[Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query
There is an agent for Netbackup to automate backups of Enterprise Vault. For more details see the following: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH126523 +-- |This was sent by dascot...@live.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
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query
Hi Simon, There are some powershell commands that can set and release EV's backup mode. Toward the tail end of EV's Admin Guide, it shows how to set & release the backup mode. The EV installation ISO has some pretty extensive documentation (think about how much NetBackup has, EV is on par with NBU in that category). The powershell stuff will put the EV volumes into read-only mode while backups run so it'll minimize any stuck-open files. I'm pretty sure that, at that point, a file-level will get it there if you set it up to clear the archive bit on backup. There's a link here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH172279 It's more database centric, but it does have some info on what to do. FWIW, here are the bits on using the powershell cmdlets in backup scripts (from the EV Admin's Guide): %SystemRoot%\SysWow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {set-vaultstorebackupmode -name 'Express Vault Store Group' -evservername EVserver -evobjecttype vaultstoregroup}" %SystemRoot%\SysWow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {clear-vaultstorebackupmode -name 'Express Vault Store Group' -evservername EVserver -evobjecttype vaultstoregroup}" You should be able to put these in the bp start/stop notify scripts. You'll need to work with your EV admins (assuming you're not the EV administrator) to get the vault store group names ("Express Vault Store Group" above), and EV environment details. All that is in the EV administrator console on the server, but a lot of it is accessible only to the account that's the specified EV Administrator (we use a service account here). Hope that helps, ~ Robin From: Simon Weaver [mailto:simon.wea...@iscl.net] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:55 AM To: Robin Small; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query Hello Robin The SQL Side is done using NetBackup for SQL (So its an online agent). The Enterprise Vault backups are simply "File level" backups, no agents involved here :( Simon ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query
Hello Robin The SQL Side is done using NetBackup for SQL (So its an online agent). The Enterprise Vault backups are simply "File level" backups, no agents involved here :( Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of Robin Small Sent: Wed 23/01/2013 16:14 To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query I'm doing EV 10.0.3 backups through NBU 7.5.0.4 I use the directives and the database/app agent on my EV servers. I'm not sure if you know about the "safety copies" that exist in EV, but essentially EV won't remove the full-content email from Exchange until it gets a full-content backup on both EV and Exchange. With Exchange, it uses VSS. I'm not entirely sure what triggers with EV, but file-level and database backups work. Are you using the DB/APP agent on your EV server(s)? or are you just using file-level? Also, how are you backing up your EV databases? Are they local or point to an external sql server? ~ Robin From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Weaver Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:13 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query Hi All I am looking for some advice or assitance in regards to Enterprise Vault Email Backups and NetBackup 7.5 Presently, I have been doing Full backups of all drive letters of the Server (Windows 2008 R2) and Diff backups during the week (Based on the Enterprise Vault details I found). However, its been noticed that items are NOT being archived correctly. They show a "clock" icon next to the emails and if you open the email it says "This item is being archived by Enterprise Vault do not copy, move or delete this item". However ,it has been like this for months, and the backups are being blamed :( I downloaded the Symantec White Paper for Enterprise Vault. But before going down this road, I wanted to find out how anyone else is backing up Enterprise Vault for email. Any input would be apprecaited. Thanks, Simon ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query
I'm doing EV 10.0.3 backups through NBU 7.5.0.4 I use the directives and the database/app agent on my EV servers. I'm not sure if you know about the "safety copies" that exist in EV, but essentially EV won't remove the full-content email from Exchange until it gets a full-content backup on both EV and Exchange. With Exchange, it uses VSS. I'm not entirely sure what triggers with EV, but file-level and database backups work. Are you using the DB/APP agent on your EV server(s)? or are you just using file-level? Also, how are you backing up your EV databases? Are they local or point to an external sql server? ~ Robin From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Weaver Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:13 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query Hi All I am looking for some advice or assitance in regards to Enterprise Vault Email Backups and NetBackup 7.5 Presently, I have been doing Full backups of all drive letters of the Server (Windows 2008 R2) and Diff backups during the week (Based on the Enterprise Vault details I found). However, its been noticed that items are NOT being archived correctly. They show a "clock" icon next to the emails and if you open the email it says "This item is being archived by Enterprise Vault do not copy, move or delete this item". However ,it has been like this for months, and the backups are being blamed :( I downloaded the Symantec White Paper for Enterprise Vault. But before going down this road, I wanted to find out how anyone else is backing up Enterprise Vault for email. Any input would be apprecaited. Thanks, Simon ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup / Enterprise Vault 10 - Question / Query
Hi All I am looking for some advice or assitance in regards to Enterprise Vault Email Backups and NetBackup 7.5 Presently, I have been doing Full backups of all drive letters of the Server (Windows 2008 R2) and Diff backups during the week (Based on the Enterprise Vault details I found). However, its been noticed that items are NOT being archived correctly. They show a "clock" icon next to the emails and if you open the email it says "This item is being archived by Enterprise Vault do not copy, move or delete this item". However ,it has been like this for months, and the backups are being blamed :( I downloaded the Symantec White Paper for Enterprise Vault. But before going down this road, I wanted to find out how anyone else is backing up Enterprise Vault for email. Any input would be apprecaited. Thanks, Simon ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu