Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)

2009-11-10 Thread Randy Doering
-0800, Randy Doering wrote: > Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space > gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. > > > ? vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32 > # > # DD - Export/Delete/Ad

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)

2009-11-10 Thread Randy Doering
Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. #!/bin/sh for tapeid in `cat delete-DD.txt`; do     slot=`vmquery -m $tapeid | grep "robot slot"`     slotn=`echo $slot | cut

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sharing a library

2009-10-21 Thread Randy Doering
Sounds like you want: Inventory Robot -> Advanced Options -> Barcode Rules Randy   From: "Schaefer, Harry" To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:47:09 AM Subject: [Veritas-bu] Sharing a library We have an SL8500 that will

Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding a DataDomain VTL need advice

2009-10-14 Thread Randy Doering
Wayne, We have a couple of DD690s (1 Appliance, 1 Gateway) and I've really got only good things to say about them. They're easy to setup and configure (VTL and NFS). You might want to consider what your retention periods will be for the data you keep on it. We use 3 months max for the VTL, and

[Veritas-bu] MS SQL Restore

2009-05-28 Thread Randy Doering
Got a MS SQL user who needs a restore of MS SQL database from last night. We've been doing these SQL backups and this is the first time a restore is needed. It was already in place when I got here. The user is in the SQL part of NBU (6.5.3) and kicks off  his restore request - with the "start/e

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp and Scaler i2000

2009-05-22 Thread Randy Doering
On the NetApp, do the tape drives show up with the "sysconfig" command? If not, you may need to offline/online the specific FC Host Adapter. See the fcadmin command after "priv set advanced". Randy   From: "Spearman, David" To: "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-18 Thread Randy Doering
What we do when space gets tight on our DataDomain is to identify Images that are soon to expire within NBU. Go ahead and pre-expire them, then afterwards kick off a clean. In our case, we use VTL and pre-expire the volumes that are soon to expire (we have 3 month retention), go out to the DD a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Randy Doering
  This sounds like a problem we have with Isilon NDMP restores.   Try Host Properties -> Media Servers; Right Click on Media Server and pick Properties, then General Server. If Checked, Uncheck it. In our case the directory were restored but the process was really slow.   Randy   From: "Clooney

Re: [Veritas-bu] Full backup followed by a Differential= Another Full

2008-12-12 Thread Randy Doering
I'll open up a ticket with Symantec to try and get to the bottom of this. Thanks again, Randy   From: "Donaldson, Mark" To: Randy Doering ; A Darren Dunham ; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:37:52 PM Subject

Re: [Veritas-bu] Full backup followed by a Differential = Another Full

2008-12-10 Thread Randy Doering
time instead of ctime? Thanks, Randy - Original Message - From: "A Darren Dunham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Full backup followed by a Differential = Another Full > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:

[Veritas-bu] Full backup followed by a Differential = Another Full

2008-12-10 Thread Randy Doering
Greetings, Backup Client = Isilon NAS Unit - NDMP. NBU version is 6.5.3. Did Complete Fulls, with all of the /ifs/projects/ areas in the Backup Selection, starting on 11/26. This past weekend I kicked off Differential Incrementals for the same Backup Selections. All of the areas in that /ifs/

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.3 - What is your experience?

2008-11-21 Thread Randy Doering
My Error 196's (introduced in 6.5.2) have gone away. Randy   From: Steve Hedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:08:01 PM Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.3 - What is your experience? NetBackup

[Veritas-bu] Networker versus Veritas

2006-11-22 Thread Randy Doering
Greetings, My company has recently merged from two initities into one. One of the depts (mine) is using Networker of which I'm the backup admin. The other is a Veritas shop. We're going to have discussions in the next couple of days/weeks to determine which direction/backup option we are going