Re: [Veritas-bu] REQUIRED_INTERFACE, anyone using private backup networks?

2011-05-12 Thread veritas netbackup
As per my understanding , its not the problem of the entry required_interface in bp.conf , it seems to be the issue with the interface issue at OS level , trying communicating the client interface with the media /master , if this works your issue will be resolved .. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at

[Veritas-bu] Assistance require (stats_report in ACSLS )

2010-02-08 Thread veritas netbackup
Hello , I have found in one of your tech note that you have suggested a report stats_report in ACSLS . Can you help me to configure the same in my environment , currently i am using ACS 7.1.0 . Also not sure if it is getting generated , so require exact path where these reports are getting

Re: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use their own scripts to eject tapes?

2008-11-07 Thread netbackup
Try adding: -abort_ie to prevent the need for CTRL-C. Regards, Patrick Kelley, Travis wrote: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -res -multi_eject -rn $robotnum -rt $robottype -rh $robothost -ml $tapeid -single_cycle Hi, I wonder what the single_cycle do in your command? I've search in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups may not be running

2008-11-05 Thread netbackup
I have had this problem at more than one site and with more than one version of NetBackup, which is why I wrote a Perl script to check every morning to make sure everything ran. The script is NOT perfect and would need customization for each site, but if anyone is interested let me know

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command to Produce client and version

2008-10-08 Thread netbackup
Try the bpcoverage command Hello All, Does anyone know which command and flags to use to produce a list Of clients and the version of netbackup they are running from the command line? I want to produce something similar to Host Properties Clients Properties With less fields. Using netbackup

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Backups

2008-09-23 Thread netbackup
: NetBackup 6.5.1 EMC Celerra NDMP NAS head EML Tape Library ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] tpautoconf -a -v ... ?

2008-09-17 Thread netbackup
There are documented if you do a tpautoconf -Q :) Hi all, Erm, just wondering if anyone knows why -a and -v are not documented in tpautoconf(1m) ? Are they meant to be hidden options ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the

Re: [Veritas-bu] STN

2008-08-12 Thread netbackup
It appears to be working now. Thanks for the reply though. I was begining to think nobody read my emails. :) Not just you Patrick, still having issues myself altho' I note that some are successfully using the forum. +-- |This

[Veritas-bu] STN

2008-08-11 Thread netbackup
Has anyone else had trouble connecting to STN. I have been trying since Friday with no luck. It worked before for many months, but now it is failing. Before I go digging to deep I'd like to know if anyone else is having the same problem. :) Regards, Patrick

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist option LIST_ALL_COPIES

2008-08-08 Thread netbackup
Looks like a bug. All the other options seem to work.  Hello,   Has anyone this bpimagelist option? The commandline reference says this;   LIST_COMPLETE_COPIES - Do not report fragments of a duplicate copy that is still in process.   The command i try to use is bpimagelist -option

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist option LIST_ALL_COPIES

2008-08-08 Thread netbackup
Oops, I should have tried Mr Cheney's suggestion first, it works. So it is not a bug, but a documentation error. The man page does indeed show what you were trying to run.  Hello,   Has anyone this bpimagelist option? The commandline reference says this;   LIST_COMPLETE_COPIES - Do not report

[Veritas-bu] (0) TRANSIENT (IDL:omg.org/CORBA/TRANSIENT:1.0)

2008-08-01 Thread netbackup
After waiting 4 hours for Symantec to call back on a sev 1 problem I decided I would ask the real experts. Has anyone seen the above message and do you have a clue as to what it might mean. All I can find is that it might be related to PBX, but bpxcfg returns what it is supposed to and the

[Veritas-bu] Fixed (not resolved) RE: (0) TRANSIENT (IDL:omg.org/CORBA/TRANSIENT:1.0)

2008-08-01 Thread netbackup
Well, we did the three finger salute (remember it's a windoze box), and now everyting is working. I did work with Symantec for over an hour and learned many new things, but in the end the reboot fixed it. Thanks for all the replies. Regards, Patrick Call support again and raze the case to

[Veritas-bu] bperror -backstat command

2008-06-18 Thread netbackup
NetBackup 6.5.1 on Windows 2003 Does anyone know why bperror –backstat –hoursago 900 does not generate a list for all clients? I run the command and approximately 5 clients don’t appear in the list, even though others in the same policy running at the same time do show up. Regards, Patrick

[Veritas-bu] Some clients in a policy do not start

2008-06-02 Thread netbackup
Has anyone seen the case where one client in a policy will start when scheduled, but the other two will not. I have copied the policy to a new name and then back. I waited over the weekend to be sure no manual backup was interfering with the backup. The schedules are calendar based. The clients

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some clients in a policy do not start

2008-06-02 Thread netbackup
___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu What version of NetBackup? Are both clients contactable? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some clients in a policy do not start

2008-06-02 Thread netbackup
One of the clients that doesn't start, is the master server. reinstall the client software perhaps? on the clients that do not start. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 10:22 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some clients in a policy do not start

2008-06-02 Thread netbackup
Thanks, will do when the manual backups finish. What exactly is the STREAMS file for? Regards, Patrick Delete the install path\netbackup\db\images\client_name\STREAMS file If you run 6.0.6 the file is STREAMSpolicy_name stefanos -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [Veritas-bu] FREEZING media id ... messages goingsomewhere otherthan bptm logs?

2008-05-29 Thread netbackup
I take it the reports-media logs is what you want either? Filter on description containing frozen.   Scott, I think you missed the point of my question. You just told me how to find the output of bpmedialist in the GUI (which I knew, and also don't care about).   I know which tapes are frozen

Re: [Veritas-bu] Command Line for Master Server Properties

2008-05-21 Thread netbackup
is underinstallpath/netbackup/db/class/policyname.   Thefiles there are ascii text.   He could send those to you.   Also not sure why you’re saying he can only send “text”.  Somemail filters complain about things that don’t have a .txt suffix but you canadd that to anything.  One thing you could do is pull

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to get capacity or type of tape media

2008-05-14 Thread netbackup
  : HP  Product ID : EML E-Series    Product Rev: 1222 Serial Number: GB80606W91 WWN  : WWN Id Type  : 0 Device Identifier: Device Type    : SDT_CHANGER NetBackup Robot Type: 8 Removable  : Yes Device Supports: SCSI-5 Number of Drives : 8 Number of Slots  : 230 Number of Media Access

[Veritas-bu] Error code 41

2008-05-12 Thread netbackup
Hello All, Does anyone know where I might look to find out why SQL and Oracle backups fail with an error code 41, but the file system backup run successfully? NBU 6.5.1 Windows. Regards, Patrick ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs: cannot get retention levels on server sm-gblo-nm01

2008-05-09 Thread netbackup
All, Has anyone seen the above error message? Does anyone have a clue as to its meaning? Environment Windoze NBU 6.5.1 command executed from a media server: bpdbjobs -most_columns -M master_server_name Regards, Patrick ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] Disregard - RE: bpdbjobs: cannot get retention levels on serversm-gblo-nm01

2008-05-09 Thread netbackup
Problem resolved. Misspelled media servers name. :( All, Has anyone seen the above error message? Does anyone have a clue as to its meaning? Environment Windoze NBU 6.5.1 command executed from a media server: bpdbjobs -most_columns -M master_server_name Regards, Patrick

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore

2008-04-30 Thread netbackup
I believe the restore will work as long as you don't need the registry stuff, but I would certainly change the policy ASAP. my £.02 worth. Regards Patrick   On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you never want to do that. Standard = for UNIX only.   VMS

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy to only start after previous policy completed(6 MP4)

2008-04-29 Thread netbackup
If you want the second policy to run only after the first, then create a USER schedule in the second policy, create a bpend_notify.firstpolicy script/bat/cmd file and have it call the second policy. Of course if what your looking for is maximum tape usage this will accomplish the exact

[Veritas-bu] Windows Master Server :(

2008-04-24 Thread netbackup
Not being a Windows (you can fill in the blank) I would like to know your thoughts on the following configuration: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition Service Pack 2 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz 3.60GHZ, 5.93GB of RAM Proliant DL360 G4 Is this powerful enough to be a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Master Server :(

2008-04-24 Thread netbackup
Ok, 37 clients (all windows except for the below mentioned UNIX) 12GB images folder. My real concern is the horsepower of the box in relation to doing all the task and writting to 8 SSO LTO 3 drives. The amount of data is about 30TB for full backups and most of the windows boxes are file

[Veritas-bu] Backup Exec

2008-03-25 Thread netbackup
I'm sure this is not the right forum, but perhaps someon can point me in the right direction as I am a complete novice with Backup Exec. How, from the windows command line, can I execute the bemcmd command on a remote server? If someone can point me in the right direction I would greatly

[Veritas-bu] Vault failure after upgrade from 6.0MP4 to 6.5.1

2008-03-12 Thread netbackup
Hello everyone, Has anyone seen a problem when upgrading a windoze server running NBU 6.0MP4 to 6.5.1. The problem we are seeing appears to be related to the catalog backup part of a vault schedule. We are getting an error that NBU cannot write to a log file. The odd thing is the Program File

Re: [Veritas-bu] Does NetBackup 6.0x support LTO-4 drives?

2008-03-11 Thread netbackup
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:34 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Does NetBackup 6.0x support LTO-4 drives? Or is it necessary to upgrade to 6.5.x? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist

[Veritas-bu] STK 9940 Drives Disapearing from Windows Server causing PEND-ACS

2008-01-29 Thread Veritas NetBackup
Greetings, We have been seeing SSO Tape Drive Disappearing in Windows Media Server running 5.1MP4 consistently. During backup Tape Drive loose connection to Media Server and drive Disappear from Device Manger. When I Scan tape drive through tpautoconfig -t ... I don't see drives.. Backup fail

[Veritas-bu] What's Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Veritas NetBackup
Anyone has good idea what's maximum Number of Media Server we can share tape Drive using SSO. I have seen SSO Drives Shared among 20 Media Servers, 35 and 45 Servers. I'm just curious to know. Khajan. ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy settings are reverting

2007-09-28 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Did you use...seprate consoles...! I mean did you change settings using the windows console and now trying to view them using a java console. Get back to using the console that you used to make the changes. I had problems in this case. Try verifying the settings using commands. Regards, PP BIJU

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL and Tape or SnapVault.

2007-08-07 Thread Veritas Netbackup
changes at the block level. I am thinking that this would be very fast for daily backups and I could eliminate tape. The alternative would be to use my existing NetBackup software to backup each filer via NDMP to a VTL. From the VTL I would apply the same retention. 14 days in the VTL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Newbie to Netbackup using VTL

2007-05-13 Thread Veritas Netbackup
I have tried answering a few of your questions. On 5/13/07, dy018 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for everyone input. But i'm still abit confuse. Maybe who can help ans the following to let me have a better understanding. Let's say i have 100 LAN clients altogether in 4 locations backing up

[Veritas-bu] Re: Hardware Recommendations for new setup

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
Hey Dom, thanks for the reply. You're right, 2 is possibly scraping the barrel a bit but personally I feel 6 would be overkill. The windows backup server (BackupExec 11d) for example is connected to a Dell Powervault LTO3 changer (8 slots) and we cope without a problem. I will put down 4 LTO

[Veritas-bu] Re: set_ndmp_attr question

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
, and then get on the media server used for the backup. grep pid /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm/log.date | grep NDMP The real problem should be evident from the output. If your media server is windows, you'll have to adapt the path above accordingly

[Veritas-bu] Re: Catalog size, bpdbm, nbcc ( UNIX ) [NC]

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
We have several v5.1 master servers with 1-2TB catalog sizes (binary / compressed). What we do is set the DB catalog backup to backup: /usr/openv/volmgr/database /usr/openv/var /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/master ..so that the DB catalog backup only backs up the images for itself

[Veritas-bu] Re: Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
Honestly, you shouldn't have to do much. As long as the media server is gigE and your tape drives are working properly (FC ones are pretty easy) I would just make sure you got the buffers set something higher than the default: /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS /usr/openv

[Veritas-bu] Re: Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
Well, on our one our T2000s, we are doing several things at once. many large SAN filesystems are mounted directly on the backup server to write to tape. None of this data has to traverse the network so it is very fast...80-100MB/sec on a single LTO3 drive. At the same time, incoming client

[Veritas-bu] Re: set_ndmp_attr question

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
This should be happening automatically (tapes with 0 vimages should expire and return to Scratch automatically). Try vmquery -deassignempty and see what happens. If you get an error, there is likely a problem with this process which should happen 2x daily by the system automatically. You

[Veritas-bu] Re: Disk Staging phase II concurrent drives number

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
look for technote regarding the MAX_STAGING_JOBS touchfile you put in /usr/openv/netbackup. In it you put a # of max # of duplication jobs you want to spawn. Default is 4 if you do not use the config file. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Re: Tuning Solaris 10 for NetBackup Media Server

2007-05-04 Thread netbackup-forum
ahh good to know..just saw the bug report on that. well regardless, the iostat metrics tell the real story and it's a pretty picture for the T2000 if you have all the other bases covered. ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup

2007-05-03 Thread netbackup-forum
, flexibility and enterprise level of NetBackup so I am speccing out some hardware. I would like to incorporate D2D2T as well so I'd like some recommendations on hardware (server and staging) and any 'gotchas' on what I've got in mind. I will be backing up around 100 clients, an equal mix of Windows 2003

Re: [Veritas-bu] SQL Backup

2007-04-22 Thread Veritas Netbackup
PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, I just started backing up SQL Server 2005 using Netbackup SQL Agent. I created a separate SQL policy for the machine with Application and Automatic Backups within it. I then went to the machine I ran the Netbackup SQL Agent and specified the correct connection

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Error 6 - RMAN logs no error

2007-03-26 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi List, Of late we have been seen a number of backups end with error 6 for parent stream, while the child streams end successfully. The DBA has been able to restore the data too. But we cannot ignore the error as it would be a confusion in event of a disaster. I have analyzed the DBClient

Re: [Veritas-bu] SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS number for HP LTO3 drives [C1]

2007-03-26 Thread Veritas Netbackup
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and netbackup tuning guide you will find a number of very useful documents. As a starter, have a look at - h71028.www7.* hp* .com/ERC/downloads/5982-9971EN.pdf http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/244652.htm You should be aware that Windows server 200 SP1 limits

[Veritas-bu] 219 when number of jobs are high??

2007-03-20 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi, Just wanted to know if anybody has faced the issue of jobs failing with 219 when the total count of jobs on the system is high. Re firing the jobs after a few minutes succeeds, but not immediately. We are using Netbackup 5.1 MP4 on Solaris 9 Sparc 64 bit. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN

Re: [Veritas-bu] The communication between master and media servers

2007-03-14 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Justin, Do you mean I shd make a storage grp per se Media server ?? I have media servers 1. mediaA - Ult3-1 2. mediaB - VTLA-1; VTLB-2 So I create 2 storage groups and group the STU. Regards, BIJU On 3/14/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Asiye Yi?it

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [C1]

2007-03-09 Thread Veritas Netbackup
and netbackup is not able to read the label. It seems like an internal comm'n issue in the library. Replacing the drives also does not help. The library has to be rebooted to solve the problem. In my case even the switch port shows Online. The HP support team world wide has never been able to crack

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives locking up [NC]

2007-03-09 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Paul/Misha, Hey I forgot to mention that I get the same error message in /var/adm/messages Mar 5 22:07:40 vepanyup03 bptm[19156]: [ID 832037 daemon.error] scsi command failed, may be timeout, scsi_pkt.us_reason = 6 Just try mt -f /dev/rmt/drivecbn stat In all probability it will just

[Veritas-bu] Catalog backup gives error - media in use

2007-03-03 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi, While I'm trying to backup catalog via java console OR bpadm, I choose a tape or DSU for catalog backup, it does'nt work and ends with error media in use. I tried to expire the tape since it had only catalog backup, but does'nt work bpexpdate exits with error. Any clues would be helpful.

[Veritas-bu] Adding a media server - tpautoconf hangs

2007-01-10 Thread Veritas Netbackup
I was trying to add a media server to the existing setup. We have SSO license installed on the media server.! 6 drives SSO shared and zoned (FC via brocade 3850) with the media server. I can see the rmt entries in iostat -En (Both master and media are solaris 9 with Netbackup 5.1 MP4), my

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify exit status

2006-12-09 Thread Veritas Netbackup
I had thread going for RMAN backup failures..! Can the bpend_notify.$policy script check the RMAN logs and end in error. I want RMAN errors to reflect on the netbackup GUI. Regards, BIJU On 12/9/06, Bobby Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Status 74 is when the bpstart does not finish

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: how to restore the data from one master server to another master server in netbackup 6.0

2006-12-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Just try this trick and trust me it works! Say my local master server is masterindia (10.16.17.22) and My offshore master server is masteruk (10.16.18.99) I know bring the tapes from masteruk to masterindia for restore, copy the image files via ftp, thus eliminating the need for phase1 and

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams

2006-12-01 Thread Veritas Netbackup
to my Oracle DBA about this, and he says it's correct, and I'm to expect it from time to time. I *really* wish that Netbackup would regulate that job to queued until the control file is ready.l -- Mike -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams

2006-12-01 Thread Veritas Netbackup
, that we coded in, was that if RMAN fails, the script will exit with an artificial exit code, which in turn, gets passed to the activity monitor. Now, anyone that looks at the activity monitor, can trust the exit status of any given Oracle backup. --Steve Veritas Netbackup wrote: Hi All, I find

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

2006-11-27 Thread Veritas Netbackup
We have ESL 712E and MPX=8 while the policy has a MPX=15, since I'm quite new to netbackup, my assumption is that the lower denom would override. We have got upto 40 Mbps with 2 drives for a LAN backup and thats quite a good show :) Just check whether u vault, if yes then take

Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

2006-11-27 Thread Veritas Netbackup
installation. Regards, BIJU On 11/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok , It looks like you have the licenses. If you have installed the client software you should be good to go. On the client you should have this directory /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/db_ext/oracle That indicates

Re: [Veritas-bu] Howto restore list of files

2006-11-15 Thread Veritas Netbackup
using the GUI quite simple..! Use the Backup Archive and Restore {left pane} - Select . master .source - be careful to select appropriate backup type here . destination - be careful ; the default is ur master server Somewhere on top of the bottom right pane is the image selection list. Select

Re: [Veritas-bu] installing client on linux

2006-11-14 Thread Veritas Netbackup
you so much foryour help... I finally got it working :ChrisOn Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mansell, Richard wrote: This is usually a DNS/name resolving issue. i.e. the resolved name for the NetBackup server is not the same as the one given to the client on installation of the agent. Do an nslookup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting

2006-11-12 Thread Veritas Netbackup
On 11/12/06, Anas Kayal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, Im kind of new to Veritas. Im running NetBackup 5.1 with mp5 on a windows server. Now I'm having a lot of problems managing my tapes with all these barcodes and manual backup logs. I also have weekly and monthly backups

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange speed problem...not the norm

2006-11-02 Thread Veritas Netbackup
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Strange speed problem...not the norm Has anyone seen this before? Netbackup 5.0 mp3 Solaris9 connected to L700 via fibre. I have a network client on a 100Mb network which is beyond slow backing up. Looking at the gui ( i know not accurate ) details

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/20 03

2006-10-26 Thread Veritas Netbackup
] -Original Message-From: Veritas Netbackup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 October 2006 13:01To: NB List MailSubject: [Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/2003Dear All,Does any one have a checklist or doc on the pre-requisites required ona

[Veritas-bu] Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/2003

2006-10-25 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Dear All, Does any one have a checklist or doc on the pre-requisites required on a. Windows, ex: users, privleges e.t.c b. SQL 2000/2005 user and privleges, Info : Netbackup server on Solaris 5.1 MP4 Currently we face a uphill task almost everyday resolving SQL and Nt related errors. Sometime

[Veritas-bu] \\\\\ Raw FS backup : Sybase IQ /////

2006-10-19 Thread Veritas Netbackup
We have a new datawarehouse RDBMS, Sybase IQ 12.6 Since its not supported by Symantec, we have decided to backup {cold} the devices {raw}. The database is arnd 2.4 TB but the devices are arnd 5 TB, how much will netbackup have to backup. 2.4 TB or 5 TB. Regards, BIJU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-19 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Darren/list, Revoking this thread since its absolutely essential to me. I read the mails, went to office and did a grep Kbytes/sec log.100906 in the bptm folder. I found that no single value was above 22 Mbytes/sec, shd that mean that my vaults are not above 22 Mbytes/sec. Is there anything

Re: [Veritas-bu] Viewing vault duplication performance.

2006-10-19 Thread Veritas Netbackup
:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK1048576C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS64 C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK64C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\config\ SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144C:\..\VERITAS\NetBackup\NET_BUFFER_SZ 1048576What read speeds are you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement in NBU5.1

2006-10-12 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Raghu, Please visit http://search.cpan.org/search?query=netbackupmode=all Are u a pro @ perl and newbie to netbackup or vice versa.! The foll is a set of perl modules for netbackup - all in one - http://search.cpan.org/~dutchman/NBU-0.90f/ Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 10/11/06

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Hostnames

2006-09-27 Thread Veritas Netbackup
a backup network which is typically GbE. This seems to be pretty typical in larger organizations. Given the above scenarios, my question is… in Netbackup what do you name your clients with backup nic's? Option #1: Add a dns entry of the client name with a -backup suffix and assign it's backup ip. Do

[Veritas-bu] Small files FS backup too slow

2006-09-23 Thread Veritas Netbackup
was leaving office today, the backup was running at a snails pace of about 80Kbytes per sec. The NT backup as per the Windows admin finishes in about 1/2 hr. Netbackup of C:\ and H:\ drives are fine. Any solutions Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN ___ Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] How do we duplicate skipped images in vaulting

2006-09-23 Thread Veritas Netbackup
to overlap one of the vaults in the 3 day period. Thus we end up loosing some images. How can quickly get a list of skipped images during the vault. There shd be some way to extract this list from the files in the /usr/openv/netbackup/vault/sessions/ directory. I could then probably manually duplicate

Re: [Veritas-bu] How important is Processing Power?

2006-09-22 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Jon, Processing power is important, a month ago I had posted to the list and I got some real good inputs from our gurus. We use Sun Fire 6900 server with dual core processors, by merely upgrading to high clock speed processors, we have observed improved performance in read writes and also

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

2006-09-17 Thread Veritas Netbackup
patches, and the 5.1 GA client, then install the client again using the winnt.x64.exe file for MP 4. Since doing that, I no longer get the error 13 on the Shadow Copy Components:\ directive. Hi All, We have a strange problem, client = Windows 2003 x64 Netbackup = 5.1 MP1 We get error

Re: [Veritas-bu] total full backup

2006-09-17 Thread Veritas Netbackup
}END{print tot/1024/1024}' ... will tell you the total GB backed up in the previous 24 hours. You can use more parameters of bpimagelist to, for example, only look at data from one policy, or a certain date range, or a specific client. These parameters are documented in the NetBackup Commands

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Veritas Netbackup Basically I would like to use less media ids and hence increase tape utilization. the VTLs can grow from 5GB and above. Can you set the tape size to start at a value higher than 5GB? I still really

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuningHi Paul,Thanks for your concern. Its a minimum of 5 GB that a tape can contain. The tape grows tilll the max vol size.Since the problem appears confusing, I'l narrate some details1. We have say 10 TB of VTL, I use 3 TB a day, The VTL shd ideally last 3

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
KRISHNANOn 9/7/06, Veritas Netbackup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Paul, My privlege, the following section shd suffice, though I can mail u the entire doc offline {Pls let me know}. Its the CDL Admin guide available from EMC powerlink that describes, and I had got some inputs from the EMC support

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-05 Thread Veritas Netbackup
in the policy??? Will this increase tape util?? Any suggestions for a VTL netbackup combination to increase performance and tape utilization are welcome. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-05 Thread Veritas Netbackup
(DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Veritas Netbackup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2006 12:46To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuningHi List,We have a Clariion

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-09-02 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Lewick, What would true image restore do and what are the consequences. I would really like to know such options which can speed up backup - The other day we enabled Stripe for a SQL backup and we have got double the throughput. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 8/30/06, Lewick, Taylor [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

2006-09-01 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi All, We have a strange problem, client = Windows 2003 x64 Netbackup = 5.1 MP1 We get error 13 while backing up the FS on the server, the backup does not even begin, it just waits for first write and then times out. The beauty is that the SQL backups are working notrmally. Any suggestions

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning

2006-08-29 Thread Veritas Netbackup
@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning 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] NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning

2006-08-26 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi, Our netbackup master-media server a SF6900 with 4 dual core CPU's and 16 Gb of memory is 100% utilized all the times. The only time it gets some respite is during the afternoon, when users do not want to load their system with backup processes. Even with 20 Active backups our server

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

2006-08-24 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Greg, Even after reading the whole thread makes me fully confused now...! I'm a little-new to netbackup. We use CDL - to HP ESL and use the Ent Netbackup 5.1, the vaulting feature has been already setup. So what could be different in our environs Do let me know so I can understand finer

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

2006-08-17 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Thanks to all, I'm new to netbackup and thats a terrible goof up. Many of the gurus out here have shown me where I err'ed. The concept is clear to me know But I'm still surprised as to why the first working day backup is approx 74 GB when the full backup on SUN is 120 GB. Well I'm planning

[Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

2006-08-16 Thread Veritas Netbackup
We backup a CIFS network drive, which stores scanned images on a windows machine, to which it is mapped. Since Images are'nt modified they are just read. The application team claims that the drive gets updated with 4 GB of data everyday. We have used a cumulative Incremental backup type and it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Linux

2006-08-12 Thread Veritas Netbackup
And one step aheadin case you do not get coverage...restart the netbackup service 1. Login as root 2. service xinetd restart The xinetd daemon will restart the netbackup daemons and might solve the problem. Installation is pretty as justin has explained, the only problem u could however

[Veritas-bu] EMM Peroformance Tuning

2006-08-10 Thread Veritas NetBackup
Guys, Have you guys have any Tuning Parameter for EMM Database? I've Doc from Veritas I would like to know real environment Paramaters and experience Regards, Khajan. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 MP3 Upgrade; Drives in AVR instead ACS

2006-08-08 Thread Veritas NetBackup
Guys, We've Windows Media servers with STK LibAttach 1.1 and 1.3. When we upgraded NetBackup Enterprise 6.0 MP2 to MP2 all drives coming up with AVR mode. We downgraded back to MP2 , All drives came up with ACS... Anyone fixed this issue... We found out that STK Libattach 1.4 MP3 resolve

[Veritas-bu] How do we expire media with duped images??

2006-08-05 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi All, We use a VTL for backups and vault the data onto tapes. We have 4 vault policies. We would like a set of comands or scripts which can help us 1. get a list of images which have been duped, and expire them. 2. find media ids on VTL corresponding to the duped images. Sort and extract

[Veritas-bu] Bar Code Rules Question

2006-04-12 Thread netbackup
It has been my observation that there is only one set of bar code rules for all robots. Is this correct? Regards, Patrick ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

RE: [Veritas-bu] Using bplist to lookup afs backed up volumes from client.

2006-04-12 Thread NetBackup
Add -R / to the end of the command without the . Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Visitor Account Sent: 12 April 2006 21:28 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject

[Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope)

2006-03-06 Thread netbackup
I have asked this question twice before with no answers so I thought I'd try again. How can I tell why a restore job is queued? I submit restore jobs and they sit in the queue forever. There are plenty of tape drives, the necessary tape is in the library. There are no pending mount requests. A

RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Queued Jobs

2006-02-20 Thread netbackup
Simon, Found the answer, but raises another question. How can a job even get to the Queued state if the storage unit defined in the policy doesn't exist? Regards, Patrick Patrick Is it because the tape drives are in use for other backups running? What multiplexing have you got enabled? Is it

SUMMARY: [Veritas-bu] Queued Jobs

2006-02-20 Thread netbackup
The answer, I believe, is that the storage unit in the policy no longer existed. The key here is no longer existed. At one time it did, but my collegue cleaned up the storage units and changed all the policies (or so he thought). So the two answers are: 1) It is queued because the storage unit

[Veritas-bu] Error message while running bpdbm -consistency 1

2006-02-06 Thread netbackup
Has anyone seen this message? Does anyone know what it means? Function: NBE_CatFile::CheckFileAccess() 32: File: /net/code/r41/builds/45/unix/src/aria/common/libcatalog/nbe_cat_file.h Line: 714: access violation Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Patrick

RE: [Veritas-bu] How to determine which drive was used for backup

2006-02-02 Thread netbackup
Try: egrep "read| write_backup: media id"/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm/* | grep -w drive | egrep -v "header|Number|mpx" Hi All I would just like to know if there is a way to see which drive was used for a specific policy / backup. I know that if you get an err