Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5 on Win 2k

2010-10-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I found that simply stopping and restarting the NetBackup client service has worked fine for me in Win2k systems. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Wednesday, October 06,

[Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
All Just wanted some views on this Been using Tape backups + Robots for years, and only lately things have been going wrong! Decisions seem to be made about removing tape backups (maybe using them for monthly) and going to D2D solutions only. Anyone got views on this? Pros or cons? I do not

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread Lightner, Jeff
D2D might require a lot more storage than you estimate. Think of how often you buy new tapes. However, that can be mitigated with dedupe solutions like Data Domain. Also Data Domain offers syncing to an offsite unit of the same type. Also the big disk array manufacturers due have things that

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread Wayne T Smith
When I went from tape on my telephone answering machine I had some misgivings, due mostly to flexibility of flipping the tape when full and fixed size storage. I've wanted a D2D2D backup system for several years and have been enjoying the one we now have for several months. Like any other IT

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread David Magda
On Thu, October 7, 2010 08:21, Lightner, Jeff wrote: [...] Also with permanent storage on disk as opposed to tape you always take the risk that the remote storage might die and kill all your backups. Tapes can degrade but you are far less likely to lose all your offsite tapes at one fell

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread William Brown
I would recommend D2D2T for the backups that really matter. You can improve the speed of writing and the fill % of the media to cut cost. But if you drop and break a tape you lose one day of some backups. If you corrupt your disk you likely lose all your backups of everything. If your

Re: [Veritas-bu] Setting up FT on SAN attached /usr/openv

2010-10-07 Thread William Brown
I think you do indeed have to have /usr/openv on internal disk on the FT media servers. It doesn't really grow on a media server so you do not need to allow for it to do so. The only bit that *can* grow is /usr/openv/logs and /usr/openv/netbackup/logs (maybe the volmgr also). You can always

[Veritas-bu] Creating basic disk storage unit

2010-10-07 Thread bolobaboo kabootar
Hi Don't know is this question to right group... Recently got new system and testing 7.0.1. Got SAN lun, do any body have steps how to discover new lun and then create file system on solaris 10 ? Thank you ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] FYI on File Exclude Lists

2010-10-07 Thread waynecierkowski
I just had Symantec Support confirm that File List Exclusions broke at the 6.5.6 level of code when backing up a MS Cluster via the Virtual Client Name. We currently have in each clients exclude list *.mdf, *.ndf and *.ldf to exclude all SQL database files. This would have gone un-noticed if

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread Rusty.Major
We have several D2D2T system currently, running Advanced Disk and SLPs. I would never go back if I had the choice. There's nothing wrong with disk, in fact it cures many of the ills of a tape system, like slow backups which kill tape drives, speed to restore, etc. Even with dedupe, tape is

[Veritas-bu] DataDomain Optimized Duplication Failures

2010-10-07 Thread Rusty.Major
I'm having issues with Data Domain optimized duplication and wondered if anyone here had seen any issues like this. I've got a case with both Symantec and DataDomain but thought I'd check here too. Environment: NBU 7.0 on Linux RHEL5, Nine Windows 2008 R2 Media servers (Master and Medias are