Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions
Bingo, it will start from the utime of the originating backup and add 86,400*NrOfRetentionDays and add that to the originating utime to get to the expiration. I believe in the "old days" it was 28 days, but I believe Bobby is right, 31 days is a month in NB. I have it documented somewhere...if I can find it, I'll post it here. Chapa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retentions I just checked a 3 month backup from last night (I don't have any 6 month). It started @ 1197958489 (12/18/07 00:14:49) It says that it expires @ 1205993689 (3/20/08 01:14:49) A difference of 8035200 seconds; or 133920 minutes; or 2232 hours; or 93 days I have seen it documented somewhere that a month in NB was 31 days just to make sure. Use bpimagelist on a backup in your 6month retention policy to see the backup time and the expiration time of the backup id. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retentions Guys im being asked by management a bit of a stupid question but i don't know for 100% so thought id check here. If i have a retention set to 6 months i assume it is 6 months e.g from 02/01/07 to 02/07/07 and not 6 * 4 weeks or a certain number of days? I know you can edit retentions but im just questioning the standard ones. 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 --- The information contained in this transmission may be confidential. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution of confidential information is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Backup what the symlink points to?
I think there used to be a way back in the early versions (1.6-1.7) but I don't believe its there today... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:04 AM To: Justin Piszcz; NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question: Backup what the symlink points to? GNU tar, find and cpio all have ways to "follow" symbolic links to get the real files to which they point. However I don't know of a way to tell a NBU policy to use that option for the modified GNU tar it uses for backups. (You could do it at command line but then it would not be a "netbackup" backup - just a tar.) The help for 5.1 MP4 says of symbolic links that it backs up the link only and not the file to which it points. It goes on to say to restore the file to which the symbolic link restores you must actually restore that file as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:45 AM To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question: Backup what the symlink points to? This concerns UNIX: I need to look this up but was wondering if anyone knew off the top of their head how to make NetBackup backup what a symlink points to or if that is even possible? I know about the cross-link option but that concerns mounts and filesystems, not sym-links. 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 The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
Two ways...buy the partitioning license for your i2K and have a separate logical library for LTO2's and LTO3's :-) Or you can do it based on media type. HCART2 Media (LTO2) HCART3 Media (LTO3) HCART2 Storage Units HCART3 Storage Units NBU will only mount HCART2 media in an HCART2 storage unit and so on. The media can reside in the same volume pool - that won't matter, what matters is the media type and storage unit type. david From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry
They could have killed the proc too...not that I've ever done that before... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:23 AM To: Steve Fogarty; Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT); Hudson, Steve; WEAVER, Simon (external); Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry Don't get me wrong. As an early DOS user who refused to go to Windows for years and a longtime UNIX/Linux admin I don't have much respect for folks who can't do command line. Having said that, however, I do think there are times using a GUI makes sense. For monitoring I like the activity monitor and if one is careful one can actually kill what is intended rather than everything. As noted it is a pet peeve - not a show stopper. For stopping/starting drives and many other tasks the GUI is a royal pain so I use command line or my own scripts based on command line for such tasks. -Original Message- From: Steve Fogarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:12 PM To: 'Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT)'; 'Hudson, Steve'; Jeff Lightner; 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; 'Brooks, Jason'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry Agreed. Stay away from the GUI! Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:31 PM To: Hudson, Steve; Jeff Lightner; WEAVER, Simon (external); Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry Reason # 9 trillion to learn all the various syntax options of bpdbjobs ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:03 AM To: Jeff Lightner; WEAVER, Simon (external); Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry I couldn't agree more We have inadvertently killed all jobs when trying to kill only one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:47 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry I've never seen a 150 that wasn't caused by someone actually canceling the job (even when they initially don't fess up). That brings up one of my pet peeves about the Java GUI. The options for "kill" selected job and "kill" all jobs are one above the other. Often once you highlight it the highlight goes away when you get the prompt to OK the action. Due to this I've seen a couple of times where people here have killed all when they meant to kill one. The kill all should be all the way at the end of the list and separated by a bar so one has to consciously choose it. Its warning prompt should be significantly different than the one for killing a single job. Hell if it would just leave the original selection highlighted one would be less likely to go ahead and hit OK. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:16 AM To: 'Brooks, Jason'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry Jason Well its not automated :-) If no one had access to the Master Server console, what about from the end client?? Spooky :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: 24 April 2007 14:49 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Curious Log Entry ___ 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. - 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/v
Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting scripts
This is probably the most attainable solution... I think I have a script that does this...I'll have to track it down in my archives. You could also use bperror which will tell you all of the successfully written backup jobs (grep for successfully wrote) with a backupID which you can then use bpimmedia (long listing) and identify whether it was a full, inc or c-inc backup, then extract from bpplist the file list or bpflist There are a variety of roads to get to where you want to be. david -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:55 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting scripts > I know things like this have been discussed but I haven't found a way to > get what I want from the command line. It looks like I need a little > bit of output from bpdbjobs -all_columns, using the lastbackup column > definition in the bp.conf file, and part of the bpcatlist command. I > have spent considerable time looking on the web and RTFM (several of > them). Here is what I'm trying to get. If you know of a command that > gives all of this or have a script that will dig all this up, I would > greatly appreciate it. > > Client name, file system or mount point, last successful full date, last > successful incremental date. I want something like: > > client1,/,04/01/2007 19:20:00, 04/16/2007 20:00:03 > client1,/mnt/data,04/01/2007 19:38:00, 04/16/2007 21:33:00 I don't have anything that does exactly that, but it's close. I can at least tell you how I'm getting the data: Use 'bppllist' to get the list of clients in active policies. For each of those clients, get a list of images in the time frame of interest (can limit to full at this stage if you want) with 'bpimagelist'. For each of those images, use 'bpflist' to get the name of the first file in the backup. That's normally the filesystem or directory that is being backed up. Sort the ones with the same name by date and report the last one. 'bpdbjobs' would give you the filesystem mapping a bit more directly, but then you're limited to what's in the jobs list. If you kept that and stored it in your own database, that would be easier to manipulate. I went to the file data because it hangs around longer. > I'm guessing this is why Aptare and Bocada are in business :-) Seems to be. :-) -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Unit Strangeness
ACS/LS will use whatever it wants. Are all 6 really active? Is there another application using those drives somewhere? ACS/LS may have just left those in the drives...eh, its been a long time since I rock and rolled with acs What's with the fragment size and the mpx value? :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:41 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Storage Unit Strangeness Have a support call open, but find you guys to have seen more than they have sometimes ;) Solaris 9 NBU 5.1 MP4 Media server NBU 5.1 MP6 Master The storage unit for media server (the only one for that media server) is configured to use 3 drives, however the media server has 6 drives in use... Label: HOST_STU Media Type:Media Manager (2) Host Connection: HOST Number of Drives: 3 On Demand Only:no Density: hcart2 (14) Robot Type/Number: ACS (1) / 0 Max Fragment Size: 2048 Max MPX/drive: 8 isdsnh027 (root):/usr/openv/pack#> vmoprcmd PENDING REQUESTS DRIVE STATUS Drv Type Control User Label RecMID ExtMID Ready Wr.Enbl. ReqId 0 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L94844 L94844 Yes Yes 2 1 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L92802 L92802 Yes Yes 1 2 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L01203 L01203 Yes Yes 5 3 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L96625 L96625 Yes Yes 4 4 hcart2 ACS- No - - 5 hcart2 ACS Yes L00222 L00222 Yes Yes - 6 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L95981 L95981 Yes Yes 3 7 hcart2 ACS -No - - 8 hcart2 ACSroot Yes H05037 H05037 Yes Yes 1 9 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L94986 L94986 Yes Yes 2 10 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L95971 L95971 Yes Yes 0 11 hcart2 ACSroot Yes L95991 L95991 Yes Yes 3 ADDITIONAL DRIVE STATUS Drv DriveNameSharedAssignedComment 0 HFD_STK3_0_10_06 Yes HOST 1 HFD_STK3_0_10_08 Yes HOST 2 HFD_STK3_0_10_10 Yes HOST 3 HFD_STK3_0_10_11 Yes HOST 4 HFD_STK3_0_10_12 Yes - 5 HFD_STK3_0_10_13 Yes - 6 HFD_STK3_0_10_14 Yes HOST 7 HFD_STK3_0_10_16 Yes - 8 HFD_STK3_0_10_17 Yes other 9 HFD_STK3_0_10_18 Yes other 10 HFD_STK3_0_10_07 Yes HOST 11 HFD_STK3_0_10_09 Yes other And no commentary on the MPX or Fragment size, I'm slowly digging them out of their backward ways... Anyone seen this??? Kate Greenberg Enterprise Backup Infrastructure Solutions Department 860.547.8155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. * The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] NDMP Duplication - 5.1
I can’t get my hands on 5.1 documentation right now… Can anyone confirm if I can duplicate NDMP images by a media server that DIDN’T write it originally using the altreadhost feature of bpduplicate. Thanks David David A. Chapa | Senior Technologist of Advanced Solutions | Quantum Corporation | 720.272.8452 cell | http://www.quantum.com BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Chapa;David FN:David Chapa TEL;WORK;VOICE:720 249 5836 TEL;CELL;VOICE:720 272 8452 ADR;WORK:;Englewood;8560 Upland Dr;Englewood;Colorado;80112;UNITED STATES LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Englewood=0D=0A8560 Upland Dr=0D=0AEnglewood, Colorado 80112=0D=0AUNITED STA= TES EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20060102T165913Z END:VCARD ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Does backup data *always* pass through the Master server?
There used to be a very nice functional overview in Appendix A of the Troubleshooting Guide...but the docs have been reorganized since then. But it should be there... Kate is right - only meta data it sent back to the master server, the functional overview shows you other process interaction between master and media which is very helpful. David Chapa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Katherine A Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:40 AM To: Richard Hellier; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Does backup data *always* pass through the Master server? No, only META DATA will go to the Master server. Are you using the MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE directive in bp.conf or setting the policy to only use the STU for the specific media server? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Hellier Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:31 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Does backup data *always* pass through the Master server? Hi -- a question on data 'routing' in NetBackup: If a machine is a N/B media server and is backing itself up, does the data 'short-circuit' straight from disks -> tape/whatever or does it pass across to the master server and then back? Thanks Richard. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu - This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ___ 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] Tuning Netbackup
You definitely want to look at the bptm logs to see what is happening and how you should affect your buffers. See attached document for tuning help. David PS. Well I attached the document but it exceeded the 20K limit J (doug loves it when I do that) so if you’d like the document let me know and I’ll send it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ambrose, Monte Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 7:04 AM To: nouresh LEGACY; veritas-bu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Netbackup Nouresh Without analyzing output for buffer waits from your bptm log - I have found that more buffers generally works better than bigger buffers. Try increasing the number of buffers and decrease the size a little. Perhaps SIZE=65536 NUM=64 Or SIZE=131072 NUM=32 You will notice that they all add up to the same total but it can make a big difference. I believe that the first option above also matches the LTO3 hardware buffer size. Monte From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nouresh LEGACY Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:46 PM To: veritas-bu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Netbackup What major changes I'll have to do incase the OS is Linux. The data transfer (throughput) rate is 14mb/sec. cd /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm grep -i "KBytes/sec" log.* transfer rate is 18632.911 Kbytes/sec Let me explain u abt my setup: NBU 5.1 MP3 HP StorageWorks MSL 6000 HP Ultrium LTO 3 cartridges Changes made, but still struggling to get the speed. /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 256kb /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 16 After creating these files, backup was fired at the speed of 18mb/sec. Do i have to change any directives in /etc/sysctl.conf Cheers, Nouresh
[Veritas-bu] robtest poll
Title: Message Hello everyone...I’m curious about a robtest command that has been there as far back as I can remember (version 1.6). Once you are in robtest the command is “initrange” How many of you use initrange? And if you do use it what do you use it for? Any Symantec (Veritas) input is welcomed as well. Thanks very much, David
