Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-15 Thread JC Cheney
Not tested. To compile and maintain the client code is a relatively simple process; to compile / test / qualify all of the media and master server functionality is a huge undertaking. It's not just a matter of compile it and see if it runs. You have to test all of the supported peripherals

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
As to not running on CentOS - The only thing I know of off the top of my head that blows up on install is Oracle products but that is simply because they put a routine in that tells it which OSes they're allowed to run on. You can certainly run Oracle products on CentOS (unsupported by Oracle of

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread tsimerson
I think we're going to need some more information about your environment to help: 1. What operating system and version is your master/media server? 2. How are the tape drives attached (SCSI, fibre channel, etc.)? The 800 code is a fairly generic message stating the NBU cannot talk to the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Interesting - I see this response but not what it is responding too. Did something not make to the mailing list from BackupCentral? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of tsimerson Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I have a test 6.5.6. master running on CentOS. Simmilar to Jeff's scenario, I had to drop a real redhat version file into /usr/openv/netbackup before some of the patches would install, but it runs now without issue. This is not production, but it does work just fine. As far as CentOS in the

[Veritas-bu] NB7 media server console not opening

2010-07-15 Thread Shashi Kanth Boddula
NB7 Media server is running on windows 2003 and master server running on 2008 Not able to launch the media server console, it is throwing the error Error is configuration. There is no symantec authentication authorization broker set on the local system or remote system. Attempting to connect

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Lightner, Jeff jlight...@water.com wrote: As to not running on CentOS – The only thing I know of off the top of my head that blows up on install is Oracle products but that is simply because they put a routine in that tells it which OSes they’re allowed to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging off Virtual Tape Library

2010-07-15 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
The benefit I see for vault is if you are storing tapes off site by tape. I currently send off by container. One container a day. I just come in and eject all tapes made yesterday, put in container and send off. I have 1 tape a week that is sent off site as open media and stored as an

[Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread ddobek
I am using NBU 6.0 on a unix mst/media server, and i need to find out the size of all backups in a given week. I need to request disk size to have backups written to, as we change from using tape to disk for storage. i can use either the gui or command line, CLI is my preference is there is a

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread ddobek
NBU 6.0 on unix, after stopping nbu, powering down a quantum px502 library, pulling the 2 drives out the back, and putting them back in, powering back on and restarting nbu...the drives are there, recognizeable but they stay in the down state. I cannot up them either from gui or the command

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread cpreston
Interesting - I see this response but not what it is responding too. Did something not make to the mailing list from BackupCentral? It's a side effect of my human SPAM filter. The first post had to be approved and the second post didn't. ;)

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Leikin
What is the output of tpconfig -d ? Thanks, Alex Leikin Loblaw Infrastructure Production Delivery Service/NetBackup alexander.lei...@loblaw.ca 905-459-2500x628723 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread Heathe Yeakley
How much data was backed up in the last week - /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -U -hoursago 336 How much data was backed up on April 26th - /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -U -d 04/26/02 00:00:00 -e 04/27/02 00:00:00 How much data was backed up on client XYZ in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:25 AM, ddobek netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: I am using NBU 6.0 on a unix mst/media server, and i need to find out the size of all backups in a given week. I need to request disk size to have backups written to, as we change from using tape to disk for

[Veritas-bu] Maintenance Mode

2010-07-15 Thread Donaldson, Mark
The company that bought us is all about pie charts. Gotta keep the pie charts looking good so gotta keep errors from being recorded. In the past, if a client was down due to maintenance during a backup, I just closed the ticket. Using DP on their side, they've got a method to put a backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
I have a unix script that emails me the Total. z=0 for x in $(/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -U -hoursago 64 | grep -v ^[KB-] | awk '{ print $5 }') do z=$(( $x + z )) done echo $z | /usr/bin/mail -s Production Weekend Backups someonewhoca...@domain.com set z to 0 so we start

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maintenance Mode

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Donaldson, Mark mark.donald...@staples.com wrote: In the past, if a client was down due to maintenance during a backup, I just closed the ticket. Using DP on their side, they've got a method to put a backup client into maintenance mode before the backup and

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread ddobek
bash-3.00# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -d Id DriveName Type Residence Drive Path Status 0 LTO-1hcart2 TLD(0) DRIVE=1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Jim Horalek
Are the drives really there? # mt -f /dev/rmt/3cbn status Jim -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ddobek Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:33 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject:

[Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread ddobek
Thanks Jim I think these drives are there, but they just dont respond. here is the output: bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/3cbn status /dev/rmt/3cbn: no tape loaded or drive offline bash-3.00# cd /dev/rmt the drives are in a 'down' state. and I am not sure if the path is incorrect, how to figure

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Len Boyle
This may not be a bad message if you do not have a tape cart in the tape drive. You may want to insert a tape cart in the tape drive and try the mt command again. If that does not work, you will have to look at the solaris commands for installing tape drives. len -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

2010-07-15 Thread Renee Carlisle
Can you go into robtest and try and query the drives and move tapes into a drive, unload a drive and move a tape back into it's slot? That is a good beginning test for the health of the drive? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] report backup status elapsed time

2010-07-15 Thread Brandon35
Okay, here's a confusing one... I used Reports Client Backups and ran a separate report for the last 9 weekends. (We run full backups on weekends starting Friday night). My results are surprising and I cannot quantify why it looks this way... Weeknbsp; nbsp;Data#40;TB#41;nbsp; nbsp;Elapsed

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread Dean
I don't have access to a system right now, so this is just of the top of my head, but to get the total GB backed up in the last day, I use : bpimagelist -hoursago 24 |grep IMAGE|awk '{total+=$19}END{print total/1024/1024}' ... or something like that. To look at the last week, just change the

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in a given period

2010-07-15 Thread Harpreet SINGH
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[Veritas-bu] Shadow Copy Components failing!

2010-07-15 Thread SACHIN ARORA
Hi all, Im facing an issue here. We have a server Windows 2003 SP2 (Netbackup 6.5.4), Master server - solaris - netbackup 6.5.4 Policy of this server was configureed with backup selection as ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. backup was completing

[Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-15 Thread Dean
Hi folks, This is in no way NetBackup specific, but I'm wondering if some of the smart people on this mailing list might have some thoughts. The company I work for have several service classes for Disaster Recoverability, mainly based on RPO (Recovery Point Objective). RPO refers to the amount