Hello everyone,
I'm new on this list and also starting with Netbackup so bare with me :)
As I was trying to understand what goes on when I have a calendar-based
schedule with a window that spans midnight I just found out there are some
issues with this the latest 6.5.2. Please check this
On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:21:45 pm Clausen, Matt R [EQ] wrote:
The job queues, starts, runs into an issue and re-queues itself except this
time doesn't get to start until after midnight Here is where the
Retries Allowed after Runday checkbox comes in.
Thanks Matt for that wonderful
On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:52:40 pm Clausen, Matt R [EQ] wrote:
It terminated because the next day is not a Run day. With a calendar
backup, the checked day(s) denote the run day.
All clear now Matt. Thanks a million!
All the best,
Jorge
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Hello everyone,
After I installed 6.5.2 I noticed all jobs 196'ing at midnight (even when the
next day was a runday). This is a known issue for people running 6.5.2 and
6.5.2a
My question is: is this a bug ? Or is this simply how it's going to be from
now on? (and thus you'll have to check
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:23:14 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
My question is: is this a bug ? Or is this simply how it's going to be from
now on? (and thus you'll have to check Retries allowed after runday for
previous behaviour)
Thanks pharold Christopher. I got the EEB and we're on track now
On Friday 05 September 2008 04:41:55 am Michael Graff Andersen wrote:
We are going to upgrade to NBU 6.5.2 at the end of this month (20th).
Hello Michael,
If I were you I'll wait until 6.5.3 comes out. There are lots of issues with
6.5.2. Just do a google search on: netbackup 6.5.2 and
On Friday 05 September 2008 10:23:05 am Ed Wilts wrote:
What makes you think it's going to be better?
They're working hard on all the 6.5.2 bugs and not necessarily new features.
These aren't necessarily all issues. There are a handful of issues for
which there are fixes available *today*.
On Friday 05 September 2008 10:33:06 am Michael Graff Andersen wrote:
Thanks, but unfortunately I couldn't convince the business to wait to
december to implement Windows 2008
I see Michael.
On the other hand...I'm just curious...Why would you run such a critical
system (such as Netbackup)
On Friday 05 September 2008 02:20:29 pm Jim H wrote:
Whether it is called a major release or not, it had the content and changes
of a major release. I know it had more features than the 5.1 release
I see Jim. Then the question would be: why did they change the good old known
versioning system?
On Friday 05 September 2008 03:14:06 pm Ed Wilts wrote:
See page 14 of the Release Impact bulletin for Symantec's explanation.
ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/
288210.pdf
Thanks Ed for the doc. I didn't know about it. Regarding the change... I
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 11:32:19 am Ed Wilts wrote:
Symantec has just published a Late Breaking News article that you should
probably read.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/307880.htm
Ed,
How do you find out about these notes/updaets? Is there some announcement
list or any
Thank you Ed John!
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On Wednesday 10 September 2008 03:53:21 am POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR)
wrote:
Does someone know what to write on the exclude list file and include list
file ??
Hello Gilles,
Please be more specific: what's on your backup selection (on your Policy)? and
what are the directories you want to
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 08:16:10 am POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR)
wrote:
For example, I want to backup a UNIX client by putting / in the Backup
selection of the test policy.
Then, I want to be able to backup the folders skeleton ( all folders and
subfolders ) but without backing up
On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:41:36 am POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR)
wrote:
I did the following test with success
I'm glad to know that. I didn't know that , by default, on Unix/Linux systems
it will copy the whole directory structure ...so that goes nicely with what
you wanted.
Hello everyone,
Are there any guidelines/standards (from a Federal Gov. Agency) on backup
retention (e.g. a yearly full should be ketp for 5 yearrs etc...)? Is there
any guide all federal agencies should adhere to?
Thanks,
Jorge
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On Friday 19 September 2008 02:18:24 pm Packett, Jason wrote:
We upgraded also and now our vaulting policy stopped working. We can
manually kick off inside vaulting manager, but not through the policy. Any
thought?
That happened to me and there's a binary fix for it (nbpem binary). You need
Hello everyone,
Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an
Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily
because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments.
Thanks,
Jorge
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 10:49:46 am Hudson, Steve wrote:
We only do Full backups for Exchange.
Thanks for the feedback Steve. Any bad experience restoring from a full+inc
on Exchange (e.g. any corrupted transaction log ?)
Regards,
Jorge
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Hello everyone,
I just installed BLAT and configured the email notifications and everything
works as expected: NB is sending emails for jobs exiting with a non-zero
code.
The problem is...I don't want to receive emails for 1's. Any way to modify
this? (send emails on jobs ending in anything
On Saturday 04 October 2008 08:30:21 pm oersted wrote:
if %5 GTR 1 goto Failed
in backup_exit_notify
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction! I didn't have a Failed
section on the file...but I ended up putting this at the beginning:
if %5 LEQ 1 goto: EndMain
and it seems to work.
On Saturday 04 October 2008 11:23:52 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
if %5 LEQ 1 goto: EndMain
and it seems to work.
Arrrghhh it actually doesn't work. I have the backup_exit_notify
(plain-vanilla) that comes with 6.5 for Windows Master Server. I just don't
see in it where does it makes its
On Sunday 05 October 2008 01:59:07 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add this to the code before the blat command in nbmail.cmd. I like
nbmail.cmd messages the best out of all the NBU message command files.
Thanks a million Chris! That indeed works! I have a test policy with one
client and one
On Monday 06 October 2008 07:36:12 am servet ince wrote:
Is the NetBackup 6.5.3 published? Does anyone know it? I can't find it.
Not yet...
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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 04:54:17 am BlueChris69 wrote:
So, am i missing the obvious?
Netbackup will append data to a tape until it fills in the whole tape. When
it fills the tape, it won't use it anymore until ALL images on tape expire.
That's how it works...
HTH,
Jorge
Hello everyone,
I'm considering implementing BMR for the first time as I just found it's free!
(shame on me). I just read the Whitepaper on it and plan to read the Admin
Guide shortly...bur first I wanted to know your experiences on it.
I thought that BMR was a block-level (image-based)
On Monday 08 June 2009 12:33:45 pm A Darren Dunham wrote:
Yes same with doing file-level backups of a database. Similar options apply:
* Run some sort of de-dup product
I'll take a look at dedup for sure.
* Backup from within the virtual host, not the image files from the
server
This
Thanks William for the nice explanation and to everyone else for sharing their
feedback.
All the best,
Jorge
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Hello everyone,
We're considering switching from our old ADIC Scalar 1000 (with LTO1 drives)
to an HP MSL8096 (4 drives). The logical step will be to go the LTO3 route
so we can read our old media but ... considering we do backups 99.5% of the
time and restores 0.5% of the time...I'm
On Friday 21 August 2009 02:01:58 pm Dean wrote:
The only thing I can think of is getting one of the LTO1 drives from the
old library installed into the new library. This might not be possible
Thank you Dean and the others for the comments. Yes, indeed it is not
possible to reuse the old
On Saturday 22 August 2009 03:05:12 pm bob944 wrote:
Yes, if you're going to mix them. LTO4s are automatically detected
as hcart and so are LTO1s. So when you add the LTO4 drives, change
them to anything else--LTO2... 8MM, whatever, and set up barcode
rules so that all the LTO4 tapes you'll
On Monday 24 August 2009 02:44:11 pm David McMullin wrote:
If you ARE thinking of copying old tape to new tapes - here are some
thoughts!
1. if your old tapes are multiplexed you might want to look into copying
them to a disk or VTL then to a tape, since the shoe shining you experience
is
Hello everyone,
We need to send some LTO-1 tapes (created with Netbackup 6.5) to another
division that has Backup Exec 9.1 along with LTO-1 drives. Will they be
able to import the media? Any document with a compability chart?
Thanks!
Best regards,
Jorge
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:34:05 pm Martin, Jonathan wrote:
If you've got a Unix/Linux server I've got some procedures you can use to
read the data native off the media
Hello Jonathan. Yes, we do have some UNIX/Linux servers on the other site.
Please send me the procedures whenever you
On Thursday 03 September 2009 10:19:50 am Jeff Lightner wrote:
I concur - I've seen more frozen tapes due to drive/robot failures than
due to any intrinsic fault in the tape itself.
One peculiar thing that happens to us (at least twice a year) with our old
ADIC Scalar 1000:
- Monday
On Friday 11 September 2009 08:00:03 am tim burlowski wrote:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/backup-and-archiving/ideas?product=1741
Thanks. I had no idea about this link!
As a general principle I have suggested the following as a guide for our
future user interfaces when it comes to
Hello guys,
I have this 20GB TAR file (created with 7zip) on a Windows machine. I perform
a backup of this TAR file and everything goes ok. When I restored the file
on a Linux host I first noticed the file size was off by a few bytes and I'm
unable to extract it. I then verified with md5sum
On Friday 11 September 2009 01:11:27 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
When I restored the file on a Linux host I first noticed the file size was
off by a few bytes and I'm unable to extract it.
Judy Douglas: Thanks for the comments and for suggesting the restore back
to a Windows machine. I just
On Saturday 12 September 2009 12:24:38 am Ed Wilts wrote:
I would guess that the line terminations are getting you. Windows has
cr/lf and Unix just lf. Since you're backing up the file in a binary
fashion, when you restore it to another platform, your terminations aren't
going to match what
Hello everyone,
I suddenly noticed we have lots of tapes (in the volume pools assigned for
VAULT duplicates, and the majority of tapes in here are offsite) that the
expiration date is oct/2008. The columns in the volume pool show:
1) the media status is SUSPENDED
2) date expiration (+-
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:50:08 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
I'm wondering...why didn't they show up in the SCRATCH pool as usual (when
all images expire on tape)? Any common reason for this kind of behaviour?
I forgot ... Why is a tape suspended when all data on it expired?
Thanks,
Jorge
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:54:37 pm judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
wrote:
Because the tape is suspended - meaning NB won't do anything to it till you
release it.
Hi Judy,
Ok, I think I'm starting to get the picture here. We didn't run VAULT for a
couple of months (for about the time
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 03:17:38 pm Donaldson, Mark wrote:
If you look at the tape with vmquery, does it have an Assigned date?
Yes.
Are you confusing volume expiration (tape age, visible with vmquery) with
image expiration (visible with bpmedialist)?
I don't think so. I initially
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:54:37 pm judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
wrote:
Try taking one off of suspension and see if it then expires
I just did that (rich-clicked it: unsuspend) and then later ran
bpimage -cleanup but the tape is still on the vault volume pool (it won't go
to Scratch
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 03:52:26 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
I just did that (rich-clicked it: unsuspend) and then later ran
bpimage -cleanup but the tape is still on the vault volume pool (it won't
go to Scratch as I expected).
When I manually try to expire the tape I get this error
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:22:33 pm Tim Hoke wrote:
When a tape is suspended, it won't be used for any write operations until
it expires. When all the images expire, cleanup operations will run and it
should become un-suspended and made available for use. This differs from
frozen in
For the benefit of the mailing list archive:
Today we finally solved the issue. I opened the support case with Symantec a
few days ago and it turned out that, despite images having expired from the
images database, there were still fragments in the EMM database.
I was provided with some SQL
On Monday 23 November 2009 03:32:31 am Shashi Kanth Boddula wrote:
is it possible to provide some options to the ./install script so that it
will not ask any questions and it will install NB client software in a
silent way ?
Hi,
I'm not sure if there's a way (e.g. some specific switch) but
Hello guys,
I'm running 6.5.3 and I'm planning an upgrade to NBU 7 and then later I also
plan a hardware-refresh (move from Win2k3 to Win2008 R2).
While checking the compatiblity list for NBU 6.X and 7, I noticed that , for a
master server, only Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 is supported
On Friday 18 June 2010 05:46:18 WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
If you are going to new Hardware, then is your NBU7 going to be migrated
over to a new System, so you have new Servername, IP address, clients
pointing to new Master Server, ect?
Argh right. I better use the proper terms :) No,
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 09:59:22 thomas.h...@sungard.com wrote:
No surprise, there are some bugs in v7.0 pertaining to vStorage that
will be addressed in v7.1 (due to be released in August 2010)
Hi Thomas,
Where can I check this August date (for 7.1) on the Symantec site?
Thanks,
Jorge
On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:14:01 thomas.h...@sungard.com wrote:
Jorge – When I was talking with support; they didn’t have a firm date.
Only that GA would be sometime in August and that a patch should be made
available sometime in July.
Thanks Thomas. We're on 6.5.3 and our main reason to
On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:14:11 Ed Wilts wrote:
It's 7.0.1, aka Denali, not 7.1
The date is certainly not official. I just spotted an etrack article that
said NetBackup 7.0 Release Update 1 (7.0.1), currently targeted for
release in the third quarter of 2010
Note that it says targeted.
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:28:45 judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote:
All it is telling you is that it is backing up / (root) and in doing so it
sees that /u01 is a separate file system, and it knows you are doing
multiply jobs, so it will not backup /u01 with root but will do it as a
Hello everyone,
We're running NBU 7.0.1 and the only thing we needed to start backing up
VMware (through vStorage) was the Enterprise Client key corresponding to our
ESXi hosts. Once I registered the key on the master server (which is also our
Media Server) I restarted the Netbackup services.
On Thursday 18 November 2010 07:57:04 Jorge Fábregas wrote:
We're running NBU 7.0.1 and the only thing we needed to start backing up
VMware (through vStorage) was the Enterprise Client key corresponding to
our ESXi hosts. Once I registered the key on the master server (which is
also our
Hello everyone,
We've been doing some vStorage VMware backups thru the SAN for our test
environment. We haven't started that on the production environment yet...
As you may know, in order to start doing SAN backups using the vStorage
API, your backup host needs access to all the LUNs (VMFS
On 02/04/2011 03:09 PM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote:
I have done this on two different NBU Domains and on each domain the
VMware backup host was a 2008 64bit Media Server. When presenting the
LUNs, Windows did not try to mount them or write signatures. They come up
as Healthy but showing
On 02/08/2011 11:25 AM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote:
The only thing I am having concerns with are the speeds that we're seeing
so far. We are getting about 35MB/s from each VM. What speeds are others
seeing?
Same here. I did some preliminary tests and we were getting around 20 to
25 MB/s.
Hi,
Can I change to disable those services that I'm not using? For
example, we don't use Bare-Metal-Restore nor Storage-Lifecycle Policies.
Or is it standard procedure to start all services even though you may
not use some of them?
Thanks!
Jorge
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Hi everyone,
I recently finished doing a hardware-refresh of our master/media server.
The main reason for the refresh was that our previous server was really
old (with 1Gbps HBAs) and we wanted to start doing VMware backups thru
the SAN (thru our 8Gbps SAN fabric). I just finished doing some
On 03/06/2011 03:13 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Don't forget about:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE
Hello Justin,
I just did a restore now using 1024 as the value for NUMBER_DATA_BUFFER
and never specified NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE. However, on the
restore details I see:
Info bptm(pid=5224)
On 03/07/2011 08:54 AM, Nic Solomons wrote:
If this isn't a concern, and the server has been sized appropriately - then
I'm jealous... but keep it in mind as more and more parallel jobs are added
to this server.
Thanks for the tip Nic. Indeed, I have plenty of RAM (16GB) on this
64-bit
On 10/27/2011 04:02 AM, Kevin OConnor wrote:
So the question is, if we take a catalog backup of the existing master can we
use it to rebuild the master server once the server is up with the same IP,
name and Netbackup 7.0.1 x64 installed ?
More importantly are there any down sides to this
On 11/24/2011 08:38 AM, Michael Graff Andersen wrote:
I not certain how the query works when using the Annotations field, have
looked at the manual and technotes but still need some clarification
Hi Michael,
We've been using the Annotations field of the VMs as our primary
indicator for the
Hi Simon,
Sorry for the late response. A while ago I posted a message with my
setup and some speed results:
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/2011-March/109633.html
We have hundreds of VMs and we indeed limit the amount of jobs per
datastore (thru the global option available
Hi,
We're running NBU 7.1 and planning to go with 7.5. Is there anyone
here running it? Has it been stable for you? Was the upgrade smooth?.
Please share.
Thanks in advance!
Jorge
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On 09/21/2012 07:49 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
We're running NBU 7.1 and planning to go with 7.5. Is there anyone
here running it? Has it been stable for you? Was the upgrade smooth?.
Please share.
Thank you all for the comments. I appreciate it.
Best regards,
Jorge
Hi all,
I'm about to upgrade to 7.5 (from 7.1) on a Windows 2008R2 Server and
I'm worried about the image metadata migration phase.
NBU is installed on the system drive (c:\) and I have just 20GB of free
space there. We have 3,713 images (based on bpimagelist output) and
Netbackup\db\images is
On 02/22/2013 11:30 AM, tsimerson wrote:
You don't need the full size of your images database for free disk space.
Only the metadata of the images database is imported into the EMM
database. This usually accounts for about 1% - 3% of the total images
database size. In your case, the 20 GB
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