Re: [Veritas-bu] MP4 and I'm broken

2006-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
On 11/23/2006 12:47 PM, Scott Jacobson wrote: > What was the "alias" Ed was referring to It's an emm alias. If your master or media servers have multiple NICs, they probably also have multiple names. In this case, you need to tell emm which alias correspond to which. For example, if you h

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS Question

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yeah, thanks and yes I had to define the library on each media server host, almost all is working well now, thanks. Justin. On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Dean wrote: > Justin, > > You don't need SSO to share the ACSLS library. One of the media servers > should be the robotic control host, just like wit

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS Question

2006-11-23 Thread Dean
Justin, You don't need SSO to share the ACSLS library. One of the media servers should be the robotic control host, just like with a normal SCSI library. I think you'll need to define the library on each media server, but specifiy your first media server as the control host. You'll need SSO if

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multithreaded / Multicore CPUs

2006-11-23 Thread Dominik . J . Pietrzykowski
I have built and used SUN V490s as media servers in the past and they worked fine. They have dual core CPUs. It was running 8 x LTO3 drives without an issue. The server had 4 x dual core CPUs which is 8 virtual. I hear / seen a lot of good things about the T2000s as web/app servers but have

Re: [Veritas-bu] MP4 and I'm broken

2006-11-23 Thread Scott Jacobson
What was the "alias" Ed was referring to >>> Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/23/2006 11:29 AM >>> > > Does this mean the problem will appear wherever there are multiple NICs? > Does anyone use multiple NICs who has not had this issue with MP4? I'd > have though multiple NICs are pretty c

Re: [Veritas-bu] MP4 and I'm broken

2006-11-23 Thread Darren Dunham
> > Does this mean the problem will appear wherever there are multiple NICs? > Does anyone use multiple NICs who has not had this issue with MP4? I'd > have though multiple NICs are pretty common these days. > How did the alias fix the issue? My server is on two networks. I haven't seen any iss

[Veritas-bu] Suse 10.1 client?

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Freemantle
Does anyone know the minimum client version for use on suse 10.1? I suppose there are 2 questions there really - can I backup suse 10.1 using Netbackup 5.1. If not, is there any version that will back this up. TIA -- --- REMEMBER - the safety of your data is your responsibility If it's importan

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

2006-11-23 Thread Paul Keating
If you backup server can handle the incoming IP traffic, and you can get it to the drives..it will be great. I found best aggregate performance for LTO2 and LTO3 with my GigE clients @ MPX=2, and my 100Mb/s clients @ MPX=8. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMA

[Veritas-bu] ACSLS Question

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
If I have > 1 media server in a robot controlled by ACSLS, do I need SSO in order to use it? I want to add multiple tape drives spread across multiple media servers in an ACSLS robot, but only the first media server has control over the robot? Unless I add multiple robots, one for each of the

[Veritas-bu] Sharing drives between NDMP and non NDMP environments

2006-11-23 Thread POUSSARD, Gilles \(INFOTEL\)
Hi all, I am running Netbackup 5.1 MP5 and it is a stable version I wish to upgrade in 6.0 MP4 in Q1 2007 because this is the only version which supports W2003 64 bits in media server mode. But as I have some Netapp filers, I wish to share the drives between UNIX/ Wind

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to NBU 6.0 or wait for 6.5...

2006-11-23 Thread Len Boyle
Phil, 6.0 is the release that did the multithreading thing. I am not sure if all of netbackup is now multithreaded, but much of it is. For us the early 6.0 was really unstable, but we had several problems with 5.1 that were fixed with 6.0. (Because netbackup 5 was not multithreaded we had t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multithreaded / Multicore CPUs

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Marelas
NBU forks multiple processes per job so you should benefit from multi-core CPU's. However, since backup/restore depends greatly on data input (network) and output (tape/disk) you should ensure everything in the data path (drivers, etc) can utilise multiple processes. Regards Peter Marelas -O

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to NBU 6.0 or wait for 6.5...

2006-11-23 Thread Weber, Philip
Due to the emails I've seen on this list about 6.0 issues, I plan to stay on 5.1 until I have a pressing need to upgrade or 6.0 seems to have settled down. Apparently 6.5 may be multithreaded, which might influence my decision based on some hardware that is also coming in the door. Mind you, that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to NBU 6.0 or wait for 6.5...

2006-11-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon
6.5 !! you may want to review documents for 6.0 - dont think this would be out until late 2007 surely! As for easy upgrade to this version again, could not tell you or even comment on this! If 5.1 does what you want it to do, then you may want to stick with this. If version 6.0 offers ex

[Veritas-bu] Upgrade to NBU 6.0 or wait for 6.5...

2006-11-23 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi all, We run NBU 5.1 and are considering to upgrade to 6.0 in Q1 next year.. But what I have understood Symantec will release NBU 6.5 in summer time 2007. Of course there can be delays in 6.5 delivery and it may or may not bee unstable.. But anyhow, what are your plans if you run 5.1? T

[Veritas-bu] Multithreaded / Multicore CPUs

2006-11-23 Thread Weber, Philip
Hi, Does anyone have any experience of running NetBackup on Multithreaded / Multicore CPUs, or knowledge of whether NetBackup can multithread to take advantage of such hardware? Maybe more important is how the OS would allocate CPU resources to the tape drives & NICs ... any ideas/experience woul

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

2006-11-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Well I use them - multiplex alot!! NT servers with hardly any data are multiplexed quite high - clients with larger data is split around 5 streams per drive. Saying that, when I set 10 streams to 1 drive, there loss of backup time was hardly noticeable - about 40 mins if I recall ! LTO3 fiber

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Hampus Lind wrote: > Hi all, > > > > How good/bad are LTO-3 drives when it comes to multiplexing? Would we see > great performance degradation if we set MPX to 4 on 1 LTO-3 drive and the > run 4 simulations backups to that drive? > > > > I understand it can depend a