Running NOM on a VM.....

2007-10-16 Thread Rockey Reed
NOM can be I/O intensive at times and VM doesn't virtualize VM too well. YMMV! Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Password Protection

2007-09-29 Thread Rockey Reed
Dennis, Was this with MSEO (Media Server Encryption Option) of client side encryption? Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting network Traffic

2007-08-27 Thread Rockey Reed
Yes, but not in the same policy. Just create two policies, using separate storage units that are associated with different media servers on the different subnets. The two media server could be on the same physical machine that is addressed by alias names (e.g. backup01, backup02, both which

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting Tool for NetBackup

2007-08-15 Thread Rockey Reed
Kevin, What data are you wanting to get reports on? This will help us to help you! Also, what version of NetBackup are you currently using! Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Very slow client

2007-08-15 Thread Rockey Reed
Scott, The 2003 server should be protecting the shadow copy components not the system state which is for Windows 2000. As for the other performance my first suggestion is to check the NIC setting. If GigE then auto negotiate is acceptable; however, if 100Mbps Ethernet is used force the NIC

Re: [Veritas-bu] ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES not working?

2007-07-18 Thread Rockey Reed
John, Have you done some configuration in the include/exclude that is causing this overriding feature? Thanks, Rockey J. Reed You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help! Lost access to administrative commands.

2007-06-01 Thread Rockey Reed
Get you last good catalog backup and do a restore, then make sure you don't fiddle with the Authorization section of the NBU without first reading and making sure you truly understand what the is going on. It appears you have successfully restricted everyone from the administrative feature. In

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring windows NBU backup to Linux/UNIX using GNUtar

2007-05-28 Thread Rockey Reed
Curtis, You won't be proven wrong unless someone does some serious voodoo and all the planets and starts align exactly right. Even so the process would not be repeatable. Not to get real technical, but the reason is the way the file systems are written, NTFS verse any other FS equals no

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Question - NBU BAR Utility

2007-04-10 Thread Rockey Reed
Simon, As the old man, bob944, is saying the results your coworker is seeing is expected. A client and media server, by default, cannot restore data except to themselves (clients) or the machines they backup (media servers). Only the Master server can restore to all machines; therefore, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] (46) server not allowed

2007-03-19 Thread Rockey Reed
If you edit the registry, make sure the master is the 1st server in list! Thanks, Rockey J. Reed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas L Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:31 PM To: Broun, Bevan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

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

2007-02-06 Thread Rockey Reed
Check the client for a mapped drive; if mapped there is a good chance the 'other-than-Month-End' policy has an exclude. I have seen this when a USB drive was attached, shared, and then removed without unmounting. If this is the case, delete drive U:\ from the system. Thanks, Rockey

Re: [Veritas-bu] FW: Link To Download Exchange DB Extension - UPDATE

2006-09-14 Thread Rockey Reed
Title: Message Simon is correct. The software is on the Windows CD and the binary is automatically installed. The license key, when added to the Master server, will unlock the function and the Exchange policy can be configured. Thanks, Rockey J. Reed From: [EMAIL

RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list on windows

2006-01-23 Thread Rockey Reed
Dont forget, you may be able to use the inclusion list and have fewer keystrokes. Of course this depends on how your directory structure is laid out. HTH Thanks, Rockey J. Reed Lead Solutions Specialist Consulting Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com

RE: [Veritas-bu] Kbytes on Media seems to be graten than allowable size for this kind of media

2005-11-11 Thread Rockey Reed
Asiye, The numbers reported are what are reported to NetBackup from the library. We track the amount of data written to the tape; however, depending on the compressibility of the data determines the amount of data that can be placed on any individual piece of media. For example a large text

RE: [Veritas-bu] error code 134

2005-11-02 Thread Rockey Reed
The 134 error can be reduced if not eliminated by ensuring the shared memory of the NBU server is set properly. Also, you may notice 134 when there is no storage unit readily available, meaning in use by another backup/restore job when the backup starts; however, this should go away when the