Cc: Wilkinson, Tim
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6; tuning with [mpx/streams]
clarify a few things. I'm trying to get my throughput up to an
appropriate speed to avoid shoe shining and also cut down my backup
windows. We have 2 LTO3 drives (with LTO3 tapes, obviously).
There are 2
UNCLASSIFIED
I've been reading the various Symantec guides (admin guides, performance
tuning guides) in regards to tuning NBU performance and would like to
clarify a few things. I'm trying to get my throughput up to an
appropriate speed to avoid shoe shining and also cut down my backup
windows.
UNCLASSIFIED
I don't know a great deal about MSSQL so bear with me. I think the
answer to this might actually be out of an MSSQL book rather than
Netbackup but hopefully someone may be able to shed some light on this.
I've successfully backed-up a MSSQL DB before and effectively copied the
I've recently moved some data to a different volume and did a full
backup after the move. I then updated the permissions of the data in the
new volume and as expected, the incremental backup backed-up the data in
the new volume.
However, the scheduled incremental that ran last night is still going
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Wilkinson, Tim
Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 9:02 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 and archive bit
I've recently moved some data to a different volume and did a full
backup after the move. I then updated
We have a quite large file server (almost 2TB worth of data) and lately
it's been terminating the full backups with error 41 (network timeout).
Assuming there's no discernable problem with the actual network, what
could this be about? Is there something I can adjust to stop this or
does this
Hi,
This is probably quite simple but I'd just like to know if this should
be done in a certain order. We were using an LTO2 tape drive (or 2) and
associated tapes and now they're no longer being used, how do I remove
them from the EMM?
Cheers,
Are these created during MP updates or are these active files?
-
Tim Wilkinson
I.T. Support Officer
Science Corporate Information Systems
Defence Science Technology Organisation
it can see different tapes in different slots.
I think the 55 tape thing was more coincidence than anything.
From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 1:47 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; Curtis Preston; Ed Wilts
Cc: VERITAS-BU
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis
Preston
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 4:35 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; Ed Wilts
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape limit?
I would use robtest/tldtest and manually talk to the library
From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:33 PM
To: Curtis Preston; Ed Wilts
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] tape limit?
Curtis,
What's the syntax with tldtest and what does it do? Robtest appears to
show all
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Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 8:46 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 MP4, catalog backups stealing tape
from scratch pool
As Ed said, the hot catalog backups are now treated like any other
policy would
Netbackup 6, MP4, Windows.
Is there any sort of tape limit on a standard NBU license?
We have this strange issue where we've just had an expansion unit added
to our SL500s tape library giving us 144 slots available. I'm still
trouble-shooting this issue but I can make the standard volume group
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Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 4:00 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape limit?
Do you have the right license on the SL500? By default, they appear
to come with a 100-slot license - at least ours did. We had to purchase
a license
Hi,
I've noticed that on occasion, the NBU hot catalog ('NBU-catalog' type
policy) backups seem to not use the tapes in the CatalogBackup volume
pool and grabs a tape from the scratch pool. There are 2 LTO3 tapes in
that pool (CatalogBackup) specifically for catalog backups and I don't
think
Hi,
I could be way off here but I've noticed some 'strange' behaviour when
kicking off manual clients form a policy.
I don't think we have multiplexing enabled (at least the 'enable
multiplexing' box in unchecked on the storage unit) and I'm pretty sure
if I run multiple policies, they will
We looked into VxSS and you have to be very careful as it can actually be
configured so you can lock absolutely everyone (including admin) out. It has
very very fine granularity and you have to be very careful.
We decided not to use it as we didn't really need it (we used other techniques
in
Hmmm - I thought I was but probably have to read up on it now :)
And then a bit of testing..
From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:53 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas
Khurram,
Flashbackup will improve the performance (it caches the data as a sort
of snapshot then backs-up the snapshot so it's like a large file rather
than loads of small ones, or something like that) but because it
works per volume, you need the space for the cache, which is at least
the
Too easy!
Cheers,
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 10:48 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - removing 'dead' clients (Windows
Master)
Delete the client from all
Hi,
What's the best way to remove a client from NBU client list if the
server has 'died'? It's just a standard LAN client.
Cheers,
-
Tim Wilkinson
I.T. Support Officer
Science Corporate
Hi,
Does anyone know if Access-based Enumeration
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/abe.mspx)
causes any issues with Netbackup 6 (MP4)?
Looks like quite a useful ability but it comes with a warning some
backup apps may have issues with accessing all files/folders to
Jeff,
What are you restoring (just a file?)? Are you restoring to the original
location?
Cheers,
Tim
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Cleverley
Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:41 AM
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Subject:
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Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 7:00 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: GARCIA, Rene (STERIA)
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe
Tim,
Thanks for this information. We also have Windows 2K DFS server
So it seems
,
Tim
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From: POUSSARD, Gilles (INFOTEL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 5:13 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe
Hi Tim,
Did Symantec send
Have a look at http://support.veritas.com/docs/286954
We had an issue with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES on a server; if we specified the
drives explicitly it was OK. Apparently the problem was that it had DFS
and this was a known bug; we were sent a binary by Symantec and this
fixed the problem. It now works
We've just upgraded to MP4 on NOM, which seems to fix a lot of issues so
we've yet to really get into it. To be honest, from what I've seen so
far, I think it's not a really complete tool but I'm not sure it will be
improved much as I believe it will be replaced with another similar
BTW what does self-cleaning mean? We have SL500 drives but the Sun
(Storagetek) engineer has assigned a slot or 2 for cleaning tapes so
they obviously consider the drives might need cleaning tapes, although
they are supposed to be self-cleaning.
Cheers,
Tim
-Original Message-
From:
; you could have avoided the extra work of doing them from
scratch.
Ah, well - at least you've got it working fine now. :)
Cheers,
Tim
From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 16 March 2007 1:32 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu
I'm not being funny, but have you tried creating a new policy and
removing the old one? I've had policies acting strangely before and this
sometimes fixes the problem.
Cheers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez,
Daniel
Daniel - very importantly, don't copy the policy; you need to create it
from scratch.
Cheers,
Tim
From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:57 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE
What's better on NOM after MP4? anything not Woking properly still?
Cheers,
-
Tim Wilkinson
I.T. Support Officer
Science Corporate Information Systems
Defence Science Technology
Colette,
I had the same issues when designing NOM environment. In the end, no-one
could actually tell us exactly what we would need as a maximum.
I don't think it needs too much; it seems 40GB *should* be fine for
ages, but we've got the luxury of being able to source an entire server
just for
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2007 5:49 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup
Hi Tim
Snap! same problem! Got a MySQL box and cannot back it up! The agent
From: Haskins, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 9:33 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup
Tim,
Could you possibly share your code, please. I'm a bit of a jarhead
when it comes to database programming, no offense to any
Hi,
If I renamed a policy, would the DI backup follow on from last Full (for
the previously named policy) or would it effectively start form the
beginning?
Cheers,
-
Tim Wilkinson
I.T. Support
This may well be what the issue is with our environment at the moment.
A_L_D backups seems to fail, although explicitly listing each drive
seems to work fine. I'll hopefully be implementing the fix v soon.
Cheers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Courtenay,
NOM is fairly useless until MP4, apparently; we're going to put MP4 on
NOM but we're just waiting until all the master servers are on MP4.
You'll probably have to update to MP4 if you want to use it; there's no
other fixes that I know of.
Our setup is 2 Solaris Master servers (on 2
Apologies if this has already been discussed; I've been off for a week
or so and can't see any obvious thread regarding this.
Since applying MP4, it seems my master no longer sends out
notifications; either scripted ones or hot backup recovery emails. I've
applied MP4 to Masters on 2 different
the
application of MP4 I'd guess MP4 definitely has something to do with it.
Cheers,
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 10:29 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, MP4 Anyone had
Does this mean the problem will appear wherever there are multiple NICs?
Does anyone use multiple NICs who has not had this issue with MP4? I'd
have though multiple NICs are pretty common these days.
How did the alias fix the issue?
Cheers,
Tim
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
We were advised to use at least 2GB RAM with 2 good processors. It's
hard to know how much disk space you'll need (depends on how many
reports you keep, and how many servers you're monitoring, etc.) but I
don't think 5GB will be enough. We've got 400GB+, just in case (will
probably never need that
Hi,
Can anyone confirm
that in a Sharepoint setup where the actual Sharepoint server is a front-end
with a backend SQL server serving the actual Sharepoint DBs, that only the
front-end server needs to be added as a client in the policy (i.e. you don't add
the SQL server back-end into the
Symantec sent a binary that appears to have fixed the
issue.
From: Wilkinson, Tim Sent: Wednesday,
20 September 2006 8:48 AMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Sec: U NBU 6 help
with Sharepoint
Hi,
We (I say we but
it's actually some colleagues on another site - I'm looking
Hi,
Is it possible to
get NBU to make sure a specific policy iscompleted before allowing another
specific policy to run? Setting job priority can obviously set which jobs take
priority, but I assume this is only a starting priority and this won't make a
policy wait for another policy to
Hi,
We (I say we but
it's actually some colleagues on another site - I'm looking after the backups)
had a Sharepoint server that was backing up fine using the Sharepoint
agent.
Then the databases
were moved to another server (i.e. Sharepoint and IIS are on a 'front-end'
server, with the
Hi,
I'm getting to know
NBU better as time goes but know very little about Sharepoint, so hopefully
someone can shed a bit of light on this scenario.
We had a Sharepoint
server (we'll call this Sharepoint1) and this was being backed up using the
Sharepoint agent fine. Now the dbs have been
Shyam,
I vaguely remember asking this question a while ago and I
think the Shadow Copy Componentsreport 0 bytes even when backed up but I
was told this is expected.
Have a look at http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273382.htm.
Cheers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Apologies if this is a double post but I got an email about
my account being disabled due to excessive bounces (still don't understand what
this is about) and for some reason I don't get copies of my own posts so I've no
idea if this went out.
Cheers,
Tim
From: Wilkinson, Tim Sent
Hi,
In the hot catalog
backups in NBU 6, there is a section labelled critical policies. Is this pretty
much for any critical host or just other media servers etc? What do other people
include in this section?
Cheers,
-
Ed,
Approximately how many clients do you have in your environment and how
many have scheduling issues? I'm trying to work out ball-park
expectations of how many clients will have scheduling issues (as a rough
%).
We have a few sites and the smaller sites don't have many issues but we
have bigger
, 21 July 2006
6:03 PMTo: Wilkinson, Tim; SteveCc:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Are client
backups connected to specific polices?
Tim
Was a reboot done? on the Server
perhaps?
Regards
Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows
Domain Administrator
EADS
Hopefully I've
explained this as clearly as possible..
We've got
2Linux servers (let's call them Linux1 and Linux2). Linux1 is now to be
called Linux 2 and vice versa.
Linux 2 is a client
(a SAN media server; i.e. it has a storage unit) in Netbackup 6.
Once I've made the
changes
@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re:
[Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific
polices?
Post the output of netbackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist policy_name -L
This will help us look at the config
Steve
On 7/18/06, Wilkinson,
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It may be an obvious
Hi,
What's the best way
to rebuild a Master (assuming that recent catalog backups are intact) from the
ground up?
If it's too much
detail to explain in an email, I'd appreciate any useful
links.
Cheers,
-
Tim
was because I was
trying to figure out if this new policy would carry on from the old
one.
Cheers,
Tim
From: WEAVER, Simon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
4:21 PMTo: Wilkinson, Tim;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Are client
backups connected
, 19 July 2006 11:32 PMTo: Wilkinson,
TimCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re:
[Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific
polices?
Post the output of netbackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist policy_name -L
This will help us look at the config
Steve
On 7/18/06, Wilkinson,
Tim
It may be an obvious
question but I ask it for a reason; we have a policy that appears to be setup
correctly and has run at some point (using frequency) but neither the Full
backups nor Incrementals backups appear to want to run on their own anymore
(presently, I'm having to kick them off
Title: Message
This is the thing though; with a remote admin console (non
Java version) on Windows-based machine (connecting to a Unix Master), I can't
browse either, so it doesn't look like it's an issue with using the Java
GUI.
Cheers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6
Backup selections browsing
Huh, is there a non java remote admin console or is
that something you get with a UNIX Master?
Regards
Richard
From: Wilkinson, Tim
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 July
2006 11:47 amTo: Mansell
discovered
yet?
Regards
Richard
From: Wilkinson, Tim
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 July
2006 12:06 pmTo: Mansell, Richard;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6
Backup selections browsing
It's the Windows Netbackup remote admin console
Hi,
We've found some differing behaviour in regards to
browsing backup selections using NBU6; A Windows Master appears to be able to
browse Unix\Linux files systems on clients, whereas a Unix Master does not
appear to be able to browse Windows (the path has to be entered
manually).
Is this as
for
every tape drive you want to use. Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:52:06 +1000From:
"Wilkinson, Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Library Based Tape LicenseTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduHi,
I've asked a few people about this but never had what I'd call a
comple
Hi,
I've asked a few people about this but never had
what I'd call a complete answer (I've been quoted from the admin guide but it's
not hugely helpful as I've already read this and doesn't answer my question) so
hopefully someone knows a bit more about this on this mailing list.
We have NBU 6
of Alessandro da SilveiraSent: Tue 11/07/2006 3:11
PMTo: Wilkinson, Tim;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6
Library Based Tape License
Yes Tim, just to legacy, because if you are using this without
licenses, it's ilegal, please same running fine put your license
but it seems it
is the other way around.
Perhaps the power outage made VSP work?
I'm finding the open file thing a bit hit and miss to be
honest.
From: WEAVER, Simon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006
1:58 AMTo: 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; Wilkinson, Tim;
veritas-bu
I'm sure there's a
nice Veritas document about this but I've been unable to find
it.
What are the general
best practices about backing up the Master server config in case the server
needs to be rebuilt? We do catalogue backups but this only has backup
information on it and not all the
.
Cheers,
Tim
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From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 3:37 PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, Windows, excluding files
Tim
Open Files can make an issue, especially
We are backing up
some databases (SQL and SharePoint) and using agents to backup the actual dbs
and also backing up the entire systems using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.
The A_L_D backup
jobs meet a few open db files and can't back them up (which is expected) and I'm
wondering whether I can exclude
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: Wilkinson, Tim
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, Windows, excluding files
We are backing up some databases (SQL and SharePoint) and using agents
to backup the actual dbs and also backing up the entire systems using
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.
The A_L_D backup jobs meet
: Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:47 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, Windows, excluding files
Bob - thanks for that; that's a pretty comprehensive answer to my
questions).
Di nada. Unfortunately, that may have been 99% of what I know about
Windows
Hi,
We have NBU6 MP2
installed on 2 separate networks; both backing up DHCP servers (both Win2k)
using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. One of them backs up both Full and Incrementals without
any errors, the other having issues with DHCP files (reporting the file as being
open; files such as dhcp.mdb)
I've been playing
around with both (and got them both working, which is nice) but I've got a quick
question, more for documentation. I had to configure the Master server (Client
Attributes' container) for Windows Open file backups to backup open files (which
makes sense) but is this
It's perfectly fine to use DHCP for Windows servers as long as you use
reservations. The good thing about using DHCP for reserved IPs is if the
network configuration changes, you don't have to manually update the
values on every box as it can be done through DHCP.
Cheers,
Tim
-Original
Title: Message
Taylor,
We had this in NBU6 but it turned out we were using
frequency with the frequency set too high. For weeklies, we had it set to a
frequency of 1 week, which was falling outside of the start window; we set it to
3 days and it runs fine now.
Cheers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL
and will always show this error when you attempt to install NBU. You have to
disconnect this before proceeding.
Hope that
helpsSteve
On 5/30/06, Wilkinson,
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been testing to see if it's possible
to deploy multiple clients remotely from the same session
I've been testing to
see if it's possible to deploy multiple clients remotely from the same session
but it's not looking good. I've come across some strange issues with
authentication on the remote clients.
In my test
environment, I've got a Windows 2003 box and a Windows 2000 box. Both
Hi,
I had a test
environment with a Master (well actually master/media) and a Media server setup.
I now want to remove the media server from the environment so I uninstalled
Netbackup from the server and now the server shows up on the Master with a
socket 25 error, and there doesn't seem
Aha - little did I know I'd be opening up a can of proverbial worms. It
seems that at the very least Symantec/VERITAS need to update the
documentation; to me it implies that it is the end of the backup job,
although it doesn't explicitly say this.
I too took the Admin class but can't remember what
Hi,
I'm looking into
backing up IIS and there seems a few ways to do this (and if using
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES you getthem all).
First off there's
the 'system state' (win2k) and 'shadow copy components' (win2k3), which backs up
'IIS', although I'm unsure exactly what it backs up. There is also a
eers,
Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob
StumpSent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:28 PMTo: Wilkinson,
Tim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Tristan BallSubject: RE:
[Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type
"frequency is measured from when the backup
ends
Hi,
I'm trying to
understand how this actually works as I think it works a little differently from
how I thought it worked. We have a couple of polices that do a full backup
weekly, with the frequency set to 1 week. However, the jobs didn't run on the
weekend; there were no errors, they
Hi,
I'm a bit of a
newbie to Netbackup (but learning shed-loads rather rapidly) and have a question
about VSP for open file backups. I've had some people who use this and others
who don't although I've not had any reasons for either case.
I'm wondering if
it's generally a good idea on
as
any documents they might be working on).
From: WEAVER, Simon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 May 2006 2:55
AMTo: Wilkinson, Tim;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and
VSP on Windows
Cons: Backups can fail with status
156
Pros: Well I dont use
Hi,
I'm a bit of a
newbie to Netbackup (but learning shed-loads rather rapidly) and have a question
about VSP for open file backups. I've had some people who use this and others
who don't although I've not had any reasons for either case.
I'm wondering if
it's generally a good idea on
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