Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I'd be interested in this too. On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jon Bousselot wrote: Are the maximum numbers for everything else in NetBackup published somewhere? I'm curious. Even with less than 100 policies, the command line is sometimes the fastest way to get things done. * Justin Piszcz [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Curtis Preston
23, 2007 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Whoever has that many polices has some mental issues. On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread briandiven
now. -Original Message- From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:01 AM To: Justin Piszcz; Liddle, Stuart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DIVEN, BRIAN; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread briandiven
, July 24, 2007 3:56 AM To: DIVEN, BRIAN Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you that are seriously

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread briandiven
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 July 2007 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies We get around 6-8 restore

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread briandiven
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies We have 8 Clariion VTL's and have a retention period of a week for everything. We use In Line Tape copy for weekly and monthly backups for offside storage. We are looking to use SRDF to replicate

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Chuck Tipton
Having worked with Brian and crew a few years back, when it was just 3000 policies, I must say it worked great then. It was just as easy to manageas the 50 or so policies I inherited where I am working now, perhaps even easier because all the policies I have now were created with no plan in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Paul Keating
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Perhaps, I just hope they never had to change a storage unit for all those 4,000+ polices :) On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Meidal, Knut wrote: Well, it comes down to how you want to keep control of your environment, I think. It may

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Liddle, Stuart
: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:01 PM To: Justin Piszcz; Liddle, Stuart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies If you have a policy naming convention (and you'd better for that many policies

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Kohli, Vidit
; Justin Piszcz; Liddle, Stuart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Yeswe have a policy naming convention: SiteCode-BusinessUnit-ServiceTier-Dataset-Component For example, we might

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Curtis Preston
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kohli, Vidit Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:52 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies In 5.0/5.1 MP5 there is a bug The major issue we saw with one policy for one client specially Windows FS that When a stream

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread briandiven
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Wow, you've gone the opposite way (one policy per drive). Ouch! I've had the scenario you describe work just fine with multistreaming --without doing what you're doing. For example, if A, B, C, D were supposed to do a full

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Curtis Preston
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:16 PM To: Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies That's true, but it won't work if it's outside of the backup window ... It will then fail with a status 196

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread David Rock
* Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-24 18:21]: You're saying if you manually re-run a backup via the activity monitor during the daytime, it will fail with a 196? I didn't realize that. That would make sense because re-running is functionally similar to rescheduling a job, which takes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Curtis Preston
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies * Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-24 18:21]: You're saying if you manually re-run a backup via the activity monitor during the daytime, it will fail with a 196? I didn't realize that. That would make sense because re

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:59 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Hi, we are running NB 5.1 MP6 with around 1100 policies and over 1600 clients. We have been having problems

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Dominik Pietrzykowski
_ From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 23 July 2007 4:20 PM To: 'Liddle, Stuart'; 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies 1,100 policies!! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Liddle, Stuart
. --stuart _ From: Dominik Pietrzykowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 3:47 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); 'Liddle, Stuart'; 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Just to add to Stuart's

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Liddle, Stuart
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:20 PM To: 'Liddle, Stuart'; 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies 1,100 policies!! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread briandiven
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies yes just over 1100 policiesit's not quite 1 client per policy as Curtis Preston suggests. What we have done is to have a policy for a given dataset. For example, we have two exchange policies one has 13 exchange servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
2:48 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Liddle, Stuart; 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies yes just over 1100 policiesit's not quite 1 client per policy as Curtis Preston suggests. What we have done is to have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Meidal, Knut
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Whoever has that many polices has some mental issues

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Whoever has that many polices has some mental issues. On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this pic would be appropriate for us ... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread David Rock
* Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-23 17:43]: Perhaps, I just hope they never had to change a storage unit for all those 4,000+ polices :) Nah, that's what the commandline is for :-) -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, David Rock wrote: * Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-23 17:43]: Perhaps, I just hope they never had to change a storage unit for all those 4,000+ polices :) Nah, that's what the commandline is for :-) -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Ian Clements
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 3:13 PM To: David Rock Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Of course, just don't make a typo for 4k polices in your cmd line loop :) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread briandiven
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Clements Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 5:18 PM To: Justin Piszcz; David Rock Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Embrace the command line. It is your friend. I use it to create and manipulate polices all the time

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
, July 23, 2007 2:48 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Liddle, Stuart; 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies yes just over 1100 policiesit's not quite 1 client per policy as Curtis Preston suggests. What we have done

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
, 2007 5:18 PM To: Justin Piszcz; David Rock Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Embrace the command line. It is your friend. I use it to create and manipulate polices all the time--for no other reason than the same task undertaken

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Whoever has that many polices has some mental issues. On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this pic would

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
Rock Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Embrace the command line. It is your friend. I use it to create and manipulate polices all the time--for no other reason than the same task undertaken in the GUI would take forever :) -Original

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-23 Thread briandiven
23, 2007 5:18 PM To: Justin Piszcz; David Rock Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Embrace the command line. It is your friend. I use it to create and manipulate polices all the time--for no other reason than the same task undertaken

[Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Hi I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 9) and 6 media servers (RHEL4, Windows 2003). I´ve just created the 101st policy. The problem I´m running into is that apparently the scheduler is simply ignoring the backup window configured (it was supposed to start at 8pm but

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edson Noboru Yamada Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:43 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Hi I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 9) and 6 media servers (RHEL4

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Liddle, Stuart
. --stuart _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 6:42 AM To: 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Hi Well I know of a site that had 120

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Keating
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edson Noboru Yamada Sent: July 20, 2007 6:43 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Hi I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 9

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Noboru Yamada *Sent:* July 20, 2007 6:43 AM *To:* Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Hi I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 9) and 6 media servers (RHEL4, Windows 2003). I´ve just created the 101st policy. The problem I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-20 Thread Curtis Preston
] On Behalf Of Edson Noboru Yamada Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:05 AM Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies Thank you very much, guys. I feel a big relief knowing that people out there has more than 100 policies running. The policy schedule