You would have to write a wrapper script to tweak and then untweak the include
list and feed the database name as a command line argument or have a separate
policy for each database that only gets ran in the event that database failed.
(or write your script in a manner that runs a backup of all
Selecting all the clients in the admin console and then properties takes an
excruciating long time. I tried using bpgetconfig but it expects a full path to
the exclude lists so obviously only works for unix/linux clients.
Thx for any info.
This is part are a series of policies that must be run in sequence, which span
multiple machines. The policies themselves are called from a script run from
cron - each one blocking until the previous one completes. Since our backup
infrastructure is all solaris/linux and these are windows SQL
I worked around this problem by running scripts against each filer and
comparing this to the include/exclude list for each policy. I was in an
environment with over 200 netapp filers and this was a constant problem.
Also you don't want to use exportfs to glean a list of what to back up (this
What I think your really after is a list of what files are included in a given
backup image.
For that take a gander at the bpflist command. It's very handy.
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What I think your really after is a list of what files are included in a given
backup image.
For that take a gander at the bpflist command. It's very handy.
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I have some NDMP policies that use the following directive:
SET EXCLUDE = *.vswp
It seems to work.
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We have a 6.5.x master server with a direct-attached Dell library and some LTO4
in a remote location.
I want to migrate all images from this netbackup domain into a 7.1 netbackup
domain at our corporate site. I DO NOT want to employ any method that involves
a bpimport of each piece of media.
Aptare! Aptare! Aptare!
I've been using Symantec's reporting packages as far back as I can remember and
have never been impressed. I started using Aptare at my last gig, just recently
brought it here, and love it to death.
Rarely in my 17 years of doing IT have I ever so highly recommended any
1) Follow the procedure to uninstall VBR.
2) Schedule an install of Aptare
3) Have pretty pie graphs sitting in management's inbox within hours
3) Enjoy your weekend.
Sorry not what you were looking for but I remember my frustrations with VBR
very well.
We are getting ready to deploy Hitachi's HCP archiver which basically archives
data on our NAS that hasn't been accessed in a certain amount of time. It does
this by moving the blocks to lower-tier storage and placing a stub file in its
place on the NAS. Any subsequent reads of that stub file
Yea I was not able to unload the sg driver in any scenario:
1) After a fresh reboot with netbackup not set to autostart
2) After shutting down netbackup and ensuring no processes are still active
Frustrating.. I need to get 7.1 deployed so I can do proper vmware and
sharepoint backups as well
I'm no expert with Windows or NBU on windows but I do know you want to avoid
changing IP's of your master/media servers if at all possible. VMWare can't
give you a static or at least a reserved DHCP address?
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This can be achieved w/o doing a catalog recovery. You can copy/ftp all your
policies and images over. You can move the databases over as well. I recently
did a Windows 2003 R2 64-bit to Solaris 10 SPARC migration this way. (In fact a
catalog recovery was not an option for me due to the
Just spent 12 hours trying to upgrade from 6.5.6 to 7.1. (working with
professional services). The upgrade appears to have gone smoothly. I can browse
images, emm looks clean, all the policies converted fine and are browseable in
the console, etc BUT we are having some strange issues with
Is anyone out there running netbackup 7.x master server on Linux in a
high-volume environment? Preferably with a large catalog in the 1TB range.
Looking for any feedback on performance/stability... Does it effectively
utilize the 8/10 core Intel procs? What filesystem are you using? etc...
Well I know with 7.x you can now use the vstorage API. I'm just scratching the
surface on this myself and plan on moving to this method once I upgrade to 7.1.
From what I have gathered so far:
1) You deploy a vmware backup host which is basically just a window machine
with an enterprise client
What piece is expensive? yea I agree their software is way overpriced and I'm
not impressed with how they license the sub components and their support is way
overpriced compared to the response times and quality of support. I actually
have a long term plan to move to Commvault. I've noticed a
I've never needed to use that parameter until I started using Data Domain/OST.
Prior to that I ran several netbackup masters some which sat on dozens of
networks and never needed that parameter. Just make sure and configure your
clients with the hostname that the master/media servers will
OST is just the API extended to 3rd parties like Data Domain. Before OST,
backing up to disk was a kludge. (along came the VTL which was really just a
jury-rigged way of doing backups to disk)
OST allows 3rd party appliances do stuff like catalog aware replication (so
that the data is
You want to use OST without a doubt.. With optimized deduped replication you
end up pushing almost nothing across the wire.. With VTL its a full rehydration
on the source end before it gets replicated. I just spent several months
testing this on Data Domain and Quantum DXi. The only caveat is
What information do you need? I used to use ACSLS to get what info I needed,
its very easy to script.
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Sorry thought I would add that you need to determine the target number that
your device(s) are seen thru. I usually connect each drive directly to my
storage switch and then zone it so that I'm not overloading any HBA channels.
(typically 4-5 LTO4 caliber drives per 4gb channel - this depends
This depends on your library and how the LUNs are presented. Some libraries
present each device as a target and not individual LUNs under a target so if
you had 5 devices your st.conf would look like this:
name=st class=scsi target=0 lun=0;
name=st class=scsi target=1 lun=0;
name=st class=scsi
I've heard from a few shops running protectier that they had a lot of problems
after upgrading to 7.0.
Thx for any info,
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