I have a policy with Allow Multiple Data Streams enabled.
It's backup selection is about 15 directories (SAN attached). e.g.
C:\dir1\*
C:\dir2\*
C:\dir3\*
C:\dir4\*
..
I have "Limit jobs per policy" set to 6, so I figured NBU would only allow 6 at
a time. But it tries to create thousands (a job
Oh okay I got it.
So if I limit jobs to 6, it'll still queue all 15 directories in my backup
selection, but will only allow 6 to run at once, correct?
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Hi everyone,
In one of my environments we replaced our old SAN switch with a new Cisco. We
went from 1 fabric on the old switch to 2 fabrics on the new Cisco switch.
We split up the tape drives 1, 2, 3, 4 on Fabric A. 5,6,7,8,9 on Fabric B.
After this switch, our media servers are having enorm
Martin, Jonathan: I tried http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539 to view
possible hidden tape drives due to path change. They did not appear.
pharrold: While that is a very useful command in situations where it's needed,
wouldnt deleting all the drives and rescanning for them via Netbackup's
C
Im having tape drives show up with the same BUS address...
Drive 1 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0
Drive 2 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 2, LUN 0
Drive 3 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 3, LUN 0
Drive 4 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 4, LUN 0
Drive 5 Location: Bus Number 0, Ta
Drive 1 through 5 is on Switch A
Drive 6 through 9 is on Switch B
So that could be why the Location addresses are duplicating. Would that cause a
problem though?
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I meant duplicate Targed ID, not bus. Sorry
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I tried this on my solaris box, all I get is
*
** SDT_TAPE *
*
and nothing...
Is there anyway to get this same information on a windows box?
What if i'm getting -1, -1, -1 ??
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Thanks for the info Judy,
Netbackup actually does not report any -1,-1,-1
I had only seen this in one of the Windows tape drive driver installers. One of
my windows machines that is only seeing 5 of the 9 drives showed the first 5
drives with normal bus, location, id numbers. but the last 4 dr
A Darren Dunham,
My environment looks like this:
Master1 Solaris
Media1 Linux
Media2 Windows
Media3 Windows
Media4 Windows
Media5 Windows
Running tape -scan on each shows:
Master1 : 0, but the netbackup gui finds 7...
Media1: 9, gui finds 9 as well
Media2: 9, gui says unable to retreive device
Yeah, that was my question.
I have made some progression. I unzoned the drives, dropped them from every
media server, rebooted, and slowly reconfigured -everything-
I currently have 6 of 9 drives spinning. 1 is blinking amber, so something
wrong with it. But my two new drives we recently got a
The person before me had configured a large backup policy (4TB) to have
Multiple Copies. 1 copy goes to our virtual tape library (VTL) with a 2-week
retention and the 2nd copy goes to our physical tape library with a 2-month
retention. Obviously the VTL is there in case of a huge disaster we ca
We can fit in the window fine. Our infrastructure, while terrible, isn't that
bad haha.
What I'm trying to do is save backup time. So instead of this policy soaking up
a two drives (one on the VTL, and the other on the physical tape library) I
want the policy to backup ONLY to the VTL during t
It looks like the answer is something I have not touched yet...
Storage Lifecycle Policies
Someone please assure I have the right understanding here:
I have created a Storage Lifecycle Policy named "slp-fileserver"
I have modified the "Full" schedule, that runs over the weekend, to override
i
haha Dean, I posted my post 4 seconds after you :) But thank you sir for
confirming my finding seems to be correct. Possibly you could answer my
question on scheduling the duplication portion to occur in the daytime?
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Fantastic! Thanks, Dean!
Since I only want to do this for my weekend full backup I will have this
command run in a script scheduled on Friday:
nbstlutil inactive -lifecycle slp-fileserver
this will prevent duplication from running, but not the backup, which is
perfect. And then, monday mornin
Just finishing the scripts now. Showtime will be this weekend of course, I'll
post on how it did Monday afternoon, since I want duplication to occur starting
Monday morning probably around 6am.
Also just FYI, I am using NBU7.0 with Window master server. The file server
that will backup the dis
I recently was questioned on the postgres user account that Netbackup installs.
Netbackup has a postgres service running and I also know the Netbackup uses
Sybase.
After doing a search on 1,200 pages of Netbackup documentation PDF files I
have, I found the term "postgres" twice, both only refe
I am not, but I am running NBU7 on several other OSs, do you have a question?
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Very good points. I wonder if we can get the CentOS crew to make CentNetbackup,
now we'd be saving some money!! :)
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I was absolutely being facetious, ;)
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I was giving the storage lifecycle policies a test run this morning, and though
the KB article says the duplication process will begin minutes after the backup
runs, ... the duplication isnt running at all! I've waiting 30 mins now, and
nothing has happened. I am researching into this right now
You are amazing, it worked like a charm and did exactly what I wanted it to do
:) Thank you all so much!
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We do have Vaulting license. It is however not set up at all, and I have never
touched it yet. (Im still new).
What I do know about Vaulting is that it will take the last Full backup images
and copy them (probably with an extended retention) to a set of unused tapes
and optionally eject them f
Ah got it.
What's the point of Vault then? This all seems very easy to setup with base
Netbackup :)
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I guess it's the programmer in me (my background).
But yes, I am very happy with my SLP setup currently and cannot wait to see it
all work this weekend. Thank you all for your help.
I will post here with my results for the interested :)
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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...
Week Data(TB) Elapsed Hours
W1 14.543
Is the reported elapsed time including the time that job spent in queue? If so
that would explain this, as now I have nearly 1,000 jobs queuing at night that
could explain the jump in total "elapsed time" yet decreased backup times.
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Thanks for the info. I see "Active Elapsed" as a selectable column in my
Activity Monitor, but unfortunately, I can't get that column in my Reports for
historical info... I'm thinking command line may be able to pull this info for
me. I am researching, will post my findings :)
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Just for the interested:
The SLP setup worked perfectly. No duplication of this SLP was attempted until
my script to reactivate the SLP this morning at 6am. I have effectively cut off
12+ hours of backup time on our weekend schedule. Thanks for everyone's help.
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This weekend 95% of my backups finished by Saturday-noon... incredible backup
time savings (they used to run until monday morning)...
yet im reporting ~500 hours of elapsed time. A few months ago without all these
optimizations backup times were running until monday morning and reporting ~300
I just accomplished something similar. If you want to follow along what I did
here is the forum:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/symantec-netbackup-18/staging-off-virtual-tape-library-106811/
basically my solution was to run a script before the we
Hi,
During duplication during the day I am getting "Drive scan host is not active
" as State Details, for the queued jobs.
It's no big issue, but shouldn't it say "Drives are in use" instead ? Because
as soon as a job finishes, one of the queued jobs with the "Drive scan host is
not active "
Here's the situation,
I have a user who needed a file restored. As I checked to pull up the file I
have found that image that has his file expired only 4 days ago.
Is it possible to A) Find out what image/tape it could possible be on and B)
Reintroduce or at least retreive data from it?
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Any tips on finding "by hand" ? Everything I've tried so far will only report
to me active images.
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I was able to load the catalog from last week into a test machine to find the
tape. And it has already been overwritten. Tough luck for my guy. Thanks for
the help everyone!
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