[Veritas-bu] missing digests

2013-03-28 Thread bob944
I missed some digests. If there is another packrat such as I on the list who has volumes 78 through 80, I'd appreciate copies. Off-list, please. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] HP library and 5220 appliance - zoning

2012-06-21 Thread bob944
We're trying to configure some LTO5s, shared out from an HP ESL, on a 5220 at 2.0.3. Linux isn't creating device nodes, so none of the NBU methods of scanning are finding anything--no robotics, no tape drives. The FibreChannel Show appliance command shows the HBAs configured correctly, the

[Veritas-bu] competing schedules (was:RE: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 73, Issue 19)

2012-05-28 Thread bob944
When it comes to overlapping schedules, set both schedules to run at the same time and the schedule with the longest retention will be the only one that runs. Actually that's the most common misconception in NetBackup. With frequency-based scheduling, more than one schedule due to backup,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive list

2012-03-10 Thread bob944
Haven't seen this much interest in archives (in the NBU sense) in years. GOOD discussion. [confession:] Hi. My name's bob944 and I've used user archives. Wow. This is the most press UARC has received in ages. First, every person who commented on this made sense and appears to understand

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools

2012-02-23 Thread bob944
[ restore uses copy from remote serer ] Thanks so much for your reply. So if I understand correctly, I add the following in the bp.conf on the master server FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = nbumedia2 where nbumedia2 is the name of the media server I want to use for restores ? I haven't used

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude lists on Unix clients

2011-12-02 Thread bob944
Patrick Whelan said: How do most of create and populate exclude lists on Unix clients, if you don't have access to said client? As Scott Kendall mentioned, bp[gs]etconfig is the cleanest way to go, (technically and politically). That said, setting and maintaining *clude lists with a)

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup OpsCenter vs. OpsCenter w/Analytics

2011-11-29 Thread bob944
From: Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com [...] However, I've just started looking into Analytics (w/trial key) and was curious if anyone had found any killer features it offers over the regular OpsCenter in terms of metrics/reporting or other things I may have missed? I'm not much for

Re: [Veritas-bu] massive catalog growth

2011-11-14 Thread bob944
Great, so it appears NetBackup is actually not respecting my exlcude_list. I just ran a test job and realize it is backing up DSSU's, the catalog and a whole bunch of other things that should be and are excluded. And we all assume it's not _really_ named exlcude_list, right? :-) Not that

Re: [Veritas-bu] NUMBER data buffers

2011-10-18 Thread bob944
So I've read the tuning guide, I've played around with different options for SIZE and NUMBER of buffers and I understand the formula of SIZE * NUMBER * drives *MPX as it relates to shared memory. You're going to get a lot of replies. Everyone is a buffer tuning expert. :-) If all you

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU LiveUpdate 7.1.0 - 7.1.0.2

2011-10-10 Thread bob944
Just set up LiveUpdate for the first time, and was trying to use it to update a 7.1.0 client to 7.1.0.2. It says that it found no updates to install...It is because you can't use LiveUpdate to make such a minor change. Would it only work, for example to go from 7.1 to 7.2? LiveUpdate for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Warning Beta 7.5 OpsCenter

2011-08-29 Thread bob944
[ Dave points out that Beta upgrades aren't supported ... ] A support case is open at Symantec. So far they did not mention anything about upgrading is not supported. As that talldude suggested, beta releases should be clean installations. See this from the NB_75_Beta_Primer.pdf:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapes mounting in ACSLS but not Netbackup

2011-07-27 Thread bob944
[...] When i initiate a backup i can see the job which sits in a mounting state in Netbackup, however, the tape itself is mounted in the drive in ACSLS. Running a vmoprcmd shows nothing in the drive. Although i'm sure at one stage i've seen it pick up the mount in vmoprcmd but not in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

2011-06-08 Thread bob944
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. Until Microsoft finally came up with VSS in w2k3, the OS vendor provided *zero* tools for open file backups. Veritas had been filling that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

2011-06-08 Thread bob944
Hey Bob, it's not FUD. VSP has been problematic since, I don't know, 4.5? Yessir, 4.5fp6 was the total replacement release where Columbia Data Products' OTM was replaced with VSP. It would fail to release the lock on the file and therefore ]...] Sure there were problems, the worst IMO being

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1

2011-04-29 Thread bob944
How has everyone's 7.1 experience been? It runs filesystem backups well in the lab. Any gotchas or things to look out for? Things you would expect to be found in FA and to be in LBN before you discover it the hard way, including - upgrade of a solaris master with windows clients fails/takes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-18 Thread bob944
R.I.P., Reading Comprehension. sheesh ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-15 Thread bob944
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] Solaris master 7.1 upgrade hang

2011-04-13 Thread bob944
Wish I would have read this yesterday. I'm in the middle of an upgrade right now and all my window's policies are slowly being converted right now. I figure it should finish in 10 hours. I'm very lucky to have the ability to keep this env down this long. Little upset that this known issue

[Veritas-bu] Solaris master 7.1 upgrade hang

2011-04-12 Thread bob944
Well, _this_ was interesting. Simply, upgrading a Solaris master to 7.1 can/will hang if there are Windows clients with hardware types of x86, x64 or IA64. The good news is that it does no damage and that there is a simple workaround that, um, works. http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH156810

Re: [Veritas-bu] three copes with ost

2011-03-05 Thread bob944
I will start using OST for my primary site (NY) and secondary (NJ) with cross replication. I also want a third copy going to tape, but I want the tape to be created at NY (for all backups, NY and NJ). here is my question... With Storage Lifecycle, for my NJ backups, if I create a copy to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Size buffers / Performance Tune on Ex2k3 with LTO4

2011-01-26 Thread bob944
Just a quick question, but I used some default NetBackup settings to tune Exchange backups and restores. If I move to a different library with LTO4 (rather than LTO3), do I need to reconfigure the settings? Windows 2003 SAN Media Exchange, with Master Win2k3 SP2 Need? No, unless there

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Servers Per Tape Drive Ratio

2011-01-26 Thread bob944
How do you determine how many media servers per tape drive in your environments? I have 10 LTO3 tape drives and have been using 2 media servers per tape drive. Thank you. I read this question differently than others who responded. In case the question related to SSO, recent NetBackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] KMS encryption

2010-06-15 Thread bob944
I just went to my library and turned on Application Managed Encryption Interesting. Since NetBackup doesn't need anything but bptm and an LTO4 to do KMS, do you know if your library somehow blocks that process if that app managed crypto isn't turned on? It's my understanding that the keytags

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fw: KMS encryption

2010-06-15 Thread bob944
Today i tried configuring the KMS on my master server(running on AIX). It worked perfectly fine, i took help from veritas support and according to them we can only keep one key in the key database, it will always use the same key for encrypting the data. Every time we need to change the

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 media server upgrade problem

2010-06-09 Thread bob944
I performed an upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 on my master server all went well, I performed an upgrade on 1 media server all went well. Before I could perform this on the next media server SCACIFS01.domain.com I started getting NetBackup TLD Control Daemon - Invalid magic number from client

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 49, Issue 20

2010-05-23 Thread bob944
I want to add that netbackup 7 clients does not have VSP. Because--and I'm sure you know this--now that Microsoft no longer supports its server OSes which don't have VSS, neither can Veritas (no Win2000 in NetBackup 7)--hence no longer a need to provide OTM/VSP. And I don't remember anyone

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups

2010-04-07 Thread bob944
I am trying to run NDMP backups with certain paths and I am getting error 99 in the GUI, and the error ndmp_data_start_backup failed, status = 9 (NDMP_ILLEGAL_ARGS_ERR). [...] Backup Selections: [...] /vol/vol2/data/[A-M]* [...] Unfortunately (to my knowledge),

Re: [Veritas-bu] Resetting the archive bit on windows backups

2010-03-24 Thread bob944
This occurred to me on the way to work. Does the NB client for windows reset all the archive bits on files after the backup's completion? That's the only thing that makes sense as I see it. If it reset the bit after each file, then a last-minute failure of the backup would not let the

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

2010-03-21 Thread bob944
[re: the usual Windows SQL Server MDF and LDF files in use] Can't these filed be backed up via open file file backup (VSS/VSP) Not sure you can back them up even _with_ Windows open file backup methods--try backing up the perflib stuff. Microsoft seems to lock these files with an exclusive

Re: [Veritas-bu] TapeAlert Code: 0x1e, Type: Critical

2010-03-12 Thread bob944
We think we have found the cause, a netapp tape zone in one of our fabrics which had an unattended server in it I hope it wasn't a Windows box. Maybe 6-7 years ago, an admin zoned a Win 2000 system to tape for some reason and also didn't shut off the RSM service. RSM seems to rewind drives at

Re: [Veritas-bu] KMS Key Rotation

2010-03-12 Thread bob944
Once you have setup the KMS and assuming you want to restore them. What is the necessary info required to restore. Pool Name ?? Key Name = ?? Key Tag ?? etc Phase-1 and Phase-2 don't show this info. From where we will get this info for the restore. Why are you importing the tapes?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrate master from HPUX to Solaris

2010-03-04 Thread bob944
IMO, those characterizations of the content of the cited technotes can be improved: This technote says that you can /must not do it http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/267137.htm No, that two-year-old technote that says support will 1) help you recover if you try it yourself and 2)

Re: [Veritas-bu] Files to exclude for hot catalog backups

2010-01-27 Thread bob944
there should be no need to improve the hot catalog backup by excluding things from it. On 1/23/10 1:28 PM, bob944 bob...@attglobal.net wrote: Directories to exclude from hot catalog backup policy (6.0 master) /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/master Curious about why one would want to do

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Policy Selection for Windows

2010-01-26 Thread bob944
Sorry I confused... No, you're not confused. You are configuring NetBackup in what seems the obvious way from your background (we _all_ do this, whether it's backup or programming or word processing). The question is I have about 10 windows clients and each client has different mount points

Re: [Veritas-bu] Files to exclude for hot catalog backups

2010-01-23 Thread bob944
Directories to exclude from hot catalog backup policy (6.0 master) /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/master Curious about why one would want to do that in a hot catalog backup. Is that a recommendation in a manual that I've missed? (Just checked my 6.0 Admin I and II and didn't see it.) Is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Policy Selection for Windows

2010-01-23 Thread bob944
I am new for Windows backup. Need your help to explain on below Here is the requirement. Windows Clients List ... CTLBIS1 CTLFS1 CTL-JAM [...] Backup Selection Example. CTLDS04 Full C: drive NS Full C: drive Full D: drive NS0 C:\WINNT\System32\dns I can understand if

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to replace robot on Netbackup 6.5

2010-01-09 Thread bob944
I replaced the robot, and changed the magazines with all the tapes over into the new robot, but when i try to inventory, it will not allow me to do so: Insert media failed: barcode not unique in database (36). [...] Two things: 1) have you let NetBackup know these are the same media, moved

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19

2009-12-18 Thread bob944
so I have a problem with backing up MSCS clusters with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup selections. The cluster nodes not holding the volume attempt to backup the volumes and fail. This was easy enough to fix with policy specific client exclusions, and these exclusions for the clustered volumes get

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 44, Issue 7

2009-12-03 Thread bob944
We already are running with abort on error (WOFB_error 0) Do you have a link for the etrack as I can't seem to find it on the symantec site In case a dozen others haven't sent this already... :-) : From a Symantec Technical Advisory of 7/2/2009: - A potential for System State data

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6; tuning with [mpx/streams]

2009-11-17 Thread bob944
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 specific objectives I'm trying to achieve: - send multiple jobs from a single policy

Re: [Veritas-bu] I am trying to figure how or best way to do

2009-11-12 Thread bob944
What I want to achieve is that if backup fails, business owners want information on failed clients i.e. dates of last good Inc, Full back to disk and tape. At the moment am doing this manually and is not fun, have over 300 clients and sometimes we get 20-30 failures. How can I automate

Re: [Veritas-bu] Notify batch file - End of Job

2009-11-11 Thread bob944
I've looked again in goodies and admincmd for a script or batch file that can monitor by policy (or by server name) a backup's completion and then send an e-mail to notify a non-administrative user. Are you Reading The Fine Manual? The notification scripts can be suffixed the same way that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup policy Clarification

2009-10-29 Thread bob944
Day PolicySL No Sat Full backup 1 Mon Incremental 2 Tue Incremental 3 Wed Cumulative4 Thu Incr?mental 5 Fri Incr?mental 6 Sat Full backup 7 Mon Incremental 8 Tue Incremental 9 Wed Cumulative

Re: [Veritas-bu] ALT_RESTORE_COPY_NUMBER file

2009-10-25 Thread bob944
Our last DR exercise, we tried using this file to switch quickly to our duplicate copies. What we found out is that it works perfectly for Windows clients, but doesn't work for UNIX clients unless bprestore is used from the command line. We were using 6.0 MP5 last year, this year we are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sharing a library

2009-10-21 Thread bob944
We have an SL8500 that will be sharing applications (NetBackup and Quantum Storage Manager). The Quantum will be using 9840D tape drives and NetBackup will use LTO4, and we are not hard partitioning the library. The tapes for the different apps have different barcode schemes. The NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Make drives read only in NBU

2009-10-08 Thread bob944
Does anyone know if you can make a subset of drives in a library read only in NBU . i.e. I want a specific 10 out of 50 drives in a robot to be read only for duplication purposes? Something else I haven't had the need to do, but if you configure them in a separate storage unit(s) and don't

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate help

2009-10-08 Thread bob944
If they're run too closely together, it, for some reason, picks a new tape - it must be a way to delays caused by mounting positioning. I've seen this in backups, too. On my third backup of the set, it picked the first tape. Haven't seen this myself, but perhaps this is affected by how a

Re: [Veritas-bu] SL500 Tape Library Issue

2009-09-17 Thread bob944
Host OS : Solaris 9 NBU : 6.5.3 NO it gives that logical unit is in the process of getting ready Dude. How long are you going to keep trying to fix this tape library in a software mailing list? You need to get a tech working on your library. Period. By the way, I have seen one bad

Re: [Veritas-bu] SL500 Tape Library Issue

2009-09-17 Thread bob944
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of bob944 Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:32 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: qureshiu...@rediffmail.com Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SL500 Tape Library Issue Host OS : Solaris 9 NBU : 6.5.3 NO it gives that logical unit is in the process

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

2009-09-10 Thread bob944
Just out of curiosity, for all those stating to check the logs, to which logs are you referring? Depends on the error, the source of it, the platform and the NetBackup version. I've talked offline to half a dozen people about this in the last week; everybody has their own special places to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

2009-09-04 Thread bob944
[...] but I don't concur with simply destroying any tape that ever gets an error. Nobody advocated that; toss-versus-try-it-again was after addressing the OP's other possibilities and after checking the logs to see what really happened. 10 minutes of troubleshooting isn't going to kill you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

2009-09-03 Thread bob944
1) NetBackup detects Non-NetBackup data format [...] 2) NetBackup detects that [it is a catalog tape...] 3) NetBackup tried to read/write to the tape and [got write or positioning errors...] ... if the barcode and recorded mediaID don't match... if the tape winds up in the wrong drive,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu] run a script on the Master any time a backup[...]

2009-08-25 Thread bob944
Need to run a script on the Master server when each backup job starts. I tried parent_start_notify and found that it only runs for policies that have Allow Multiple Data Streams checked. It seems to me that there should be some script that can be run reliably on the master every

Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy[...]

2009-08-22 Thread bob944
On the client, I have a need to generate a list of file systems to be backed up by a particular Policy. There does not seem to be a way to do this from the client. Anyone know better? It's not clear to me what you want. If Ed Wilts' interpretation--run some command on a client that gives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Transition from LTO1 to LTO4

2009-08-22 Thread bob944
We're considering switching from our old ADIC Scalar 1000 (with LTO1 drives) to an HP MSL8096 (4 drives). The logical step will be to go the LTO3 route so we can read our old media but ... considering we do backups 99.5% of the time and restores 0.5% of the time...I'm considering getting

Re: [Veritas-bu] run a script on the Master any time a backup[...]

2009-08-22 Thread bob944
Need to run a script on the Master server when each backup job starts. I tried parent_start_notify and found that it only runs for policies that have Allow Multiple Data Streams checked. It seems to me that there should be some script that can be run reliably on the master every time a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server offline for disk (now DSSU stuff)

2009-07-17 Thread bob944
The high watermark serves two purposes - (1) It prevents any new backup jobs from being sent to the STU, and (2) It triggers image expirations on the STU. The function #1 is not applicable to Disk Staging STU; however, the functionality #2 should work for it. So, if you lower HWM for the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas MSEO product

2009-07-09 Thread bob944
We are considering using the Veritas MSEO (Media Server Encryption Option) to encrypt our tapes for offsite storage. Does anyone have any experience with this product? Yes, in multiple-server/multiple-agent configuration which was very easy to set up and customize, and not too bad to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unsupported file system type in BackupExec

2009-07-08 Thread bob944
I am getting the following: 18:03:22 INF - Skipping Backup Exec backup having backup set number 180. Unsupported file system type :47 18:03:22 INF - Skipping Backup Exec backup having backup set number 181. Unsupported file system type :59 18:03:32 INF - Skipping Backup Exec backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-08 Thread bob944
There is a case open with Symantec about this issue, and I am told an EEB will be made available soon. You are not supposed to have to keep a full around, No. You _must_ have a full plus subsequent TIR and diffs or cincs to synthesize a new full, but it does not matter how the full was

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frequency Based Schedules

2009-06-04 Thread bob944
[bob944] and the longest frequency will win--the monthly will run. [Rusty] Bob, that's what usually happens, but that's not why. The trump card is the retention level, which usually is matched to a longer frequency, but may not always be the case. [bob944] I'm always glad

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frequency Based Schedules

2009-06-03 Thread bob944
and the longest frequency will win--the monthly will run. Bob, that's what usually happens, but that's not why. The trump card is the retention level, which usually is matched to a longer frequency, but may not always be the case. I'm always glad to learn new things, but I'm not sure

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frequency Based Schedules

2009-06-02 Thread bob944
Hello Guru's ... We are struggling with this scenario. We are a Netbackup 6.5.3.1 shop and recently discovered that using Frequency Based Schedules that a Monthly Full backup and a Weekly Full backup for the same client will run on the same weekend. What are we doing Wrong?? You

Re: [Veritas-bu] Troubleshooting Network Issues

2009-05-30 Thread bob944
I need a way to call a script when a backup first gets kicked off on the master. Bpstart_notify appears to work on the client, but I'm having these strange network error related to when the backup starts - before bpbkar32 is initialized on the client. Is there another script on the master /

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.5.3 slow response for administrative tasks

2009-05-30 Thread bob944
What I'm seeing is really poor response when adding or changing backup policy specifications. Sometimes to update the backup windows via the Admin console, it takes longer than 2 minutes - even when there is no other activity. I've also seen significant pauses when

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup

2009-05-22 Thread bob944
All, Just trying to get a policy within NBU setup, and having some difficulties getting it setup. Currently I have the following setup: Policy = XX_VMTest01 Policy Type = MS-Windows-NT Schedule = Full Client is the NBU Media Server (also the master) Backup Selection - ??

Re: [Veritas-bu] MSEO - How to understand the images are

2009-04-21 Thread bob944
We are trying MSEO option. Is anyone know that how we can undaertand the images are Encrypted by MSEO. or Is there any commad to list/show images which are backed up by MSEO? In an evaluation, I customized the audit log (that's in the manual) and then used the audit log information in

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Library Configuration Parameters

2009-04-21 Thread bob944
Hello, my department just bought a new Spectra Logic tape library and I'm tasked with installing it. Where do I get the information for the configuration parameters like robot type, drive type, etc? Is the provided by Spectra Logic or Symantec? You shouldn't need to. The device

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpimport - Phase I Issue

2009-04-20 Thread bob944
[expired phase 1 imports] Is this image really expired? I seem to remember something about Phase I imports only lasting 7 days, but I thought setting all the retention periods to infinity would help with that. My next step is to re- import the same media and see if I can restore then.

Re: [Veritas-bu] question about checkpoint

2009-04-16 Thread bob944
I have only a question with the checkpoint in policies : I have test a backup with use checkpoint positionning all the 15 minutes and after about 20 minutes i cancel this job, but it'is not possible to resume job with checkpoint position! is it normal that the job can't restart with the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu] Unable to find image in Restore/Catalog

2009-03-28 Thread bob944
Yes, correct i am looking out for specific date. But when i went in the directory. There are files for that particular date. # pwd /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/EKMS/123600 # cd .. # ls -ltr total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root other512 Mar 6 13:41 123000 drwxr-xr-x 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 and SQL Online Agent - Some

2009-03-22 Thread bob944
Situation: Win2k3 SP2 Master and Mutliple SAN Media Servers. I have many VM Machines that are doing backups via the lan at this stage. VMCB will be looked into later this year. Problem I am seeing: In particular, 2 clients have 500 SQL DB's on them and the behaviour of NetBackup seems to

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to properly calculate the Catalog

2009-03-15 Thread bob944
That formula in the manual is completely worthless. I can't believe they still publish it. The SIZE of the data you're backing up has NOTHING to do with the size of the index. What matters is the number of files or objects. [...] I could backup a 200 TB database with a smaller NBU catalog

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL issue

2009-02-21 Thread bob944
Update from my DBA - these are transaction log backups, and he added a new database - since the TL will fail if there is not a backup, that is what caused the issue. Why would NetBackup not see this? He claims his SQL scripts ran through and finished, but the parent jobs never

Re: [Veritas-bu] Change in NET_BUFFER_SZ

2009-02-17 Thread bob944
Will this take effect w/out stopping/starting the primary bprd on the Master? I'd imagine no need to start/stop anything on clients or media servers, but don't know about the master. NBU 6.5.3 This should be a bptm thing, set up per-backup using the setting in the file at the time. grep

Re: [Veritas-bu] Schedule SQL Log backup in Netbackup

2009-02-05 Thread bob944
Actually we are implementing the Netbackup SQL Agent for all our SQL databases. So iam finding the best method to implement the Full, Diff tlog backup. Full - Needs to run weekends Diff. - Needs to Run week days TLog - Needs to run every 15 minutes This is the requirement. And,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status = 12 (file open failed) in bpbackup

2009-02-03 Thread bob944
So anything other than a status 0 abbends our job. What's Is that the behaviour you want? You didn't ask, but that's probably not what I'd want my scheduler process to do. I can't find anywhere in any log which file bpbackup is actually choking on. Sometimes the status 12 happens before

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 and Quantum Scalar 50

2009-02-03 Thread bob944
I have a server running Netbackup 6.5 on Windows Server 2003 x64, and a Quantum Scalar 50. I have the robot and both drives in the Scalar visible in Netbackup, I can move tapes around with the Scalar's web interface, and if I manually move a tape into the Passthrough ports on the Scalar,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting Netbackup 6.5.x job information

2009-02-01 Thread bob944
argos2-cls:/#vxlogview -X jobid=9109V-1-1-12 There are no records to be displayed.argos2-cls:/# What does that means ? What else can I do to obtain information for such job? How to obtain activity monitor as well as verbose activity info via command line ? Read the man pages (in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup not listed in history in BAR

2009-01-27 Thread bob944
While trying to restore backup for a client I could not find all the backups taken (the client has a weekly backup schedule). There were no failures for any of the backups. But Do you know that for a fact? How? Many operators/admins/managers destroy information by deleting failures from

Re: [Veritas-bu] error

2009-01-25 Thread bob944
Dear All i get the following error [ERROR] v-125-331 can't create sol 10 shared resources Tree on sol 5.10 boot servers can any one answer 1. I don't know the answer to your problem. 2. You have several BMR problems so far. What does support say about them?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Buffer settings LTO II vs LTO IV

2009-01-17 Thread bob944
In an environment with HP LTO II's, I've been using for some time and with good results: NET_BUFFER_SZ (65536) SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS (262144) NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS (32) My question is has anyone seen the need, or any performance improvement by changing these setting after implementing a

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 on Windows and VMWARE Backups

2009-01-06 Thread bob944
I am configuring VCB backups for NBU 6.5.3, for FlashBackup-Windows policy, there are 4 options for backup types under Snapshot Client Options. These are 0 - File 1 - FullVM 2 - Mapped FullVM 3 - FullVM and File for Incrementals From reading the docs, Option 3 - FullVM and File for

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Windows Java GUI for the Admin Console

2009-01-06 Thread bob944
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Re: [Veritas-bu] SuSE 10sp2

2009-01-03 Thread bob944
From: nitabillls netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com Message-ID: 1230982128.m2f.295...@www.backupcentral.com Nothing - it never comes back. I get: Trying 127.0.0.1... Escape character is '^]'. But then it never returns anything. It doesn't refuse connection. Since you used a Web

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Windows Java GUI for the Admin Console

2009-01-01 Thread bob944
Thanks, but I need to be able to support multiple versions...like 6.0, 6.5, 6.5.2, and 6.5.3 as well as IME, all patch/MP versions are backwards compatible within that major version (5.1, 6.0, 6.5). It's possible, even likely, that each major version understands the previous versions so

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Library upgrade procedure Scenario 1.

2008-12-23 Thread bob944
Sun E220R (running Solaris 8) Netbackup Server with attached L1000 tape unit + 4 x DLT drives. Netbackup 5.0MP7. Hardware is beyond old but customer is reluctant to upgrade. We have told them we cannot support the L1000 unit and their backups are at risk. It has gone EOSL and parts are

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to plan out policy(schedules), [...]

2008-12-12 Thread bob944
This is a really well-thought-out answer to his question. Although I don't agree with ALL of your recommendations (I don't like frequency-based schedules for fulls), this is actually a pretty good summary of what someone should do to setup a new backup environment. You've inspired me to

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to plan out policy(schedules), [...]

2008-12-06 Thread bob944
All other advice you receive will be more complicated and that's fine if it makes more sense to you. My philosophy here is to make your NetBackup as simple and self-maintaing as possible; every exception (and there will be some) is a cost. I am very new to NBU. Our enviornment has 300 intell

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.3 on the FTP site

2008-12-03 Thread bob944
I got the first BUG. YE Ok, it's just the JAVA GUI, but it's something they should see at the first check. Try to open the Activity Monitor, Filter, Advanced Search and then try to do a search for a Policy. This really sucks. You remembered to apply the JAV patch?

Re: [Veritas-bu] FW: Multi Stream Backups

2008-11-28 Thread bob944
Both the Information Store Backup and the Mailbox Backup run at the same time. (Not best practice, but they do). The two streams of the Information Store backups starts and run. The four streams of the Mailbox backup start but only two run and two queue. Summary: STU = 1 drive x 8

Re: [Veritas-bu] Running jobs for hot backups of NBU catalog

2008-11-28 Thread bob944
Since some days ago I'm researching about, what I think it's, a problem (or a bug?) in a new installation of Symantec NBU 6.5.2 on AIX 5.3. [parent job of catalog backup doesn't end] Have you seen technote http://support.veritas.com/docs/292450 regarding the level of the C++ runtime

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAP Scheduled Job Fails with 6 and then never

2008-11-28 Thread bob944
If it gets a failure (say 96, 6 or 150), the job fails to re-run the same day, but does re-run on the next backup window. Schedule is set to run every 2 hours and I have a window of 2 hours set during the day. If I get no failures, all is well. But one failure, just one seems to blow the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 200

2008-11-25 Thread bob944
All of our policies are setup the same, i.e. the weekly and monthly backups are calendar based and the daily incrementals are frequency. This has never caused a problem before. Of course, I wouldn't let the fact that Veritas has put this statement Note: A policy can contain more than one

Re: [Veritas-bu] What are default exclusion in 6.5.2 ?

2008-11-20 Thread bob944
Can anybody provide me list what are not backed up by default ( files,folder or filesystem ) for windows and unix clients ? The manual is your friend. Veritas NetBackup System Administrator's Guide, Volume 1, under the heading Files that are excluded from backups by default

Re: [Veritas-bu] WIN32 21 on XP

2008-11-07 Thread bob944
On all I receive WIN32 21 messages Backup from client pco0625: WRN - Removable Storage Management: unable to export database (WIN32 21: The device is not ready. ), the normal fix excluding files in system32 or disabling service is not working or not available. I've tried searching the

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Media Type

2008-10-26 Thread bob944
We currently have a lot of investment in LTO3 Drives and Tapes and moving forward with LTO4. Is there a way we can se LTO4 Media Type to be different than HCART3 in Netbackup? Yes, call it whatever you want. Either manually or with barcode rules, bring your new LTO4 media in as hcart.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone setup the new clustered HDS VTL on

2008-10-15 Thread bob944
We're unable to see the robot. It's a : Protect tier VTL v2.1.1 Library is presented as P3000 It has LTO2 drives being emulated This is the broken one: /dev/sg/c0tw1000c973d212l0: ## - robot should appear here /dev/sg/c0tw1000c973d212l1: removable dev

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vmoprcmd in version 6.5

2008-10-14 Thread bob944
In the past we have used vmoprcmd -h vahfcnas1-old -d pr | awk '$1~/[0-9]/ {print $3}' to find the pending requests for a single media server. We have seen that the fields have been changed and that all the pending requests for all media servers are returned. Is there a replacement for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reduce Volume Pools

2008-10-13 Thread bob944
First, if this is one of the class of I do not appear to have a reply to any emails I have sent for the past 2 weeks :-( emails, then, FYI, I haven't seen any of them so perhaps you really have had an outbound mail problem. Quick question; I am attempting to reduce the amount of volume pools

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