Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 with NBU 5.1 MP5 -- Tape Drives disappearing

2007-10-22 Thread Len Boyle
The driver uses the wwn in the device name. This does not change if the tape drive is plugged into another card or port. len lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 71 Jul 30 2004 /dev/rmt/3cbn -> ../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments

2007-10-22 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Mark, Did I read in this list that netbackup was supposed to do some kind of checksum on the data written to tape? If so would a bpverify check this. I would assume that if netbackup does this it would find the error. because netbackup would do it's calc before passing the block to the ded

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-07 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Trey Can you tell us how big your database has become. I assume from you note below that there is only one database for all 6500 clients. Also can you give us some idea of what kind of hardware you use to support this. Thanks len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch "NB_60_5_M" installation on NetBackup 6.0MP4 (RHEL 4.3)

2007-12-06 Thread Len Boyle
Greg Can you tell this group a little about the problems that you have seen that require an Engineering fix. Thanks len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Demilde Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.aubur

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup install computer only not available Maintenance Pack 5

2007-12-10 Thread Len Boyle
Simon, Where are the bits that you are trying to install. A mapped cifs or smb share, a cd mounted on the install target, A remote cd-rom or ? len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007

Re: [Veritas-bu] backing up MS cluster

2007-12-16 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, In the policy for each of the virtual server names you use the virtual name. Note that for the policy for the phyiscal server can not use All_local drives because the active node for the virtual node will see the san disks as a local drive. len -Original Message- From: [

Re: [Veritas-bu] New tape drives not appearing in /dev/rmt.

2007-12-24 Thread Len Boyle
It sounds like you do not have the driver for your hba installed on the solaris box. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vines, Peter (psv2b) Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:49 PM To: Vines, Peter (psv2b); psv2b; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs

2008-01-08 Thread Len Boyle
Kevin, Try the command nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:59 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs Ok, when I was on 5.1 I cou

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs

2008-01-08 Thread Len Boyle
overhead job, like dups and db backups. Also I do not believe that this command will stop user backups such has rman. It would be nice if one could do that also. len From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:16 PM To: Len Boyle; veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any issues about moving NetBackup from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10?

2008-01-21 Thread Len Boyle
I believe that netback is only supported on the gobal zone for a master/media server. Len - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Mon Jan 21 17:04:04 2008 Subject: [Veritas-bu] Any issues about moving NetBackup from Sol

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring NDMP backups over the network

2008-01-22 Thread Len Boyle
I am a little fuzzy on your exact plan of action. Given that here is what I understand what you can do. 1) netapps write in a dump format. So you can issue the dump command on the netapp and write the data out to tape or read in from tape. Unless things have changed I believe that this is only

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring NDMP backups over the network (A DarrenDunham)

2008-01-23 Thread Len Boyle
You are getting closer. You can attach the tape drive to the netbackup master/media server and not the filer and have things work. So you could use the same tape drive to restore other netbackup data. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Cleverley Sent: Wednes

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backups of CIFS shares on Netapp Filers

2008-01-25 Thread Len Boyle
The ndmp backups of netapp filers back up the acls on NTFS and mixed volumes. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:16 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP back

Re: [Veritas-bu] tape limit?

2008-01-29 Thread Len Boyle
Tim, As someone else pointed out it sounds like the tape library has a limit on the number of tapes that you can see. You might want to check if the max number of slots was increased in the library config. I do not know this library but the stk 9710 and L700 had to have their configs changed wh

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO tapes handling more that it supposed

2008-02-26 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Martin I do not remember which platform you are using for you media servers. On solaris using the st driver the use of hardware compress depends on which device name you are using. from the following any of the dev entries with the "c" will call for hardware compression. In netback

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007

2008-03-19 Thread Len Boyle
A full backup should be good. There should be an option to do a full backup with a purge of the log files vs a full backup copy without the purge of the log files. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 20

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007

2008-03-19 Thread Len Boyle
the considerations are similar to those for automatic backups. A Backup Selections list is not needed because users select the files before starting the operation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:57

Re: [Veritas-bu] relocation of Media Server - IP changed & Now Perimiter

2008-03-31 Thread Len Boyle
Simon, Have you set up netbackup to use vnet for the connection, and have you opened the firewall ports for the connection which are greater for master-to-media server then for master/media to client. I am not sure about NBU 5.1, but NBU 6 has a small booklet with all the ports defined. len

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups

2008-04-09 Thread Len Boyle
Look at the windows app event logs From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:16 AM To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups I apolo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Health Check Script

2008-04-26 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Larry, An interesting list. if you have clients/servers behind firewalls you may not be able to use the ping command as the firewall may block. This is for questions 1 and 13. If you are at level 6 you can use the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bptestbpcd command to check that the c

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Enterprise Edition 6.5 compatibility

2008-04-30 Thread Len Boyle
yes what levels of windows are you looking at You can go to support.veritas.com and check for levels supported. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leidy, Jason D Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:05 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netback

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiplexing on VTL's

2008-04-30 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Bob I agree with b and c, but there a can be a little misleading as we learned the hard way this past year. Netbackup records the start of a fragment and not the location of the file on the tape. So it has to read the whole fragment until it finds the file it is looking for. len -Or

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2008-05-06 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Michael Do you have netbackup cleaning the tape drives or only the tape library cleaning the tape drives or both. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:47 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.

[Veritas-bu] Is anyone sharing an IBM TS3500 between aix and z/os

2008-05-14 Thread Len Boyle
Good Evening, Is anyone sharing an IBM TS3500 (3584) between an z/os (mvs) system and netbackup running on open systems. If so can one share a tape drive? and not just the library. Of course not at the same time would a tape drive be usable from both systems. This assume at least two virtual l

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SG devices and Solaris 9

2008-05-28 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Steve, After adding the new tape drives did you run the procedure to reinstall the netbackup sg driver as written up in the MediaMgr_DeviceConfig_Guide.txt file in the /usr/openv/volmgr directory? If you following this procedure the devices should show up in the sgscan output Fro

Re: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup

2008-07-25 Thread Len Boyle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siano, James C Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup If I lost a tape - say

RE: [Veritas-bu] st.conf entry for IBM LTO-3

2006-03-30 Thread Len Boyle
If you ask your IBM ce, they can fetch IBM's suggested entries for the st.conf file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:23 AM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] s

RE: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO3 Buffer Sizes

2006-04-11 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Rusty   It is a windows driver thing for the HBA card. It has to do with how many buffers can be chained together for a single I/O. You can look it up on the microsoft web site.   But most of the HBA driver authors will allow you to change a config setting, most likely in a registry ke

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore faster than backup...

2006-04-22 Thread len boyle
Hello Hampus,   Are you using multiple streams from the client node when doing a backup? Are there other non-backup tasks running on the client when doing backups? Are you using tape multiplexing? If so at what level? What is the nature of the files being restored? We find that windows sys

RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape Drive Cleaning on ACS Libraries

2006-04-26 Thread Len Boyle
We have an L700 shared between several netbackup masters. We had to turn off all netbackup cleaning of tape drives  to prevent outages on the stk (now sun) drives. We did this per the tech note you listed.   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ambrose, Mont

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 catalog size vs 5.1 catalog size

2006-04-27 Thread Len Boyle
Title: NBU 6.0 catalog size vs 5.1 catalog size Hello Wayne,   I can not tell you about the catalog space, but the log space required is a huge jump in size. Their a number of new daemons running each with it's own log. And From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Be

RE: [Veritas-bu] Microsoft Exchange Backups ... [recommendations please]

2006-04-30 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Alex, Like everything else in this area, there good and bad things about both methods. The risky part is in the fact that Full backup does the data base and the logs, the Incremental only covers the logs. The Magic part of doing a full backup of the data base is that the exchange backu

[Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear

2006-05-13 Thread Len Boyle
Good Day, We upgraded a netbackup master running on solaris 9 from 5.1mp3 to 60MP2. This master runs ndmp backups on 6 R200's with fibre direct attached IBM LTO-2 tape drives. After the netbackup upgrade, with no changes with the tape drives, tape library or netapps we started to see the follo

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 job completion emails

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Ian, The story that I received was that there are several things going on. I believe that it is covered in a technote. But in summary, if you do not have an "Administrator email address" set to anything, the email will go to the root userid on the master. And due to a bug in the code

RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Bpsched crashing Good Morning Greg,   Have you changed setting in the /etc/system file to increased things such as shared memory and msg queues?   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, GregSent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:04 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailma

RE: [Veritas-bu] Tapes keep freezing

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Tapes keep freezing Hello Abel,   What messages are you seeing in the bptm log for these tapes?   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vasquez, Abel - BLS CTRSent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:33 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] T

RE: [Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-17 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Justin, >From what you have shown us it looks like a bad tape. But It would be good to >try to read the tape using an util that is not netbackup. Like tcopy or dd, >etc. A few years ago, we had a problem with a restore of an active directory machine that showed up as an i/o error. It tu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up IIS

2006-05-22 Thread Len Boyle
Tim   With the system state backups even if defined as a DI they are full backups. I assume that since the "Shadow Copy Components" are a spin off from the system state backups that they also are aways full backups.   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wi

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0Mp2 issues

2006-05-23 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Brandon,   Have you opened a problem ticket with netbackup support, They are working on a replacement file for nbpem that hopefully will fix the nbpem problems without creating new ones.   Or place a call for any netbackup module that core's.   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Why won't Re-Queued backups start???

2006-07-03 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Richard,   What release and patch level of netbackup are you using that is having this problem? Did anyone make changes?   Will the job run if you start one of them with a manual backup?   There are so many possible choices, if you can run a job with a manual backup then you tri

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-06 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Bill, MP3 is a big improvement over MP2. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorgensen, Bill Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:55 PM To: Ed Wilts; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-mail-list; Ian; Dhotre,Shekhar; Johnny Oestergaard; Jeff L

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

2006-07-11 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Message Hello Jonathan,   Please look at this url for netbackup support for os levels using version 5.1   If I read this correctly you should be able to download and apply a 5.1 patch to support x86 solaris, with a "readme" or limits on the support.   http://ftp.support.veritas.com/p

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

2006-07-11 Thread Len Boyle
ning under the assumption that the Solaris 10 SPARC and Solaris 10 X86 binaries are 100% different animals and are not cross compatible.   Is this not correct?   -Jonathan From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:56 AMTo: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor);

Re: [Veritas-bu] EMM Tuning 6.0 MP2

2006-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
I suspect that you need to upgrade to MP3.   Do you see core files from netbackup in root's home directory?   If you still have problems, please open a trouble call with sysmantec. There a a stack of post mp3 in the works.   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] HBA-FC adapters for IBM3584 LTO-3

2006-07-28 Thread Len Boyle
Sergey,   We have not used LTO-3 drives on our Sun boxes yet, so I can not give you an answer for the best HBA,   But can I ask you to give thelist a little more detail, on the problems that you saw with you QLogic adapters. And which Qlogic cards were they.   Thanks len From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - NDMP_HALT_INTERNAL_ERROR Type 5on Solaris Server with 5.1 MP4

2006-08-02 Thread Len Boyle
You have to look at the logs on the netapp. You can look in the /etc/messages file, but I suspect that you will not find anything. There is also an ndmplog (watch my spelling) If memory serve me you issue the command on the netapp of ndmpd debug xx where the higher the number the more deta

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore problem - more information - NT AlternateData Stream

2006-08-05 Thread Len Boyle
Good Evening Jamie I assume that you are using an netapp box. If so do you see anything of interest in the file /vol/vol0/etc/messages /* assumes that where you installed the ontap system */ Also anything of interest in /vol/vol0/etc/log/ndmpdlog.2006mmdd /* you will have to debugging on with

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???

2006-08-16 Thread Len Boyle
Hello this is just a guess.   If you have netbackup set to use the archive bit for the check for a new backup, then it might be that the archive is not reset by the full backup. Maybe the job does not have update auth on the CIFS network drive. If so, you might change netbackup to use time

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best NBU 5.1 Patch?

2006-08-17 Thread Len Boyle
We also ran into sched problems with nbu 6.0, not as bad Ed. But most of them have been fixed with MP3 and the post MP3 patches. We have three systems using netbackup 6. One is very small and only saw one sched error with a 200 error code. The second system is medium sized and we saw a little b

Re: [Veritas-bu] to restore NDMP backup to different location

2006-09-22 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Message  Yes. If you are using netbackup you can restore the data from one NDMP backup to another NDMP location by using a different dest from the source. They have to be of the same type of NDMP backup. Our NDMP backups are with Netapp file servers. We can restore to another d

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can´t backup up all Microsoft Info rmation Stores!

2006-09-29 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Juan, You need to look in the event logs on the exchange server. This should have more detailed error logs on the problem. That is exchange error logs not netbackup logs. You might also look at system or hardware error messages also. With the exchange error logs, you can check support.mi

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP data timeout

2006-10-20 Thread Len Boyle
Sto, Can you go into a little detail on how Snapmirror to tape works? Thanks len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sto Rage(c) Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP da

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 MP4 and Backupexec 9

2006-10-23 Thread Len Boyle
Mark,   Backupexec and netbackup can co-exist on the same client. We used to have backupexec installed on our exchange servers for exchange api backups and netbackup for system-state/file systems backups. It was no problem before the sysmantec purchase of backupexec. After the purchase you h

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB Backup od mail server in DMZ

2006-10-23 Thread Len Boyle
It depends on the code level of the netbackup server, the code level of the netbackup client and the settings you have set on the netbackup server for the client. For version 6 there is a ports usage guide. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux Media Server, Adic Library, and Drivers

2006-10-25 Thread Len Boyle
Jason,   We have downloaded ibm tape drivers for hp/ux from the url:   http://www-1.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=546&tc=STCVQ6Z&dc=D430   For solaris 9 we are using the sun drivers for ibm LTO3 tape drives with qlogic cards.     len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to NBU 6.0 or wait for 6.5...

2006-11-23 Thread Len Boyle
Phil, 6.0 is the release that did the multithreading thing. I am not sure if all of netbackup is now multithreaded, but much of it is. For us the early 6.0 was really unstable, but we had several problems with 5.1 that were fixed with 6.0. (Because netbackup 5 was not multithreaded we had t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0/Windows Master Server/NDMP/LTO3

2006-11-27 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Courtenay, A few questions. Which storage unit, with what os and what os level are you using for the NDMP backups? Is the tape drive, of which make and model, attached to the storage unit What level do you have the new vx logs set to? We found out the hard way that a high debug level w

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Encryption

2007-01-05 Thread Len Boyle
Good Day Pondy I did not notice any change between netbackup 5 and 6 in performance for the encryption option. The encryption option uses large quantities of cpu on the client. If you have a client with plenty of spare cpu, you should see no difference in the backup speeds. But you will l

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP

2007-01-09 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Tom, The answer to question 1 depends on what you mean by multiple jobs per filer. First of all are you looking to do multiple jobs in parallel or just do multiple volumes or qtrees. In the ndmp policy you can list multiple volumes or qtrees in the policy with optional new stream sta

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP_XDR_DECODE_ERR

2007-02-06 Thread Len Boyle
Michael, The first place to look for the real reason for the 99 error is to look at the logs on the NAS box, not the netbackup logs. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Winn Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:46 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NO_SIXTEEN_BYTE_CDB touch file. Anyone else need this?

2007-03-05 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Kent We ran into this when we upgraded to netbackup 6.0. But with us it was using IBM lto-2 tape drives in an IBM 3584 library attached to netapp R200 boxes. With out solaris and hp/ux masters writing to IBM lto-2 tape drives in the same libraries we did not see the problem. We put the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup jobs not kicking off any more....

2007-03-13 Thread Len Boyle
Chris Do you have the master patched to mp4. There were a number of fixes in the mp3 and mp4 patch sets for this problem. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Jay Manders Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:05 PM To: veritas-b

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup jobs not kicking off any more....

2007-03-13 Thread Len Boyle
ritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Preston, Douglas L; Len Boyle Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup jobs not kicking off any more Hi, Thanks for the responses so far. Doug, yours comes close to what support has suggested, and we have tried it. More on that below... Still no go... :( A coup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives

2007-03-15 Thread Len Boyle
Also remember some of the libraries require that they do the cleaning. We found this to be the case for stk (now sun) libraries with the ACSLS software. And the IBM 3584 library with the ALMS feature. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 FC drives "locking up" [NC]

2007-03-26 Thread Len Boyle
You might want to talk to your sales folks and tell them that you are no happy with the reboot solution. You might also tell this to the support folks and ask them to talk to higher level support folks and/or dev to give you information on how to collect debug information for them to sol

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003: Faulting application bpbkar32.exe

2007-03-28 Thread Len Boyle
Did you check the url http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/278064.pdf To see if the client you used is supported. You can do one thing to rule out netbackup. Try backing up the server with the ntbackup command that is shipped with windows 2003. If th

Re: [Veritas-bu] VxFS for /usr/openv volume

2007-04-04 Thread Len Boyle
Ah but UFS is journaled, at least in solaris 9 len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:43 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VxFS for /usr/openv volume I concur

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 5.1MP5 to 6.0MP4 problems

2007-04-15 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Wessam, Did you install a netbackup 6.0 maint pack first thing after the upgrade? There was a read me note in the service packs that this was required. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wessam Aly Sent: Sunday, April 1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Include list for NDMP

2007-04-16 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, We are not using NDMP, with the EMC box, but I believe that the answer will be the same. The main thing to remember about ndmp backups is that a netbackup client is not doing the backup. The EMC box is doing the backup. So you have to look at the rules that the EMC box impose

Re: [Veritas-bu] A Better Way?

2007-04-30 Thread Len Boyle
If you are required to stay with microsoft features on the windows server, they have a free unix add on which would include grep. And it appears that with windows 2003 R2 they have done a fair bit of enhancement work. I have not tried the R2 support. With the base feature it does not appear as

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and encryption

2007-05-07 Thread Len Boyle
The only methods that I know of are to do the encrypting in hardware. You can use an external box inserted between the NDMP device and the tape drive. For example a DECRU box now owned by netapp. There are others. Or you can do it in the tape drive. The latest stk (sun) and ibm tape drives s

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 and Solaris 10 ZFS

2007-05-08 Thread Len Boyle
I believe that netbackup supports backups and restores of ZFS but does not support the acl's. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koping Wang Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:03 PM To: Juan Rojas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4

2007-05-14 Thread Len Boyle
IBM has released their drives at the end of last month. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Kiles Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:14 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Any idea when LTO4 drives/media starts

Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

2007-05-17 Thread Len Boyle
It is not supported. You should be at 5.x or 6.0 for netbackup 6.0. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Mathews Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:59 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Supp

Re: [Veritas-bu] Encrypted backups of already encrypted data

2007-06-25 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Kathryn, Someone from netbackup devel will have to give the final word. But I believe that answer is yes it will encrypt the data again. To the backup software it should just be a stream of binary bytes. len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups.

2007-07-04 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Mark When the restores were running on the master/media/client systems, did they both have the same level of usage outside of the restores. That is was the cpu busy, i/o usage pattern, network usage etc at the same levels for both restores. If the user backup was running when the s

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups.

2007-07-04 Thread Len Boyle
then those used by the master scheduled backup. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:32 AM To: Len Boyle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups. Thanks Len No restores were

Re: [Veritas-bu] problem with NDMP backups and drives going down.

2007-07-04 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Bevan Do you have the ndmp logs turned on the netbackup server? You might also want to turn the debug level up to 50 on the filer, but I suspect that the problem is on the netbackup side of things. Do you see any hardware errors in the os error logs? Have you tried to attach the lto tap

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backup problem

2007-07-10 Thread Len Boyle
Hello David, I believe that you have to look at the error logs on the NDMP device to find the root cause of the problem. The 99 error code is one of those codes that can include almost anything that causes a fault in the backup process. The logs on the NDMP device should have more detail

Re: [Veritas-bu] HP LTO3 media on IBM 800GB LTO3 Tape drive?

2007-07-17 Thread Len Boyle
Good Afternoon Take a look at the url http://www.lto.org/default.php len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hebeonline Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:51 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: HP LTO3 media on IBM 8

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange restores

2007-07-27 Thread Len Boyle
What do the event logs on the exchange server report? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange restor

Re: [Veritas-bu] Win2k3 64 bit clients - NBU 6.0 MP4

2007-07-31 Thread Len Boyle
The netbackup version 6 os compatibility matrix says that it is supported with MP2. Except for encryption support which requires mpt4. If you go to the support web site you should be able to download the mp4 bits for x64. You just have to down load the windows server code with the windows client

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with MP4

2007-08-03 Thread Len Boyle
This problem is the reason that our master and media servers at at mp4 and our windows clients are at mp3. So it should work for you. Since mp5 is due out in the next few days you might want to contact support and see if they can get you the mp5 binaries. len

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with MP4

2007-08-06 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Ed, I wonder if the netbackup folks could release the sample code in source management format. Something that would work on most if not all their supported platforms. At least on the support master platforms. They could release a source depot as a base, then release patches for netbackup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ten-char barcode labels for LTO tapes

2007-08-10 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Ed, The firmware for the IBM 3584 has a recent update to enable support for 10-char labels. We have not try this out. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Scheef Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:55 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [V

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup v6.0MP4 update to MP5

2007-08-19 Thread Len Boyle
Krzys Go back and look at the readme that comes with the MP5 bits. There may be more then one depending on which options you have. If you are upgrading to a new version of netbackup you have to use the solaris pkgrm commands to remove the netbackup software from solaris system. But this process

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance

2007-08-20 Thread Len Boyle
The answer may depend on what device is at the other end of NDMP. I was told that with NetApp NDMP that changing the buffer did not change performance due to the way that the WAFL filesystem handled things. It would be interesting to revisit this and see if they had made any changes to enable lar

Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions etc

2007-08-24 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Nick What OS are you using on the 6850? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Majeran Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 3:23 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Curtis Preston Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions

Re: [Veritas-bu] Different drive types with one robot

2007-08-27 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Sergey, The answers are it depends. You have to make sure that you do not have the system try to load a LTO-3 tape into a LTO-2 tape drive. A simple method if you have the IBM 3584 tape library is to define a new virtual library for the LTO-3 tape drives and treat them a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: update MP4 patch to multiple client at a time

2007-08-30 Thread Len Boyle
Hello For your UNIX clients you can use the update_clients command to update the netbackup client code and the update_dbclients netbackup command to update the netbackup agent code. So to update all the clients running hp-ux11.11 on the HP9000-800 boxes run the following command. u

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: hardware type

2007-09-03 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning, >From what you wrote, I assume that you are using a master server that is running solaris. With the solaris master it loads the solaris client code. To have the other *nix client/hardware support you have to install the client support. When you install the client code, you can

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape encryption

2007-09-05 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Dan, We have been working with netbackup client encryption and decru encryption. We use the netbackup encryption option without compression. So the tape drives (lto-2 and lto-3 could not compress). I believe that the netbackup client can also compress the data, but we have not tried t

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB5.1MP6 and LTO4

2007-09-07 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Kathryn, We are not, but you might want to download the device mapping file listed in this doc: http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise _Server/280666.pdf len -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathry

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700e Robotic Arm Malfunctioning

2007-09-12 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Have they checked the power supplies and the internal cpu card in the L700e Tape Library. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muhammad Ali Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:59 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] STK L700

Re: [Veritas-bu] scsi_pkt.us_reason = 3

2007-09-14 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Vladimir, A long time ago, we had a problem with timeouts and IBM gave us a sample st.conf file with different timeout values for the lto tape drives. It was a long time ago, so I do not know if the error messages match. But you might want to look at the st.conf file entries for IBM lto-2

[Veritas-bu] windows 2003 system state restore problem

2007-09-23 Thread Len Boyle
the reboot. Has anyone else seen this? Have a fix? Know how to trace or track windows logs for this problem? Thanks Len Boyle ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Redhat 5 and Netbackup

2008-08-25 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Steve, With out netbackup 6.5.1 system we have listed a choice of Linux, RedHat2.4 And Linux, RedHat2.6 And with our red hat 5 system the Linux, RedHat2.6 option seems to work. len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Monday, August

Re: [Veritas-bu] Log Files - .log files

2008-08-28 Thread Len Boyle
These are the new format logs for netbackup. They are written up in the troubleshooting guide. >From the nblog.conf file in the /usr/openv/netbackup directory. 163.L10nResource=nbsvcmon 163.OIDNames=nbsvcmon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Thur

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-4

2008-09-24 Thread Len Boyle
What would be really great, would let the media names be site defined. So you could name them lto4 or lto4hh or lto4hp or lto4ibm or ….. Another great idea would be to allow a site to choose the library names. So that instead of tld(0) for a library one could have a name such as borg or or sun

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold

2008-10-02 Thread Len Boyle
Yes the netbackup hot catalog backups can be written to disk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of toaster Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold Abo

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