Simon,

I do not have such problems. And I use evaluation keys in my production “every 
day”.

I have valid license keys and expired lics together and no problem at all.

Check it with your Symantec sales.

 

What option you are trying to enable?

stefanos

 

From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:42 AM
To: stefanos; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] FlashBackups - Q & A:

 

Thanks for this. Intersting indeed.

I just caused a big headache now!!! I restarted the NBU Services after applying 
the license key, and the Master EMM Services are down, not able to start.

I removed the license key (That symantec gave me) and restarted the system and 
everything is back as it should be (see all media servers, SAN Media, ect)

 

I thought I could run with this eval key while I had my production key online!

 

Simon

 

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From: stefanos [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:34 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] FlashBackups - Q & A:

Hello Simon,

Unfortunately very slow restores is the biggest problem of flashbackup backups. 
 

The backup is very fast. And the restore of the volume is very fast. But when 
you try to restore a file, then  you may wait more time than the time to 
restore the volume. Netbackup reads the backup serially, to find the files.

Check this (in the new ugly and cannot search symanetc support site)

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH53111

 

Note: Individual file restore from a raw FlashBackup backup will perform much 
more slowly than a restore of the entire partition, and the performance 
decreases exponentially the more individual files that are selected for 
restore. One way to increase performance is to configure the 'Maximum fragment 
size' on the Storage Unit to a small size such as 1GB or even 500MB (prior to 
the backups of course).

 

stefanos

 

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon 
(external)
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:29 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] FlashBackups - Q & A:

 

Hi 
A fellow member has kindly guided me into the right direction of using 
FlashBackps. However I have a few Questions to clarify if poss.

Environemnt, all Windows 2003 SP2 + NBU 6.5.6 - Running Eval License of NBU to 
open up FlashBackup-Windows 

I have tested the product, and moved the tests into production (to gain full 
access to Robot+Drives+San Media Servers). 

I ran a test on a Network based Client of their E: Drive. It performed the 
FlashBackup in 48mins. Looking at the full backup running under the normal 
client took 2 hours.

So today, I have tried to do a restore of a 1GB folder containing lots of 
files. But its taking what appears to be ages. 20 Mins in, and only recovered 
300mb so far. 

Does this sound correct? 

Also, when I create a Backup Policy, under the Policy -> Backup Selections Tab 
I type in  <file:///\\.\E> \\.\E: and press return. I get a dialog box telling 
me that "The NetBackup Client Service on the client must have a Log on account 
specified other than the system account. the account used must have permission 
to create directories and files under the UNC path specified. Do you wish to 
continues?"

I have an account created, and applied this to the NetBackup Client Service and 
as I mentioned, it has run. But if I create a brand new policy, add a client in 
the Clients Tab, then goto Backup Selections and type in \\. \E: and press 
Enter I do not get a pop up message. If you look carefully, I have put a SPACE 
after the fullstop! But this seems to go against the NetBackup documentation I 
have that does not appear to show a space.

Finally, the purpose of this is for some of our large servers that have 
Multiple volumes. Is there any problem selecting multiple drive letters under 
Backup selections tab? In other words, rather than list 1, can I list 8 
different volumes?

Thanks for the feedback. 

Regards 

Simon 


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