Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SQL and Transaction logs?
John Maybe I am doing it wrong, but this is what I do ... 1) Single .bch file called "SQL_Backup.bch" with the following: OPERATION BACKUP DATABASE $ALL SQLHOST "" NBSERVER "" MAXTRANSFERSIZE 0 BLOCKSIZE 7 ENDOPER TRUE This is created for a policy called "SQL_FULL_BACKUPS". This allows me to do a FULL Online SQL DB Backup of all DB's Now for the Transaction logs, I do the following: 1) Single .bch file called "SQL_Backup_TXLogs.bch" with the following: OPERATION BACKUP DATABASE $ALL SQLHOST "" NBSERVER "" MAXTRANSFERSIZE 0 BLOCKSIZE 7 OBJECTTYPE TRXLOG ENDOPER TRUE This is then created for a second policy called "SQL_TX_LOGS" and runs AFTER the full SQL Backup has run (usually 12 hours after the SQL Full Backup Window starts). I have had to restore SQL from the Full and Logs, and the DBA's have never complained. I read through the SQL Admin guide to get most of this done. Does this make sence, or answer your questions? Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of j.keat...@tachi-s.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:11 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SQL and Transaction logs? Hello All, I've been backing up several SQL servers for quite some time now and through re-creating a "disaster recovery" situation and reading through SAP section of the NetBackup SQL Admin guide I notice the section for backing up transaction logs. After going through the SQL transaction log creation wizard, I verified the changes in that batch file to my original "Full" SQL batch file that I've been using. The changes were these 2 lines: BROWSECLIENT "CLIENT_NAME" OBJECTTYPE TRXLOG Am I correct to think that without these 2 lines in my batch file that a complete restore of the databases for SAP or otherwise would not happen? Should I simply add these 2 lines to my original batch file? Thanks for your help. Regards, John Keating Information Technology Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc. 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. -o- 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] Does netbackup the 5.1 client agent backup(oracle/sql) works with 6.53 master /media ?
Hi I do have some 5.1 clients, but to be honest, this is due to other factors stopping me upgrading them. I would try to upgrade the clients where possible, to take advantange of all the features 6.5.x offers. If you are getting a status 54, it sounds like comms issues Between your new upgraded client and the updated Master Server. The Master Server must be able to communicate with the client. Status 54 goes into some details here... http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/257698.htm http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/193082.htm Make sure the client has been correctly added to the new policy on the new Backup Server. Hope this helps a little Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of suresh_natara...@toyota.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Does netbackup the 5.1 client agent backup(oracle/sql) works with 6.53 master /media ? Hi, Just want to know your if any one out there who are successfully running netbackup clients in 5.1 version (including the Oracle, SAp & SQL) agent backups. in 653 master/media environemnt Because we tried to upgrade our environment one Master server (solaris 9) & Two media server (solaris 9) to 653 & rest of the media server in 5.1 mixed mode including clients. After the upgrade we ran the test backup of the Oracle /sql agent backup & filesystem backup was running fine. suddently after an hour all the agent backup started to fail with error code 54, when we try to run many jobs. We tried to fix it but not successful, so we rolled back to 5.1 now & all works fine. Is this an know bug (or) is there a config/tuning that we are missing? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Suresh Natarajan TFS Storage & Backup DNE South Campus, Torrance, Work : (310) 468 9308 Cell : (310) 503 0901 mail to: suresh_natara...@toyota.com Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 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. -o- 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] Converting physical Linux master to virtual
Thanks guys. Just to clarify, we have no intention of doing any backups to the master server, either to disk or tape. All of the backups will be performed by physical media servers. Having said that, I haven't really thought about catalog backups yet. Luckily I will have a chance to test this to a certain extent next week as we are performing a DR test, and are going to attempt to rebuild the physical master as a VM at the recovery site. I'll report back here on how it goes! Regards Dean On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dean wrote: > >> Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me >> to post this. >> >> Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. >> >> Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning to >> convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main reason we >> want to do this is to simplify DR. >> > > Virtual master servers are supported, but don't expect fast disk. We have > an open ticket for sucky disk performance with VMware at the moment that > they've duplicated. If we install Win2008 on the bare metal, we can push > over 100MB/sec to disk. Put a Win2008 guest in ESX on the same hardware and > the disk I/O tops out at about 30MB/sec. > > Your idea is a good one (in theory), but be very cautious about performance > along the way. > > .../Ed > > Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE > ewi...@ewilts.org > > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dean wrote: > Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me > to post this. > > Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. > > Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning to > convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main reason we > want to do this is to simplify DR. > Virtual master servers are supported, but don't expect fast disk. We have an open ticket for sucky disk performance with VMware at the moment that they've duplicated. If we install Win2008 on the bare metal, we can push over 100MB/sec to disk. Put a Win2008 guest in ESX on the same hardware and the disk I/O tops out at about 30MB/sec. Your idea is a good one (in theory), but be very cautious about performance along the way. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Does netbackup the 5.1 client agent backup(oracle/sql) works with 6.53 master /media ?
I would not advise using an agent to backup to a different version Media server, especially one so far downrev as you have described. Your problem sounds like you have something else going on in your environment. A 54 means it cannot reach the client at all and it seems strange that it worked and then stopped, then worked again when you rolled back. What were the results of your communication tests between the media and client before rolling back? 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. Sent by: 10/13/2009 04:03 PM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Does netbackup the 5.1 client agent backup(oracle/sql) works with 6.53 master /media ? Hi, Just want to know your if any one out there who are successfully running netbackup clients in 5.1 version (including the Oracle, SAp & SQL) agent backups. in 653 master/media environemnt Because we tried to upgrade our environment one Master server (solaris 9) & Two media server (solaris 9) to 653 & rest of the media server in 5.1 mixed mode including clients. After the upgrade we ran the test backup of the Oracle /sql agent backup & filesystem backup was running fine. suddently after an hour all the agent backup started to fail with error code 54, when we try to run many jobs. We tried to fix it but not successful, so we rolled back to 5.1 now & all works fine. Is this an know bug (or) is there a config/tuning that we are missing? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Suresh Natarajan TFS Storage & Backup DNE South Campus, Torrance, Work : (310) 468 9308 Cell : (310) 503 0901 mail to: suresh_natara...@toyota.com Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. ___ 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] Converting physical Linux master to virtual
Massive data transfer through virtual HBA is reportedly difficult. Bare metal might be better. If this is a true Master Server, not a Media Server, I'm going to guess there's no issues. If this, however, needs to access tape drives, you might want to investigate the limitations of virtual HBAs or using those pass-thru devices I think they support now. BTW, I'm far from being an ESX expert. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me to post this. Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning to convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main reason we want to do this is to simplify DR. Of course, the virtual master won't be doing any actual backups. The current physical master will be converted to a media server, and keep performing the backups it currently does as a master. The virtual master will keep the same hostname as the physical master. It will really just host the catalog and trigger schedules. Ultimately, we'd put it under SRM control so we have cross-site failover of the master server for DR. Has anyone done something similar? Anything I should look out for? Thanks, Dean ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master
The goal is to get off of the aging V880 and onto a cheaper Linux platform. At the same time, we've had a couple high-profile hardware failures in the past couple months and, since the hardware is cheap (and the VCS license is "free" thanks to our site license), putting in a cluster seems a way to add reliability for the cost of a $5000 x86 box. I don't intend to rename the master server, I'll move the name and, I thought, make it the HA name for the pair - thus getting around the infamous "can't rename the master server" problem. That's why I was thinking this would be easy to pull off. I don't know if the company will spring for $15k worth of services, though. Kinda doubles the cost of the whole project. From: Bryan Bahnmiller [mailto:bbahnmil...@dtcc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM To: Donaldson, Mark Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master Mark, Ugh... Don't envy that task. A few comments. The master server has to run on the virtual name (relocatable IP and dns name.) This name and the names of the individual nodes are in the EMM db. If you kept the name of the current master as your virtual name, it should be a simpler task. Also, the agent is very intrusive. (Especially on Windows.) There are agent options that can only be set via the bpclusterutil command. That tells me that the agent is not all that, what, conforming? At the conference I went to, a Symantec employee was asked why changing the name of the backup server is not supported. He said that the name of the NBU master server is in 14 different places on Windows servers and 11 places on Unix servers. And the names in the different places have to be changed in the correct order. One mistake and nothing works. I sat in on some very interesting discussions about NBU HA. What are you trying to accomplish? Most of the people I talked with agreed that the main thing HA will give you is the capability of doing server maintenance with minimal impact. Most hardware now is pretty reliable. When was the last time you had a nic or hba fail? When the server fails over, all backups stop. After a failover, you will still have to clear out tape drives, restart backups and so on. The only currently allowed HA configuration is active/passive. So you do have one server sitting there idling, waiting for the other server to fail over. Also, if you have the disk mirrored with VxVM, you'll have to see if that is supported with the Linux agent for failover too. Bryan "Donaldson, Mark" Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 10/13/2009 02:32 PM To cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide: = NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec Enterprise Technical Support. = Huh? Should be easy, I'd think. Why would I need Tech Support? Has anyone done this? BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can pull this off... -Mark ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _ DTCC DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and delete the email and any attachments from your system. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Does netbackup the 5.1 client agent backup(oracle/sql) works with 6.53 master /media ?
Hi, Just want to know your if any one out there who are successfully running netbackup clients in 5.1 version (including the Oracle, SAp & SQL) agent backups. in 653 master/media environemnt Because we tried to upgrade our environment one Master server (solaris 9) & Two media server (solaris 9) to 653 & rest of the media server in 5.1 mixed mode including clients. After the upgrade we ran the test backup of the Oracle /sql agent backup & filesystem backup was running fine. suddently after an hour all the agent backup started to fail with error code 54, when we try to run many jobs. We tried to fix it but not successful, so we rolled back to 5.1 now & all works fine. Is this an know bug (or) is there a config/tuning that we are missing? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Suresh Natarajan TFS Storage & Backup DNE South Campus, Torrance, Work : (310) 468 9308 Cell : (310) 503 0901 mail to: suresh_natara...@toyota.com Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual
Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me to post this. Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning to convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main reason we want to do this is to simplify DR. Of course, the virtual master won't be doing any actual backups. The current physical master will be converted to a media server, and keep performing the backups it currently does as a master. The virtual master will keep the same hostname as the physical master. It will really just host the catalog and trigger schedules. Ultimately, we'd put it under SRM control so we have cross-site failover of the master server for DR. Has anyone done something similar? Anything I should look out for? Thanks, Dean ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
Simon, Here's a link to an archive of a post that Tanuja K. (most awesome SAN client engineer ever!) gave about 4 months ago. I would also recommend checking the 6.5.4 updates as well. http://www.mail-archive.com/veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu/msg22839.html 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. "WEAVER, Simon (external)" Sent by: 10/13/2009 11:21 AM To "VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU" cc Subject [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems that I need an FT Media Server to handle this ! Any comments would be appreicated, even if it is a "dont do it" :-) Regards Simon 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. -o- 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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Donaldson, Mark wrote: > Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide: > > = > NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover > NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec > Enterprise Technical Support. > = > > Huh? > > Should be easy, I'd think. Why would I need Tech Support? > I would think that converting one would mean renaming the master server. At last week's NetBackup Customer Forum in Roseville, at the "Ask the Wizards" session, I again raised the question of when Symantec would support us renaming a master server. The answer was "when it requires less than 15 steps on a Windows server - and those steps have to be done in *exactly* the right order." Apparently it's down to 10 steps if you edit the registry, which means you're unsupported by both Symantec and Microsoft :-). We didn't discuss how easier or harder it would be on *nix. Has anyone done this? > > BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can > pull this off... > Unofficially, apparently there are no differences in the binary format of the catalog between Solaris and Linux. EMM might be another story. Now I would expect you (or somebody) to eventually test this. And then report back, because I'm thinking about a Solaris to Linux migration too :-) .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master
Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide: = NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec Enterprise Technical Support. = Huh? Should be easy, I'd think. Why would I need Tech Support? Has anyone done this? BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can pull this off... -Mark ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
Simon, I think that some of the replies on the list are not quite correct. We are implementing the SAN Client/FT Media Server for a production data centre, and I've spent several months working on it in our test labs. It's true that the documentation is slightly confusing, especially if you don't get the latest versions. The book to read is the Shared Storage Guide that was updated at 6.5.4. There is also a technote with troubleshooting information. The *licence* for the SAN Client is the same Enterprise Client licence as allows you to run the SAN Media Server, and this naming causes a lot of confusion. You do indeed need an 'FT Media Server', which is a normal media server that has some very specific fibre HBAs installed. There is a *very* narrow support matrix. The only supported platforms at the moment are Solaris/SPARC and Linux (I think RHEL4, and that is new at 6.5.4). We are using Solaris/SPARC. We are using Sun-badged Qlogic HBAs; the HBAs must be Qlogic, and again only some are supported. These HBAs are reconfigured as part of the setup to work in target mode. This incidentally causes various tools like 'fcinfo' to not see them at all any more. You can do this 'card marking' in a server other then the one you want to use as an FT Media Server, e.g. to cut down downtime. Once marked the HBAs can be installed where you want. *But* on Solaris only target HBAs on one PCI bus will be used, so you need to choose a server that not only has a fast PCI-X or PCIe bus but also enough slots on that bus for your needs. There are limits on the number of ports an FT Media Server can support, about 4 I think (2 x dual-port cards). A special driver by jungo is attached to these HBAs in the FT Media Server when you enable the function. You will then have a couple more NetBackup processes running, and the server will be presenting to the SAN two 'ARCHIVE Python' tape targets per HBA port. You must create touch files in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config: NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_FT - should be 16, maybe 32 on Solaris, but on RHEL there are other limits, read the technotes. SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_FT - set to 262144, fail to do this and it uses the value in SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS if writing to tape and SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK if writing to disk; but FT fails if the value it uses is above 512K. The SAN Client uses the Standard Client install (even though it uses the same licence as SAN Media Server, it does not use the same code). This is one of the plus points, smaller code and it is just the normal client, very easy to manage and update. You zone the HBAs on the client to the FT Media Server(s) target ports. As usual, don't mix tape & disk on the client HBA port; but you can use *any* HBA in the SAN Client. You have to configure the OS to find the drives, varies by OS. The Device Configuration Guide now has information on SAN Client, though it took me some time to work it out. I could give you more detail off-list and I'm only the other end of Gunnels Wood Road. Windows and AIX were very easy. Once the OS can see the ARCHIVE Python devices, you can enable SAN Client function. Entry in bp.conf, or there is a CLI command to enable it. Then run bp.start_all, which reports 'starting FT client' whether it is enabled or not! Many reasons for it immediately shutting down: 1) No SAN Client licence on Master Server 2) Trying to run on a server that has a 'server' install, not just the client ...more... Performance can be good, it depends on how slow your LAN is. Our GbE LAN can be as fast as the SAN Client, because the limiting factor becomes the speed the Media Server can write the data to disk or tape. It should be faster, it should use less resource on the SAN Client as the Ethernet overhead is gone - but if you used TOE cards it would make less difference. But if a server was on 100Mb, then backing up over 2Gb fibre would be a lot quicker. Our plan is to eliminate SAN Media Servers and SSO. There is a lot of small print about multiplexing, which is a bit different. There are a number of new OIDs to learn for logging. You will want to find the 'nbrbutil -listOrphanedPipes' command. I found at least on WIndows that the bpbkar log had some new information when logging was turned up about retries and errors on the fibre links. William D L Brown "WEAVER, Simon (external)" Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 13-Oct-2009 17:20 To "VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU" cc Subject [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems that I need an FT
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
Hi Simon, I have it configured and it works quite well, especially on the really big clients. It works just with Sun Solaris or Linux NetBackup Media Servers, you need to have a separate Qlogic card better with more then one port, and to have zoning done properly on your fiber switches, on the clients you would need to discover SCSI tape targets as well, and install PBX. I can see the backups run faster then over the network, as it runs over the fiber. I did not build any new servers, I used the existing Sun Solaris NetBackup Media servers, but as I use just Emulex cards, I had to buy Qlogic cards. Also, don't mix the SAN Client with the SAN Media Server, completely different things. Regards, Boris On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) < simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net> wrote: > Hi All > Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. > Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? > > While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, > but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even > though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems > that I need an FT Media Server to handle this ! > > Any comments would be appreicated, even if it is a "dont do it" :-) > > *Regards* > > *Simon** * > > 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. > -o- > 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 > > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backup Fails Code 671 / 238
Anybody pulling, or have pulled, their hair out on this one? Synthetic Backup Fails Code 671 *error=the database contains conflicting or erroneous entries(238)* I found the following, but even though it seemed to match my issue, it was of no use. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/275030.htm Anybody try anything that worked? Steve ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] erase option to bplabel does what?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:21:38AM +0100, Clooney, David wrote: > Darren > > Have written the code already in perl if you want a copy? Runs daily, figures > out what vtl volumes have been returned to scratch in the last 24 hours and > labels accordingly. Ah, interesting. Are you just parsing one of the log files to create that list, or do you keep state yourself? For now, my count is low enough that I can just relabel all scratch in a reasonable period of time. But I was thinking of checking the VTL directly for information about size used. Of course doing that would mean reducing compatibility and doing non-netbackup things. -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
SAN Client means the client is the Media Server, but can only back itself up. You need to have the SAN client be zoned to the tape library or disk location you want to back up to. At the same time, if you are doing this to a tape library, you need to have the shared storage option licensed for that tape library, even if the SAN client is the only client accessing that library. From what I’ve been told, this works fantastically, especially if you have large amounts of data to back up from a particular client. In the near future, I intend on using this on my Oracle servers, and combining it with the snapshot client. Should be able to quiesce data on the Oracle database, create a snapshot, mount the snapshot back to the client, and back up the flat files, all without involving the media server, or network. Matt Ungaro, OCA, SCP Senior Infrastructure Support ABS Global, Inc. Phone: (608)846-1442 Mobile: (608)338-3940 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:20 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems that I need an FT Media Server to handle this ! Any comments would be appreicated, even if it is a "dont do it" :-) Regards Simon 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. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ** The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and delete the original message and any copy of it from your computer system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender. ** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
Title: NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups Simon, afaik, a SAN Client is a Media Server that can only backup its own data. It needs the same infrastructure as a Media Server (hba, san, zonings and etc ...) The difference is the license price If it works fine or not, I still dont know :-P Regards, Nicholas WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote: Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems that I need an FT Media Server to handle this ! Any comments would be appreicated, even if it is a "dont do it" :-) Regards Simon 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. -o- 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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups
Hi All Currently looking into the SAN Client / Fibre Transport clients. Wondered if anyone else has implemented this on 6.5 and any pros cons? While readin the SS Guide - it seems to imply you need a "Media" Server, but does not really explain if you can use a "Master" Server for this (even though a Master / Media Server is on the same box)? From the looks, it seems that I need an FT Media Server to handle this ! Any comments would be appreicated, even if it is a "dont do it" :-) Regards Simon 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. -o- 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
[Veritas-bu] Backing up SQL and Transaction logs?
Hello All, I've been backing up several SQL servers for quite some time now and through re-creating a "disaster recovery" situation and reading through SAP section of the NetBackup SQL Admin guide I notice the section for backing up transaction logs. After going through the SQL transaction log creation wizard, I verified the changes in that batch file to my original "Full" SQL batch file that I've been using. The changes were these 2 lines: BROWSECLIENT "CLIENT_NAME" OBJECTTYPE TRXLOG Am I correct to think that without these 2 lines in my batch file that a complete restore of the databases for SAP or otherwise would not happen? Should I simply add these 2 lines to my original batch file? Thanks for your help. Regards, John Keating Information Technology Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc.___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS ISSUE
Hi, I've seen this problem before. I have a customer that newly installed a new SL3000 and Acsls 7.3 Not sure if it's a bug, but problem did resolve itself by restarting acsls server. I did check the Q acs 0 online Q lsm 0,0 offline Q cap 0,0 online Doing the var lsm 0,0 online did give me the exact same error. Pr today I do not know if it's a SW or HW problem, but same problem in customers 2 SL3000. Kenneth -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of harikrse Sent: 12. oktober 2009 10:05 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS ISSUE Hi All, Kindly provide me a solution for the below issue, When i log in to my acsls server and check the logs it shows as Request: Transport Serial Number Error: 0401 - General procedure error: LSM is not ready 2009-10-11 21:07:24 DISMOUNT[0]: 546 N cl_log_lh_er.c 1 99 dm_lh_lsm_off: LH error type = LH_ERR_LSM_OFFLINE Backups are not progressing and it is in queue for a long time. Hence how can we bring up the LSM +-- |This was sent by senthil.h...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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
