[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.2A

2008-09-26 Thread Rick Brown
If you're vault is running in a policy, check to see if the client is still listed. After the upgrade, the client feild was blank had to use bpadm to enter the server name in the policy because our nbsl daemon was freaking out periodically.

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 to Netbackup7

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Brown
The ease of the upgrade depends on many things. The type of servers you have, number of clients, etc. You'll want to look at the HCL find out if your hardware meets the minimum requirements for NBU 7.x. Windows 2000 is no longer supported, neither are several 32 Bit OS's. It seems most eveyone

[Veritas-bu] Data Clasification in SLP

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Brown
Geeks? Ha! if you only knew. . . The purpose of SLP is a hugh concept one that you need to understand. This is a great step towards Tiering your storage - or whatever you might like. Sounds like more confusion? . . . wait there's more. A Storage Lifecycle Policy is a pre-defined

[Veritas-bu] Wrong Media Server Name appears in bpcd on Client System

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Brown
Hello, Define the translationsin the /etc/hosts file on the Master, Media the client if you are not using DNS to resolve these for you. +-- |This was sent by rick.br...@publix.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to

[Veritas-bu] Should I change my backup schedule?

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
Hello, Your question needs to be answered by this question: When a DR occurs you need to recover the data. Can it be done in the timeline the business allows? The business area's recovery timeframe needs to dictate the backup methology. Nevermind the schedules, retentions or even the speed of

[Veritas-bu] Failover server for resilience

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
Hello, I would recommend having identical hardware for your windows servers, then on the primary NBU server, run it on mirrored internal disks. If one of the disks fails, you can still run on the other. In the event the primary server fails, you should be able to remove one of the disks and

[Veritas-bu] backup failed with ec-2001

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
You may have a failed NBU daemon. Suggest checking all the NBU services and possibly cycle the services. +-- |This was sent by ivxbr...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Veritas-bu] HOW TO STREAMLINE THE BACKUP ENVIRONMENT

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
Hello Felix, All I can tell you is you have to start somewhere and work from there. Try to utilize the checkpoint features where you can for the WAN based backups. I don't know of anyone having a document listing how they have their backup infrastructure setup. Too many variables and most

[Veritas-bu] Manual backup of media server

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
Just a guess here but could it be the master server can't handle the forwad-slash? I've see this happen on some mixed systems where the Unix master server wasn't able to handle the Windows directory path to restore data NBU was able to backup. This was an NBU 6.5.2 thing and has been fixed in

[Veritas-bu] Manual backup of media server

2011-03-12 Thread Rick Brown
Please check your exclude list for anything like *tmplog. +-- |This was sent by ivxbr...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.