We are getting an error on our VCB backups that says: Snapshot creation
failed: Custom pre-freeze script failed. but there isn't a custom script on
the system. The VM is a Windows 2003 server and all VMware tools are up to
date. The backup worked one day and failed the next day with this er
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Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Or it is teaching us to not run the Master Server on Windows J LOL
JK
Reneé Carlisle
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Kraizman
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Cc: Ed Wilts; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject:
You are right in your process. Run the device configuration on Node A when
it is active, including all your media servers (not the inactive node), fail
over to the Node B and repeat the process. When the server list comes up,
you may notice the actual node name shows in the list, but once you fin
Have you ever been able to run the vcb backups from NBU? The only thing I
can think of is how did you format the disks on the backup proxy
server...did you use quick format or full format? I know there is an issue
when you try and use the quick format option.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corpora
I thought this was fixed in 6.5.2a which was just released
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Eddy
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 and Sol
What version of NBU?
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Decommission Issue
Hey guys
I have a server that was shutdown before we could decommission the s
With SSO check to see if it caused a hang on communicating with ltid or
vmd...that could trigger the failover as well.
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From: "Clooney, David" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07/13/2007 12:32 PM
To: "Jeff Lightner" , VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu
If it is just for restore purposes, why don't you just force all restores to go
through the master server? While you technically can run a 5.1 media server in
a 6.5 environment, you wouldn't want to for very long. Personally, in an SSO
environment..I wouldn't want to do it at all. If you did.
Tim,
I find it helpful since I get information here quicker than the blog. Is 6.5.3
still on track to come out this month?
Renee
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Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:23 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailm
Don,
Yep...when you install the Windows client, one of the options is "additional
servers" for some strange reason, the install script is putting the client
name in as a media server for itself. When you install the clients, remove this
entry and you will be fine. On the ones that you have al
When trying to search for Virtual Machines in a VCB policy, the search keeps
failing with cannot connect on socket error. I have double checked
credentials, tried both the ESX server and the Virtual infrastructure server,
tried both ports 902 and 443 (which should be the correct one for VCB fra
Running NBU 6.5.2
Restore of a full vmdk "restore the entire virtual machine"
Restore goes to proxy server and says restore successful
Never restores server to Virtual Infrastructure server
Never removes files from proxy server
Restore of a single file works fine
Any ideas?
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: Renee Carlisle; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMware VCB policy
Hi Renee.
There are a couple of reasons why this might happen.
Most common issue is DNS. For example, the Virtual Center server might not be
resolving correctly from the VMware Backup Proxy. You can
Has anyone used the drive name rules in NBU 6.5 with the wizard? I set them in
the wizard, create the rule, and run the wizard and yet the rule for the drive
name does not get picked up when the drive is created.
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What version of NBU?
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To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Real time failure n
your live update server?
I also want to make sure you are not combining it with your Windows Live
Update server? What method are you trying to use for LiveUpdate? Let me know
and I will get you out some updated documentation.
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
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Ed,
Curious to know what issues/what type of clusters you had trouble with? What
method were you using? We generally use http and have updated clients in a
application cluster without any issues.
Renee
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VER=http:///liveupdate (in
installdir/symantec/liveupdate/LU_install.bat, then run it, make sure you have
3 exe's in there with it, LUCheck, LU_Registration LUSetup, all 4 files on NBU
windows install cd)
**NOTES: keep all dir names and servernames lower case for unix/windows
Renee Carlis
Matt...ooops you are right...we did that too it must have just been missed when
we documented the process.
From: Clausen, Matt R[EQ] [mailto:matthew.r.clau...@embarq.com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:32 AM
To: Renee Carlisle
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu
Is your proxy server 64 bit or 32 bit? There is an issue with 64 bit proxy
servers that requires a registry change of a path for the coverter script.
Renee
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Sent: Thursd
I have checked a number of compatibility guides for both Symantec and VMware
and still can't get a straight yes or no answer on VMware Consolidated Backup
support for Virtual Machines using NFS. The environment is a NetApp array.
Will NetBackup support nfs for virtual machines with the VCB bac
One thing you might want to consider for the future..if you have your quarterly
backups in a separate schedule, set up multiple copies of that schedule (in
line tape copy). From that you can write your disk copy and tape copy for your
quarterlies at the same time and set the retention for a lon
David,
I saw this in a posting a few months back...since we resell the STK line I hung
onto it in case I ever needed itit may or may not resolve your issue...let
us know:
Symptoms
Users of NetBackUp version 6.x cannot configure a new SL3000 tape library.
When installing a new SL3000 tape l
ent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:51 AM
To: Renee Carlisle; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3
Thanks Renee
Unfortunately we have applied the device mappings your technote
specifies.
Regards
David Clooney
Enterprise Storage Services
Internal X66059
Extern
Keep in mind if you do BMR backups..it adds to the catalog space as well
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:46 PM
To: Stafford, Geoff
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Sub
Yes, we have installed it at a number of our clients. I find it to be easy to
install and configure and have seen little to no performance impact on
performance. I am a big fan of the product.
Renee
ServerWare Corporation
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Veritas Backup reporter has built in heat charts for tape drive utilization and
throughput
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michael.ket...@orange-ftgroup.com
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Yes, it is just a DB agent...keep in mind if you have EV 8 a couple of the new
databases are not picked up yet with 6.5.4 and you have to do some manual
integration to get those database, that will be fixed in NBU 7
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mai
Yes, the DB license key should be installed on the master (not a second key) to
enable the policy.
From: Mark Glazerman [mailto:mark.glazer...@spartech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:33 AM
To: Renee Carlisle; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: RE: EVault Licensing
Renee
Nope, you have to have a Windows 2003 server to act as the VCB Proxy Server
(VMware requirement). Ideally that server will also be a media server, but it
doesn't have to be
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.
I am looking for any input to challenges (technically, operationally, or
politically) people have had with running multiple NetBackup Domains in their
environment within the same data center or local geographic area. Not really
looking for details and specifics, just high-level ideas. Thanks
Exchange 2003 GRT Backup to DSSU storage unit is successful
Multi-streamed, one storage group per stream
Restore from Disk is successful
NBU 6.5.4
Staging to tape fails with premature end of file encountered
Any ideas?
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I've tried the rename, even with the document, in the exact order...and still
had issues. I believe Symantec is hoping to have a supported option in a 7.x
release
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Mond
Installation and setup have been great. It works very well so far in the
environments that we have installed it in.
Some gotchas:
Listen carefully when they say be careful in planning. Once it is configured
it can't be reconfigured. Make sure the disk, credentials, IP, etc that you
want to
You do not need an agent if the Master is 7 and it is for monitoring a NBU
master server. Yes, there is an engineering binary to fix the polling issue.
Contact support.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Yep, if you are just running a small test you might be running into an issue
where you don't have enough data to kick off the SLP...for testing, set up the
following on the Master server:
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/LIFECYCLE_PARAMETERS add the value:
MAX_MINUTES_TIL_FORCE_SMALL_DUPLICATION
Vault's basic function is to manage offsite tapes. If you ship tapes off to
Iron mountain or some other destination, vault makes it easy to manage ejecting
the tapes, creating audit reports etc. From your set up with the VTL
capabilities, the SLP route is probably the best source for actually
Can you go into robtest and try and query the drives and move tapes into a
drive, unload a drive and move a tape back into it's slot? That is a good
beginning test for the health of the drive?
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun.
Check into synthetic fulls...especially optimized synthetic fullsthat way
you are only really doing a differential every night and letting NBU handle the
creation of the full...this should dramatically shrink the time it takes to do
the backups.
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Is anyone out there using a Data Domain with the OST plug in for NetBackup?
(Especially if you are running NBU 7) Can someone give me a rough idea what
kind of performance numbers you are gettingjust looking for an average mb/s
per stream on typical backup jobs. Don't need a lot of detail,
Was hoping there may be some NBU/Informix gurus out there that can help me with
some onbar questions. My familiarity is more with RMAN:
NBU Version: 7.0
Informix Version: 9.4
OS: AIX 5.3
1. Does the Informix onsmsync process need to be run with each NB Backup?
2. What is the corre
Forget question 3, found this technote:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH29536
Reneé Carlisle
Was hoping there may be some NBU/Informix gurus out there that can help me with
some onbar questions. My familiarity is more with RMAN:
NBU Version: 7.0
Informix V
Have a strange situation going on hoping someone can help with.
Environment:
Global Cluster NBU 7.0.1 Solaris Master Server
W2K8 Media server in data center A and B
Physical AIX boxes in data center A
AIX domains on VIO server (sorry if this is the wrong terminology, not that
familiar with VIO bu
with VIO
greetings... can you ping everything ok? is this vlan configured across the 2
sites?
FreeBSD rules
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From: Renee Carlisle
To: "VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU"
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 11:49:52 AM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU on AIX with V
Having a communications issue with BMR and I am at a loss as to where to go
next in trouble shooting. Here is the environment:
Solaris 10 Master server recently upgraded to NBU 7.0.1
One NIC connected to a backup network
Recently set up to use DNS due to new requirements with BMR
I am trying to configure a BE agent in NBU OpsCenter. The agent software is
installed on the OpsCenter server, the agent is configured, and the data
collector for BE is successfully configured. However, the data collector never
starts. The only error I see in the agent logs is: Home directory
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:55 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] BE Agent in OpsCenter not starting
I am trying to configure a BE agent in NBU OpsCenter. The agent software is
installed on the
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