RE: [Veritas-bu] Tapes keep freezing

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message more info please! Is it happening for a specific policy? Or a client? What does activity monitor show? If its all for the same client and policy, it may have problems communicating with your robot or library     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Admin

RE: [Veritas-bu] Planned Network Outage - What should I do about backups?

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin Disagree. We run fulls weekend and incr during week. Works for us. An outage or Disaster could occur anytime, not just at the weekend. Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

RE: [Veritas-bu] Odd Win2k3 Client Problem

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message No Jim. Month end only runs when no other backups are running - all other policies are deactivated     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Odd Win2k3 Client Problem

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Bob I am on 5.1 ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 May 2006 05:52 To: ve

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 catalog size vs 5.1 catalog size

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Jim Can you clarify something for me - did you NEED additional disk space for the nbpushdata command? IE: say my DB is 30GB in size, do you need that same sort of spare space on disk?? Answers on a postcard to Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator E

RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 6 and VSP on Windows

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message they are the most annoyance of all email products :-)     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Jim Pep

RE: [Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Its most likely VSS is turned on (turn it off on the host properties) Turn off any AV or Disk I/O software as well.   Stop and restart the client Server again.   Stop and restart all Netbakcup Services - so bpbkar32.exe is no longer present.   Ensure the server is LOGGED OFF w

[Veritas-bu] Status 84 - EOM ?

2006-05-15 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Guys Reloaded my Robotic Library with brand new tapes. One of my SAN Media Servers had this event logged in its activity monitor. This job has multiple streams   12/05/2006 20:51:43 - mounting 0204L312/05/2006 20:51:51 - started process bpbrm (4116)12/05/2006 20:51:51 - co

RE: [Veritas-bu] Tapes keep freezing

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Tapes keep freezing Hello Abel,   What messages are you seeing in the bptm log for these tapes?   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vasquez, Abel - BLS CTRSent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:33 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] T

[Veritas-bu] Tapes keep freezing

2006-05-15 Thread Vasquez, Abel - BLS CTR
Title: Tapes keep freezing When using Veritas Netbackup 6.0 my tapes keep freezing after one backup. The tapes still have plenty of space. If I unfreeze the tapes and do a new policy and schedule the backups it will again only do one backup and freeze my tapes.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear

2006-05-15 Thread George Drew
Len, This message means that you have some device in the path to your tape drive that isn't happy with 16-byte CDBs (some scsi-3 commands). This one in particular is the scsi-3 "WRITE ATTRIBUTE" command. (Reference: http://t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/spc4/spc4r04.pdf) George On Sat, 13 May 2006, Le

[Veritas-bu] New Search Solution from Symantec Enterprise Technical Services

2006-05-15 Thread Bob Stump
If you don't like the engine touted in technote 282968 below, you can still access the Boolean search engine at this link: http://seer.support.veritas.com/NAV_BAR/clustersearch.asp?ddProduct=NBUESVR&crumb=on         New Search Solution from Symantec Enterprise Technical Services http://support.ve

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling

2006-05-15 Thread Wayne T Smith
Yes, with frequency based scheduling, keeping the frequency as small as possible (yet larger than your window is expected to be) will let you do a manual retry the next day without adversely affecting the backup next week. However, during the past year I have become a fan of calendar based sc

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue

2006-05-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
All the problems I had (initially) w/ fiber zoning was my initial setup of the brocade switch. After that you just use the cfgadm commands and be on your way. Justin. On 5/15/06, Song, Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin, Yes, I zoned my tape library on the Brocade switch and that's w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris vs. HPUX

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:12:46AM -0400, Steve Jenkins wrote: > Regarding the thread going around concerning bpsched crashing, I > believe I'm having similar issues and as such will begin thinking > upgrade. I'm currently running on HP-UX, but our general direction > for new apps lately has been

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Freemantle
If your running Solaris, you could try the 'tcopy' command. From the man pages - NAME tcopy - copy a magnetic tape SYNOPSIS tcopy source [destination] DESCRIPTION The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument.

RE: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue

2006-05-15 Thread Song, Young
Justin, Yes, I zoned my tape library on the Brocade switch and that's why the host can see the library and its first drive. I put the library and NBU master in a separate WWN-based zone. Is there any other special zoning method I should be aware of? Thanks. - Young -Original Message--

RE: [Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-15 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
If you duplicate the tapes, it will also test their integrity. If the images are unreadable in a Dup process, the process should fail. ~Kate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:24 AM To: Steve Cc:

RE: [Veritas-bu] Solaris vs. HPUX

2006-05-15 Thread Jeff Lightner
I’ve run Netbackup on HP-UX for years and don’t see many major issues.  I’ve also run it on Solaris though it has been a while since I did that.  It always seemed to have more issues on Solaris than HP-UX though once properly configured it seemed to be acceptable on Solaris.   There just se

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling

2006-05-15 Thread Steve
I have used both of your solutions before and wanted to add some info that I have found. If I am using Freq. based schedules I always set my Freq to be just larger than the backup window to try and avoid problems like this. For example on Weekly backups that are open all day Sat (24 hours) I set

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why? I have a 2-3TB backup that I do not have another 2-3TB box to restore to. If I can restore to /dev/null, then I could test a restore and the tapes integrity. And if it does not verify all the data on the tape, how come it takes ~2hrs for each LTO2 tape? Justin. On 5/15/06, Steve <[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] Solaris vs. HPUX

2006-05-15 Thread Steve Jenkins
Regarding the thread going around concerning bpsched crashing, I believe I'm having similar issues and as such will begin thinking upgrade.  I'm currently running on HP-UX, but our general direction for new apps lately has been solaris.   Anyone got an opinion as to whether I should stay on HPUX

Summary: [Veritas-bu] Can this be done?

2006-05-15 Thread Bob Stump
The overwhelming response was to keep the present structure.   However, there were also concerns to keep the chatter down by: 1) encouraging sending thank you to individuals as opposed to the entire group. 2) eliminate "I don't know" replies to the group address 3) reduce the number of replies to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Jay Manders
Hi Jonathan, We added the following to our bp.conf and it solved the issue: # # Jobs are requeued instead of error 219. QUEUE_ON_ERROR Similarly, we added this so to solve the STU issue (we have several STUs here): # # active jobs that get stu unavailable will be re-queued. WAIT_IN_QUEUE ht

RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Bpsched crashing We had the shared memory setting set to use all available memory and were told by Symantec to lower that figure to 6 gig and leave 2 gig for Solaris 9 (we jave 8 gig ram). We have not adjusted any msg queues. Where would I look and what should they be?    Greg From:

RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Title: Bpsched crashing Good Morning Greg,   Have you changed setting in the /etc/system file to increased things such as shared memory and msg queues?   len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, GregSent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:04 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailma

[Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling

2006-05-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I realize this is more of a "philosophical" question and apologize in advance. After auditing a few backup servers for a couple of weeks now, I've come to realize that if a certain weekly backup job fails on any given day, and I re-run it manually during the day/week following that it does not fi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:35:57AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: > > The below suggestions are VERY VALID and I would definitely try them - > and I also have had success with those steps. I just wanted to add that > I've also had success with. > > 1 - Upgrade your NIC drives to the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:03:44AM -0400, Hindle, Greg wrote: > Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 > > We are having an on going issue with bpsched crashing/stopping. When > this happens all the jobs go 150. Sometimes it recovers and restarts the > jobs and other times we have to stop and start the services. Ha

RE: [Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
The below suggestions are VERY VALID and I would definitely try them - and I also have had success with those steps. I just wanted to add that I've also had success with. 1 - Upgrade your NIC drives to the latest Microsoft / Hardware Vendor supported. 2 - Reboot the Server (Sad but true) 3 - Har

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 job completion emails

2006-05-15 Thread Hindle, Greg
This happens in 5.0 mp6 as well. I have this same issue. Very annoying. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] Bpsched crashing

2006-05-15 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Bpsched crashing Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We are having an on going issue with bpsched crashing/stopping. When this happens all the jobs go 150. Sometimes it recovers and restarts the jobs and other times we have to stop and start the services. Has any one else had this issues and what y

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
Apply latest NetBackup patches (MP5) for example. Apply latest Windows patches. Try turning VSP/VSS off (snapshotting). On 5/15/06, Biju Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Admins, I have just started with netbackup administration, the TEST backup fired for a windows 2003 server exits wi

RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 job completion emails

2006-05-15 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Ian, The story that I received was that there are several things going on. I believe that it is covered in a technote. But in summary, if you do not have an "Administrator email address" set to anything, the email will go to the root userid on the master. And due to a bug in the code

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can this be done?

2006-05-15 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:05:11PM +0100, WEAVER, Simon wrote: > >Bob >although sounds ok, the only drawback I see is: > >1) People will forget to post a resolution I agree. Sunmanagers and Tru64managers are run like this. _many_ people do not end up posting their [SOLUT

[Veritas-bu] Error status 13 for Windows 2003

2006-05-15 Thread Biju Krishnan
Dear Admins,   I have just started with netbackup administration, the TEST backup fired for a windows 2003 server exits with error 13.   As its network read error, we checked the network settings and found to be 1000 Gbps auto.   The Event logs show the following error   Faulting application bpbka

[Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
All, I ran a restore last week which was on three tapes, on the second tape it failed due to an I/O error, I repeated the restore and the same result occurred. I ran bpverify on the backup image ID and it said everything was OK, obviously this is not a good way to test a tape's integrity! Is th

RE: [Veritas-bu] URGENT AND HELP Quickest Way to Freeze Tapes

2006-05-15 Thread Brenton Carbins
Use for /F "tokens=" %a in ('vmquery -r ') do bpmedia -freeze -m %a Some refinement will be necessary, but a single command line will do. Remove vmquery headers by: for /F "tokens=" %a in ('vmquery -r ') do echo %a | find "" || bpmedia -freeze -m %a ___

Re: [Veritas-bu] URGENT AND HELP Quickest Way to Freeze Tapes

2006-05-15 Thread Dave Markham
Not sure how awk and a for x loop are gonna work on windows unless you are running cygwin or something similar. D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Those commands work on Windows. You need to login as administrator on > the media server > that knows about the tape and go to the > D:\VERITAS\NetBackup

[Veritas-bu] Duplication NBU 6.0 MP1

2006-05-15 Thread Clooney
Hi all Seem to be having an issue with duplication. The disk staging unit has a low water mark level of 80%. We are trying to keep as much data on disk as possible with the idea that the disk is kept at an 80% capacity , when data increases over this point duplication kicks in a fire's off to tap

RE: [Veritas-bu] Problem backing up 64 Bit Opteron Client

2006-05-15 Thread JOE
I can't tell you if it will work on NBU 6.0, but it should. Windows 2003 Server X64 is supported in NBU 6.0 MP2. Before that there was not support. I have a few Windows 2003 Server X64 in production on Intel EMT64 and after I got the MP2 client I haven't had problems. /johnny -Original M