Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3
I actually think it was the filelist entry and not the shutting down that made it work. Did you try the changed filelist with the systems up? (You do need to snapshot them, though.) --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies From: Anas Kayal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:50 AM To: Curtis Preston; Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3 Curtis you were right. I had to shut down the VM's first before doing the backup. I put a direct link to the /volumes directory in the file list but I think it should also work with a full / backup if all the VM's are down. Now does anyone have a script that I can run directly on ESX host that automatically shuts down the VM's prior to backup and brings them back up after? From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:45 AM To: Martin, Jonathan; Anas Kayal; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3 You do not have to use VCB to back up VMware. The way Anas is trying to do it is supported. Each method has advantages and disadvantages. This method will have all full backups and you have to figure out how to snapshot the vmdk files. I believe the only problem is that the VMFS filesystem isn't being auto-discovered. Anas, have you put the /volumes mount point in the file list? Also, make sure that you snapshot the vmdk files first. I found this preso that speaks to it: http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac9912.pdf --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:05 PM To: Anas Kayal; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3 The Virtual Machines are stored on a VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) which Netbackup doesn't understand. Its a proprietary format developed by VMWare for use in ESX Server (its got advanced capabilities like journaling.) To backup Virtual Machines via the .vmdk you need to use their consolidated backup piece and be running 6.5 on a server which can mount the storage. (SAN only I think, I don't think Consolidated Backup supports iSCSI.) Alternately (if you are not using shared storage) you can use the built in tools on the ESX server to export the virtual machines to an ext3 partition that the client can read. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anas Kayal Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:52 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3 I have a growing VMware ESX farm and have deployed NBU 6 agent on the COS of ESX. When I do a full backup I don't seem to get the VMDK files of the Virtual Machines. What am I doing wrong? This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, kindly notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this message. Thank you. This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, kindly notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this message. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Job per day per master server?
Well, we've got a single SF V490 master server and 4 media servers. We extensively use multistreaming and multiplexing and have got about 200 Oracle instances to back up. As a result we have 1) 8000 to 1 jobs a day 2) 30Tb of backup traffic on workday and up to 70-80 Tb on weekend +-- |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
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Does anyone know how to quickly specify a certain tape for my catalog backups? We use Veritas 6.5 on windows 2003 server w/ a Quantum M1500 LTO1 tape library. Thanks for your help. John Keating ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Are you talking about assigning it to the catalog backup pool? On 3/24/08, Keating, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to quickly specify a certain tape for my catalog backups? We use Veritas 6.5 on windows 2003 server w/ a Quantum M1500 LTO1 tape library. Thanks for your help. John Keating ___ 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Bobby R Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. Check to see if it's on the same file system or not. On Unix systems, you want to be really careful if you enable Cross mount points since links across file systems are very common. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. This may be a cross mount points problem. We have a standard practice of mounting up a sliver and then mounting file systems under it. A backup of the sliver gets just the empty directory unless we enable Cross mount points. Whenever I've seen NetBackup skip a file system, it's invariably my fault, not NetBackup's. .../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
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
Permissions on the folder shouldn't be it - it should run as root on solaris (and the administrator account on NT) so that's not usually a problem. Besides, you'll get a status code 1 on folders skipped for permission issues. What's your df -k output look like from your Solaris box? Do you have exclusions files? ls /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude* From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
Oh - another idea? Is the directory under /opt a link? ls -ld /opt/skippped name Netbackup does not follow links. My thinking this is an error in perception, rather than a technical problem. Your use of the word folder rather than directory for solaris makes me think you are perhaps a Windows person with Unix as your second language? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups
While this is true - it's a statement of fact, almost half an advertisement, and not really a response to the OP. Is this some sort of Bot? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rubbyfiller Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:26 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups Today, data is the lifeline for organizations, and any unplanned downtime affects the company's bottom line. To reduce length and downtime cost during outage, organizations are building infrastructures to reduce RTO and RPO. This approach allows them to compress backup windows, increase the frequency of backups and, when necessary, restore their data quickly and efficiently. +-- |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] folders files not backing up
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Permissions on the folder shouldn't be it - it should run as root on solaris (and the administrator account on NT) Small nitpick here - it runs as local user SYSTEM, not Administrator. You can restrict folder access to this user, but that would be extremely rare. .../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
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
Ah! Well, I've just demonstrated that Windows is my second-language ;) From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:03 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Permissions on the folder shouldn't be it - it should run as root on solaris (and the administrator account on NT) Small nitpick here - it runs as local user SYSTEM, not Administrator. You can restrict folder access to this user, but that would be extremely rare. .../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
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
sorry.. Yes directory. All operating systems but some more than others.. No it is not a link. That was the first thing I checked. Non of the directories under /opt are links... Just makes no sense why a slective backup of just the missing directory works. Even using same policy just modifying the file selection from ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to /opt./(directory name) works.. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 12:48 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Oh - another idea? Is the directory under /opt a link? ls -ld /opt/skippped name Netbackup does not follow links. My thinking this is an error in perception, rather than a technical problem. Your use of the word folder rather than directory for solaris makes me think you are perhaps a Windows person with Unix as your second language? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Assign catalog tape
(changing subject line) On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:19:45AM -0400, Keating, John wrote: Does anyone know how to quickly specify a certain tape for my catalog backups? Cold or hot? Cold you'd use 'bpsyncinfo' or configure catalog backups from the GUI. Hot you'd need to assign a tape into the pool used by the catalog backup (and make sure no other tapes were in the pool). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
Is it a mountpoint or just a simple directory under /opt? Can you post the output of df -k? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:13 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up sorry.. Yes directory. All operating systems but some more than others.. No it is not a link. That was the first thing I checked. Non of the directories under /opt are links... Just makes no sense why a slective backup of just the missing directory works. Even using same policy just modifying the file selection from ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to /opt./(directory name) works.. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 12:48 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Oh - another idea? Is the directory under /opt a link? ls -ld /opt/skippped name Netbackup does not follow links. My thinking this is an error in perception, rather than a technical problem. Your use of the word folder rather than directory for solaris makes me think you are perhaps a Windows person with Unix as your second language? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up
I guess you've ruled out an exclude list in your installpath/netbackup directory for this specific policy? Here we have some default exclude lists we push out and I'm wondering if maybe you have one that is excluding this because it is an NFS mount somewhere else? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Is it a mountpoint or just a simple directory under /opt? Can you post the output of df -k? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:13 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up sorry.. Yes directory. All operating systems but some more than others.. No it is not a link. That was the first thing I checked. Non of the directories under /opt are links... Just makes no sense why a slective backup of just the missing directory works. Even using same policy just modifying the file selection from ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to /opt./(directory name) works.. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 12:48 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Oh - another idea? Is the directory under /opt a link? ls -ld /opt/skippped name Netbackup does not follow links. My thinking this is an error in perception, rather than a technical problem. Your use of the word folder rather than directory for solaris makes me think you are perhaps a Windows person with Unix as your second language? From: Bobby R Windle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:27 AM To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up Thanks for the response.. On the Solaris server it is skipping a folder under the /opt directory. There are 15 - 20 other folders under /opt that are backing up just fine. I changed permission on the folder that is getting skipped to 777 and it still ignores it. On one of the windows server I found ( but not fully researched) it skips everything under the root folders of local E:\ drive. It creates the folders but skips every thing under. this could be something else.. The Solaris server makes no sense as I can do a selective backup of just that directory and it backs everything up. When I do ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES it has the problem. Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/2008 11:25 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up There's two obvious things to check. Local drives means local - it's not crossing network mounts - check for that. exclusion lists in /usr/openv/netbackup, exclude_list* how are you doing a selective backup? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] folders files not backing up I'm running Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.1 under Solaris 10. Recently I found a folder and every folder file under it, is not backing up. I using ALL_LOCAL_ DRIVES for the selection lists. Also I just found a windows server that also is missing folders files from backups. On the Solaris server, if I do a selective directory backup of the missing folder(s), it works. Any ideas. This has me worried... Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore associates, Inc. Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin work: 302 292 4026 cell : 302 588 7374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.gore.com -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Disk and Media Manager Storage Units and error 84 (media write error) - beginners question (NetBackup 3.4 on Solaris 8)
Dear NetBackup Gurus! I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Actually happens === The backup doesn't switch to the next Storage Unit. I get error 84 (media write error) when the hard drive mounted under /backupdisk_n fills up. The backup keeps trying to use the same Storage Unit each time getting error 84 (while there is space available on the other Disk Storage Units and Media Manager Storage Unit) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? Thank you, Andrey ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk and Media Manager Storage Units and error 84(media write error) - beginners question (NetBackup 3.4 onSolaris 8)
I don't know of any way to do what you want to do with Netbackup, and you have more limitations in NBU3.4 compared to the current version. Then again, you could do a search on Symantec's support site: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.jsp I recommend creating a striped volume using a volume management tool (Symantec Volume Manager or Solaris Disk Suite) to group all your 34GB drives together into one large volume/storage unit. If you want protection for this storage unit against a disk failure then go with RAID1+0 or RAID5 (although RAID5 could slow down your backups due to parity calculations). You could also create smaller stripe sets/storage units if needed; it really depends upon your needs. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrey Halezov Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 16:43 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disk and Media Manager Storage Units and error 84(media write error) - beginners question (NetBackup 3.4 onSolaris 8) Dear NetBackup Gurus! I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Actually happens === The backup doesn't switch to the next Storage Unit. I get error 84 (media write error) when the hard drive mounted under /backupdisk_n fills up. The backup keeps trying to use the same Storage Unit each time getting error 84 (while there is space available on the other Disk Storage Units and Media Manager Storage Unit) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? Thank you, Andrey ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)
I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Many users (myself included) somehow assumed that DSUs would work that way when they were introduced. They don't. DSUs and STUG[roup]s get smarter every release, though; this is the default setting for 6.5 STUGs: Prioritized NetBackup chooses the first storage unit in the list that is not busy, down, or out of media. Also, the storage unit must not have reached the maximum concurrent jobs setting. When one of the specified conditions occurs, the next storage unit in the list is examined until NetBackup finds an available storage unit. If one is not available or if one does not have enough available space, the job fails and is not queued. (Default.) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? If you're expecting a job, a stream, to start on one STU, then continue on another, that's not going to happen (unless it's a new 6.5 thing and someone will correct me if that's the case)--you aren't going to write a 40GB backup to 34GB STUs, no matter how many you have. You may need to adjust your understanding of what a storage unit is. As [EMAIL PROTECTED] points out in his reply, combining your 34GB disks into larger volumes makes them both more usable and more robust. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)
I'm almost positive that 6.5 supports DSU cascading in a single job, just like tape and virtual tape. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob944 Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:00 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer) I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Many users (myself included) somehow assumed that DSUs would work that way when they were introduced. They don't. DSUs and STUG[roup]s get smarter every release, though; this is the default setting for 6.5 STUGs: Prioritized NetBackup chooses the first storage unit in the list that is not busy, down, or out of media. Also, the storage unit must not have reached the maximum concurrent jobs setting. When one of the specified conditions occurs, the next storage unit in the list is examined until NetBackup finds an available storage unit. If one is not available or if one does not have enough available space, the job fails and is not queued. (Default.) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? If you're expecting a job, a stream, to start on one STU, then continue on another, that's not going to happen (unless it's a new 6.5 thing and someone will correct me if that's the case)--you aren't going to write a 40GB backup to 34GB STUs, no matter how many you have. You may need to adjust your understanding of what a storage unit is. As [EMAIL PROTECTED] points out in his reply, combining your 34GB disks into larger volumes makes them both more usable and more robust. ___ 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] folders files not backing up
Just makes no sense why a slective backup of just the missing directory works. Even using same policy just modifying the file selection from ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES to /opt./(directory name) works.. You've looked at the bpbkar log for the processing of the selection list, plus excludes and includes that modify it? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
