[Veritas-bu] Poll: How many times do you use a cleaning tape?
okay, so it goes like this.. tape drive costs $10K cleaning tape $75 use it half the amount of times they say to use it and you're always safe and who cares? at this point , you're navel gazing next thread jpiszcz wrote: Quick poll, While various errata state the cleaning tape usage count can be as high as 50, others state 25. Currently we use Sun Universal Cleaning tapes (CLNUXXCU) where XX = a number. How many times do other people use their cleaning tapes? 25, 50 or some other number of times? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu +-- |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] Reduce Volume Pools
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To give you an example, lets say I have 5 SAP Servers. Each one has a total of 3 Volume Pools (Offline Backups, Redo Log Backups and Online Backups). 5 x 3 = 15 Volume Pools. Yuck. No wonder you want to fix that. My aim was to reduce this down to say 3 pools (SAP OFFLINE, SAP ONLINE and SAP REDO). Any SAP systems presently known to NetBackup or future backups for SAP can use these pools. Thus, trying to help reduce the amount of tapes in use. You should attempt to reduce those three and combine them with all of the other backups. Do you really, really need to have physically separate tapes for your SAP backups versus your file system backups? In most environments, the answer is no. You don't even need a separate pool for online vs offline tapes - NetBackup knows if the tape is in the robot or not. We used to have separate pools by platform but don't even do that any more. The fewer pools you have, the more likely you are to fill tapes. Whatever you do, don't try to mix retentions on the same tape to reduce tape utilization. That could end up using a lot more tape in the long run rather than less (if 90% of the tape is incrementals and there's a 7-year backup on the same tape, then you can't reuse the space of those incrementals for 7 years). .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] End Of Life - NetBackup 5.1
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:57 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this. I have a contract with Maintenance Support on NetBackup, but I just had concerns that come Dec 31st 2008, End Of Life meant Sorry, we cannot take this call as the product is no longer supported. So I wanted to be 100% sure this would not happen. Shame Symantec cannot post anything on their site to clarify this. Shame on you for not googling for this. ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/290017.pdf END OF SUPPORT LIFE: When the versions identified in the table above reach their End of Support Life, we will cease providing any Standard Support and any Partial Support. Please refer to the worldwide Symantec Corporation Enterprise Technical Support Policy (Policy) This Policy may be updated from time to time, and a current version is located at: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/support/Symantec_Support_Policy.pdf In the event of conflict between timelines or deliverables stated in this notice letter and those stated in the Policy, the terms of this notice letter will control to the extent of such conflict, and only with respect to the specific products and versions covered in this notice. The way I read it is that Symantec is certainly within its right to say Sorry, we cannot take this call as the product is no longer supported. You can get online self-help and documentation, but that's about it. If you want to call Symantec for support, it's time to upgrade. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netapp NBU NDMP ?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Michael Graff Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: We have just had a presentation by Netapp and it seemed they could solve some of our problems My question is how is your experience with Netapp NBU NDMP ? The only issue we've seen is NDMP to DSSU failing to destage. We've got an EEB on the way. NDMP to tape even in an SSO environment works fine. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating Image
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Roedy boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any change to duplicate image on tape to another tape using schedule/policy (not using vault). for exp : I want to run backup on 8pm and the duplicate the image on 10pm. That's what storage lifecycle policies are all about. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Media Type
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:54 AM, rvadde [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: We currently have a lot of investment in LTO3 Drives and Tapes and moving forward with LTO4. Is there a way we can se LTO4 Media Type to be different than HCART3 in Netbackup? The problem is that if you have only 1 scratch pool. Mixing LTO-3 and LTO-4 can cause you some grief. NetBackup 7.0 gets rid of hcart, hcart3, etc. and does the right thing. In theory :-) .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Administration - Automating Ejection of Duplicate Copies to be offsited
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jeffery Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Is there a way to automate the ejection of the offsite volumes without the Vault Option? Sure, but you're just writing your own vault. Vault was originally developed as a set of scripts for use by a Veritas Professional Services analyst. All the hooks are there for you to do it yourself, but you need to look at the cost of writing and maintaining it yourself versus just buying the option. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 Media Type
We currently have a lot of investment in LTO3 Drives and Tapes and moving forward with LTO4. Is there a way we can se LTO4 Media Type to be different than HCART3 in Netbackup? Yes, call it whatever you want. Either manually or with barcode rules, bring your new LTO4 media in as hcart. Make your LTO4 drives also hcart. If your LTO3 drives and LTO3 media are both hcart3, NetBackup will only put hcart3 tapes in hcart3 drives, hcart into hcart, 8mm into 8mm... The problem is that if you have only 1 scratch pool. Mixing LTO-3 and LTO-4 can cause you some grief. Unless I'm having a memory parity error--always possible--I used to run 5.x (at least, probably earlier), a scratch pool and two drive types with corresponding media. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
