RE: [Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope)
Solaris is a rock steady OS - Ive not really seen these go down unless there is a hardware failure - and that is rare to. I know NT gets a lot of slating, and it deserves to, but the Technology has moved on and I am sure in time... We will see a Windows Server staying up all the time!! At this point we can now.. LAUGH OUT LOUD and go down the pub :-)) Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Covington, Garrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2006 16:32 To: WEAVER, Simon; 'MCare Backup'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope) Its even more stable on Solaris, ive been up for over twice that many days. 8-) Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:00 AM To: 'MCare Backup'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope) I have to say, I run NBU 5.1 on Win2k3 and to be honest, Win2k3 with NBU has been more stable and reliable than on NT To date, the last time the Server was ever rebooted was 72 days ago. - And that was to apply a SP Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: MCare Backup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 13:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope) I've had the exact same problem a couple of times before -- I had to reboot the master server to recover the ability to run restores. However, I run NBU on Windows 2003 servers, so I have to reboot regularly anyway. I've actually attributed it to too many simultaneous instances of the service that manages restores at one specific time, after which even one instance won't start properly -- the only way I can get it to return to normal is to restart all services at the Windows level (essentially rebooting). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:59 AM Subject: [Veritas-bu] Third times the charm (I hope) I have asked this question twice before with no answers so I thought I'd try again. How can I tell why a restore job is queued? I submit restore jobs and they sit in the queue forever. There are plenty of tape drives, the necessary tape is in the library. There are no pending mount requests. A restore to the same client earlier today worked with no problem. I am at my wits end trying to figure this out. Any feedback would be welcome, even if it is just to let me know someone actually read this. Regards, Patrick Whelan ___ 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 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] backing up databases
Hi Dave Well I don't mind providing some input and some suggestions if that helps?? We used to Backup SQL Server with an agent, which allowed the Databases to be backed up while it was online. However, due to the costs of the agent, it was decided to get the SQL Admins to configure SQL to perform its own Backups within SQL and place the files on a separate partition. Thus - Each Night we get full backups of the Databases, and SQL can still run without being down. No scripting is used in anyway. Backups are configured as SAN Media Servers using SSO over fibre. Again, this may be withdrawn soon. DBA Administrators SHOULD be responsible for the Databases, but need to be aware if you are backing up using a type of Agent, or if you want them to configure offline copies or snap shots I would have thought Netbackup could be configured to perform Mounts and Unmounts using a script, however in some of my cases, all Netbackup may do is simply fail with a STATUS code. Unless another script can be run, PRIOR to Netbackup starting the backup process? Maybe DBA Admin again perhaps? Not sure if I have been of much help here, but thought I would reply to give you an idea of what I currently implement. Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dave Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2006 17:10 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] backing up databases Ok, been tasked with giving my input on a backup solution for a new project. Someone had designed it to start backing up things using scripts from cron calling other scripts and then netbackup bpbackup commands and all sorts of random junk. Anyway assume we are talking Solaris 8 or 9 with fiber attached units. The question i have which was from the original design ( and i guess still a requirement ) is how do people go around backing up database volumes. I myself have had dbas ( running oracle ) to do hot_archives and then backup that. The hot_archives are called from bpstart_notify so are captured within netbackup if they take too long or if they fail. I can also do some checking if directories exist etc before running the oracle backup. Also have the added benefit of not writing to tape until exit call from hot_archive which means db backup has finished. Ok, thats one way, the other way i do on another project is use SSO option on the database servers which have dedicated HBA's through fiber to the tape units and shared drives. I just point at a location and assume everything in there is ready to be backed up. This project is slightly different and the DBA's are responsible for the backup. The way this new project is wanting to go is by mounting a storage volume ( disk ) on the db server and writing a backup to it. then unmounting it and then mounting it on the backup server to be written to tape directly. What i want to know is how ( if we have to go this route ) can i control this within netbackup and not start backups unless mount and unmount requests have been done? Do i have bpstart scripts on the db servers, which do the mounts, then the oracle backups and then the unmounts. If this fails can i send something back through bpstart so the backup doesnt run and fails with a certain netbackup code? The benefit of the mount, unmount is so the resource is not used on the db servers to do backups, but im not sure how i am going to control the process within netbackup to capture any errors. So has anyone done anything similar which they can advise with?? Thanks Dave ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Bakcup job takes time for appearing in the activity monitor
Hi guys, I have Netbackup 5.0 Enterprise server installed in a Sun 480R server. Things were going well for the last 1 year.However for the last 2 weeks I am facing a problem:: When I fire a backup job it is taking 5-6 minutes to come in the activity monitor . Earlier it used to come in the queue as soon as we fire the job. The server is up for last 10 months and there has not been any midifications in the recent past. Regards Sudharsan.N
[Veritas-bu] VxSS - Veritas Security Service
Veritas Security Service SYSTEM: 5.1 (mp2) Datacenter 6+ soon:2003New Windows Server System: SingleMastermedia server - Command Central : Symantech Staffon site training users this week - 2 Robotsone2006 Overland Neo:Ultrium 3 - Capacity -8 drives - Media = 100 + - 1. Robot 2001 one SUN L1800:4 DLT7000 -4 Drives - 96 Tape capacity - 1 Network to backup: 35 New 2003 Servers, sql, clusters, mail, XP Pc's, SAN etc... *5 New HP/UX kick ass clients, Payroll, lawson, oracle etc... WAN: NOT BACKED UP: 35 Networks, largest spanning up to 2500Miles from local Frame relay - SECURITY: CISCO's (ACL's): QUESTION:VxSSIs it neccessary to use VxSS on this Backup System? Is thereany issue's that we should be concerned with? Is there a risk of failed restores? Is this security system a hog? Are there advantages within a local LAN? Are there disadvantages within a local LANor in general? Are there any solutions to existing issue's that may have been Corrected? Any other suggestions for performance, tunning, updates or full Spectrum of our setup is Greatly Appreciated - Thanks, have a nice day - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copley Information Services La Jolla, CA 92037 (858) 729 - 8010
RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server
Title: Message DAvid But dont you still need a SAN Media License or SSO license, even if their config is setup as you stated? Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Spearman, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2006 12:14To: WEAVER, Simon; Brandon Zermeno; Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Perhaps not in your case if you have a robot and drives fibre attached already to the exchange cluster.. David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, SimonSent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:23 AMTo: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server So you need to implement a SAN MEdia Server with the Shared Storage Option then, yes? Assuming you want to backup via fibre to tape? Simon WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS AstriumTel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Brandon Zermeno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2006 20:23To: Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Why? We have a dedicated LTO3 robot that will be attached to the Media server on the SAN. From: Anthony Tocco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:21 PMTo: Brandon Zermeno; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server You will need to purchase SSO Tony Tocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brandon ZermenoSent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:55 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Does anyone have and info about making an Exchange server a Media server? We are running NBU 6 on Win2k3, Exchange 2k3 on a SAN. We are looking at making one of the Exchange cluster nodes a Media server to handle the backup to disk to tape. What would the repercussions be of this in a disaster recovery mode? Thanks Brandon CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. 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 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server
San Media Server or SSO is only required when you wish to share physical drives with another server. If the drives are dedicated to a server, a straight-up media server license will do. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:17 AM To: 'Spearman, David'; Brandon Zermeno; Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server DAvid But dont you still need a SAN Media License or SSO license, even if their config is setup as you stated? Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Spearman, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2006 12:14 To: WEAVER, Simon; Brandon Zermeno; Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Perhaps not in your case if you have a robot and drives fibre attached already to the exchange cluster.. David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:23 AM To: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server So you need to implement a SAN MEdia Server with the Shared Storage Option then, yes? Assuming you want to backup via fibre to tape? Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brandon Zermeno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2006 20:23 To: Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Why? We have a dedicated LTO3 robot that will be attached to the Media server on the SAN. From: Anthony Tocco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:21 PM To: Brandon Zermeno; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server You will need to purchase SSO Tony Tocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Zermeno Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:55 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server Does anyone have and info about making an Exchange server a Media server? We are running NBU 6 on Win2k3, Exchange 2k3 on a SAN. We are looking at making one of the Exchange cluster nodes a Media server to handle the backup to disk to tape. What would the repercussions be of this in a disaster recovery mode? Thanks Brandon CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England 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. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Scan device path help
Hello, I have a V880 running Solaris 8 which is setup as a media server to back itself up (SSO). From the OS I can see the 12 drive paths to my tape devices, but when I run the scan command all I see it 8. How can I make the Netbackup application see all 12 drives (which it use to see until today) without performing a reboot of the system? My other media servers see all twelve drives. cfgadm a c2 fc-fabric connected configured unknown c2::500507630f404307 tape connected configured unusable c2::500507630f404308 tape connected configured unknown c2::500507630f404309 tape connected configured unknown c2::500507630f40430a tape connected configured unknown c2::500507630f40430b tape connected configured unknown c2::500507630f40430c tape connected configured unknown c3 fc-fabric connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404301 tape connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404302 tape connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404303 tape connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404304 tape connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404305 tape connected configured unknown c3::500507630f404306 tape connected configured unknown /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan | grep -i cbn | wc l 8
[Veritas-bu] Finally upgrading from 4.5 FP9 to 6!
Ok I might need a little guidance here. I have the following questions. 1. I have to upgrade to 5.0 1st and then to 6.0? 2. Is it true that I have to upgrade my clients to 5.0 (or is it 6.0) before I start? 3. If so then will the 5.0 (or 6.0) client work with my 4.5 FP9 master server because I'm sure I will not have time to upgrade all the clients 1st and upgrade the master server the same day to be ready for my backup window by early evening. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mike Day Inovis Systems Engineer ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Fixed or Variable length blocks
Hi. I am working on a project to duplicate several legacy tapes that were written using a AIT-2 (SONY SDX-500C) tape drive to a different media format. I am getting read errors when attempting to perform the duplication on almost ever backup image. I have adjusted the st.conf (Solaris media server) file to the suggested values, but it has not helped. The AIT-2 drives are running the 0200 firmware, so this shouldn't be a dip switch setting issue. Does anyone know of a way to tell if the tapes may have been written in fixed-length blocks instead of variable-length blocks??? Thanks!!! ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Media Server
If you have tape drives dedicated to the media server, you don't need SSO.If the Exchange box will only be backing itself up, you only need a SAN Media Server, which is a bit cheaper than a full Media Server. A basic DR implication is that you would need a similar tape drive at the recovery site connected to the recovery Exchange server (although there are ways around this).However, in my opinion, running Exchange and NBU Media Server on the same box is far from ideal. There's too many ways the Media Server could adversely affect Exchange, and vice-versa. Have you considered backing them up over Gigabit Ethernet, perhaps even a dedicated backup LAN ?On 3/10/06, Brandon Zermeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have and info about making an Exchange server a Media server? We are running NBU 6 on Win2k3, Exchange 2k3 on a SAN. We are looking at making one of the Exchange cluster nodes a Media server to handle the backup to disk to tape. What would the repercussions be of this in a disaster recovery mode? Thanks Brandon CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you.
