Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5

Worth Noting? If your backups are running 24/7, no also probably are not getting any catalog backups. That can put you in a world of hurt if you have a crash or corruption on the master server. I'd figure out some way to get a quiet window to do those backups. --Jim V. - Original Message

Re: [Veritas-bu] Job per day per master server?

We run about 1000 per day, and we are not particularly big. Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit http://www.fairtax.org/ - Original Message From: Bancal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [Veritas-bu] lto4 fc bottleneck

could be a bottleneck. And you have to have a server capable of driving that kind of data rate too. Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit http://www.fairtax.org/ - Original Message

[Veritas-bu] Choice for a Sun SPARC Master/Media Tier 1

x27;m uncomfortable, but could be convinced) or an AIX P5 or P6 would be better to handle such loads? ____ Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit http://www.fairtax.org/

[Veritas-bu] Allocation Failure when doing bpimmedia NBU 5.0MP6

512 pipe size (512 bytes) 10 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 4091 virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Allocation Failure when doing bpimmedia NBU 5.0MP6

Thank you. That is an excellent resource. Jim VandeVegt - Original Message From: Tim Hoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check out this TechNote: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273884.htm There's an internal timeout which gets hit when

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frustration Growing...

10 support was in 6.0 GA, or an MP. Regardless, you may be able to download the MP for the clients (are they still separated? I think so.) and manually explode the zip/tar files and find the Solaris_x86_10 directory and patch it into your current /usr/openv/netbackup/client/Solaris directory. Jim

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 performance

When you configure your drives in Solaris in NetBackup, are you choosing the tape drive device with the 'c' in it?"Evsyukov, Sergey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One day we have found the some kind of "Turbo button". We have 2 types of media servers (HP & SUN) and IBM 3584 LTO-2 library. We are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating Image

You have to launch the appropriate bpduplicate command with 'cron' or 'at' if on UNIX, Windows scheduler I guess if on Windows. If you really need it to attempt the copy exactly 3 hours after a backup (I'm going to assume here) completes, you probably could utilize the end notify script to use

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which license should we buy ?

ntion). It allows you to deploy as much as you want of master/media servers, clients, agents, tape drives. ____ Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Windows Java GUI for the Admin Console

It's the 6.5.3 JAV patch.  Should be an exe for Windows and a tar for UNIX. Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit http://www.fairtax.org/ "Quid quid latine dictum sit, alt

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Windows Java GUI for the Admin Console

I know I used the 6.5.3 JAV to connect to 6.5.2 because 6.5.2 JAV had a bug so we installed it early. I don't know how far back it will connect. --- On Thu, 1/1/09, Dennis Peacock wrote: From: Dennis Peacock Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Windows Java GUI for the Admin Console To: VERITAS-B

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

I'm still on LTO2 and have the max fragment size set to 8GB. That's a file every few minutes if the drive is allowed to run full speed. Will probably multiply by 2 or 4 when I ever upgrade. ________ Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t

[Veritas-bu] Digging into tape performance, long delays on duplications

indicate a command got dropped somewhere.) on most occasions after a short time period, 15-60 seconds maybe, the data just starts going again. Whatever it is, it seems to really kill the overall duplication rate. Thanks, -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual |

Re: [Veritas-bu] Digging into tape performance, long delays on duplications

the fiber on its connection to the switch and it has run constant since. Will continue to look for further problems. The 'blocked' issue has plagued the other 4 drives as well. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG From: Ke

[Veritas-bu] Latency on robot operations on an i500

logdir script does not create anything obvious for this. Did not see anything under /usr/openv/volmgr either. It points to the library being the problem, but I want to make sure I have investigated NetBackup as well. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual |

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to backup a server in the extranet.

Now that I read it, and some of the replies so far, I wonder if both ports are actually needed from trusted (media server) to untrusted (client), but at least this process restricts the connections to being in the desired direction, rather than untrusted to trusted. ------ Jim

[Veritas-bu] Duplicate from multiple tapes in different robots?

Tape.TLD002.1 drive. It appears the reservation system looked only at the first tape needed when it requested a tape drive and assumed that drive could be used for all media. Did I find a feature or bug? ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodg

Re: [Veritas-bu] How's 6.5.6?

p' then it redraws correctly. ------ Jim VandeVegt After months of working an issue with Symantec, they're recommending that I upgrade from my current 6.5.4 to 6.5.6. Frankly, when we upgraded to 6.5.2, 6.5.3, and 6.5.4 to resolve an issue,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape compatibility

n a robot NetBackup controls, highlight all them in the GUI and right-click-select Label. Uncheck 'Verify media label before performing operation' and acknowledge. (Instructions from NetBackup 6.5.6. YMMV.) ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.5 Policy Retention issue

What date was listed? If it was sometime in the year 2037, that is how infinity is represented in NetBackup. Basically it is MAXLONGINT converted into a date. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup media server question

laris? If zoned correctly and proper drivers installed on Solaris, it usually has just worked for me. The usual suspects on the OS side can bring it to life: devfsadm, sgscan, sg.install. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Up-conversion / bpduplicate question.

pes would be needed on the source and whether they were in the (same) library or not. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com Insurance for all of u

[Veritas-bu] FW: Netbackup media server question

ke it visible to Solaris? If zoned correctly and proper drivers installed on Solaris, it usually has just worked for me. The usual suspects on the OS side can bring it to life: devfsadm, sgscan, sg.install. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600

Re: [Veritas-bu] setup special account for backup ????????

For NetBackup, get a copy of the Linux client install and put it on yourself. Once you have a working client, the NetBackup administrators can push the updates to make it match the master. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server

02/09/2011 / -t 0 is backup type. 0 is Standard. 13 is Windows-NT. -A instead of -B if you want the file list from archives rather than backups. The man page for bplist will fill in more details if needed. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Do

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server

m to achieve equivalent functionality. ---------- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com<mailto:jim.vandev...

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate to multiple drive

d the negative consequences of multiplexing. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retir

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for Windows?

ctory. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retirement From: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to administer a Windows master server behind a firewall

My first thought is to RDP the windows system and run what you need to right there. Your mileage may vary... -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix Exclude_list

f policies). ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retirement From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library

library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.c

Re: [Veritas-bu] HELP!!!!

My understanding is you cannot get 1000 FDX without auto/auto. We keep all our stuff on automatic. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores from Cumulative incremental backups

d that includes the cumulative and without TIR, and you get 1200 files, and possibly a disk full. You restore the same with TIR, and you get 1000 files. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | Physi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores from Cumulative incremental backups

You would have to manually delete those files. NetBackup doesn't have that function AFAIK. If you are restoring an entire file system this could be accomplished by newfs (UNIX) or a format (Windows). ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600

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

0 were all good. They were very solid boxes albeit expensive. Unfortunately I think the jury is still out on Oracle's long-term direction and support of the product line. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG, Physicians Mutual

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum i6000 tape cleaning tickets not clearing

hat it had been cleaned, if so programmed. Anybody have a Quantum i500 that is auto-closing those RAS tickets? ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum i6000 tape cleaning tickets not clearing

update the 'last occurred' on the open ticket. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG, Physicians Mutual From: Lightner, Jeff [jlight...@water.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 09:40 How quickly are you doing the manua

Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Expiration

image has a later time stamp than the media data expiration, then the media data expiration is set equal to the image expiration. The media will still return to scratch once all the images have expired, during the daily "deassign empty" run. ------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical

Re: [Veritas-bu] How can I list the files from the NBU Catalog if I know the Barcode?

n the first example, are not optional at all. It ought to know the client name from the backup ID, but doesn't seem to make the connection. I also included the recursion level. I don't think it defaults to infinity. See if you get better mileage from this, ------ Jim VandeVegt |

Re: [Veritas-bu] How can I list the files from the NBU Catalog if I know the Barcode?

it defaults to infinity. See if you get better mileage from this, ------ Jim VandeVegt | ETG, Solutions Architect; Enterprise UNIX, Backup, & Storage Administration Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | http://www.PhysiciansMutual.com<http://ww

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trying to find what tapes an image is on.

bpimagelist -l -backupid What are the fields in 'bpimagelist -l'? http://support.veritas.com/docs/193085 IMAGE client_name, date1, date2, version, backupid, policy_name, client_type, proxy_client, creator, sched_label, sched_type, retention, backup_time, elapsed, expiration, compression, encryp

[Veritas-bu] Any issues with NetBackup 7.5.0.7?

Has anyone run into major issues with fixpack 7? Would / Have you gone to it from fixpack 4? Go to 7.6 instead? Solaris 10 x64 SPARC master. AIX 7.1 media server Windows, AIX, Linux clients. Thanks, -- Jim VandeVegt | ETG, Solutions Architect; Enterprise UNIX, Backup, & Sto

[Veritas-bu] Excluding jobs for file systems when using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

.. it also would be nice if a file system mount point is in the exclude list a job should not be created for that file system either.Thanks, Jim VandeVegt VandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit