[Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Markus, Istvan
NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no more available: INF - Skipping backup id (backup_id), there is no fragment 1 INF - Found no images matching the selection criteria that were ready for phase 2 import. Is there any way to get data from fragment 2? Any help would

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread David Stanaway
It is just a tar file. You could find the tape file # and position with mt and cat the file out. I have not tried to recover an incomplete tar file, but I am sure there are tools out there. On 4/19/2010 3:18 AM, Markus, Istvan wrote: NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no

[Veritas-bu] Strange hung job problem

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Markham
Guys anyone remember seeing something like this back on NBU 5. I'm running NBU 5.0MP7 on a Unix Server attached to L25 tape library. I have a windows client which works fine some times and then other times just sits there and hangs everything up. It never finishes and needs cancelling

Re: [Veritas-bu] New tapes are frozen

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Markham
You haven't got some strange barcode rule have you or actually lack of a barcode rule to put new tapes into scratch? Just a thought. In the past i've had new tapes come in and get assigned to Netbackup pool which was reserved for catalogue backups. I'm not sure if this froze them or not

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Istvan, You may not be able to use tar to recover data from the tape. It depends on how the tapes were written. If they were multiplexed with multiple streams of data going to them tar generally cannot read this. If they were written as a single stream you most likely can recover data from the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange hung job problem

2010-04-19 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
The only time I have seen this is when the windows server ran out of room on the c drive. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 9:24 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Len Boyle
Netbackup supplies a modified copy of tar with the netbackup client. You can even download the source code from the netbckup support web site. The source changes include the support for multiplexed tapes. I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this version of tar as

[Veritas-bu] Odd issues

2010-04-19 Thread Baumann, Kevin
All, I have been seeing some odd behavior in my backup environment - OS Linux, NB Version 6.5.5, IBM 3584 tape library. I have a master server with 6 media servers and media is getting frozen fairly often. I can unfreeze it and it will be used and have no problems, but then another

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd issues

2010-04-19 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Kevin, Which model of tape drives are you using? Which model of tape carts are you using? How old are the tape drives? How old are the tape carts? What messages are you seeing in bptm for the tape? You might have to search back a bit from the freezing to find the reason that netbackup is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd issues

2010-04-19 Thread Baumann, Kevin
Len, Thanks for your response. I am using IBM LTO4 drives. The IBM model is 3388. The tape carts are either IBM or Sony, both types have the same issues. The drives are around 9 months old. The tape carts are vary in age, none older than 9 months. There is nothing in the log that says

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I restored many multiplexed SDLT media last year for a legal project without issue using the procedure below. http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/symantec-netbackup-18/can-backup-exec-read-netbackup-99718/ Regarding bad media and legacy tape drives I

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
The unix utility dd can get a lot of stuff off of tapes. You just have to learn how to forward to each header and then tar stuff off. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of David Stanaway Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010

[Veritas-bu] Licence key missing?

2010-04-19 Thread pranav batra
Hello, Sometime back i upgraded one of my master servers but forgot to copy its licence key. Is there any way i can check what was the licence key: I have NBCC output. That upgraded server is also de-commissioned now. Please help. Thanks and Regards Pranav Batra

Re: [Veritas-bu] Licence key missing?

2010-04-19 Thread Dustin Damour
Upgrading is non destructive (unless previous version was uninstalled first) so the license key should still be in the master server config. If it is UNIX based it would be located at: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd # ./get_license_key Option F will list the Active License Keys and