Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.3, Windows, and blat

2009-07-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
In windows Netbackup Administration Console There are a couple of places you can specifiy email addresses to send to. 1 Right click on Vault Management select Vault Management Properties Enter email addresses there 2 Expand Vault Management select your robot and right click select change. Enter

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.3, Windows, and blat

2009-07-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
This is my nbmail.cmd and it resides in C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin - @REM - HOW TO SEND MAIL FROM THE NT NETBACKUP SERVER @REM - @REM - NetBackup checks if the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Scratch Script

2009-07-17 Thread Preston, Douglas
I like it, I can now not get surprised by our of media errors. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:59 AM To: rusty.ma...@sungard.com Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBakcup Service Set to Automatic 6.5.3 SAN CLIENT

2009-08-04 Thread Preston, Douglas
I disabled the service on all my windows machines From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:26 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Change server list on windows clients.

2009-08-13 Thread Preston, Douglas
Registry entry, servers are listed in hex. Change the servers on one machine Run regedit Export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config then remove all but the Server= as below then import that .reg file on all your windows clients. Make sure your final .reg file

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive cleaning

2009-08-17 Thread Preston, Douglas
Error 98 means it couldn't find any available media for the job. NBU tracks max cleanings and how many are left on a cleaning tape. Make sure there are still cleanings on the cartridge. Most cleaning cartridges can provide 50 drive cleanings. They should be in Volume pool None On the I2k

Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Corruption (How to Troubleshoot)

2009-09-11 Thread Preston, Douglas
Restore it on a windows machine and see if it is good. Backups and restores work different on *nix than they do for windows. Try ftp'ing the file to the linux machine, make sure you do it in binary mode then try to untar it. I would bet the file is correct if you restore to a windows

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Question

2010-02-01 Thread Preston, Douglas
Your be4st bet would be to ask Fiserv about that, The domain of their company is Fiserv.com I would guess that supp...@fiserv.commailto:supp...@fiserv.com would get you a response with how or who to talk to about backing it up. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] Tape drive constantly going PEND-TLD

2010-03-24 Thread Preston, Douglas
NBU 6.5.3 Using SSO ADIC I2000 14 LTO2 drives Master server and 4 Media servers are Windows 2003 all running NBU 6.5.3 Using Veritas drivers on Master and all Media servers. I have one of my drives in a state of PEND-DLT With no jobs running on any server. I have tried removing all drives from

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive constantly going PEND-TLD

2010-03-24 Thread Preston, Douglas
it. --- From: Jeff Cleverley [mailto:jeff.clever...@avagotech.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:32 PM To: Preston, Douglas Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive constantly going PEND-TLD Doug, I can't help you from the Windows side but I've seen that type of message on my hpux master

[Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

2010-04-12 Thread Preston, Douglas
I had to replace the hardware on one of my media svers and now all my jobs on that media server end in status 13 Server O/S Windows 2003 Netbackup 6.5.3 Library Quantum (Adic) I2000 14 LTO2 drives Any ideas would surely be appreciated. Master server Job log 4/6/2010 10:01:33 AM - requesting

Re: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

2010-04-12 Thread Preston, Douglas
[mailto:tal.she...@uk.fujitsu.com] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 6:51 AM To: Preston, Douglas; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13 What hardware did you change? Error 13/4 can be a real pain but they are often related to network issues

Re: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

2010-04-13 Thread Preston, Douglas
To: Preston, Douglas; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13 Hi Doug Becuase you get this message socket read failed, An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host, I am sort of 60% sure its network / file related. I take

Re: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

2010-04-13 Thread Preston, Douglas
: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:34 AM To: Preston, Douglas; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13 Doug Was this identified by Symantec? Was there a Technote about this? Handy to know this. Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun

Re: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

2010-04-13 Thread Preston, Douglas
, Douglas; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13 Doug Was you getting these error messages in your logs? Simon -Original Message- From: Preston, Douglas [mailto:dlpres...@lereta.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:39 PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

2010-04-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
Silly questions here, Have you created your storage unit for the Tape backups? Did you make sure that your storage unit is selected as the policy storage unit? Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

2010-05-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
I have a production machine that is running proprietary applications running on a server with FreeBSD5.2 that will not run on newer versions of FreeBSD. I need a way to update the client from NBU 5.1 client so we can proceed to NBU 7 in our environment. Does anyone have a helpful hint as to

Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

2010-06-02 Thread Preston, Douglas
would begin a system of chargeback whereby holding on these systems would be so cost prohibitive, the incentive would be there to move off of these systems. It is ok to dream, isn't it? From: Preston, Douglas dlpres...@lereta.com To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

2010-06-02 Thread Preston, Douglas
system without copying it. --- From: Mikhail Nikitin [mailto:mikhail.niki...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:40 PM To: Preston, Douglas Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 media server upgrade problem

2010-06-08 Thread Preston, Douglas
Preston From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:56 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 media server upgrade problem I performed an upgrade from 6.5

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 media server upgrade problem

2010-06-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Preston, Douglas Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 media server upgrade problem I performed an upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 on my master server all went well, I performed an upgrade on 1 media server all went well. Before I could perform this on the next media

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.0

2010-06-10 Thread Preston, Douglas
...@administaff.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:08 PM To: Preston, Douglas; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.0 I think you really should read because IF you have NBAC you need to upgrade that first before you upgrade NB You need to move any

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread Preston, Douglas
You need to delete the drives from windows netbackup gui and re add them Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brandon35 Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:23 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0

2010-07-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
We have quite a few centos 5 clients in our environment with the 6.5x NBU clients as NBU7 only supports 64bit on redhat clients. No master or media servers running on it. Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-bu] bperror differences in 6.5.x and 7.0

2010-07-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
In 6.5.x bperror -U -backstat -hoursago 24 -by_statcode Gave a condensed output of all clients backed up in the last 24 hours sorted by status code Example 0 the requested operation was successfully completed svcacibu1 scacibu01 1 the requested operation was partially successful

[Veritas-bu] NBU7 system state backup errors

2010-10-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
When trying to backup a new windows 2008 server all my backups go to completion ok except system state. I get this error in the GUI Job Details log 10/14/2010 12:55:09 PM - Warning bpbrm(pid=544) from client scacimm01: WRN - can't open file: System State:\Automated System Recovery\BCD\BCD

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 system state backup errors

2010-10-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
it. --- From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:03 PM To: Preston, Douglas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: NBU7 system state backup errors Do you specify a job of only system

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU7 system state backup errors

2010-10-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
; Preston, Douglas; 'Veritas' Subject: RE: NBU7 system state backup errors Here's an excerpt from an email that I received from Symantec... Cut... To help you all understand what the problem is I need you to understand Windows and how it works. In the 2008. In Windows 2008 there are several ways

[Veritas-bu] 2008 client backup issues

2010-12-01 Thread Preston, Douglas
I have 2 domain controllers running windows 2008 SP2 that I did a full backups using All Local Dives as the backup selection prior to running dcpromo to make them domain controller and backups were successful. Once I dcpromo'd them and they became domain controllers I get a failure trying to

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2008 client backup issues

2010-12-01 Thread Preston, Douglas
] On Behalf Of Saran Brar Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:13 AM To: Preston, Douglas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 2008 client backup issues This issue has been addressed in this forum many times and for your quick reference please follow the below link. It is a known

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2008 client backup issues

2010-12-06 Thread Preston, Douglas
Master server and all media servers are windows 2003 running NBU 7.01 and the clients are windows 2008 SP2 domain controllers NBU 7.01 The error that I get is that it sits at 0 bytes, 0 files for days doing system state backups or will error with code 24 about 4 or 5 hours of acting like its

Re: [Veritas-bu] [Veritas-but] Command to view injected media list

2010-12-27 Thread Preston, Douglas
vmupdate -rt tld -rn 0 -empty_map -p scratch That is the command I use to import media, it prints to standard output the media barcodes imported and the result code, usually a 0. I am sure you can use some piping or redirecting to cause it to give you dates and count Doug Preston

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris ADIC media server woes

2011-01-07 Thread Preston, Douglas
Verify the zoning on the ADIC library has the changer zoned to the server. Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of bfcsaus Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 5:00 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdown doesnt stop prcoesses

2011-02-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
You need to be logged in as an administrator to run that command. In 2008R2 you may also need to right click on the bpdown and bpup apps and go into properties then compatibility tab then select run this program as an administrator. Doug Preston Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1447 Email 

Re: [Veritas-bu] batch script to check Scratch media

2011-03-08 Thread Preston, Douglas
This will require cygwin and a GnuWin32 version gawk echo Available scratch media tapes G:\temp\scratch_mail.txt G:\PROGRA~1\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin\vmquery -pn scratch -b | tail +4 | gawk '{print $3,$4,$2 }' | C:\cygwin\bin\sort -n | uniq -c | C:\cygwin\bin\grep -vi none G:\TEMP\scratch_mail.txt

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange behaviour

2011-03-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
From services on a windows box. bpcd13782/tcp bprd13720/tcp vnetd 13724/tcp vopied 13783/tcp bpdbm 13721/tcp bpjobd 13723/tcp bpjava-msvc 13722/tcp NB_dbsrv13785/tcp vmd 13701/tcp tldcd

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

2011-04-18 Thread Preston, Douglas
Ext 1447 Email  dlpres...@lereta.com -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 6:32 AM To: Preston, Douglas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue Doug Funny enough, I

Re: [Veritas-bu] db_marker.txt

2011-06-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
What O/S what version of NetBackup? Doug Preston Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1447 Email dlpres...@lereta.com From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nathan Kippen Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 5:34 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] db_marker.txt

2011-06-28 Thread Preston, Douglas
The path of the file on a windows master server with NBU 7.1 is C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images The contents of the file is between the - - !PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE WARNING: REMOVAL OF THIS FILE MAY INCREASE THE EXPOSURE TO SERIOUS OPERATIONAL ISSUES UP TO AND

Re: [Veritas-bu] windows new install nb7.1 to d: drive

2011-07-15 Thread Preston, Douglas
Do a custom install Doug Preston Phone 626-667-1447 Email  dlpres...@lereta.com -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Iverson, Jerald Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 7:19 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Email from NetBackup 7.1

2011-08-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
In Windows there is an nbmail.cmd script which has an option to set who to send the email as, I would bet somewhere in the email script you use there is an option to set sender address, I know sendmail has an option to send mail as someone else. From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Mount Points question

2011-08-24 Thread Preston, Douglas
It does on my centos, and FreeBSD and Solaris boxes Doug Preston From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:26 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Citrix Backups and restores

2011-11-01 Thread Preston, Douglas
Have you tried restoring to an alternate location to verify the data on the ta Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dejohn61 Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 3:40 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone way to trigger a bpstart_notify script.... (cont)

2011-11-03 Thread Preston, Douglas
I use a tool called psexec from the pstools library on windows systems to run tasks on other windows servers like remote scripts executables. What have you. It is a comman line tool so you should be able to script it how you want in the order you want. Doug Preston Phone 626-667-1447 Email 

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6/7 clients

2011-11-11 Thread Preston, Douglas
At 7.1 I still have 6.x clients and 3 5.x clients running on equiptment that's so old the new versions wornt run. Support is good for all 6.x clients running under 7.x master. The 5.x I am on my own if there is an issue. Doug Preston Phone 626-667-1447 Email dlpres...@lereta.com smime.p7s

Re: [Veritas-bu] massive catalog growth

2011-11-14 Thread Preston, Douglas
There is an entry per file in the catalog, a million files at 1k each will cause more catalog space than a thousand 1tb files Doug Preston From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sanders, Nate Sent: Monday, November 14,

Re: [Veritas-bu] WRN - can't open file: System State:\System Files\System Files (WIN32 -536805667: Unknown error)

2011-12-22 Thread Preston, Douglas
Have you attempted to backup using Microsoft's backup app on the machine? Are the backup services running as a user or as local system? If they are running as a user then you may need to make sure that user is a member of backup operators or administrators on the machine. Doug Preston Hi,

Re: [Veritas-bu] MISSING PATH for tape devices in RHEL5 for NetBackup 7.1

2012-01-13 Thread Preston, Douglas
I don’t have any *nix media servers but on windows I would look in C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\media\drives C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\media\tpreq Delete anything in that folder on the media server that is showing MISSING PATH for the drives. I think you would find it in

[Veritas-bu] Licenses to backup exchange 2007

2012-04-04 Thread Preston, Douglas
I have called Symantec for this information and they were unable to tell me. What licenses and how many do I need to back up my exchange 2007 environment? I have two Database servers one edge transport server one client access server Doug Preston smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [Veritas-bu] Licenses to backup exchange 2007

2012-04-05 Thread Preston, Douglas
Anyone have an idea how many exchange client licenses I need to purchase for the following configuration NBU 7.xx From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:01 PM

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice / Experience - NetApp and NBU

2012-05-10 Thread Preston, Douglas
Is this a NetBackup license or a netapp license you are referring to? Doug Preston Phone 626-667-1447 Email  dlpres...@lereta.com -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen

[Veritas-bu] Help with LTO5 encryption

2012-05-22 Thread Preston, Douglas
I have been asked to read 7 LTO5 tapes that were backed with NBU 7.5 up using encryption I was sent the key that was used for encryption. I have not done any encryption with NetBackup 7.1 which is what we are using. We have LTO2 drives at the moment so I know I will need to buy the LTO 5 drives

[Veritas-bu] Windows Flashbackup Restore issues

2012-06-15 Thread Preston, Douglas
I am getting a 3817 error when I try to restore a flashbackup. 6/15/2012 5:58:31 AM - begin Restore 6/15/2012 6:04:40 AM - media S50319 required 6/15/2012 6:04:40 AM - media MD1216 required 6/15/2012 6:04:40 AM - restoring image server01_1336662589 6/15/2012 6:04:43 AM - end Restore; elapsed

Re: [Veritas-bu] There are no files matching the specified criteria

2012-09-21 Thread Preston, Douglas
What I did was change the global timeouts for restores to be 120 minutes. I had that problem when attempting to restore a file from a backup with 10 million files on a 250 GB drive. The restore would always fail before I did this. I know the timeout is a bit extreme but I tried changing to 20

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unquoted path vulnerability

2013-05-07 Thread Preston, Douglas
I went through and updated all my registry entries that had C:\Program Files\ to C:\Progra~1\ This fixes the issue. I run on a 32 bit OS, on a 64bit OS the 1 in progra~1 may be a different number. The real problem is that a person could create a folder called Program and load an executable

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup logs

2014-03-19 Thread Preston, Douglas
You would need to keep catalog for at least as long as your audit requirements are. I have to keep 7 years catalog to be able to show backups completion status. I don't need to be able to restore all 7 years of data (except Accounting stuff) just prove I backed it up. Auditors are funny that

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.1 to 7.5 differences.

2014-09-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
Does 7.5 write to tape differently than 7.1? Trying to import a tape written in 7.5 to our master server using 7.1 bpimport -id ATL323 Import phase 2 started 9/9/2014 8:24:46 AM INF - Importing policy Lereta_SPL_1, schedule Full (atl-sunprod_1410102290), med ia id ATL323, created on 09/07/2014

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.1 to 7.5 differences.

2014-09-09 Thread Preston, Douglas
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 11:12 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.1 to 7.5 differences. Does 7.5 write to tape differently than 7.1? Trying to import a tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Mystery Catalog job appearing, running...

2014-11-04 Thread Preston, Douglas
Look all through your vaulting and or catalog backup for selections. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of e070924 Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 11:34 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU

[Veritas-bu] Disabling File list / size estimate on backups.

2006-11-01 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a way to disable the file list estiimate for file number and size that happens before a backup begins? I have a NB 6.0 MP3 media server with approx 50 million files and 3 TB of disk. It is taking over 30 hours to back up the system, part of that 36 hours is file list building that

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6, MP4 Anyone had issues with hot backup email notifications?

2006-12-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I had that same problem after applying MP4 I found my notification cmd files were moved to C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\goodies.6.0 and new ones were placed in the bin folder. I just copied the original cmd files back to the bin folder for it to work. If you are using unix master

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO configuration

2007-01-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
You can share the HBA's that are connected to the san but create a seperate zone for the master/media servers to the tape drives. We have an ADIC I2000 with 12 drives 700 slots 1 Master Server 4 San Media Servers, They share the same HBA's with the San. We have seperate zones for San and zones

Re: [Veritas-bu] Change retention of all tapes(question)

2007-01-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a way to exclude vaulted images using your commands below? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

[Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
NBU 6.0 MP4 Win 2k Master server My offsite policy which has been working for 3 years has suddenly quit doing ejects of duplicated media. I even tried creating a special vault job just to do the eject and it too fails to eject the duplicated media. The duplication process works fine, the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
] On Behalf Of GAURAV RAKHEJA /RTGSADM/INFOTECH/BKC Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:24 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault Hi, I have some idea as were facing the same problem two months back. If you want

Re: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault

2007-02-08 Thread Preston, Douglas L
/RTGSADM/INFOTECH/BKC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:07 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Eject quit working on vault Hi, Make a policy for vault eject Select policy type as vault In the backup selection list

Re: [Veritas-bu] status 202, 205, 219 and 58

2007-02-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
What I found out when I was getting tthese errors was someone on the network was doing scans of the servers for hardware and software and it was doing reset on the network card and sometimes on the HBA's on the master server and the media servers. We had them block scans on the netbackup master

Re: [Veritas-bu] Serious master issue...

2007-02-14 Thread Preston, Douglas L
How much memory is in your master server, is the swap area used growing? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

[Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
When running bpexpdate -deassignempty I get the following error message. Does anyone have a possible fix for this error? I have over 300 tapes that have 0 valid images that were assigned between 2005 and 2006 that I would like to get put back in my scratch pool. G:\Program

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
be corrected. -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:25 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
. -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:25 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty

[Veritas-bu] Adding second master server NBU 6.0 MP4

2007-03-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I am in the process of building a new server to act as a second master server in NBU 6.0 MP4. Can more than one master server share the same EMM database server? Or would I be better off to have separate EMM databases for each master server? I have plans to partition my Adic Scalar I2000 in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade/Migrate master server from 5.0/Linux to6.0/Solaris

2007-03-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Databses are different between 5.x and 6.0 You will need to upgrade existing servers and convert your databases to the new EMM format. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-03-13 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Under your C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\jobs folder there is a file called permpersist stop all your services and delete this file and restart your services. This should fix the problem Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email

Re: [Veritas-bu] (46) server not allowed

2007-03-19 Thread Preston, Douglas L
If you are still having the problem, open regedit on the client. Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config There is a multi-string key entry for Server Add your master server name in the data for that key If the key does not exist add it as a multi-string key and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows mediaservers

2007-03-20 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I have Windows 2000 Master server and 4 Windows San Media Servers, I backup Solaris, FreeBSD, Redhat Linux and windows servers, I have no issues ever with any of thee *nix servers, Only problems I ever have are with the windows side. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood

[Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3

2007-04-02 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I am trying to install the NBU 6.0 client on Redhat Enterprise release 3 and the cd is lables Linux server and client. When I try to install it will only install server and states that to install cli9ent I need to mount the client cd. There is no separate unix client cd for NBU 6.0, I have one

Re: [Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3

2007-04-02 Thread Preston, Douglas L
, April 02, 2007 10:37 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Install issues for redhat Enterprise 3 There is a separate CD for 6.0 called 'UNIX Clients that will have the client software on it. Also, if your master server is running on a UNIX platform, you

[Veritas-bu] Media Server Licenses

2007-04-03 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is there a separate media server license other than san media server licenses? When I request we get a couple of media server licenses I was told that veritas said that the only media license is the san media license. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone

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

2007-04-12 Thread Preston, Douglas L
We use 100 Full Duplex on all cards and swich ports of our servers except ont the GB nics which require auto negotioate to use the GB speed. I like hosts files because they are there when even when someone does stupid things to the dns servers. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax

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

2007-04-16 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I don't know obout Solaris but in Windows you need to run nbpushdata to move your data to the new database format from 5.x to 6.x, It was iin the upgrade procedures for upgrading from nb 5x to nb 6x Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Certifications

2007-04-18 Thread Preston, Douglas L
If you find a good way to automate this please pass it oon, I have to do restores on all our servers every 60 days. It is a real pain doing them via the gui on windows master server NBU6.0 MP4 Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Certifications

2007-04-20 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Yes bprestore does exist in windows Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix

2007-04-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Do you have a mulyiple partition license for the I2k? We have a 16 partition license on ours. So far we only have the 14 LTO2 and 800 slots. Once I can convince the powers that be in the money side of things I would like to add a few LTO3 and a couple hundred slots for the LTO3 tapes. At that

[Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion

2007-04-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Is anyone doing NDMP backups with NBU 6.0 MP4 and EMC Clariion SAN device? I am pushing for an NDMP license to backup the 24TB of disk so I don't need to pull most of it across the lan. I have 4 san media servers that backup 12TB buit the other 12 are spread across a lot of machines and I don't

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion

2007-04-25 Thread Preston, Douglas L
. -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:33 AM To: Preston, Douglas L; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP with EMC Clariion We have

Re: [Veritas-bu] New technote for Windows NetBackup Masters

2007-04-30 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Yes, I found that nice little bug during my backup window for a volume that can only be backed up during a very tight time period, when setting up a special backup policy for a few of our servers that require specific date backups. Once the files are installed though it does not fix it again.

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup client types

2007-05-01 Thread Preston, Douglas L
We went with server protect license for all our clients and it works with workstations also. I am not sure workstation license will work with servers. I prefer to have the ability to add a new client as soon as it is required regardless of workstation or server when the need arises instead of

[Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda

2007-05-04 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Using NBU 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2000 sp4 Any help would be appreciated. I am having a problem with some media that wont expire and wont deaasign that have no valid images on them. Below are the things I have tried to deassign them and expire them I have also tried to set the expire via the gui

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda

2007-05-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:34 AM To: Preston, Douglas L Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem deassigning meda Have you tried this: bpmedialist -m L00162 Note the media server that it belongs to. bpexpdate -m L00162 -d 0 -h media_server This command will expire the images, remove

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Retention change

2007-05-10 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Just going forward, all previous backups will remain at the previous retention levels NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt

Re: [Veritas-bu] adding a linux client

2007-05-11 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Only linux clients I see when adding my linux clients is Redhat, Suse and IBM. I am not sure if you need the license to see them or not as we have 35 unix client licenses and it works with our Solaris, FreeBSD and Redhat clients. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services

Re: [Veritas-bu] Installing NB6.0MP4 Linux Client

2007-05-18 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Try adding your master server to your /etc/hosts fileI found that my *nix machines all required the entry in /etc/hosts formated like this 111.111.111.111masterserver.domain.name masterserver Also make sure in your bp.conf in /usr/openv/netbackup that you have the master server listed as

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alerts in NBU NOM

2007-05-22 Thread Preston, Douglas L
There is a way to acknowlege the alert and clear it. Open Nom, go to monitoring, alerts, details. Find the alert you are getting and check it. On the left pane find tasks. You can click acknowlege to acknowlege it and click clear to clear the alert. This should stop you from getting the alert

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alerts in NBU NOM

2007-05-23 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Did you try removing the tape using the command line or the GUI for NBU? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow

2007-05-24 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Actually you will have to add the client to that list then turn off windows open file option. At least all of my servers had to be manually added to that list. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - removing 'dead' clients (Windows Master)

2007-05-29 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Delete the client from all the policies that it is in and it will be removed from the client list. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server logging.

2007-06-05 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Did you stop all your netbackup services and activities before deleting the directories? Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status Code 29 - Oracle Database Backup

2007-06-11 Thread Preston, Douglas L
Have you checked the help for result codes yet? This is what it says for 26 Under problem A command could not be executed. This can occur because the permissions of the command do not allow it to be executed, or there is lack of system resources such as memory and swap space. Under

Re: [Veritas-bu] DR copies of hot catalog backups

2007-06-15 Thread Preston, Douglas L
I write 2 copies of the catalog at once, one to my offsite catalog pool and one to my on site catalog pool, then I use the vaulting option in NBU6 and specify under additional pools to vault the offsite catalog pool. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone

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