[Veritas-bu] Backing Up Citrix XenServer VMs
I'd like to start backing up some of our Windows 2003\2008 vm's running on Citrix XenServer (5.5). Our master server is running Netbackup 6.5.3 (Solaris 10). It looks like you can't backup the VM itself since you have to put the nbu client inside the vm, unlike VCB. Just curious if anyone is backing up Citrix XenServer and what the experience has been. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated
Julien, The snapshot errors have cleared up. There were a variety of reasons for the snapshot errors: 1) Lingering snapshots created by VCB weren't getting deleted (RVTools is a great utility to see if there are any lingering snapshots) 2) VMHosts were going into a disconnected state, the VCB Proxy was (it took a few days to discover this and get it resolved). 3) Some of my policies were running more than 1 backup at a time (I set them back to 1) 4) We have 1 policy per lun (13 policies), we had people moving vms from 1 lun to another without telling us, thus we didn't move them to the appropriate policy. As a result we'd have multiple vms on the same lun trying to get backed up at the same time..this caused lots of contention ending in snapshot errors. 5) VCB doesn't allow for file level backups for vms using Dynamic system disks (we had a few VMs with this configuration, we moved them to Full VM backups or just started using the netbackup client). http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003793 Jason -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Julien Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:22 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated Hi Jason, I have exactly the same issue under NBU 6.5.3 + VCB 1.5. Many VM backup work fine, but I also have many Snapshots errors !! Did you find something to fix this issue? Thanks Regards Julien +-- |This was sent by julien.the...@vm6.ca via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World
Len, I am in the middle of a DPM POC right now. DPM does not perform any de-duplication for servers (like PureDisk), if you have 10 copies of the same document on your server DPM will back up all 10. DPM backs up\recovers SharePoint very well (document level, site, site collection, farm), in my opinion. I'm using it to protect some branch office servers over small pipes, its bandwidth throttling works well. De-duplication is on their "to do" list (they didn't mention it as a new feature in DPM V3 though, their next release). Jason -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:57 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World The last time I looked at DPM, it looked like a nice product, if a site was Microsoft only with products that worked with VSS. But unless they have updated it, the product does not work with other OS's. The first pass of DPM only wrote to disk. If a site wanted an offsite tape copy, they had to use another product to back DPM up. I believe that backupexec had a DPM option. I do not remember if netbackup also supported this. I suspect as a block level backup DPM would compare more with the netbackup pure disk product or whatever they might have renamed it to. Let us know what you find out. len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of spaldam Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:22 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World So how to I convince my VP of IT that BPM doesn't even play in the same space as NetBackup, when the keep hearing the BPM is "Enterprise Level" and think that they can replace NetBackup with it? I'd rather not have to actually set it up and end up with two backup enviorments to manage. +-- |This was sent by spal...@spaldam.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Files exclusion possible when using VCB
We utilize 6.5.3's VCB to backup many of our vm's. Is it possible to exclude files, specifically sql databases, or is that even necessary? Wouldn't Netbackup always try and back those live databases up during a Full or File level backup.which wouldn't give you a consistent state backup? Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Status code 1's on Windows Flashbackup jobs
I am looking for insight as to why some of my Windows flashbackup jobs are exiting with a status code 1. It seems like it should always be 0 given that it is a raw partition backup. This is also occurring on some of my VCB backups (which also uses flashbackup). My clients are on 6.5.3, my Solaris master is running 6.5.3. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VCB backups
Not sure if this is a netbackup issue or a VMWare issue, or something in between. We recently implemented VCB backups for our Windows clients, I am noticing that when I go to add some virtual machines (not all) to a policy using the "browse virtual machines" feature they show up with just the Windows short name or they don't show up at all.the backups fail in both cases (host not found). I am trying to figure out if the issue is with Virtual Center, the VCB Proxy, etc..what I should see when I use the browse virtual machines feature is servername.FQDN (that is what I see on many of the others). If you drop a netbackup client on the virtual machines and back them up the old school way then everything is fine (but I really want to use VCB for the VMs). We are using Netbackup 6.5.3 and ESX 3.5 Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Upgrading to 6.5.3
Folks, I'm not finding documentation on Symantec's web site regarding the clients upgrade to 6.5.3 (Master Server just got upgraded to 6.5.3). I've got several Windows clients on 5.1 MP6.., can I go straight to 6.5.3? Also, for new clients, I'm assuming I can just install 6.5.1 and upgrade to 6.5.3 (I don't need to install the 6.5.1a patch first). Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Status 24's - Socket Write Failed
Folks, Losing my hair over a growing number of status 24's (socket write failed) since upgrading to 6.5.2 (could just be coincidence). The problematic clients, a mix of Windows of Linux (most are Windows though), are at 6.5.2 (as is the unix Master server). All are negotiating at 1000/Full and the backup switch is nowhere near saturated. All clients are big in volume (some Exchange, some file servers) and it typical (but not always) occurs when the client is waiting for another tape because it has filled one up. Symantec really thinks this issue is with our networkbut I've been given no solid indicators to convince the network fellas, and we've got much bigger servers on the same switch that have no issues with backups. Any ideas? Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated
We use ESX's VCB to backup the vm's running on ESX hosts. When we moved to Netbackup 6.5.2 we decided to try and use "Netbackup VCB Integrated" and move away from VCB. From: Will Tucker [mailto:wtuc...@manh.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:13 PM To: Leidy, Jason D; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated What are you guys using to successfully backup VMWare environments? --Original Message-- From: Leidy, Jason D To: veritas-bu Sent: Jan 30, 2009 3:32 PM Subject: [Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated Folks, We recently attempted to move from VCB backups to "Netbackup VCB Integrated" for our ESX environment. We ran into a lot of contention issues, specifically with snapshots errors. Do VCB and "Netbackup VCB Integrated" use the same snapshot mechanism, I was under the impression that Netbackup VCB Integrated simply piggy backs off of what VCB uses? Many of these snapshot errors are in fact contention on the luns. We are just trying to determine why, if we use VCB, we don't have snapshot issues. We aren't running fewer backups in parallel in when using VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated, so we can rule that out. If VCB uses a different snapshot mechanism\technology than "Netbackup VCBi".then maybe that is a good starting point for trouble-shooting. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated
Folks, We recently attempted to move from VCB backups to "Netbackup VCB Integrated" for our ESX environment. We ran into a lot of contention issues, specifically with snapshots errors. Do VCB and "Netbackup VCB Integrated" use the same snapshot mechanism, I was under the impression that Netbackup VCB Integrated simply piggy backs off of what VCB uses? Many of these snapshot errors are in fact contention on the luns. We are just trying to determine why, if we use VCB, we don't have snapshot issues. We aren't running fewer backups in parallel in when using VCB vs Netbackup VCB Integrated, so we can rule that out. If VCB uses a different snapshot mechanism\technology than "Netbackup VCBi".then maybe that is a good starting point for trouble-shooting. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backing up a Microsoft DPM 2007 server
Does anyone have experience backing up a Microsoft DPM 2007 server via Netbackup? I'm wondering if Netbackup 6.5.2 supports the DPM VSS Writer service. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VSP cache file
Folks, I am running 5.1 and 6.x on my Windows clients and using VSS and VSP (Windows 2000) for Windows Open File Backup. Is there a way to control where Netbackup puts the snapshot cache file (I want to make sure it is not trying to put it on the C drive)? I was under the impression that Netbackup will not put the snapshot on the C drive by default unless all you have is a C drive. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Netbackup and VCB
We recently integrated Netbackup 6.5.2 with VCB on a small scale (6 servers in 1 policy). We have 1 VCB Proxy, it is a Windows server (note: it is not a media server). So far so good. We'd like to move every vm over to the new "VCB Integration" backup method. We have about 150 windows virtual macines. I'm trying to figure out what to counters to monitor on the VCB Proxy as I begin to add more servers to my VCB backup method so I'll know if I need additional VCB Proxies or simply multiple policies that run at different times to avoid snapshot, network, or other resource issues. I'm looking for pointers on what counters to monitor or any advice from people who've implemented Netbackup with VCB. Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 and Netbackup 6.5.1
Does anyone have experience backing up Exchange 2007 with Netbackup 6.5.1? We are migrating our Solaris Master and Media servers from 5.1 MP6 to 6.5.1, the clients will stay at 5.1 MP6 short term. Anyway, once we implement Exchange 2007 on x64 servers we want to back up the LCR copy of the Exchange databases. In short, does 6.5.1 support backing up Exchange 2007 LCR? Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Enterprise Edition 6.5 compatibility
Will a Netbackup 6.5 Master\Media server backup Windows NT clients? Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup restores and Multiple data streams
We use the Flashbackup feature of the Advanced Client to backup several of our Windows 2003 file servers (5.1 MP6). We just finished up a DR test and recovered all of the servers, however the restore times were less than desirable. For instance, Server A has 6 drives that get backed in less than 10 hours total (600GB, about 800,000 files).all of the drives start getting backed up at the same time (I'm assuming this is because we use the "allow multiple data streams" option). However, in our DR test the restore of Server A only restores 1 volume at a time..this adds up to 32 - 36 hours before the server is completely available (6 drives to restore). I've read through the Advanced Client guide and can't find an explanation for why the restore only does 1 drive at a time. The other tapes aren't in use, we have tape drives available. It does this for every Flashbackup restore. Any ideas\explanations? Jason ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup restores
We recently had a Windows server crash, we were using Flashbackup to back it up. We decided to do a redirected restore (raw partition) to another standbye server. The original server had a 352GB partition (300 of it is used space), we thought this would be a good opportunity to expand the amount of free space so we allocated and created a 500GB partition on the new server (san attached). The restore went fine but we noticed when we were done that My Computer indicates the original size and used\free space, Disk Manager shows the entire 500GB partition. In short, we lost 148GB of free space. Symantec said that's the way Flashbackup works, it's a best practice to restore to a partition of the exact same size (no problem if we are restoring to the original drive). Anyway, this doesn't seem right...I would think this leaves Windows in an unstable state. Anyone run into this before? Is there a work-around? As I understand it, it's all or nothing with Full restores on Flashbackup. Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Exclusions
Question about excluding files on Windows 2003 clients (5.1 MP6) Is *.ldf and *.mdf the correct way to exclude all mdf and ldf files, regardless of what drive they are on? Or, do I need to specify the drive letter for each drive the ldf and mdf files reside on (D:\*.ldf, E:\*.ldf)? The admin guide indicates that * is a valid wildcard but I can't find an example of how to use it. Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Excludes for FlashBackup-Windows
Folks, I am trying to figure out why some of my Windows FlashBackup clients have their excludes ignored and others don't. I was under the impression that you can have exclusions even when using FlashBackup. I noticed the following statement in the Advanced Client Sys Admin guide - "FlashBackup-Windows policies do not support exceptions to client exclude lists." I'm not sure what "exceptions to exclude lists" are. I am running 5.1 MP6 on my clients. Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint
The version of MS SharePoint is 2007 Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leidy, Jason D Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:40 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint We use NetBackup 5.1 MP6. We'd like to start backing up out SharePoint servers via NetBackup...can this be done with an agent, similar to SQL and Exchange (I've got a call into Veritas)? Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint
We use NetBackup 5.1 MP6. We'd like to start backing up out SharePoint servers via NetBackup...can this be done with an agent, similar to SQL and Exchange (I've got a call into Veritas)? Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] ntfs errors and FlashBackup
kb937455 - ntfs.sys hotfix kb940041 - VSS hotfix Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert.George Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:59 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ntfs errors and FlashBackup What VSS patches did you install? George Herbert Infrastructure Planning Engineer Enterprise Technology Infrastructure - Storage Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tburrell Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:14 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: ntfs errors and FlashBackup What exactly are the errors? I will say that we use Flashbackup on Windows extensively and exclusively with VSS, and have had to install several VSS patches- especially on clustered systems. When it's patched and properly configured, it works like a champ. We can't survive without it. Tom Burrell Leidy, Jason D wrote: > I recently started using the FlashBackup feature of the Advanced Client to backup our Windows file servers. I've noticed that on 4 of the 6 servers I see ntfs errors in the event logs right when the backup starts. If I force the policy to use VSP as opposed to VSS then the issue goes away, however using VSP creates snapshot errors so I'd rather use VSS. Here is what I can tell you: > > I'm using 5.1 MP6 > This never happened before they were in a FlashBackup policy (we still used NetBackup) > All 6 servers are about as identical as you can get, within reason (OS version, patches, hardware, etc.) > The volumes do not need to have chkdsk run on them, though we've done it anyway > The backups are still good on the volumes that are getting the ntfs errors (I've successfully restored and read the data) > > Anyone run into this? I have a case open with Microsoft and they have asked me to apply a VSS and ntfs.sys hot fix, which I will do. > > Jason Leidy > Con-way Enterprise Services > Windows Server Group > 503-450-3958 +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] ntfs errors and FlashBackup
Tom, The ntfs errors specify that "the file system structure is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility" It's never on all of the volumes, just 1 or 2 on the server. Again, if I use VSP I don't get the errors...but I get loads of snapshot errors, thus VSS is my preference. I'm hoping the VSS and ntfs hot fixes resolve the issue, but I wanted to see if anyone else had run into this just in case my patches don't fix it. Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tburrell Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:14 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: ntfs errors and FlashBackup What exactly are the errors? I will say that we use Flashbackup on Windows extensively and exclusively with VSS, and have had to install several VSS patches- especially on clustered systems. When it's patched and properly configured, it works like a champ. We can't survive without it. Tom Burrell Leidy, Jason D wrote: > I recently started using the FlashBackup feature of the Advanced Client to backup our Windows file servers. I've noticed that on 4 of the 6 servers I see ntfs errors in the event logs right when the backup starts. If I force the policy to use VSP as opposed to VSS then the issue goes away, however using VSP creates snapshot errors so I'd rather use VSS. Here is what I can tell you: > > I'm using 5.1 MP6 > This never happened before they were in a FlashBackup policy (we still > used NetBackup) All 6 servers are about as identical as you can get, > within reason (OS version, patches, hardware, etc.) The volumes do not > need to have chkdsk run on them, though we've done it anyway The > backups are still good on the volumes that are getting the ntfs errors > (I've successfully restored and read the data) > > Anyone run into this? I have a case open with Microsoft and they have asked me to apply a VSS and ntfs.sys hot fix, which I will do. > > Jason Leidy > Con-way Enterprise Services > Windows Server Group > 503-450-3958 +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] ntfs errors and FlashBackup
I recently started using the FlashBackup feature of the Advanced Client to backup our Windows file servers. I've noticed that on 4 of the 6 servers I see ntfs errors in the event logs right when the backup starts. If I force the policy to use VSP as opposed to VSS then the issue goes away, however using VSP creates snapshot errors so I'd rather use VSS. Here is what I can tell you: I'm using 5.1 MP6 This never happened before they were in a FlashBackup policy (we still used NetBackup) All 6 servers are about as identical as you can get, within reason (OS version, patches, hardware, etc.) The volumes do not need to have chkdsk run on them, though we've done it anyway The backups are still good on the volumes that are getting the ntfs errors (I've successfully restored and read the data) Anyone run into this? I have a case open with Microsoft and they have asked me to apply a VSS and ntfs.sys hot fix, which I will do. Jason Leidy Con-way Enterprise Services Windows Server Group 503-450-3958 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again)
I backup ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES on a few of our clusters, it gets everything. For instance, I'll put both physical nodes that host the cluster in a policy that uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES option. I'm new to the backup world, is this not the best practice? It gets the quorum and everything (I'm able to restore the data). Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:23 AM To: 'Martin, Jonathan'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again) NetBackup has to be treated differently on clusters - it needs to run on the virtual server that hosts the volume group and you can't do an ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES policy on a cluster. With FlashBackups, you also need to make sure that the snapshot volume is a member of the disk group or your disk group could fail over to another node and leave the snapshot volume behind. This is no different on a Windows cluster than it is on a Veritas cluster. Only VMS clusters get it right since they have a cluster-wide file system. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=821118 > -Original Message- > From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:43 AM > To: Ed Wilts; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again) > > > Netbackup isn't installed as a clustered resource. It runs on all > nodes independent of one another. Why would cluster configuration be > any different then a plain build on Windows? > > -Jonathan > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Re-directed restores using the SQL agent
We have several servers that use the Netbackup SQL agent to backup SQL databases directly to tape. I can use the Netbackup MS SQL client on my SQL boxes to restore databases back to the same box. However, I've not had success re-directing the restores to another SQL boxis this possible? Perhaps I am not inputting the correct parameters\information in the move script that gets created. 5.1 MP6 is my version Jason Leidy Windows Server Group Con-way Enterprise Services (503) 450-3958 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Windows backups
We use Flashbackup and it works awesome -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:53 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tuning Windows backups Does anyone have any tips for improving backup performance on Windows 2000 SP4? Here's the situation: I've got this server that's a general-purpose file server for our mass of users. The vast majority of the storage is in the form of one gigantic (221gb) share on one drive, and it's got over a million little files. The server is a SAN media server writing directly to SDLT1 tape drives via SAN. I've tuned Netbackup (buffers, etc...) to the point where there's been no more improvement, and made sure the anti-virus is staying out of the Netbackup activity. At some points during the backup throughput drops below 1mb/sec. These points correlate with when it's backing up some of the worst directories in terms of large number of tiny files. We are not doing any compression on the files. I thought about trying to do some multi-streaming/multiplexing, but with everything other than a few gig all on that one drive, I'm not sure that would buy me anything. Any ideas? - Bluejay Adametz Look for opportunities...not guarantees. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Slow restores on Windows Netbackup client
Is it possible to fine the Netbackup Client for Windows (5.1 MP4) to get performance during restores? It is taking 3 times longer to restore large file servers during our DR tests than it takes to back them up. We have done all the tuning we can do on the master server (running Solaris 9, NB Enterprise Server 5.1 MP4). We have gigabit switches and cards, and decent servers. Granted we are restoring 2 million plus files on each Windows file server. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
