[Veritas-bu] Linux, libraries and NBU 7.0.1
Good day Folks
Having some issues with visibility of libraries robots and tape drives on a
Redhat Media server. Not being a native 'nix admin I could use a hand.
Environment:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5), 2.6.9-55.Elsmp
4x HP MSL 6062 Libraries with 2x E1200-320 NSRs and 4x LTO4 a piece
Under
2003r2 x64 Windows master (MSCS cluster) Robot control host, emm, catalog
Shared storage option
Along with
3x 2003r2 x64 media servers (these see all devices)
So on the RH:
All the devices are visible when cat is run against /proc/scsi/scsi
Also if I review the HBA hosts at the emulex HBAcmd all devices are visible.
If I service netbackup stop and run hp_ltt (library tape tools) I see one
library vs 4, I see 7 NSRs vs 8, and 12 drives vs 16.
Having the netbackup service and running tpautoconf from the local linux shows
the same thing.
Running Device discovery from the NBU console shows the same thing also.
Tpautoconf -report_disc Shows I have some missing paths that are my robots and
a couple of new drives but I am not sure what to make of this as all serial
numbers seem to show true to what is existing in the libs. (see below body)
I feel like I am on the cusp of fixing this but I am missing some syntax or bit
on knowledge for cleaning this up. Looking at "tpconfig" also but the switch
combos there look potentially hostile, though the menu drive looks more
friendly.
Your input would be appreciated as to recommended method to proceed in sorting
this out.
Thanks in advance
Regards
SSS
Sean Spellacy
Senior Technical Analyst,
IMIT, Backup and AntiVirus
Vancouver Island Health Authority
sean.spell...@viha.ca
=== Missing Device or no local control path (Robot) ===
Defined as robotic TLD(1)
Inquiry = "HP MSL6000 Series 0520"
Serial Number = 2U2811006D
Robot Path = {3,0,0,0}
Robot Control Host = nbuprod
Drive = 2, Drive Name = Drive009, Serial Number = MXP10204UP
Hosts configured for this device:
Host = vicnbums03
=== Missing Device or no local control path (Robot) ===
Defined as robotic TLD(2)
Inquiry = "HP MSL6000 Series 0520"
Serial Number = 2U28110089
Robot Path = {3,0,3,0}
Robot Control Host = nbuprod
Drive = 2, Drive Name = Drive014, Serial Number = HU180215PN
Hosts configured for this device:
Host = vicnbums03
=== Missing Device or no local control path (Robot) ===
Defined as robotic TLD(3)
Inquiry = "HP MSL6000 Series 0520"
Serial Number = 2U2811005E
Robot Path = {2,0,3,0}
Robot Control Host = nbuprod
Drive = 2, Drive Name = Drive007, Serial Number = HU180215U4
Hosts configured for this device:
Host = vicnbums03
=== New Device (Drive) ===
Inquiry = "HP Ultrium 4-SCSI B56W"
Serial Number = HU1041D3MM
Drive Path = /dev/nst4
=== New Device (Drive) ===
Inquiry = "HP Ultrium 4-SCSI B56W"
Serial Number = HU18051A9K
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[Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from bu selection?
Great, i think re-running the stream should be the correct answer. Thanks for the help, If you right click on the failed stream in the NBU Java GUI there should be a "restart" option. That will restart only the stream you select so long as you don't do it on the overall job. We do checkpointing here to allow us to suspend multistream jobs and/or restart from point of failure rather than from the beginning. Usually even with multiple streams there's a fair amount being backed up in each stream. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ddobek Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:40 PM To: VERITAS-BU < at > MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from buselection? Background: NBU 6.0, policy that has 6 different backup selections on one client. i have a separate stream dividing the backup selections, and one of those backups failed, 5 were successful. I want to to rerun the backup, but i don't want to have to re-run all the successful 5 over again. is this possible? This seems to be a significant issue that has come up when discussing adding a lot of backup ability within one policy, as it significantly reduces the ability to re run just a single part. Thanks for the help. +-- |This was sent by devon_do...@mentor.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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from buselection?
If you right click on the failed stream in the NBU Java GUI there should be a "restart" option. That will restart only the stream you select so long as you don't do it on the overall job. We do checkpointing here to allow us to suspend multistream jobs and/or restart from point of failure rather than from the beginning. Usually even with multiple streams there's a fair amount being backed up in each stream. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ddobek Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:40 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from buselection? Background: NBU 6.0, policy that has 6 different backup selections on one client. i have a separate stream dividing the backup selections, and one of those backups failed, 5 were successful. I want to to rerun the backup, but i don't want to have to re-run all the successful 5 over again. is this possible? This seems to be a significant issue that has come up when discussing adding a lot of backup ability within one policy, as it significantly reduces the ability to re run just a single part. Thanks for the help. +-- |This was sent by devon_do...@mentor.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 Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from buselection?
In the windows gui (not sure about the java gui) select the 5 you do not want to run and "cut" them out. Then re-run the policy and schedule. Paste the selections back after the job starts. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ddobek Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:40 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from buselection? Background: NBU 6.0, policy that has 6 different backup selections on one client. i have a separate stream dividing the backup selections, and one of those backups failed, 5 were successful. I want to to rerun the backup, but i don't want to have to re-run all the successful 5 over again. is this possible? This seems to be a significant issue that has come up when discussing adding a lot of backup ability within one policy, as it significantly reduces the ability to re run just a single part. Thanks for the help. +-- |This was sent by devon_do...@mentor.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
[Veritas-bu] Is it possible to rerun only one filepath from bu selection?
Background: NBU 6.0, policy that has 6 different backup selections on one client. i have a separate stream dividing the backup selections, and one of those backups failed, 5 were successful. I want to to rerun the backup, but i don't want to have to re-run all the successful 5 over again. is this possible? This seems to be a significant issue that has come up when discussing adding a lot of backup ability within one policy, as it significantly reduces the ability to re run just a single part. Thanks for the help. +-- |This was sent by devon_do...@mentor.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] blat in nbmail on Windows 2008R2 problem
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't work on dedupe appliances?
In fact the browse issue turned out NOT to be restricted to the dedupe appliances as we continued to have problems after providing a Basic Disk pool of standard SAN disks as suggested by Symantec. Last week we were advised that Symantec has a known issue with Exchange 2003 mailboxes migrated to Exchange 2010 and they created an EEB for this. I'm not sure if we were the first test site for this or not - we had to wait a couple of days for the EEB so I think we were. It appears the EEB resolved our issue. That fix was only tested by us on the Basic Disk pool and for reasons given previously in this forum I suspect it still wouldn't work for Dedupe. From: Marianne Van Den Berg [mailto:mvdb...@stortech.co.za] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:11 AM To: Lightner, Jeff; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't work on dedupe appliances? I'm late to this party - my veritas-bu emails stopped working for about 2 months... GRT backups are ONLY supported on Basic and Advanced disk. It actually makes sense if you read in the Admin Guides how it is done: Media server needs to have NFS enabled so that the disk backup can be network-shared. Client needs NFS so that disk backup on Media Server can be network-mounted to a drive letter on the Exchange client so that individual items can be accessed. I cannot see how this can be done using any dedupe appliance. 7.0 : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127056 7.1: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3669 NetBackup Support Screencast Demo - list of available videos http://symantec.com/docs/HOWTO41825 Regards M. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff Sent: 12 April 2011 08:13 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't work on dedupe appliances? Restore of individual users from backups for Exchange 2010 from new Veritas 7.1 master was failing. Initially we were told this was because we were using Data Domain deduplication unit. We then moved to Quantum DXi deduplication unit and were told at that point that it wouldn't work there either for similar reasons. They're telling us backing up to standard disk storage without dedupe wouldn't cause the problem so it seems to be a problem with using deduplication units. (We haven't asked if it would work with their own deduplication software.) Has anyone seen this also on either of those or any other deduplication unit? If so did how did you resolve it if you did? Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bpclntcmd and others ignoring nsswitch.conf?-RESOLVED (yes actually resolved this time)
I have just now.
I'll have to say your posting the same patch I'd already noted wasn't a
fix for me was disingenuous and characterizing this as an HP-UX bug was
disingenuous. Also I don't know why you posted it there at this late
date in such a way - if you felt the need to post there you could have
simply copied in my reply to Girish as I have now done.
To me the issue was caused by a change in NetBackup 7.1 so wasn't an
"HP-UX" issue as nothing had changed in HP-UX except the installation of
NetBackup 7.1. While I no longer view it as a NetBackup 7.1 "bug" I do
believe the change of API and its ramifications should have been tested
and mentioned in the release notes.
-Original Message-
From: Marianne Van Den Berg [mailto:mvdb...@stortech.co.za]
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 3:02 PM
To: Lightner, Jeff
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Girish Jorapurkar
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpclntcmd and others ignoring
nsswitch.conf?-RESOLVED (yes actually resolved this time)
Hi Jeff
If you don't mind - please set the record straight on the Symantec Ideas
page?
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/ideas/bug-report-netbackup-name-
resolution-hp-ux
Regards
M.
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Lightner, Jeff
Sent: 03 May 2011 07:29 PM
To: Girish Jorapurkar
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpclntcmd and others ignoring
nsswitch.conf?-RESOLVED (yes actually resolved this time)
The patch (PHCO_30030) has been superseded more than once and we have
one of the superseding patches PHCO_37369 so would already have the "bug
fix" the poster at the link mentioned.
However, I'd like to thank you as your pointer helped me resolve the
issue:
1) By downloading and compiling his source code I was able to see that
I did have the same issue with his binary as that poster did. (That is
to say this binary like the NetBackup binaries did not resolve from
/etc/hosts first but rather from DNS.)
2) On reviewing the /var/adm/sw/products/PHCO_37369/pfiles/README file
that came with the later patch I saw the following (which is from
another patch this one supersedes so is incorporated):
PHCO_29287:
( QX:QXCR1000523428 SR:8606308071 CR:JAGae71107 )
If IPv6 is enabled on a system, the Internet Services
commands use the APIs getipnodeXX() or get*info() to
resolve the name instead of the APIs gethostbyXX().
The APIs getipnodeXX() and get*info() look into the
ipnodes directive of the /etc/nsswitch.conf to resolve
the name/address. As the NIS/NIS+ backends do not
respond to the ipnodes directive, the resolution of
IPv4 addresses fails for NIS and NIS+ sources.
While we aren't doing anything with NIS/NIS+ the other info about IPv6
was informative. Turns out that in addition to the standard "hosts:"
line in /etc/nsswitch.conf HP-UX is expecting an "ipnodes:" line for
binaries that use the above APIs.
After modifying /etc/nsswtich.conf so it now has both the following
lines:
hosts: files [notfound=CONTINUE] dns
ipnodes: files [notfound=CONTINUE] dns
The new binary resolved correctly from /etc/hosts and on testing so did
bpclntcmd. Based on that I restarted the backup that had been going
across the primary LAN previously and it is currently running on the
expected backup LAN.
Presumably this means the 7.1 NetBackup binaries are using the above
referenced APIs on HP-UX where the 6.5.4 binaries didn't.
We never saw this issue on HP-UX up through version 6.5.4 and in testing
yesterday I'd copied the 6.5.4 binary and its associated libraries to
another directory on my HP-UX host and it resolved from /etc/hosts.
I added the ipnodes entry to /etc/nsswitch.conf on the other HP-UX 11.11
media server and the HP-UX 11.23 client I'd recreated the error on
previously. On adding the line both hosts correctly resolved the
backup LAN IP from /etc/hosts instead of going to DNS.
FYI: ITRC is going away so I'm not sure if the link will still be
accessible in the future. Accordingly I'm including the source code
that poster had made so it is available from this forum.
His source code file was called: 114249.c and I compiled it by running:
"cc -o testresolver 114249.c". Usage is simply "testresolver
". The source code is as follows:
/* Test program to test IP resolution for domain names
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
/* Function to get IP address for hostname
** hostname - (i/p) - Hostname to find IP address
** buffer - (o/p) - Buffer filled with IP address
** buffer_len - (i/p) - Length of buffer
** Return APR_SUCCESS on success
**/
int get_ip_from_hostname(char *hostname)
{
int status = 0;
struct addrinfo hints, *ai, *ai_list;
char host_ip[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
const char *ret = NULL;
memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
hints.ai_family = AF_IN
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 / Windows 2008 R2 / Hyper-V
I had 6.5.6 and from a file level backup of Win2k8, it was fine. I think most issues were fixed in .5 S. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:45 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 / Windows 2008 R2 / Hyper-V a) No. b) No. c) No. d) No. You might be able to get file level backups working with 5, but it's not supported and you would be running the 32bit client on a 64bit OS. System State backups will definitely not function. They don't even function in my 6.5.6 environments, much less 5. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mcmonap Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 9:18 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 / Windows 2008 R2 / Hyper-V Hi, a quick query that I hope an expert can answer quickly and easily and save a netbackup noob from hours of (possibly pointless) internet searches, so... Can Netbackup v5: a) backup Windows 2008 R2 servers? b) backup Windows 2008 R2 servers that are virtualised under Hyper-V hypervisor? c) backup ADCS (certificate services) for windows 2008 R2? d) restore(!) the above backups? I do not know much about Netbackup but I understand this is a relatively old version so I am expecting a pretty negative repsonse. Finally any pointers to where I might have found this kind of information would be useful, searches on google and within symantec's support site didn't help me much. Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge. +-- |This was sent by peter.mcmona...@uk.fujitsu.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 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] Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't work on dedupe appliances?
I'm late to this party - my veritas-bu emails stopped working for about 2 months... GRT backups are ONLY supported on Basic and Advanced disk. It actually makes sense if you read in the Admin Guides how it is done: Media server needs to have NFS enabled so that the disk backup can be network-shared. Client needs NFS so that disk backup on Media Server can be network-mounted to a drive letter on the Exchange client so that individual items can be accessed. I cannot see how this can be done using any dedupe appliance. 7.0 : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127056 7.1: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3669 NetBackup Support Screencast Demo - list of available videos http://symantec.com/docs/HOWTO41825 Regards M. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff Sent: 12 April 2011 08:13 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't work on dedupe appliances? Restore of individual users from backups for Exchange 2010 from new Veritas 7.1 master was failing. Initially we were told this was because we were using Data Domain deduplication unit. We then moved to Quantum DXi deduplication unit and were told at that point that it wouldn't work there either for similar reasons. They're telling us backing up to standard disk storage without dedupe wouldn't cause the problem so it seems to be a problem with using deduplication units. (We haven't asked if it would work with their own deduplication software.) Has anyone seen this also on either of those or any other deduplication unit? If so did how did you resolve it if you did? Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.0 Installation Guide for Linux
I hope you found it by now!! I responded the same day, but my emails to veritas-bu returned undelivered for the last 2 months... Please bookmark these URL's: NBU 7 Manuals: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126327 NBU 7.1 Manuals : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH154178 Regards M. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of harikrse Sent: 20 March 2011 06:17 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.0 Installation Guide for Linux Hi, Could someone help me to provide me the documents or the link for the Netbackup 7.0 Linux Installation Document for Master Server/Media Server as well Client Install with Pictorial Representation which would be more helpfull for me. Senthil.H +-- |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
