[Veritas-bu] 7.5 Java Console

2012-04-23 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
Running NetBackup Administration Console (Java) from RHEL5.8 master/media server. Creating a policy/schedule to use multiple copies. Receive the following error upon saving: Policy Validation Report Intermittent connectivity lost with the server. Please verify services or daemons are up and r

Re: [Veritas-bu] SUN TRUNKING SW WITH NETBACKUP

2011-04-26 Thread Nicholas Anderson
You need to check your hardware to know which one (trunking or aggr) will be able to use. I remember that CE interfaces (ce0, ce1, ...) uses sun trunking, while GE interfaces (nxge. e1000g, ge, bge) uses aggregation. 2011/4/21 David Magda > On Thu, April 21, 2011 13:18, Asiye Yigit wrote: > >

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup RMAN Connect String

2011-02-15 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
connect target;" ... no passwords ... os authentication). Cheers, Wayne On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Snyder, Nicholas A (IS) mailto:nicholas.sny...@ngc.com>> wrote, in part: Implementing NetBackup Database Agent backups for Oracle. Using the NetBackup provided sample script as the b

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup RMAN Connect String

2011-02-15 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
Implementing NetBackup Database Agent backups for Oracle. Using the NetBackup provided sample script as the basis for the backup script. /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/db_ext/oracle/samples/rman/hot_database_backup.sh How does everyone deal with exposing the TARGET_CONNECT_STR? Using the example script

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO 3 tapes snapping in LTO3 drives

2010-06-11 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
I found how long LTO2 media *really* is when having to manually unwind a broken tape that was wound up on in the drive. 609 meters is a long way when pulling out of a broken drive/cartridge. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mail

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-04-27 Thread Nicholas
What kind of data are you sending to the staging area? Destaging doesn't use multiplex so as small are your images, as slow will be your destaging process. I had many problems with this, mainly when dealing with Oracle's archive logs. Even when using 20 drives just for destaging, it was never en

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions

2010-04-08 Thread Nicholas
Just one more info about DD, you will need an area of at least the same time of the original area to store the dump because DD dumps the whole partition, not only the written area ... Em 8/4/2010 10:59, Jonathan Dyck escreveu: > Thanks for the idea, looks brilliant (if I can get it to work ;-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to telnet bpcd from remote machine

2010-03-25 Thread Nicholas
This is not a xinetd problem, because the output of ps shows bpcd running as standalone Are you using some kind of tcpwrapper (/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny)? If so, maybe you have to add one line for bpcd allowing the master server and media servers to connect through bpcd's port N

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can NBU 6.5 database be imported into NBU 7 / Upgrade with fresh O/S & NBU install steps

2010-03-24 Thread Nicholas
I guess this is the best way for doing this (maybe the only way) I had problems in the past while trying to recover a 6.5.3 catalog into a 6.5.4 master server. There were some schema changes in the nbu database in 6.5.4 and I had to rollback to 6.5.3.1, do the catalog recover and then upgrade to

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACS status = 29

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas
Sometimes the problem can be related to the default unload timeout value, which i guess its 5 minutes. I got this problem with T10K drives, and when we changed this timeout to a higher value, it worked. I dont remember exactly the parameter, but you can look for it in hosts - media servers - pro

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups

2009-10-13 Thread Nicholas Anderson
know :-P Regards, Nicholas WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote: Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "

Re: [Veritas-bu] Extending Media Expiration

2009-09-25 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
(as desired & expected) according to the 'Images On Tape' and 'Images on Media' reports. Lastly, the date was a brain-to-keyboard interface problem. Saw today's date and wrote it. Thanks for the assistance! _____ From: Snyder,

[Veritas-bu] Extending Media Expiration

2009-09-25 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IS)
Greetings- I have a couple of backup images currently on tape set to expire soon. I'd like to prevent NetBackup from expiring this media/backup images as scheduled. I'll need to restore from the tape, and I thought that preventing the tape/images from expiring would be easier than importing upon

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup LiveUpdate Troubleshooting

2009-03-04 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IT)
2009 3:37 PM To: Snyder, Nicholas A (IT); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: NetBackup LiveUpdate Troubleshooting Check the webserver logs for the LiveUpdate repository. That's how I found out that NBU was hanging up with trying to get the miniflg.tri file

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup LiveUpdate Troubleshooting

2009-03-04 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A (IT)
Anyone with any troubleshooting tips for NetBackup LiveUpdate? I have a functioning LiveUpdate server/policy that has worked for numerous hosts. However, 1 particular host seems to always fail. The LiveUpdate policy on seems to run forever. Watching the available logs on the client seem to show

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?

2007-09-22 Thread NICHOLAS MERIZZI
ificantly from what I am seeing. -Nicholas - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:13 PM To: Kevin Whittaker; Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: R

[Veritas-bu] DSSU & Catalog Backups

2007-05-21 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
Win 2003 Master/Media server 5.1 MP6 Over the last few months my master server has had issues with backing up the catalog. From looking at the bptm.log, it looks like NetBackup doesn't "wait" long enough after the DSSU duplication jobs complete prior to initiating the catalog backup. What result

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude Lists on Linux - Again!!!

2006-06-02 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
Are the file systems OCFS instead of ext2/3? We ran into all kinds of funk when using OCFS (Oracle Cluster File System). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:41 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: Whelan, Patrick;

[Veritas-bu] Centos - NetBackup4.5MP6 Client

2006-06-01 Thread Nicholas Anderson
be fixed. 06/01/2006 03:13:08 sunbkp backupsrv from client backupsrv: Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed. any ideas ? tia, -- Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Re

Re: [Veritas-bu] .rhosts

2006-05-04 Thread Nicholas Anderson
----- regards, Nicholas Clooney wrote: >Hi all > >Seem to be having an issue installing a whole bunch of clients through the java >console . Al, other unix falvours seem to be fine by adding a server entry to >the .rhosts file on the client . However have added the .rhosts file o

RE: [Veritas-bu] New to Windows media servers

2006-02-23 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
Good luck with the 1/8...we have one, but don't use it due to the lack of barcode reader. It got messy managing the tapes. We created a shell script to label the tapes & vmphyinfo and stuff, but it never really worked well. Operators found a bunch of ways to mess it up. -Original Message--

RE: [Veritas-bu] login as unix user

2006-01-26 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
One last rant on sudo...accountability. It's a lot easier to tell who actually did a sudo versus root issuing . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:26 PM To: David Rock; veritas-bu@mailman.eng

RE: [Veritas-bu] Vmware virtual machines vs Netbackup

2006-01-11 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
I backup a RedHat ES 3, WinNT4, and Win2000 virtual machines on a VMWare ESX server. Each virtual machine runs it's own instance of the client. All my virtual machines are clients (no media servers). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: [Veritas-bu] limitations on SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS

2005-11-16 Thread Snyder, Nicholas A.
I couldn't get anything larger than 64K on my Win2k3 server. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/244652.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/278837.htm http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q152518&; The limitation of 64K you're running into is not a hardware limitation,