[Veritas-bu] BMR Server and Solaris 10

2005-11-25 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, Our bmr server running on solaris 10 doesn't seem to be updating the web gui. It appears that BMR is functioning besides the lack up updates on the web interface. Clients are running bmrsavecfg without a problem I'm kinda on the un supported side of the BMR matrix with solaris 10 as per

[Veritas-bu] Re: BMR Server and Solaris 10

2005-11-25 Thread Karl . Rossing
Just to be clear, BMR 4.7 NB 5.0 MP5 Solaris 10 Karl Rossing/fhcc wrote on 11/25/2005 08:37:50 PM: Hi, Our bmr server running on solaris 10 doesn't seem to be updating the web gui. It appears that BMR is functioning besides the lack up updates on the web interface. Clients are running

[Veritas-bu] Will 6.0 MP1 arrive this year or next?

2005-11-29 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm looking Solaris 10 BMR client support, which may not be in MP1.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disaster recovery configuration

2005-12-09 Thread Karl . Rossing
We have are a small company. We only have 1 Master Server with 14 clients. Our master server runs on Solaris. This is what we do for our cold dr process(no available hardware) and our warm dr process(availible hardware). Protecting the server == Solaris allows you to create an

[Veritas-bu] Production 6.0GA

2005-12-15 Thread Karl . Rossing
I might have to upgrade NB to 6.0GA for various reasons on my production box. I realize that it's not recommended to upgrade until mp1 but i'm kinda stuck. I'm thinking of leaving my clients at 5.0MP5. I'd like to run dssu's and bmr on 6.0GA. I have no need for NDMP or Vault. Has anyone

Re: [Veritas-bu] Production 6.0GA

2005-12-15 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/15/2005 12:03:37 PM: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:25:24AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have to upgrade NB to 6.0GA for various reasons on my production box. I realize that it's not recommended to upgrade until mp1 but i'm kinda stuck. I think

RE: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question

2005-12-16 Thread Karl . Rossing
In NB 5.0, i have noticed that one DSSU(a) can't delete the contents of another DSSU(b) if it needs more space. example: /export/dsu is a single partition /export/dsu/daily all information has been duplicated to tape /export/dsu/monthend needs more space, but can't/won't ask /export/dsu/daily to

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Tutorial's

2005-12-20 Thread Karl . Rossing
Symantec put up some netbackup flash tutotrials. 1.) How to view logs for a specific originator ID using the vxlogview -o command 2.) How to create and configure a Disk Storage Unit 3.) How to configure Hot Catalog Backups They can be found here:

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 MP1 Released

2005-12-22 Thread Karl . Rossing
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Server/

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 DSSU's

2006-01-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I have a SAN with two DSSU's on the same partition(probably not the best thing).I need to free up some space on my DSSU's because I'm running out of space. Should i be using rm on the files i want to delete? Thanks Karl

RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 DSSU's

2006-01-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
Steven Cashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2006 10:21:35 AM: Also be aware of how DSSUs operate. They will keep images that have been moved onto tape available on the disk until the disk starts getting full. Then as NBU needs more space it will start removeing older images. DSSU

[Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation

2006-01-12 Thread Karl . Rossing
I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl

RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation

2006-01-14 Thread Karl . Rossing
The server i'm having high fragmentation is a Lotus Domino server. I talked to lotus and they do not recommend defragmentation while domino is running. I'd probably need a 4 to 8hr outage window to defrag the drive. Today i had a small outage window on the server so i upgraded the Raid

Re: [Veritas-bu] Need to Upgrade Sun hardware and upgrade OS as well....

2006-01-17 Thread Karl . Rossing
I believe the drives in the 220r and 440 are interchangeable. You should be able to put your 220r drives into the 440r and boot off of those drives. With luck you have the 220r drives mirrored to another drives. So if things go south, you have something to move back to. Then the tricky part

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issue

2006-01-23 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/23/2006 07:18:06 AM: Netbackup version 5.1.4. Solaris 9 master/media server. Our windows file server (win2003) backup has just started taking a very long time for the shadow copy components. Normally a 10 minute backup is now taking over 5 hours. The backup of

Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone using LTO3 with Solaris 8?

2006-01-23 Thread Karl . Rossing
Did you get the latest mappings.txt? Here is the NB 6.0 version... http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281082.htm I think the wizard uses mappings.txt... an updated st driver might do the trick also patch 108725-22 for s2.8 Karl Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] win2k DC restoration

2006-01-24 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I'm doing to DR testing. I have a unix master and i'd like to restore the BMR boot/win2k domain controller. In past versions of windows, I have installed windows to c:\winnt.dr and then restored the server and set the boot.ini to boot from c:\winnt With win2k, i can restore the system

RE: [Veritas-bu] win2k DC restoration

2006-01-24 Thread Karl . Rossing
Microsoft has a document about dissimilar HAL's... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263532 It doesn't seem to cover moving from SCSI to ide. Which i think is my current problem... Karl Spearman, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2006 09:11:17 AM: In restoring a DC the steps are very

Re: [Veritas-bu] Request for feedback on NetBackup 6.0 MP1

2006-01-25 Thread Karl . Rossing
In case you missed it In-Depth Troubleshooting Guide for Exit Status Code 41 in NetBackup Server (tm) / NetBackup Enterprise Server (tm) 6.0 http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/278422.htm Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/25/2006 01:50:40 PM: We're in the process of moving from our 4.5FP8

[Veritas-bu] /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images

2006-02-03 Thread Karl . Rossing
I have a client that is using 1.8GB. in /opt/openv/netbackup/db/clientxyz. I went into master server catalog and deleted the client images /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/clientxyz is still about 1.6GB I also ran /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -compress -client clientxyz

Re: [Veritas-bu] /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images

2006-02-03 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/03/2006 03:09:47 PM: Right command ... wrong parameter ;-) Try .../bpimage -cleanup -client clientxyz catstore is still too big... /usr/bin/find ./ -type d -name catstore -exec du -sk {} \;|sort -n 49309 ./113400/catstore 49592 ./113300/catstore

[Veritas-bu] windows bpstart and bpend

2006-03-02 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm running NB 6.0MP1 much like Solaris, bpend and bpstart run with each stream. How can i get them to run only once per backup. Thanks Karl

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows

2006-04-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
Two things come to mind 1) problem with emm386/himem and the dos nic driver 2) boot floppy image on the bmr server is corrupt I havn't had a problem with 1) but i have had a problem with a corrupted floppy on the server with BMR 6.0MP1. I had to contact support and have them walk me threw

RE: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows

2006-04-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
And do you have it documented how to delete the archived images? Shareable? Unfortunately not. You will need to contact support. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca

Re: [Veritas-bu] Images Directory

2006-04-13 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/13/2006 09:34:13 AM: To all: This is kind of urgent. What is stored in the directory /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images. We all off a sudden are filling up our / file system after activating a new set of policies and it seems that this is the culprit. Any

RE: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows

2006-04-17 Thread Karl . Rossing
But I dont understand the issue with the Windows Boot Server. We require this on all of the other platforms. The Boot Server can be an existing NBU client doesnt have to be an NBU server, doesnt have to be dedicated to being a Boot Server it can be an application server. It can be

[Veritas-bu] still have a large db/images/clientxyz directory

2006-05-01 Thread Karl . Rossing
I have expired all the clientxyz images, but the client images are still sitting at 2GB even though i did a bpimage -cleanup. NB 6.0MP2. Any susgestions? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free: 1-800-665-1934

[Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed

2006-05-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I'm getting slow DSSU - LTO2 tape drive performance. I think the problem is related to the SAN since the DSSU uses two mount points(/dssu1 and /dssu2). I'm seeing 16MB/s on one LTO2 drive and 27MB/s on the other LTO2 tape drive using iostat. Both drives are LVD connected to the same card

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed

2006-05-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 08:52:26 AM: Tools like iometer on Windows and Bonnie on Unix can help you benchmark your disk subsystem. You can also do backups to the null device. See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm. This allows you to have bpkar32 process data

RE: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed

2006-05-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/05/2006 09:39:23 AM: Here are some tests you can run : TEST CLIENT DISK READ SPEED 1) Read the data and write to /dev/null: a) with tar timex tar cvf /dev/null /dssu1 With this, i was able to determine that the problem is related to the HBA/FileSystem

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 Compress Catalog Bug

2006-05-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
Admins, I've been having problems with a particular clients db/images directory. It seemed that some images were not being deleted. It turns out that bpdb isn't able to delete compress catalogs that expire. It essentially orphans them which leads to you're client images growing. The bug ID is

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed

2006-05-09 Thread Karl . Rossing
In the end, the SUN box in question needed patch 119130-16.zip and for some reason, smpatch didn't know it needed it. System is now running at full speed. Thanks to all that helped out(Ed, Roy and Paul) Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431

[Veritas-bu] Renaming NB 6.0MP2 servers

2006-05-09 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'd like to rename a NB 6.0MP2 master server. In fact, i want to clone my master production server and rename it at our DR site. As far as i know this isn't really supported yet. Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 BMR

2006-05-18 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I'd just like to verify something. As it relates to windows servers, SRT's are kept on the windows boot server but driver/servicepack packages are kept on the netbackup master. I'm thinking that in the event of a DR, netbackup master is cloned and all i have to do is install a BMR boot

[Veritas-bu] DSSU/bpduplicate Question

2006-06-13 Thread Karl . Rossing
Copy 1 is considered the data sitting on the DSSU Copy 2 is considered the data copied to tape I'd like to do some testing, so i'd like to create a 3rd copy. Doing a manual relocation isn't possible since the data is already to tape. Would i just run bpduplicate manually? My assumption is that

[Veritas-bu] cold catalog backup

2006-06-26 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I'm trying to disable cold catalog backup configuration. For some reason the 6.0MP2 gui(NT and jnbSA) won't allow me to remove the two tapes assigned. Is there a command line equivalent? Karl-Frédéric Rossing, Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging in Netbackup Ver 6.0 MP2

2006-06-28 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/28/2006 02:06:16 PM: Hi Have Netbackup Server Base Edition Ver 6.0 + MP2 installed and configured on my UNIX machines. Have One master as well as Media configured to backup 25 clients. Wanted to create a DSU for temporary disk staging area to be dumped

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP2 Shared Memory Issue?

2006-06-29 Thread Karl . Rossing
Admins, We have one 6.0 MP2 Master/Media server running on Solaris 10. The server has been running fine for a while (uptime: 19 days). I was running debug vxlog (level 6) logging. I also had the bplogs (open/netbackup/logs/bpxyz) cranked up to five but turned all that down to one yesterday.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Dell Perc Drivers for BMR

2006-08-01 Thread Karl . Rossing
The version of the DOS driver can also greatly affect the restoration speed. Drivers from broadcom.com have worked better for me than the one that were on support.dell.com but you're milage may vary. :) Karl Ray Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/2006 05:55 PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] General Q - Gathering Backup Requirements How-to

2006-08-14 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hadrian, The May 2006 issue of storage magazine had an article on just that topic BUT i don't think it answers you're question directly. From: http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magLogin/1,291245,sid35_gci1188735,00.html === The DR plan specifies only system RTOs, not data center RTOs. Most

[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup and Database clients

2006-09-11 Thread Karl . Rossing
will flashbackup help speedup my lotus notes database agent backups?___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Article

2006-09-22 Thread Karl . Rossing
Storage Magazine has an article on the problems in NB 6.0 and the people that had to deal with it. http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magLogin/1,291245,sid35_gci1214739,00.html___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] BMR 6.0 Testing

2006-09-27 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, we are trying to restore a windows server using Netbackup 6.0. The boot server is a win2k3r2. We are having troubles reading the SRT. Is there something we are missing? Can an SRT reside on win2k3r2?___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] Server 2003 AD Restore

2006-09-27 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm trying to do an AD restore of 2003 server using NB 6.0MP3 using http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f66ee9e4-96d7-4f74-a2fe-d669194bf5a21033.mspx?mfr=true The restore works fine, i reboot the server and things seem to work for a while. Then the server seems to loose it's

[Veritas-bu] BMR 6.0MP3 Fast Windows Restore CD/DVD

2006-09-27 Thread Karl . Rossing
Sometimes it pays to read the release notes on Maintenance Packs. In this case MP3. All Windows BMR Boot Servers now contain a new wizard to assist in creating a CD image to be used for the Fast Restore feature. This new feature is an exciting fast-windows-restore feature to the Bare Metal

[Veritas-bu] DSSU's, 191's and Imports

2006-10-11 Thread Karl . Rossing
I have a single master production NB 6.0MP3 server. I also have a separate DR NB master. The DR master is a clone of the Production NB server using Solaris 10 flash archive. I do daily backups of the Prod NB server using DSSU's. I get error 191's from time to time because of lack of media in my

[Veritas-bu] W2k3R1 DC Fast Boot BMR

2006-10-13 Thread Karl . Rossing
I just want to verify a couple of things. We are in the process of BMR'ing two W2k3R1 servers using the BMR Fast Boot (NB 6.0MP3)CD/DVD in a test environment. I'm asking because the DNS Server service stops every once and a while on the BMR'ed DC's. The two DC's in question are also trying to

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 Bug

2006-10-19 Thread Karl . Rossing
We ran into a bug with 6.0MP3 while testing our BMR. The Contents of c:\windows\sysvol gets restored to c:\windows\sysvol\domain instead of c:\windows\sysvol\widgets.ca Symptoms are that you are able to login to the AD server only with cached credentials. All other user accounts don't work. The

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...

2006-12-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
whoops... I guess i got confused with my v240's bge's that aren't supported. thanks for the clarification. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/04/2006 11:32:46 AM: that is not true, I think you can trunk ce interfaces too... I did it on E4500 that had two ce0 and ce1 interfaces and they were

Re: [Veritas-bu] Destaging Speed

2007-01-03 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/03/2007 08:57:06 AM: Never done DSSUs before. I'm watching all my destaging happening during the week from this weekend's backups I noticed the duplication jobs don't have a write speed on them. How can I tell how fast the data is being written during

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers

2007-01-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
We get between 6MB/sec and 12MB/sec on single streams going to a NB 6.0 MP3 server running Solaris 10 over the LAN. The data gets staged to the SAN and then gets backed up to LTO2 drives. I have noticed a significant increase in backup speed with BroadCOM copper GB adapters by simply upgrading

Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape

2007-01-08 Thread Karl . Rossing
Windows fileshare data. Word, excel, Visio, text and image file formats. I'm currently writing to a different tape using the same drive. Maybe the fujifilm tape is the problem. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2007 09:33 AM To '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape

2007-01-08 Thread Karl . Rossing
I applied the latest kernel patches on friday. went from -22 to -24. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-118833-24-1 When i upgraded to MP4, i also did not delete the sg driver and re-install. It said something to the effect The sg driver was not update, if you wish you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Only getting 125GB on LTO2 Tape

2007-01-10 Thread Karl . Rossing
Just an update, seems to be a drive issue. I was able to write 160GB image to another tape drive using the same tape. I updated the drive firmware, power cycled the server and all the tape drives on the SCSI channel. I'll be placing a service call on the drive today. This is still kinda

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 Mp4 Weirdness

2007-01-12 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm having issues with netbackup not see'ing newly added tapes in our two autoloaders. A DSSU is assigned to each autoloader. For some reason, the inventory works but the manual relocation does not find any available media(errors 191 and 96). The server is NB 6.0 MP4 running on sparc with

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading from 5.1MP5 to 6.1 in Unix env.

2007-01-16 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007 08:35:05 AM: (4) Is there a suggested fall-back plan needed in case of major problems with the upgrade. Create a Solaris flash archive (man flarcreate) before upgrading. That will give you an easy way to roll the whole system back should you need to.

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP4 Bug

2007-01-19 Thread Karl . Rossing
I found a bug in MP4. If a w2k3sp1 server has DFS enabled, the system state (or in 2003 speak shadow copy components) does not backup. The bug didn't exist on MP3. Veritas has a fix. I still can't believe that this got threw. Maybe they need to buy a couple more QA servers. Ug.

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 DSSU Behavior

2007-01-24 Thread Karl . Rossing
My comments are below but i thought that I'd start with my config. Sun V240 Solaris 10 Master/Media(There is only one) 4GB of Ram Dual 1.5Ghz Two scsi LTO2 Autloaders. Each Autoloader has one LTO2 drive. Each autoloader is on a separate LVD channel. 1 dual port 2Gig fibre channel card. One Gigbit

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup

2007-01-25 Thread Karl . Rossing
Simon, I schedule this threw cron. Cron actually submits all our backups. We didn't really get bitten with the Scheduler/EMM problems on NB 6.0 PreMP3. Emm was acting goofy when scheduling manual relocations (again pre mp3) but thats fixed now. WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on

Re: [Veritas-bu] BMR restore error

2007-01-30 Thread Karl . Rossing
It the 2003 client a Domain Controller? I ran into a bug regarding the restoration of the sysvol. Veritas released an ISO of the BMR boot cd that fixed our problem. It's not fixed under MP4. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 04:35:33 PM: Hi! I?m getting this error below when

[Veritas-bu] ZFS

2007-02-02 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm toying with the idea of running zfs on my DSSU's. This way i can compress the data to the dssu as it's being written thus decreasing the amount of space needed for the dssu's. It might not be the best flow client - NB Server - DSSU write the data with zfs compression zfs uncompress - tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare

2007-02-02 Thread Karl . Rossing
Spoke to support today. They just ADDED some more support personnel. W00T!___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare

2007-02-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
aptare. Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2007 12:23 PM To NB List Mail veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare who? Symantec or Aptare? -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] DSSU Script

2007-02-15 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'd like to build a script that expires dssu images the image has been relocated to tape. What command should i use to check if the image has been written to tape? I'm thinking of generating the list images from a directory listing of the dssu.

Re: [Veritas-bu] DSSU Script

2007-02-15 Thread Karl . Rossing
My dssu resides on a zfs volume. 6.0MP4 doesn't know when a zfs volume is full and therefore apparently doesn't make room for new images. Apparently this will be fixed under mp5. Karl Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/15/2007 07:24:14 PM: On 2/15/2007 5:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sneak Peek

2007-02-20 Thread Karl . Rossing
*cough* thats a pretty big list of enhancements. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/20/2007 01:42:37 PM: NetBackup 6.5 BETA version of the Symantec Veritas NetBackup (tm) Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linux (last updated 2/16/2007) http://support.veritas.com/docs/287075

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Karl . Rossing
Have you tried a symlink into the snapshot dir? Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2007 10:27:42 AM: Hello. On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the backup window as short as possible, I'm creating ZFS snapshots just

Re: [Veritas-bu] Baremetal on master server

2007-04-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
We use a solaris flash archive to protect our solaris master server.If you add in a hot catalog backup, you're pretty much set. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2007 02:37:49 AM: No, Unfortunately BMR needs master server to do restores stefanos -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] Preventing Media Expiration when doing a Catalog restore

2007-04-04 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, We are restoring a catalog tape to our dv environment(same server name). The catalog db seems to be expiring the images we are testing with since time has progressed past the expiry time. Is there a way to tell the catalog db to not expire any images? If i do an import, the images will

Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing Media Expiration when doing a Catalog

2007-04-05 Thread Karl . Rossing
I think i ran into a bug with /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire or the catalog restore. I tried to re-import the catalog tape of that were expired but the images did not show up. The images and catalog i'm looking for are 3 weeks old while the retention is 2 weeks. So NOexpire either doesn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] clients in hosts files and forcing NICs to FULL

2007-04-12 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/12/2007 12:41:01 PM: what's best for your environment. As for Windows, I'm not too clear on that. But if you never want to run into any issues, it's way best to lock speeds and duplex on BOTH sides. That way you can never go wrong. We don't lock ports BUT i

[Veritas-bu] MSSQL Agent Restores

2007-04-16 Thread Karl . Rossing
We are thinking of getting the NB 6.0 MSSQL agent. Can you restore all the MSSQL DB's without SQL running? Or does MSSQL have to be running with master.mdf Thanks Karl___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone take the plunge to 6.0MP5 yet?

2007-08-07 Thread Karl . Rossing
I only installed on my windows management station running vista. The admin console seems to work better now in vista. Thats as far as i'll take it maybe even for this year. Karl Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/07 05:35 AM To

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?

2007-08-17 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/17/2007 01:10:06 AM: Having spoken to a Symantec tech recently who keeps close tabs on the dev side in the US, it doesn?t help when people hold off. He mentioned a lot of people held of for 6.0MP1 so a lot of the issues didn?t get fixed until MP2+3.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?

2007-08-17 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/17/2007 08:05:42 AM: Their QA really dropped the ball with this release. I think you have it right on with this. For instance some of the BMR bugs we have seen should have been caught in their QA. They should have caught the fact that AD wouldn't restore on a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up a SAN

2007-09-26 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/25/2007 07:28:28 PM: With NetBackup 6.5, you have the option of a ?SAN client? which is essentially a media server client but without tape drivers. This allows you to access your SAN-based data and write to a SAN-based disk storage unit. No network traffic

Re: [Veritas-bu] LotusNotes backup strategy

2007-10-16 Thread Karl . Rossing
We have several Domino servers and have been able to utilise point in time restores. Our win2k3 mail server backs up 350GB at 10-12MB/sec using the notes agent. Doing an off-line backup we are able to do 25-30MB/Sec We are hoping to move our mail server in the new year back to Solaris. We

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some info on my experiences with 10GbE

2007-10-18 Thread Karl . Rossing
Devon, Good to hear that T2000's are screamers. What are the library/tape drive specs. Are the drives FC attached? or are they attached via scsi to the media server? Thanks, Karl From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peters, Devon C Sent: Wednesday,

[Veritas-bu] Jumbo Frames

2007-10-19 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm wondering if you can clear something up for me, how do people tend to configure their 1GbE ports for jumbo frames. We currently don't have a separate backup network. I don't really want to create a separate backup network right now just to for jumbo frame support although vlans might help

Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows

2007-11-01 Thread Karl . Rossing
Bobby, We get 12MB/sec(350GB) from our Windows Notes netbackup client to our DSSU on our Solaris Master/Media Server. This is what we have done to increase performance to 12MB/Sec 1.) Set Lotus Domino scheduled tasks to happen outside of the backup window 2.) Made sure we have the latest nic

[Veritas-bu] bpsetconfig in 6.5.2

2008-07-03 Thread Karl Rossing
I read that bpsetconfig will apparently be able to manage include/exclude lists for all operating systems. https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=324861 I'm wondering if the -e and -i flags are in 6.5.2? Thanks Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication

[Veritas-bu] Win XP client Deduplication

2008-07-04 Thread Karl Rossing
I have 75 windows client that I would like to backup over the wan. I can't use DLO since we don't have a Windows Domain. I would like to do client deduplication. I have a few questions in order to verify what I understand. Is there some deduplication built into NB 6.5.2/6.5.3 Win XP client?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Win XP client Deduplication

2008-07-07 Thread Karl Rossing
I was reading the Getting Started Guide http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_PureDisk_Remote_Office_Edition/303546.pdf We currently have a SUN T1000 running Solaris 10U4 with 16GB of Ram. We don't have any media servers. In order to use PD, We will need to add a server

Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups - Tips and tricks

2008-08-08 Thread Karl Rossing
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mark Glazerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some the Quality Engineering folks and product managers are reading the list too... We're not complaining about the engineering on this - although we would have liked for the

[Veritas-bu] sgscan cannot see robot after library power cycle

2008-08-22 Thread Karl Rossing
T1000 S10U4 master There was a power outage on the library and now sgscan cannot see the robot. /dev/sg/c0t5l0: Processor: SUN StorEdge 3120 D /dev/sg/c0t8l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t8d0): SEAGATE ST33LSUN300G /dev/sg/c0t9l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t9d0): SEAGATE ST33LSUN300G /dev/sg/c1t1l0:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.3 - What is your experience?

2008-11-21 Thread Karl Rossing
Anyone know if setting exclusions for all client types using bpgetconfig and bpsetconfig made it into 6.5.3? more info here: https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=324861 Steve Hedberg wrote: NetBackup 6.5.3 has recently entered into a First Availability program. We in

[Veritas-bu] jnbSA/bplist issue

2009-02-19 Thread Karl Rossing
Hello, Netbackup 6.5.1 Master running on Solaris 10. Netbackup 6.5.1 also running on Solaris 10. The client policy is to only do a daily differential will a 3 month retention. My assumption is that once the data expires, Netbackup will redo the diff and catch up. I'm only seeing two weeks of

[Veritas-bu] Live Update Questions

2009-08-11 Thread Karl Rossing
My hope is to install 100 windows clients with 6.5GA and point them to the Live Update(LU) server so that they can be updated automatically to 6.5.4. We have a Solaris 6.5 master server. I need to install the LU software on it. I can't seem to find the proper media. Does anyone know where I

[Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions

2009-08-13 Thread Karl Rossing
I would like to set windows client exclusions using bpsetconfig on our solaris master server via the command line. More information can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/setting-and-getting-excludeinclude-lists-without-bpgp I was hoping that the feature would exist in 6.5.4

Re: [Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions

2009-08-14 Thread Karl Rossing
Unfortunately i still get unimplemented feature. I guess I will open a case and see if it's availble on 6.5.5 So Unix to Windows does not seem to be supported. Karl Jim H wrote: Give it a try this way. I have done it this way for windows clients from a windows master, but not from a unix

Re: [Veritas-bu] Using bpsetconfig to set exclusions

2009-10-23 Thread Karl Rossing
customer will want this feature. Anyway, that's it for now. Karl Karl Rossing wrote: I would like to set windows client exclusions using bpsetconfig on our solaris master server via the command line. More information can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/setting

Re: [Veritas-bu] FA for NetBackup 7

2009-12-18 Thread Karl Rossing
Ed Wilts wrote: It's also not free. You will pay for each terabyte of pre-duped data. ZFS de-dup is for us openSolaris folk. Now available as of build 129. Although it's not a tape solution and I don't think opensolaris is officially supported. I'm looking forward to testing this out with