Re: [Veritas-bu] DFSR backups with 6.5.4 not working
Current solution (workaround) is 6.5.3+registry hack and it works for (> 2TB DFSR) replicated folders. Justin. On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Marc W. Bourgeois wrote: > Hi Justin, > > I've gotten this to work, but only with very small replicated folders. > I have the same issue as you with large replicated folders and have > yet to find a solution. > > Thanks, > > Marc > > -Original Message- > > > Hi Judy, > > Yes, I am aware of that, this is a brand new host and the start/stop > scripts were not installed on it (nor the registry hack). If anyone has > backed up a 6.5.4 w/DFSR I would be interested to hear how it was done, > thanks. > > Justin. > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, judy_hinchcliffe at administaff.com wrote: > >> I have not gone to 6.5.4 yet, but I know you have to UNDO what you did >> with 6.5 to get dfs to work. >> So take away your scripts that stop and start dfs and take away the >> stuff you put in with regedit >> >> See tech note >> >> >> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/326098.htm >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin >> Piszcz >> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:21 AM >> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> Subject: [Veritas-bu] DFSR backups with 6.5.4 not working >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone gotten DFSR backups to work with 6.5.4? >> >> When the backups run and it tries to backup the Shadow Copy Components:\ >> >> which, in-turn contains the DFSR data, it sits there forever until the >> job >> times out. >> >> Has anyone experienced this issue and/or any workarounds/microsoft >> hotfixes? >> >>> vssadmin list writers (after ~18hrs+ kicking off the job) >> >> Writer name: 'DFS Replication service writer' >>Writer Id: {2707761b-2324-473d-88eb-eb007a359533} >>Writer Instance Id: {79b2d7e7-feeb-416f-8cd8-26593620a358} >>State: [5] Waiting for completion >>Last error: No error >> >> In the system logs: >> >> VssAdmin: Unable to create a shadow copy: Another shadow copy creation >> is >> already in progress. Please wait a few moments and try again. >> Command-line: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\vssadmin.exe Create Shadow >> /AutoRetry=5 >> /For=\\?\Volume{0c76a1cd-cd43-4fa4-b9d5-e8100311f339}\'. >> >> For more information, see Help and Support Center at >> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. >> >> Has anyone run across this? >> >> Justin. >> ___ >> Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >> >> > ___ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master
It's been almost a year since I've had to deal with a clustered master server, so I may not remember some of the details, but in addition to knowing the virtual name of the cluster, NBU also knows the host names of every node in the cluster. How NBU dealt with a cluster changed in either 5.1 or 6.0 (I'm leaning toward 6.0 here). I once wanted to move a clustered master server to a new cluster by setting up the new cluster while the old one was still running, etc, etc, etc (tedious details omitted). I contacted Veritas support, and they said that even the hostnames of the nodes had to remain the same. So, I'm guessing there's some major under-the-hood work that would have to be done to do that kind of conversion. Even EMM knows about the individual nodes in the cluster, and it keeps track of which node is the active node in the cluster. I'm guessing that even building a new cluster from scratch and then doing a catalog recovery wouldn't work because of this. -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Global Technology Services - AHS Mylan, Inc. 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 Cell: +1.412.805.5313 "Donaldson, Mark" Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 10/13/2009 05:19 PM To "Bryan Bahnmiller" cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master The goal is to get off of the aging V880 and onto a cheaper Linux platform. At the same time, we've had a couple high-profile hardware failures in the past couple months and, since the hardware is cheap (and the VCS license is "free" thanks to our site license), putting in a cluster seems a way to add reliability for the cost of a $5000 x86 box. I don't intend to rename the master server, I'll move the name and, I thought, make it the HA name for the pair - thus getting around the infamous "can't rename the master server" problem. That's why I was thinking this would be easy to pull off. I don't know if the company will spring for $15k worth of services, though. Kinda doubles the cost of the whole project. From: Bryan Bahnmiller [mailto:bbahnmil...@dtcc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM To: Donaldson, Mark Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master Mark, Ugh... Don't envy that task. A few comments. The master server has to run on the virtual name (relocatable IP and dns name.) This name and the names of the individual nodes are in the EMM db. If you kept the name of the current master as your virtual name, it should be a simpler task. Also, the agent is very intrusive. (Especially on Windows.) There are agent options that can only be set via the bpclusterutil command. That tells me that the agent is not all that, what, conforming? At the conference I went to, a Symantec employee was asked why changing the name of the backup server is not supported. He said that the name of the NBU master server is in 14 different places on Windows servers and 11 places on Unix servers. And the names in the different places have to be changed in the correct order. One mistake and nothing works. I sat in on some very interesting discussions about NBU HA. What are you trying to accomplish? Most of the people I talked with agreed that the main thing HA will give you is the capability of doing server maintenance with minimal impact. Most hardware now is pretty reliable. When was the last time you had a nic or hba fail? When the server fails over, all backups stop. After a failover, you will still have to clear out tape drives, restart backups and so on. The only currently allowed HA configuration is active/passive. So you do have one server sitting there idling, waiting for the other server to fail over. Also, if you have the disk mirrored with VxVM, you'll have to see if that is supported with the Linux agent for failover too. Bryan "Donaldson, Mark" Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 10/13/2009 02:32 PM To cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide: = NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec Enterprise Technical Support. = Huh? Should be easy, I'd think. Why would I need Tech Support? Has anyone done this? BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can pull this off... -Mark ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _ DTCC DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Customer Forum
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:29 AM, wrote: > > When is the next NetBackup Customer Forum in Roseville? > We just had one last week so it will probably be next October for the next one. I'm hoping that there's another December TechDay in Roseville in December though. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Customer Forum
When is the next NetBackup Customer Forum in Roseville? Thanks, Reg Giacomini Hennepin County Government Disclaimer: Information in this message or an attachment may be government data and thereby subject to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, may be subject to attorney-client or work product privilege, may be confidential, privileged, proprietary, or otherwise protected, and the unauthorized review, copying, retransmission, or other use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please immediately notify the sender of the transmission error and then promptly delete this message from your computer system. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] DFSR backups with 6.5.4 not working
Hi Justin, I've gotten this to work, but only with very small replicated folders. I have the same issue as you with large replicated folders and have yet to find a solution. Thanks, Marc -Original Message- Hi Judy, Yes, I am aware of that, this is a brand new host and the start/stop scripts were not installed on it (nor the registry hack). If anyone has backed up a 6.5.4 w/DFSR I would be interested to hear how it was done, thanks. Justin. On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, judy_hinchcliffe at administaff.com wrote: > I have not gone to 6.5.4 yet, but I know you have to UNDO what you did > with 6.5 to get dfs to work. > So take away your scripts that stop and start dfs and take away the > stuff you put in with regedit > > See tech note > > > http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/326098.htm > > > -Original Message- > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin > Piszcz > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:21 AM > To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] DFSR backups with 6.5.4 not working > > Hi, > > Has anyone gotten DFSR backups to work with 6.5.4? > > When the backups run and it tries to backup the Shadow Copy Components:\ > > which, in-turn contains the DFSR data, it sits there forever until the > job > times out. > > Has anyone experienced this issue and/or any workarounds/microsoft > hotfixes? > >> vssadmin list writers (after ~18hrs+ kicking off the job) > > Writer name: 'DFS Replication service writer' >Writer Id: {2707761b-2324-473d-88eb-eb007a359533} >Writer Instance Id: {79b2d7e7-feeb-416f-8cd8-26593620a358} >State: [5] Waiting for completion >Last error: No error > > In the system logs: > > VssAdmin: Unable to create a shadow copy: Another shadow copy creation > is > already in progress. Please wait a few moments and try again. > Command-line: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\vssadmin.exe Create Shadow > /AutoRetry=5 > /For=\\?\Volume{0c76a1cd-cd43-4fa4-b9d5-e8100311f339}\'. > > For more information, see Help and Support Center at > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. > > Has anyone run across this? > > Justin. > ___ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NMDP backups on EMC Celerra Netbackup 6.5.3
Double-check your config against this doc: ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Serv er/267773.pdf Ensure that these 2 commands are successful: tpautoconf -verify tpautoconf -probe Regards Marianne -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of bamabreeze87 Sent: 15 October 2009 02:47 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] NMDP backups on EMC Celerra Netbackup 6.5.3 Hello, I have a problem. I am running ndmp backups using netbackup 6.5 Windows server 64bit R2 2003 on a EMC Celerra NAS. I cannot create ndmp tape drives on the netbackup admin console. So at the moment my configuration is running over the Ethernet network and is causing issues. I need help!!! When I try to add a tape drive in the admin console I get an error 16, unable to verify host. The host is registered on the netbackup server (server_2). I have verified the device file name is accurate c1202020 ish. Anyone with some insight please respond. I appreciate your help. +-- |This was sent by jonathanpbry...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] L700 drive error
Hi I have no idea what 'they' are trying to accomplish with the info they've asked for. There are two places to check why drives are being down'ed. The 1st one is the bptm log on the media server. The 2nd one is /var/adm/messages, but ONLY if media manager daemons are running in VERBOSE mode. To do this, add a new line in /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf, put VERBOSE on this line. Stop/start NetBackup. After a drive has gone down, look for DOWN in bptm log as well as lines that contain <16>. Search for DOWN in /var/adm/messages. Regards Marianne -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sushil Sent: 15 October 2009 10:10 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] L700 drive error Hi, We are running NB 5.1 on Solaris. There is some issue with the drive which goes offline every week. To resolve that issue case was logged with SUN support, they think its the configuration issue on Netbackup rather than hardware issue. For that they have asked for some logs. I am absolutely new to NB and dont know how to get the logs. Here is what they have asked for: Please check the Activity monitor, you should have a line similar to this one: - requesting resource .NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.test_exit_nn The "test_exit_nn" part is the one I am interested in. Please run the following command: # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplist test_exit_nn -U There will be a line called "Residence: ", I need you to run the following command: # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstulist -label -U Thanks Sushil +-- |This was sent by sushil.gamb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu