RE: [Veritas-bu] HP Data Protector (Omniback) & Legato have "backups", NBU has streams(jobs) ....howto

2005-11-18 Thread stefanos
  If you are asking about grouping jobs in activity monitor, his isn’t a “native” netbackup option. There is an option similar to what HP program does but you must implement advanced reporting option for this. Note that advanced reporting is free for NBU6.   If you want to do it fro CLI you

RE: [Veritas-bu] VTL questions

2005-11-18 Thread stefanos
If you have one (or maybe two) media servers, then the DSSU is a very good solution (and probably cheapest) for disk staging. But if you have more media servers and implement DSSU then you will have a big and expensive storage divided into all media servers and maybe not efficient. With VLT you w

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL questions

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:31:38PM -0500, Lee, Kenneth (SBS US) wrote: > I would like the following: > > 1.Backup some clients to VTL. > 2.At the same time, backup some clients to STK SL8500. > 3.In the day time, I would like the VTL to migrate the virtual > tapes to the STK SL8500 phy

[Veritas-bu] VTL questions

2005-11-18 Thread Lee, Kenneth \(SBS US\)
We are looking into VTL and I am getting conflicting stories. Here is what I want to do and I would like to know if it is possible. I have a STK SL8500 physical tape library. NetBackup 5.1 Solaris Master server & media servers. I would like the following: 1. Backup some clients to VTL. 2

RE: [Veritas-bu] migration to a new server - Followup question

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Peppas
All Policy, schedule and client info as well as images are all in the /usr/openv/netbackup/db dir. /usr/openv/volmgr/database holds info regarding the volume pools. Dont forget the change the bp.conf file on all clients/media servers to reflect the new master server. Remember first line is sup

RE: [Veritas-bu] migration to a new server - Followup question

2005-11-18 Thread Dan Dobbs
So, the procedure would be to install NetBackup on the new server, and then tar them on the old box, move them over, and unzip these files into their proper directories? How about schedules, clients, all that? Is that encompassed in this plan, or is that a different file system that needs to come

Re: [Veritas-bu] Critical Problem with complete W2K3 restores

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Ballowe
support should also have a one off patch for this -- we've used it and it works. On 11/18/05, Spearman, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > Quite by accident I found out that a DR type restore of a W2K3 server > does not work with NBU5.1 MP3 (or earlier). After some phone time with > Ver

RE: [Veritas-bu] Encryption Option Under NetBackup 5.1?

2005-11-18 Thread Gwinn, Robert
Title: Message No, but I have been researching it technically. caveats: with Netbackup Encryption Option, the encryption is done on the client before data is sent to media servers -   this has shown to significantly increase resource load on the client server. another problem is that sinc

[Veritas-bu] Critical Problem with complete W2K3 restores

2005-11-18 Thread Spearman, David
Folks, Quite by accident I found out that a DR type restore of a W2K3 server does not work with NBU5.1 MP3 (or earlier). After some phone time with Veritas I received the fix. It will be released officially very soon in MP4. The problem is explained in http://support.veritas.com/docs/274353 Wh

RES: [Veritas-bu] **** Status 6 in NB for RMAN policies *****

2005-11-18 Thread Pablo Malheiros Almeida
It is possible to make a backup using rman direct to tape without any agent??? just isuing RMAN> rman target / and then making a script just like making a backup to disk?? dos anyone have an example?? tks -Mensagem original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nome de [EMA

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups are not backing up /boot on RedHat ES Linux Release 4 with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES??

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
The problem was fixed by duplicating the current policy and testing /boot and / separately then deleting that test policy and then doing a regular backup again and it was fixed. The netBackup tech was not sure what fixed it but he said there may have been some policy corruption somewhere . -O

Re: [Veritas-bu] **** Status 6 in NB for RMAN policies *****

2005-11-18 Thread ida3248b
Hello Ray Get you DBA to run the RMAN script(s) using the disk.sbt libary this will show if the RMAN script(s) works. Create the dbclient directory with 777 permissons under netbackup/logs and set VERBOSE=99 in the client bp.conf then rerun the backup through the netbackuop libobk api. This sh

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups are not backing up /boot on RedHat ES Li nux Release 4 with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES??

2005-11-18 Thread Mark . Donaldson
Do you have "Enable multiple streams" set on the policy? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Piszcz, Justin Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:07 AM To: James Pattinson Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Butts, Shawn Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] B

RE: [Veritas-bu] **** Status 6 in NB for RMAN policies *****

2005-11-18 Thread Mark . Donaldson
I concur that the problem is often on the client. Unfortunately, a status 6 message can mean nearly anything. If the script that calls the RMAN commands exits non-zero you get a 6, if the media manager has an error then you get a 6, sunspots making static on your favorite radio station then you g

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups are not backing up /boot on RedHat ES Linux Release 4 with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES??

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup /boot This seems to work just fine. (using the User-Backup facility/policy/schedule) 11:02:28.676 [2651] <2> mount build_mount_list: INF - Processing (ext3) /dev/hda1 on /boot 11:02:28.681 [2651] <2> mount build_mount_list: INF - Processing (ext3) /dev/hda1 o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups are not backing up /boot on RedHat ES Linux Release 4 with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES??

2005-11-18 Thread James Pattinson
That's strange, it works for me. Suggest you enable logging for bpbkar on the client machine, and it should walk the filesystems and tell you why it's not backing it up. I assume the policy is configured OK? James Piszcz, Justin wrote: When I specify ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, all that gets backed up

Re: [Veritas-bu] **** Status 6 in NB for RMAN policies *****

2005-11-18 Thread Wayne T Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part, on 11/18/2005 9:55 AM: I've been getting status 6 every time the Rman backups run. Does any one have any ideas on this. The scripts are all on point so its not that easy. In my limited experience, the problem is back on the client. A quick look at the loggi

[Veritas-bu] Backups are not backing up /boot on RedHat ES Linux Release 4 with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES??

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
When I specify ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, all that gets backed up is / and not /boot?   Why is this?   $ df -h Filesystem    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3  72G  4.6G   64G   7% / /dev/hda1 190M  8.4M  172M   5% /boot none  506M

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to use multiple "Application-Backup" schedules?

2005-11-18 Thread Wayne T Smith
*Most* helpful, Michael ... Thank you! If I understand what you've explained (and explained much better than any NetBackup help I've seen!) ... * A manual backup, using a setup with pairs of automatic and application schedules, but out of schedule window, would not use the "expected" appli

RE: [Veritas-bu] Why use storage unit groups?

2005-11-18 Thread Williams, Kristopher L
The only time I use storage unit groups is when I have drives from two robot's connected on the same media server. Since a storage unit is tied to a paticular robot, you have to make two storage units if you have drives from two robots. In the policy, you can only select 1 storage unit or gr

[Veritas-bu] **** Status 6 in NB for RMAN policies *****

2005-11-18 Thread Ray . Hill
I have a master/media server; Solaris 2.8 64 bit running  NBU 5.1 MP3. I've been getting status 6 every time the Rman backups run. Does any one have any ideas on this. The scripts are all on point so its not that easy. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance . ## Client:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piszcz, Justin wrote: > I realize that, but I was wondering how it stored the lists in the > database by default, as it is not a plain text OR flat file anymore. > > -Original Message- > From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread James Pattinson
Whoops - missed this reply before sending my last one out. The update is very easy, but don't forget to run "nbpushdata -add" on the master afterwards, else your EMM will be empty and you'll have no storage units or media. Cheers James Greenberg, Katherine A wrote: The Media Manager stuff i

Re: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread James Pattinson
The images database is still as it was in 4.5/5.x. It's just the EMM which is a relational DB, and this holds media manager type stuff. So your catalog will still be flat binary files. I think ASCII catalogs have been totally deprecated now but I could be wrong. Cheers James Piszcz, Justin w

RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
The Media Manager stuff is the only part that has changed. >From how everything was explained to me... They pulled everything onto the Master, so the issues with SSO and vmd, etc. will go away because there will be one host assigning drives and allocating media for the entire environment, as oppo

RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
You can compress the images catalog in the same manner that you could in previous versions. Is that what you're asking? ~Kate -Original Message- From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:22 AM To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List

RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
I realize that, but I was wondering how it stored the lists in the database by default, as it is not a plain text OR flat file anymore. -Original Message- From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:06 AM To: Piszcz, Justin; Ed Wilts; List Veri

RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Does NBU 6 use compression on the databases (vs. flat files) - I have a box with 50,000,000+ files, the flatfiles are huge. Anyone know? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Katherine A Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:04 AM To: Ed

RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?

2005-11-18 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
>From everything I've heard/read, the memory requirements are higher, but not sure about CPU. Since all of the Media Manager stuff is running on the Master and all the db info for the device and media side of things will be housed only on the master in a Sybase DB, the new req's are based on that.

[Veritas-bu] Encryption Option Under NetBackup 5.1?

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Does anyone know how much it costs?

RE: [Veritas-bu] How to use multiple "Application-Backup" schedules?

2005-11-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
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Re: [Veritas-bu] How to use multiple "Application-Backup" schedules?

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Peppas
You can limit the time window of each app-sched and allow it to run only when you want it to run. When the auto sched runs only the app-sched that is open at that given time... I have implemented this on MSQSL backups.. Regards, Jim > ---Original Message--- > From: Wayne T Smith <

RE: [Veritas-bu] bpbackup client initiated question

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Peppas
If I'm not mistaken, the -i is allowed only for NBU servers. You might fool NBU in thinking that a client is a server by adding the SERVER = entry in the bp.conf file of the master server (and the client I suppose...) >From then on you can run all policeis/schedules with the retry availability.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Setting up Mail Notifications

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Peppas
HI, I use the blat command with specifing the server each time. I run it once with the -install option and then I don't supply the server again. Regards, Jim Peppas > ---Original Message--- > From: j. okabayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Setting up Mail Noti