[Veritas-bu] Restore of SQL2000 DB to SQL2005 server
Hi, I have received a request to restore a DB which was backed up on a SQL2000 client to a new server running SQL2005. I know you can redirect a restore of a SQL DB to a different host but do not know whether restoring to a different version of SQL is possible. Has anyone done this and if so were there any issues? Any information gratefully received. The NetBackup environment is running on v5.1MP6. Thanks in advance, Steve. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] snapvault storage unit
Windows master server running 6.5. I am trying to create a new snapvault storage unit. I select the Disk and the SnapVault type and then when I goto select the Media server and SnapVault server, those fields are blank. Where does netbackup get this info? Could this be a licensing issue? Thanks, Jerry Rioux Enterprise Systems Engineer Help Desk 1-888-746-6478 www.incat.com image001.gif___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, osonder wrote: Hello What is the best practises regarding this? Can I do DSSU at the same time as backup jobs use the DSSU? I want my drives free in daytime to do restores... +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Why not reserve a drive for restores? I wouldn't recommend both unless you had a SAN beind it or a lot of 15k drives. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] plot drive usage/availability against time?
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/2007-November/045714.html At the bottom of the page is the URL for the script. Or here: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20071114/89c37598/drive_graph.txt mark_au [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/2008 11:43 PM Please respond to VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] plot drive usage/availability against time? Very handy looking script.. but i cant see any links /attachments to it etc... any idea how i can grab a copy at all please ??? cheers +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, duplication or other use of this message and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and its attachments. Thank you. == ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time?
Hello What is the best practises regarding this? Can I do DSSU at the same time as backup jobs use the DSSU? I want my drives free in daytime to do restores... +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] snapvault storage unit
Jerry, If you want to use the Network Appliance SnapVault Option with NetBackup you need to have a license for it from NetBackup and Network Appliance: NAS SnapVault Option The Network Attached Storage (NAS) SnapVault Option allows customers with NAS storage to copy NAS-based snapshots from primary NAS storage to secondary disk storage. This option is currently supported only by Network Appliance. David K. Carpe Principal Systems Engineer Symantec Corporation Office: 646.487.6012 Mobile: 908.963.6818 Home Office: 973.940-1805 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Rioux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 7:30 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] snapvault storage unit Windows master server running 6.5. I am trying to create a new snapvault storage unit. I select the Disk and the SnapVault type and then when I goto select the Media server and SnapVault server, those fields are blank. Where does netbackup get this info? Could this be a licensing issue? Thanks, Jerry Rioux Enterprise Systems Engineer Help Desk 1-888-746-6478 www.incat.com image001.gif___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading that when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade. There is a client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that communicates with the library over SSL. It requires authentication with the library. What are you trying to accomplish? .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore of SQL2000 DB to SQL2005 server
Steve Although I have never tried it, it should actually be possible within SQL 2000 itself. Essentially, backup the DB using the SQL Backup tool (in SQL2000) and then simply import (or restore) the DB into SQL 2005. Im sure there is a wizard for this task. Ive not actually tried it, but is there anything in the NetBackup DB Admin Guide ? Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jenner, Steven Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:09 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore of SQL2000 DB to SQL2005 server Hi, I have received a request to restore a DB which was backed up on a SQL2000 client to a new server running SQL2005. I know you can redirect a restore of a SQL DB to a different host but do not know whether restoring to a different version of SQL is possible. Has anyone done this and if so were there any issues? Any information gratefully received. The NetBackup environment is running on v5.1MP6. Thanks in advance, Steve. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - 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] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time?
I would agree with Justin. I have a DSSU of around 8TB sitting on a CX600, with 15k drives in a SAN, and even with that the staging off will slow down the backups enough to add around 6 hours to normally a 20 hour backup. You CAN do it, but you can also drag a 1000lb weight behind your car... but don't expect to get good MPG! ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 8:37 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time? On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, osonder wrote: Hello What is the best practises regarding this? Can I do DSSU at the same time as backup jobs use the DSSU? I want my drives free in daytime to do restores... +- +- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +- +- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Why not reserve a drive for restores? I wouldn't recommend both unless you had a SAN beind it or a lot of 15k drives. Justin. ___ 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] Question: Is this possible?
You can't do it with master servers, but you can with media servers. Assuming that you have the band width on an environment with fiber to multiple sites. You could expand on this, but I am going to only work with 2 sites. This works in a 5.X environment. Site A has production data Site B has Dev/QA data and is the Alternate site. Assume that each has SAN attached tape drives and A SAN can be zoned to B SAN devices and the tape devices are in either a stand alone robot or a robot that can be partitioned. At site A, employ a Media server (call it media-dual) that is controlled by the master at Site B. The media server should have multiple NIC's so that it can communicate with the master at Site B and also communicate with the clients at site A. For critical information, back up the info with the master-B via media-dual. Back it up to the drives at site A in case you need to do a restore or create a dssu at site A for these backups. Duplicate or de-stage the backups from media-dual to drives configured at site B. If site A goes away, you have the backups of the critical data (say the systems with an RPO of 1-4 hours) at Site B and just start restoring to the alternate site recovery system (because the Site B master did the backup). You would have to restore with the force restore option. If you used a DSSU for the backup, you would have to promote the secondary copy to the primary copy (this dings me every time). If you are duplicating tapes from A-B, then promote the copy during duplication or wait until you need a DR restore. A client initiated restore of this data may not be possible depending on whether or not your networks are linked. A master server does not have to communicate with a client. Only the media server has to communicate with a client. However, bplist or bp from the client is not possible unless the client can communicate with the master. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:26 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? Is it possible using multiple master servers (vaulting?) to make a secondary backup in an alternate location? Example: Assume you do cross-site backups between 2 sites. siteA - backup to - siteB (has its own master) siteB - backup to - siteA (has its own master) If you have another site, call it siteC, can you do this with vaulting/or some other way? siteA - backup to - siteB (and also/or later copy to) - siteC siteB - backup to - siteA (and also/or later copy to) - siteC Keep in mind siteA,B,C each have their own master server. What would be the best way to accomplish this? This would solve the problem of a dual site failure. Justin. ___ 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] Question: Is this possible?
As a test only (we never used this in production) I was able to FTP individual DSU images across the WAN to our DR site. Unfortunately, once they got there I had to run a script to import them which took forever. If I had to do it again, I might try and use UNCs so the import isn't necessary. Something like... 1) Write to DSU \\Backup\Share 2) FTP Catalog and Image to Remote Site 3) Try and read back from \\Backup\Share (different local DSU called the same thing.) I've had success with FTPing the catalog and reading back from media, and I've had success FTPing DSU images, but I haven't had time to test both. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:26 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? Is it possible using multiple master servers (vaulting?) to make a secondary backup in an alternate location? Example: Assume you do cross-site backups between 2 sites. siteA - backup to - siteB (has its own master) siteB - backup to - siteA (has its own master) If you have another site, call it siteC, can you do this with vaulting/or some other way? siteA - backup to - siteB (and also/or later copy to) - siteC siteB - backup to - siteA (and also/or later copy to) - siteC Keep in mind siteA,B,C each have their own master server. What would be the best way to accomplish this? This would solve the problem of a dual site failure. Justin. ___ 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] Question: Is this possible?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Bobby Williams wrote: I have transferred DSSU images across WAN. You have to go into the DB (NB 5.X) and change the image characteristics. After that, you can restore away. The force restore does not work for DSU or DSSU images. So this would work in a way but you'd need a TON of disk space.. I guess what I am wondering is it possible to do something like this: Client - siteA - backs up to tape - siteC simultaenously Sort of like in-line tape copy but in-line network copy? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Hadrian Baron wrote: The java application works for either Windows or Solaris. There is also a lcd panel available for the SL500 which you can configure IP addresses and other cool stuff if you like new toys, it is not too expensive. I am actually in the process of re-iping our SL500 and Sun Support said I *have* to have an engineer do it. This is because you can only set the IP address using the service account which the install tech's configured when first setting the thing up. If you know your local support guy, you might want to give them a call to see if they know the login/pass. Thanks, I gave them a call, waiting to hear back. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
The java application works for either Windows or Solaris. There is also a lcd panel available for the SL500 which you can configure IP addresses and other cool stuff if you like new toys, it is not too expensive. I am actually in the process of re-iping our SL500 and Sun Support said I *have* to have an engineer do it. This is because you can only set the IP address using the service account which the install tech's configured when first setting the thing up. If you know your local support guy, you might want to give them a call to see if they know the login/pass. - Hadrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 6:17 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before? On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading that when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade. There is a client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that communicates with the library over SSL. It requires authentication with the library. What are you trying to accomplish? .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I found my answer. On the back of the SL500 there is a public IP port for SLConsole/etc-- I am talking about the CLI/Console port which you connect via serial cable/or special ethernet cable. You (I) need to contact Sun/STK to get the initial user/password to login via the CLI, then I can configure the public interface and use SLConsole et all. Justin. ___ 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] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading that when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade. There is a client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that communicates with the library over SSL. It requires authentication with the library. What are you trying to accomplish? .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I found my answer. On the back of the SL500 there is a public IP port for SLConsole/etc-- I am talking about the CLI/Console port which you connect via serial cable/or special ethernet cable. You (I) need to contact Sun/STK to get the initial user/password to login via the CLI, then I can configure the public interface and use SLConsole et all. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
I have transferred DSSU images across WAN. You have to go into the DB (NB 5.X) and change the image characteristics. After that, you can restore away. The force restore does not work for DSU or DSSU images. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:47 AM To: Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? As a test only (we never used this in production) I was able to FTP individual DSU images across the WAN to our DR site. Unfortunately, once they got there I had to run a script to import them which took forever. If I had to do it again, I might try and use UNCs so the import isn't necessary. Something like... 1) Write to DSU \\Backup\Share 2) FTP Catalog and Image to Remote Site 3) Try and read back from \\Backup\Share (different local DSU called the same thing.) I've had success with FTPing the catalog and reading back from media, and I've had success FTPing DSU images, but I haven't had time to test both. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:26 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? Is it possible using multiple master servers (vaulting?) to make a secondary backup in an alternate location? Example: Assume you do cross-site backups between 2 sites. siteA - backup to - siteB (has its own master) siteB - backup to - siteA (has its own master) If you have another site, call it siteC, can you do this with vaulting/or some other way? siteA - backup to - siteB (and also/or later copy to) - siteC siteB - backup to - siteA (and also/or later copy to) - siteC Keep in mind siteA,B,C each have their own master server. What would be the best way to accomplish this? This would solve the problem of a dual site failure. Justin. ___ 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] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time?
I try to limit the amount of time I'm simultaneously reading from and writing to any DSSU. In my testing here with SATA Disk I take a pretty big performance hit on the write to tape - in the neighborhood of 80%. You could probably do better with FC or SAS Disks, but you are still going to take a performance hit. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time? Hello What is the best practises regarding this? Can I do DSSU at the same time as backup jobs use the DSSU? I want my drives free in daytime to do restores... +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [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
[Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
You can copy the actual backup images anyway you want, and copy the catalog data from master to master as per: http://eval.veritas.com/downloads/pro/netbackup/nbu_50_replicating_nbu_c atalogs.pdf -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: February 4, 2008 1:56 PM To: Martin, Jonathan Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? Interesting.. So there are some ways to 'work it' per-se-- but there is no real 'supported-by-symantec' method of replicating backups across master servers? La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backup to DSSU, and staging to tape at the same time?
I can't reserve a drive totally to restore, because I have to use all 4 for staging. My DSSU includes 28 300Gb. 10K disks. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Martin, Jonathan wrote: As a test only (we never used this in production) I was able to FTP individual DSU images across the WAN to our DR site. Unfortunately, once they got there I had to run a script to import them which took forever. If I had to do it again, I might try and use UNCs so the import isn't necessary. Something like... 1) Write to DSU \\Backup\Share 2) FTP Catalog and Image to Remote Site 3) Try and read back from \\Backup\Share (different local DSU called the same thing.) I've had success with FTPing the catalog and reading back from media, and I've had success FTPing DSU images, but I haven't had time to test both. Why not use rsync instead? Then you have ssh as well to protect the data. Another approach here would be to use a mirrored SAN drive, or to do a mirror over iSCSI. Either way, you're getting the data from point A to point B, just depends on how far out of sync it can be. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] But remember, with no superpowers comes no responsibility. --rly ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
Is it possible using multiple master servers (vaulting?) to make a secondary backup in an alternate location? Example: Assume you do cross-site backups between 2 sites. siteA - backup to - siteB (has its own master) siteB - backup to - siteA (has its own master) If you have another site, call it siteC, can you do this with vaulting/or some other way? siteA - backup to - siteB (and also/or later copy to) - siteC siteB - backup to - siteA (and also/or later copy to) - siteC Keep in mind siteA,B,C each have their own master server. What would be the best way to accomplish this? This would solve the problem of a dual site failure. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Bobby Williams wrote: You can't do it with master servers, but you can with media servers. Assuming that you have the band width on an environment with fiber to multiple sites. Arg, looking to have 3 separate environments ideally.. You could expand on this, but I am going to only work with 2 sites. This works in a 5.X environment. Site A has production data Site B has Dev/QA data and is the Alternate site. Assume that each has SAN attached tape drives and A SAN can be zoned to B SAN devices and the tape devices are in either a stand alone robot or a robot that can be partitioned. Arg again! No SAN/fiber switches here, direct-attached (hence why the master-server is what I am looking at). At site A, employ a Media server (call it media-dual) that is controlled by the master at Site B. The media server should have multiple NIC's so that it can communicate with the master at Site B and also communicate with the clients at site A. I thought of this as well, but for other reasons, having a master control its own site actually turned out to be the best and having the clients from the other backup to it (aka cross-site) For critical information, back up the info with the master-B via media-dual. Back it up to the drives at site A in case you need to do a restore or create a dssu at site A for these backups. Duplicate or de-stage the backups from media-dual to drives configured at site B. Yeah I can kind of see this working.. If site A goes away, you have the backups of the critical data (say the systems with an RPO of 1-4 hours) at Site B and just start restoring to the alternate site recovery system (because the Site B master did the backup). You would have to restore with the force restore option. If you used a DSSU for the backup, you would have to promote the secondary copy to the primary copy (this dings me every time). If you are duplicating tapes from A-B, then promote the copy during duplication or wait until you need a DR restore. Understood.. A client initiated restore of this data may not be possible depending on whether or not your networks are linked. A master server does not have to communicate with a client. Only the media server has to communicate with a client. However, bplist or bp from the client is not possible unless the client can communicate with the master. Yes. A lot of this though stems from the fact I cannot do what I really want to do, it is almost if the _real_ work around is just have the client backup the data twice (if you wanted to be protected from a dual-site failure?) clientA - site B clientB - site C Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore of SQL2000 DB to SQL2005 server
You can convert a 2000DB to 2K5DB but that would be a job for the DBA (there is a wizard for this but keep a backup of the 2000 DB and restore to a new instance of the 2K5 using the conversion wizard). Where you restore the information is relative but this sounds like a database question more than a netbackup question. On Feb 4, 2008 8:12 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Steve* *Although I have never tried it, it should actually be possible within SQL 2000 itself. Essentially, backup the DB using the SQL Backup tool (in SQL2000) and then simply import (or restore) the DB into SQL 2005. Im sure there is a wizard for this task.* ** *Ive not actually tried it, but is there anything in the NetBackup DB Admin Guide ?* ** *Simon* -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jenner, Steven *Sent:* Monday, February 04, 2008 11:09 AM *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Restore of SQL2000 DB to SQL2005 server Hi, I have received a request to restore a DB which was backed up on a SQL2000 client to a new server running SQL2005. I know you can redirect a restore of a SQL DB to a different host but do not know whether restoring to a different version of SQL is possible. Has anyone done this and if so were there any issues? Any information gratefully received. The NetBackup environment is running on v5.1MP6. Thanks in advance, Steve. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - 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 -- Matthew MCP, MCSA, MCTS, OCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Define Trouble: Why did you apply THAT patch?? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Include list pattern match not working??
I need a sanity check, here. I've got this INCLUDE list on a policy for a series of NFS mounts: INCLUDE NEW_STREAM INCLUDE /etc/passwd INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[qr]* INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[0-9]* INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[A-Z]* and the activity view shows the current path being backed up is /gollum/vol/documentum/at02_doc_data/blah...blah../file.txt Last I checked, this pattern doesn't match this path being backed up. Any reason that you folks see that I'm not? Some explanation: I just reworked my filer backups (all done via NFS mount right now) and use wildcards to match most of the volume names and divide things into sets. I'm using the wildcards so if some other admin adds a new volume later, I pick up the new volume automatically and perform backups on it. That's what the [0-9] and [A-Z] entries are for, they're my just in case lines. The /etc/passwd thing at the beginning is to make the stream Status 71 resistant. I somebody renames a volume later and leaves me with nothing, I'll get a small but still valid backup image. /etc/passwd is always there. -M ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
You could do inline tape copies and send 1 each to the other sites. You can ftp the image info across the LAN and not have to import. Tech Doc 266673 was the doc detailing how to move image data between master servers. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:00 PM To: Bobby Williams Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Bobby Williams wrote: You can't do it with master servers, but you can with media servers. Assuming that you have the band width on an environment with fiber to multiple sites. Arg, looking to have 3 separate environments ideally.. You could expand on this, but I am going to only work with 2 sites. This works in a 5.X environment. Site A has production data Site B has Dev/QA data and is the Alternate site. Assume that each has SAN attached tape drives and A SAN can be zoned to B SAN devices and the tape devices are in either a stand alone robot or a robot that can be partitioned. Arg again! No SAN/fiber switches here, direct-attached (hence why the master-server is what I am looking at). At site A, employ a Media server (call it media-dual) that is controlled by the master at Site B. The media server should have multiple NIC's so that it can communicate with the master at Site B and also communicate with the clients at site A. I thought of this as well, but for other reasons, having a master control its own site actually turned out to be the best and having the clients from the other backup to it (aka cross-site) For critical information, back up the info with the master-B via media-dual. Back it up to the drives at site A in case you need to do a restore or create a dssu at site A for these backups. Duplicate or de-stage the backups from media-dual to drives configured at site B. Yeah I can kind of see this working.. If site A goes away, you have the backups of the critical data (say the systems with an RPO of 1-4 hours) at Site B and just start restoring to the alternate site recovery system (because the Site B master did the backup). You would have to restore with the force restore option. If you used a DSSU for the backup, you would have to promote the secondary copy to the primary copy (this dings me every time). If you are duplicating tapes from A-B, then promote the copy during duplication or wait until you need a DR restore. Understood.. A client initiated restore of this data may not be possible depending on whether or not your networks are linked. A master server does not have to communicate with a client. Only the media server has to communicate with a client. However, bplist or bp from the client is not possible unless the client can communicate with the master. Yes. A lot of this though stems from the fact I cannot do what I really want to do, it is almost if the _real_ work around is just have the client backup the data twice (if you wanted to be protected from a dual-site failure?) clientA - site B clientB - site C Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Include list pattern match not working??
If I can reply to my own posting, I pulled the [A-Z] reference and it just backed up the expected filesystems. Could it be that NB is doing a case-insensitive match? Hmm. Too much time in bed with Microsoft? I'll keep looking into it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:01 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Include list pattern match not working?? I need a sanity check, here. I've got this INCLUDE list on a policy for a series of NFS mounts: INCLUDE NEW_STREAM INCLUDE /etc/passwd INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[qr]* INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[0-9]* INCLUDE /gollum/vol/[A-Z]* and the activity view shows the current path being backed up is /gollum/vol/documentum/at02_doc_data/blah...blah../file.txt Last I checked, this pattern doesn't match this path being backed up. Any reason that you folks see that I'm not? Some explanation: I just reworked my filer backups (all done via NFS mount right now) and use wildcards to match most of the volume names and divide things into sets. I'm using the wildcards so if some other admin adds a new volume later, I pick up the new volume automatically and perform backups on it. That's what the [0-9] and [A-Z] entries are for, they're my just in case lines. The /etc/passwd thing at the beginning is to make the stream Status 71 resistant. I somebody renames a volume later and leaves me with nothing, I'll get a small but still valid backup image. /etc/passwd is always there. -M ___ 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] Reconfig Storage Units
Hi, I need to change configuration of one of my storage units. Which daemon should I restart? I can not restart Netbackup entirely. Netbackup 5.1 mp4 on Solaris Koping Wang ESRI System/Backup Administrator ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?
I think the only supported Symantec way to recover is to build a SiteA and SiteB Master in your SiteC and restore from Catalog. Other than that, you are in the woods / on your own. That said, I've been able to build wonderful / live DR configurations with one remote site acting as the DR site for another etc... I always make a Catalog tape and ship it offsite (just in case) but I think you'll find Netbackup is a very stable product and you can pretty easily fool it into doing just about anything you want. Just for the hell of it I just ran this test. Created a DSU-TEST on Master #1 bound to \\localhost\DSU-TEST (Master is 6.0 MP4) Backed up 4.5GB to this DSU Copied the contents of that DSU to \\MASTER2\DSU-TEST Copied Veritas\Netbackup\Db\Images\client folder to \\MASTER2 Created DSU-TEST on Master #2 bound to \\localhost\DSU-TEST (Master is 6.5.1) Restored data to c:\temp Checksums matched original data backed up. Note: Alternate restore host from Master 1 to Master 2 was already in place from pervious testing. So in retrospect - this works great. I do the same thing with Media for fast DR restores. (pre-catalog recovery stuff.) What Netbackup doesn't know won't hurt it (although Symantec support is another beast entirely. :) -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:56 PM To: Martin, Jonathan Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible? On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Martin, Jonathan wrote: As a test only (we never used this in production) I was able to FTP individual DSU images across the WAN to our DR site. Unfortunately, once they got there I had to run a script to import them which took forever. If I had to do it again, I might try and use UNCs so the import isn't necessary. Something like... 1) Write to DSU \\Backup\Share 2) FTP Catalog and Image to Remote Site 3) Try and read back from \\Backup\Share (different local DSU called the same thing.) I've had success with FTPing the catalog and reading back from media, and I've had success FTPing DSU images, but I haven't had time to test both. -Jonathan Interesting.. So there are some ways to 'work it' per-se-- but there is no real 'supported-by-symantec' method of replicating backups across master servers? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.1 Tape storage groups not working correctly
Hi guys, I have inherated a netbackup 6.5.1 system that was recently upgraded so im guessing it used to work... we have a mixture of lto2 and 1 drives these are accessed via storage groups that preference either the lto2 or 1 in a failover mode. our policies that preference lto2 are failing back to lto1 drives (and hence taking a long time to back up) i have checked the media and there is lto 2 media in the scratch pool i have tested by creating a policy that uses the lto2 storage unit directly rather than via the storage group and it will load and write to lot2 tapes. it only appears broken when attempting to use the lto2 via the storage group . I have had other disk storage group weirdness also, ie one client of backup policiy reporting failing by referencing a DSU disk path that is no longer existing yet the actual backup working... methinks that 6.5.1 is somewhat broken of is cacheing old info somewhere regards Mark W +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
We are doing one right now, but won't have any info for a couple of weeks. We currently use Aptare (6.0.24), but my manager was wowed by VBR at the recent Veritas Engineering Conference so we are now looking at VBR. There are quite a few nice enhancements in Aptare 6.5 that we are waiting on, so I think that will close up the race quite a bit. I'll report back when we have our findings, but I would recommend that you do a comparison of both tools. I know that VBR can collect data and then you can send that data to Symantec who will then bundle it into a useable product with your collected data. I'm pretty sure Aptare can do this same thing, but don't quote me on that.For us, this will be VERY nice for a side by side comparison. You'll also need to know what reports you want or might want in the future as there may be some things coming out soon that you wouldn't otherwise know about. There's also the storage reporting features of Aptare, which I do not believe VBR does, but there's probably another Symantec product that covers that. I believe both vendors can report on TSM, BackupExec, Legato, etc., but how well each one does it is a different story. I'll remember to post what we decide on and why when we are done with the comparison. -Rusty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Forester, Jack L" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:53 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
It's been a while since I've done the head-to-head but I recently asked my salesrep for a quote on VBR to see if it might be worthwhile be switching. VBR is considerably more expensive than Aptare's StorageConsole. However, I will add that I just saw Aptare's new license terms today and didn't like them one bit. I've got a query in to them... In terms of straight feature comparisons, I believe that Aptare still wins (it wasn't even close when we purchased StorageConsole). I've seen their 6.5 release although I haven't had a chance to install it yet and it's quite impressive - I've been hounding my Unix admins to give me a production environment to put it on (it doesn't support RHEL 3 which is where I'm currently at on the portal). The one thing I've noticed about backup reporting products is that there are features in there that are very important to some customers and very useless to others. There may be 1 feature in there that you absolutely have to have so it's in your best interest to have a detailed look at what you need and what each product has to offer. Start with price quotes from both vendors, pick the cheapest, do a through analysis of it, and if it meets all of your needs, you're done. If there's stuff missing, then you may have to step up in price. What you'll find out, though, is that in some cases you're paying for features you may never need and that's just wasting money. Aptare and Veritas aren't the only players in the game these days either. Yes, I know that both Veritas and Aptare are listening :-) .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 3:53 PM, Forester, Jack L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? -- 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] 6.5.1 Limit number of tape drives while stageing to disk
Hi Guys We'd like to stage from disk to tape during the day after backups are completed and the system is quiet. However when this happens , all tapes drives in the group are used. which limits the ability to perform restores. I cant see any where in the diskstorage unit config that limits the number of drives so we can leave 1 or 2 free for restores regards Mark W +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before?
Unfortunately, this is true, it takes a CE to re-ip the device. I guess that is why we pay maintenance. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hadrian Baron Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:38 AM To: 'Justin Piszcz'; Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before? The java application works for either Windows or Solaris. There is also a lcd panel available for the SL500 which you can configure IP addresses and other cool stuff if you like new toys, it is not too expensive. I am actually in the process of re-iping our SL500 and Sun Support said I *have* to have an engineer do it. This is because you can only set the IP address using the service account which the install tech's configured when first setting the thing up. If you know your local support guy, you might want to give them a call to see if they know the login/pass. - Hadrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 6:17 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone consoled into an SL500 before? On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: There is some authentication even for CLI access - I remember reading that when we got the instructions to add the slot license upgrade. There is a client-side package you can install on Windows - it's a Java app that communicates with the library over SSL. It requires authentication with the library. What are you trying to accomplish? .../Ed On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you console into an L700 it looks like this: cli Then you type your commands, what does the SL500 look like? Does it require authentication? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I found my answer. On the back of the SL500 there is a public IP port for SLConsole/etc-- I am talking about the CLI/Console port which you connect via serial cable/or special ethernet cable. You (I) need to contact Sun/STK to get the initial user/password to login via the CLI, then I can configure the public interface and use SLConsole et all. Justin. ___ 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] 6.5.1 Limit number of tape drives while stageing to disk
thoke wrote: Check out this TechNote from Symantec:http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/280067.htm (http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/280067.htm) Here's what you are looking for: III.B. How to Decrease The Number of Simultaneous Duplication Jobs That Will be Activated fo/veritas-bu]http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu[/url] [/quote] Cheers thats what i ended up doing regards mark +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
We abandoned Backup Reporter early in the 5.x era and moved to Aptare. We haven't installed 6.5 yet but previous releases have provided better reports than the old Backup Reporter. I am not impressed by Aptare tech support at all though. It appears to be a relatively small company with a great product. If the install goes good and the product is stable, you'll have great reports whenever you need them. If anything goes wrong, plan for some down time because Aptare doesn't appear to have too many Engineers on the tech support line. I'm in Houston and it's 10 o'clock my time before I can even get someone on the phone in the morning. But when it works, it provides just about everything I could want in a reporting tool. Thanks, Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Forester, Jack L Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:53 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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] Reconfig Storage Units
You need to run #bpschedreq -rereadconfig Abhishek Dhingra IBM Global Services, Delhi, Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile : +91-9818675370 Koping Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2008 01:25 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Reconfig Storage Units Hi, I need to change configuration of one of my storage units. Which daemon should I restart? I can not restart Netbackup entirely. Netbackup 5.1 mp4 on Solaris Koping Wang ESRI System/Backup Administrator ___ 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] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
We went for VBR as Aptare didn't even reply on our request for a demo. Michael 2008/2/4, Forester, Jack L [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare. I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it yet hold a candle to Storage Console? Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 ___ 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
