RE: [Veritas-bu] Renaming NB 6.0MP2 servers
Steve Any docs? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2006 15:39 To: WEAVER, Simon Cc: 'Justin Piszcz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Renaming NB 6.0MP2 servers I've done it - it was actually a more complex problem in my case: I cooked 4 master servers (1 Windows, 3 Solaris) down into one Solaris master. It was a very time-consuming and involved process. It worked just fine, however there are a ton of gotchas along the way. I did a lot of scripting, both beforehand and on the fly, in order to get this to work. I also had a very good working knowledge of NBU and its internals. please be sure that you really need to do this before attempting it. --Steve WEAVER, Simon wrote: */It can be done - I just spoke to someone but told me its a drawn out process (not supported by Symantec) but it could work./* *//* */Not too sure how much of a risk it is/* /Regards/ /Simon Weaver *3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator*/ /EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)/ /Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU/ /Email: //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- *From:* Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 10 May 2006 11:49 *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Cc:* veritas-bu *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Renaming NB 6.0MP2 servers Not supported under 5.1x and when I opened a ticket concerning this they said there is no supported method, only if it is REALLY necessary you can call Veritas' consulting services and have them fix it. On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to rename a NB 6.0MP2 master server. In fact, i want to clone my master production server and rename it at our DR site. As far as i know this isn't really supported yet. *Karl-Frédéric Rossing,* Technical Services phone: 204-786-6431 fax: 204-784-6755 toll free:1-800-665-1934 www.federated.ca http://www.federated.ca _CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE _ The information in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual(s) or organization(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email and its attachments from your system. 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] Windows 2003 date format
All Does anyone know how to format the date in a windows 2003 batch script I want to change dd/mm/yy to mm/dd/yy Regards Mark Goodchild Branches Remediation J.P.Morgan Chase Phone: 01202347149 Mail: Mark A Goodchild/[EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 date format
Title: Message Mark Not tested this, but is it something like set PDate%mm%/%DD%/%YY% Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2006 10:37To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 date formatAll Does anyone know how to format the date in a windows 2003 batch script I want to change dd/mm/yy to mm/dd/yy RegardsMark GoodchildBranches Remediation J.P.Morgan ChasePhone: 01202347149Mail: Mark A Goodchild/[EMAIL PROTECTED]E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Shortening Timeouts
If the host is unreachable to begin with you should get an error 48, if it becomes unreachable during the backup, you'd have to show us your configuration times/timeout settings.. I am trying to think if I ever shut a box down while it was being backed up and recalling the timeout/etc.., I do not remember a situation like that unfortuantely. On 5/10/06, Brooks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night, we had some of our servers powered down for some early morning power maintenance. I have been looking at the logs for the backups to analyze failures. One thing I have noticed is that for the powered off servers, it took over 3 hours for the job to fail. Given that the server is unavailable, and looking at my Timeout settings on the Master, why would it take 3 hours, rather than 5 minutes? Is there a way to expedite the failing of jobs for unreachable hosts? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
RE: [Veritas-bu] Shortening Timeouts
Hi Jason In a nice real world, if the server was up, then the timeouts would take affect. As you mentioned this was an early power down - what was the backup server doing - was there tapes in the robotic library? Did the robot go down as well? From experience, if a power outage occurs, that was not planned, and once Netbackup sorts itself out, it may fail with an alternative status code. But it depends on your setup really. Was anything logged in the client. Is your master set to retry backups. Was there other error status codes before it finally ended with a code? Any info may help :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2006 19:06 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Shortening Timeouts Last night, we had some of our servers powered down for some early morning power maintenance. I have been looking at the logs for the backups to analyze failures. One thing I have noticed is that for the powered off servers, it took over 3 hours for the job to fail. Given that the server is unavailable, and looking at my Timeout settings on the Master, why would it take 3 hours, rather than 5 minutes? Is there a way to expedite the failing of jobs for unreachable hosts? Thanks, Jason Jason Brooks Computer Systems Engineer IITS - Longwood University voice - (434) 395-2916 fax - (434) 395-2035 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] Backups running twice during the backup window
Title: Backups running twice during the backup window Hi, My oracle DB netbackup jobs appearantly have been running twice during its backup window. I have scheduled the job to kick-ini at 15:00hrs. The backups run again at 3AM. Any ideas? I am using RMAN scripts via Netbackup. DLew ** 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 the system manager. **
[Veritas-bu] Anyone have an StorageTek SL500 library?
We will be receiving an EVAL unit soon and wonder if anyone had any opinions on this library? For instance, how reliable is it compared to say, an L700? Suppose an L700 is better, but the other problem is STK is deprecating that library soon and the SL500 is going to be the newly supported library. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups running twice during the backup window
Title: Message David what frequency is set for the Schedule you have setup for the Window? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Lew, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2006 11:57To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backups running twice during the backup window Hi, My oracle DB netbackup jobs appearantly have been running twice during its backup window. I have scheduled the job to kick-ini at 15:00hrs. The backups run again at 3AM. Any ideas? I am using RMAN scripts via Netbackup. DLew **This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential andintended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom theyare addressed. If you have received this email in error please notifythe system manager.** 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] Symantec and Linux support
This makes the assumption someone at Symantec actually looks at these things. I don't know of anyone who has posted on this link that has ever seen a response. I know I haven't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tristan Ball Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:09 PM To: Ed Wilts; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support To all the folks who have active Veritas support contracts, and who are struggling with Veritas's patchy linux support - can I suggest we all add our thoughts to: http://enhancement.veritas.com/ At least that way there's some chance that someone further up from your local account rep will see it. :-) Regards, Tristan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 2:18 AM To: List Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support I regularly see postings from people looking to enhance their use of Linux as NetBackup servers. Although I am a *strong* Linux advocate and a Red Hat Certified Engineer, I would advise that you think long and hard about this decision. Symantec has not yet been able to demonstrate any willingness to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an enterprise platform. Fact: NetBackup 6.5, targeted for release in February, 2007, will drop support for RHEL 3. RHEL 3 started shipping in October, 2003 and will be supported by Red Hat through October, 2010. Symantec will cut you off with its current release nearly 4 years before Red Hat stops supporting the OS. On the other hand, Windows 2000, which was released 2 1/2 years earlier than RHEL 3, will still be supported by NetBackup 6.5. Additionally, mainstream support for Win2K server has already ended and full support will end from Microsoft *before* RHEL 3 support ends. This should show you where Symantec's priorities lie. Fact: Symantec Brightmail is not available for RHEL 4 so if you're deploying today, you have to deploy on RHEL 3. One Symantec enterprise product will soon be unable to back up another Symantec enterprise product. RHEL 4 has been out for over a year and still Symantec hasn't started supporting it. I just searched the support site for the system requirements in case my local office was wrong, and RHEL 4 still does not seem to be supported. Fact: NOM on Linux. Nope, it doesn't exist. Windows or Solaris only. Symantec doesn't seem to get it. I'm turning blue in the face trying to explain this to my local office. I know that there are Symantec folks on this list - feel free to pass this on. Symantec's actions do not go without notice. I've been asked by my management why we're not using Linux for NetBackup and I bluntly told them that Symantec can't be trusted to support the platform as it should be trusted. We recently replaced our master and one of our media servers and stuck with Solaris. We spent a lot more money but at least I know it will work. Enough rambling. If you have concerns about NetBackup and Linux support, contact your Symantec reps. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program ___ 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
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups running twice during the backup window
Title: Backups running twice during the backup window I have an issue with one particular Oracle job where it runs twice in a row. The minute one job completes, a second fires off and backs up the data again. Thankfully its a small database. I so far have yet to figure it out but I've triple checked the policy and it looks ok. My current theory involves DBAs being the spawns of Satan. =P -J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lew, DavidSent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:57 AMTo: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backups running twice during the backup window Hi, My oracle DB netbackup jobs appearantly have been running twice during its backup window. I have scheduled the job to kick-ini at 15:00hrs. The backups run again at 3AM. Any ideas? I am using RMAN scripts via Netbackup. DLew **This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential andintended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom theyare addressed. If you have received this email in error please notifythe system manager.**
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have an StorageTek SL500 library?
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:19:00AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: We will be receiving an EVAL unit soon and wonder if anyone had any opinions on this library? For instance, how reliable is it compared to say, an L700? Suppose an L700 is better, but the other problem is STK is deprecating that library soon and the SL500 is going to be the newly supported library. We recently asked a local reseller about the SL500. This reseller is very knowledgeable with NetBackup and does consulting too so they see a lot of sites. We were trying to decide if we should upgrade the upgrades in our current L700 or replace the library with an SL500. Their experience so far shows that the SL500 is fairly reliable. We crunched some numbers and jointly decided that staying with the L700 is the right answer for us - our L700 has been absolutely rock solid. I talked to a Quantum SE the other day who said that the SL500 does have alignment issues and we should look at the Quantum libraries, but he's a wee bit biased :-). I expect the L700 libraries will be around for a while yet - even if they're decprecated soon, there are a lot of them out in the field so they'll be supported for a long time. After all, it's the big customers who bought them in the first place. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Exclusion list
I have a windows server that has a load of mounted iscsi drive letters (E:\ - X:\). None of the files on any of the drives need to be backed up except c:\, d:\ and the system state. What is the best way to exclude all drives except the ones I need? I currently have the box backing up all local drives and have the file type that resides on each drive excluded but it is taking an hour per drive to come back with 0 kb backed up (because all of the files are excluded) Should I just exclude all drive letters (ie: E:\*)?? Or Maybe an include list of sorts? Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695
RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list
Title: Message Depends If the system in question is in a policy with other systems that use all local drives/system state directives thenyou just want to exclude the entire driveon the client exclude list (like E:/ F:/ ) no * required. If you happened to have a file(s) on any of the excluded drives you wanted backed up you could use an include list. On the other hand if the system is in a policy by itself just make the selections System State, C:, D; etc. David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Covington, GarrettSent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:33 AMTo: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list I have a windows server that has a load of mounted iscsi drive letters (E:\ - X:\). None of the files on any of the drives need to be backed up except c:\, d:\ and the system state. What is the best way to exclude all drives except the ones I need? I currently have the box backing up all local drives and have the file type that resides on each drive excluded but it is taking an hour per drive to come back with 0 kb backed up (because all of the files are excluded) Should I just exclude all drive letters (ie: E:\*)?? Or Maybe an include list of sorts? Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695
Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list
Why not just include SYSTEM_STATE, C:\ and D:\? On 5/11/06, Covington, Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a windows server that has a load of mounted iscsi drive letters (E:\ - X:\). None of the files on any of the drives need to be backed up except c:\, d:\ and the system state. What is the best way to exclude all drives except the ones I need? I currently have the box backing up 'all local drives' and have the file type that resides on each drive excluded – but it is taking an hour per drive to come back with 0 kb backed up (because all of the files are excluded)… Should I just exclude all drive letters (ie: E:\*)?? Or Maybe an include list of sorts? Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Datacenter 4.5 Question
Title: Backups running twice during the backup window Running Datacenter 4.5 FP6 on Windows 2000 I'm a little confused by the datacenter documentation in Veritas Support. It looks like the FP7 8 and 9 are not cumulative, and the documentation says you must install them on top of FP6, which is cumulative. My question, is that I need a bug fix present in 8, is 9 cumulative back to 7 or do I need to run 7,8 and 9 individually? I'd like to update to FP6 as long as I have a maintenance window, even though the fix I need is present in 8. Thanks, -Jonathan
RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list
Title: Message We did the latter for our C D only systems. Just build a policy wth C, D, system state in it put our half dozen (about 10%) of our NT systems in it. -M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, DavidSent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:45 AMTo: Covington, Garrett; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list Depends If the system in question is in a policy with other systems that use all local drives/system state directives thenyou just want to exclude the entire driveon the client exclude list (like E:/ F:/ ) no * required. If you happened to have a file(s) on any of the excluded drives you wanted backed up you could use an include list. On the other hand if the system is in a policy by itself just make the selections System State, C:, D; etc. David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Covington, GarrettSent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:33 AMTo: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list I have a windows server that has a load of mounted iscsi drive letters (E:\ - X:\). None of the files on any of the drives need to be backed up except c:\, d:\ and the system state. What is the best way to exclude all drives except the ones I need? I currently have the box backing up all local drives and have the file type that resides on each drive excluded but it is taking an hour per drive to come back with 0 kb backed up (because all of the files are excluded) Should I just exclude all drive letters (ie: E:\*)?? Or Maybe an include list of sorts? Thanks, Garrett Covington The TriZetto Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: 303-323-6886 c: 303-204-6695
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have an StorageTek SL500 library?
Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:19:00AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: We will be receiving an EVAL unit soon and wonder if anyone had any opinions on this library? For instance, how reliable is it compared to say, an L700? Suppose an L700 is better, but the other problem is STK is deprecating that library soon and the SL500 is going to be the newly supported library. We've had one in production for a year. We had to have a backplane replaced almost immediately, but haven't had any problems other than that. We haven't had any issues with the picker in a year. -- - Casey Feskens [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant Willamette Integrated Technology Services Willamette University, Salem, OR - ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
FYI on this topic of NBU support and RedHat 3 in particular... Ed, you wrote that: snip Fact: NetBackup 6.5, targeted for release in February, 2007, will drop support for RHEL 3. RHEL 3 started shipping in October, 2003 and will be supported by Red Hat through October, 2010. Symantec will cut you off with its current release nearly 4 years before Red Hat stops supporting the OS. On the other hand, Windows 2000, which was released 2 1/2 years earlier than RHEL 3, will still be supported by NetBackup 6.5. /snip I must respectfully disagree with this Fact:. The relevant Symantec publication on this topic seems to be p.3-4 of the NetBackup 6 OS Supportability Matrix, found here: http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/278064.pdf In particular, references to RH 3 include a footnote that reads, Next major release following NetBackup 6.0 will not support this OS Version. This status could change if market and/or vendor support positions change. For the past 8 years that I've been using NBU and reading these supportability statements, the phrase next major release has consistently referred to the next major version number. i.e., NetBackup 7.0 (or NBU 8, or NBU 2008, or whatever TPTB decide to call it). So I'm quite confident that these questions don't apply to 6.5. In my experience, NBU has been good about fully supporting an OS revision for AT LEAST as long as the OS vendor is still providing general fixes for that version. For RH3, I think that will be true until November of this year. Reference: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ HTH rob ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue
Currently my /dev/rmt directory has symlinks for the ID 0 only no matter what I tried (devfsadm, cfgadm, boot -r, etc.) By any chance, is configuring the SG driver a next step once I have all the entries in /dev/rmt? If I don't have /dev/rmt entries for the 2nd drive, what should I do? Thanks. - Young -Original Message- From: Tristan Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:38 PM To: Song, Young; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue Your st.conf probably has something like: name=st class=scsi target=0 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=1 lun=0; You need to add lines like: name=st class=scsi target=0 lun=1; name=st class=scsi target=0 lun=2; I personally added Luns 1-7 on targets 0-7. That possibly makes boot up a little slower, but it also means the drives will be picked up almost regardless of whatever silliness I might pull on the SAN. :-) Regards, T. -Original Message- From: Song, Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 8:25 AM To: Tristan Ball; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue Hi Tristan, That sounds to be my case as well. From the info for the one drive and router that are visible, how can I identify and add the correct entry for the other tape drive into st.conf file? Thanks! - Young -Original Message- From: Tristan Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:15 PM To: Song, Young; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue Have a look at your st.conf. I have a MSL 6030, and it attaches to the FC via a built in SCSI/FC router. That router presents the tape drives as LUN's 1 2, with the controller as LUN 0. By default, the solaris st only scans LUN 0, but that can be changed in ST conf. Regards, Tristan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Song, Young Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 4:33 AM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue I'm trying to set up Sun Fire-480R as a new backup server to replace an old one and in a situation where I'm stuck and thus want to ask here. I'm running Solaris 8 with all the latest Solaris patches including st driver patch, etc. latest SAN Foundation Kit 4.4.9. And I have a FC-attached HP MSL 5060 library with 2 LTO-1 drives via Brocade Silkworm switches. After installing NetBackup v5.1, I tried following the steps in MediaMgr_DeviceConfig_Guide.txt but no matter what I tried, I couldn't have it see both tape drives properly and I believe it's something to do with sg.conf, sg.links, devlink.tab files. However, I may be wrong. I tried all I could try with cfgadm, devfsadm, luxadm, zoning, etc. and know that I have all the proper connections and the box can see the library itself but not all the drives. Anyone experienced similar things and have any advice? Thank you in advance!!! - Young ___ 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
From that link it shows that RedHat's support position boils down to 3 years of helping people migrate TO a particular release and 4 years of migrating FROM that release. Basically, after 3 years, they won't officially help you deploy a new system on that release. Same with Symantec. New deployments of the latest NetBackup Server on a 3 year old RedHat release don't make a lot of sense. I'm sure the client will still work and if it doesn't you can run the older client and still get support. Regardless of the official position now, there are a ton of people using RHEL 3, just like Solaris 8. Both face the same issue in the next major NetBackup release. Austin On 5/11/06, Rob Worman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI on this topic of NBU support and RedHat 3 in particular... Ed, you wrote that: snip Fact: NetBackup 6.5, targeted for release in February, 2007, will drop support for RHEL 3. RHEL 3 started shipping in October, 2003 and will be supported by Red Hat through October, 2010. Symantec will cut you off with its current release nearly 4 years before Red Hat stops supporting the OS. On the other hand, Windows 2000, which was released 2 1/2 years earlier than RHEL 3, will still be supported by NetBackup 6.5. /snip I must respectfully disagree with this Fact:. The relevant Symantec publication on this topic seems to be p.3-4 of the NetBackup 6 OS Supportability Matrix, found here: http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/278064.pdf In particular, references to RH 3 include a footnote that reads, Next major release following NetBackup 6.0 will not support this OS Version. This status could change if market and/or vendor support positions change. For the past 8 years that I've been using NBU and reading these supportability statements, the phrase next major release has consistently referred to the next major version number. i.e., NetBackup 7.0 (or NBU 8, or NBU 2008, or whatever TPTB decide to call it). So I'm quite confident that these questions don't apply to 6.5. In my experience, NBU has been good about fully supporting an OS revision for AT LEAST as long as the OS vendor is still providing general fixes for that version. For RH3, I think that will be true until November of this year. Reference: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ HTH rob ___ 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups running twice during the backup window
If they are both scheduled by NetBackup, it's probably in your Policy(ies) and Schedule(s) configuration. The most likely scenarios are multiple policies or using a frequency-based schedule where your frequency is 12 hours. If using Calendar-based scheduling, I'll note that the 1500 and 0300 backups are on different days. cheers, wayne Lew, David wrote, in part, on 5/11/2006 6:57 AM: My oracle DB netbackup jobs appearantly have been running twice during its backup window. I have scheduled the job to kick-ini at 15:00hrs. The backups run again at 3AM. Any ideas? I am using RMAN scripts via Netbackup.|| ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment
Mickey, You're right. Easiest way would to be to import the tape set and then restore to another NDMP host however, you may need to know of it came from a EMC or a NetApp box. You can't restore EMC to NetApp and visa versa. Additionally, the backup may have happened in dump or tar. Depending on the platform and depending on the policy settings for the NDMP host. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mickey Baker Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:54 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: FW: [Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment Andrew, Were these tapes made using ndmp or were they made using a mapped drive from a NetBackup enabled client? ndmp uses a dump file format like Solaris ufsdump. If your restoring from ndmp, once you put the NetBackup fragments back together, you will then have an Ontap compatible dump file, which you can use an Ontap restore command or Solaris ufsdump. I don't see getting around having to restore the entire dumpfile, which is a PITA for those of us use to the ease of single file restore with NetBackup, but is a reality when dealing with ndmp in combination with any 3rd party software. Why go to all this bother? Import all the tapes into NetBackup, then restore the entire qtree to an alternate location using NetBackup. Pick out the files you need and move them back where you need them. That's really the best way to do it. You can create an alternate location to restore with inexpensive storage for less money than you can write the code to do it - and you're still going to need to restore the entire dump file somewhere or write code to dynamically keep track of both the fragment structure and the dump file structure as you parse them in memory somewhere. It sounds like that should be a piece of software worth some $$$. If I'm wrong here, someone please correct me. Mickey Baker Safe Data Services, LLC Independent Storage Consultant From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilkin Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment Ok then, I can identify that the file I'm looking for is 'x' blocks from the start of the backup image!, this is the 5th field in the *.f file. My value is 105001394 for the 5th field. How do I then go 'x' blocks from the start of the backup image on the tape? I've been using 'mt' and it uses 'files' to count, not 'blocks' as specified within the *.f file. Should I be using another utility? Thanks Regards Andrew Wilkin Computer Systems Analyst Department of Lands Panorama Ave BATHURST, NSW, 2795, AUSTRALIA Ph: 61 2 6332 8397 Fx: 61 2 6332 8457 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: www.lands.nsw.gov.au http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 8:26 AM To: Andrew Wilkin Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment No offense, but seeking to a single fragment reading files is netbackup's job. The TOC you describe (associating fragment to file) is the quick definition of Netbackup's image catalog. You're starting to write the application you've already bought. To answer your question, I think you're going to have to mine the catalog directly for the info you're looking for. Look under the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/client/timestamp/imagename.f files for the file to frag info. If you're using the binary catalog, you'll have to convert them. -M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Cashman Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 2:53 PM To: Andrew Wilkin Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] File listing for Fragment Try bpimagelist -backupid (backup_id) Steve On 5/5/06, Andrew Wilkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm after a away to extract the files that are contained within an individual BackupId that has multiple Fragments (File number on a Tape). If I have a single backup image and it spans many Fragments / File Numbers, on the media, is there a way to extract a listing's of those files from a single Fragment/File Number using a single backup id, though the are multiple Fragments for that single backup? (sorry but I've repeated myself here!) I know I can get a complete listing of a specific backup using bpmedialist and give the backup id etc. But using the Images on Media control( from the GUI), I can see the multiple Fragments on the Tape with the File Numbers, so there must be a way somehow to relate this back into the NetBackup DataBase to use it! This has come about from an historic NDMP system I've had to recover from and for the particular directory, they are 27 Fragments, and I know how to
[Veritas-bu] Status: 525 Can not connect to NB-Java
Title: Status: 525 Can not connect to NB-Java Solaris 10, NB 6.0 Receiving the following error when using jnbSA. Unable to login, status: 525 Can not connect to the NB-Java authentication service via VNETD on server name on port 13724. Check the log file for more details. Log file States: ServerInterface:Logon: java.net.ConnectException: Incompatible VNETD version: . ServerInterface:Logon - Initial host:null, Current host:migrrufsmc82, Firewall Env:true, MS port:13722, VNET D:13724, m_intPort:0, localPort:0, range use:false Can not connect to the NB-Java authentication service via VNETD on migrrufsmc82 on port 13724. Exception: java.net.ConnectException: Incompatible VNETD version: . ServerInterface:Logon: java.net.ConnectException: Incompatible VNETD version: . ServerInterface:Logon - Initial host:null, Current host:migrrufsmc82, Firewall Env:true, MS port:13722, VNET D:13724, m_intPort:0, localPort:0, range use:false Can not connect to the NB-Java authentication service via VNETD on migrrufsmc82 on port 13724. Exception: java.net.ConnectException: Incompatible VNETD version: . There are not any firewalls to block the port. Your help is appreciated. Tammy Yosifovski - Thise-mailistheexclusive,privateandconfidentialpropertyofthesender.The informationcontainedinitisintendedsolelyfortheuseofthesenderandthe intendedrecipient.Ifyouarenottheintendedrecipientyouareherebyadvisedthat anyunauthorizeddisclosure,copying,distributionorthetakingofanyactionin relianceonthecontentsofthismessageisstrictlyprohibited.Ifyouhavereceived thise-mailinerror,pleasenotifyusimmediatelybytelephone(calltheTechnical SupportCenterat1-888-873-8721)andthendestroythisdocumentandanycopiesin anyformimmediately.Finally,therecipientshouldcheckthisemailandany attachmentsforthepresenceofviruses.Senderacceptsnoliabilityforanydamage causedbyanyvirustransmittedbythisemail. -
[Veritas-bu] Host properties from command line?
Is there a way from the command line on solaris with nbu 4.5 fp3 to get a client list including the version of each netbackup client? I can look under jnbSA and go to host properties-clients and individually click on clients to see their version but any attempts to export this data are crashing jnbSA. I'm looking for something like the output of bpplclients with the version of the client software included. Can this be done? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] command to list clients in policy [is there one ?] - NBU6.0
Hi all, Is there any command out there to list all clients within a single policy ? In HP DataProtector I am able to grep through text files for this. How about NBU 6.0MP2 ? -aW ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bpcoverage - FYI
0n Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Whelan, Patrick wrote: I thought I would pass this on in case anyone else has run into it. Environment: Solaris Master 5.1MP4 HP-UX Media Servers 5.1MP4 If, in the policy, you specify a windows drive with a lower case letter (i.e. c:\ ) instead of an upper case (i.e. C:\ ) bpcoverage (after you get it to work [see archive for this one]) will report the drive as uncovered. I changed all the drives to upper case and now it works find. Just thought I pass it along. bpcoverage does what exactly ? Got a URL to the thread to make it work ? -aW ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
