Re: [Veritas-bu] Standalone to Custered migration

2008-12-22 Thread Jack . Forester
make sure you make the cluster name the same as the name of the original standalone. You definitely want to read the HA guide. What clustering software are you using? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Mylan 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@my

Re: [Veritas-bu] Standalone to Custered migration

2008-12-23 Thread Jack . Forester
MM DB with nbemmcmd to update it with cluster information, but Symantec is probably the only one who knows the incantation. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Mylan 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 "spaldam"

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is best approach to share one ACSLS library ?

2009-03-18 Thread Jack . Forester
Have you considered partitioning the library and treating it as two separate libraries? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Mylan 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 anil.mau...@sanofi-aventis.com Sent by: veritas

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup for Oracle 6.5.3

2009-05-21 Thread Jack . Forester
t these add-ons must be at the same level as the client. Did anything change in 6.5 so that the add-ons can be at a lower patch level than the client (6.5, 6.5.1, or 6.5.2 agent with a 6.5.3 client) or are we going to be stuck at a 6.5.2 client if we want to use the Oracle agent? -- Jack Forest

Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

2009-10-16 Thread Jack . Forester
guessing that even building a new cluster from scratch and then doing a catalog recovery wouldn't work because of this. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@myla

[Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Jack . Forester
We have a case open with Symantec, but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else has run into this issue. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.30

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Jack . Forester
ormance. I'm a UNIX administrator by trade, so troubleshooting Windows issues is a bit foreign to me. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-08 Thread Jack . Forester
When I'm doing my tests, I'm running the job only on a single client. I noticed some high latencies on the guest using the built in tools when running a test job yesterday, so I'm going to pursue your ideas further. Thanks for your feedback! -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5000 Series replication?

2011-01-31 Thread Jack . Forester
is approx 930Km. The initial seeding of the Puredisk server took about 9 days, but once that finished, the weekly full backups, from start to all replication complete takes under 12 hours. This is a NetBackup 7 environment. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-14 Thread Jack . Forester
oughput. My overall impressions so far is that the DataDomain is more enterprise oriented while PureDisk and NBU5000 aren't quite at that point yet. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.

[Veritas-bu] Recovering W2k8 servers with EFI partition

2011-08-23 Thread Jack . Forester
ual restore of a server with an EFI partition? My gut tells me that the answer to that question is "no". -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com

[Veritas-bu] Status 84 - plugin error

2011-10-19 Thread Jack . Forester
2) EXITING with status 84 <-- Other vitals: NetBackup version: 7.1.0.2 OST Plugin: 2.3.1.0 DDOS: 5.0.0.7-226726 Anyone else have a similar problem? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 2650

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 84 - plugin error

2011-10-21 Thread Jack . Forester
DataDomain has also recommended that we upgrade to DDOS 5.0.2.3 for the exact same reason you cite. It's good to get confirmation from someone that this could more or less resolve the problem. Thanks for everyone's feedback...it is much appreciated! -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data

Re: [Veritas-bu] Robot inquiry/poll/how well does your robot/s work?

2011-12-02 Thread Jack . Forester
't require us to buy new tapes when moving from the A to B series. STK T1 - Bought some of these at a former employer, but left before they could be installed. Heard they were great drives. DLT/SDLT - Meh. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Servic

Re: [Veritas-bu] Robot inquiry/poll/how well does your robot/s work?

2011-12-05 Thread Jack . Forester
e are 10G ethernet front to back, and have a dedicated 10G VLAN for backup traffic between the media servers and DataDomain and multiple connections between them. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2010 DAG Backups And Aptare Storage Console.

2011-12-06 Thread Jack . Forester
We had a similar issue with Aptare and vmware backups. For all vmware backups, NetBackup was reporting the name of the ESX server as the client name, and not the name of the VM itself. We kept pressing Symantec, and they relented and fixed it. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
for the restore based on physical proximity. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 Cell:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
pools like DataDomain. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 Cell: +1.412.805.5313

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
t the bill nicely. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Sr. Data Protection Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 5005 Greenbag Road Morgantown, WV 26501 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 Cell: +1.412.805

Re: [Veritas-bu] Puredisk

2012-07-02 Thread Jack . Forester
get for opt-dup from a remote site plus client-side dedupe backups from the local site. No real problems except for the time one of the security certificates expired and wasn't automatically regenerated. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Data Protection Analyst Symantec Certified Specialist - Ne

Re: [Veritas-bu] options for reporting other than OpsCenter?

2012-07-19 Thread Jack . Forester
I'll throw in another vote for Aptare -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Data Protection Analyst Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration Global Technology Services Mylan 781 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26505 (Embedded image moved to file: pic27051.jpg)

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup appliance hangs

2012-11-19 Thread Jack . Forester
else seeing this behavior? Did 1.4.2 fix it? I'd prefer to wait until 1.4.3 or 1.4.4 to update due to our onerous change process, but who knows when they're going to be released. I'm going to reach out to Symantec support too. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Data Protection Analys

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position

2013-01-16 Thread Jack . Forester
tent binding so that the device assignments don't change if the server is rebooted? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Data Protection Analyst Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration Global Technology Services Mylan 781 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26505 (Embedded

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with NetBackup after applying Solaris patches

2006-04-06 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
We do patches on our Solaris master servers on a semi-annual basis. We also take advantage of the fact that both our test and production environments are clustered to minimize the chances that a bad patch will hose the environment. We use a rolling upgrade method. First, we apply patches to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working

2006-04-18 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
Some drives can have the compression turned on by a drive setting so that it uses compression, regardless. Did any of your drive settings change? I agree with a previous poster in that you should do some kind of a test to determine how much data is being written to a tape before it moves on

Re: [Veritas-bu] can SAN media server restore clients?

2006-05-03 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
An SSO license allows multiple media servers to share drives, like in a SAN environment. To have a media server backup clients other than itself, you need a full media server license. Jeff Lightner wrote: As I understand it the SAN Media Server license is only to allow a server on the SAN to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.0

2006-05-17 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
DB corruption with 5.1 MP5? I must be living in a shell as I hadn't heard about that. We're getting ready to install MP5 in a couple of weeks. Can you elaborate? Dmitri Smirnov wrote: Still working on this one ... Overall impression - not worth it - too many changes, too many bugs, documen

Re: [Veritas-bu] remove devices from dead media server

2006-05-31 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
I've used (from memory) something like vmglob -delete -devhost This removed everything from the global device database for that media server...robotic defs as well as drives. Paul Keating wrote: >Yeah, that's what I'd been trying to do, but after trying to delete the >device it would not dele

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options

2006-05-31 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
Something else to bear in mind: Unless things have changed recently, and I have an email from Veritas to support this, SSO licenses are licensed per drive. If you have 5 drives that you are sharing, you need 5 SSO licenses. If this is not, in fact, the case, I'll need to find new Veritas rep

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options

2006-05-31 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
re is, however, a per drive SHARED DRIVE license. > > > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack >Forester, Jr. >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:16 PM >To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >Subject: Re: [Veritas-

[Veritas-bu] 5.1MP5...Praises? Curses?

2006-06-01 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
I'm trying to decide whether to go with MP5, but after reading about one person's possible catalog corruption after installing it, I'm a little leery. Has anyone else experienced any problems after Installing MP5, or is this catalog corruption thing likely an isolated incident? I know to do a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clustered Master servers

2006-10-02 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
Bobby, I'm running clustered master servers just as you describe, and according to our Symantec rep, you do not need SSO licenses for your clustered master servers. However, if those same drives are shared with other media servers, then the answer becomes "yes, you do need SSO licenses". Clus

Re: [Veritas-bu] 9940B

2006-10-16 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
We've got a bunch of 9940B drives and use 262144 for SIZE_DATA BUFFERS. Performance is very good. When we eval'd the drives a couple of years ago, I saw peak performance of 65MB/sec on really compressible data. Our numbers vary widely depending on the nature of the data being backed up. Fro

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

2007-01-10 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS patches and the

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

2007-01-10 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
on those >mission critical servers. > >-- M > > > > >"Jeff Lightner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >01/10/2007 12:44 PM > >To >"Jack Forester, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Veritas List" > >cc > >S

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

2007-01-10 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
mentioned Java. > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack >Forester, Jr. >Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM >To: Veritas List >Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules > >I gue

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade Questions

2007-01-30 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
I'll also add that the upgrade from 4.5 to 5.1 - especially if your master server is clustered - is not a simple, straightforward upgrade, either. But the upgrade to 6.0 sounds like it will be more challenging. We're preparing for a 5.1 -> 6.0 upgrade here. Justin Piszcz wrote: >I would read

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fiber Drive Question

2007-02-14 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
We've been running 9940B drives for nearly 3 years now, and I've never heard of a table of addresses to control access to the drive. I've been through the menus on the drive and looked through the drive manual and never saw a reference to such a "feature". Are you having a problem at this mom

[Veritas-bu] Status 50

2007-03-20 Thread Jack Forester, Jr.
Greetings... We're starting to experience a large number of backup jobs ending with a status code of 50. Every now and then I used to see backups end with a 50, but it was usually due to someone rebooting a media server in the middle of a backup. The ones I'm seeing I can confirm that the ser