Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware NBU single vmdk disk restore question

2018-03-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]
Stefaan to confirm you see this in 8.1 or 8.1.1? Thanks, Simon From: Veritas-bu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Stefaan Margot Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 10:26 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]; 'Douglas Ritschel' Cc: Johan Redelinghuys; veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware NBU single vmdk disk restore question

2018-03-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]
Hmm, could it be 8.1.1 at all? From: Veritas-bu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas Ritschel Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 8:12 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK] Cc: Johan Redelinghuys; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware NBU single vmdk disk restore question

2018-03-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]
I read the command, but I thought if using the GUI, you needed 8.x for full support? From: Veritas-bu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas Ritschel Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 4:31 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK] Cc: Johan Redelinghuys; veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware NBU single vmdk disk restore question

2018-03-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]
Thanks, that is what I sort of found online, but could not get confirmation from Veritas about it and could not see it as a full feature under 7.7.3 S. From: Johan Redelinghuys [mailto:johan.redelingh...@sithabile.co.za] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 1:05 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK

[Veritas-bu] VMware NBU single vmdk disk restore question

2018-03-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external) [UK]
Hi all, was not sure if this list worked still or not? Can I check that a new feature under version 8.0 allows you to restore a single disk for a VMware client? For example, if I have a VM Guest with C: drive, F: drive and H: drive, but due to a disaster, I need to restore the C: drive as a

Re: [Veritas-bu] License needed for VMware Backups

2017-08-16 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, Jeffrey ; WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] License needed for VMware Backups Correct - Each ESXi host needs the Enterprise Client License based on the 2 socket format described below. > -Original Message- > From: Veri

Re: [Veritas-bu] License needed for VMware Backups

2017-08-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi All Quick question (to anyone alive on this list). Got full NBU environment which is great. We do VMware backups, which is fine. We need to add new ESX Hosts and therefore, need to license them. I am struggling with Veritas to simply get a quote. These hosts are 2 CPU Linux based OS

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is the veritas-bu list still alive?

2017-05-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Is there a new list people are actively subscribed on? Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of W. Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 4:37 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWAre slow performance

2016-04-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
What speed you getting? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of matrixdot Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 2:07 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMWAre slow performance

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWAre slow performance

2016-04-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
How many VM's do you backup concurrently. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of matrixdot Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 10:54 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMWAre

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec System Recovery 2011 Help

2012-02-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Not sure if you had an answer, but maybe manually configure IP / Network settings, then try mapping as \\IPADDRESS\SHARE file://\\IPADDRESS\SHARE ? S. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Microsoft Exchange backups

2012-02-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hello James It is just a license key to perform Exchange online backups. Once done, you will need to create a policy for Exchange (Normally this is a directive Exchange aware backup). When the key is applied on the Master Server, it will open up the feature you need. The Admin Guide for Exchange

Re: [Veritas-bu] downgrage media server to client

2012-02-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Yes, you should be able to use the nbdecommission tool, and then uninstall the software, and then install the PC Client software. Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Anatoly Pugachev

[Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines

2012-02-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi all Going through my Vmware testing on 7.0.1 and when I done my initial testing, I wrote myself a note, saying that there is a limit that only 4 Virtual Machine Guests can only be backed up at one time. Is this correct, or did I misunderstand my note? I have over 200 ! Regards Simon Weaver

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines

2012-02-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmware Backup Limit - 4 Virtual Guest Machines Simon, I think this limit is per datastore not global. Greg On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and Enterprise Vault File System Archive (FSA)

2012-01-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
This is a little off topic, but I would like to know anyone that is using File System Archive EV (and not the Exchange EV) on file servers and using NetBackup. I don't want to delve too deep here, but I am having some issues with FSA where users have moved placeholder files, and now the

Re: [Veritas-bu] TIR files on the client

2012-01-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Patrick I have this on some systems, thought it was the norm. S. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pwhelan0610 Sent: 04 January 2012 14:44 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMDK file restore.

2011-12-12 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Where is the restore being initiated? Master Server or VM Backup Host or Client Admin tools on local machine? Check this out (If no one has posted it).. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=HOWTO5178 0 From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware5 and NetBackup 7.0

2011-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi anurag Thank you. We are going ESX5, so I had hoped that 7.0 or at least 7.1 would support it. As I understand, 7.5 is in BETA still right ? Simon From: Anurag Sharma [mailto:sharma.anu...@hotmail.com] Sent: 06 December 2011 08:00 To: WEAVER, Simon (external

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware5 and NetBackup 7.0

2011-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@hotmail.com] Sent: 06 December 2011 09:52 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMware5 and NetBackup 7.0 Hi Simon, Yes its beta 1 and beta 2 would come around august. So forget about full release until at least next 6 months. Anurag

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware5 and NetBackup 7.0

2011-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Ok thanks, but thats the problem the VM upgrade wont wait, which means Symantec lose out. I really am amazed they are not ready for it, after all if Veeam are ready, who seem to be an alternative to NBU, why are Symantec not ready? Its a real shame! -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1.0.3?

2011-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Just before christmas (This year!!) :-) -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR Sent: 06 December 2011 14:04 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] VMware5 and NetBackup 7.0

2011-12-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Morning I wanted to see if anyone can shed some light on this question, because I am not able to find the official answer. VMware announced several months ago about vmware5. However, reading on some Symantec Blog sites, they talk about VMware5 being supported in NetBackup 7.5. Well, we are at

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL backup failing with error 2

2011-11-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Might be a name resolution issue / firewall problem. Certainly seen this before - I would add a hosts entry to the client to see the master and the master to see the client. Also confirm there is not a firewall blocking comms. Simon From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR Shared resource trees

2011-10-16 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Im still in the testing phase of BMR, but I seem to have 4 trees! BMR 32-Bit BMR 64-Bit When I created the BMR CD's, I ended up with a BMR32BitCD and BMR64BitCD. Not even sure if this is right! S. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] FlashBacup - Restore Question

2011-10-11 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
is not the same as restoring all the files. -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 2:55 PM To: smpt; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re

Re: [Veritas-bu] FlashBacup - Restore Question

2011-10-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Stefanos Thanks but in a DR scenario... where you would have to restore all the Data, would FlashBackup-Windows be quick? Simon From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 5:07 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups

2011-10-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cant even remember what you wrote dave as I deleted it ! -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of David McMullin Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:09 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc:

[Veritas-bu] FlashBacup - Restore Question

2011-10-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi, I am evaluating FlashBackup-Windows. I am backing up a 1.8TB Volume, with millions of 1kb files and via SAN, its taking 3 days. During a quck FB-Windows Test Policy, I got this down to 7 hours. However, 2 questions:- 1) Not been able to test, but is there a downside to restore times for this

Re: [Veritas-bu] FlashBacup - Restore Question

2011-10-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Umm this isnt VMware I am referring to . Its RAW Disk on a Physical Box. S. -Original Message- From: ccosta@gmail.com [mailto:ccosta@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 4:29 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] HPUX 11.31

2011-09-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Not knowing Unix well, I am trying to get implemented a NBU 6.5 Client on Unix, they were given a Unix CD, which apparantly contained the client. When I create a policy and add the client, I have to choose from a list (Doesnt seem to auto detect like Windows). Unix Guy states its a

Re: [Veritas-bu] HPUX 11.31

2011-09-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@andersencorp.com] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:34 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: HPUX 11.31 There's a HPUX patch that will take care of this. I had it in my saved folders, but for some reason all my saved emails are now gone... The hits just keep

Re: [Veritas-bu] HPUX 11.31

2011-09-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
29, 2011 1:35 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] HPUX 11.31 I would always recommend applying the latest patch when/if you can. As for compatibility, there is a guide that outlines what is/is not supported and what client version supports

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups (Wayne T Smith)

2011-09-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
a place in backup and recovery of your database. I hope it helps, though!;-) Cheers, Wayne On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:33 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: ** Hi, this is really for anyone doing online Oracle Backups? Trying to create a new policy

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Upgrade Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.1

2011-09-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
LOL not seen him for ages. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rusty Major Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:28 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Upgrade Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.1

2011-09-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hello there You should review the documentation in the Portal... http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH74584 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] HELP!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Would it not be better to hard code the nic speed than auto/auto ? Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: 27 September 2011 15:17 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups

2011-09-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi, this is really for anyone doing online Oracle Backups? Trying to create a new policy for this. Got agent installed (licensed). Environment all Windows 2003. All I want is to do an online Oracle Backup. But I am struggling with this, as I have no DB Support. Being told that backing up Oracle

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem of VMWare ESX Backup via SAN

2011-08-12 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
It sure will... and make your VMWare Admin pretty fecked off -Original Message- From: Luke Walker [mailto:lwal...@td.com.au] Sent: 12 August 2011 00:18 To: George Winter; Adrian Soetanto; WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem of VMWare ESX Backup via SAN

2011-08-12 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
- From: Adrian Soetanto [mailto:adrian.soeta...@bentoel.co.id] Sent: 12 August 2011 09:22 To: George Winter; Luke Walker; WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem of VMWare ESX Backup via SAN Dear all, If we use NetBackup 7.1 and VMWare ESX 4.1, do

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem of VMWare ESX Backup via SAN

2011-08-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Ok so you see it ... but does Disk Management show anything after you do a re-scan disks? And its definetely presented correctly (your VM Backup Host) on the SAN? Also ... and I said this last time... did you get the latest NBU VMware Update Pack, because this fixed many problems for me,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Failed VMWare ESX Backup

2011-08-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
There is a VMware / Symantec Bundle pack for VM fixes. Has that been applied, as from experience, this has corrected many problems for me. This is the link I believe you need http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH12475 7 -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Failed VMWare ESX Backup

2011-08-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
As another test, from the vCentre Box, can you take a Snapshot of this particular VM Server? S. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Adrian Soetanto Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:09 AM To:

[Veritas-bu] TIR Issues

2011-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
All For the past few weeks, I am seeing the following files having warning messages against the job, resulting in status 1. I have been going through all of my jobs, to clean up the Status 1's, but I have not found a Technote that relates to the errors below: 02/08/2011 03:04:58 - Error

Re: [Veritas-bu] TIR Issues

2011-08-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Rusty So how can I correct it? Delete the file? -Original Message- From: Rusty Major [mailto:rusty.ma...@sungard.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 12:09 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] TIR Issues Don't see 13s much

[Veritas-bu] Directive Shadow Copy Errors Logged

2011-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi all Not too much info from Symantec on this, that meets my actual resolution, but I have a client, Win2k3 SP2, running 7.0.1 along with a Master. All Local Drives are selected in the policy, along with many other clients. I am getting this error logged in Shadow Copy: 20/07/2011 14:14:33 -

Re: [Veritas-bu] vmware backups in NBU 7.1

2011-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
when I was doing this, I was using DNS all the way through, including my VM Media Server, that had the Storage presented to it. It is very important, as the DNS is heavily relied on. Pretty sure I was using FQDN on clients for restores as well.Note, my testing was on 7.0.1 by the way. S.

[Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups - Online Agent Advice

2011-07-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Could I possibly seek advice from anyone that has done Oracle Online backups, or knows how to configure them? Although I am going through the guide, I am struggling. Also moreso, that I dont have anyone from DBA side to assist me with some of this. Its a single box, DB is only 550MB in size at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups - Online Agent Advice

2011-07-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
_ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:16 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Oracle Backups - Online Agent Advice Could I possibly seek advice from anyone that has done Oracle Online backups, or knows how to configure them? Although I am

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups - Online Agent Advice

2011-07-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Windows 2003 SP2 Oracle hmmm. unsure myself... ORA10G ? I dont even have a login ! S From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:41 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups - Online Agent Advice

2011-07-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
- Using: e:\oracle\product\10.2.0\bin\rman.exe ) ? S. From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:41 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backups - Online Agent

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Standard vs VMware?? confused :(

2011-07-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Under 7.0, I am prices per ESX Host and the number of CPU's on each Host. No limit on the clients. But if you want to do Online SQL / Exchange / Oracle VM, then apparantly, you need to be licenses for Database options pack. It gets really confusing at times! As it stands for myself, I am stuck

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice on HPUX 11.11

2011-06-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:00 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Advice on HPUX 11.11 Are you actually backing up via network on DP? That is to say are you sure it doesn't have

[Veritas-bu] Advice on HPUX 11.11

2011-06-28 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi, I wonder if I can get some unix advice! Looking at moving Unix from Unix Data Protector to NBU 7.0.1 As a test, installed a client on HPUX 11.11 and performed a test backup of their selected folders. It took over 16 hours. yet DP could do the same in 4 hours! Bit gobsmacked really. Also

Re: [Veritas-bu] Boot Disk Not Working

2011-06-16 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I would create another CD myself. If it is stopping at the RAM disk, either the CD or drive on the Server could be bad. Also, try on another Server or PC as a test? S. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server Not seen in Device Config Wizard - Help please :-(

2011-06-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
NODE03 and move the images to another server. Simon From: rusty.ma...@sungard.com [mailto:rusty.ma...@sungard.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:40 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server Not seen in Device Config Wizard - Helpplease :-(

2011-06-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
:-( To: WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu, veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 4:10 AM Try nbemmcmd -listhosts -verbose I would expect that you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

2011-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I would agree! VSP is dire!! Ignore it. I can say that in all my 11+ years in NBU, I turned it off ! From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rusty.ma...@sungard.com Sent: Tuesday, June 07,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

2011-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, June 08, 2011 10:34 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external) Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error I would agree! VSP is dire!! Ignore it. I can say that in all my 11+ years in NBU, I turned it off ! I have to throw the BS flag here. That's just FUD

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error - OT rant

2011-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Trouble is, no matter what answer I would have said or done it would be deemed wrong anyhow :-( Even though the environment has had great backups, and worked flawlessly with IDR when needbe! Each to their own. Sorry if my reply was not to everyones like -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] Server Not seen in Device Config Wizard - Help please :-(

2011-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Guys I have migrated over to new hardware, and went to install a new SAN Media Server, and although the install is fine, no errors and services are started, I have a problem... When running Device Config Wizard, my Server name is not appearing! Originally my new SAN Media Server (Home1) was

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server Not seen in Device Config Wizard - Help please :-(

2011-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
to NODE03 and possibly HOME1, I think this is causing the biggest headaches! Not even sure if I can change NODE03 to become HOME1 or something?? Dont see anything that can help ! Simon _ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by VeritasNetbackup.

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; rusty.ma...@sungard.com Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); Jonathan' 'Martin; 'VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by VeritasNetbackup. Off Topic - a VM Master NBU Server? I wasn't aware that Symantec supported a VM Master server

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Capacity too expensive, but I wish we could :-(( -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mitch808 Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:50 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] VTL / EVA6400 Disks and DLO

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi I have an EVA6400 with 1TB FATA Disks, that I wanted to use for Disk-Storage Unit Backups. Im not sure if I should be looking at doing this, or maybe looking at a fully functional VTL? Does anyone have any recommendations or advice? Its just that with the 1TB Disks, I could use a DSU to perform

Re: [Veritas-bu] Where is my IP hiding?

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Im due to change the IP Address on the Master, as I am using the old address at the moment. I take it, that the cache would need to be cleared on any relevant Media Servers that talk to the EMM ? S. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Where is my IP hiding?

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Yes, plan was to change IP, shutdown box, ensure DNS was sorted, WINS was correct and restart. Do ipconfig /flushdns , clear arp cache and see what happens! Plan to do this while nothing is running, so intend to suspend backups for now. Simon -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by VeritasNetbackup.

2011-05-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I think you do mate. I think you do . -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:jmart...@intersil.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:17 PM To: Chapman, Scott; WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
HEre is the problem I have... We have in excess of 30+ ESX Hosts, all have 4 CPU's We also have SQL Clusters, Oracle, Exchange, SAP, on VM and you also need to be licensed for them, and from the comments of the Sales guy, I needed a price for each DB Client too ! It has added up to a huge bill !

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to administer a Windows master server behind afirewall

2011-05-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Not really, as I tend to RDP on the Master Server myself. Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of POUSSARD, Gilles (APX) Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 3:19 PM To:

[Veritas-bu] SA-P REDO LOG Question

2011-05-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
This question is for anyone doing SAP Online, Offline and REDO Backups. I want to try to understand why there is a need to keep REDO Log Backups for 2 months. Is there a recommendation to do this? Is there anyone out there that could tell me what would happen in a DR Scenario, where there is a

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7 BESR 2010 - Query about VSS

2011-05-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:21 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7 BESR 2010 - Query about VSS This says Info so I'm not sure why you think it is an error. Are your backups actually failing

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

2011-05-09 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I had 6.5.6 and from a file level backup of Win2k8, it was fine. I think most issues were fixed in .5 S. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:45 PM

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

2011-05-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
6.5.6 I think is the min, but I would goto 7.1 if you can ! Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mcmonap Sent: 06 May 2011 14:18 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 Question (rollback)

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
My suggestion for this, is because I felt the 7.1 EMM may be at a different level to the 7.0. Simon -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 05 May 2011 09:32 To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] The exact files that were captured by NBU

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cheers Nick, VERY much appreciated, going back to the test lab now From: Nic Solomons [mailto:nic.solom...@attenda.net] Sent: 05 May 2011 10:09 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: The exact files that were captured

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

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
All From my History of working with NBU, any upgrades I have done have been in this order: Master Media Servers SAN Media Clients So ... why would Symantec be telling a colleage that its ok to oto 6.5.6 on a client and leave Master at 6.5.4 ? Client OS is Wink28 R2 SP1 which cant be backed up

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

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
are caught in the dilemma of getting backups or being supported, well, I choose the former. From: WEAVER, Simon \(external\) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Date: 05/05/2011 10:27 AM Subject:[Veritas-bu] why oh why Did Symantec REALLY

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

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
not to say running 5.1 on 7.0.1 clients is supported, because its not and I appreciate that, and would not expect support. From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: 05 May 2011 16:24 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); scott.geo...@parker.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

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

2011-05-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
] Sent: 05 May 2011 18:43 To: rusty.ma...@sungard.com Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external); smpt; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] why oh why Did Symantec REALLY say this The problem with NetBackup is that it supports a greater

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 Question (rollback)

2011-05-04 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Justin I thought it was a case of: 1) Uninstall 2) Reinstall previous version, ensuring maintenance pack 3) Do inventory 4) Perform Hot Cat Recover In Windows, I have a Bare image of the Server, so if I was to rollback, I simply go back to how it was :) I also replicate my DB to another drive,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, Simon (external) Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue Got a File Server with a share that is approx 400GB and contains millions of files. San Media Win2k3 Sp2 NBU 7.0.1 talking to a 7.0.1 Master Problem: We have identified 40,000 files, of various types (ie: word, excel, jpeg, bmp

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, but not fully restoring. :( S. -Original Message- From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 4:13 PM To: bob944; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external) Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue If his list of files only contains

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:56 AM To: Lightner, Jeff; bob944; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue Im getting 2 problems now 1) Status 227 in the GUI 2) Exit Status 100: System error occurred I have had

[Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi, Got a File Server with a share that is approx 400GB and contains millions of files. San Media Win2k3 Sp2 NBU 7.0.1 talking to a 7.0.1 Master Problem: We have identified 40,000 files, of various types (ie: word, excel, jpeg, bmp, pdf) that are ZERO bytes. They appear to have been like this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Solomons [mailto:nic.solom...@attenda.net] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue Hi Simon, Am I missing something? Why not just use cli - bprestore with the -f option? I'm on my mobile, so

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 - Status 69

2011-04-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Kevin Is the client account running as system? As a test, try running it with a Domain Account that has Exchange rights Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin O'Connor Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 - Status 69

2011-04-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Could be something to do with LSA on the box. This is why I suggested trying with a Domain Account as a test. From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:kevin.ocon...@esbi.ie] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:51 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] catalog performance

2011-04-11 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
You may want to look at this... http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH14496 9key=15143actp=LIST I for one prefer to keep everything in one location on a RAID5 Volume, and ensure I just have good Hot Catalog Backups all the time! Simon

Re: [Veritas-bu] One more BMR question.

2011-04-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
to the master? Thanks, Simon From: Patrick [mailto:netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk] Sent: 08 April 2011 21:52 To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One more BMR question. What does that mean? I have turned on BMR

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.5 -- 7.0.1 Upgrade - No tapes are expiring

2011-04-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Barb Do you have a link, as I cannot track this EEB down? Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Barb Zoeckler Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:41 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] One more BMR question.

2011-04-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I dont configure the clients in any way... I simply do it at the Policy level Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 5:20 PM To:

[Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server

2011-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Morning Just a quick question. I have a SAN Media Server on legacy hardware, Win2k3 x86 NBU 7.0.1 and I need to migrate this to newer hardware. I noticed under the Hot-Cat-Backup Wizard, I only have option to recover full or partial catalog. So question is, if I shutdown the old Media Server,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server

2011-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Thinking about it more, I am starting to think, if its same name / patch / IP, then Hot_Restore may not be needed if its San Media! So I think I might be right, but clarification would be nice. _ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent

Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server

2011-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
From: Saran Brar [mailto:saranb...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:25 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server Simon, Does your old media server has any robots or drives attached

Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server

2011-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 05 April 2011 11:31 To: Saran Brar Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Hot_Cat_Restore_Server Its using SSO, so was going to reapply the license keys, re-run Device

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades

2011-04-01 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
From: McDonald, James F. II [mailto:james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:48 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades I am having an unexpected issue with disk

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi James Yes done this, in different ways Key thing is, that you have a DR plan in place should something go wrong. In my view, upgrade to NBU 7.0 Before going to Win2k8, get a GOOD Backup of the System (as it is) and a Catalog Backup of your current working environment :-) Upgrade to Win2k8

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Just to add to Justin's points, which I agree with, do make sure your Hardware is well specc-ed up, as I have noticed some slowdown with 2k8 and 7.0.1 Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
. From: McDonald, James F. II [mailto:james.f.mcdonald...@saic.com] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 11:49 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades I was checking the Microsoft site for upgrading tips and it said

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