[Veritas-bu] Locking down NT media servers used as remote backup hosts

[Donaldson, Mark]

We've got 5 Windows 2k8 media servers being used as remote backup hosts
for ESX servers.  We zone the ESX datastores to the NT boxen, they
remain unmounted (but online) and are read to backup the ESX virtual
machines.  These are, therefore, shared SAN disks.

Our NT admins are a bit nervous about how to lock these down so nobody
accidentally formats these disks or otherwise causes damage to them in
the standard late-night lets-see-if-this-works fumbling.

How are you folks locking down your media servers to prevent accidental
damage.

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
pager: 3034354...@cingularme.com
(o) 303-664-2040
(c) 303-435-4766



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[Veritas-bu] DB2 partition restarts?

[Donaldson, Mark]

We've got some DB2 DBA's that are asking if anybody has worked out a way
to do partition restarts should one partition fail on a DB2 DPF
database.

I'm thinking the best way would be to have their backup script be very
smart but I'm not sure how to suggest making it smart.

Anybody doing this?

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
pager: 3034354...@cingularme.com
(o) 303-664-2040
(c) 303-435-4766



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[Veritas-bu] Informix 11.7 on HP-UX 11.11

[Donaldson, Mark]

Is anybody backing up Informix 11.7 on HP-UX 11.11?  It's not on the
compatibility matrix but I think that's because IBM doesn't certify 11.7
for 11.11.  It's only certified for 11.23 & 11.31.

Still - I may have to back it up and I wonder if anybody else is doing
it.

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
pager: 3034354...@cingularme.com
(o) 303-664-2040
(c) 303-435-4766


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[Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives & Windows

[Donaldson, Mark]

A couple versions back, both versions of OS & versions of NetBackup,
there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While
officially supported many people reported problems with device
ownership. Windows was somewhat "grabby" and liked to possess shared
devices rather than happily share them.

We're probably starting a process now with the upcoming 7.1 and our
first implementation of Windows servers as media servers (either Win2003
or Win2008 depending on when they're built).  

What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5)
between Windows & Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers?

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
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[Veritas-bu] Your catalog size?

[Donaldson, Mark]

It looks like we might be rolling out NB to an all new environment here.
Dumping the existing product and doing a clean install of NB7.0.

Symantec is recommending two master servers due to the size of the
catalog.  Their reasoning is not the performance of the backups but
rather then time necessary to restore the catalog in the event of a
disaster.  We're not too worried about this aspect of it.  We're more
likely use snapshot technology or other fast-restore methods. We'd
rather have one (clustered) master server for the sake of ease of
deployment.

So - as a sanity check of the huge catalogs, how do you feel about a 1-2
TB catalog?  Anybody running close to these sizes?

-Mark


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator

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[Veritas-bu] "Maintenance Mode"

[Donaldson, Mark]

The company that bought us is all about pie charts.  Gotta keep the pie
charts looking good so gotta keep errors from being recorded.

In the past, if a client was down due to maintenance during a backup, I
just closed the ticket.  Using DP on their side, they've got a method to
put a backup client into "maintenance mode" before the backup and take
it out after.

Yesterday I tried setting "max jobs per client" to zero for a client but
that didn't work.  "0" in max jobs means "not defined", not "zero".

The only way I can think is to either: make one policy per client and
deactivate the policy - which I don't want to do, or write a script to
pull the client from its policies and then add it back in 24 hours with
an "at" job.  Not impossible, just kludgy.

Any other ideas?

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
pager: 3034354...@cingularme.com
(o) 303-664-2040
(c) 303-435-4766

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging off Virtual Tape Library

[Donaldson, Mark]

Vault is well suited for scheduling though.  Is that an option for you?

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:38 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging off Virtual Tape Library

 

Brandon,

Yep, you seem to have the setup right.

And yes, one of the drawbacks of SLPs is that there doesn't seem to be
an easy way to schedule WHEN the duplications will happen. I seem to
recall some obscure config file you can create to influence the timing.
i'll try to look ot up when I have more convemient access than my phone!

- Dean

On 14/07/2010 8:46 AM, "Brandon35"
 wrote:


haha Dean, I posted my post 4 seconds after you :)  But thank
you sir for confirming my finding seems to be correct. Possibly you
could answer my question on scheduling the duplication portion to occur
in the daytime?



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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

[Donaldson, Mark]

For legal holds I just use "bpduplicate" to a pool called "Legal" with a
different retention.  It's just a  couple-times-per-year action for us.

 

From: Brian J. Greenberg [mailto:br...@gsysd.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:29 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: Mark Glazerman; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

 

Mark, 

 

For a single instance, I agree.  For organizations that are constantly
changing retention of data and need to keep track of the original
expiration dates and manage shared data, especially for legal holds,
it's an excellent solution.  

 

Brian J. Greenberg
General System Dynamics LLC
br...@gsysd.com
http://gsysd.com <http://gsysd.com/> 
312.242.1840
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On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Donaldson, Mark wrote:





That's kind of an expensive way to avoid typing one command.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brian J.
Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

 

You can also use Data Manager
<http://gsysd.com/gsd/GSD_-_Data_Manager.html>  to accomplish this.
It's designed for legal holds but does exactly what you want to do too.

 

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General System Dynamics LLC
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On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Mark Glazerman wrote:






We've had a request to extend the retention period on backups from one
of our hosts so that data needed for some troubleshooting won't expire
before it can be used.

 

Currently the retention period for this data is 1 week.  If I change the
retention period in the policy that backed up this data to 2 weeks, will
this change be applied to both future and past backups handled by this
policy ?

 

Essentially I'm trying to work out if this change will be applied
retro-actively to existing backup images ?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

[Donaldson, Mark]

That's kind of an expensive way to avoid typing one command.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brian J.
Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

 

You can also use Data Manager
  to accomplish this.
It's designed for legal holds but does exactly what you want to do too.

 

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General System Dynamics LLC
br...@gsysd.com
http://gsysd.com  
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On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Mark Glazerman wrote:





We've had a request to extend the retention period on backups from one
of our hosts so that data needed for some troubleshooting won't expire
before it can be used.

 

Currently the retention period for this data is 1 week.  If I change the
retention period in the policy that backed up this data to 2 weeks, will
this change be applied to both future and past backups handled by this
policy ?

 

Essentially I'm trying to work out if this change will be applied
retro-actively to existing backup images ?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

mark.glazer...@spartech.com  

http://www.spartech.com  

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[Veritas-bu] Resetting the archive bit on windows backups

[Donaldson, Mark]

This occurred to me on the way to work.  Does the NB client for windows
reset all the archive bits on files after the backup's completion?
That's the only thing that makes sense as I see it.  If it reset the bit
after each file, then a last-minute failure of the backup would not let
the next incremental backup what failed the previous run.

-M


Mark Donaldson - Systems & Storage Administrator
Staples - Broomfield, CO
pager: 3034354...@cingularme.com
(o) 303-664-2040
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage life cycle policy query.

[Donaldson, Mark]

If you converted it to a vault job, then you could write to two
different destinations from one read process.  

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pranav
batra
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:18 AM
To: Veritas
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Storage life cycle policy query.

 

Hello All,
 
 
We have setup a SLP for the duplication of images to diffrent storage
units.
 
We are taking a backup on Disk them duplicating it to another disk at
diffrent location and then to tape at same location.
 
My question is that this all is a very time consuming process.
 
As first backup goes to disk one:-to tape.Then duplication starts to
disk2 and then 
 
Is there any way to run both the duplication process simentaneously when
the backup to disk 1 completes.
 
I mean when backup to disk 1 done: -Can the duplication run on idsk2 and
tape simentaneously.
 
We are using OST option but it is not offrening us the D2D2T option.
 
Could somebody put some more light on it?
 
 


Thanks and Regards
Pranav Batra

 







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Re: [Veritas-bu] test

[Donaldson, Mark]

Dang.  I paid attention to it.

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Saranjit
Singh
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:05 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] test

 


this is test message. please ignore.







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Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name

[Donaldson, Mark]

Are you planning to copy your existing backup catalog (image database)
over to the new environment?  If so, then the master server name is
buried in that database it's a far-from-casual process to rename the
master server.  There is no published process for it and Symantec will
want to charge you for professional services to do this for you.

If you're just going to create a new master server with it's own
database, then it's simply a matter of building a new environment. 

If you're going to do backups of one client to both environments, change
the first SERVER entry in the client's bp.conf file, that's the one that
should point to that client's master server.  It really should only
matter, though, for client initiated actions, like restores.

A media server would be more complex, I'd suggest not trying to
dual-master a media server.

-M

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To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name


I plan to replicate a production environment on a test server, but I
need to change the master server name as the test environment will not
be isolated.  Anyone out there have success with the process?  The
environment is Netbackup 5.1 MP4 on solaris 9 and 10 OS.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] can't re-use older tapes with new library

[Donaldson, Mark]

Yup - all of LTO.  Write back one revision, read back two.  

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] can't re-use older tapes with new library


to those who answered my question...didn't know that...thank you.


To the thread hijacker ...good luck ;)

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Re: [Veritas-bu] drive_graph.ksh

[Donaldson, Mark]

Sorry for the slow response.  I got your direct mail but haven't had
time to look it over.

 

Here's mine, slightly sanitized.  Look for the "##" comments inside to
see if you have to change those parts.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Chapman,
Scott
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:00 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] drive_graph.ksh

 

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone out there is using Mark Donaldsons
drive_graph.ksh script.  It's a great script, but I don't appear to be
able to figure it out!  DOH!  When I went from 5 to 6.5, the script
stopped working properly and for the life of me, I can't figure out why.
Anyone out there have any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

Scott Chapman

Senior Technical Specialist

Storage and Database Administration

ICBC - Victoria

Ph:  250.414.7650  Cell:  250.213.9295

#!/bin/ksh

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin
PROGNAME=`basename $0`

## 
## Email Address for report
##
ADDR="YOU @ YOURDOMAIN.COM"

DDIR=/var/tmp
DBASE=${PROGNAME}_datafile
DFILE=$DDIR/$DBASE.`date +%m_%d_%Y`
OUTF=$DDIR/$PROGNAME.out

#
#Limiter to counting range of drive indexes (indicies?)
MIN=0
MAX=99



if [ ! -f $DFILE -o -n "$1" ]
then
  # New data collection file. Process previous datafile first
  if [ -n "$1" ]
  then
lastfile=$1
  else
lastfile=`ls -tr $DDIR/$DBASE* 2>/dev/null | tail -1`
  fi
  if [ -n "$lastfile" ]
  then
[ -f $OUTF ] && rm $OUTF
exec >$OUTF 2>&1
#Header
awk 'BEGIN{HR=-1;MN=0;printf("  ")} {if ($2==0) {if ($1!=HR) {HR=$1
 if (HR<10) {printf("0%1d",HR)} else 
{printf("%2d",HR)}
} else {printf("-")} 
   }} END {printf("\n")}' $lastfile 
 
#Create Graph
for drive in `awk '{print $2}' $lastfile| sort -nu`
do
  awk 'BEGIN {HR=0;printf("%2s |",'$drive')} 
   {if ($2=='$drive') {if ($1!=HR) {HR=$1;printf("|%s",$3)} else 
{printf("%s",$3)}}}
   END {printf("|\n")}' $lastfile 
done 

#Availability Calcs
GDA=`awk 'BEGIN {sample=0;up=0}
 { sample++ ; if ($3=="-") {up++}}
 END {printf ("%3.1f",up/sample*100)}' $lastfile`

echo "\n## Drive Availability: ${GDA}%" 
for drive in `awk '{print $2}' $lastfile| sort -nu`
do
  awk 'BEGIN {sample=0;up=0}
   {if ($2=='$drive') { sample++ ; if ($3=="-") {up++}}}
   END {printf("Drive %2s = %3d%%\t",'$drive',(up/sample)*100)
if(('$drive'%4)==3) {printf("\n")}}' $lastfile 
done  

echo "\n## Report Done" 
mailx -s "NB Rpt: Drive Graph: `basename $lastfile|cut -f2 -d.` - hcart2" 
$ADDR <$OUTF

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  #keep history of input & output files
  [ -f $OUTF.2 ] && mv $OUTF.2 $OUTF.3
  [ -f $OUTF.1 ] && mv $OUTF.1 $OUTF.2
  mv $OUTF  $OUTF.1
  compress $lastfile
  [ -f $lastfile.2.Z ] && mv $lastfile.2.Z $lastfile.3.Z
  [ -f $lastfile.1.Z ] && mv $lastfile.1.Z $lastfile.2.Z
  mv $lastfile.Z   $lastfile.1.Z
fi
  fi
fi
#add to current datafile
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  HR=`date +%H`

  ##
  ## Note "hcart" below.  Change if needed to your tape type
  ## Note: MAX & MIN are variables set above to limit the view
  ##

  vmoprcmd -d ds | awk '$2~/hcart/ && \
 $1~/^[0-9]/  && \
 $1<='$MAX' && $1>='$MIN' {if ($3~/DOWN/) {print 
'$HR',$1,"D"} else {
if ($3~/PEND/) {print '$HR',$1,"P"} else {
if ($3~/AVR/)  {print '$HR',$1,"A"} else {
if ($4=="-")  {print '$HR',$1,"-"} else {
print '$HR',$1,"#"}' >>$DFILE
fi
exit
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT drive?

[Donaldson, Mark]

I'm hoping to give this a try (running client as logged-in user).  The
Windows guys aren't too eager to work with me on this restore, I guess.
I'll update when I get a chance.

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of smpt
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:54 AM
To: 'Len Boyle'; Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT
drive?

Hi, 
My experience is that you are right. I want to add that you have to map
the
drive permanently. If the drive map does not work try the
\\servername\dharename. This is the recommended way (by veritas)


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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len
Boyle
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:18 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT
drive?

This may be a permission problem. My fuzzy memory says that we have done
this in the past. 
By default the netbackup services run under the local SYSTEM account
which
has by default root access to the local file systems. But no special
privs
for remote file systems. You might try to change the netbackup client
service to run under an userid that has rights over the share. Or
restore to
a local file system and copy the restored data to S:



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson,
Mark
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:44 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT
drive?

We want to do an alternate path & alternate client restore for an NT
data set.

The data was originally on Server1 on the D: drive.  I want to restore
it to Server2 on the S: drive.  S is a mapped drive, a CIFS share from a
Netapp filer.

The restore process can't find the S: drive.

I tried to restore D:\ to S:\ and that didn't work.

I tried to restore D:\ to \\filername\sharename and that didn't work
either.

Is there a trick to this?

-M
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[Veritas-bu] Is there a trick to restoring to a mapped NT drive?

[Donaldson, Mark]

We want to do an alternate path & alternate client restore for an NT
data set.

The data was originally on Server1 on the D: drive.  I want to restore
it to Server2 on the S: drive.  S is a mapped drive, a CIFS share from a
Netapp filer.

The restore process can't find the S: drive.

I tried to restore D:\ to S:\ and that didn't work.

I tried to restore D:\ to \\filername\sharename and that didn't work
either.

Is there a trick to this?

-M
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

[Donaldson, Mark]

Turns out they're changing the primary DNS domain, too.

*sigh*

We're eventually doing to have to change our primary DNS domains around
here so I'm trying to keep away from using FQDN so I don't have to go
back and update every client later.  

I have to talk with their manager about adding the old domain to the DNS
search.

Thanks all.

-M

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From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:43 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

It's the network that is smoking.

I have a bunch in different domains.

Two things you can do.

1 ) have the dns person setup and "true" alias for the server with the
normal domain

Example of a nslookup on myserver
Name:myserver.newdomain.com
Address:  10.x.xxx.xx
Aliases:  myserver.corporate.normaldomain.com

2) add the server to netbackup with the FQDN , you may also have to set
it to use vnetd

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:12 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

I've got a buncha NT clients that are starting to move from one NT
Domain to another.  One of the ones that went yesterday can't be backed
up today, I'm getting error 59's on it.

>From what I can see, the client shouldn't be domain aware, right?  It's
a service, installed by the administrator (and therefore running with
admin perms, right?) and as long as basic network stuff works, the
Domain doesn't matter.

Is this right or am I smokin' something here?

-M

PS: Master & all media servers are Unix-based.  v6.5.3.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

[Donaldson, Mark]

As far as I know, the DNS information for the client didn't change -
just the NT Authentication domain.

Master server uses short name, not FQDN.  

-Original Message-
From: Len Boyle [mailto:len.bo...@sas.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:53 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: Changing the NT Domain on clients

Did the dns domain change. Is the master server defined has a host name
or a fully qualified domain name?

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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 2:12 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

I've got a buncha NT clients that are starting to move from one NT
Domain to another.  One of the ones that went yesterday can't be backed
up today, I'm getting error 59's on it.

>From what I can see, the client shouldn't be domain aware, right?  It's
a service, installed by the administrator (and therefore running with
admin perms, right?) and as long as basic network stuff works, the
Domain doesn't matter.

Is this right or am I smokin' something here?

-M

PS: Master & all media servers are Unix-based.  v6.5.3.
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[Veritas-bu] Changing the NT Domain on clients

[Donaldson, Mark]

I've got a buncha NT clients that are starting to move from one NT
Domain to another.  One of the ones that went yesterday can't be backed
up today, I'm getting error 59's on it.

>From what I can see, the client shouldn't be domain aware, right?  It's
a service, installed by the administrator (and therefore running with
admin perms, right?) and as long as basic network stuff works, the
Domain doesn't matter.

Is this right or am I smokin' something here?

-M

PS: Master & all media servers are Unix-based.  v6.5.3.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Wildcards in Policy-BackupSelections

[Donaldson, Mark]

You could also just put all possibilities in there.  If just one exists per 
stream, there's no error:

 

c:\aaa\test

d:\aaa\test

e:\aaa\test

…etc…

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of 
dirk.muel...@lvr.de
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:11 AM
To: rusty.ma...@sungard.com
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Wildcards in Policy-BackupSelections

 

Hi rusty,

 

thanks for your answer, but:

 

1) *:\*\test doesn´t work. – error 71

2) C:\*\test 
E:\*\test 
I will get a error 71

3) \\.\*:\*\test 
I will get a error 71.

 

Kind regards

Dirk

 

 

 

Von: rusty.ma...@sungard.com [mailto:rusty.ma...@sungard.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 22:48
An: Müller, Dirk (Infokom)
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Betreff: Re: [Veritas-bu] Wildcards in Policy-BackupSelections

 


This is more of a limitation on the OS and the wildcards it supports than NBU. 

You can try *:\*\test and see if it works. 
Alternatively, if the local drives and dir structure is static, you can list 
the paths as such: 
C:\*\test 
E:\*\test 
in the policy file list. Even though only one path is valid on the server, the 
job won't completely fail since it had something to back up. 

You might also try this syntax for the file list: 
\\.\*:\*\test 

The first wildcard is the drive letter, the second is the top level directory. 

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Hi,

I have some server where I want to backup a specific folder. This folder is 
shared to different drives:

Server A: C:\aaa\test
Server B: E:\aaa\test

Is it possible to backup the folder test of all servers in one policy with 
wildcards?
I tried something like *:\aaa\test, but it didn´t run.

Kind regards
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

[Donaldson, Mark]

The reason should be logged in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm/MMDDYY.log

 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes

 

HI

 

We are seeing randomly few our tapes are getting Frozen status.

I would like to reason for the same.

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mount point.

[Donaldson, Mark]

I don't have a script that'll do this - it's possible, I think but it'll
be a major pain to create.

You'll have to use bpimagelist to get the majority of the information,
it'll have the start & elapsed times (you can calculate end time) for
each image.  It'll also have the backupid for that image.

You could then use bpflist and that backupid to get a view of the backup
which occurred.  From that, if you sort to the shortest path (by subdir
count) you could then infer which filesystem was backed up by that
backupid.

Just quickly... here's the IMAGE record from a backup of mine:

IMAGE lp91 0 0 8 lp91_1261022563 Smaug_FS 0 *NULL* NetBackup Incr 1 3
1261022563 2742 1263700963 0 0 44557223 6643 1 29 0
Smaug_FS_1261022563_INCR.f *NULL* *NULL* 0 1 0 0 0 *NULL* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
*NULL* 0 0 0 *NULL* 586876 0 0 709075 0 0 *NULL* *NULL* 0 0

Buried in here are field for start time, elapsed time, etc.

Then you could cross-reference through bpflist:

bpflist -client lp91 -backupid lp91_1261022563 \
-policy Smaug_FS -d 12/15/2009 -rl 9 -option ONLY_DIRS \
| awk '{print $10}' |sort -r | tail

...and it returns...

/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/data/fulltext/
/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/data/
/smaug/vol/documentum03/ap04_data_dcm/index/

That last line is the "top level" of the files that were backed up.

It probably could be sorted better - use a field-count based on "/" as a
field separator.  Shortest field-count wins.

Something like this will print the smallest field-count based on a "/"
separator (replace the sort|tail with this):

awk -F'/' '{if(NR==1){f=NF;save=$0}
   else{if(NFmailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mount
point.


Dear All,

Many thanks for contributing your scripts for various reports. I am ver.
6.5.4 on Red hat. Sorry to say could not find the report where I can
extract the backup details by each mount point.

My Majority backups are being done by multiple data Streams and
Multiplexing.

Not sure if possible I can get the report as

Job ID # Policy Name # Client Name # Mount Point # Start Time # End Time
# Elapsed Time# #MB backup # Backup Status etc... we want to charge to
other departments by the total size of backup. Not you if you want to
add some more.?

Example
Client   Type  Status  MediaSvr   Start_Time   End_Time
Elapsed  KilobytesFiles

aceaix1s Diff   0  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 00:11:07  10/04/2004
01:03:53   00:52:46651929  589
aceaix2s Diff   0  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 00:11:07  10/04/2004
00:59:42   00:48:35 27478   93
ams1an01pDiff   1  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 01:10:15  10/04/2004
01:26:16   00:16:01   3604735 3606
ams2an01pDiff   0  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 01:10:15  10/04/2004
01:21:32   00:11:17486168 2752
amsaix1d Diff   1  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 00:11:07  10/04/2004
01:03:18   00:52:11497548  166
amsaix1s Diff   0  ebsmaster  10/04/2004 00:11:07  10/04/2004
01:43:35   01:32:28   1795347 1473

As I am heaving a server with about 200 mount points. So I want to know
the status of each mount point.

Regards,

Harpreet

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Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

[Donaldson, Mark]

Could be..  Both of mine are config'd as TLD.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:57 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Maybe TLH library thing?

 

Here is a tape in a drive:

 

sudo ./vmquery -m s06571




media ID:  S06571

media type:1/2" cartridge tape 2 (14)

barcode:   S06571

media description: Robot 0 RB Tapes - HCART2

volume pool:   Exchange_Onsite (15)

robot type:TLH - Tape Library Half-inch (12)

robot number:  0

robot slot:0

robot control host:bs-nbma1

volume group:  01_000_TLH

vault name:---

vault sent date:   ---

vault return date: ---

vault slot:---

vault session id:  ---

vault container id:-

created:   Fri Apr 25 14:16:03 PDT 2008

assigned:  Wed Dec  2 12:40:44 PST 2009

last mounted:  Wed Dec  2 12:50:04 PST 2009

first mount:   Fri May  9 06:04:48 PDT 2008

expiration date:   ---

number of mounts:  22

max mounts allowed:---

status:0x0




 

Just trying to figure out some script logic. I want the report to ignore
tapes that are in a drive for a particular purpose we have.

 

 

From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:57 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Well - dunno why.  Certainly doesn't work that way for me.

 

> vmoprcmd -d ds | grep Yes

 26 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007766  007766   Yes Yes
0  <<<<

 30 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007357  007357   Yes Yes
0

 39 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007195  007195   Yes Yes
0

 

> sudo vmquery -m 007766




media ID:  007766
<<<<<

media type:1/2" cartridge tape 3 (24)

barcode:   007766L4

media description: hcart3

volume pool:   Exchange (32)

robot type:TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)

robot number:  1

robot slot:114
<<<<<

robot control host:uscobrmfa-ug-50






 

From: Reynolds, Susan K. [mailto:sreynol...@semprautilities.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:58 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

If slot=0 then it is in a drive; I did a vmquery on a tape that was in a
drive and that's what came back

 

From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:55 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

I think your second step is in error - a tape in a drive doesn't update
the vmquery slot number.

 

I'd do something like this...

 

for tape in `vmquery -rn 0 -l | awk '$11~/Offsite/ {print $1}`

do

  eject routine (lots of lines)

done

 

 

I actually do something much like this for offsite purposes.  My
eject_tapes script is 60 lines of code that looks up the library for a
tape given the tape number.  If the tape is in a drive, though, it just
errors .  I supposed I could query the library controls for the tape
location (see if it's in a drive) but right now I just eat the error
when it occurs.

 

-M

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Does anyone have a quick eject script the logic of which goes something
like this:

 

1.   Eject any tapes in the OFFSITE volume pool if it is in the tape
library

2.   Ignore tapes in a drive (vmquery slot number =0)

3.   And email the list of tapes to me with a report title and
today's date

 

Is there anything quick and easy out there like that?

 

Appreciate your help.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

[Donaldson, Mark]

Still - to answer your question, and take the slot number thing into
account.

 

for tape in `vmquery -a -l | awk '$8!="-" && $9!=0 && $12~/OFFSITE/
{print $1}'`

do

  eject $tape

done

 

The awk selects robotic tapes (field 8), not slot 0 (field 9), volume
pool contains "OFFSITE" (field 12) and prints Volume ID (field 1).

 

Note - the change from field 11 below to field 12.  Field 11 is volume
group, not volume pool.  Mea Culpa.

 

The eject function is left as an exercise for now.  Note: it's the
"vmchange" command.  

 

Suspicion: the vault options may have this built in - I should look at
that one day.

 

-M

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:57 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Well - dunno why.  Certainly doesn't work that way for me.

 

> vmoprcmd -d ds | grep Yes

 26 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007766  007766   Yes Yes
0  <<<<

 30 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007357  007357   Yes Yes
0

 39 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007195  007195   Yes Yes
0

 

> sudo vmquery -m 007766




media ID:  007766
<<<<<

media type:1/2" cartridge tape 3 (24)

barcode:   007766L4

media description: hcart3

volume pool:   Exchange (32)

robot type:TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)

robot number:  1

robot slot:114
<<<<<

robot control host:uscobrmfa-ug-50




====

 

From: Reynolds, Susan K. [mailto:sreynol...@semprautilities.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:58 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

If slot=0 then it is in a drive; I did a vmquery on a tape that was in a
drive and that's what came back

 

From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:55 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

I think your second step is in error - a tape in a drive doesn't update
the vmquery slot number.

 

I'd do something like this...

 

for tape in `vmquery -rn 0 -l | awk '$11~/Offsite/ {print $1}`

do

  eject routine (lots of lines)

done

 

 

I actually do something much like this for offsite purposes.  My
eject_tapes script is 60 lines of code that looks up the library for a
tape given the tape number.  If the tape is in a drive, though, it just
errors .  I supposed I could query the library controls for the tape
location (see if it's in a drive) but right now I just eat the error
when it occurs.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Does anyone have a quick eject script the logic of which goes something
like this:

 

1.   Eject any tapes in the OFFSITE volume pool if it is in the tape
library

2.   Ignore tapes in a drive (vmquery slot number =0)

3.   And email the list of tapes to me with a report title and
today's date

 

Is there anything quick and easy out there like that?

 

Appreciate your help.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

[Donaldson, Mark]

Well - dunno why.  Certainly doesn't work that way for me.

 

> vmoprcmd -d ds | grep Yes

 26 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007766  007766   Yes Yes
0  <<<<

 30 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007357  007357   Yes Yes
0

 39 hcart3   TLD   Yes   007195  007195   Yes Yes
0

 

> sudo vmquery -m 007766




media ID:  007766
<<<<<

media type:1/2" cartridge tape 3 (24)

barcode:   007766L4

media description: hcart3

volume pool:   Exchange (32)

robot type:TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)

robot number:  1

robot slot:114
<<<<<

robot control host:uscobrmfa-ug-50






 

From: Reynolds, Susan K. [mailto:sreynol...@semprautilities.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:58 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

If slot=0 then it is in a drive; I did a vmquery on a tape that was in a
drive and that's what came back

 

From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:55 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

I think your second step is in error - a tape in a drive doesn't update
the vmquery slot number.

 

I'd do something like this...

 

for tape in `vmquery -rn 0 -l | awk '$11~/Offsite/ {print $1}`

do

  eject routine (lots of lines)

done

 

 

I actually do something much like this for offsite purposes.  My
eject_tapes script is 60 lines of code that looks up the library for a
tape given the tape number.  If the tape is in a drive, though, it just
errors .  I supposed I could query the library controls for the tape
location (see if it's in a drive) but right now I just eat the error
when it occurs.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Does anyone have a quick eject script the logic of which goes something
like this:

 

1.   Eject any tapes in the OFFSITE volume pool if it is in the tape
library

2.   Ignore tapes in a drive (vmquery slot number =0)

3.   And email the list of tapes to me with a report title and
today's date

 

Is there anything quick and easy out there like that?

 

Appreciate your help.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

[Donaldson, Mark]

I think your second step is in error - a tape in a drive doesn't update
the vmquery slot number.

 

I'd do something like this...

 

for tape in `vmquery -rn 0 -l | awk '$11~/Offsite/ {print $1}`

do

  eject routine (lots of lines)

done

 

 

I actually do something much like this for offsite purposes.  My
eject_tapes script is 60 lines of code that looks up the library for a
tape given the tape number.  If the tape is in a drive, though, it just
errors .  I supposed I could query the library controls for the tape
location (see if it's in a drive) but right now I just eat the error
when it occurs.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

 

Does anyone have a quick eject script the logic of which goes something
like this:

 

1.   Eject any tapes in the OFFSITE volume pool if it is in the tape
library

2.   Ignore tapes in a drive (vmquery slot number =0)

3.   And email the list of tapes to me with a report title and
today's date

 

Is there anything quick and easy out there like that?

 

Appreciate your help.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Easy ways to disable a tape robot

[Donaldson, Mark]

The quick answer is "nope".

You could offline all the drives on that robot - that'd be a pretty
simple looping script.

You could also put both your physical & VTL drives in a storage unit
group with "failover" as the priority method and have the backup jobs
fail to the physical library automatically.  

-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Steven
Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:54 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Easy ways to disable a tape robot

I'm just curious if there is a easy way in Netbackup to offline a
specific robot.
It would be preferable that jobs requesting that robot simply queue
until the robot
is brought back online but if the jobs just fail that's ok too.

Occasionally we have to perform code updates on our VTL but don't want
to
have to down Netbackup since we can redirect crucial backups to our
physical
library.

Background on the environment.

NBU 6.5.3.1

We currently back 99% of stuff to the VTL then use SLP to migrate the
images to
the physical robot.  We have 3 Storage Groups that all SLP's and regular
polices use.

Storage Groups:
Backups - used for all non database backups consists of 2 Virtual robots
across 3 media servers
Database - used for database backups consists of 1 Virtual robot across
3 media servers
SL8500 -  used for resting place for the SLP's and select Policies with
large amounts of data

Thanks for any feedback


Steven Stewart
NC State University
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Res: Fwd: Netbackup Command to find the status ofRobotic Controller

[Donaldson, Mark]

if your robot is down but the drives are up, all your drive states for that 
robot will be "AVR"

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Carlos Alberto 
Lima dos Santos
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:17 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Res: Fwd: Netbackup Command to find the status ofRobotic 
Controller

 

Use vmoprcmd command

T+



 


Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA)
Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil
carlos_lis...@yahoo.com.br


 

 



De: Prabhu Mohan 
Para: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 27 de Novembro de 2009 8:40:26
Assunto: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: Netbackup Command to find the status of Robotic 
Controller

Hi All,

I use the tpconfig command [ tpconfig -l ] to list all the drives and robots. 
For drives I get the proper status such as UP or DOWN. However, in case of 
robots I get a '--' in the place of status. Is there any way to find the status 
of a Robot? I don't want to use robtest or tpconfig -devping. Thanks in advance.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Prabhu

 



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Re: [Veritas-bu] Hey you GUI guys!!!

[Donaldson, Mark]

Thanks folks.

We figured it out.  

Using the GUI, it appears we can "pull" a backup from a different client
but not push to one.  So the trick is to login to the restore's
destination client and pull it from the server that did the backup.

The NT guys are happy and the project is moving on.

-M

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From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:03 PM
To: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; Donaldson, Mark;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Hey you GUI guys!!!

For got .

Once you are done close that window in the window before you close the
BAR

If you do not do this then every time you open the BAR it will open up
this window too and you could end up with a bunch of these... so to make
life easy close the inside window first.


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judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:01 PM
To: mark.donald...@staples.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Hey you GUI guys!!!

This is in reference to using the Windows Remote Admin gui

First  open the BAR

File/Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type

Top box - ALWAYS THE MASTER!

Second box - Source client
This is the server that had the file that went to the tape (that jack
built)
If the server name is NOT listed hit the button edit client list, add
the server name in the top, click Add names, click ok.  That name should
now appear in the pull down for the second and third boxes.  (they will
NOT be in alpha order, and they will NOT get removed when you remove a
server from netbackup - totally manual)

Third box - Destination client -
This is the server you want it to be restored to.  Can be the same
server or a different server -if server not listed see instructions
above for adding name - it's the same list.

Forth box - Policy
This must match the polcy type of what you are trying to restore.
If your source was a unix box - standard
A windows box choose MS-Windows-NT
Follow same rule for any specials like oracle Informix SQL if you use
the agents.

Click ok

Now on the tape there window inside your window (remember this for
latter)

In the top by default it will have the funky dots --- hate these 
Choose View/and UN-check Show as time line
This will give you a view that is so much better.

So now in the top of your window you see time Backed up - Note this is
the time the backup started. So if you had backups the night of 11/23
(Monday night) but they don't kick off till 2 am - they will show up
here as 11/24 with a 2:00 am time  (those dot things don't let you see
this)  You also get to see how big and the Schedule type and the Policy
name - this is helpful to me if I have a server that gets backed up in
two different policies.

So now in the top window choose your date range ( you can pick more than
one image)

On the bottom left you will see the folders that are in the images you
choose on the top.
Now go drill down to find what you want to restore.
If you want a whole folder choose it on the left with a check mark.  If
you want files in a folder find the files on the right had side.  
Note here you can see when the file was backed up as well as its size
and the last time it was modified.

(Side note: this can come in handy when looking for a file before the
last change
Say you choose 3 days worth of backups - by default it will only show
you the LAST time it was backed up.
But if you choose view/show All Backups (also a button on the left)  you
will see all copies of that file that got backed up on those three
dates.  So here you might see the last copy was modified 11/23 and prior
to that you see the last time it was modified was 11/20 and that version
is on the 11/20 tapes.  So you choose that one to get a check mark and
it will restore that version --- now back to the show)

Searching - you can search for files as well but I don't do this often.

So now you can click the button to preview the tapes needed (order your
tapes from offsite) then do this again.
Or
Go ahead and start the restore Actions/Restore or the button on the left

New Window
Option to restore it from whence it came is default
To put it some place else choose the second one and type in the path or
try to browse
Example - where it first came from is displayed home:\me\myfile
I change it to home:\me\restore\myfile
In this example I am using the Window remote admin console and I am
restore to a Unix box.
Note that the path is in "dos format"  that is ok,  

The third option here is if you are doing more then one file and you
want one file to go to my home and the second file to go to your home,
you can change the path for each file ( I think I only used this once)

Now the options - by default if the file is already on d

[Veritas-bu] Hey you GUI guys!!!

[Donaldson, Mark]

Most of you know me as the CLI guy- but I'm trying to train a couple NT
guys in how to restore files and having a hard time.  The want to use
the GUI and I don't know how to help.

The want to restore a file from client1 onto client2 via the GUI and
change the path of the file at the same time.

I have the No.Restrictions file touched on the master server.

Can this be done via client GUI?

-M


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Deactivated policies

[Donaldson, Mark]

Here's a slight more compact version (displays inactive policies).

 

bppllist -allpolicies | awk '$1=="CLASS" {pl=$2};$1=="INFO" && $12==1
{print pl}'

 

If you want to determine "for how many days" - that's a much bigger task
- something that's going to have to take place outside of NB.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Khurram
Tariq
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:06 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Deactivated policies

 

Use the following command to generate a comma separated list:

 

# /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist -allpolicies -L | nawk
-F':' 'BEGIN{print "Policy Name,Active"};/^Policy Name/{printf
$2","};/^Active/{print $2}'|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/, */,/'

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:08 AM, 
wrote:

Folks,

 

We've come across a problem recently in 5x land where we have had a
number of policies deactivated that shouldn't have been. 

 

Obviously in 6.5 it's very apparent in GUI and NOM that a policy is
deactivated, not so in 5x

 

So does anyone have a script that they use or know if i can pull
information out of Netbackup and script, someting along the lines of
these policies have been disabled x days.

 

Back to the war room

 

Thanks in advance

Mike

 

 

 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

[Donaldson, Mark]

Just a note to you all as a follow-up.  We asked for a quote to do this 
conversion from Symantec and it came back with 120 hours of labor at over $40k.

 

Obviously we're gonna visit with them on that quote - that seems like a lot of 
hours & expense.

 

-M

 

From: Jonathan Dyck [mailto:jd...@bank-banque-canada.ca] 
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:15 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Bryan Bahnmiller
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

 

I did exactly what you described here below last year.  We went from a 
"stand-alone" Solaris 8 V880 (we had a VVR replicating non-HA setup going) to 
RHEL 4 Update 4, on IBM x3650's using Storage Foundations High Availability 
global cluster option (VVR + VCS essentially).  We also changed host names.  We 
also went from NBU 5.0MP4 up to 6.5.2A at that time.

 

Well worth the $20k or so we spent on PS.  Let me know if you have some 
specific Q's, I might be able to remember some details ;-)

 

 

 

 

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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark
Sent: October 13, 2009 5:18 PM
To: Bryan Bahnmiller
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

The goal is to get off of the aging V880 and onto a cheaper Linux 
platform.  At the same time, we've had a couple high-profile hardware failures 
in the past couple months and, since the hardware is cheap (and the VCS license 
is "free" thanks to our site license), putting in a cluster seems a way to add 
reliability for the cost of a $5000 x86 box.

 

I don't intend to rename the master server, I'll move the name and, I 
thought, make it the HA name for the pair - thus getting around the infamous 
"can't rename the master server" problem.  That's why I was thinking this would 
be easy to pull off.

 

I don't know if the company will spring for $15k worth of services, 
though.  Kinda doubles the cost of the whole project.

 

From: Bryan Bahnmiller [mailto:bbahnmil...@dtcc.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered 
Master

 


Mark, 

  Ugh... Don't envy that task. A few comments. 

  The master server has to run on the virtual name (relocatable IP and 
dns name.) This name and the names of the individual nodes are in the EMM db. 
If you kept the name of the current master as your virtual name, it should be a 
simpler task. Also, the agent is very intrusive. (Especially on Windows.) There 
are agent options that can only be set via the bpclusterutil command. That 
tells me that the agent is not all that, what, conforming? 

  At the conference I went to, a Symantec employee was asked why 
changing the name of the backup server is not supported. He said that the name 
of the NBU master server is in 14 different places on Windows servers and 11 
places on Unix servers. And the names in the different places have to be 
changed in the correct order. One mistake and nothing works. 

   I sat in on some very interesting discussions about NBU HA. What are 
you trying to accomplish? Most of the people I talked with agreed that the main 
thing HA will give you is the capability of doing server maintenance with 
minimal impact. Most hardware now is pretty reliable. When was the last time 
you had a nic or hba fail? When the server fails over, all backups stop. After 
a failover, you will still have to clear out tape drives, restart backups and 
so on. The only currently allowed HA configuration is active/passive. So you do 
have one server sitting there idling, waiting for the other server to fail 
over. 

   Also, if you have the disk mirrored with VxVM, you'll have to see if 
that is supported with the Linux agent for failover too. 

  Bryan 




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10/13/2009 02:32 PM 

To

 

cc


Subject

[Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

 






Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide:

=
NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover
NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server.  Contact Symantec
Enterprise Technical Support.
=

Huh?

Should be easy, I'd think.  Why would I need Tech Support?

Has anyone done this?

BTW: also co

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups

[Donaldson, Mark]

Given the very narrow range of hardware & OS, why not simply use SAN
Media Server?

Data over the SAN, meta-data over the network - seems like nearly the
same with far less implementation problems.

-M

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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
william.d.br...@gsk.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:22 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Fibre Transport Client Backups

Simon, I think that some of the replies on the list are not quite
correct. 
 We are implementing the SAN Client/FT Media Server for a production
data 
centre, and I've spent several months working on it in our test labs.

It's true that the documentation is slightly confusing, especially if
you 
don't get the latest versions.  The book to read is the Shared Storage 
Guide that was updated at 6.5.4.  There is also a technote with 
troubleshooting information.

The *licence* for the SAN Client is the same Enterprise Client licence
as 
allows you to run the SAN Media Server, and this naming causes a lot of 
confusion.

You do indeed need an 'FT Media Server', which is a normal media server 
that has some very specific fibre HBAs installed.  There is a *very* 
narrow support matrix.  The only supported platforms at the moment are 
Solaris/SPARC and Linux (I think RHEL4, and that is new at 6.5.4).  We
are 
using Solaris/SPARC.   We are using Sun-badged Qlogic HBAs; the HBAs
must 
be Qlogic, and again only some are supported.

These HBAs are reconfigured as part of the setup to work in target mode.

This incidentally causes various tools like 'fcinfo' to not see them at 
all any more.  You can do this 'card marking' in a server other then the

one you want to use as an FT Media Server, e.g. to cut down downtime.
Once 
marked the HBAs can be installed where you want.  *But* on Solaris only 
target HBAs on one PCI bus will be used, so you need to choose a server 
that not only has a fast PCI-X or PCIe bus but also enough slots on that

bus for your needs.  There are limits on the number of ports an FT Media

Server can support, about 4 I think (2 x dual-port cards).

A special driver by jungo is attached to these HBAs in the FT Media
Server 
when you enable the function.  You will then have a couple more
NetBackup 
processes running, and the server will be presenting to the SAN two 
'ARCHIVE Python' tape targets per HBA port.

You must create touch files in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config:

NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_FT - should be 16, maybe 32 on Solaris, but on RHEL 
there are other limits, read the technotes.
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_FT - set to 262144, fail to do this and it uses the 
value in SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS if writing to tape and SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK

if writing to disk; but FT fails if the value it uses is above 512K.

The SAN Client uses the Standard Client install (even though it uses the

same licence as SAN Media Server, it does not use the same code).  This
is 
one of the plus points, smaller code and it is just the normal client, 
very easy to manage and update.   You zone the HBAs on the client to the

FT Media Server(s) target ports.  As usual, don't mix tape & disk on the

client HBA port; but you can use *any* HBA in the SAN Client.

You have to configure the OS to find the drives, varies by OS.  The
Device 
Configuration Guide now has information on SAN Client, though it took me

some time to work it out.  I could give you more detail off-list and I'm

only the other end of Gunnels Wood Road.  Windows and AIX were very
easy. 
Once the OS can see the ARCHIVE Python devices, you can enable SAN
Client 
function.  Entry in bp.conf, or there is a  CLI command to enable it.
Then 
run bp.start_all, which reports 'starting FT client' whether it is
enabled 
or not!

Many reasons for it immediately shutting down:
1)  No SAN Client licence on Master Server
2)  Trying to run on a server that has a 'server' install, not just 
the client
...more...

Performance can be good, it depends on how slow your LAN is.   Our GbE
LAN 
can be as fast as the SAN Client, because the limiting factor becomes
the 
speed the Media Server can write the data to disk or tape.   It should
be 
faster, it should use less resource on the SAN Client as the Ethernet 
overhead is gone - but if you used TOE cards it would make less 
difference.  But if a server was on 100Mb, then backing up over 2Gb
fibre 
would be a lot quicker.  Our plan is to eliminate SAN Media Servers and 
SSO.

There is a lot of small print about multiplexing, which is a bit 
different.

There are a number of new OIDs to learn for logging.  You will want to 
find the 'nbrbutil -listOrphanedPipes' command.  I found at least on 
WIndows that the bpbkar log  had some new information when logging was 
turned up about retries and errors on the fibre links.


William D L Brown




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Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual

[Donaldson, Mark]

Massive data transfer through virtual HBA is reportedly difficult.  Bare
metal might be better.

 

If this is a true Master Server, not a Media Server, I'm going to guess
there's no issues.  If this, however, needs to access tape drives, you
might want to investigate the limitations of virtual HBAs or using those
pass-thru devices I think they support now.

 

BTW, I'm far from being an ESX expert.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:03 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual

 

Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted
me to post this.

Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. 

Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning
to convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main
reason we want to do this is to simplify DR.

Of course, the virtual master won't be doing any actual backups. The
current physical master will be converted to a media server, and keep
performing the backups it currently does as a master. The virtual master
will keep the same hostname as the physical master. It will really just
host the catalog and trigger schedules.

Ultimately, we'd put it under SRM control so we have cross-site failover
of the master server for DR.

Has anyone done something similar? Anything I should look out for?

Thanks,
Dean

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

[Donaldson, Mark]

The goal is to get off of the aging V880 and onto a cheaper Linux
platform.  At the same time, we've had a couple high-profile hardware
failures in the past couple months and, since the hardware is cheap (and
the VCS license is "free" thanks to our site license), putting in a
cluster seems a way to add reliability for the cost of a $5000 x86 box.

 

I don't intend to rename the master server, I'll move the name and, I
thought, make it the HA name for the pair - thus getting around the
infamous "can't rename the master server" problem.  That's why I was
thinking this would be easy to pull off.

 

I don't know if the company will spring for $15k worth of services,
though.  Kinda doubles the cost of the whole project.

 

From: Bryan Bahnmiller [mailto:bbahnmil...@dtcc.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered
Master

 


Mark, 

  Ugh... Don't envy that task. A few comments. 

  The master server has to run on the virtual name (relocatable IP and
dns name.) This name and the names of the individual nodes are in the
EMM db. If you kept the name of the current master as your virtual name,
it should be a simpler task. Also, the agent is very intrusive.
(Especially on Windows.) There are agent options that can only be set
via the bpclusterutil command. That tells me that the agent is not all
that, what, conforming? 

  At the conference I went to, a Symantec employee was asked why
changing the name of the backup server is not supported. He said that
the name of the NBU master server is in 14 different places on Windows
servers and 11 places on Unix servers. And the names in the different
places have to be changed in the correct order. One mistake and nothing
works. 

   I sat in on some very interesting discussions about NBU HA. What are
you trying to accomplish? Most of the people I talked with agreed that
the main thing HA will give you is the capability of doing server
maintenance with minimal impact. Most hardware now is pretty reliable.
When was the last time you had a nic or hba fail? When the server fails
over, all backups stop. After a failover, you will still have to clear
out tape drives, restart backups and so on. The only currently allowed
HA configuration is active/passive. So you do have one server sitting
there idling, waiting for the other server to fail over. 

   Also, if you have the disk mirrored with VxVM, you'll have to see if
that is supported with the Linux agent for failover too. 

  Bryan 





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Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide:

=
NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover
NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server.  Contact Symantec
Enterprise Technical Support.
=

Huh?

Should be easy, I'd think.  Why would I need Tech Support?

Has anyone done this?

BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can
pull this off...

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[Veritas-bu] Converting stand-alone Master to clustered Master

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Page 14 of the NB High Availability guide:

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NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server.  Contact Symantec
Enterprise Technical Support.
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Huh?

Should be easy, I'd think.  Why would I need Tech Support?

Has anyone done this?

BTW: also converting from Solaris to Linux at the same time if I can
pull this off...

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Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate help

[Donaldson, Mark]

If they're run too closely together, it, for some reason, picks a new
tape - it must be a way to delays caused by mounting & positioning.
I've seen this in backups, too.  On my third backup of the set, it
picked the first tape.

One way around this is to put a list of images to be backed up in a
file.  Generate this as a first step.  Then feed the list into
bpduplicate as a -Bidfile.

Your second email's question would be multiplexing two sets of images
onto a single tape.  I don't think bpduplicate can do this.

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate help


Hi Guys,

Currently, i'm trying to use bpduplicate to duplicate my vaulted images
from VTL to Physical Tape.

When i ran the command for the 1st time, it manage to find the image
that i want to duplicate into TapeA (backupsize around 70GB).

The target volume pool is empty hence it will pick tapeA from scratch
pool and put in the target volume pool after the duplication is
completed.

However, after running the command second time with another client name,
it uses tapeB instead. I was wondering since tapeA is the only tape in
the volume pool and its media status is still Active, why nbu choose to
pick another tape from my scratch pool?


Btw, the command line that i trigger has the same storagunit, volume,
retention period. The only difference is the client name.

Anybody knows how can i reuse the same tape using bpduplicate?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup server solaris X86 with VCB

[Donaldson, Mark]

I suspect politics over technology.   The LVM layer in windows, I
believe, is a port of Veritas VM.  I suspect that there's a deal that
says "All new tech must work on Windows" - since it's hard to port from
Windows to *nix, it tends to say on Windows.

Just guessing.

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Ungaro
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Unfortunately you VCB proxy has to be Windows 2003. The way to make life
easiest is for it to also be a media server, but it's not a requirement.
I've never understood why a company that has used the Linux kernel so
much makes all their management tools only available on Windows..

Matt Ungaro


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Hi Guys 

Does any one having idea to implement VCB with Solaris X86 master server


I have my  master and media server both are same 

We have aroud 50 VM and i am backing up as normal physical boxes but we
are planning to use netbackup with VMware and i came to know that for
implementing VCB you need to configure snapshot 

is that snapshot support on X86 solaris platform ???

Thanks

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpplist Policy Script

[Donaldson, Mark]

Heh - funny how my old scripts pop up on here every now and then...

 

This one is still good but I had to go to "gawk" on Solaris 8 instead of
"awk".  I've got a couple policies now that have listings large enough
to bomb-out the elderly "awk" on Sol 8.

 

-M

 

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I found the script below that pulls the policy and storage device from
Netbackup but it is for Unix and was wondering if anyone knows how to
translate this to Windows? 

 

bppllist -allpolicies | awk `{

if ($1=="CLASS") {c=$2;stu="";printf("\n%24s: ",c)}

if ($1=="RES" || $1=="SCHEDRES" ){

  F=2

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

[Donaldson, Mark]

And database size.  Every fragment is another record in the image
database.

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

Ideally, I try to go for FAST restores. I feel our backups are quite
quick.
We also use buffer settings on some Media Servers that contains large
amounts of Data.

I guess it is a weigh up between performance and fast restores.

Simon 

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

32GB here.

It all depends how long you want to wait to restore a file if you have
large backups that can span a tape completely.

With 1TB fragment size, assuming there was no compression and you needed
to restore a 10k file at the end of the tape, it would need to read the
entire thing to restore the file.

If you used a smaller fragement size, it would skip to the closest
fragment to the file that needed to be restored.

Don't go too small though or every time it writes a file marker, it
could slow down the backup.

It is all about speed of backup vs. speed of restore (and the data type
being backed up/restored) as well.

Justin.

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Dean wrote:

> 20GB here, using IBM 3592. I've considered making the fragment size 
> larger, but . if it aint broke
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:26 PM,  wrote:
>
>> What are people using for the fragment size on LTO4 (or I guess LTO3)

>> with NBU 6.x?
>>
>> I ask because the default is 1TB, i.e. more or less don't fragment.
>>
>> The argument for a large fragment is that the backup doesn't have to 
>> stop so often as it does briefly at the end of each fragment to 
>> update the Master, and also the inter-fragment file markers waste 
>> space..though that's hardly a consideration on such large tapes now.
>>
>> The argument for a small fragment was that the tape can position at 
>> full speed to the file marker for the appropriate fragment for a 
>> restore, rather than reading the tar file from the top at read speed,

>> which for a large tape could be a very long time.
>>
>> We used to (dating back to DLT7000) set a 2GB fragment, as back then 
>> this was thought a good idea in case you wanted to dd the tape to 
>> disk and read it without NetBackup.  UNIX file systems did not take 
>> files > 2GB.  Well I can't say we ever tried it and it's a silly
small size now.
>>
>> But what are people using - 100GB?  200GB?  Does it really make a 
>> difference...
>>
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

[Donaldson, Mark]

I'm using a 10G fragment size.  Just a guess at a ballpark figure
between too small & too large.

-M

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

What are people using for the fragment size on LTO4 (or I guess LTO3)
with 
NBU 6.x?

I ask because the default is 1TB, i.e. more or less don't fragment.

The argument for a large fragment is that the backup doesn't have to
stop 
so often as it does briefly at the end of each fragment to update the 
Master, and also the inter-fragment file markers waste space..though 
that's hardly a consideration on such large tapes now.

The argument for a small fragment was that the tape can position at full

speed to the file marker for the appropriate fragment for a restore, 
rather than reading the tar file from the top at read speed, which for a

large tape could be a very long time.

We used to (dating back to DLT7000) set a 2GB fragment, as back then
this 
was thought a good idea in case you wanted to dd the tape to disk and
read 
it without NetBackup.  UNIX file systems did not take files > 2GB.  Well
I 
can't say we ever tried it and it's a silly small size now.

But what are people using - 100GB?  200GB?  Does it really make a 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Active Tapes Had Bar Codes Removed

[Donaldson, Mark]

Just inserting them into a drive should be enough.  After they're in,
look at vmoprcmd -d ds on the media server that sees that drive.

The ExtMID is the External Media ID - supplied via the robot's interface
- the RecMID is the on-tape media ID - it's the from the header info. 

When you find it, just match the paper tape back to the tape label.


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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Active Tapes Had Bar Codes Removed

Hi all, I'm brand-new to the list, and apologize that I don't have time
for introductions before I have to get down to business.

One of my Operators mistook three active tapes for scratch, pulled the
labels off, and inadvertently mixed them in alongside 23 other
label-less tapes.

Is there any way for me now to be able to read the internal label of
these tapes, without the bar-codes?  I have the stickers, but they don't
stick so well anymore (afraid they'd fall off in the library), and
regardless would prefer not to have to try them on all 25 tapes.

Again I apologize for barging onto the list like this, but I promise I'm
not a horrible person (matter of opinion I suppose), and that Ill
contribute where possible.

Thanks!
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired media not returning to SCRATCH & Vault

[Donaldson, Mark]

Nope - shouldn't work that way.  

If you look at the tape with vmquery, does it have an "Assigned" date?

Are you confusing volume expiration (tape age, visible with vmquery) with image 
expiration (visible with bpmedialist)?

-M

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Because the tape is suspended - meaning NB won't do anything to it till you 
release it.
Try taking one off of suspension and see if it then expires

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Expired media not returning to SCRATCH & Vault

Hello everyone,

I suddenly noticed we have lots of tapes (in the volume pools assigned for 
VAULT duplicates, and the majority of tapes in here are offsite) that the 
expiration date is oct/2008.  The columns in the volume pool show:

1) the media status is SUSPENDED
2) date expiration (+- Oct/2008)

...plus I can't  query the contents of these tapes (via reports or catalog) so 
apparently, indeed these tapes expired.   

I'm wondering...why didn't they show up in the SCRATCH pool as usual (when all 
images expire on tape)?  Any common reason for this kind of behaviour?

As always, thanks.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Hi

[Donaldson, Mark]

that's waaay to complicated for a simple email.  There's a whole manual
on vaulting - probably best to dig into that.

Simply put, though, it's the automated duplication, ejection, &
reporting of backup images and tapes.  I use it to create scheduled jobs
that destage backups from disk-storage units and duplicate critical
client & database backups for offsite purposes.

-M

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Hi, 
 Can any one tell me the Rules for Vaulting? I mean what are the methods
and procedure for Vaulting?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy[...]

[Donaldson, Mark]

Checkout the "bpcoverage" command.  It compares the filesystems on a
client versus the policy list and will tell you what is and isn't backed
up and by what policy.  

 

bpcoverage -c 

 

-M

 

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user
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:56 AM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy[...]

 

Thanks Bob, good info.

 

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is not a solution for me because these are Policies
that only backup a few specific file systems.  

 

You are correct that 'bplist' can only tell me what I've backed up int
the past, not what I am about to backup.  But I've decided that this is
good enough.  A 'bplist -C $CLNT -k $POLI' will give me a list of
directories to look at.  If a new file system is added, I will not know
about it until after it's backed up once, but that is acceptable.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:46 PM, bob944  wrote:

> On the client, I have a need to generate a list of file
> systems to be backed up by a particular Policy.  There
> does not seem to be a way to do this from the client.
> Anyone know better?

It's not clear to me what you want.  If Ed Wilts'
interpretation--run some command on a client that gives the
selection list of a policy--his answer is all you need:  the
question makes no sense in NetBackup.

If the client is a media server (or one on which you've installed
the Windows Admin Client, which is effectively a full media server
installation), you have the tools and permissions to do commands
like bppllist to find your answer.  Just *why* you'd want to do
this, I don't know.

Still working from the client end, there is a ton of info in:
o  the client job tracker probably tells the client something (I've
never used it) that is being backed up in realtime
o  the BAR GUI tells the client everything that has been backed up,
how and when--but not by policy
o  the ~/veritas/netbackup/logs directory has the VxUL logs by
default and the bpbkar log if you create the directory; I'm not used
to looking in VxUL logs, but the bpbkar log has the policy
information as well as everything that got backed up
o  bpbkar logs also have the selection list (the log entries that
determine what FS/volume a selection occupies and the CreateSnapshot
entries (client-dependent, I'm sure)
o  bplist
o  all the above, obviously, tell you what has happened, not what
will happen in the future
o  client-notification email
o  bpstart scripts

And the way I first read your question, something like "how do I
make sure I back up all the filesystems on a client without knowing
what they are in advance," the answer is you put ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES in
the policy's selection list.



 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup

[Donaldson, Mark]

I got a script for this (tracking & graphing drive utilization) but it's
slightly hosed now.  Give me a bit and I'll post it out again.

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup


ACS produces utilisation information but again not sure how useful it
is. 

Thank you for the idea, will interrogate the manuals tommorrow 

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Cc: KETLEY, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup

Hm, also a good idea; however, difficult if one has different library
models/that may or may not report statistics in the same manner, good
idea
though if it applies to your environment.

Justin.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote:

> Does your library have a report?
>
> My TS3310 has a report I can run from the library gui to give me the 
> info.
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin

> Piszcz
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:53 AM
> To: michael.ket...@orange-ftgroup.com
> Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Funny you ask, I am looking at the same task.  It has been suggested 
> in the list in the past, to run;
>
> vmoprcmd -d ds
>
> To check for AVR,TLD (or whether a tape is in the drive).
>
> The problem here though is you would have to sample often on each 
> media server.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions on this one?
>
> Justin.
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, michael.ket...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone have a useful script or a simple way of extracting 'drive

>> utilisation' from Netbackup.
>>
>> We use ACS, and up until recently could extract the information using
> Bocada
>> reporting, unfortunately this has stopped working.
>>
>> Not after an exact science but some suggestions as to improving my
> current
>> methods.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Mike
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up

[Donaldson, Mark]

Yeah - what the other guys implied.

There's lots of possibilities, first stop is the details under the job
viewer - that should tell you what the job is waiting on.

-M

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Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:20 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up


I don't know what is going on. We have a master and media server set up
running 6.5.3.1 and it has been backing up the clients fine. Today, when
checking the administration console, I noticed that all the backups
running, have been running for hours but there is no activity.
Everything is still at 0% and there is no traffic registered for any of
the running back ups. Are there any ideas?

Thanks

smwoodcrafts

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[Veritas-bu] Second Device Path

[Donaldson, Mark]

According to the Whitepaper...

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_i
mplementing_highly_available_dr_with_veritas_netbackup_01_08_13599373.pd
f

...the "Second Device Path" can be used as an Active/Passive failover in
the event of primary path failure (to your robot & drives).  The column
is in my "tpconfig -l" output but I can't find anyway, command-line or
GUI, to populate it.

Anybody know how?

-M
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this "hack" to avoid import?

[Donaldson, Mark]

Force the assignment?  "vmquery -assignbyid"

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:49 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Any thoughts on this "hack" to avoid import?

 

Woops, just after sending that, I realised I can't freeze an unassigned
tape.



On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Dean  wrote:

Thanks Ed, I appreciate the input.

Yeah, in a perfect world, I would flip the write protect on all the
tapes. But they are in a managed site, which is quite difficult to get
access to. I'm thinking I'll probably just freeze them.

And regarding the 2GB file size, I'm only editing the small "index"
files in the catalog - the flat text files that describe the details of
the backup and fragments. The largest one I've run into so far was about
30 KB.

Regards,
Dean

 

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ed Wilts  wrote:

Very interesting...  You're going to make a lot of people very, very
happy if this turns out to be stable.

A couple of things to be aware of.  You might want to throw the
write-protect tabs on those tapes if they have them (I don't know
anything about the 3592 drives).  Right now, you really, really don't
want the new environment to reach out bu accident and bite you by
expiring an image you don't want expired.  When you're checking your
list on tapes to re-use, flip the tab back and re-label the tape, and
make EMM happy.

I'd watch for any files that are over 2GB - some of the scripts you're
working with to do inplace updates may break on large files.  Ask me how
I know :-).  We ran into this doing a Windows to Solaris master
conversion many years ago.

I'll let others chime in on whether rewriting those files was a good
idea or not.

.../Ed

 

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dean  wrote:

Hello veritas-bu'ers.

I'm interested to hear if any of you experts have any thoughts on my
current scenario.

We have recently moved on from a NBU 5.1 on HPUX environment to NBU 6.5
on Linux (with a different master server name). Mainly because of urgent
requirements at the time, I just created a new master server, installed
NBU 6.5 from scratch, and didn't bother about integrating the NBU 5.1
catalog.

Now the HP server has been decommissioned, and it's time to do something
about the long term (7 year retention) backups.

Last week, I started Phase 2 import on a spangroup (connected set of
tapes) of Lotus Notes backups. I left it running over the weekend. It
ran for 3 days, and only got through 3 of the 1,000 or so tapes I have
to import. At that rate, it's going to take over 3 years to get all the
imports done. Aside from the constant monitoring, that basically means
one expensive (IBM 3592) tape drive in use constantly for 3 years, and a
constant drain on our cross-site fibre bandwidth.

However, I seem to have found a "hack" that allows me to restore from
these old backups, without having to import the tapes.

I have found that you can copy the catalog entries from the old catalog
to the new one, then edit the *FULL index files, replacing the old
master server/media server name on the FRAGMENT records with the new
master server name, and the backup image appears completely normal in
the new system, with all the right attributes, including expiry date,
and can be restored from.

I wrote a small script to automate the catalog file modifications, and
managed to get these 7 years worth of backups cataloged in the new NBU
server, in about 20 minutes, as opposed to 3 years of importing. I
tested several restores, and it all works perfectly.

The only issue seems to be that that NBU doesn't know much about the
actual tape. I have all the old tapes in a seperate volume pool called
"imported", which no policies can (should) EVER write to. (feature
request for Symantec? - read only volume pools). When I do a bpmedialist
on one of these tapes, NBU/EMM thinks it's unassigned. I have a list of
when all these tapes are due to expire on the old system, and my current
plan is just to check this list periodically and move them from the
"imported" pool to the scratch pool when they are due (I'll probably
script this bit aswell).

It all makes perfect sense to me.

I guess this post serves two purposes: 
1: To see if any seasoned experts see any problems with this approach. 
2: To catalog this "hack" on this mailing list, for posterity :)

Cheers!
Dean

 

.../Ed 

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE 
ewi...@ewilts.org 

 

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Incorrect Storage Unit

[Donaldson, Mark]

If you did it too fast, changes to policies can take up to 10 minutes to
be implemented (by default).

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Heathe
Kyle Yeakley
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:40 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Incorrect Storage Unit

I have installed a new tape library(tld1). I still have my original 
library (tld0) connected. I've taken a couple of policies, copied them 
to new policies and changed only the storage unit within the policy from

media-server-tld0 to media-server-tld1. I manually executed a test 
backup of PolicyA-TLD1 and saw exactly what I expected to see: The 
policy contacted the new robot, mounted a new tape and ran the backup on

the new library, finishing with status code 0.

When I do the same thing with a second policy, PolicyB-TLD1 is 
contacting the original library, mounting tapes in the original 
library... etc. It finishes successfully, but I can't figure out why it 
isn't contacting the new library. I've gone back in and made sure that 
the storage unit in PolicyB-TLD1 is TLD1 and not TLD0, and it is set 
correctly.

Any thoughts while I dig around the Symantec website?

Thank you.

  - Heathe Kyle Yeakley
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Re: [Veritas-bu] mounting lto3 tapes to lto4

[Donaldson, Mark]

LTO1 & LTO2 is where I had my crossover point.

You can go into the media database (vmchange) & change the media type on
the LTO3 tapes to be the same as your LTO4.  The drives will read &
write these tapes, they'll dumb down to the format automatically.  I
marked mine with a comment that reminded me these were "Honorary LTO2"
tapes so I could identify them later (number ranges also were
different).

Over time, we transitioned the LTO1 tapes out as their data expired (You
can freeze them until expiration if you want to do this).

-M

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] mounting lto3 tapes to lto4


we're planning on replacing our LTO3 drives with LTO4s entirely but want
to utilize the many LTO3 tapes that we still have.  The problem that we
have is that Netbackup sees these tapes as different media
types/densities because ACSLS provides it that way and therefore i can't
mount "hcart3" tapes into an "hcart" type storage unit in Netbackup.
Has anyone experienced this and know of a workaround?

thanks.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] What Is The Purpose For My Brocade Switch?

[Donaldson, Mark]

Direct connect fiber is possible but there's no device sharing this way.
This may not be an issue if you don't have SSO licenses. 


However, frankly, switches add flexibility for later changes - if I had
a switch available to me, I'd use it even if I ended up with
point-to-point zones built in it.

 

-M

 

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Tucker
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:48 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] What Is The Purpose For My Brocade Switch?

 

I have 3 media servers and a NetApp filer connected via Fiber Cable to a
Brocade 5000 series switch which is then connected to tape drives in an
SL8500 tape library.  What is the purpose for the Brocade switch?  Do I
need it, or can I just connect the media servers and NetApp filer
directly to the SL8500 tape library via fiber?

 

 

 

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue

[Donaldson, Mark]

Have you increased your timers yet?  Client_read_timeout springs to
mind...

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Markham
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:11 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue

Running Netbackup 5.0Mp7 on Solaris 9 Master server.

10 odd network based clients some windows2000, 2003 and Solaris 8,9

We are having trouble with one Windows 2000 server running Envision IDS 
software which creates millions of files under a directory. 
f:\nic\lsnode has 87gb data with 1.4million files. Luckily the directory

is on a separate drive than the OS so there are options (hopefully).

We currently can't get a backup as it fails with Status 14 or other
issues.

I'm asking for advise from windows side as i'm a Unix/Solaris engineer.

I'm guessing i need to do some image type backup with flash or snap but 
i dont have the advanced client license and as i'm on v5 i dont see how 
i can get one.

I've currently tried following this :- 
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/275912.htm
and putting /\\.\F: in the file list for a new policy with the problem 
client to do raw backup.

However i get a Status1 and get the following error :-

WRN - can't lock raw device for read: \\.\F: (F:) (Win32 5: Access is 
denied. )

I'm not sure why that is.

Also i have not got any settings on the Client properties under VSP. I 
dont have a cache file volume list or Cache File Size parameters other 
than default. Should i be changing anything here?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers
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Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives

[Donaldson, Mark]

>The way I understand SSO, is if you're using anything more complicated 
>than a stand alone tape drive, then you need SSO (I could be totally 
>incorrect here, this is me trying to summarize SSO in 20 words or
less).

This isn't the case.  SSO is used to share a single tape drive among
multiple media servers. It's the sharing & locking mechanism for device
sharing.  I could have zoned my 20 drives, one each, to my 19 media
servers and not needed SSO.  What Judy describes is right, though, if I
lose the drive zoned to that server, it's not doing backups until that
drive is repaired.

If you've got SSO licensed, I suggest zoning all tape drives to all
media servers (careful - you have to name them correctly via tpconfig or
it doesn't work right).  You can them limit the number of drives used by
each media server when the backup occurs via the max-drives setting I
the storage unit (as Judy also said).

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Heathe
Kyle Yeakley
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:16 PM
To: David Turner
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Will Tucker
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives

The "shoe-shining" issue is resolved by enabling multiplexing on your 
backups. By having multiple jobs writing to the same tape, the tape 
doesn't have any idle time to shoe shine your drive.

I have 2 tape libraries, both with 12 drives a piece. All 24 drives and 
2 robots are presented to my 1 Linux Master, 2 Linux Media, and 3 Tru64 
SAN Media servers. All 6 systems see all 24 tapes drives and the robot 
for each library. The factor that allows me to do this is that my 6 
servers all have multipathing support built into the OS. If your Windows

server is connected to a SAN, I'm 99% certain you have multipathing in 
your OS somewhere, either built into the kernel, added via a software 
pack, or managed by the HBAs on the server.

The way I understand SSO, is if you're using anything more complicated 
than a stand alone tape drive, then you need SSO (I could be totally 
incorrect here, this is me trying to summarize SSO in 20 words or less).

Given the little I know of your SSO configuration, I'd start with going 
over the way your SAN is zoned with a fine tooth comb. 90% of all the 
SSO issues I've had with my 2 libraries existed in the SAN itself, not 
in NetBackup or the libraries.

Hope this helps.

- Heathe Kyle Yeakley

David Turner wrote:
>
> I have 1 windows master running Netbackup 6.5 with 3 media servers. I 
> have Storagetek/Sun SL8500 with 8 LTO3 tape drives (2 drives are 
> dedicated via NDMP to a Netapp 3050). All drives are connected via FC 
> to brocade etc. we have the Shared storage option but I don't think 
> it's working properly. How can I verify that its working?
>
> I believe the engineers that configured the zoning on the switch 
> dedicated 2 drives per server and dedicate 2 to the Netapp. Did it 
> makes sense to purchase SSO?
>
> I was told you should only have 2 LTO3 drives per servers because of 
> "shoe shining" and the servers ability to handle more than 2 drives 
> (Dell 2950's quad cores with 8gig of ram). I am wondering if the 
> switch should be rezoned to make use of SSO or can the zoning have an 
> impact on how SSO should be configured? How can these 2 play together?
>
> As you can see I am all confused and would love for someone to explain

> this in simple terms.
>
> thanks
>
>

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Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives

[Donaldson, Mark]

If a drive is visible to one and only one server because of zoning ,
then SSO isn't necessary.  SSO is used to share a single drive among
multiple media servers.  Each server uses it in turn but then releases
it after use to be used by a different server.  While you may be
licensed for SSO, what you're describing won't need it.

 

You could still limit the use of drives by each media server through
multiple techniques - storage units "max drive" setting comes to mind -
so that only X number of drives are used simultaneously per media
server.  You could still have it choose that X drives from a shared pool
of all your drives.  I suspect your servers are more than capable of
keeping two drives busy (subject to throttling introduced by your
back-end SAN & HBA speeds).  

 

Your storage guys are, IMO, being too conservative.

 

 

 

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of David
Turner
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:55 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: Will Tucker
Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives

 

I have 1 windows master running Netbackup 6.5 with 3 media servers. I
have Storagetek/Sun SL8500  with 8 LTO3 tape drives (2 drives are
dedicated via NDMP to a Netapp 3050). All drives are connected via FC to
brocade etc. we have the Shared storage option but I don't think it's
working properly. How can I verify that its working? 

 

I believe the engineers that configured the zoning on the switch
dedicated 2 drives per server and dedicate 2 to the Netapp. Did it makes
sense to purchase SSO? 

 

 

I was told you should only have 2 LTO3 drives per servers because of
"shoe shining" and the servers ability to handle more than 2 drives
(Dell 2950's quad cores with 8gig of ram). I am wondering if the switch
should be rezoned to make use of SSO or can the zoning have an impact on
how SSO should be configured? How can these 2 play together?

 

As you can see I am all confused and would love for someone to explain
this in simple terms.

 

thanks 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 Masters and only 1 tape library - DR Exercise

[Donaldson, Mark]

ACSLS, though, would fall into the category of "using another software
package as an interface".  I suspected ACSLS could do that but didn't
want volunteer that since I don't have firsthand knowledge of it.

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Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:08 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 Masters and only 1 tape library - DR
Exercise

> You're not going to do it without partitioning the library.  Hints in
> another thread suggest it might be possible by using a another
software
> package as an interface but stock Netbackup will limit you to having a
> library connected to one, and only one, master server.
> 
> The Master Server holds your volume database, you can't have a tape in
> more than one volume database.

I suppose it revolves around how one defines "partitioning the library":
Hard partitions or soft (by tape label ranges).

We have a Sun/STK SL8500 with ACSLS as the front end and have several
(unrelated) Netback Master servers (and media servers) all using the 
library concurrently.

We have not "hard partitioned" it, but rather have a tape range and
specific
tape drives assigned to each Netbackup system. We even have several 
non-Netbackup systems also using the library.

--- Cris

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Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 Masters and only 1 tape library - DR Exercise comingup

[Donaldson, Mark]

You're not going to do it without partitioning the library.  Hints in
another thread suggest it might be possible by using a another software
package as an interface but stock Netbackup will limit you to having a
library connected to one, and only one, master server.

The Master Server holds your volume database, you can't have a tape in
more than one volume database.

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Peacock
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:23 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 2 Masters and only 1 tape library - DR Exercise
comingup


Sungard only has one tape library available for our up and coming DR
Exercise, an IBM 3584 with 8 LTO-4 drives. SG doesn't have any more tape
libraries and we have 2 master servers to setup and do multiple restores
from for two different businesses/customers.

What's going to be my best method for 2 master servers and a single tape
library so I can share the drives between the two masters?
The tape library can NOT be LPAR'd as I've been told by SG. So this will
have to be done with Netbackup

Please advise.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

[Donaldson, Mark]

By default, though, Netbackup is pouring email out for every backup through a 
different script or executable which I've never found.  By default, the mail 
lines below are commented out.

 

If anyone knows Netbackup's usual facility for spam, I'd love to look at it to 
see if it could be modified.  

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Sherman
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:26 PM
To: Mark Glazerman; veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

 

Mark,

The exit status of the backup is passed in as $5 to the script. So, if you want 
emails only for jobs ending in a non-zero exit status, you can modify the line

cat $OUTF | mailx -s "Backup on $1 - $5" someone_who_cares



to 



if [ "$5" -gt 0 ]

then

cat $OUTF | mailx -s "Backup on $1 - $5" someone_who_cares

fi

Hope this helps.

 

 



From: Mark Glazerman 
To: veritas-bu 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:52:54 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

My shell scripting is shaky at best so I’m hoping that one of you may be able 
to help me out.

 

I’m wondering how I would go about editing the 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/backup_exit_notify.sh script so that it doesn’t inform 
me via email of successfully completed backups.  Basically I’m only interested 
in backups that complete with a 1 or higher.

 

I have modified our bp.conf to keep 3 months of jobs in the activity monitor so 
will be able to check here for successful backups.  I really only need to be 
informed if a backup has failed.

 

Thanks in advance,  

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

mark.glazer...@spartech.com  

http://www.spartech.com  

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Re: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

[Donaldson, Mark]

The emails on NB are per-image.  They don't take into consideration the
retry attempts.

 

There's no built-in features for that.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Fernandes, Eustace
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:56 PM
To: Mark Glazerman; veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

 

on that subject will this show only true failures, i.e. jobs that did
not run successfully on a retry? 

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
Glazerman
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:53 PM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

My shell scripting is shaky at best so I'm hoping that one of you may be
able to help me out.

 

I'm wondering how I would go about editing the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/backup_exit_notify.sh script so that it doesn't
inform me via email of successfully completed backups.  Basically I'm
only interested in backups that complete with a 1 or higher.

 

I have modified our bp.conf to keep 3 months of jobs in the activity
monitor so will be able to check here for successful backups.  I really
only need to be informed if a backup has failed.

 

Thanks in advance,  

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

mark.glazer...@spartech.com  

http://www.spartech.com  

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Re: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

[Donaldson, Mark]

Unless you're doing something special in yours, the backup_exit_notify
(note - no ".sh" suffix) doesn't send email by default.

 

-M

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
Glazerman
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:53 PM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] modify backup_exit_notify.sh script

 

My shell scripting is shaky at best so I'm hoping that one of you may be
able to help me out.

 

I'm wondering how I would go about editing the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/backup_exit_notify.sh script so that it doesn't
inform me via email of successfully completed backups.  Basically I'm
only interested in backups that complete with a 1 or higher.

 

I have modified our bp.conf to keep 3 months of jobs in the activity
monitor so will be able to check here for successful backups.  I really
only need to be informed if a backup has failed.

 

Thanks in advance,  

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

mark.glazer...@spartech.com  

http://www.spartech.com  

P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to

This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential, are
intended solely for the use of the addressee, and may be legally
privileged. If you have received this email in error please notify the
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Re: [Veritas-bu] How to check logs

[Donaldson, Mark]

If it's being manipulated via the GUI, here's one way.  Write a wrapper
(I use a Unix alias) for jnbSA that has something like this in it  like
this:

 

jnbSA -l $HOME/jnbSA/jnbsa.1016.log -lc

 

..or...

 

jnbSA -l /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/jnbsa/$USER.`date +%y$%M%D`.$$.log

 

...or similar.

 

This'll create a log file in a forced location with per-user data in it.
The "-lc" tells jnbSA to record the netbackup commands run behind the
scenes.  You could mine it for the commands that have been run.

 

If it's command line stuff, we have sudo for all permissions on
netbackup so we can mine the sudo logs for that info.

 

HTH - M

 

 

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of SACHIN
ARORA
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:28 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to check logs

 

Hi All,

 

I need to know where can we check logs about netbackup which specifies
the person who terminated the backup

or the person who deleted the policy. I have seen no. of times that an
imp bakup running in the envionment was killed

by someone or policy was somehow deleted . I need to track the person
doing it.

 

Please help

 

Thx

Sachin

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Macintosh Client for Netbackup 6.5

[Donaldson, Mark]

Aww, heck.  You don't need to backup Mac computers.  Everything made by
Apple is perfect.  If a file gets deleted you don't need it.  Trust it -
it's a apple.  It anticipated your future disuse of this file and just
proactively took care it for you.

Oh - and the big black box that appeared in OSX?  That's a command line
interface.  Don't fear it - it wants to be your friend.

;)

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zeelander
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:07 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Macintosh Client for Netbackup 6.5


Is there a Mac client for Netbackup 6.5?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore request times out

[Donaldson, Mark]

Two potential helps:

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277049.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276889.htm


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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:01 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore request times out

I'm trying to restore Linux file server data in the millions of files
and terabytes of data and my restore GUI keeps timing out with:

"Timed out while for acknowledgement. The restore may or may not have
initiated. Check the status of the Netbackup Client Service; it must be
running in order to start a restore. The server returned error code 23,
more information can be found in the Netbackup Troubleshooting Guide."
If I walk down the tree structure and select a sub/sub/sub folder then
the restore works fine.

Does anyone know if / where this timeout is?  I can break up the
restores somewhat, but at the current pace I'll have to run 100+ jobs to
get this to work.

Thanks,

-Jonathan
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Howto remove disk media server from disk staging

[Donaldson, Mark]

Decommissioning an NB 6.5 Media server:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/306838.htm

Before you turn it off, though, change your policies to use a storage
unit that goes directly to tape then use vault or bpduplicate to copy
your remaining disk images to tape.  Expire the disk images once copied
to tape.

That should delete the files from the filesystem.

Then decommission the media server normally.

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
bolobaboo kabootar
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:28 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Howto remove disk media server from disk staging

Hi
I have NBU 6.5.2 enviornment.
Backup goes to dsik staging then then disk gets copied to tape pool in
morning. But plan is to remove disk staging from path and let backup
go directly to tape. Future restore also go tape. My question is What
are steps to decommision disk media server ?

THX
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[Veritas-bu] Exchange Agent

[Donaldson, Mark]

Hi all,

 

We're using the Netapp "Snapmanager for Exchange" software to make
Exchange backups right now.  We use it to quiesce Exchange in some way
and create a Netapp snapshot of the drives.  Those drives are mounted to
another NT server and backed up as drive letters.

 

The upshot of this is that every day we backup the entire 1.4 TB
Exchange database. 

 

I'd like to get out of this business.

 

Can you folks using the NB Exchange Agent let me know the quickie
details of how it works (can I do incrementals?) and how it's working
out for you?

 

-M

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any subfolders

[Donaldson, Mark]

Yes, they're on the client, but they can be limited to function on that
client for only one policy or policy & sched combo. 

-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dbergen
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:51 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any
subfolders


I think I am missing something here, aren't exclude lists client based
rather than policy based?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any subfolders

[Donaldson, Mark]

Per policy excludes are implemented already.  Have been since at least
v3.

Client Global: /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list 
Policy (all scheds): /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.
Policy & Sched:
/usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list..

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dbergen
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:32 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any
subfolders


Thanks, I should have been clearer sorry. I know how to do it in an
exclude list but that is global to the client. What I am trying to do is
separate subfolders into one stream and root files into another.

When is Symantec going to have per policy or per stream excludes?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

[Donaldson, Mark]

I get it all the time.  No worries.
 
-Mark



From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:17 AM
To: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; Donaldson, Mark;
sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version


Judy
Actually, his name is "Mark" :-)
 
Simon



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:53 PM
To: mark.donald...@staples.com; sreynol...@semprautilities.com;
ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version



Very nice Donald.

 

 

 

 

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From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:31 AM
To: Judy Hinchcliffe; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

Ah.  Let's see.  Change thusly...

 

 

#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L -A | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Patch/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 

 



From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version

Note on Marks script, the command does not show the fourth position on
the version  6.5.3.1  all I am getting is 6.5.3.

 

Not that there is anything wrong with Marks script, its just that the
command does not show fourth position.

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:52 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

A little late to this party but here's another version.

 

#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Client.Proto/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

Many thanks Ed.

 

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

I posted this to the list a while back:

r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.sh
#!/bin/sh

# Loop through all clients gathering the client version info

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

export PATH

CLIENTS=/usr/openv/local/client-versions
OUT=/usr/openv/local/client-versions.csv

[ ! -d $CLIENTS ] && mkdir $CLIENTS

bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $NF}' | \
while read client
do
  echo Client: $client
  bpgetconfig -s $client -L -A > $CLIENTS/$client
done

cd $CLIENTS
for f in *
do
  awk -f /usr/openv/local/bin/get-client-versions.awk $f
done > $OUT

[r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.awk
/Platform/ {PLATFORM = $5}
/Client OS/ {OS = $5}
/Patch/ {print FILENAME "," $4 "," OS "," PLATFORM }

 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Reynolds, Susan K.
 wrote:

Is there a quick command that can be run that will list the current
version of Netbackup for each client on the command line without having
to extract the information from the GUI or Administrative Console?

 

Just looking for a shortcut.

 

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any subfolders

[Donaldson, Mark]

NB recurses by default.  It's hard to stop.

You'd have to do this by using an exclude file on the client, I suspect.

If your filelist includes:

/top/dir_to_backup 

You might try to exclude
/top/dir_to_backup/*/

That might do it.  I've never tried it, though.  Make sure the trailing
slash is on the exclude line - that'll force it to exclude directories
only.

-M

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Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:08 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup all files in a folder but not any
subfolders


Can anyone tell me how to set this up in Netbackup?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Keeping more job history in the Activity Monitor

[Donaldson, Mark]

It's controlled by two lines in your bp.conf file on your master server:
 
KEEP_JOBS_HOURS = 192
KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 192

I keep 9 days with mine.
 
-M



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
Glazerman
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:25 PM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Keeping more job history in the Activity Monitor



Does anyone know how to keep more job history in the activity monitor in
6.5.3 ?

 

I've looked through the settings of the master server and can't find
anything that jumps out at me.

 

Thanks in advance, 

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

[Donaldson, Mark]

Last version?  I found an old NT client using v4.5 it didn't populate
the "Patch" field.  This is a fix.
-Mark
 
 
#!/bin/ksh
 
PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
 
echo "  Client \t OS Level\t Release"
echo "=\t \t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}' |grep
sg.55`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L -A | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Patch/)   {p=$2}
if($1~/Protocol/){v=$2}}
END { if(p~/^ *$/){r=v}else{r=p}
  printf("%-22s\t%-25s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 
 



From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:53 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version



Very nice Donald.

 

 

 

 



From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:31 AM
To: Judy Hinchcliffe; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

Ah.  Let's see.  Change thusly...

 

 

#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L -A | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Patch/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 

 



From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version

Note on Marks script, the command does not show the fourth position on
the version  6.5.3.1  all I am getting is 6.5.3.

 

Not that there is anything wrong with Marks script, its just that the
command does not show fourth position.

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:52 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

A little late to this party but here's another version.

 

#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Client.Proto/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

Many thanks Ed.

 

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

I posted this to the list a while back:

r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.sh
#!/bin/sh

# Loop through all clients gathering the client version info

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

export PATH

CLIENTS=/usr/openv/local/client-versions
OUT=/usr/openv/local/client-versions.csv

[ ! -d $CLIENTS ] && mkdir $CLIENTS

bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $NF}' | \
while read client
do
  echo Client: $client
  bpgetconfig -s $client -L -A > $CLIENTS/$client
done

cd $CLIENTS
for f in *
do
  awk -f /usr/openv/local/bin/get-client-versions.awk $f
done > $OUT

[r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.awk
/Platform/ {PLATFORM = $5}
/Client OS/ {OS = $5}
/Patch/ {print FILENAME "," $4 "," OS "," PLATFORM }

 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Reynolds, Susan K.
 wrote:

Is there a quick command that can be run that will list the current
version of Netbackup for each client on the command line without having
to extrac

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

[Donaldson, Mark]

Ah.  Let's see.  Change thusly...
 
 
#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L -A | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Patch/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 



From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sreynol...@semprautilities.com; ewi...@ewilts.org
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version



Note on Marks script, the command does not show the fourth position on
the version  6.5.3.1  all I am getting is 6.5.3.

 

Not that there is anything wrong with Marks script, its just that the
command does not show fourth position.

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:52 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

A little late to this party but here's another version.

 

#!/bin/ksh

 

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

 

echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Client.Proto/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

Many thanks Ed.

 

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

I posted this to the list a while back:

r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.sh
#!/bin/sh

# Loop through all clients gathering the client version info

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

export PATH

CLIENTS=/usr/openv/local/client-versions
OUT=/usr/openv/local/client-versions.csv

[ ! -d $CLIENTS ] && mkdir $CLIENTS

bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $NF}' | \
while read client
do
  echo Client: $client
  bpgetconfig -s $client -L -A > $CLIENTS/$client
done

cd $CLIENTS
for f in *
do
  awk -f /usr/openv/local/bin/get-client-versions.awk $f
done > $OUT

[r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.awk
/Platform/ {PLATFORM = $5}
/Client OS/ {OS = $5}
/Patch/ {print FILENAME "," $4 "," OS "," PLATFORM }

 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Reynolds, Susan K.
 wrote:

Is there a quick command that can be run that will list the current
version of Netbackup for each client on the command line without having
to extract the information from the GUI or Administrative Console?

 

Just looking for a shortcut.

 

 

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
ewi...@ewilts.org

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

[Donaldson, Mark]

A little late to this party but here's another version.
 
#!/bin/ksh
 
PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
 
echo "  Client \t OS Level \t Release"
echo "=\t =\t ==="
for c in `bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $3}'`
do
  bpgetconfig -s $c -L | \
awk -F'=' '{if($1~/Client.OS/){os=$2}
if($1~/Client.Proto/){r=$2}}
END {printf("%-22s\t%-18s\t%s\n","'$c'",os,r)} '
done




From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version



Many thanks Ed.

 

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version

 

I posted this to the list a while back:

r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.sh
#!/bin/sh

# Loop through all clients gathering the client version info

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

export PATH

CLIENTS=/usr/openv/local/client-versions
OUT=/usr/openv/local/client-versions.csv

[ ! -d $CLIENTS ] && mkdir $CLIENTS

bpplclients -allunique -noheader | awk '{print $NF}' | \
while read client
do
  echo Client: $client
  bpgetconfig -s $client -L -A > $CLIENTS/$client
done

cd $CLIENTS
for f in *
do
  awk -f /usr/openv/local/bin/get-client-versions.awk $f
done > $OUT

[r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.awk
/Platform/ {PLATFORM = $5}
/Client OS/ {OS = $5}
/Patch/ {print FILENAME "," $4 "," OS "," PLATFORM }

 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Reynolds, Susan K.
 wrote:

Is there a quick command that can be run that will list the current
version of Netbackup for each client on the command line without having
to extract the information from the GUI or Administrative Console?

 

Just looking for a shortcut.

 

 

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
ewi...@ewilts.org

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.

[Donaldson, Mark]

That's a cool option, I'll have to look into it.
 
However, in this case, the OP is working with Solaris boxen and those are the 
ones I murdered by doing a full restore.  
 
You can do work arounds - restore to an alternate path, mess with the mount 
table to change what's the root filesystem device and reboot.  But simply doing 
a jumpstart or other simply restore and then writing over the running OS with 
an on-tape OS doesn't work.
 
-M



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Boris Kraizman
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: dave.mark...@fjserv.net; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; John Nardello
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.




2009/6/8 Donaldson, Mark 


I have done a full system restore, or attempted to, and it doesn't work.

Somewhere along the way, you start over-writing the library files 
linked into the running bpbkar executable and then the restore will die.

This is not quite true. If you use NetBackup w2koption, and it doesn't replace 
the system files right away, it will replace once you reboot the system for the 
first time. You would still have to match your OS version and the backup agent 
on the restore client with the original backed up system. If you had Windows 
2003 SP1 and you do the restore on Windows 2003 SP2, then it won't work. 

Here is the technical note for it 
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/251163.htm




BMR is an exception, but just doing a full restore from root downward 
doesn't work.

-M


-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:50 AM
To: Boris Kraizman
Cc: John Nardello; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.

Thanks All.

Pretty much exactly what i was thinking, so its good to know i'm not
loosing my marbles.

Problem was i wasn't consulted at design time.

We are doing a proof of concept as the design has already been
"approved" apparently and we shouldn't be changing it on theories. Pah.

I can't wait for the big fat "Told you So!"

Even if it works on one box its not going to work on all 6 i'm sure, and
even if it does i'm not signing off on it for SLA for support team as
its not a way to be doing a fully supported DR approach.

Cheers


Boris Kraizman wrote:
> I found the best way is to build the OS to match the original, then
> recover all data including system files via NetBackup. I do have BMR
> configured, but the sequential order for restore will take much longer
> then OS, and then full systems restore on top. I don't do BMR for
> Solaris and Linux systems at all, just a full system backups and then
> OS build with data restores. It works well on Windows with full
> systems restore including the regsitry and system state, no really a
> problem with diffirent hardware, there are some tricks anywhere. You
> would need de-select a few system files, use w2koption per the tech
> note, and you will be fine.
>
> Boris Kraizman
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Mark Glazerman
> mailto:mark.glazer...@spartech.com>> 
wrote:
>
> We tested this and you are right that you will likely run into
> problems doing an entire system restore via netbackup. Even with
> the best will in the world, there is bound to be some kind of
> configuration file which will mess things up on the running system
> during the restore. Will the servers at site 2 be the same
> architecture / patch level / NICS etc ? Unless you have everything
> 100% the same you'll run into snags. Also... make sure that when
> you lay the data down you don't lay down the Netbackup files or
> you'll hose your restore (as we found out !!).
>
> If the servers will have identical names and IP's etc... why not
> just build them as if they were the servers in your home data
> center but with duplicate (but empty) file systems. In a DR
> situation all you'd need to restore would be your data files into
> those empty filesystems. The OS stuff would be as if they w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.

[Donaldson, Mark]

I have done a full system restore, or attempted to, and it doesn't work.

Somewhere along the way, you start over-writing the library files linked into 
the running bpbkar executable and then the restore will die.

BMR is an exception, but just doing a full restore from root downward doesn't 
work.

-M 

-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:50 AM
To: Boris Kraizman
Cc: John Nardello; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.

Thanks All.

Pretty much exactly what i was thinking, so its good to know i'm not 
loosing my marbles.

Problem was i wasn't consulted at design time.

We are doing a proof of concept as the design has already been 
"approved" apparently and we shouldn't be changing it on theories. Pah.

I can't wait for the big fat "Told you So!"

Even if it works on one box its not going to work on all 6 i'm sure, and 
even if it does i'm not signing off on it for SLA for support team as 
its not a way to be doing a fully supported DR approach.

Cheers


Boris Kraizman wrote:
> I found the best way is to build the OS to match the original, then 
> recover all data including system files via NetBackup. I do have BMR 
> configured, but the sequential order for restore will take much longer 
> then OS, and then full systems restore on top. I don't do BMR for 
> Solaris and Linux systems at all, just a full system backups and then 
> OS build with data restores. It works well on Windows with full 
> systems restore including the regsitry and system state, no really a 
> problem with diffirent hardware, there are some tricks anywhere. You 
> would need de-select a few system files, use w2koption per the tech 
> note, and you will be fine.
>
> Boris Kraizman
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Mark Glazerman 
> mailto:mark.glazer...@spartech.com>> wrote:
>
> We tested this and you are right that you will likely run into
> problems doing an entire system restore via netbackup. Even with
> the best will in the world, there is bound to be some kind of
> configuration file which will mess things up on the running system
> during the restore. Will the servers at site 2 be the same
> architecture / patch level / NICS etc ? Unless you have everything
> 100% the same you'll run into snags. Also... make sure that when
> you lay the data down you don't lay down the Netbackup files or
> you'll hose your restore (as we found out !!).
>
> If the servers will have identical names and IP's etc... why not
> just build them as if they were the servers in your home data
> center but with duplicate (but empty) file systems. In a DR
> situation all you'd need to restore would be your data files into
> those empty filesystems. The OS stuff would be as if they were
> your servers in your home data center.
>
> Mark Glazerman
> Desk: 314-889-8282
> Cell: 618-520-3401
> 狭 please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> ] On Behalf Of
> John Nardello
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:37 PM
> To: dave.mark...@fjserv.net ;
> veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.
>
> Most servers get really ticked off if you try to overwrite the
> running OS files - assuming they'll let you do it at all. Probably
> because an overwrite is effectively a delete and then create. So
> great, what happens when you restore that critical library file
> that Solaris was using to run ? Or heck, when you restore bpbkar ?
> Or inetd ?
>
> If the CSA guy refuses to back down though, no sweat, ask for a
> proof of concept test. "Let's see what really happens when we do
> it this way." If only because it ought to be fun to see exactly
> how messed up the destination server gets. =) And don't sign off
> on it as the full DR method until you get one.
>
> Bare metal restores != file-level restores.
>
> - John Nardello
>
> -Original Message-
> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> ] On Behalf Of
> Dave Markham
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:50 AM
> To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.
>
> Guys i'm after a

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

[Donaldson, Mark]

The quick answer is that it's too hard.

In order to do an in-file incremental, you'd have to have intimate knowledge of 
the each kind of filesystem structure (ufs, vxfs, ext, ext3, etc).

By doing it at the file level, rather than the block level, the OS takes care 
of all that for you.   

-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 1:21 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

Hello everyone,

I'm still learning Netbackup (got around 1.5 years working with it) and I'm 
wondering... Is there a way to perform incremental backups using in-file 
delta technology (backup only changes within a file)?  I've seen a lot of 
features/options for Netbackup but I have never seen this...If indeed there 
isn't ...why isn't this type of ESSENTIAL technology part of Netbackup?

Just as an aside, I recently started backing up a server that runs "MS Virtual 
Server" that has around 9 guests...I back them up at night (obviously after 
shutting down the guests) and I know 5 of those 9 guests seldomly change but 
as you can imagine...because the timestamp on the virtual-hard-disks 
change ...they're backed up COMPLETELY.  The end result: I'm almost 
performing a FULL backup every day even though it's an incremental 
schedule   :(  

I'll appreciate your feedback. 

Thanks!

All the best,
Jorge

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Successful Backup Report

[Donaldson, Mark]

Apologies for the slow response - I was on vacation.

My earlier message to this board has the script as an attachment
"rpt_client_totals".

It's a shell script, I don't use "extensions" as a rule on scripts.

-M 

-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of NBU
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:01 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Successful Backup Report


MDONALDSON : you have not given the script

JUDY : Would like to ask how do you take care of BCV Based backups in
this report format. 

Suppose if i have 1 media server on which BCV of 10 different servers
are mounted and then backup is taken. How do you report that.

WRT BC Tape backup, In your report the media server comes only once as a
client so how will you get the rest 9 server report.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Fedora client install problem

[Donaldson, Mark]

standard for my 6.5.3 install now are:
 
libacl.i386
libstdc++.i386
xinetd
 
(The last seems obvious but for some reason it's missing on half our
servers).



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jon
Bousselot
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:07 PM
To: Conner, Neil; Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fedora client install problem


Try 'yum install libacl.i386'

Then it worked for me.




From: "Conner, Neil" 
To: Veritas List 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:23:08 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fedora client install problem

Netbackup 6.5.3 on Solaris.  I'm well aware that Fedora is not a
supported client platform, but I'm trying to install the 6.5.3 binaries
anyway because this is what I was handed.

Client platform:
Linux client.mbari.org 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 01:16:59 EDT
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm told this is a Fedora Core 5 64-bit install.  The client currently
has the 6.0 MP5 binaries installed and backups are successful.  Here is
the error I get when I run update_clients:

> /tmp/bp_inst.2143/tar: error while loading shared libraries:  
> libacl.so.1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The libacl.so.1 file does exist in the /lib64 directory but it is a link
to libacl.so.1.1.0.

Has anyone had any success in dealing with this?

Thanks,
Neil

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude List in Ver 6.5.2 (on Linux)

[Donaldson, Mark]

Exclusion files are client-side only.  If you put one on the master
server, it doesn't function for the clients.

Certainly it's something we, the user community, have been requesting
for a very long time.

-M 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Harpreet
SINGH
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:56 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU;
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exclude List in Ver 6.5.2 (on Linux)


Dear All,

I am heaving a setup of 6 clients and one Master/Media server running on
Linux.

I am trying to setup a single exclusion list in Master/Media server.  So
no
need to do anything on the client side.

I have created the file /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list. In this file
/ncla/harp/harp1 I want to do backup of /ncla/harp all the files and
exclude harp1 folder.

Please advise if I am doing wrong. Here it is doing backup of /ncla/harp
and /ncla/harp/harp1

04:33:22.088 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /
04:33:22.088 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/
04:33:22.089 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/
04:33:22.089 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/1.dbf
04:33:22.089 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/2.dbf
04:33:22.090 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/3.dbf
04:33:22.090 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/4.dbf
04:33:22.090 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/5.dbf
04:33:22.090 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/harp1/
04:34:37.626 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile:
/ncla/harp/harp1/NCLA_1_5564_663896577.arc
04:34:38.185 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile:
/ncla/harp/harp1/NCLA_1_5565_663896577.arc
04:34:40.207 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile:
/ncla/harp/harp1/NCLA_1_5566_663896577.arc
04:34:41.237 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile:
/ncla/harp/harp1/NCLA_1_5567_663896577.arc
04:34:41.238 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/harp1/aa
04:34:41.238 [21849] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /ncla/harp/harp1/aa1

With Warm Regards
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Phone  :   (O) 6895 - 4326
Fax   :(O) 6895 - 4991
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Successful Backup Report

[Donaldson, Mark]

Here's what I use.  I gives output that looks like below, totals by
client, then broken down by policy.  

Run it without options for a 24-hour report or specify a number of hours
on the command line to see greater depth.  Change the
"y...@yourdomain.com" at the top of the script for your mail address.  I
run it daily via cron.

=
## Report Start: Mon May 25 08:00:01 MDT 2009 for past 168 hours.

## General Statistics
Total Backup Jobs: 7249
Total Volume: 28.63 TB

## Backup totals by client

righthand = 1.2 GB
:   Unix_FS_DevTest_11.2 GB (2 jobs)
:Unix_FS_logs   18.4 MB (2 jobs)

dns1 = 298.4 MB
:  Unix_FS_Firewalled  216.4 MB (3 jobs)
:Unix_FS_logs   82.0 MB (2 jobs)

dns2 = 384.3 MB
:  Unix_FS_Firewalled  265.8 MB (3 jobs)
:Unix_FS_logs  118.5 MB (2 jobs)

server-tm-07 = 78.9 GB
:   NT_CO_Whs   78.9 GB (1 jobs) 

## Backup totals by policy

   Unix_FS_DevTest_1:  4.7 GB
   Unix_FS_DevTest_2: 10.6 GB
   Unix_FS_DevTest_3: 21.3 GB
  Unix_FS_Firewalled: 98.6 GB
Unix_FS_Firewalled_Tier1: 13.2 GB
  Unix_FS_Firewalled_Web:  1.9 GB
  Unix_FS_Prod_1:163.9 GB
  Unix_FS_Prod_2:145.6 GB





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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Successful Backup Report


Hi Forum,

I need a script that will give me successful backup figure during a
period of time for uniq clients.

Can anyone share the script or the procedure to do so pls.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Successful Backup Report

[Donaldson, Mark]

Can you give an example of what you're looking for?

-M 

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Hi Forum,

I need a script that will give me successful backup figure during a
period of time for uniq clients.

Can anyone share the script or the procedure to do so pls.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] How to configure multiplexing?

[Donaldson, Mark]

There's two ways to do this, one is dependable, the other is less so.
 
The undependable way, and I don't recommend it, is to configure media
sharing and then time all the times to occur at different times.  With
luck, they'd all grab the shared tape, mount it locally, and write all
the backups sequentially on the tape.
 
Fat chance and darn near impossible.
 
The other ways is to force the backups across the network to a single
media server and multplex them onto one tape. Tapes will multiplex
multiple servers but only through one media server at a time.  I do this
with my log file backups, gathering all the security related logs for
long-term storage onto a single tape nightly.
 
Create a policy with your filelist in it.  Choose what storage unit (&
media server) you want to use. & populate your client list.
 
Create your schedule(s) as usual and set your multiplexing factor on
them to whatever you want.  Don't exceed the max-multiplexing factor for
your storage units you chose above.
 
Go back to your attributes page and set the "max jobs per policy" to
whatever your multiplexing factor was that you used on your schedule.
 
So - when the job kicks off, it'll start a backup job on every client in
the client list.  Only the "max jobs per policy" will go active, though,
and the rest will queue.  One tape will mount on your media server and
it'll start to multiplex that many client backups to that one tape.  As
each client completes in turn, a queued client will go active and
continue to that tape.
 
HTH - M



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark ..
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:08 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to configure multiplexing?


Hi, 

I'm currently using NBU 6.5 MP3, the environment is consisted of 54
media servers and 24 LTO4 tape drives. Each of the media servers have 2
policy each. I would like to configure 20 out of 54 media servers to
write data to a single tape using one single drive only (assuming that
the data is small enough to be written to a single media). How do i
achieve that?

What's happening currently is that these 20 media servers will use 20
tape drives to write to 20 tapes or these 20 media servers will write
using a single tape drive but still to 20 different tapes. Both of the
scenarios mentioned is not acceptable.

Thanks

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Client Status 58 with a difference

[Donaldson, Mark]

Error 58 is a can't connect error.  Err 57 is if it can't reverse
correctly and authenticate the server or if the list of allowed servers
in the client is wrong.

We just pounded a bunch of these to death on a handful of servers.

A quick test is to "telnet  bpcd" from the master server.  If you
get a "connection refused", then the service might be down on the client
(usually).  If you just hang, before getting to the server,  check your
firewalls.

We ended up reinstalling the client in a number of NT boxen to fix the
problem.  One server had to be manually stripped of all things NB,
rebooted, and then reinstalled before it worked.

Usually, though, the service on the client needs to be started or, if
already on, bounced.

HTH -M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:24 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Client Status 58 with a difference

Guys i'm a unix/solaris engineer day to day and while i have XP on my 
laptop from day to day work, administrating Windows at a high level is 
not necessarily my forte.

I have Netbackup 5.0MP7 (dont ask, due for upgrade shortly). with 
various unix/windows clients.

We have added some new windows 2003 clients and are having trouble with 
connection status 58.

There is no DNS involved and the Master server (solaris) can telnet to 
client ports 13782 and 13724
Vnetd has been configured for the clients with bpclient -client 

-add -no_callback 1.

The issue we have is the Windows client itself doesnt seem to look for 
entries in %systemroot%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts  and i can't figure 
out why.

I can connect to the master server by ip on ports 13724 and 13782 but 
not via name we have configured.

If we configure the name in lmhosts it can telnet via name but Netbackup

doesnt' work properly and can't connect.

I've googled but had no joy as was pointed to a reg key which may be 
affecting things but its not on this system.

Anyone any ideas?

Dave
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams

[Donaldson, Mark]

Ah - yes.  Sorry no parent jobs in NB5.  It is an NB6 feature.
 
Easist thing to do here is turn off the multiple streams.  Just how big
is this database anyway?
 
We've done different things in my sordid past.
 
Query a list of tablespaces (active query)
for TABLE in LIST_OF_TABLESPACES
do
  QUERY list of files (dbf files) in that table
  put TABLE in hot backup mode
  bpbackup -p  -s  -w -f 
  take table out of hot backup mode
done
double check no part of DB is in HB mode
"roll your logs" (roll active redo to archive redo
backup all archived redo files
end
 
That worked OK and doesn't require the agent.  If you get creative, you
can even do multiple streams by doing multiple lists of tablespaces
 
Lessee - if it's an disk that can be snapped (Netapp or EMC BCV)
 
Put tablespaces in hot backup mode
snap data filesystems
take tablespaces out of HB mode
roll active redo to archived redo spaces
snap archive-redo filesystems
mount snapshots elsewhere and back them up using bpbackup.
 
 
If you drive things out of an external scheduler (cron or whatever) and
do the data as a user-backup type, things get much eaiser than trying to
do multiple streams and pre/post schedule jobs.
 
HTH - Mark



From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:10 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Dustin Damour; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams


Cheers Mark,
Although the client in question is Oracle, I have other Servers that
need specific tasks to be run but again, the problem I have is they are
all in policies to allow multiple Data Streams.
 
I will take a look at this Parent end scripts to see if they do anything
for me.
 
Simon



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 6:38 PM
To: Dustin Damour; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams


If you backup the database with only one image, the bpstart/bpend_notify
will work.  
 
However, bpend_notify does run with every image completion, as you've
found so it's no good for multi-image backups.  bpstart_notify also runs
with every image starting up so your preparation script might run more
than once (OK if it checks state when it runs, perhaps, "If NOT down,
then SHUTDOWN").  There's also lots of issues when your jobs run
sequentially rather than in parallel, various race conditions, and all
sorts of other painful stuff.
 
Look at the parent_end_notify & parent_start_notify scripts.  The run at
the beginning of a multiple image job.  Some of the early documentation
said they run on the client - they don't - they run on the master server
only.  If you want to perform a client task, you'll have to "ssh" from
your master to your client.
 
Unfortunately, most solutions for pre- and post- multi-image jobs stink.
 
The classic oracle solution is to use the oracle agent, of course.  Do
you have a license for it?  If so, create an oracle job.  The "include"
list is the batch file than runs the RMAN script.  The one schedule
triggers the RMAN backup to a UBAK (called "Application" in this case)
schedule located in the same policy.  Works great & RMAN takes care of
the heavy lifting.
 
If you don't have an oracle license, you can run a batch job from the
scheduler to shutdown the database, run "bpbackup -w" to a user-backup
schedule with a filelist for the oracle directory(s), then start the
database again from the same batch script.
 
HTH - M



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dustin
Damour
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:47 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams



When we had a client with Oracle we used bpstart_notify and bpend_notify
to bring down the Oracle service and then bring it back up. It works
like a charm.

 

Dustin D'Amour

Wireless Switch Technician

Plateau Wireless

575.389.4189 - office

575.309.6372 - cell

dust...@plateautel.com

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:41 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams

 

Hi All 
In a NBU 5.1 MP5 environment, I have client machines that require Oracle
to be taken down. 
the client backup is in an existing policy with many other Windows
Systems. 

The policy allows for streams. 

Problem I am seeing: Although for this client, the Services STOP when
the job begins, the pos

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup

[Donaldson, Mark]

Yeah - you have the folder where the dump is sent as your "include"
list.  
 
I do something a bit like this with a local application.   I have a
pre-backup job that does an application-command dump to a dependable
filename and I then I have that filename in the files-to-be-backed-up
list in my policy.  Pre-job bpstart_notify processing dumps the file,
backup grabs the file.
 
If it takes a while to do the dump, you might have to mess with some
timers so the backup doesn't time out.  "BPSTART_TIMEOUT" on the master
server, "CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT" on the client.
 
-M




From: Steve Bally [mailto:steve.ba...@radisys.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 2:18 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup



Mark,

 

Yes, this is a dump from vRanger, then NBU comes by and backs up the
"files".  

 

So, in my case, all I need is:

 

Policy named:  XX_VMtest01

A script named: bpstart_notify.XX_VMtest01.bat

A script with the following:

CALL "E:\vizioncore\esxRanger Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe"
-virtualcenter vc2://Folder=group-v10270 -copylocal E:\mnt -drives:db
-zipname [config]_[weeknum] -onlyon  -vmnotes  -noquiesce  -totalasync
10 -hostasync 2 -lunasync 3 -vcb  -failbacktolan  -totalvcbasync 2
-diffratio 50 -maxfullage 1 -retendays 1

 

And in the selection tab of the NBU policy I would have to have a folder
selection of where the files are located?

 

Thanks for the help in advance

 

Steve

 

 

From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 1:10 PM
To: Steve Bally; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup

 

You can skip the If statement at the beginning and instead rename the
batch file to only work with that particular policy.

 

In general

 

bpstart_notify.bat   << All policies

bpstart_notify.policyname.bat  <<mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Steve
Bally
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 1:45 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup

All,

Just trying to get a policy within NBU setup, and having some
difficulties getting it setup.  Currently I have the following setup:

Policy = XX_VMTest01

Policy Type = MS-Windows-NT

Schedule = Full

Client is the NBU Media Server (also the master)

Backup Selection - ?? 

I have also created a bpstart_notify.XX_VMTest01.bat and it is placed in
the Veritas\Netbackup\bin with the following contents:

If "%2" == "XX_VMtest01" goto backup_test
 Goto end
:backup_test

CALL "E:\vizioncore\esxRanger Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe"
-virtualcenter vc2://Folder=group-v10270 -copylocal E:\mnt -drives:db
-zipname [config]_[weeknum] -onlyon  -vmnotes  -noquiesce  -totalasync
10 -hostasync 2 -lunasync 3 -vcb  -failbacktolan  -totalvcbasync 2
-diffratio 50 -maxfullage 1 -retendays 1 
 Goto end
:end

vRanger works independently from NBU & VCB, if anyone could give some
insight it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Steve

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup, VCB, vRanger Policy Setup

[Donaldson, Mark]

You can skip the If statement at the beginning and instead rename the
batch file to only work with that particular policy.
 
In general
 
bpstart_notify.bat   << All policies
bpstart_notify.policyname.bat  <

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams

[Donaldson, Mark]

If you backup the database with only one image, the bpstart/bpend_notify
will work.  
 
However, bpend_notify does run with every image completion, as you've
found so it's no good for multi-image backups.  bpstart_notify also runs
with every image starting up so your preparation script might run more
than once (OK if it checks state when it runs, perhaps, "If NOT down,
then SHUTDOWN").  There's also lots of issues when your jobs run
sequentially rather than in parallel, various race conditions, and all
sorts of other painful stuff.
 
Look at the parent_end_notify & parent_start_notify scripts.  The run at
the beginning of a multiple image job.  Some of the early documentation
said they run on the client - they don't - they run on the master server
only.  If you want to perform a client task, you'll have to "ssh" from
your master to your client.
 
Unfortunately, most solutions for pre- and post- multi-image jobs stink.
 
The classic oracle solution is to use the oracle agent, of course.  Do
you have a license for it?  If so, create an oracle job.  The "include"
list is the batch file than runs the RMAN script.  The one schedule
triggers the RMAN backup to a UBAK (called "Application" in this case)
schedule located in the same policy.  Works great & RMAN takes care of
the heavy lifting.
 
If you don't have an oracle license, you can run a batch job from the
scheduler to shutdown the database, run "bpbackup -w" to a user-backup
schedule with a filelist for the oracle directory(s), then start the
database again from the same batch script.
 
HTH - M



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dustin
Damour
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:47 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams



When we had a client with Oracle we used bpstart_notify and bpend_notify
to bring down the Oracle service and then bring it back up. It works
like a charm.

 

Dustin D'Amour

Wireless Switch Technician

Plateau Wireless

575.389.4189 - office

575.309.6372 - cell

dust...@plateautel.com

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:41 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams

 

Hi All 
In a NBU 5.1 MP5 environment, I have client machines that require Oracle
to be taken down. 
the client backup is in an existing policy with many other Windows
Systems. 

The policy allows for streams. 

Problem I am seeing: Although for this client, the Services STOP when
the job begins, the post job starts the minute one of the smaller
streams complete.

What I want to do, is allow the post job to run once ALL streams for
this client has completed. I found this document:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/274059.htm
  which I have been
running through for tests. Now, I am wondering if I should be calling a
different command for this like session_notify.cmd or bpend_notify.bat?

Essentially, what I want to be sure of, is when the complete Full or
INCR backup completes, the relevant service I stopped earlier is restart
only when everything is completed.

I have got Scheduled Tasks to run for the time being, but any pointers,
would be appreciated. 

Thanks 

Regards 

Simon 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Licensing questions

[Donaldson, Mark]

Use "robtest" to log into the library and run a "mode" command.  It
should tell you the total number of slots.NBU will use whaterver the
"mode" command reports.
 
Our Scaler 10k library reports 130 slots lower than physical slots.  The
scalars can be bought "smaller than physical".
 
You have to pay ADIC/Quantum to turn on the additional slots.  I had a
quote for $10,000 to turn on 100 lots.  Quite the rip-off in my opinion.
(Though we were offered a $4000 discount on that list.  Only $6,000!
What a deal!)
 
Sorry  - don't have an answer for #2 other than to offer, "I don't think
so."
 
-M



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Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:54 AM
To: NetBackup List
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Licensing questions


1) We have a Scalar 50 library with 36 slots but NetBackup in only
reporting 26 slots, is there a special license required to see a larger
number of slots. I seem to recall there used to be back in the days of
3.4, that you needed a specific license the more slots you had.

2) My existing environment is all Windows, do I need a different license
if I want to add Linux/ Unix clients?




Slainte,

David

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy types

[Donaldson, Mark]

Some people swear by the one-client, one-policy method.  I'm not one of
them.

The only reason I can see to do this is the ease of turning off backups
for a client.  In 9+ years of doing Netbackup, I think I've done this
less than a half-dozen times.  Even with multiple clients per policy,
you can do this with a "bpclient" command by setting "jobs per client"
to zero.

I like grouping.  I have 5 unix policies & 5 windows policies that
contain the great majority of my clients.  Each policy has a different
full backup night so I distribute my full backups across the week.  I
try to add clients to each policy based on the volume each policy does,
adding a new client to the policy with the current, least volume of
weekly backups. (I've got a little shell script that prints out one
week's totals that I use.) 

My filelists for backup are "/" with "Cross mountpoints" checked and I
manage what shouldn't be backed up via exclude lists.  If somebody
alters a server, changes the mountpoints, etc. the policies just catch
the change auto-magically.

Now, all that said, about 20% of my servers need special treatment.
Firewalled servers can't back up to anything but my central master
server (firewall rules) so they need different storage units.  I have a
pair of policies for firewalled servers as a result.

I have a group of NT servers that only need the "C" & "D" drives backed
up so their in their own policy with a fixed include list.'

There's a couple more one-off policies for special-purpose or
"special-needs" servers.

But, in general, I like the use of multiple clients per policy and think
it great reduces administration time.

HTH - M

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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:44 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Policy types


We're discussing creating two policies to backup all of our
clients...one for all Windows servers and one for all Unix servers.  I
think this would make administration much easier.  Can any of you give
me the pros and cons of using only one policy?

Thanks,
B

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[Veritas-bu] OT: HP Virtual Training?

[Donaldson, Mark]

Off-Topic but you guys are the biggest group of Admins I know.

I need to take an HP training course. It's offered 1500 miles away in
Boston or via a "Virtual Classroom".  Any of you have experience with
HP's virtual training courses?

-M
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Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

[Donaldson, Mark]

Depending on your barcode rules, though, newly discovered tapes will be
pre-set to a certain tape type.  I'd check what those rules are "vmrule
-listall -b".

-M 

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Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:46 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT


yes, we had them barcoded by the vendor before they sent them to us

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Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

[Donaldson, Mark]

So this is a new Netbackup install and the old DLT tapes are from the
old installation?  Is using the old catalog as a base for the new a
possiblity?  Then you wouldn't have to import any tapes.

To read the DLT tape, you'll need a DLT drive, of course.  Why not just
label them as DLT just for clarity?  It's not like you're going to read
them in an LTO4 drive.  Netbackup will track tapes of different types
without problem.

A standalone drive would work fine, too, and it's a ton cheaper if it's
only for an emergency situation.  I used to keep one around for my old
DLT.  When you insert a tape, the AVR daemon will read the on-tape label
just as if it were a robotic barcode.  There's a whole section in the
manual on stand-alone tape drives.  You might import all the tapes
just-in-case you need to restore before they're ever needed and safe the
rather lengthy import process if somebody were to request a tape. 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of sql_noob
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:45 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT


hypothetically we aren't going to junk our old ADIC Scalar 1000 and the
solaris server that's running netbackup 6 MP4. we're just going to not
use them and/or shut them down until we need to restore something. Or
we're going to put in a SCSI card in the new server and just run the
ADIC to the new server or buy a 1 drive robot with 10 tape slots or so
for old restores. not sure yet.

if we end up importing our old DLT tapes into this new installation will
it be a problem? can we just label those tapes hcart or something else?

if we have to completely destroy the test backups we made so far, it's
not a problem since we're still testing.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

[Donaldson, Mark]

You could if you changed the "DLT" tapes to "HCART3".
 
I have ancient backups on LTO1 tapes defined as type hcart in my
database.  I have no hcart tape drives anymore, they're all LTO2
(hcart2) so I changed the tape type to hcart2 on these old backup tapes
it they restored just fine.  Of course, this works because LTO2 drives
are backward compatible.
 
(Suggestion, freeze the LTO1 tape so you don't accidentally write to it
while it's mis-defined.)
 
When my restore was done, I change the media type back.  When the
ancient backups finally expire, the old tapes will be discarded.



From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
[mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:38 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; mvdb...@stortech.co.za;
VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT



You also have the issue of the tape drives in this.

 

When you set up a tape drive as DLT, then setup tapes as DLT then two
match and netbackup will mount tapes in a drive that match.

 

Now if you change your expired tapes to hcart3, then none of the tapes
will mount in less you also change some tape drives to hcart3.

And you cannot change all the drives to hcart3 because then you would
not be able to do restores from the tapes that still say DLT.

 

 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Donaldson, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:32 PM
To: Marianne Van Den Berg; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

 

I think this is a mistake.

 

Media type (hcart, dlt, hcart2) etc is just a label - part of the media
database.  It exists per tape regardless of the backups on it.  Volume
Pool is what's usually assigned through backup creation.  You can change
the media type (via the vmchange) command regardless of assignment
status.

 

hcart, hcart2, etc. are just labels.  Netbackup matches the media type
of an individual tape to the storage unit type.  It doesn't know that
hcart2 is a superset of hcart1.  It doesn't know hcart2 is anything,
really, other than a label.  To NB, hcart & hcart2 are as different as
hcart & dlt - they're different media types and are therefore different
tapes.

 

I know that I can change the media type on an LTO1 tape from hcart to
hcart2 and all of a sudden Netbackup will start reading and writing that
tape in the LTO2 drives (since they're type is hcart2 in the storage
unit definitions).   Change it back to hcart1 and it'll only be read &
written in LTO1 drives.  I have to know that the two media types are
backwards compatible and manage that myself.

 

If you built an all new system and started with LTO4 tapes and called
them hcart type, you'd be just fine as long as the media type on the
storage units and the media types on the tapes themselves match.

 

They should've called it "type1" and "type3" rather than anything that
implied a physical type - it'd avoid this kind of confusion.

 

-M

 



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Marianne
Van Den Berg
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:07 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

You should've changed media and drive type before doing backups. You can
change drive type and media type of unassigned tapes, not once you've
written backups to it. Throughput is determined by physical
capabilities, not drive type in NBU config.

-Original Message-
From: sql_noob  
Sent: 05 May 2009 21:48
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
 
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT


i just had the same thing happen to me on NB 6.5.3. we're still in the
testing stage of a new HP MSL 8096 and NB 6.5.3 running on a HP x86
server on Windows 2003.

the compatibility list says the robot is type TLD and it recognized it
as such. all the tapes were recognized as DLT. we're getting very good
perfomance, but long term we might connect an old autoloader to this to
import old DLT tapes and i'm concerned this may be a problem.

should I delete the robot and set it up again making sure it says
HCART3? we're using LTO-4 drives and tapes

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Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

[Donaldson, Mark]

I think this is a mistake.
 
Media type (hcart, dlt, hcart2) etc is just a label - part of the media
database.  It exists per tape regardless of the backups on it.  Volume
Pool is what's usually assigned through backup creation.  You can change
the media type (via the vmchange) command regardless of assignment
status.
 
hcart, hcart2, etc. are just labels.  Netbackup matches the media type
of an individual tape to the storage unit type.  It doesn't know that
hcart2 is a superset of hcart1.  It doesn't know hcart2 is anything,
really, other than a label.  To NB, hcart & hcart2 are as different as
hcart & dlt - they're different media types and are therefore different
tapes.
 
I know that I can change the media type on an LTO1 tape from hcart to
hcart2 and all of a sudden Netbackup will start reading and writing that
tape in the LTO2 drives (since they're type is hcart2 in the storage
unit definitions).   Change it back to hcart1 and it'll only be read &
written in LTO1 drives.  I have to know that the two media types are
backwards compatible and manage that myself.
 
If you built an all new system and started with LTO4 tapes and called
them hcart type, you'd be just fine as long as the media type on the
storage units and the media types on the tapes themselves match.
 
They should've called it "type1" and "type3" rather than anything that
implied a physical type - it'd avoid this kind of confusion.
 
-M



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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Marianne
Van Den Berg
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:07 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT


You should've changed media and drive type before doing backups. You can
change drive type and media type of unassigned tapes, not once you've
written backups to it. Throughput is determined by physical
capabilities, not drive type in NBU config.

-Original Message-
From: sql_noob  
Sent: 05 May 2009 21:48
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
 
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT


i just had the same thing happen to me on NB 6.5.3. we're still in the
testing stage of a new HP MSL 8096 and NB 6.5.3 running on a HP x86
server on Windows 2003.

the compatibility list says the robot is type TLD and it recognized it
as such. all the tapes were recognized as DLT. we're getting very good
perfomance, but long term we might connect an old autoloader to this to
import old DLT tapes and i'm concerned this may be a problem.

should I delete the robot and set it up again making sure it says
HCART3? we're using LTO-4 drives and tapes

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and otherITC wierdness)

[Donaldson, Mark]

Our use for storage unit groups is for failover in the possiblity that a
media server goes down.  The only backups we have that go direct to a
standard storage unit is the few servers reachable through our
firewalls.  The permissions are only setup for a single destination for
backups.

Since ITC must use drives on the same media server, regardless of group
or standard stu, then this warning would apply to any use of ITC.  It's
not storage group specific.  Any ITC backup has the possiblity of being
reduced to "slowest device performance" rates.  

This warning is confusing and unnecessary in my opinion but I do thank
you for your information.  Thanks, also, to Scott Kendell, for the
eTrack info.  Does seem like a bug.  I didn't try to fix it before
because I thought it might be an artifact of the mixed server versions I
had for a very long time.  I'm all consistent now.

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Girish
Jorapurkar
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:02 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and
otherITC wierdness)


Storage unit group is, typically, used for load-balancing jobs across
mutliple STUs - possibly residing/attached to different Media servers.

Inline-tape-copy creates multiple copies at 'backup time' by writing
each copy to a different media from STU(s) attached to same Media
server. Essentially, it receives a tar stream from a client to the media
server and, then, hands out a copy to each media on the server. There
are couple of points to note: (a) it will use as many drives (if tape is
used) as copies being created, (b) all copies get created in-sync; so
the backup speed for all copies is determined by the slowest one in the
set.

So, when ITC is pointed to STU group, the load-balancing will take
backseat since each copy needs a STU (in the group) from a common Media
server. And, that may result into undesired performance implications.
The warning just highlights that it is not a best practice to do so.

Depending on what version of NetBackup you have and your business
requirements, you may want to look into disk-staging/duplication (6.0),
Storage Lifecycle Policy (6.5.x) to create multiple copies.

/Girish



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From: "Donaldson, Mark" 
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:18:36 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and other
ITC wierdness)

If I create a policy that uses inline-tape-copy to make an offsite copy,
I see two pieces of wierdness that I don't understand.  

The first is that if I select a storage unit group for my destination,
the tape pool, tape owner, etc. grays out.  It's not like my tape pools
are tied to a specific server, they're all setup for *ANY* server so
that shouldn't be an issue.

A work-around seems to be to use a regular STU at first, set-up
everything, then go back and change it to a STU-Group.  When you do
that, it warns, in a pop-up box, "Warning. Selecting storage unit groups
for multiple copies can severely impact performance."

Anybody know the why's and wherefores of these things?

-M
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[Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and other ITC wierdness)

[Donaldson, Mark]

If I create a policy that uses inline-tape-copy to make an offsite copy,
I see two pieces of wierdness that I don't understand.  

The first is that if I select a storage unit group for my destination,
the tape pool, tape owner, etc. grays out.  It's not like my tape pools
are tied to a specific server, they're all setup for *ANY* server so
that shouldn't be an issue.

A work-around seems to be to use a regular STU at first, set-up
everything, then go back and change it to a STU-Group.  When you do
that, it warns, in a pop-up box, "Warning. Selecting storage unit groups
for multiple copies can severely impact performance."

Anybody know the why's and wherefores of these things?

-M
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore running too slow

[Donaldson, Mark]

USB drives can be very slow.

Have you tried restoring the files to a hard drive and seeing if the
problem lies there?

How are backup speeds on that same client?  

Lastly, are the backups heavily multiplexed? That'll slow restores as
the tape has to be seeked to find the distributed backup pieces. 

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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
sachinar1
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:51 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore running too slow


Hi All,

I fired a restore from data stored on tapes to USB drive attached to
Master . Restore is running 400kb/sec. Data to be restored is around
700GB . With this kind of speed, it will take ages to complete

Server A  Netbckup 6.5, windows 2000 , F:\drive  image

has to be retsored to ::

MasterB Netbackup 6.5 , windows 2003 server, USB (E:\drive)


Please suggest . Its urgent
Thanks 
Sachin

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Total Client Data

[Donaldson, Mark]

Hi,

The source of the raw information is the image database.  Here's a
script for you.  Note, this doesn't take into account multiple copies of
one image - it's just a total of the image sizes, ie: sourced data.  If
you want to have total data written onto the tape, multiply the $19
param by field $21 (number of copies) in order to get total *written*
data.

By default, this script searches back 7 days.  Supply a different number
of days on the command line to change the search depth.  If you want the
entire history of you box, you'll have to search past your longest
retention period (or change bpimage to use a date field rather than the
"hoursago" option).

output looks like this:

Report client read totals for past 4 days.

  Server-lt-75-v  46.46 MB
  Server-lt-48-v  46.85 MB
Server-tm-07  67.57 GB
  Server-lt-94-v  24.39 MB
  Server-lt-76-v  39.80 MB
Server-ad-30 145.11 MB
  Server-lt-95-v  46.90 MB
  Server-lp-99-v 165.89 MB
=
Total of all Clients  42.71 TB



.

#!/bin/ksh

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

#command line or 7 days
daysago=${1:-7}

echo "="
echo "Report client read totals for past $daysago days."
echo "=\n"

hoursago=`expr $daysago \* 24`

bpimagelist -hoursago $hoursago | \
  awk 'BEGIN {tsum=0}
   {if($1=="IMAGE"){
clientnames[$2]
csum[$2]=csum[$2] + $19}}
   END { for (c in clientnames) {
UNIT="KB"
tsum=tsum+csum[c]
if (csum[c]>10240) {csum[c]=csum[c]/1024;UNIT="MB"}
if (csum[c]>10240) {csum[c]=csum[c]/1024;UNIT="GB"}
if (csum[c]>10240) {csum[c]=csum[c]/1024;UNIT="TB"}
printf("%20s %10.2f %s\n",c,csum[c],UNIT)
   }
  UNIT="KB"
  if (tsum>10240) {tsum=tsum/1024;UNIT="MB"}
  if (tsum>10240) {tsum=tsum/1024;UNIT="GB"}
  if (tsum>10240) {tsum=tsum/1024;UNIT="TB"}
  print "="
  printf("%20s %10.2f %s\n","Total of all Clients",tsum,UNIT)
}'
exit


 

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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:53 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Total Client Data


Hi Guys,

I am a newbie to netbackup. I have been asked to generate a report which
contains how much data is stored by each client on netbackup. And also
total data stored on netbackup. I have no idea how to get this. hope you
guys will be able to help me out on this...

Thanks
Sushil

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[Veritas-bu] LTO1 cleaning tapes in LTO2 drive. Good?

[Donaldson, Mark]

Subject line pretty much says it all - we have a handful of LTO1
cleaning tapes and no more of that kind of drive.  I've got other
cleaning tapes marked as good for both kinds of drives so I suspect
we're good to use the LTO1 cleaners in LTO2 drives.

Any issues you guys know of?

-M
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