You can use: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:17 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media
I just noticed that there is also
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media.NBU7. We are running
NBU 7.0.1 and the only difference I see between the output is:
available_media output for some WORM tapes looks like -
And available_mediaNBU7 looks like -
From:
OK, here is my mea culpa ... a co-worker added a PERL version of this
script into the goodies directory. Please ignore this post.
From: DIVEN, BRIAN
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:32 AM
To: DIVEN, BRIAN; netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE:
We have multiple VTL's and chose to use them as a Storage Unit Group.
They are capable of deduplication. The vendor states that the amount of
data/VTL increases the dedupe time and we are struggling to complete
this process. Supposedly the time to dedupe has nothing to do with the
dedupe ratio -
I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup
success. I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ...
What do you believe this to be?
TIA
Brian
This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of
Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the
We are trying to implement a new backup design for our current Exchange
2003 environment. Today, we use standard network based backups over
the LAN and do daily full backups using NetBackup 6.5.4. With a
project to expand our current mailbox quotas for our Field clients, we
needed an improved
I can confirm that this is correct.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dan1home
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:15 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetApp
We are looking at re-designing our Master/Media OS environment and have
considered AIX (currently HP-UX). We have also struggled with VxSS as
have several of you - so we have continued to rely on the non-root admin
capabilities. Our initial exposure to AIX gave us issues with the Java
GUI.
I am curious about anyone that has deployed their Master and/or Media
Servers on Linux. What hardware did you deploy on (platform, cpu's,
memory, # and throughput on the HBA's), 64 bit? Are you pleased with
this solution? Any gotcha's? Do you consider yourself to be a small,
medium, or large
I heard today that if you are a maintenance paying customer and on 6.0,
you can actual request this 6.5 feature for 6.0 and they will send the
license.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:54
Also, there is a big difference between a manual backup and one that is
resubmitted. If you right click on the failed job and say resubmit, it
will get another status 196. You need to manually submit from the
policy.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
One way is to show the copy field in the activity monitor. The
parent job doesn't show as a copy.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tsilva
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 3:37 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu]
For those of you that are seriously interested, here is the actual format
taking advantage of policy and schedule names that made our life easier. I
should also state that we stood up extremely well to 5 audits over the past 4
years (BCP/vaulting audit, internal audit regarding records
We get around 6-8 restore requests/day. And yes, I take advantage of
Inline Tape Copy and have a copy available across dark fiber at a
separate campus and the other copy vaulted 90 miles away. If we have
time, I rerun (or dupe) any status 84's we get. I'm using IBM for tape
- 3590's and 3592's
I have experience with StorageTek, but never used HP. For the IBM
library, you turn off NBU cleaning mgmt and let the library handle it.
I'm not sure of their current alogrhytm - it used to be the number of
feet of tape that passed the heads or if the drive reports errors. When
a cleaning tape
We have fiber DWDM in place, so the drives appear as if they are locally
attached fiber drives. I'm in the process of doing some BCP work which
has different RPO/RTO than most things, so we are currently looking at
options for replication. We are already replicating the mainframe
environment,
That's true, but it won't work if it's outside of the backup window ... It will
then fail with a status 196.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:54 PM
To: Kohli, Vidit;
I thought this pic would be appropriate for us ...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liddle, Stuart
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 2:48 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Liddle, Stuart; 'Edson Noboru Yamada';
It works incredibly well for us. All management is command line
scripted for failure analysis, reruns, web-based reports, etc. The
biggest benefit for us is that each of our databases has it's own policy
name, so we use this name to pass in parms to a single script ... An
example policy name
Not yet ... We split our prod test environment in half and are running
the test environment under 6.0 MP4 planning for a production upgrade on
8/11 and back to a single master. We copied all 4,000+ policies over so
that it will have to process them all. NBPEM takes about 20 minutes to
sort it
Here are some of the options that I thought of for starters ... can
anyone add to the list?
1. Traditional direct to tape backup via media server
2. Direct to tape via SAN media server/client
3. Snapshot
4. Mirrored disk
5. Proprietary application backup to flat
We are upgrading from NBU 5.1 MP6 to NBU 6.0 MP4 on HP-UX 11.11
Master/Media servers. The underlying architecture is HP RP7420 PA-RISC.
Has anyone seen an increase in memory or CPU utilization after upgrading
to 6.0? Has the catalog increased in size after the conversion?
Digging a
True - however it is also time based. Time wins the priority battle.
A job with a priority of 5 scheduled at 10 PM would run before a job
with a priority of 25 scheduled at 11 PM (assuming there were no
resources available between 10-11 PM).
From: [EMAIL
Where are you taking your backups to - physical tape? Are you motivated
to do this to reduce your licensing costs? What is the restore
scenario? Do you see a need for BMR?
We are also looking into this and using a NetApp Filer ... any thoughts
on Fiber vs. iSCSI vs. NFS? I'm wondering if
I saw this article back in July and would be interested in your comments ...
Are they still a player? Have they re-defined a direction?
http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=3entryid=216
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Title: Message
3,733 to be exact. Everyone thinks we are nuts when
they first hear this and then think it's pretty cool and creative what we are
doing. To put it in the simplest of terms, NBU does not allow you to pass
parameters, but it does pass the policy name. Therefore, we use unique
We have around 3,000 policies
and it takes about 40 minutes for BPSCHED to get through
them.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of Clooney, DavidSent: Tue 8/29/2006 5:56 AMTo:
Shekhar Dhotre; Veritas Netbackup;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm
Title: Start NetBackup without starting scheduled backup jobs
We always use ./bpconfig -tries 0
However, this will not stop user backups from
starting.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schmid
Stefan, BedagSent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:29 AMTo:
Title: Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting
I am doing some VTL sizing analysis and have a
question regarding the common deduplication processes offered by various
vendors. The vendors quote a 20:1 type compression rate due to
single-instance-store. This makes sense for OS
I fall right in between both of you. I also enjoy the snail feature
which easily identifies slow running jobs as well as hung jobs that
haven't moved data in awhile. However real time it is, I do
experience lag time and use it more as a guideline than gospel. This is
my alert to go check the
I am running NBU 5.1 MP5 on HP-UX servers and we backup MQSeries which
is on both AIX and HP-UX platforms. We have had limited success doing
BCP recovery tests. Some research identified an IBM Redbook
SG24-5222-00 which says the MQSeries Queue Managers need to be shut down
prior to being backed
Title: Message
or Diligent, STK, IBM, Copan
Systems, etc.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of Jim HoralekSent: Tue 8/1/2006 5:23 PMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone
using VTL
Unfortunately no
one has answered Juan's question.
Any Data Domain,
Reo,
I guess this begs the question to the audience and the
people that have put in VTL's ... what problems does a VTL solve that D2D can
not?
I think the list so far is:
1. Administration is easier
2. Possibly performance
3. Compression (1/2 the disk of
D2D)
4. I can use it to stress test a
We use the agent
exclusively for our DB backups. However, the sybase team write the logs to
disk during the day and fire off a Netbackup job to tape at night. The
possible blessing to the agent is that you have to be a sybase user to do the
restore. Which means they don't call me in the
Title: Ndmp restore need help
Try adding the following to your bp.conf
...
FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER =oldserver
newserver
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle,
GregSent: Friday, June 30, 2006 3:04 PMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject:
Is anyone doing Exchange Archiving (Enterprise Vault or other product)?
How about DB or file archiving? I am hoping to get some feedback on the
basic strategy deployed and if there are any speed bumps to worry about.
Also, is it standard practice to archive forever until deleted by the
user?
Title: Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
I asked about Linux support on Z-Series at the Symantec Vision conference
this week during the Veritas NetBackup Future Directions break-out session
hosted by Rick Huebsch, VP Engineering.
He had 3 or 4 people from the engineering team
Title: Netbackup monitoring
I primarily use HP OpenView for Operations (OVO). It
would be nice to also get ECS (Event Correlation Services) with it, but that's
an extra cost.
We also use autosys to schedule the running of some scripts
that will send information to syslog, which OVO will
Title: Message
That would be more difficult, but Data Center Operations
(or NOC) is available to us to watch for alerts, so I can key off messages
like:
Jan 26 07:35:01 hugo tlhd[25949]: TLH(0) drive ca8830
(device 22) is being DOWNED, status: Unable to open drive
I also use OVO to look
Rumor has it that Network Appliance announced their own VTL (not
FalconStor). Does anyone have any specifics?
TIA - Brian
This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information of
Northwestern Mutual. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be
aware that any
Title: NetBackup Admin Console Access under NBU 5.1
We currently use the features in NBU to allow access to functions such as policy mgmt, media/device mgmt, etc. However, during a recent audit I was asked about restricting access within policies. We have separate policies for Unix/Windows
We had this exact problem on 5.1 MP3A. We stayed at MP3A but put in the
BPSCHED binary for MP4 and everything is working great ! We will be
proceeding with a formal MP4 upgrade.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Keating
Sent:
42 matches
Mail list logo
