Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs
In a nutshell the voldb tracks the physical tapes; where they are in the library, associated barcode, media type, etc. The mediadb records which tape is used for what backup, where on the tape it is, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pitt 71 Sent: 30 September 2008 01:41 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs Hey guys I am new to Netbackup 5.1 and have read through the SysAdmin guides and still a little confused about the voldb and the mediadb. Can someone break down the differences between these two catalogs and the types of infomration each one of them holds. In addition, please send me any detailed information on catalogs in general for Netbackup, thanks. Robert Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. See Now http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs
To add In most situations there will only be 1 volDB located on the master server, then each media server will have its own copy of a mediaDB. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Cheney Sent: 30 September 2008 10:11 To: pitt 71; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs In a nutshell the voldb tracks the physical tapes; where they are in the library, associated barcode, media type, etc. The mediadb records which tape is used for what backup, where on the tape it is, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pitt 71 Sent: 30 September 2008 01:41 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs Hey guys I am new to Netbackup 5.1 and have read through the SysAdmin guides and still a little confused about the voldb and the mediadb. Can someone break down the differences between these two catalogs and the types of infomration each one of them holds. In addition, please send me any detailed information on catalogs in general for Netbackup, thanks. Robert Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. See Now http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/ Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. For all U.K. corporate disclosures, please refer to www.bankofamerica.com/ukcompanies attachment: image001.gif___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality
Check into the verification (verify) option. It's in the GUI under the catalog section, or use bpverify on the command line. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. POUSSARD, Gilles \(APX SYNSTAR\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/2008 10:34 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality Hello, I look a way to be able to re-read my backup images on tape without recovering them , just to check I am able to read them. ( like a tar -tvf check a tar file ) I don't want to do Y copies or duplication on another tape. Is there a way to do that ?? Thanks Gilles. The information in this e-mail is confidential. The contents may not be disclosed or used by anyone other then the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Airbus immediately and delete this e-mail. Airbus cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this e-mail as it has been sent over public networks. If you have any concerns over the content of this message or its Accuracy or Integrity, please contact Airbus immediately. All outgoing e-mails from Airbus are checked using regularly updated virus scanning software but you should take whatever measures you deem to be appropriate to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free. ___ 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] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold
Thanks guys. Some good responses there and yes i can now see why its a good idea and extremely useful for people who don't have down time. My systems are not large enough for me to hit that problem thankfully and so it hasn't been a requirement of mine as yet. I think what i am best doing is enabling hot backups but to run during the day when i can assume most of the jobs have finished. If a job is still running the information for that will be backed up on the next catalogue hot backup, which while will leave me exposed should everything hit the fan before this second hot backup has ran, will still leave me with the majority of good images. Cheers Dave Markham wrote: guys i'm newish to version 6 and one of the big things is it's ability to run hot catalogue backups. Im on solaris with various media servers yada yada I'm just confused as to why running a hot catalogue backup, potentially when other backups are running, is a good thing? I have the catalogues cold backed up when scheduled backups have finished. This runs automatically. I also do a second catalogue backup to disk (invoked from a script calling bpbackupdb -dpath) which waits until any job has finished before running. I just assume this is the best way as you get an up to date latest catalogue backup after the nights backups have finished. Can someone enlighten me or point me to a white paper as to why the hot method is better? I'm sure it is i just can't get it into my small head why at the mo :) Cheers ___ 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] checking backup quality
If you really want to use the tar commands, NBU uses gtar, so you can use that. Or, you can use the tar that comes with NBU (again, it is really gtar) - the path is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/tar Steve On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM, POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I look a way to be able to re-read my backup images on tape without recovering them , just to check I am able to read them. ( like a tar -tvf check a tar file ) I don't want to do Y copies or duplication on another tape. Is there a way to do that ?? Thanks Gilles. The information in this e-mail is confidential. The contents may not be disclosed or used by anyone other then the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Airbus immediately and delete this e-mail. Airbus cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this e-mail as it has been sent over public networks. If you have any concerns over the content of this message or its Accuracy or Integrity, please contact Airbus immediately. All outgoing e-mails from Airbus are checked using regularly updated virus scanning software but you should take whatever measures you deem to be appropriate to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free. ___ 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] Netbackup and VCB
We recently integrated Netbackup 6.5.2 with VCB on a small scale (6 servers in 1 policy). We have 1 VCB Proxy, it is a Windows server (note: it is not a media server). So far so good. We'd like to move every vm over to the new VCB Integration backup method. We have about 150 windows virtual macines. I'm trying to figure out what to counters to monitor on the VCB Proxy as I begin to add more servers to my VCB backup method so I'll know if I need additional VCB Proxies or simply multiple policies that run at different times to avoid snapshot, network, or other resource issues. I'm looking for pointers on what counters to monitor or any advice from people who've implemented Netbackup with VCB. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup
Status 130 is a very generic error with snaps with exchange. It could be multiple issues. You will have to dive into the VSS logs or look into VSS provider logs for your storage array. Are you doing IR snaps as well. Also what storage array are you using. Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:49 PM To: 'Michitsch, John'; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup I haven't seen exactly that (Error attempting to find volumes to snap), but I've just slogged through a variety of 130 errors to get to a working configuration. Are your replicas healthy in the Exchange console? Did you set the HKLM\System\CCS\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem\Enable Remote Streaming Backup registry key, as explained at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa580485(EXCHG.80).aspx? Did you restart the clustered mailbox server after setting the registry key (as is not mentioned at that link but is mentioned in the Exchange help topic)? You do that in the Exchange Management Shell like this: Stop-ClusteredMailboxServer CMSName -StopReason Enable Remote Streaming Backup -Confirm:$False Start-ClusteredMailboxServer CMSName The client-side log you want to be looking at is bpfis, and you'll want to look at it both on the active and on the passive node. While testing, I recommend that you force backups to the passive node (they'll fail with a 130 if it's unavailable), but you probably want to permit falling back to the active node once you're running live. -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 -Original Message- From: Michitsch, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:43 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup Has anyone seen these errors when trying an Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup? The client is the Exchange cluster virtual name. 9/26/2008 10:40:11 AM - begin Create Snapshot 9/26/2008 10:40:29 AM - Critical bpbrm(pid=404) from client ent-mocexcmb10: FTL - snapshot preparation failed - Error attempting to find volumes to snap., status 130 9/26/2008 10:40:29 AM - Critical bpbrm(pid=404) from client ent-mocexcmb10: FTL - snapshot preparation failed, status 130 9/26/2008 10:40:37 AM - end Create Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:00:26 9/26/2008 10:40:39 AM - end writing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oersted Sent: 24 September, 2008 5:42 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup this is spot on Rosenkoetter, Gabriel wrote: You shouldn't be specifying either the active or passive node name as a client, you should be specifying the cluster's virtual name as a client. Also, note that you must run the NetBackup Client Service as an AD-level (not local) account that has local admin access on each server and admin access to the Exchange cluster for LCR/CCR snapshot backups. Running the client as LocalSystem will not work. (The documentation's a bit hazy on this point. It's clear that that's necessary for individual mailbox backups, it's not so clear that it's required for the cluster backups, but it makes sense when you think about it: the Exchange cluster isn't logically attached to either node, so neither node's LocalSystem has sufficient permissions.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery gabriel.rosenkoetter at radian.biz, 215 231 1556 From: Scheef Jr, Ed E. [mailto:CXScheef at tecoenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:36 PM To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 with CCR - Passive Node Backup Folks, We're running Netbackup 6.5.2. We're just now setting up a Netbackup Policy for Exchange 2007 running in a CCR cluster. The backup has been defined to backup the passive node first, but if not available, backup the active node. The question I have is client definition in the Snapshot policy (within Exchange Policy) required to backup the Exchange database: When we put both physical CCR cluster node names in the policy's client list, it starts backups for both nodes, and looks like it does snapshots for both nodes, when only the passive node should be snapshotting, and getting backed up. Why is that happening ?? Anybody have a passive node Exchange backup set up and working ??? An obvious solution would be to take the active node server out of the policy's client list, but then if a failover occurred , and the passive node switched to what is now the active node, would the passive node backup still work without that physical server in
[Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support?
Anyone know what happened to support for Solaris x86/x64 as a NetBackup master? Support was introduced with 6.5.2, but according to the latest software compatibility matrix (9/26/08), it¹s no longer listed is this a mistake? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support?
It's still there but the final row under Solaris x86/x64 got pushed down to the next page. Not very easy to read but the compatibility for this configuration does not appear to have changed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner, Neil Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 14:35 To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support? Anyone know what happened to support for Solaris x86/x64 as a NetBackup master? Support was introduced with 6.5.2, but according to the latest software compatibility matrix (9/26/08), it's no longer listed - is this a mistake? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality
bpverify does verify the integrity of the tape, only the headers of the main tar files/backups. -- I have had bpverifies succeed but restores / bpduplicates fail. On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check into the verification (verify) option. It's in the GUI under the catalog section, or use bpverify on the command line. Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ? Sr. Storage Engineer ? SunGard Availability Services ? 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ? 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support?
I see it now ~thanks. On 9/30/08 2:57 PM, Cornely, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It¹s still there but the final row under Solaris x86/x64 got pushed down to the next page. Not very easy to read but the compatibility for this configuration does not appear to have changed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner, Neil Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 14:35 To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support? Anyone know what happened to support for Solaris x86/x64 as a NetBackup master? Support was introduced with 6.5.2, but according to the latest software compatibility matrix (9/26/08), it¹s no longer listed is this a mistake? ___ 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] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold
Incidentally, I was on a Netbackup 6.5 course last week, the instructor mentioned that cold backups will no longer be available in NB 7.0 Regards, Brendan Clover Information Technologist Systems Infrastructure University of South Australia Phone: +61 8 830 23641 Fax: +61 8 830 25800 Log your own service calls here: http://www.unisa.edu.au/helpdesk AskIT documentation and FAQs: http://www.unisa.edu.au/askit --- This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorised. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately -- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:58:47 +0100 From: Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Thanks guys. Some good responses there and yes i can now see why its a good idea and extremely useful for people who don't have down time. My systems are not large enough for me to hit that problem thankfully and so it hasn't been a requirement of mine as yet. I think what i am best doing is enabling hot backups but to run during the day when i can assume most of the jobs have finished. If a job is still running the information for that will be backed up on the next catalogue hot backup, which while will leave me exposed should everything hit the fan before this second hot backup has ran, will still leave me with the majority of good images. Cheers Dave Markham wrote: guys i'm newish to version 6 and one of the big things is it's ability to run hot catalogue backups. Im on solaris with various media servers yada yada I'm just confused as to why running a hot catalogue backup, potentially when other backups are running, is a good thing? I have the catalogues cold backed up when scheduled backups have finished. This runs automatically. I also do a second catalogue backup to disk (invoked from a script calling bpbackupdb -dpath) which waits until any job has finished before running. I just assume this is the best way as you get an up to date latest catalogue backup after the nights backups have finished. Can someone enlighten me or point me to a white paper as to why the hot method is better? I'm sure it is i just can't get it into my small head why at the mo :) Cheers ___ 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 End of Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43 ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
