Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[WALLEBROEK Bart]

>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:53:57 -0500
>From: Tim Hoke 
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results
>To: WALLEBROEK Bart 
>Cc: "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu"
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>What is the reporting software?
>
>Thanks
>-Tim
>
>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM, WALLEBROEK Bart
>wrote:

BackupReport from Bocada.  I received a newly engineered plugin this morning 
that will be able to talk to NBU 6.5.4.  I will test this next week.

Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK
Backup admin
S.W.I.F.T.

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[Veritas-bu] NB 6.5.3 slow response for administrative tasks

[Kathryn Hemness]

Greetings,

I'm having some performance issues with various administrative
tasks in NetBackup 6.5.3.1 on a new master server and fewer than
20 active backup policies.

My master server is a Dell PE2950 server with 16GB memory running
Redhat 4 update 7.

What I'm seeing is really poor response when adding or changing
backup policy specifications.  Sometimes to update the backup
windows via the Admin console, it takes longer than 2 minutes - even
when there is no other activity.

I've also seen significant pauses when activating/deactivating
policies via the command line.

Are there system or database parameters that can be set to 
optimize response?  What worries me is that if I'm seeing this lousy
response on an unloaded master server, what will I see when it's
busy backing up a couple hundred clients?


--Kathy

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[Veritas-bu] Tape drives not seen - fibre channel config

[Jeff Cleverley]

Greetings,

I know this isn't a specific Veritas question but I'm guessing someone 
may have run into this problem while setting up a new installation.


I'm trying to get a new 6.5.3 installation ready for some testing on a 
linux RHEL 4.5 server using a qlogic QLE2462 card.  The tape libraries 
are HP/Compac MSL6000 libraries with Ultrium 2 drives and the e1200-160 
fibre bridges.  For this test I'm using a Brocade 3800 silkworm.


The problem that I have is nothing past the robotic controller gets 
recognized on one bridge.  The robotic is lun 0, and then drives at lun 
1 and lun 2. 

Is there some lun mapping or instance type issues associated with linux 
or any of the pieces I'm trying to put into place?  The output of 
/proc/scsi/qla2xxx/0 is below.  You can see it sees both targets but 
luns 0-2 on Id 0 say they are not registered for some reason.  Lun 3 is 
the robotic controller but the fibre bridge actually has the robot as 
lun 0.  I'm not sure why it shows up here as 3.


QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for QLE2462:
   Firmware version 4.04.00 [IP] [84XX] , Driver version 8.02.14.01
BIOS version 1.08
FCODE version 1.13
EFI version 1.02
Flash FW version 4.00.12 0002
ISP: ISP2432
Request Queue = 0x3d98, Response Queue = 0x3d95
Request Queue count = 4096, Response Queue count = 512
Total number of active commands = 0
Total number of interrupts = 3661
   Device queue depth = 0x10
Number of free request entries = 3993
Number of mailbox timeouts = 0
Number of ISP aborts = 0
Number of loop resyncs = 0
Number of retries for empty slots = 0
Number of reqs in pending_q= 0, retry_q= 0, done_q= 0, scsi_retry_q= 0
Host adapter:loop state = , flags = 0x5a43
Dpc flags = 0x0
MBX flags = 0x0
Link down Timeout = 045
Port down retry = 045
Login retry count = 045
Commands retried with dropped frame(s) = 0
Product ID =    

SCSI Device Information:
scsi-qla0-adapter-node=201b3206c267;
scsi-qla0-adapter-port=211b3206c267;
scsi-qla0-target-0=10e00222ddf1;
scsi-qla0-target-1=10e00222efa0;

FC Port Information:
scsi-qla0-port-0=10e00202ddf1:10e00222ddf1:010d00:81;
scsi-qla0-port-1=10e00202efa0:10e00222efa0:010e00:82;

SCSI LUN Information:
(Id:Lun)  * - indicates lun is not registered with the OS.
( 0: 0): Total reqs 3, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0*, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:81 08
( 0: 1): Total reqs 0, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0*, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:81 01
( 0: 2): Total reqs 0, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0*, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:81 01
( 0: 3): Total reqs 0, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:81 0c
( 1: 0): Total reqs 9, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:82 01
( 1: 1): Total reqs 7, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:82 01
( 1: 2): Total reqs 2, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:82 0c

Any ideas why the system isn't seeing the drives on ID 0?  The library 
I'm zoning into for these tests is a production box so I don't have the 
option of changing ID's on the fibre bridge.


Thanks,

Jeff

--

Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.clever...@avagotech.com

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[Veritas-bu] MS SQL Restore

[Randy Doering]

Got a MS SQL user who needs a restore of MS SQL database from last night.

We've been doing these SQL backups and this is the first time a restore is 
needed. It was already in place when I got here.

The user is in the SQL part of NBU (6.5.3) and kicks off  his restore request - 
with the "start/end dates selected.

The process sits for a moment and then he gets: "ERROR Initializing NetBackup 
Catalog. This could be caused by a missing or expired NetBackup license key".

I put a "MS SQL Server extension" license key on the media server that does the 
backups, but the error is still there.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Thanks,
Randy
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[Rusty . Major]

Be sure you follow the documentation, even though it's scattered through 
several different docs. Most of the other stuff has been mentioned 
already, but you also need to pay attention to supported patch levels and 
hardware. If PBX is already installed, you need to make sure that's at the 
proper version.

Though it's been said, make sure your catalog is squeaky clean by opening 
a case with Symantec and running the NBCC tool until they say it's ok. And 
build in time to complete a cold catalog backup when you're done.

Verify proper forward and reverse lookup operates properly. PBX is quite 
dependent on proper reverse lookups. If you have multiple interfaces, this 
becomes more of a challenge.

If you have a third party reporting product (Aptare, etc.) you'll need to 
make some changes, contact the vendor. Any scripts you have may need to be 
edited due to changes in command syntax and/or output.

Good luck, it's not a big deal as long as you prepared up front.

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and a copy of /usr/openv for quick restore


>  ---Original Message---
>  From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
>  Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3
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>  This is a big upgrade
> 
> 
>  Get the upgrade docs and follow them!
> 
> 
>  Have good catalog backup before you start.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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> 
> 
>  > I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from
>  > 5.1 to 6.5.3,
>  ...
>  > Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have
>  > any words of caution or gotchaΆs that they can offer?
> 
>  You might want to review
> 
>  [LINK: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm]
>  http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm
> 
>  and see if there's anything there that might cause an issue in your
>  environment.
> 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6 .5.3

[smpt1]

and a copy of /usr/openv for quick restore


>  ---Original Message---
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>  Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3
>  Sent: May 28 '09 20:27
>  
>  This is a big upgrade
>  
>  
>  Get the upgrade docs and follow them!
>  
>  
>  Have good catalog backup before you start.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  FROM: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
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>  
>  
>  > I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from
>  > 5.1 to 6.5.3,
>  ...
>  > Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have
>  > any words of caution or gotchaΆs that they can offer?
>  
>  You might want to review
>  
>  [LINK: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm]
>  http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm
>  
>  and see if there's anything there that might cause an issue in your
>  environment.
>  
>  -
>  Bluejay Adametz
>  
>  "Communication is the imparting of meaningful informational modes or
>  concepts that impact on interpersonal inputs and interfacings." -
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[judy_hinchcliffe]

This is a big upgrade

 

Get the upgrade docs and follow them!

 

Have good catalog backup before you start.

 



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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

 

> I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 
> 5.1 to 6.5.3, 
... 
> Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have 
> any words of caution or gotcha's that they can offer? 

You might want to review 

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm
  

and see if there's anything there that might cause an issue in your
environment. 

  -
Bluejay Adametz 
  
"Communication is the imparting of meaningful informational modes or  
concepts that impact on interpersonal inputs and interfacings." -
MacNelly 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[Bluejay]

> I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 
> 5.1 to 6.5.3, 
...
> Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have 
> any words of caution or gotcha’s that they can offer?

You might want to review

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315021.htm

and see if there's anything there that might cause an issue in your 
environment.

  - 
Bluejay Adametz
 
"Communication is the imparting of meaningful informational modes or 
concepts that impact on interpersonal inputs and interfacings." - MacNelly 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[ratheesh . das]

You need to do consistency check using NBCC.
Netbackup services should be done before upgrading.

Please find the steps which I have performed.

1.  Preparing your server for upgrade

a)  Ensure that the server list defined on the master server doesn’t 
contain any media servers that are not valid. If any invalid servers are 
detected during upgrade, it can cause errors.
 
b)  Ensure that there are no non active media servers assigned to 
storage unit.

c)  Ensure that there are no image, media or volume database 
inconsistencies. The NBCC must be installed and run on the server before 
upgrading to ensure that all the db information is consistent.

d)  Deactivate all the policies before upgrade.

2.  Summary of sequence to upgrade to 6.5

a)  Ensure that the current version of NetBackup is having latest 
Maintenance patch.
b)  If the file /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/driver/snapctl10_x exists, 
remove it.
c)  Remove the current NetBackup server package using pkgrm VRTSnetbp.
d)  Ensure that you have all the license keys before hand.
e)  Go to the folder where you have the software for NetBackup server 
and run the install script.
f)  Since we don’t have PBX installed in our system, it will ask us to 
install the corresponding package for PBX ie VRTSpbx.
g)  During the activities it will ask us whether we want to start all 
the daemons for NetBackup. Answer in affirmative.
h)  Caution: Do not run nbpushdata this time.
i)  Verify that all the NetBackup policies are still deactivated but 
all NetBackup services should be running.
j)  Suspend netbackup resource allocation before running the 
nbpushdata command.  
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbrbutil –suspend
k)  Delete all the files in /usr/openv/netbackup/remote_versions.
l)  Run the nbpushdata –add command. This command moves data from your 
current database files into a newly created EMM Database. 
m)  Stop and restart the NetBackup services.
Thanks ,

Ratheesh 

"Success is when your Signature becomes Autograph"



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Hi All,
 
I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 5.1 to 
6.5.3, I have followed the latest upgrade checklist and everything looks 
good to go.
 
Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have any 
words of caution or gotcha’s that they can offer?
 
My solution consists of one Solaris 9 master server and two Solaris 9 
media servers connected to 10 LTO2 tapes drives via fibre.
 
The clients are a mixture of Windows, Linux and Solaris but they will be 
upgraded at a later date.
 
Thanks in advance,

Steve.
 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[WEAVER, Simon (external)]

Steve
Essentially, I done an upgrade yesterday. It was not too bad - make sure
your NBCC -upgrade is absolutely clean before starting.
 
For me, I took an image backup of the Master Server, Full Catalog Backup
of Master / SAN Media Servers to disk and tape and then removed tape
from the library.
 
Made an "offline" copy of catalog to a completely seperate disk while
Services were down and Registry keys and license keys of all Master /
Media Servers.
Made sure I had the 5.1 Software and MP7 to hand (just in case I had to
revert).
 
Finally, check no backups are running during this phase.
 
My environment was all Windows and apart from one niggle problem to do
with ltid, I had to raise a call with Symantec to get this fixed.
Otherwise, its been ok.
 
Simon



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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3



Hi All,

 

I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 5.1
to 6.5.3, I have followed the latest upgrade checklist and everything
looks good to go.

 

Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have any
words of caution or gotcha's that they can offer?

 

My solution consists of one Solaris 9 master server and two Solaris 9
media servers connected to 10 LTO2 tapes drives via fibre.

 

The clients are a mixture of Windows, Linux and Solaris but they will be
upgraded at a later date.

 

Thanks in advance,



Steve.

 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[Kalusche, Dan]

When we upgraded on HP-UX, we had a couple bomb outs during the process
as some files that were slated to be upgraded were still being used...
Be sure that all NB processes on the master are stopped prior to the
upgrade...
We lost about an hour on that one...



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Hi All,

 

I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 5.1
to 6.5.3, I have followed the latest upgrade checklist and everything
looks good to go.

 

Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have any
words of caution or gotcha's that they can offer?

 

My solution consists of one Solaris 9 master server and two Solaris 9
media servers connected to 10 LTO2 tapes drives via fibre.

 

The clients are a mixture of Windows, Linux and Solaris but they will be
upgraded at a later date.

 

Thanks in advance,



Steve.

 


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[Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

[Jenner, Steven]

Hi All,

 

I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 5.1
to 6.5.3, I have followed the latest upgrade checklist and everything
looks good to go.

 

Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have any
words of caution or gotcha's that they can offer?

 

My solution consists of one Solaris 9 master server and two Solaris 9
media servers connected to 10 LTO2 tapes drives via fibre.

 

The clients are a mixture of Windows, Linux and Solaris but they will be
upgraded at a later date.

 

Thanks in advance,



Steve.

 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[Tim Hoke]

What is the reporting software?

Thanks
-Tim

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM, WALLEBROEK Bart
wrote:

> >Message: 10
> >Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:35:37 +0200
> >From: "Akker Henk van den" 
> >Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results
> >To: 
> >Message-ID: 
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> >I'm curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new
> >version?
> >
> >
> >
> >Henk van den Akker
> >
>
>
> I have upgraded 2 remote production environments last week Friday (1 small
> environment (1 Master/Media) and a large one (clustered Master)).
>
> On NetBackup side I did not see ANY issue.  The only issue we have right
> now is that our backup reporting software (none-NetBackup) does not
> recognize the version of NetBackup so it cannot update.  This issue should
> be solved by the end of this week.
>
> I plan to upgrade 2 other remote environments (1 large and 1 small) next
> week and after another 2 weeks I will upgrade our 2 main environments (1
> large (1 Master + 1 Media Server) and 1 very large one (clustered Master +
> 34 Media Servers))
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Bart WALLEBROEK
> Backup Admin
> S.W.I.F.T.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Single Node Linux NFS Server Flashbackup

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Martin, Jonathan wrote:

>  Considering our success with Flashbackup on Windows, I'm hoping to pitch
> the same for a new NFS file server we're looking to implement.
> Unfortunately, I don't know much about VxFS.  Has anyone implemented this
> successfully with RHEL 5 in a NFS server configuration with multiple
> terabytes of data?
>

As a database server, yes.  As a file server, no.  Lots of vxfs around here
but our FlashBackup work on vxfs has been on Solaris.

See
ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/279042.pdffor
the compatibility details.  RHEL 5 didn't become supported until 6.5.4
which isn't due out for another few weeks.

Does anyone know what pricing and options I'll need for Storage Foundation?
> I'm assuming I'll simply present the space and then use some new command
> line tools to format the volume with VxFS.  After it is formatted, would you
> say that volume more or less similarly to a ext3 or ext4 volume
> (permissions, NFS etc..)
>

If you're already used to a logical volume manager, then vxfs isn't that
bad.  Stay up to date on patches though!


> Other than the native NBU client, NDMP and hardware based solutions, does
> anyone have any other ideas on quickly moving large amount of NFS file data?
> (Millions of small files etc..)
>

rsync + mfork.  It sucks less than other options.

I just finished moving a 20TB application with about 150M files on it from
Ibrix file systems on Linux to a NetApp filer.  We also moved other file
systems from xfs to NetApps containing another couple of hundred million
files.

Grab the latest (3.0.x) release of rsync, and pipe your rsync commands into
mfork for parallelism.  Run as many streams as you can until the users
complain or you bury your network interfaces.  I've done both :-).  Do lots
of logging.

To efficiently move the data, you need to understand the data to determine
how best to parallelize the moves.  You can't blindly move the data since
Murphy's law says (and we've validated) that you'll have 1 tree in the set
that will take forever to move, blocking all your other moves.

> .../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
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Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:16 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net> wrote:

> When is 6.5.4 out?


http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/318005.htm


> I upgraded 6.5.2 yesterday


6.5.3.1 has been out for quite a while already.


.../Ed

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Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[WEAVER, Simon (external)]

When is 6.5.4 out?
I upgraded 6.5.2 yesterday
Simon 

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>Message: 10
>Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:35:37 +0200
>From: "Akker Henk van den" 
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results
>To: 
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>
>Hello,
>
>
>
>I'm curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new 
>version?
>
>
>
>Henk van den Akker
>


I have upgraded 2 remote production environments last week Friday (1
small environment (1 Master/Media) and a large one (clustered Master)).

On NetBackup side I did not see ANY issue.  The only issue we have right
now is that our backup reporting software (none-NetBackup) does not
recognize the version of NetBackup so it cannot update.  This issue
should be solved by the end of this week.

I plan to upgrade 2 other remote environments (1 large and 1 small) next
week and after another 2 weeks I will upgrade our 2 main environments (1
large (1 Master + 1 Media Server) and 1 very large one (clustered Master
+ 34 Media Servers))


Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK
Backup Admin
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Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[WALLEBROEK Bart]

>Message: 10
>Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:35:37 +0200
>From: "Akker Henk van den" 
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results
>To: 
>Message-ID: 
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Hello,
>
>
>
>I'm curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new
>version?
>
>
>
>Henk van den Akker
>


I have upgraded 2 remote production environments last week Friday (1 small 
environment (1 Master/Media) and a large one (clustered Master)).

On NetBackup side I did not see ANY issue.  The only issue we have right now is 
that our backup reporting software (none-NetBackup) does not recognize the 
version of NetBackup so it cannot update.  This issue should be solved by the 
end of this week.

I plan to upgrade 2 other remote environments (1 large and 1 small) next week 
and after another 2 weeks I will upgrade our 2 main environments (1 large (1 
Master + 1 Media Server) and 1 very large one (clustered Master + 34 Media 
Servers))


Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK
Backup Admin
S.W.I.F.T.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] FW: 6.5.4 FA results

[Carl Elkins]

Akker Henk van den wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new level?

We upgraded our production environment yesterday, so not exactly a 
long-term test, yet, but so far, so good...

It *appears* to have addressed problems that we were seeing with nbpem 
in all versions after 6.5.2GA, where it simply failed up run jobs :-(
The coming weekend will be an interesting test - we usually have some 
6000 jobs, ~200TB of data to tape.

> 
> And what they think of it.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Henk van den Akker
> 
> NV WML
> 
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[Veritas-bu] FW: 6.5.4 FA results

[Akker Henk van den]

Hello,

 

I'm curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new
level?

And what they think of it.

 

Regards, 

Henk van den Akker

NV WML



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[Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 FA results

[Akker Henk van den]

Hello,

 

I'm curious whether there are people who already upgraded to the new
version?

 

Henk van den Akker

NV WML



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