[Veritas-bu] Shared Drrives and use of media
Hi, I have two shared tape devices that are used by one media server and three san media servers. Each time I run a backup with one month retention each media server wants to use a separate tape so I require that four tapes be in my library. The backups are going to the same pool although different media servers. As it is a san environment the media is not segregated, it is all in the same library. If I have a san environment must each piece of media by allocated to a san media server and is then not usable by another media server. I prefer if all four of my media servers use the same tape. If I have to put in a tape for each media server then my library will fill up. Any suggestions, Thanks. Mark K Due to continued expansion Sabeo Technologies have moved office to The Courtyard, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. Our telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged. A location map is available on our website www.sabeo.com. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify Sabeo Technologies. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. **
Re: [Veritas-bu] Blocksize problem after upgrading EMC powerpath
Windows registry at a guess.
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\elx{something}\Parameters\Device
maximum_sglist is the parameter.
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[Veritas-bu] Blocksize problem after upgrading EMC powerpath
Hello All
After upgrading EMC powerpath to 4.4.1 on the Windows 2003 backup server,
I
get the following error on my LTO2 drives:
Error bptm(pid=9660) The tape device at index -1 has a maximum block size
of
65536 bytes, a buffer size of 262144 cannot be used
I have checked that the tape drivers support blocks greater than 65536
(Actually we been running with 262144 since june)
Any ideas about were to change this 64Kb limit ?
The backup are using Emulex L982 HBA's
Regards
Michael
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RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1
Title: Message The best is going to bpdbm log to see what happens with the Images on Medias, without see the log is very difficult to explain what happens... And for the tapes it´s easy, if you have it out of the robot, you can import it... Nacho De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005 15:39Para: WEAVER, SimonCC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduAsunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Simon I have had something like this happen, dont remember exctly what happened , or how i fixed it, Re inventory your robot first, might take a while, but it will at least bring your database up to date with whats in there. this will aslo refresh everything in the database, you might get that list back that way. Lemme know what happens, Jeremy Monday, November 21, 2005 9:34 AMTo: "'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'" veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.educc: From: "WEAVER, Simon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 I am in a little shock, so hoping someone can help explain this mystery! I ejected approx 30 tapes from NBU 5.1 MP2 on 2003 Server. The tapes were from varied volume pools. The eject process completed successfully, I stored the tapes in a safe, and replaced them with either new tapes or expired Media Tapes. Weekend came and backups ran - some still going, but its working! I just decided to see what was in the scratch pool, and by luke I happened to check some of the volume pools where I removed Media from them on Friday, only to discover there is no record of the tapes. By record I mean, the Volume Pool would show an entry for the tape, even though its not in the robot. Decided to check the other pools, and to my horror, there are no entries for these tapes!!! Starting to worry now, because I wonder what on earth has happened. I have noticed the SCRATCH pool is showing ALOT of Media ID's!!! Clearly not in the robot, but i cannot understand what has happened! Can anyone shed any light or help? Simon This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1
Title: Message Guys Ok to confirm. The tape labels are in the SCRATCH pool - quite how they got in there is a mystery! All I done, was ejected tapes from volume pool, replaced these tapes with new tapes and/or used media expired and placed them in the Scratch ready for this weekends backups! Still waiting on Veritas to contact me !!! As the reports module shows nothing for the media, I can only assume that somehow, Vol Manager has decided to expire these tapes (that had monthly backups, weekly full and diff backups!) Quite how is a mystery! I also went to find my Catalogue Backup tape, and now Netbackup does NOT see it in there! (although there is an entry in the Netbackup volume pool). I have no idea now what is going on!!! I am getting very desperate now :((( Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of De Pedro, IgnacioSent: 21 November 2005 15:16To: Simon.WeaverCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 The best is going to bpdbm log to see what happens with the Images on Medias, without see the log is very difficult to explain what happens... And for the tapes it´s easy, if you have it out of the robot, you can import it... Nacho De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005 15:39Para: WEAVER, SimonCC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduAsunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Simon I have had something like this happen, dont remember exctly what happened , or how i fixed it, Re inventory your robot first, might take a while, but it will at least bring your database up to date with whats in there. this will aslo refresh everything in the database, you might get that list back that way. Lemme know what happens, Jeremy Monday, November 21, 2005 9:34 AMTo: "'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'" veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.educc: From: "WEAVER, Simon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 I am in a little shock, so hoping someone can help explain this mystery! I ejected approx 30 tapes from NBU 5.1 MP2 on 2003 Server. The tapes were from varied volume pools. The eject process completed successfully, I stored the tapes in a safe, and replaced them with either new tapes or expired Media Tapes. Weekend came and backups ran - some still going, but its working! I just decided to see what was in the scratch pool, and by luke I happened to check some of the volume pools where I removed Media from them on Friday, only to discover there is no record of the tapes. By record I mean, the Volume Pool would show an entry for the tape, even though its not in the robot. Decided to check the other pools, and to my horror, there are no entries for these tapes!!! Starting to worry now, because I wonder what on earth has happened. I have noticed the SCRATCH pool is showing ALOT of Media ID's!!! Clearly not in the robot, but i cannot understand what has happened! Can anyone shed any light or help? Simon This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1
Title: Message What process to you use to eject your tapes? -M -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Simon WeaverSent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:44 AMTo: De Pedro, Ignacio; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Guys Ok to confirm. The tape labels are in the SCRATCH pool - quite how they got in there is a mystery! All I done, was ejected tapes from volume pool, replaced these tapes with new tapes and/or used media expired and placed them in the Scratch ready for this weekends backups! Still waiting on Veritas to contact me !!! As the reports module shows nothing for the media, I can only assume that somehow, Vol Manager has decided to expire these tapes (that had monthly backups, weekly full and diff backups!) Quite how is a mystery! I also went to find my Catalogue Backup tape, and now Netbackup does NOT see it in there! (although there is an entry in the Netbackup volume pool). I have no idea now what is going on!!! I am getting very desperate now :((( Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of De Pedro, IgnacioSent: 21 November 2005 15:16To: Simon.WeaverCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 The best is going to bpdbm log to see what happens with the Images on Medias, without see the log is very difficult to explain what happens... And for the tapes it´s easy, if you have it out of the robot, you can import it... Nacho De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005 15:39Para: WEAVER, SimonCC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduAsunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Simon I have had something like this happen, dont remember exctly what happened , or how i fixed it, Re inventory your robot first, might take a while, but it will at least bring your database up to date with whats in there. this will aslo refresh everything in the database, you might get that list back that way. Lemme know what happens, Jeremy Monday, November 21, 2005 9:34 AMTo: "'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'" veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.educc: From: "WEAVER, Simon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 I am in a little shock, so hoping someone can help explain this mystery! I ejected approx 30 tapes from NBU 5.1 MP2 on 2003 Server. The tapes were from varied volume pools. The eject process completed successfully, I stored the tapes in a safe, and replaced them with either new tapes or expired Media Tapes. Weekend came and backups ran - some still going, but its working! I just decided to see what was in the scratch pool, and by luke I happened to check some of the volume pools where I removed Media from them on Friday, only to discover there is no record of the tapes. By record I mean, the Volume Pool would show an entry for the tape, even though its not in the robot. Decided to check the other pools, and to my horror, there are no entries for these tapes!!! Starting to worry now, because I wonder what on earth has happened. I have noticed the SCRATCH pool is showing ALOT of Media ID's!!! Clearly not in the robot, but i cannot understand what has happened! Can anyone shed any light or help? Simon This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU
Title: Message MArk Just the GUI - eject volume from robot via the right click option! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 21 November 2005 17:15To: Simon Weaver; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU What process to you use to eject your tapes? -M -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Simon WeaverSent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:44 AMTo: De Pedro, Ignacio; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Guys Ok to confirm. The tape labels are in the SCRATCH pool - quite how they got in there is a mystery! All I done, was ejected tapes from volume pool, replaced these tapes with new tapes and/or used media expired and placed them in the Scratch ready for this weekends backups! Still waiting on Veritas to contact me !!! As the reports module shows nothing for the media, I can only assume that somehow, Vol Manager has decided to expire these tapes (that had monthly backups, weekly full and diff backups!) Quite how is a mystery! I also went to find my Catalogue Backup tape, and now Netbackup does NOT see it in there! (although there is an entry in the Netbackup volume pool). I have no idea now what is going on!!! I am getting very desperate now :((( Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of De Pedro, IgnacioSent: 21 November 2005 15:16To: Simon.WeaverCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 The best is going to bpdbm log to see what happens with the Images on Medias, without see the log is very difficult to explain what happens... And for the tapes it´s easy, if you have it out of the robot, you can import it... Nacho De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005 15:39Para: WEAVER, SimonCC: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduAsunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 Simon I have had something like this happen, dont remember exctly what happened , or how i fixed it, Re inventory your robot first, might take a while, but it will at least bring your database up to date with whats in there. this will aslo refresh everything in the database, you might get that list back that way. Lemme know what happens, Jeremy Monday, November 21, 2005 9:34 AMTo: "'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'" veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.educc: From: "WEAVER, Simon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Veritas-bu] No No No ! What Have You Done With My Tapes NBU 5.1 I am in a little shock, so hoping someone can help explain this mystery! I ejected approx 30 tapes from NBU 5.1 MP2 on 2003 Server. The tapes were from varied volume pools. The eject process completed successfully, I stored the tapes in a safe, and replaced them with either new tapes or expired Media Tapes. Weekend came and backups ran - some still going, but its working! I just decided to see what was in the scratch pool, and by luke I happened to check some of the volume pools where I removed Media from them on Friday, only to discover there is no record of the tapes. By record I mean, the Volume Pool would show an entry for the tape, even though its not in the robot. Decided to check the other pools, and to my horror, there are no entries for these tapes!!! Starting to worry now, because I wonder what on earth has happened. I have noticed the SCRATCH pool is showing ALOT of Media ID's!!! Clearly not in the robot, but i cannot understand what has happened! Can anyone shed any light or help? Simon This email is for the intended addressee only.If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it.Please notify the sender by return email.The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited.Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation.EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch MP3A-S2
I tried this out and found that after I installed encryption, I too was getting status 9. I recycled the daemons and now it's gone. Have you tried that? -Tim On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:31 PM, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: The readme file of the patch itself is indeed speaking about IBM Linux. We don't use Linux. Only Solaris, and Windows. The error 9 is shown when a policy (with patched clients) runs. The policy has the encryption option set. Every patched client job ends with status 9. When I remove the encryption option from the policy the backup runs fine. Best regards, Bart Wallebroek Backup Admin SWIFT -Original Message- From: Tim Hoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 8:51 PM To: WALLEBROEK Bart Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch MP3A-S2 What is the note? I looked at the readme info and there's a note about Linux clients. Is that what you are referencing? Can you elaborate on where/when you get the error 9 message? Thanks -Tim On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:45 AM, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: Last week Friday I patched all our Solaris servers with the latest NetBackup patch. Now these servers cannot be backed up anymore as the Encryption module seems to be dissappeared (error 9: an extention package is not installed). There is indeed a (small) note in the patch release that I overlooked. What is the solution to this ? Re-push the encryption software to all clients from the Master Server ? Best regards, Bart Wallebroek Backup Admin SWIFT ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] One ACS robot, two NBU masters
Title: One ACS robot, two NBU masters We have one large STK library and want to have two master NBU servers (one 5.x for now, the other 6.0) access it. The environments will NOT share drives or tapes, and we hear there should be no issue sharing the robotics (its shared now with 30+ SAN media servers), but wanted to hear if anyone has a similar environment without any issues. A concern would be having an inventory mix the tapes in the environment. I see the Robotic Inventory Filtering in the ACS appendix of the MM Sys Admin guide but no experience using it. So does anyone out there use two masters with one ACS robot? G.
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restricting NBU Java Console?
* Major, Rusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-21 14:20]: Is it possible to restrict access within the Java console easily? I would like to allow someone to connect and view the Activity Monitor as well as manually kick off jobs (a particular one if I can get that granular). I assume it would be done through usr/openv/java/auth.conf, but I can't find anything that defines what settings to use. You can't get very granular. The best you can do is define which sections of the GUI they may have access to. The details of the java GUI access are in the Admin Guide. -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp3uaidl0Oc0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [Veritas-bu] One ACS robot, two NBU masters
Title: One ACS robot, two NBU masters Yes, it works without a problem. I have 2 masters, one is 4.5 and the other is 5.1. We are using STK 9310 with the first master and added the second master when 5.1 came out. We designed a tape range of 10 19 to the 4.5 master and 50 59 to the 5.1 master. In order to stop one master from inventorying the tape range of the other master, we are using INVENTORY_FILTER. To use this, you need to put your tape range into a pool within your library. Since we started with 1 master and added the second, we did not define pools for the tapes in ACS, therefore all 10 range tape took the default pool of 1. When the second master was added, after the tapes are loaded into the library (the 50 range), I ran this command in ACS to put the 50 range tapes into a pool called 50. set scratch 50 50-500999. You will have to do this every time you add new tapes. In NetBackup, you need to add the following line to vm.conf: INVENTORY_FILTER = ACS 1 BY_ACS_POOL 50 I have ACS 1 and the using pool 50 for the second master. You need to add this to both masters but change the pool number. Recycle your NetBackup and do an inventory check and you should be good to go. One other thing. A bug. If you are running NetBackup Administrator Console on your Windows desktop and you do an inventory, the output will show ALL of the tapes. The reason is because the NetBackup Administrator Console does not have the vm.conf on your desktop and therefore, does not know that you are filtering. You need to run either jnbSA from the master server or run the Java Console instead. Cheers, Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geyer, Gregory Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 2:02 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] One ACS robot, two NBU masters We have one large STK library and want to have two master NBU servers (one 5.x for now, the other 6.0) access it. The environments will NOT share drives or tapes, and we hear there should be no issue sharing the robotics (its shared now with 30+ SAN media servers), but wanted to hear if anyone has a similar environment without any issues. A concern would be having an inventory mix the tapes in the environment. I see the Robotic Inventory Filtering in the ACS appendix of the MM Sys Admin guide but no experience using it. So does anyone out there use two masters with one ACS robot? G.
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RE: [Veritas-bu] Patch MP3A-S2
We can't just install and remove patches on critical live systems. We have to coordinate this. I've opened a case at Veritas about this. Apparently this patch was never tested by Veritas on an encrypted client. Let's see what there excuse is this time. Best regards, Bart Wallebroek MIS Operations -Original Message- From: Tim Hoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 PM To: WALLEBROEK Bart Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch MP3A-S2 I tried this out and found that after I installed encryption, I too was getting status 9. I recycled the daemons and now it's gone. Have you tried that? -Tim On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:31 PM, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: The readme file of the patch itself is indeed speaking about IBM Linux. We don't use Linux. Only Solaris, and Windows. The error 9 is shown when a policy (with patched clients) runs. The policy has the encryption option set. Every patched client job ends with status 9. When I remove the encryption option from the policy the backup runs fine. Best regards, Bart Wallebroek Backup Admin SWIFT -Original Message- From: Tim Hoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 8:51 PM To: WALLEBROEK Bart Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Patch MP3A-S2 What is the note? I looked at the readme info and there's a note about Linux clients. Is that what you are referencing? Can you elaborate on where/when you get the error 9 message? Thanks -Tim On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:45 AM, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: Last week Friday I patched all our Solaris servers with the latest NetBackup patch. Now these servers cannot be backed up anymore as the Encryption module seems to be dissappeared (error 9: an extention package is not installed). There is indeed a (small) note in the patch release that I overlooked. What is the solution to this ? Re-push the encryption software to all clients from the Master Server ? Best regards, Bart Wallebroek Backup Admin SWIFT ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
