[Veritas-bu] Temporarily downing a robot/library

Does anyone know of a way to temporarily stop using a robot/library. There are several connect to the media server and we want the others to continue. Is there a way, short of downing all the drives, to accomplish this? Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715

[Veritas-bu] db/images question

If all the images for a client have expired and the client has been deleted, does NetBackup automagically delete its corresponding directory in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images ? Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715

[Veritas-bu] Incremental backup question

Hi All, I suppose the answer is obvious, but I'm having trouble getting my head around it. What happens to an incremental backup whose dependent full has expired. For example A full backup is run and expires in 90 days. 89 Days later an cumulative incremental is run and expires in 30 days. Two

[Veritas-bu] Tuning nbrb

Hi All, Does anyone have any experience / suggestions regarding the tuning of nbrb. It appears to be a real bottleneck here. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715 -- This message

[Veritas-bu] Another frequency based scheduling question.

Hi All, You would think after 16 years I would know this answer, and I think I do, but I would like other opinions or facts. Here is the quandary: Backup window 1900 - 0600, frequency 1 day. Backup runs at 0300 for various reasons, including manually run. Question: Will the next backup run the

Re: [Veritas-bu] There are no files matching the specified criteria

Have you tried the bplist command, such as: bplist –C client_name -R 99 –Listseconds –s 01/01/1970 / bplist –help for more information. I have also seen this problem when there were multiple names for the same client. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist From:

[Veritas-bu] Exclude System State and/or Shadow Copy Components

Hello All, How can I exclude the above mention from a backup. I have tried: System State:\ System_State:\ /System Stage/ Shadow Copy Components:\ Shadow Copy Components /Shadow Copy Components/ None of them appear to work, which leads me to one more question, how can I tell if it is excluding

Re: [Veritas-bu] migrating standalone master serverto clustered-master-server

If one or more of these conditions is not met please contact Symantec Consulting Services or your Business Critical Account Manager for assistance. 1. The master server must not be clustered. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.0 controlling/logging a ufsdump

You can use NetBackup to get a tape and put it in a drive (assuming you have a library) using tpreq -m media_id [-a (r/w)] [-d density] [-p poolname] [-priority number] [-f] filename Your script could then do a ufsdump and tpunmount [-e exitstatus] [-f] filename [-force] to unmount the tape. Be

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5.5 Backup Selections Paths Report

The information is in: bperror -all -l or bpdbjobs -all_columns bperror is the more accurate because bpdbjobs only covers jobs that you can see in the activity monitor. Good luck. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any body have script to accomplish following ?

Someone published a ksh version a few weeks ago. I have a Perl version if you want. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in agiven period

Thank you Harpreet. For those who may want to use Perl so that it might work on Windows (not tested) I am attaching a Perl version. If anyone gets it to work on Windows could you let me know, and what you did to get it fixed, please. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups inagiven period

don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 30 July 2010 13:17 To: Harpreet SINGH; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re

[Veritas-bu] Aptare Question

Sorry for the interruption. I know this is not an Aptare mailing list, but I don't what is, and I just installed Aptare and had a question or two. If anyone is willing to help off list please let me know. You man now resume your regularly schedule mailing list. Regards, Patrick Whelan

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate

Hi All, A couple of irrelevant questions. Does anyone know what the -fork option is? Is the -X used to set the dates to Unix time format? I am only the one that just discovered how to see what commands jnbSA executes? :( Does anyone know how to do the equivalent from windows? Regards,

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate

Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 22 June 2010 16:56 To: VERITAS-BU

[Veritas-bu] WRN - can't lock raw device for read

Hi All, I'm getting the above message while trying to do a raw partition back up of a W2k3 server. I turned off snap shot but it makes no difference. Does anyone have any suggestions? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group

[Veritas-bu] Bpdbjobs jobtypes

Does anyone know what jobs types 15, 16, 17, 18, ... are? I think 17 is image cleanup, but the others I have no clue. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining date of media freeze

bperror -l -media -X -d 169200 -e 127652 | grep -i freez that the large number in the first column: bpdbm -ctime large number and that will tell you the date. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0)

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Client Installation through AdministrationConsole

You can install UNIX/Linux clients from the Java GUI. But not windoze clients. At least the option doesn't appear. If you click on Policies -- Summary of All Policies -- Clients then right click on a client it will show if you can install/upgrade of not. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores Slooooooooooooooow

Has anyone else seen this? When I say slow I mean 150 to 300 KB/Sec. Windoze master Netapps NDMP NBU 6.5.3 Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 This e-mail is private and

[Veritas-bu] Another stupid question

Hello All, How do I get the equivalent of the GUI Media and Device Management -- Devices -- Media Servers from the command line? At the moment my Admin Console says everything is good, but the Java Console says two are offline. I want to confirm this from the command line which is far more

Re: [Veritas-bu] Another stupid question

[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 13 April 2010 10:42 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Another stupid question Hello All, How do I get the equivalent of the GUI Media and Device Management -- Devices -- Media Servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

What does the output of vmquery -list_media_genrule show? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

It's not a matter of whether you can or can not backup an open file, it's the type of open file that you are backing up. If it is a database file and the database isn't aware that you are backing up its file the file will not be in a state that the database can use if/when you restore it. MOST

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: 22 March 2010 14:37 To: Whelan, Patrick; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up I don't know how it works on Windows since we

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Drive

Give all four drives to NetBackup, then use tpreq to request a tape for your tar, cpio or whatever. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

Hi All, Environment: Master and media servers Windoze 2003. NDMP filers Netapps (sorry don't know model or ontap version). Scenario: Backups from A can be restored to B but not A Backups from B can be restored to B. Backups from B to A may have worked but I don't remember as it was awhile ago.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

(0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 01 March 2010 18:24 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Parsing through bpimagelist

Which OS? on *nix you can use grep, and awk. on toy OS's you can use find. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name

Since you are on MP5.1 MP4 (i.e. before 6.x) you should be able to change the first bp.conf entry to reflect the name of the new master. There is actually more to it than this, and there must be a white paper somewhere, but it is doable. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale

[Veritas-bu] Command line to do restore preview

Hi All, Does anyone know what the 6.5.4 command is to get a list of tapes needed for a restore? Like in the GUI. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 This e-mail is private and confidential and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone re-provisioned a media server w/ 6.5.xlately?

Take a look at the nbemmcmd command. Maybe you -deletehost hostname and then -addhost hostname. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't upgrade past 6.0 client

Ditto Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

Hello All, Has anyone had a problem with NDMP restores to the same filer? We can restore a file to a different filer, but not to itself. Both restores are going to a separate directory just for the restores. Environment: Windoze 2003 SP2 Netapps filer NetBackup 6.5.3 The restores are from DSU

[Veritas-bu] pbx

Where can I find VRTSpbx for NetBackup 6.5.4? Please. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 This e-mail is private and confidential and may contain privileged material. If you have received this

Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

Attached is a perl script that will list the tapes in each drive of a robot as long as it is run on the robotic control host. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bible for Storage Administrators

Curtis, any suggestions? :) :) Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angela Akridge Sent: 22 May 2007 15:04 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bible for Storage Administrators

I believe Dave Little and Dave Chapa are/were frequent visitors. In fact Curtis's appearance is relatively new, considering how long he's been doing backups. :) :) IMHO. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect, Engineering Operations +44 20 7863

Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

Not supported or won't work? We are running some 3.4 clients with the master at NBU 5.12MP6 and they work fine. Unfortunately we can't upgrade the Solaris 2.6 clients so we are stuck with 3.4. Of course if they won't work with 6.x then we can push them to upgrade or get rid of the boxes. :)

[Veritas-bu] blib and exclude lists

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether blib backups will read or not exclude lists? I have looked through the admin, advanced client and oracle agent manuals with not success. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243

Re: [Veritas-bu] Start NBU non-root

True, NetBackup does require root, but you might be able to setuid on the start-up script and execute it that way, have never actually tried. I have, in the past setuid on all the entire executables in netbackup/bin, and changed the group for the files, then started them with a user belonging to

[Veritas-bu] 5.1 MP6

Has anyone had problems installing MP6 on 5.1 on HP-UX? I have installed on two of our five successfully, but the other three either fail, or fail to start after a successful install. Any clues would be appreciated. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect

[Veritas-bu] Moving tapes to a different pool.

Has anyone tried this successfully and consistently? I have done it for one tape and everything seemed to work, but I wanted to know if anyone has tried it before doing the rest of the tapes. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243

Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving tapes to a different pool.

Oops. Written, assigned tapes. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 April 2007 14:54 To: Whelan, Patrick Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB6.0 MP4: After change of users to LDAP, cannot start Java GUI anymore

The java log files are, I believe, in /usr/openv/java/logs. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: 20 April 2007 08:35

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup certification exam in London (UK)

Having googled myself to death, I'm calling on you all to see if anyone knows where to go to take the NetBackup certification tests in London. Or failing that, if you have a tried and tested google search string that will locate it, that would also be good. Thanks in advance. Regards, Patrick

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem recycling old CATALOG tapes

Try running the first try again only use -d hcart2. According to your vmquery output it is a ½ tape not dlt. If that doesn't' work try HCART2. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 ... Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte

[Veritas-bu] Multiple Retention Levels

Environment NBU 5.1MP4 HP-UX 11.11 Does anyone know which command, if any, I can use from the command line (and thefore shell scripts) to determine if the allow multiple retention level box has been ticked by some idiot in another country who will not fess up to it. In case you think I'm pissed

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to check the approx. available space on a tape?

Since no two tapes are exactly the same length, what is this going to tell you, even if you did find out where the EOT marker was? I suppose if your are really insistent on the length of tape (there always seems to be one every year), you could take one apart, measure it's length, try to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?

Why not have a script that runs a backup followed by an archive. Check the error code of the backup, if is not 0 then don't run the archive. If it is 0 then run the archive which will automatically delete the files when it completes successfully. It will not delete antything if it fails even with

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

Be sure DISALLOW_SERVER_WRITES (sp?) = NO. You run bpgetconfig -M client and grep/find for DISALLOW and check that it is set to no. If it is set to yes, you can only change it on the client. regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things

Re: [Veritas-bu] Two Netbackup questions

1) If you do not backup server2 at all, you could create a symbolic link from server1 so that when you did a search on server2 it would find the backups for server1. 2) tpreq -m media_id [-a (r/w)] [-d density] [-p poolname] [-f] filename rsh client dump 0f - /mnt/volume_name filename

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen tape characteristics?

Point of clarification. The only differences between FROZEN and SUSPENDED: 1) Suspending has to be done manually 2) When all the images on a SUSPENDED tape have expired the tape will be re-used. Otherwise they are treated the same in that NetBackup will read from the tape if a restore needs it.

Re: [Veritas-bu] List of backuped files

According to the command line manual for 6.0 bplist is still there. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and

[Veritas-bu] Linux media server recommendations

Does anyone have any suggestions for Linux media servers? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

The software has been installed on lonbrk11 and 12. Where are the physically located so I can add them to the correct policy? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expiring images and tapes

How about with the backupid: bpexpdate: -backupid backup id -d mm/dd/ HH:MM:SS | 0 | infinity [-client name] [-copy number] [-force] [-M master_server,...,master_server] Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all

Re: [Veritas-bu] Script for Daily Backup Totals

Does that work on Windows? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't. ... Als sie mich

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

Of Alexander Skwar Sent: 09 January 2007 12:23 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: Look at bpstart_notify and bpend_notify examples in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies. Thanks a lot. This seems to be very

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclusions

Have you tried *\.mp3 ? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't. ... Als sie mich holten,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hello again :) Ed Wilts wrote: On 1/9/2007 6:22 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: Look at bpstart_notify and bpend_notify examples in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies. Thanks a lot. This seems

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

Sent: 09 January 2007 14:16 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: You could: bpdbjobs -most_columns | grep backupid | awk -F, '{ print $17 }' Hm, there's no bpdbjobs on the client :( On the master

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: You could: bpdbjobs -most_columns | grep backupid | awk -F, '{ print $17 }' Hm, there's no bpdbjobs on the client :( On the master server, I find it in /opt/openv

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec ?!Support?!

Just my £.02 worth. Unless it is absolutely critical, in which case I will ask to be transferred immediately, I send an email from their web site. This does many things: 1) They get my email address right (unless I type it wrong) :-( 2) They send an automated response that they

Re: [Veritas-bu] File restore search?

What OS are using? You can either use bpflist or from the restore GUI search for a specific file name. If you don't know the name of the server, then it gets a little tougher. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams - RESOLUTION

, der protestieren konnte -- Martin Niemöller -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 December 2006 17:08 To: Whelan, Patrick Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams Hi Pat! couple of things to check How is Busy files setup on client's

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media Server

I have never actually tried this, but you might try putting a SCRATCH_POOL = entry in /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf on the new media server. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There

[Veritas-bu] bpversion command

Has any used the bpversion command? If so, what does it do and how are the parameters used? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who

[Veritas-bu] Backup networks

Does anyone have a similar setup? Separate backup network from clients in one location to media servers in same location, but the master server can only see the clients and media servers on the public network. This causes 41 errors, we have come up with different work arounds but all of them

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

I was under the impression that RMAN backups were supposed to have INFINITE retention and that RMAN took care of expiring the images, there by keeping the RMAN catalog in sync with the NetBackup catalog. Otherwise RMAN will think there is a good backup, but NetBackup has expired it, if the

[Veritas-bu] Patch install for NBU5.1MP5 for HP-UX

Title: Patch install for NBU5.1MP5 for HP-UX Does anybody have the correct install script for HP-UX for NBU5.1MP5? The script that comes with patch works find on Solaris but fails on our HP-UX11.11 media servers. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup

[Veritas-bu] exceeded the configured number of tries

Title: exceeded the configured number of tries All, Environment: Clustered Solaris master server 5.8 running NBU 5.1MP4 and 4 HP-UX media servers, also running NBU 5.1MP4. The clients that are failing are windows and UNIX. I have been getting the above error for over a week now on

Re: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raghunath kandakur Sent: 11 October 2006 15:32 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1 Hi all, I am looking out for help for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple-Nics

If you dont want to use the GUI, you can do it from the command line using bpsetconfig (see manual for details). Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client is not validated to use this server

Are you restoring from another server? Do you have /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames set up properly, see manual for the way that is right for your implementation? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

I have a script that runs bprdreq -rereadconfig 50 times (50 is completely arbitrary) and so far it has worked every time. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] Several seperated backup networks..

Ok, everybody all at once. YES Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't.

[Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving

Title: Catalog Archiving All, Is anyone using Catalog Archiving? If so how is it working for you? I have read the documentation, but it is not clear what the process is if you need to do a restore of files that have archived. Can you enlighten me? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Installs

Title: Client Installs If you use update_clients from the command line you do not need to add them to a policy. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds

[Veritas-bu] Does anyone know what operating system this is and what, if any, NetBackup version supports it?

Title: Does anyone know what operating system this is and what, if any, NetBackup version supports it? Linux some-server 2.2.19-SMP #1 SMP Thu Oct 25 17:55:16 GMT 2001 i686 unknown Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 4.5MP6 Linux client - bind question

Title: NetBackup 4.5MP6 Linux client - bind question Does anyone know what the significance of the following error is?: bind(13782) failed: 98 It happens when running bpcd -standalone Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the

[Veritas-bu] LTO2 drives and HP-UX

Title: LTO2 drives and HP-UX NetBackup 5.1MP4 IBM and HP LTO2 drives attached to a HP-UX box. Has anyone done this, successfully? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiplexing

Probably the best reason for not multiplexing is that an un-multiplexed tape can be read using gnu tar in a worst case scenario. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of

[Veritas-bu] HCART tapes with LTO2 Drives

Title: HCART tapes with LTO2 Drives Does anyone know if HCART tapes will be used by LTO2 drives defined as HCART2 drives? We have just replace all our LTOI drives with LTOII which can read and write LTOI tapes, but do they have to be moved to HCART2, or will it work auto magically? Also, can

[Veritas-bu] Updating UNIX clients from the master server.

Title: Updating UNIX clients from the master server. All, One more question. Is anyone aware of a problem updating UNIX clients running Oracle 8 from the master server? I have been told that Oracle holds some of the lib files open so the update can not succeed. Is this true? Regards,

[Veritas-bu] vmoprcmd -shmdrive

Title: vmoprcmd -shmdrive Does anyone have the fields for the above command? It looks like it could be very useful if I could figure out what fields are what. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my

Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar basedbackupschedule.bppllist included.

You could always set the time on the master server ahead, so midnight matches your normal start time. J Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists on Linux - Again!!!

If you want to exclude the entire directory you need to end the line with a / for example u02/oradata/bnrbuild/. At least that's what a quick glance at the manual implied (or I inferred) :) Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things

[Veritas-bu] Searching mailing list

Title: Searching mailing list All, It has been too long and/or I am getting too old J, how do I search the mailing list for previous questions and answers? Failing that, or in addition to, does anyone know the meaning of the following message generated by bpimmage spangroups? could not

[Veritas-bu] bpcoverage HELP!

Title: bpcoverage HELP! In an earlier email I mentioned a problem with bpcoverage after I had fixed bpcoverage to work (NBU 5.1MP4 Solaris). Because some of the clients can only be seen by one client I had to run bpcoverage on that client and guess what! The fix for bcoverage on the master

RE: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify

I think you need to put it in session_start_notify.bat instead. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Veritas-bu] Export and Import NetBackup configuration

Am I misinterpreting the original post? According to the manual, using bprecover with the -dhost option is supposed to allow recovery of the database to an alternate host. This is a snippet from the command manual. bprecover -dhost destination_host Specifies the host to which the selected

[Veritas-bu] Media Manager error 44

Title: Media Manager error 44 Has anybody seen an error 44 from media manager when trying to use the configure storage device configuration wizard? I have tried this on all 5 libraries (separately and together) with the same results. Although these drives are not SSOd I would expect the

[Veritas-bu] bpclntcmd

Title: bpclntcmd Does anyone have any idea why: Bpclntcmd hn master_server_name (works) Bpclntcmd ip master_server_ip_address (works) But Bpclntcmd pn (doesnt work) This is driving me crazy. Naturally the backups fail. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect

RE: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level

Oops, sent it to the wrong person. ;) You could try playing with this script to see if it helps any. It only works for Windoze boxes, running from a unix media/master server, but could be adapted to unix or other. Let me know if it helps any. Cut here get_version ##

RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working

Title: Message What is the indication that it is not compressing? Is it the same data as the test system? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown -Original Message-

RE: [Veritas-bu] Database backup scheduling with different retentions

In researching some answers to the original post I was reminded that most Oracle backups use an infinite retention level with RMAN managing the actual retention level. Does this ring any bells for anyone else, or am I getting senile in my old age. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist

RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message Omit the three mount points from the policy and put them in an include_list on util1. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pillapalem,

RE: [Veritas-bu] EXCLUDE LIST QUESTION

bpplexclude -help Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leandrine, Anderson Henrique Sent: 10 January 2006 12:02 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] EXCLUDE LIST

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