Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB
Few different solution options I can think of. I don't know what your underlying disk array tech is so I'm going to mention things I have experience with - maybe they'll work for you, maybe not... Option 1 Leverage underlying disk array technology to move data around. In the case of EMC you might consider BCVs that can incrementally update data to completely separate disks. You would only need to quiesce Oracle (hotbackupmode) for minutes or less while you split off the BCVs and then import/mount them on a media server that could then spin to tape. Downside to this is that in the case of Oracle, most files get modified and captured by NBU even if only a small amount of change occurred within. Option 2 Use Oracle RMAN with the DataDomain Incremental Merge option. This involves a one-time full and indefinite incremental RMAN backups to a DataDomain repository (typically an NFS mount). By leveraging some data movement tech within the array in combination with RMAN Block Change Tracking, you can have incremental backups indefinitely. Downside to this is if your database is encrypted, you'll lose out on the de-duplication of the DataDomain (but it's great not having tape). Option 3 If you are using NetApp FAS storage, you can leverage Snapshot Snapvault technology to perform incremental backups at the array level. High level it works like this- Hotbackupmode, snapshot primary storage, out of hotbackupmode, incremental snapvault update from primary array to secondary array, snapshot on secondary array. Downside is you need another array but it is probably cheaper disk (1TB SATA or greater) but upside is traffic is between arrays and no tape. You can also retain the data for longer on the secondary array where your cheaper disk is. You'll notice options 2 3 don't even use NBU at all - there are a few use cases that NBU can't address. Just suggesting you don't limit your solution assessment to NBU only. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Weaver Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 01:36 To: stefanos; Mark Phillips; jcr...@marketforce.com.au Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB Oracle is on here as well :-( From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of stefanos Sent: Thu 12/04/2012 08:38 To: 'Mark Phillips'; jcr...@marketforce.com.au; Simon Weaver Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB I agree that synthetic backups are good, but only if you run file backups. If the system has an oracle, the synthetic backups are useless. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:56 AM To: jcr...@marketforce.com.au; Simon Weaver Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB I agree. We use synthetic fulls quite a bit. They work really well for large filesystems that have relatively small incremental backups. If you're going to tape you'll need at least 2 free tape drives for the duration of the synthetic full backup, one for the last full backup and the other for the one you're constructing. Also it's best if you're able to send incremental backups to staging disk and they remain on the staging disk when the synthetic full is being constructed, it saves on tape loading and positioning time. If the incremental backups are going to tape avoid multiplexing them, it'll slow things down. Also if you're going to tape when doing the first conventional full backup don't multiplex it - this will make doing the first synthetic full backup slow. Mark From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edumailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of jcr...@marketforce.com.aumailto:jcr...@marketforce.com.au Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 9:57 AM To: Simon Weaver Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edumailto:veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edumailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB I would look at synthetics ... not quite as large as you, but I backup around 8TBs on one linux (RHEL 4) server over the weekend (every weekend) and it completes in well under 24 hours. (About 16-20 hours from memory) The very first backup has to be a full, but once that is out of the way, you should be able to do a full synthetic every weekend in well under 48 hours (I'm going on what I have above so is just a guess - you may be much faster than my infrastructure as its nothing flash ... though it is
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 client on FreeBSD 7.2 host
Not necessarily. Have you checked any of the performance stats on the filer? Do you know if you're overrunning NVRAM or experiencing back-to-backup checkpoints? I've seen this happen with NetApp before, where performance starts out fine but if the workload is such that you start to overrun cache you're done for. Another place to look is the NFS mount options on the client. Have you tried testing backups with different mount options - How about modifying the rsize or setting the noacl option (probably a bunch of overhead here with this many files)? Have you tried jumbo frames (making sure every hop in the network is also using jumbo frames)? Obviously you'd need to then do some test restores to make sure the files are restored in the state needed/expected. You've introduced a new layer of access to this data, so you'll likely have to test multiple configurations for this access before you find the best combo. Identify all the different configuration points in this new path and then breakdown the options you have for each. You may have to draw up a small matrix to map out all the different combinations to test. But even so, 1 billion small files is by far the largest amount I've ever heard of, and I agree with Bryan's assessment. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 13:21 To: Bryan Bahnmiller Cc: Sanders, Nate; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 client on FreeBSD 7.2 host Sure but 3-4MB/s?! NDMP to tape is 40-50MB/s. Regular jobs to tape are 160MB/s. There is no excuse why the speed should be THIS slow. So I went back and double checked a different job for the same host, which was an OS backup. That job was also 6MB/s. So obviously it's something with the client and not the data/directory being backed up. All of our other OS backups are 10x-20x faster. This must be a host problem or a FBSD client problem. On 09/10/2010 02:54 PM, Bryan Bahnmiller wrote: Nate, Any filesystem you have will start out quickly but then drop in speed as it starts drilling down into the directory structure. The more directory levels you have, the slower it is. Which makes sense, since you are sort of following a tree structure down to the lower directory levels. Every time you drop down in a tree structure, you are branching to how ever many directories you have in that particular branch... And when you finish one branch, you pop back up a level and branch down to the next one. So you are following index links to index links to until you hit the actual file being backed up. Simple testing showed me long ago that the fewer levels you have in the directory tree, the quicker the backups. And depending on the filesystem, it can be orders of magnitude difference in speed. Bryan Nate Sanders sande...@dmotorworks.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 09/10/2010 02:02 PM To cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 client on FreeBSD 7.2 host Okay so that multiplex test was user error. Didn't have max streams per drive setup right. At 4 streams we saw 40MB/s, at 8 streams we see 50MB/s. But... we have a new problem. Within 1-2 minutes the I/O starts dropping. At 3:00 minutes into an 8 stream job, we're down to 38MB/s. Earlier when testing at 4 streams, we were 10 minutes in and I/O had slowly dropped from 40MB/s down to 12MB/s. What in the world is going on? On 09/10/2010 01:41 PM, Nate Sanders wrote: Yes we are well aware of the limitations of NDMP and small files, thus the reason we're looking at trying NFS w/ snapshots. Our NetApp 6040 is peaking around 40-50MB/s but what the issue is right now is that we're getting such low performance from this FBSD box via NFS. I turned on multiplexing to 4, and we're still seeing only 3-4MB/s. On 09/10/2010 01:03 PM, Martin, Jonathan wrote: I've tested NDMP on 6 differetnt arrays and it has never moved millions of small files well. We maxed out backup performance on our NetApp FAS 2xxx with 2 streams at approx 20MB/sec total. We're hoping to test SMTape, which purportedly does a bit level dump of the entire array. I haven't had a chance to test this yet, but according to NetApp it will get us our weekly full and drive LTO3. We'll then need to put some sort of forever incremental or snapshot backup in-between the SMTape dumps. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nate Sanders Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 12:22 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 client on FreeBSD 7.2 host Now that we made it to 6.5.6 we're able to start testing NFS performance from our
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp Failover Question
No, this will not happen. If you think about it, when atl09 fails that means this controller is actually down/offline. Since the tape drives are only connected to this controller, there's no way for atl08 to communicate with them. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Will Tucker Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 08:45 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetApp Failover Question We have clustered NetApp filers ma-atl08 and ma-atl09; both filers are connected to a brocade switch via fiber. Ma-atl09 has two tape drives attached to it. In a failover situation whereas ma-atl09 fails and ma-atl08 takes over, will ma-atl08 takeover control of the two tape drives that are attached to ma-atl09? Will Tucker | Storage Administrator Enterprise Technology Services Manhattan Associates, Inc. Direct +1 678.597.6644 Mobile +1 770.590.5404 wtuc...@manh.com http://www.manh.com/ _ The Supply Chain People(tm) Manhattan Associates -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Alex Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:51 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]Re: SL500 Tape Library Issue 0n Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:45:59AM -0400, NBU wrote: Facing problem with SL500 Tape library as it goes in hang state and no medias get mounted. All backup remains in queue. This is observed once in 2 days time. During problem Console also doesn't fetches any data from library. Only after rebooting the library it does. Following error is received on the Master server during problem. --- -- Sep 13 01:02:05 P038XMST01 tldcd[17544]: [ID 466614 daemon.error] TLD(0) Mode_sense error Sep 13 01:02:32 P038XMST01 tldcd[17544]: [ID 782741 daemon.error] TLD(0) key = 0x2, asc = 0x4, ascq = 0x1, LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY --- -- We have replaced the robot assembly, then also the problem persists. Any help/suggestions appreciated. What does SLconsole say ? [https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_U S/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=SSTKSLConsoleFRS-4.10-OTH-G-F @CDS-CDS_SMI] What does robtest(1) say ? -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ 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 maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Java GUI Console Issues (RESOLUTION)
I had similar issues with short names randomly popping up in my 6.5.3 environment. In case this helps, here is how to change to the FQDN within EMM: First, get a listing of the hosts in the EMM database: 1) nbemmcmd -listhosts NBEMMCMD, Version:6.5.3 The following hosts were found: server master01.bos.ralph.net master master01.bos.ralph.net media media01 Command completed successfully. Next, run the rename command: 2) nbemmcmd -renamehost -machinename media01 -machinetype media -newmachinename media01.bos.ralph.net Confirm the change was implemented: 3) nbemmcmd -listhosts NBEMMCMD, Version:6.5.3 The following hosts were found: server master01.bos.ralph.net master master01.bos.ralph.net media media01.bos.ralph.net Command completed successfully. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 13:27 To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; rusty.ma...@sungard.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Java GUI Console Issues (RESOLUTION) Actually, as I was looking over some stale-but-still-open cases I have with Symantec earlier today, I realized that my snark may be misplaced. There are certain places where NBU will insist on using the shortname for a master or media server, because that's how it's stored in EMM, even if a given host lists the master and media servers in its local configuration by FQDN. The circumstance that I've run into is when trying to perform backups of Active Directory servers with the granular recovery option enabled: the majority of System State was simply not backed up, the cause for which came down to the client retrieving the name of the master server to which to send the granular data through EMM (rather than its own config) and then being unable to contact that master server because it cannot resolve the FQDN of the master server that, from AD's point of view, lives in a different domain and, for reasons I'll never fully understand, AD has naming and security policy intertwined in such a way that it breaks things to have a given domain controller appear in a domain controlled by some other DC. So then no data got sent without enabling the client side to resolve short names into the outside domain in some way. (And, of course, I was kidding anyway, Rusty. Just so that part's clear. :^) -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:58 PM To: 'rusty.ma...@sungard.com'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Java GUI Console Issues (RESOLUTION) ... or you could fix your broken DNS. ;^ -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 From: rusty.ma...@sungard.com [mailto:rusty.ma...@sungard.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:57 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Java GUI Console Issues (RESOLUTION) I just completed another upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5 and ran into another issue with getting the Java GUI Console to operate. I ended up adding the FQDN as an alias to the shortname in my hosts file and the problem went away. I would also recommend this as a first step for any issues you have with the Java GUI, such as some panels not working, blank screens after logging in, etc. Just wanted to put this out there in case someone else had issues as it sure is frustrating to complete an upgrade successfully, only to have problems with the Java Console. 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/ 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. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] otman5
Hoo boy, I remember these problems. Otman5 refers to OTM, the piece of software that old versions of Netbackup used to use to enable open file backups on Windows hosts. If memory serves, I believe the new software to do this, VSP, was introduced with NBU v5.x. This means you could (and probably should) try using VSP for this host. There are caveats to using VSP (be sure and specify a drive to hold the cache files lest you fill up another drive) or you could just turn off open file backups altogether (but then you probably wouldn't get the PST backup, huh). Regardless, you need to uninstall OTM from your client (assuming VSP is available in your version). However - and here's the rub - I was told by Veritas support way back when that this required re-installing the old version of Netbackup that had OTM so that you could then uninstall it and select the removal of OTM during the uninstall. You can try removing it with remove programs and screwing with the registry but there's no telling what that might leave behind. Hope this helps... -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ibakes Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 04:37 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] otman5 Hi All This is my first post and have normally managed to find all what was needed but I am a bit stuck at the moment. I am running Netbackup 5.0mp3 on windows server 2003 with a tape library attached, all the equipment is old but trying to get budget for new stuff at the mo isnt working. Anyway, I have taken over looking after the server and so far have been able to find most solutions, but i am having trouble with this one. Each weekend we do a full backup of our PST files which goes straight to tape, the PST share is held on a cluster and all has fibre channels to the SAN. For the past few weekends the PST backup gets to around 275GB and then fails. this will then cause the cluster to fail over to the other node. The errors coming up is: Error Otman5 Date 3 Driver or device is incorrectly configured for . Followed by Informational Disk Date 119 The driver for device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 delayed non-paging Io requests for 0 ms to recover from a low memory condition. The pst server has just had a memory upgrade, disk space is ok. If anyone has any information that may be able to help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Andy. PS i cannot find the OTM_USE regkeys +-- |This was sent by andy.ba...@parexel.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] NBU Upgrade: 6.0 MP6 --- 6.5.3
Read chapter 4 in the install guide here: ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/290199.pdf -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 02:51 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Upgrade: 6.0 MP6 --- 6.5.3 Hi Forum, Need to upgrade NBU from 6.0MP6 to 6.5.3 (Solaris). Catalog is on SAN. Pls. inform the steps/pre-requistes, if any for upgradation. Any help/suggestion appreciated. +-- |This was sent by qureshiu...@rediffmail.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
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 Remote Java Admin probs
Make sure you have the following: -Network ports 1556 (PBX) 13724 (vnetd) connectivity between the terminal server and NBU servers (bi-directional). -FQDN of terminal server in the bp.conf file on each NBU server With these 2 things I was able to get the Java console working in my environment on a remote terminal server. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 06:48 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.4 Remote Java Admin probs Guys i recently upgraded from Nbu 5.0MP7 to NBU6.5 on Solaris 10 Master. All went well. We access the infrastructure through a windows terminal server which i installed the Java Admin console on. Again everything fine. I updated to 6.5.4 on the master and all was good. I updated to 6.5.4 on the windows java and now the gui is just behaving strangely. Once logged in I can't seem to get any panes to get data and it just sits there with the clock spinning for some time. I'm a bit confused as to where to look for problems. I'm not doing any authentication fanciness or anything i'm just logging in as root using the console. It was all perfect at 6.5 base though. Anyone seen this at all? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWare Error 58 on 6.5.1 Clients
A quick search on the symantec support site for “vmware 58” resulted in this: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/306273.htm From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of anthony.kulaku...@sepracor.com Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:24 To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: unixad...@sepracor.com Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMWare Error 58 on 6.5.1 Clients Hi Everyone, We recently updated our NetBackup clients to 6.5.1 and we're experiencing error code 58 on a Virtual Machine just about every night. We've had 10 (all windows) servers fail and 3 of them have failed multiple times. They have never failed on consecutive backups. I just looked to make sure our VMWare version matched the VM Tools version. They are failing on different VMWare hosts in our Production and Test and Development areas which are totally separate. This started happening right after our VMWare upgrade to 3.5 Update 4 and our client upgrades from 5.1 to 6.5.1. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions or has experienced this as well. Thank You Anthony Kulakusky anthony.kulaku...@sepracor.com THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS COMMUNICATION AND ANY ATTACHMENTS HERETO IS CONFIDENTIAL, MAY BE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED, AND IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE ADDRESSEE(S). IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR AN AGENT THEREOF, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION OR ANY ATTACHMENT HERETO IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY E-MAIL, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site
Nice, 64-bit Java console for Windows here we come. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:29 To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site Well, the post-FA surey email came out today, so it'd stand to reason they're rolling to GA... -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:13 AM To: Ed Wilts; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site Ed So far, nowt on the Symantec site saying its there Simon From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:47 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site It's popping up... Logged in to ftp.support.veritas.com. Current remote directory is /pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server. ncftp ...ckup_Enterprise_Server ls -ltr *6.5.4* -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024 12798596 Apr 21 13:59 6.5.4.1_nbccr_319461.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024 11791214 Apr 28 14:45 6.5.4.1_nbcc_319395.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024211869696 Jun 15 07:03 NB_6.5.4.alpha_5_326368.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024253613056 Jun 15 07:37 NB_6.5.4.hp_ux_326369.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024404925440 Jun 15 08:21 NB_6.5.4.hpia64_326370.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024123961344 Jun 15 08:41 NB_6.5.4.linux_326371.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024136454144 Jun 15 08:57 NB_6.5.4.linuxR_ia64_326372.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024113578496 Jun 15 09:11 NB_6.5.4.linuxR_x86_326374.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024126826496 Jun 15 09:25 NB_6.5.4.linuxS_ia64_326375.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024107639296 Jun 15 09:38 NB_6.5.4.linuxS_x86_326376.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024538456576 Jun 15 10:30 NB_6.5.4.rs6000_326379.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024132346368 Jun 15 11:11 NB_6.5.4.solaris_326381.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024131038208 Jun 15 11:31 NB_6.5.4.solaris_x86_326382.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024235464192 Jun 15 11:59 NB_6.5.4.winnt.IA64_326383.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024199543808 Jun 15 12:23 NB_6.5.4.winnt.x64_326384.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 30024 30024208142336 Jun 15 12:46 NB_6.5.4.winnt.x86_326385.exe I expect that there are still quite a few packages to go so be patient a little longer... .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org 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] Windows Admin Console
So I've tried tracking down the process for doing this but have come up empty in both the admin guides and Symantec knowledge base. I've opened a case with Symantec but it's a 6 hour callback so I figured maybe someone here has this info or can refer me to a specific procedure in one of the guides that I've missed. Environment: NBU v6.5.3 on master server running Oracle Enterprise Linux (really just a useless version of RHEL). Specifically, I'm trying to configure the remote Windows admin console on a 64- bit W2K3 server to be used by a non-admin user with relying on Active Directory for authorization. Oh yeah, this is behind a firewall too. The authorization configuration on the master server is rather cryptic and there just isn't a clear step-by-step process on how to do this (from the packages I need installed on the master to the firewall ports to open to the actual config on the master). I would have used the Java console instead but discovered there isn't one for 64-bit Windows until 6.5.4 is realease. TIA, -Dave ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Admin Console
Yeah, I’ve already added the system to bp.conf but no luck. The user I’m logged in as on the Windows box doesn’t have admin privileges there but I don’t have any issue providing that user root login on the master server, which is the account I’m using when providing credentials via the admin console. I’ll check the port config guide, I’m thinking I missed a port somewhere… From: rusty.ma...@sungard.com [mailto:rusty.ma...@sungard.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:54 To: Cornely, David Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Admin Console David, The port configuration guide does a pretty good job at showing what ports are required. For the Windows Admin Console, I think you'll have to use Media Server ports as it's a stripped down Media Server. I've not tried using AD, but the authorization for Windows Admin Consoles requires SERVER= entries in bp.conf, again because it's an almost Media Server. Without NBAC, I don't think you can get around letting this admin log on without anything other than root priviledges, but then again, I've not tried to lock anyone down before. 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/ 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. Cornely, David david_corn...@intuit.com Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 06/11/2009 01:03 PM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Windows Admin Console So I’ve tried tracking down the process for doing this but have come up empty in both the admin guides and Symantec knowledge base. I’ve opened a case with Symantec but it’s a 6 hour callback so I figured maybe someone here has this info or can refer me to a specific procedure in one of the guides that I’ve missed. Environment: NBU v6.5.3 on master server running Oracle Enterprise Linux (really just a useless version of RHEL). Specifically, I’m trying to configure the remote Windows admin console on a 64- bit W2K3 server to be used by a non-admin user with relying on Active Directory for authorization. Oh yeah, this is behind a firewall too. The authorization configuration on the master server is rather cryptic and there just isn’t a clear step-by-step process on how to do this (from the packages I need installed on the master to the firewall ports to open to the actual config on the master). I would have used the Java console instead but discovered there isn’t one for 64-bit Windows until 6.5.4 is realease. TIA, -Dave ___ 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] Anyone using avamar
Yes, and it works great. The key (as with most IT things) is to understand how it works and to use it appropriately within the correct environment(s). Since it de-duplicates client data before it leaves the client, it works especially well for virtual hosts that are likely sharing network resources. The scaling path for the solution is very clear, simply add more nodes to your grid when needed. Getting data offsite is also easy – you implement a remote grid and use IP-based replication. I recommend to start you get EMC to provide a detailed presentation on the product so you can get a deeper understanding of the product. If you use it in accordance with its design it will work as expected. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Klebba, Don Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 06:31 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using avamar We’re a netbackup shop running NBU 6.5.2a. We currently have some data domain appliances that we backup roughly 25% of our nightly backups to. We’re looking to go tapeless at some point in time and were considering getting larger Data domain appliances to accomplish this. We’re also a EMC shop. Our EMC BURA guys have been pushing their Avamar Solution to us. I must admit it sounds promising, but I’m a little skeptical at this solution. Has anyone had any experiences, either good or bad with Avamar? Don Klebba Quicken Loans Storage Management Team donkle...@quickenloans.com phone: (734)805-7791 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS
So, anyone ever do this? Install your NBU master onto an NFS share for /usr/openv? I'm looking to do this with v6.5.3 and was curious if anyone else has tried it. I would have a 1Gig link so I'm thinking it'll be just fine performance wise... ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS
It would be from a NAS array and if that tanks then I've got bigger problems. But that's what replication to a different array is for. From: Nardello, John [mailto:john.narde...@wamu.net] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:55 PM To: Cornely, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS Purely out of curiosityhow were you going to recover your NFS server if it crashes ? =) - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Cornely, David Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:43 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS So, anyone ever do this? Install your NBU master onto an NFS share for /usr/openv? I'm looking to do this with v6.5.3 and was curious if anyone else has tried it. I would have a 1Gig link so I'm thinking it'll be just fine performance wise... ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS
Thank you very much for this information, SAN it is (although this is damn ridiculous if you ask me). From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:47 PM To: Cornely, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] /usr/openv on NFS On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Cornely, David david_corn...@intuit.com wrote: So, anyone ever do this? Install your NBU master onto an NFS share for /usr/openv? I asked a NetBackup product manager this last week and it is *NOT* supported. Not only is not supported for the NetBackup catalog, it's also not supported for the EMM database. It's not a performance issue - it's a functionality issue. I too would like like to see a supported solution for moving the stuff to NFS. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow Informix Logs backups
I agree with the DSU suggestion -- this is exactly the reason we use that method with an Informix DB here. Waiting for tape to do these backups just isn't fast enough. The DSU solves this problem completely. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:48 PM To: Larry Mascarenhas Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow Informix Logs backups On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Larry Mascarenhas wrote: Hello, I'm running backups on Informix7 DBs. We're able to stream the DB backups using parallelism 4 and get good throughput (100MB/s, yes megabytes/sec, it is a SAN Media Server). A 300Gig DB takes less than 1 hour. However (I know ;)), when it backs up the LOGS (all backups go to tape, I don't have Disk backups), each log comes in as a separate request. Each log is therefore a separate job. So the time taken to process this request is greater than the time to backup each log. ie each log is 100MB and the time taken is 2secs (when the resource is allocted and ready), but it takes 1+min to create the job/assign the resource/and begin writing. This is resulting in my never being able to catch up with the rate of logs generation although the amount to be backed up is minimal eg 30logs is just 3Gig, but takes approx 30mins and by that time 10 more logs are created. I am using media_unmount_delay so the tapes are not re-mounting for every request. I cannot increase the size of the LOGS as this would affect replication and recoverability (double whammy). This is Symantec's recommendation. I'm looking for experiences that people have had to speed up the Informix backups. Thanks. -- Larry Mascarenhas lmasc...@comcast.net ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Why not use a Disk Staging Unit if the logs are small enough? Send to disk first - then shoot to tape? Justin. ___ 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] Linux slowly dropping drives.
I'm about to configure a new NBU environment using RHEL5 (master media server) so this is of some interest to me too. However, I'll be using a VTL to emulate LTO-4. The one thing that caught my eye immediately was the FC bridges. In the past I've experienced many problems with bridges in general, regardless of the tape drive behind them. Are you able to collect logs from the bridges? Are there any known firmware bugs for the bridges? It might be worth upgrading the firmware if so... -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:48 PM To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives. The two that say they need cleaning are different than the ones that are down. There's no correlation there. I just put in 6.5.3 yesterday so maybe the behavior will change (from 6.5.2). I'm short logs but I'll see what I can gather. The drive up just fine, it's just on next use they'll go back down again. Drives are in an ADIC scalar 10K. LTO2 scsi drives behind their SNC fiber bridge. Frankly, I don't remember if the library does cleaning on it's own - something to look into. There's no touch file. -Original Message- From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:30 PM To: Donaldson, Mark Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives. One drive may easily have needed cleaning for longer... or are you saying the two that advertise that are a disjoint set from the one that's down? What do you see in /var/log/messages when you try to up the drives? What do you see in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm/log.MMDDYY and in /var/log/messages when the drives are downed of their own accord? (Turn VERBOSE=5 on in bp.conf if you haven't already.) Also, please describe your environment in more detail: Are these drives in a tape library? If so, does that tape library perform automatic cleaning of the drives? Do you have the /usr/openv/volmgr/database/NO_TAPEALERT touch file in place? (Does that file even still get used under 6.5? I don't see a parallel setting in nbemmcmd yet...) (I have something of a vested interest here... I'm about to migrate from HP-UX 11iv2 to RHEL 5 for our NetBackup servers, so if there's a fundamental flaw in the Linux ST driver or NetBackup's use of it, I'd like to know sooner...) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 -Original Message- From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:34 PM To: Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives. Interesting - I never thought of tpclean. tpclean shows two in need cleaning status but, as I have one drive down now, there's no correlation with the down drive. lto2 are scsi drives connected via fc through fiber bridges. I've had this problem through multiple version of this OS but it's the only Linux media server in my environment. (We're using the native lto2 drive, too - supposed to be part of this OS). -M -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:33 AM To: Donaldson, Mark Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives. On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Donaldson, Mark wrote: We have a dedicated media server built on an AMD box running RHEL 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 03:51:21 EDT 2008 x86_64). Over time, our LTO2 drives will go down one by one. A scan doesn't seem to show any issues but if I vmoprcmd -up them, they'll just go down again. After I collect a half-dozen down drives, I reboot the server and they'll be fine again for while. Anybody else having this trouble? Have you solved it? -M ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu What does tpclean -L say? Have they ever stayed up in the past? Do you have a fiber switched environment? Justin. ___ 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] Backing up Exchange 07 on a backup network
Have you tried adding some static routes for the backup traffic to your media and master servers on the client? From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Klebba, Don Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 07:15 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Exchange 07 on a backup network We have a solaris 10 server running 6.5.2a and a number of windows 2003 media servers running 6.5.2a. We have a separate network that we do all of our backup traffic on. The master, media servers, and all clients Are connected to both the public network as well as the backup network. We're trying to force exchange 07 To use the backup network, but we're not having much luck. I've been referencing the following document From symamntec. http://support.veritas.com/docs/286239 Has anyone had luck doing this. In our exchange 03 environment, we just added another IP to the exchange cluster resource and added a host File on the media servers. I'm being told by our exchange admin that this is not possible with exchange 07. Don Klebba Quicken Loans Storage Management Team donkle...@quickenloans.com phone: (734)805-7791 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Clarity on new tech alert (some NBU 6.5.x)
Anyone else seen this? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/311581.htm The description is a bit ambiguous so I'm trying to get clarity: A potential for missed backups without notification has been discovered in NetBackup Server/Enterprise Server when calendar based schedules have a configured window spanning midnight and go Active after midnight. This may result in a client backup not running during the next open window for any calendar based schedules configured in the same policy. This is independent of the scheduled backup type being configured as Full or Incremental. Does this refer to jobs going active after midnight or the policy itself being made active after midnight? I think it's referring to when queued jobs go active after midnight but wanted to be sure. TIA, -Dave ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need tips for setting sun fire x4500 as media server for LAN
This has some good info: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/sfx4500_mediaserver.jsp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oersted Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:27 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Need tips for setting sun fire x4500 as media server for LAN do you have access to 10GbE? how much data are you backing up? +-- |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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support?
It's still there but the final row under Solaris x86/x64 got pushed down to the next page. Not very easy to read but the compatibility for this configuration does not appear to have changed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner, Neil Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 14:35 To: Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] Solaris x86/x64 Netbackup server support? Anyone know what happened to support for Solaris x86/x64 as a NetBackup master? Support was introduced with 6.5.2, but according to the latest software compatibility matrix (9/26/08), it's no longer listed - is this a mistake? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need a command line command to change the BackupSelection for Policies
The backup selection for policies is kept in a file, specifically /usr/openv/Netbackup/db/class/policy name/includes. From my experience, you don't need to run a specific command to update this component - just modify the contents of this file and the next time a backup is kicked off it will backup whatever is in the includes file. So, just write a script to update the contents and you'll be set. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 05:19 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Need a command line command to change the BackupSelection for Policies Our environment NBU 6.5, HP-UX 11.31. I've got a ton of policies that I need to change the Backup Selections. They are all disk addresses like c0t3d10. To avoid typo's I'd like to script the changes. I've always set up or changed policies via the gui so I don't know the command line commands that are invoked. Anyone know what command line commands are needed to change the Backup Selection portion of a Policy? Thanks in advance... Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 313-593-9876 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2008 Client
Although it's not supported, you could try installing the 6.5.2 client and testing backups with your 6.0 master. I've seen this before with 5.0 master and 6.0 clients. Again not supported but it did work where I was at the time and bridged the gap until the master was upgraded to 6.0. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:54 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2008 Client Windows shop, Windows servers and clients. I'm at 6.0 and was really hoping to upgrade to 6.5.1 next week and not very anxious to go to 6.5.2 just yet from what I'm reading. The server team decided to start rolling out 2008 Server servers without checking for compatibility so now I have clients I can't backup. Is there any other way besides upgrading to .2 to resolve this? Thanks, Randy ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server installation
Yes, you can do this and you don't need any special licensing to do so. Very simple, just attach the 4 new drives to your new media server (SAN or direct SCSI, it doesn't matter) and configure Netbackup to know that the robotic control host is one of the original media servers. This configuration can be done via the device wizard in the admin console or via tpconfig on the new media server. That's it, nothing more to do. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 07:14 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media server installation Hi We have master server with Netbackup enterprise 6.0 running on solaris 8 two media server having two HPESl 9300 series tape library with four drive in each Library. We want to add now four drive in our our existing Library connect it to third media server. Please let me know is that possible. Thanks regards Sanjay Kumar Chahar This e-mail (and any attachment) has been sent from a PC belonging to DSG Retail Limited (Registered No 504877) or another company in the DSG international group, registered office Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 7TG. If you receive it in error, please tell us by return and then delete it from your system; you may not rely on its contents nor copy/disclose it to anyone. Opinions, conclusions and statements of intent in this e-mail are those of the sender and will not bind any DSG international company unless confirmed by an authorised representative independently of this message. We do not accept responsibility for viruses; you must scan for these. Please note that e-mails sent to and from the DSG international group are routinely monitored for record keeping, quality control and training purposes, to ensure regulatory compliance and to prevent viruses and unauthorised use of our computer systems. __ ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled.
Does the OS see the robot? Check that using sgscan -- if the OS doesn't see the changer then that's your problem. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taylor, David (MARSYS) Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:19 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled. good morning. i am setting up a test disaster recovery server running netbackup 6 mp5 on a v210 with solaris 10 with a exabyte magnum 1x7 autoloader. running the storage device wizard fails thus leaving the robot disabled not enabled, the lto 3 tape drive is picked up without problems. i have tried to configure the robot manually using tpconfig but get the some results. any ideas? thanks, dave.. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled.
Have you tried using tpconfig? In the past, I've always configured my robots drives via tpconfig, versus using the wizard. I only started using the wizard when we introduced Windows servers into our environments. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taylor, David (MARSYS) Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:46 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled. thanks dave. yes the os does see the library as well as the drive. SunOS truxtun 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 bash-3.00# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/sgscan /dev/sg/c0t0l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0): FUJITSU MAW3073NCSUN72G /dev/sg/c0t1l0: Disk (/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0): FUJITSU MAW3073NCSUN72G /dev/sg/c1t0l0: Changer: EXABYTE LTO 1x7 2U /dev/sg/c1t3l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/0): HP Ultrium 3-SCSI bash-3.00# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan *** SDT_TAPE *** SDT_CHANGER *** SDT_OPTICAL Device Name : /dev/sg/c1t0l0 Passthru Name: /dev/sg/c1t0l0 Volume Header: Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1 Inquiry: EXABYTE LTO 1x7 2U B00B Vendor ID : EXABYTE Product ID : LTO 1x7 2U Product Rev: B00B Serial Number: 87005544 WWN : WWN Id Type : 0 Device Identifier: EXABYTE LTO 1x7 2U 87005544 Device Type: SDT_CHANGER NetBackup Robot Type: 8 Removable : Yes Device Supports: SCSI-4 Number of Drives : 1 Number of Slots : 7 Number of Media Access Ports: 0 Drive 1 Serial Number : D217H001HU Flags : 0x0 Reason: 0x0 Device Name : /dev/rmt/0cbn Passthru Name: /dev/sg/c1t3l0 Volume Header: Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1 Inquiry: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI D217 Vendor ID : HP Product ID : Ultrium 3-SCSI Product Rev: D217 Serial Number: HU171200RB WWN : WWN Id Type : 0 Device Identifier: Device Type: SDT_TAPE NetBackup Drive Type: 16 Removable : Yes Device Supports: SCSI-3 Flags : 0x0 Reason: 0x0 bash-3.00# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -l Device Robot Drive Robot DriveDevice Second Type Num IndexType DrNum Status Comment Name Path Device Path robot 0-TLD- - -- /dev/sg/c1t0l0 drive -0 hcart3- UP -HP.ULTRIUM3-SCSI.000 /dev/rmt/0cbn From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cornely, David Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:32 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled. Does the OS see the robot? Check that using sgscan -- if the OS doesn't see the changer then that's your problem. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taylor, David (MARSYS) Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:19 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] robot not enabled. good morning. i am setting up a test disaster recovery server running netbackup 6 mp5 on a v210 with solaris 10 with a exabyte magnum 1x7 autoloader. running the storage device wizard fails thus leaving the robot disabled not enabled, the lto 3 tape drive is picked up without problems. i have tried to configure the robot manually using tpconfig but get the some results. any ideas? thanks, dave.. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Network Connection time out (41)
A while ago we saw similar issues with duplications, at least it was the same Connection reset by peer error (although different error code). It was fixed by changing our TCP keepalive value on the media server. Perhaps someone changed a timeout value on the firewall. Play with this value on the media server to see if it helps. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-30-2876-1 For windows, probably a registry change. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 13:01 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Network Connection time out (41) Hey guys I am receiving a Network Connection time out (41) on a consistent basis when I run a backup on two of our servers. The servers are behind a DMZ but I have set the BPCD connect-back to use the VNETD port and it worked for a long time but now all I receive are 41 errors. The servers do write some data but eventually error out. I am able to telnet to port 13724 on both servers so there is no blocking on the firewall for that port. Any assistance would be appreciated. CLIENT BPBKAR LOG: 12:28:31.007 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.038 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 125 bytes 12:28:31.038 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.038 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 171 bytes 12:28:31.569 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.569 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 171 bytes 12:28:31.757 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_read: TCP - failure: recv socket (376) (TCP 10053: Software caused connection abort) 12:28:31.804 PM: [648.3824] 2 tar_base::V_vTarMsgW: FTL - tar file write error (40) 12:28:31.804 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.804 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 6 bytes 12:28:31.804 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.804 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 26 bytes 12:28:31.866 PM: [648.3824] 2 tar_base::V_vTarMsgW: INF - EXIT STATUS 14: file write failed 12:28:31.866 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.866 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 6 bytes 12:28:31.866 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.866 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 34 bytes 12:28:31.882 PM: [648.3824] 4 tar_backup::backup_done_state: INF - Not waiting for server status 12:28:31.929 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.929 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 6 bytes 12:28:31.929 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: send socket (1864) (TCP 10054: Connection reset by peer) 12:28:31.929 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_write: TCP - failure: attempted to send 33 bytes 12:28:37.585 PM: [648.3824] 4 OVStopCmd: INF - EXIT - status = 0 12:28:39.726 PM: [648.3824] 2 ov_log::V_GlobalLog: INF - BEDS_Term() Enter InitFlags:0x1 12:28:40.351 PM: [648.3824] 16 dtcp_read: TCP - failure: recv socket (376) (TCP 10053: Software caused connection abort) 12:28:40.366 PM: [648.3824] 4 OVShutdown: INF - Finished process 12:28:40.366 PM: [648.3824] 4 WinMain: INF - Exiting C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpbkar32.exe 12:28:42.382 PM: [648.3824] 4 ov_log::OVClose: INF - Closing log file: C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\logs\BPBKAR\052908.LOG Daniel Jimenez Systems Analyst II Data Protection Team ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-4 on Linux
Did you up your NBU buffer settings to account for the increased performance of LTO-4? You can check this technote to determine which settings to check and if your media server has enough resources to push these upgraded drives: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/183702.htm I've heard that 1MB is useful for the buffer size (1048576) but you'll need to test to really nail it down. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esson, Paul Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 09:43 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-4 on Linux Folks, Has anybody out there configured LTO-4 drives on Linux Red Hat ES 4? I recently swapped out a pair of LTO-2 drives for LTO-4 drives on a v5.1 Media Server and have seen no throughput performance improvement. I did the same test on a Windows 2003 Server using the same data and saw significant improvement, but the Windows OS has a specific driver for the LTO-4. Linux uses the mt driver, but I can't see anything on the web specifically about tuning the mt driver for LTO-4. Regards, Paul Esson Redstor Limited Direct: +44 (0) 1224 595381 Mobile: +44 (0) 7766 906514 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.redstor.com REDSTOR LIMITED Torridon House 73-75 Regent Quay Aberdeen UK AB11 5AR Disclaimer: The information included in this e-mail is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk and Media Manager Storage Units and error 84(media write error) - beginners question (NetBackup 3.4 onSolaris 8)
I don't know of any way to do what you want to do with Netbackup, and you have more limitations in NBU3.4 compared to the current version. Then again, you could do a search on Symantec's support site: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.jsp I recommend creating a striped volume using a volume management tool (Symantec Volume Manager or Solaris Disk Suite) to group all your 34GB drives together into one large volume/storage unit. If you want protection for this storage unit against a disk failure then go with RAID1+0 or RAID5 (although RAID5 could slow down your backups due to parity calculations). You could also create smaller stripe sets/storage units if needed; it really depends upon your needs. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrey Halezov Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 16:43 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disk and Media Manager Storage Units and error 84(media write error) - beginners question (NetBackup 3.4 onSolaris 8) Dear NetBackup Gurus! I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1, /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes. All my backup classes are setup with property Storage_Unit set to any available. Expectation === To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or Media Manager, whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units fills up. Actually happens === The backup doesn't switch to the next Storage Unit. I get error 84 (media write error) when the hard drive mounted under /backupdisk_n fills up. The backup keeps trying to use the same Storage Unit each time getting error 84 (while there is space available on the other Disk Storage Units and Media Manager Storage Unit) Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage Unit fills up. Is there a way to fix my setup? Thank you, Andrey ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4
Well, I'd say got to 6.0 MP5 (not MP4) since it addresses some issues in MP4, specifically things we've had issues with. I'm always very hesitant to move to any new software version of any product, be it Netbackup or anything else. But with Netbackup I've learned not to touch it until at least MP2 is out - clearly Symantec, like most software companies, considers time to market more important than addressing all bugs out of the gate so I strongly suggest 6.0MP5 unless there is a feature only available in 6.5 that you absolutely must have... caveat emptor. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 09:10 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Hi there, I am looking for opinions whether or not to go to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Currently on 5.1MP6/Solaris - Master/ Solaris, Linux, Windows, Exchange, VM - Clients/ Flashbackup, BareMetal, Oracle raw partitions, - future options Alex Gerber CISSP, CISA Senior UNIX Systems Administrator Sepracor Inc. p. 508.357.7445 f. 508.357. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS COMMUNICATION AND ANY ATTACHMENTS HERETO IS CONFIDENTIAL, MAY BE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED, AND IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE ADDRESSEE(S). IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR AN AGENT THEREOF, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION OR ANY ATTACHMENT HERETO IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY E-MAIL, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE . ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions
As far as I know once images expire they are deleted from the Netbackup catalog - as a result (and as you state) it is not possible to unexpire images within the catalog via bpexpdate. The only option is to manually import the images off the tapes, assuming you know what tapes have the images you need and they haven't yet been overwritten. If you are able to do the import then you can assign whatever retention you want. It's not hard to find existing images for current clients, but if the image has expired it doesn't exist in the catalog anymore. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Zermeno Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 15:51 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] retentions We had an issue where was server was down for over 2 weeks and the last full backups expired. The retention for this environment is 2 weeks. After the tapes expired the App team decided they wanted to restore. Now management wants Veritas to extend the retention period automatically if a full is not successfully run. I do not know of any company that has this capability so I am looking for ideas. I do not think it would be possible for a person to manually track all the servers and their last full and then manually bpexpdate the images. I have pushed back with the question of why was this server allowed to be down for 2 weeks but nobody is answering. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Status 800 problem
Hey all, Anyone ever see this before: 4/4/2007 1:50:15 PM - requesting resource BOSPTCMEDIA1-NET 4/4/2007 1:50:15 PM - requesting resource ptcmaster.bosptc.intuit.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.itemptcdb2.bosptc.intuit. com 4/4/2007 1:50:15 PM - requesting resource ptcmaster.bosptc.intuit.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.Hourly_Archive_Logs 4/4/2007 1:50:16 PM - Error nbjm(pid=603) NBU status: 800, EMM status: The robotic library is not defined in EMM resource request failed(800) All backup jobs are failing with this same error, and it happens immediately once the job goes active. It appears that the library definition is absent from the EMM server but I don't know how to fix this. I'm running NBU6.0 MP4, a Solaris 9 master and a Solaris 9 media server with 1 robot and 8 drives. I can inventory the robot and see it in device monitor. My EMM server for this environment should be the master and is defined as such in the bp.conf on both the master and media server. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Dave ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NFS Backups
So does this Storagetek appliance do snapshots? I'm not familiar with this piece of equipment but if it's similar to a NetApp appliance then you might want to consider both disk and tape backups. Disk being the built-in snapshot capabilities of the appliance. Do something like snapshots during the week and go to tape on the weekend (of course, you'll have to make sure you've purchased enough disk to contain all the snapshots for the duration you need to). If you do this you might give yourself more time to go to tape so then the NFS option becomes much easier to implement. Looking at a combination of things to do will give you more flexibility towards satisfying your requirements. I would recommend reducing tape backups as much as possible though, just less headaches. -Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 09:25 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NFS Backups All, A group I support here is looking very heavily at a Sun Storagetek appliance like storage device that I've got to backup somehow. After seeing the NDMP price tag (we don't do any other NDMP here) the question of NFS file backups has come up. So I'm going to try to benchmark NDMP backups with the NBU NDMP extension (temporary licenses) versus the same backups on a client server over NFS. OBVIOUSLY NDMP to Media Server is the way to go here (not an argument from anyone on that.) HOWEVER - apparently from a budget perspective it's a difficult pill to swallow. (Ok, my disclaimer is complete - so flame on!) My current plan is to benchmark to NDMP, then load up a test Linux server and optimize that NFS backup. I'm assuming the NDMP will be (for example) some 50+MB/sec and the wire-2-wire is going to be significantly slower (the percentage slower being directly related to whether or not this is even feasible.) Has anyone done any testing like this before? I'd appreciate any results anyone can share. Thanks, -J ___ 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] Redhat or Fedora 2.6 kernel NB 5.1?
This is what I've done to get it working on Fedora (I forget the exact kernel version). Don't know if this will work for you but it's here if you want to try. 1) Turned off SELinux because it was preventing some shared library activity required by bpcd. You have the option of running Security Enhanced Linux on Fedora but it's very paranoid and makes it hard to do a lot of things. So, we turned it off. Here's how: -Edit the /etc/selinux/config file and set the SELINUX variable to disabled -Rebooted the server (required to have this change take effect) 2) Ran the iptables commands to allow NBU servers access but I used the IP address of the master/media server instead of the hostname. 3) Then ran this to save the new iptables rules: # /sbin/service iptables save 4) Restarted xinetd /etc/init.d/xinetd restart Then we could access the client via NBU. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 14:15 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Redhat or Fedora 2.6 kernel NB 5.1? Before anyone says it - I know none of the 2.6 kernels for RH/FC are in the compatibility matrix. My question is despite the above has anyone got it successfully working on either Redhat or Fedora Core version 4 or higher with the 2.6 kernel? If so would you be willing to share how you got it going or at least the xinetd changes you made for it? It seems I saw a thread about this some time ago but I can't find it in the archives. By the way - is there a way to search the archives for keywords? The page I went to just gives me the archives by month so I have to open each one and even then I can only search on the thread titles. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Multistreaming from a single file system
Almost, but try this: NEW_STREAM /abc/def/one NEW_STREAM /abc/def/two NEW_STREAM /abc/def /abc/def/three /abc/def/misc You should try it with the NEW_STREAM directive before every stream you want. Works for me that way. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Khurram Tariq Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 00:29 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multistreaming from a single file system Hi, Can we do multistreaming from one filesystem? I want to do this because the subdirectories on a filesystem contains tens of thousands of small files and the backup runs quite slowly (i'm sure of shoe shining too). The filesystem is structured like this: Mount point: /abc/def Sub directories: /abc/def/one /abc/def/two /abc/def/three /abc/def/misc I want to backup directories one two in separate streams and everything else in the third stream. Will the following setting in the backup selection work? /abc/def/one NEW_STREAM /abc/def/two NEW_STREAM /abc/def /abc/def/three /abc/def/misc Regards, Khurram ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers
You may also want to try these things (I found some of these in a forum from a search on Google): 1) On a windows system, check to see if tracker.exe is running. If it is, kill it. This will release some I/O on the filesystems. You can also check to see if it is started up at boot time and turn that off: Start-Run-msconfig (hit enter) Go to the Startup tab and uncheck the tracker.exe 2) On the client, touch the file /Install Path/netbackup/dont_sort_dir 3) In the client's bp.conf, add this: LOCKED_FILE_ACTION = SKIP From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edson Noboru Yamada Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:07 Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers A important thing to consider is file system fragmentation and number and size of files, which may impactseverely on performance. In order to check this, try to create a single big file (2 GB, for example) and create a test policy to backup only that file. Under normal conditions, on a idle system/network, you should be able to get over 50 MB/s. On 1/5/07, M S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bobby, You may also want to check if your NIC on windows server is throttled down by Windows by default. I have heard about this that Windows by default will throttle down to some very low throughput. Please check further into it. Muhammad Shafi Senior Unix Admin - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: January 5, 2007 8:28 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers I'm curious to hear what kind of speeds (mbs/sec) others are getting backing up windows servers. Running Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 mp6 under Solaris10 on master/media servers. a.Using brocade 2g ports 48000 director. b.IBM Ultrium LTO Gen2 drives c.Sun branded Qlogic 2gb cards. single port feeding each tape drive. d.The storage on the windows servers is FC attached Hitachi Tagmastore 9990. (Very fast drive configuration.) e. Servers are HP G5's also 64 bit. Some are 32 bit. Seems 32 bit servers are actually faster. note: Some of my other backups such as Solaris, Linix and Netware can get as much as 20 mb/sec with this configuration. So why are the windows servers so slow? Any one have some kind of idea what may be a cause? Or it is what it is! Windows! Bobby Windle ( Data backup Recovery ) W.L . Gore associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred) office: (302) 292-4026 ___ 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] Backup through firewalls
Title: Backup through firewalls Without vnetd its been my experience that you need these ports opened: 512-5000 13701-13783 -Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:16 To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 Do any of you backup servers through a firewall? What issues do you see in terms of failures? What ports do you typically open up for successful backups? Do you do anything special in the policy's for servers on the other side of a firewall? Greg This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal,professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for theaddressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the informationin this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working
Not sure if this is the issue for you but our experience with tape drives and HP might help. We're using AIT-3 and what we've had to do from the beginning is configure them to emulate AIT-1 drives. This is done from our library, not on the host. It's necessary because HP only produces drivers for the AIT-1 model -- I guess they just haven't felt like keeping up the drivers as new models come out. At any rate, this might be something to consider in your case. I don't have the beginning of the thread so I don't know what type/model tape drive you're using but you might want to check to make sure they have driver support for this model. Or you could look into emulating older models of the same tape drive and see what happens. -Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlisle, D Renee Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:32 To: Jeff Lightner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working We are using BEST on HP, we have done numerous testing with new tapes and consistent data and compression has not been working since we switched over to the IBM library. Reneé Carlisle Sr. Systems Administrator 675 Basket Road Webster, NY 14580 Jer 29:11-13 585-216-0497 (w) 585-472-2360 (c) -Original Message- From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:42 PM To: Carlisle, D Renee; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working Didn't respond earlier because I thought your post regarding Sun only. On HP the device's minor specifies settings of the drive's device entries - it will have several. You need to make sure your minor numbers are for the Best density which would include compression. Also as noted by another poster I have seen on HP-UX that when I wrote to a drive using its non-compressed device entry that subsequent writes to that device where I couldn't specify the density made it continue to write in a non-compressed mode. This was for a backup I was doing from the boot prompt (don't remember how exactly I did that). By booting up the OS then doing a short write to the device file that had compression enabled then going back down to the boot prompt I was able to make it write compression. Not sure how familiar with HP-UX you are. It has a command called lssf for listing special files. For tape devices it will show you detail. Example chosen at random from my HP-UX master server: lssf /dev/rmt/c9t3d5BEST stape card instance 9 SCSI target 3 SCSI LUN 5 att best density available at address 0/6/1/0/4/0.98.54.255.1.3.5 /dev/rmt/c9t3d5BEST Shows it is the best density available so I know it has compression. You might want to try running lssf on the devices you have configured in HP-UX to insure they have this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlisle, D Renee Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working I answered the compression issue in a previous post, we definitely are not getting compression. The reason I mentioned the library is that it does not seem to be at the hardware level since the tapes are obviously compressing on the test side of the world and we are using the same library. IBM, Sun, and Veritas are all involved right now (even though it is across HP, Sun, and Windows), but everyone is scratching their heads. Just trying to think outside the box now. Reneé Carlisle Sr. Systems Administrator 675 Basket Road Webster, NY 14580 Jer 29:11-13 585-216-0497 (w) 585-472-2360 (c) -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:20 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Carlisle, D Renee Subject: RE: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:42:58 -0400 From: Carlisle, D Renee [EMAIL PROTECTED] What makes you believe that hardware compression is not working? I'd suggest proving the compression assertion first, then getting support people for the drive/library/drivers involved. - The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or any employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Paychex, Inc. ___ Veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
You might want to consider something like Data Domain or a product like Riverbed. I like the idea of Riverbed (a WAN acceleration device), where you could bring your file servers back to the local site, backing them up there, and then your remote users would access the file server via the WAN, with Riverbed devices on each end. The idea is that this device makes the file server appear local to the remote users. Any way you cut it remote site backups are a pain and the fewer autonomous NBU environments you have the better off you will be. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j. okabayashi Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:44 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites All, I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone is doing to back up anyremote sites they may have. I am running NBU 5.1 MP4 on W2K3 servers.I have a few sites with a single DC that is acting as file server, and print server. As of right now, these single servers are not getting backed up. Can NBU be used for this or should we look into something else? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason
[Veritas-bu] DLO information
Title: DLO information Hello, Has anyone deployed and is anyone using the Desktop Laptop Option under Netbackup? I'm trying to get a general idea of cost per client and overall usability. Also, is option part of Netbackup Enterprise Server or some other strain of NBU? Thanks! -Dave
RE: [Veritas-bu] bpgp like command for Windows
I have access to a NBU3.4 Solaris master and checked: master# pwd /usr/openv/netbackup master# master# cat version HARDWARE SOLARIS VERSION NetBackup 3.4GA RELEASEDATE Tue Jun 20 03:04:00 CDT 2000 master# master# cd bin master# master# file bpgp bpgp: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped master# It's not a shell script. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Stump Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 07:46 To: Martin NONLILLY; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp like command for Windows I was wondering if anyone may have NB v 3.x and could check to see if bpgp is written in shell? Martin Rohrbach NONLILLY [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/13/2005 6:50 AM Well, for example I'd like to compile a list of excludes across all our clients. To get to the UNIX excludes, I have to look at the exclude_list files in /usr/openv/netbackup but we only have Windows Masters - hence no bpgp. I got it working by having a look at some network traces and coding my very own bpgp.pl (only the from portion though) -- works nicely at least for this purpose and client types / versions we use here :) If anyone's interested I'm happy to share it but not on the list ... Martin Bob Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/2005 17:21 To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp like command for Windows bpgp was called by add_slave_on_clients to get the bp.conf file on a UNIX client so it could be modified and resent to the client. I don't see any need for bpgp to be on a windows system. I was given the proper syntax for bpgp to get a windows file onto a UNIX server by Greg Sheka. # bpgp from W2K /C/\\Program Files\\VERITAS\\NetBackup\\Logs\\Bptm\\040105.log /tmp/gotit I found that helpful. Hey what if you got a copy of bpgp and ran it from a valid UNIX netbackup server? might work [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/2005 9:24 AM Hello All Does somebody know of a bpgp like command for Netbackup on Windows ? Regards Michael -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk) ___ 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 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
