Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.
Consider this a posting then Ed. =) Did several Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 migrations at my old employer of huge (1+ TB) NetBackup 6.5.x Masters, including keeping the catalog info and changing the hostnames. Spent a few weeks with rsync copying stuff from the Windows Master to a new Solaris server, then transferred the EMM database and the rest of the required files over the day-of. It's complex, and you'd better do everything in the right order, but it's possible. If you can't do it yourself now, frankly I'd recommend paying Symantec Consulting the $20k to do your first one for you and taking notes the entire time. =) Then you can see whether you want to do subsequent migrations yourself or keep paying. Our notes write-up of our first migration ran about 7 pages. Oh, and NB 6.5 doesn't care about the image files anymore as far as the old ^M problem goes, it'll read them just fine post-transfer; the only ../db/images/ files you have to convert are the STREAMS files. Other normal config files outside of ../db/images/ still have to be converted of course. And yes, that was straight from the Consulting guy and it proved out in test restores. Good luck ! - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of Ed Wilts Sent: Wed 4/28/2010 11:01 AM To: ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM, judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com wrote: You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master.. ho boy! Been there Done that. As have we - were successful back on NBU 3.4 going from Windows to Solaris. We changed host names while we were at it. If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to use Symantec services to do the migration... otherwise they will not support you... or so they told me. If you are able to successfully complete your upgrade, Symantec will support you after that. What they can't do is support you during the migration itself because there are a LOT of ways it can (and will) go wrong and these breakages are typically going to be well beyond 1st or 2nd level tech support. This is a very complex migration and I don't recall seeing any postings from anybody who has completed a cross-platform migration since NBU 6.x was released (which introduced EMM). Unless you have a very strong technical ability to hack binary files and a fairly good knowledge of NetBackup internals, I would recommend that you not do this without paying for Symantec (or 3rd party) professional services. It's doable but it's HARD. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions
Just to ask the obvious question - how does the vendor expect you to perform backups of their proprietary system ? Do they have any recommendations that might help ? - John Nardello Your backups are only as good as your restores. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:20 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Hi all, I have the pleasure of trying to protect data for a system that writes (obviously in a proprietary manner) data to an unformatted partition in Windows. I've read the guides, and see that it's unsupported by NBU (I tried anyways, it teases you by actually backing up the blocks, then fails with a status code 1). Just curious, has anyone out there tried to do this without the use of hardware snapshots (which I think I'll have to fall back on)? Cheers, Jon La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions
Quick check, you said you tried backing this up already - do you mean as a raw partition ? i.e. File list looked something like: \\.\E: If that's not working for you then I agree with Jeff, the best you could hope for would be removing the single point of failure by using a clone of some kind. If that does work.then you'll need to quiescence that volume somehow (backup mode, shutdown the app, whatever) before the backup, or go with a clone of the LUN and then back up the clone as a raw partition. Just make sure to test restores before you sign off on the final version. =) - John Nardello From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Thu 4/8/2010 9:59 AM To: Jonathan Dyck; Nardello, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions With the sticking accelerator issue a Corolla might go as fast as a Ferrari eventually. ;-) Of course you haven't said what your disk storage is - mentioning LUN makes me think it is an external storage array. Some of those have ways to copy data between arrays so if you have more than one array of the same manufacture you might look into that as a possibility. Doesn't get it offsite but does get rid of the single point of failure. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:16 PM To: Nardello, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Absolutely. They wanted to sell us a 15-20k piece of add-on software that archives data from the unformatted into normally readable content on another LUN. We're trying to figure out if we can avoid that, as we don't have any archival requirements for this data, so it'd be one of those buying a Ferrari when you need Corolla kind of deals. -Original Message- From: Nardello, John [mailto:john.narde...@cgi.com] Sent: April 8, 2010 11:49 AM To: Jonathan Dyck Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Just to ask the obvious question - how does the vendor expect you to perform backups of their proprietary system ? Do they have any recommendations that might help ? - John Nardello Your backups are only as good as your restores. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:20 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Hi all, I have the pleasure of trying to protect data for a system that writes (obviously in a proprietary manner) data to an unformatted partition in Windows. I've read the guides, and see that it's unsupported by NBU (I tried anyways, it teases you by actually backing up the blocks, then fails with a status code 1). Just curious, has anyone out there tried to do this without the use of hardware snapshots (which I think I'll have to fall back on)? Cheers, Jon La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any
Re: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues
auth.conf syntax is : domain\login permissions For example : MYDOMAIN\user1 ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL MYDOMAIN\user2 ADMIN=AM+BPM+DM JBP= Be aware that as of 6.5.2 I think it was, the domain has become case sensitive in the login screen. So if you have it capitalized in the auth.conf file, the users need to enter MYDOMAIN\user1 as their user name. - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:40 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues Hey guys Has anyone been able to get the Java auth.conf file configured to work in an AD environment? I have made several modifications to the file, even going as far as removing all rights to my user but I can still access the Netbackup Java console without issue. I do have Administrator rights on the server but I was under the impression that the auth.conf would be able to bypass these permissions since it is specific to Netbackup? Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Netbackup 6.5.3.1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues
Make sure you remove any entry that looks like : * ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL =) - John Nardello From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@imb.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:11 AM To: Nardello, John; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues John I attempted a few variations on the information you sent below and just as my previous testing it doesn't seem to matter what is in the auth.conf file, it allows me full access. So there may be something larger causing the problem but unfortunately, not sure what it is. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Nardello, John [mailto:john.narde...@wamu.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:46 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues auth.conf syntax is : domain\login permissions For example : MYDOMAIN\user1 ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL MYDOMAIN\user2 ADMIN=AM+BPM+DM JBP= Be aware that as of 6.5.2 I think it was, the domain has become case sensitive in the login screen. So if you have it capitalized in the auth.conf file, the users need to enter MYDOMAIN\user1 as their user name. - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:40 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Java Console Issues Hey guys Has anyone been able to get the Java auth.conf file configured to work in an AD environment? I have made several modifications to the file, even going as far as removing all rights to my user but I can still access the Netbackup Java console without issue. I do have Administrator rights on the server but I was under the impression that the auth.conf would be able to bypass these permissions since it is specific to Netbackup? Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Netbackup 6.5.3.1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Fedora client install problem
I have to ask - given that it's unsupported anyway, why upgrade if it's already working ? Looking for a new feature ? - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Conner, Neil Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:23 PM To: Veritas List 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 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams
I'd lean towards doing one of two things. 1)Tell them if they don't want to use the agent, then they have to dump their DB to a flat file and you'll back that up for them. No worries about the DB being left down that way, but it can take a unholy amount of space depending on the instance. =) If the file isn't finished dumping by the time the backup job kicks off, they accept that they won't get a backup that day. OR 2)Tell them if they don't want to use the agent, they have to make arrangements on their side to put the DB into hot/cold backup mode during 'x' window for the backups to happen. You'll run the risk of the backup getting out of sync with said window, but at least the users will always be able to get into the DB at the end of the window. The business owner would have to sign off on this known risk of course. Regardless, time to start writing up some 'standard backup options' documentation for upper management to sign off on. That way the only available options are ones you're okay with supporting, they don't get to force you into ugly situations like scripting DB start/stops with multiple child jobs. - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:48 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams Ed the Oracle job is not a big deal, seeing as the Oracle DBA wants this method used, rather than using the recommended method and supported one! Again, they see it as Cost constraints. I do not see it this way, and although they have been given the options, its on their own shoulders should it go wrong. I have come across many companies that accept risks and in most cases, suffer as a result ! Cannot keep talking to a brick wall if it is not going to listen .. Simon From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:38 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre / Post Scripts on Backup Jobs with Streams On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:07 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: I have used ST before, not just for Oracle, but other tasks. There is no real risk here and yes fully understand why agents are out there, but if the business accept the risk, then they have to accept the consequences! When you have multi-streamed jobs, yes, there are real risks. If every job completes successfully, you could be fine, but if one stream fails, you could fail to restart Oracle. Or you'll restart Oracle and NetBackup will restart the stream while Oracle is up. Because you haven't tripped over the risks does not they aren't there. The concept of parent jobs didn't get added until 6.0. It's fine for you to say that business can accept the risk, but it's your job to get them to understand the risks - their backups will occasionally leave the database down, or their backups are not available for recovery because a stream ran with the database up. Rarely have I see a business unit accept the consequences... This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need ideas for doing restore from previous media
SAN Media Server just means it can only back itself up, as opposed to backing up other clients. I don't believe there's actually a requirement that you have SAN though. =) That said, it wouldn't surprise me if you hit a wall if you tried restoring it through your SAN Media Server to another client (due to license restrictions). Wasn't sure if that was your intention or if you were going to dump it to the SAN Media Server and copy it across later though (which is what I'd recommend, space permitting). It might also be easier to do a FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER temporarily instead of moving ownership. Up to you though. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jann Toole Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:02 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Need ideas for doing restore from previous media I have a problem that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around and was hoping someone could give me some ideas. So, here's the situation. I have a master server and a SAN media server currently active. Neither one of these systems have openings for additional hardware. I have a SL500 tape library with 4 LTO3 tape drives - both the master and SAN server share those drives. All is well there. Our sDLT tape drive was upgraded to the 4th LTO3 drive in that library about a year ago, and we no longer have a sDLT drive in the mix (at the moment). I have a restore request from a tape about 4 years old. It's a sDLT tape that was written by the SAN media server host. I have a spare SAN media server license and I have 2 more tape drive licenses not in use. So, legally I have the license issue covered. If I take a host, add a stand alone sDLT tape drive (SCSI attached). Give that host the other SAN license and the tape drive license, do you think I can do the restore from this other host? I'm thinking I can use bpmedia to move that tape from the backup source to the new SAN media server. I might have to move the data after it's restored, but the biggest obstacle now is getting it off tape. The sDLT standalone drive will not be on the SAN. Nor will the host - this is where my brain gets crossed. Will the SAN media server license work to restore sDLT tapes on a standalone drive when they are not on a SAN? Any hints, tips, or ideas are most greatly appreciated. Thanks... jann ___ 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] Support of NetBackup with RBAC
Probably depends on how Veritas/Symantec has NetBackup coded, as to whether it checks your effective authorization when you run the command, or does some kind of check on whether your UID=0. 'man rbac' had a bunch of info on how to modify code for that, no idea if they read it though. =) If you really want to know whether it works for your environment though, setup a test server, have them give you full permissions via RBAC, and see if the CLI commands work. Less than full permissions isn't going to cut it for Tier 3/4 folks though if that was their goal - too much catalog manipulation and installation/patching work. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Chapman, Scott Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:46 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Support of NetBackup with RBAC We are being pushed to support our netbackup environment, with servers running on solaris10, using Role Based Access Control (RBAC). I'm wondering if anyone out there is doing this? It has always been my understanding that netbackup needed to be installed and supported by the user root and NOTHING else. Thoughts?? Thanks! Scott This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately. ___ 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] Barcode rules
Command to modify the barcode is below. Pretty easy to use it with a quick loop to set all the barcodes = media IDs. /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -barcode $MEDIA -m $MEDIA - John Nardello -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of stu52 Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:32 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Barcode rules OK...here's a question for everyone. I have come into a NBU 6.5.3 environment as a new backup admin. For some unknown reason they had no barcode rules defined, so all of the 8-character barcodes are getting the last 6 characters for the media database. Hence a barcode that has AP1000L3 is turned into a media code of 1000L3. When you do a vmquery -m 1000L3, it will show the full barcode, but that's not how it is indexed in the media database. So, the problem is if you change the barcode rules now, you will basically have an issue with tapes create prior to changing the rules. So, if you send off tape 1000L3 and change the barcode rules and then bring it back it will now be read as AP1000 and the media database will think it is a new (Scratch) tape instead of the tape with whatever data is associated with 1000L3. See the problem? Is there any way to basically change the existing media id's to the proper ones prior to implementing a proper set of barcode rules? Or is that a lost cause? The vmchange command doesn't seem to be able to do this. Has anyone run into this situation before? thanks. +-- |This was sent by stu_lid...@yahoo.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO1 cleaning tapes in LTO2 drive. Good?
Same cleaning tapes for all the LTO drive types Mark, you're good to go. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:51 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO1 cleaning tapes in LTO2 drive. Good? 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 ___ 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] Barcode rules
Ah, I see what you're going for now - sorry. Yes, the only way to redo that media id is to re-add the tape into NetBackup (delete it from NetBackup and then inventory the library), which is only possible if the tape isn't assigned (contains no active data). If this setup is something that's been going in place for years, it's really going to hurt switching over but I still suggest you do so. Evil thought of the day - want to guess what identifier is printed on those helpful DR reports you get when NetBackup runs a hot catalog backup ? Yep, the media id. That's going to really hurt you when you have to recover that Master and aren't sure what tape its catalog backups are on for recovery. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of stu52 Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:12 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Barcode rules Nardello, John wrote: Command to modify the barcode is below. Pretty easy to use it with a quick loop to set all the barcodes = media IDs. /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -barcode $MEDIA -m $MEDIA - John Nardello that's fine, but not what I had in mind at all. The info in the media db is based upon the 6-characters that come from the barcode rules in place when the tape was first introduced into NBU. So, in my example, a tape with barcode AA1000L3 has an entry in the media db as (media id) 1000L3. When this tape gets images written to it, the images are associated with media id 1000L3. I want a way to convert the media db so that the entry for 1000L3 is converted to AA1000. Your command does not do that and I don't see a way for that to be done using the vmchange command. AFAIK, there's no command that will change the media id -stuart +-- |This was sent by stu_lid...@yahoo.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Searching Forum Archives
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/ or http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/search.html - John Nardello From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:34 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Searching Forum Archives Happy Holidays Everyone, Is there an easy way to search through the subject lines of the forum archives? I'm off all week and one of the neighbors insulted me by saying I wasn't a nerd. I'm going to research NetBackup during my vacation and prove them wrong. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing
If you've got any reporting software trying to query your Master that can cause this issue as well (i.e. VBR, Aptare, Bocada, etc). Shutdown the local service or tell the app to stop monitoring the Master for the duration of your upgrade. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haskins, Steve Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:53 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing I don't think my earlier note went through. Try renaming the Netbackup.dll. The second link states this won't work as you have to close the process keeping a handle open on the file but renaming it has always worked for me. http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing- lists-3/symantec-netbackup-18/6-5-2-6-5-2a-beware-91422/ http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/295230.htm Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sweeney, Patrick Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:38 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing You could also run bpps from the netbackup\bin directory to see what NetBackup processes are running, and run bpdown to end them gracefully - assuming no backups are running at the time. Patrick Sweeney (978) 787-4553 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I.T. Systems/Networks For issues requiring immediate attention please contact the Solution Center IT Solution Center (978) 787- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Axcelis Technologies Have you searched here and here? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing Tracker.exe may be running behind the scenes. START / RUN and type MSCONFIG and press OK click on the START UP TAB Look for tracker - if its ticked, untick it and then reboot! May help... Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark wragge Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:18 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing i am trying to upgrade my faster server from windows 2003 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 or 6.5.2. When i attempt this the update fails with an error message stating that the update cannot continue as there are proceses still running. I have checked the process list and there are no netbackup, BMR services running. I have also rebooted the server. I noticed in the releaSE NOTES that there is a symantec update tracker service that can cause this problem but this is not running on my server. any suggestions? Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter - Question for a VBR Guru
Is the VBR agent running against the Master in question set to breakup jobs ? - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DiskJockey Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:42 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter - Question for a VBR Guru Hi all, (my first post) I have a question regarding VBR 6.5 reportsbackupsAdvanced Success RateDetailed Report (Failed Jobs): After generating a report, In the Directory column all the data shown in that column are the same, it only shows Other. I was wondering if it's possible to show the actual directory/files that had failed or missed? Is there a way to manipulate these pre-configured reports? or do I have to create a custom report? [Rolling Eyes] thanks in advance ~ +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter - Question for a VBR Guru
Under Settings -- Global Settings -- agent name -- module name There is an option called Breakup Jobs. Make sure it's set to true. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DiskJockey Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:42 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Backup Reporter - Question for a VBR Guru Nardello, John wrote: Is the VBR agent running against the Master in question set to breakup jobs ? - John Nardello VBR agent is running on Master - not exactly sure what you're asking?? Nothing is wrong with VBR or my backups - I was wondering how come when I run the report it doesn't show detail info in the Directory column...it only shows Other I was expecting FQ path of the failed directory\files. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Domain vs Quantum DXi
Careful Mark, remember that you get what you pay for. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:41 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Data Domain vs Quantum DXi http://finance.google.com/finance?client=obq=NYSE:QTM I have $1... I'll take 3 shares and my change please. Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oersted Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:11 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Data Domain vs Quantum DXi if you can wait a little while , there will be some interesting solutions in this arena soon. Robin Small wrote: Thanks to the folks that commented on EMC's Avamar, it was helpful. I'm curious now about DataDomain Quantum DXi. We run XioTech SANs and they're bundling a DD960(something) head on to the XioTech SAN. We're also using ADIC (now Quantum) for our Tape hardware. So those two bubbled up to the top. I'm meeting with our Quantum sales engineer guys on Monday to talk about it, and I was watching a DD/XioTech webinar about their offering that looks cool. Both look appealing. I'm curious for the dedup users out there what your experience has been with either DD or Quantum. I've been poking through Curtis' blogs about the subject, so I get it that the Quantum can do either inline or post, and the DD is pure inline. My RPO isn't as critical (most of my users are happy with the prior night's data), so PostProcessing isn't a game-changer. Thanks, ~ Robin +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry
Sorry, thought you were saying you'd already done the upgrade. Yes, definitely get things as consistent as possible before upgrading to NB 6.x from 5.x. Open up a support case and tell them you want a catalog consistency check done. I'm not sure if they're using NBCC these days for that or still having you dump database info via CLI, but they'll be able to give you the commands to straighten things out. - John Nardello From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:44 AM To: Nardello, John; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry Thanks for the advice John Think I would prefer to get the catalog in a sound state before going to 6.5.1. , would you agree? Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nardello, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2008 18:08 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry If you go all the way to NB 6.5.2 or higher (and I'd definitely recommend not stopping there), you've got an additional optional available for bpmedia that does not require the old servers still be around. The work seems to happen entirely within the EMM database and is a heck of a lot faster than moving individual tapes anyway. =) bpmedia: -freeze|-unfreeze|-suspend|-unsuspend -m media_id [-h hostname] [-v] -movedb -m media_id -newserver hostname [-newsvr_group groupname] [-oldserver hostname] [-v] -movedb -allvolumes -newserver hostname -oldserver hostname [-v] http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304172.htm - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:43 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry Hi All In our step towards upgrading to 6.5.1 from 5.1 MP6 it has become apparent that some media servers where not decommissioned correctly in the passed causing inconsistencies between the media and image catalogs. We have 2 media servers that I do no have a copy of the mediaDB file. The image catalog is easy enough to manipulate and reflect an existing media server with bpimage however this still leaves this missing entry in the new media servers mediaDB. Does any know how I can create a new entry for the necessary media (from the missing mediaDB's) into the existing media servers mediaDB? bpmedia -movedb requires the old server to be up and running. Thanks in advance. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. For all U.K. corporate disclosures, please refer to www.bankofamerica.com/ukcompanies http://www.bankofamerica.com/ukcompanies image001.gif___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry
If you go all the way to NB 6.5.2 or higher (and I'd definitely recommend not stopping there), you've got an additional optional available for bpmedia that does not require the old servers still be around. The work seems to happen entirely within the EMM database and is a heck of a lot faster than moving individual tapes anyway. =) bpmedia: -freeze|-unfreeze|-suspend|-unsuspend -m media_id [-h hostname] [-v] -movedb -m media_id -newserver hostname [-newsvr_group groupname] [-oldserver hostname] [-v] -movedb -allvolumes -newserver hostname -oldserver hostname [-v] http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304172.htm - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:43 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry Hi All In our step towards upgrading to 6.5.1 from 5.1 MP6 it has become apparent that some media servers where not decommissioned correctly in the passed causing inconsistencies between the media and image catalogs. We have 2 media servers that I do no have a copy of the mediaDB file. The image catalog is easy enough to manipulate and reflect an existing media server with bpimage however this still leaves this missing entry in the new media servers mediaDB. Does any know how I can create a new entry for the necessary media (from the missing mediaDB's) into the existing media servers mediaDB? bpmedia -movedb requires the old server to be up and running. Thanks in advance. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. For all U.K. corporate disclosures, please refer to www.bankofamerica.com/ukcompanies http://www.bankofamerica.com/ukcompanies image001.gif___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating schedules via CLI
USAGE: bppolicynew policy_name [-v] [-M master_server,...] bppolicynew policy_name -sameas existing_policy_name [-v] [-M master_server,...] bppolicynew existing_policy_name -renameto policy_name [-v] [-M master_server,...] - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Parrott Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:51 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating schedules via CLI I would like to duplicate a schedule from one template policy to a new policy. I have a policy called template' which is deactivated and contains the 10 different schedules we use in our environment. I have written a script to create a new policy when we'd like to add a server to backups (we use the one policy per client method). Via the GUI, I can right click on that template schedule, and select Copy To New..., and enter in a schedule name and policy to add it to. How can I duplicate a schedule via the CLI? Thanks very much, Jason ___ 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] Legato vs. NetBackup
Don't forget the massive hit your SLAs are going to take while your staff figure out how to troubleshoot just the simple Networker errors (i.e. client backup failed), let alone anything complex that may hit your environment (i.e. Networker Master stops functioning for non-obvious reasons). Even if consulting services are provided for the transition period, will it be long enough for you and your team to become Networker experts like the consultants (hopefully) are ? After the transition is complete, how many years will it take for your backup staff to achieve the same level of expertise with Networker that they have with NetBackup ? Got any custom backup-related scripts ? You'll have to rewrite them. Any custom reporting ? Plan on rewriting that too. Commercial reporting solutions probably won't be too hard to cutover though, just install the new agent(s) on the new infrastructure. Couch any arguments into language management understands : additional hardware costs, software licenses, H/W S/W maintenance costs, any additional SAN space needed, SLA issues, training classes, any additional FTEs, man hours, etc. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:00 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup EMC has grabbed my managers ear and wants to demo Legato. We've been running NetBackup since 3.4 and I'm in no hurry to change. Anyone out there with any Legato vs. NetBackup thoughts? Be sure to ask what the cost would be to purchase all the required Legato licenses, and extra media to use while your environment transitions from one backup product to another (you'll probably want to set aside all your NetBackup tapes until they retire, while maintaining a server that can restore from them). We previously had both a NetBackup and a NetWorker installation here. The deciding factor for which one to consolidate on came down to the cost of purchasing the additional licenses: we'd have needed to purchase a lot more NetWorker licenses than NetBackup licenses due to the asymmetry of the installations. - Bluejay Adametz I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -Noel Coward ___ 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] No of LTO Tapes used for backups
bpimagelist has a -media option that kicks out the tape used, so you
should be able to throw something together using the output of
bpimagelist -hoursago 24 -media -l (or -U if you want it pretty, etc).
User friendly output looks like :
Media ID Last Written Server
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ABCJ3O 09/25/2008 03:31 backupserver1
ABCJ4E 09/25/2008 04:23 backupserver2
ABCJ3I 09/25/2008 04:03 backupserver5
ABCJ3B 09/25/2008 03:42 backupserver4
ABCJ1J 09/24/2008 21:52 backupserver3
ABCJ2A 09/24/2008 21:52 backupserver2
ABCJ5C 09/25/2008 08:35 backupserver1
- John Nardello
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I need to know if there is a simple command I can run that will tell me
how many Media tapes have been used overnight for a period of 24 or 72
hours.
Just trying to size up a new library, and want to be sure I correctly
size the slots for future backups.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Administrative Tasks
6a - Installing new clients. - automated methods (i.e. deployment software) - CLI 6b - Updating existing clients - automated methods (i.e. deployment software, LiveUpdate, etc) - CLI Also: 7. Policy/schedule tweaks per user requests 8. Supplying backup configuration information and/or proofs for Audit (i.e. SOX) or Legal requests (or the app/DB just got turned over to a new admin who wants to know what's going on with this box) - screenshots - CLI - reporting solutions (3rd party or otherwise) 9. Restores 10. Testing new backup software versions, including EEBs 11. Upgrading existing backup servers to new software versions Probably think of more the next time I talk with a user. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Administrative Tasks It's taking me forever, but I'm still plodding along on developing the outline for my latest book. I have a question for you about managing a NetBackup system. What are the things you find yourself doing on a regular basis and how do you do them? Let me give you a few examples. 1. Monitoring backup success/failure. a. CLI b. NBU GUI c. third party product 2. Rerunning failed backups 3. Putting tapes in a tape library, making them ready to use 4. Getting tapes offsite a. I send originals and don't make duplicates b. I send duplicates and make them via scripting c. I use NBU Vault 5. Monitoring for capacity/throughput issues 6. Installing new clients I'm not taking a survey of the different methods, here. I'm just trying to make sure my list of recurring activities is complete. Thanks in advance for any help. Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: +1 760 710 2009 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glasshouse.com http://www.glasshouse.com/ Infrastructure :: Optimized This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Reports in NBU 5.1 - Query on the Data BackedUp!
Yes, when you use the Windows filesystem compression the OS has to uncompress the data before it sends it to NetBackup. Filesystem compression does a wonderful job of slowing down your backups and beating on the disks. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:27 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Reports in NBU 5.1 - Query on the Data BackedUp! Evening all Wonder if I can seek some clarification. NBU 5.1+MP5+Win2k3 Server Master plus multiple SAN/Clients I went to run a report Client Backups and wanted to see how many kb's were written during the backup. According to the Report, 3500984336kb backed up. This is approx 3,500GB or 3.41TB's :-) However, according to Windows itself, it claims that it shows 2.3TB of Data on the volumes. The volumes are compressed, so I wondered if NetBackup Report is showing uncompressed size? Has anyone seen this? Thanks Simon This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using media sharing in 6.5?
I could see some problems if your ACSLS setup has watch_vols going (all tapes are not visible to all servers automatically). Enabling Media Sharing across all media servers could then open the door to NetBackup requesting a tape mount on a server that can't actually see that tape maybe. Not something I've seen, just a possibility. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:46 PM To: Bryan S. Leaman Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using media sharing in 6.5? I was just looking over this last night, and was surprised it's not on by default I also ran across a statement in the guide that said you should use caution with ACS libraries, but I could not tell why you needed to be cautious. Anyone have an idea? Thanks, Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪ Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693 Keeping People and Information Connected® ▪ http://availability.sungard.com/ http://availability.sungard.com/ P Think before you print CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Bryan S. Leaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/2008 09:55 AM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Anyone using media sharing in 6.5? I'm finding that I'm vaulting quite a few partially used tapes, because each tape can only be written by the server that owns it, and I have 7 media servers. The new media sharing option in 6.5 looks like it would help to optimize the tape usage, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried this out yet? I checked the knowledge base and there are several bugs related to media sharing that are fixed in 6.5.2 (which I am using). Just a bit nervous to enable this in production. I'm also wondering where a shared tape is mounted for a restore...is it based on the server that the image was written on, since there would be no overall tape owner? We use alternate restore server options quite frequently, so I don't want to break that. Any comments on media sharing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bryan ___ 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] Strange schedule problem
$ grep nbpem /usr/openv/netbackup/nblog.conf 116.L10nResource=nbpem 116.OIDNames=nbpem View last 5 minutes-worth of nbpem log entries (or something along these lines) : $ vxlogview -p 51216 -o 116 -d all -t 00:05:00 Good luck ! - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 4:04 AM To: Abhishek Dhingra1 Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange schedule problem No joy im afraid :( I tried as below and also tried stopping all daemons, moving /usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/pempersist to a .old file and restarting services on the master. Still no joy. I copied the policy to a new one, deleted the old one and then copied the copy back to the policy of the same original name and no joy. I have created a new schedule within the policy and that has not ran. Also now when running nbpemreq -predict -date 07/19/2008 00:00:00 it doesn't show the policy in the list but shows all the others. Any more suggestions? I cant seem to find a log for nbpem either and the man page for vxlogcfg doesn't lead me in any direction. Cheers Abhishek Dhingra1 wrote: The problem is with the nbpem . run the command nbpemreq -resume_scheduling, and wait for some time. or if that didnot worked for you , kill the nbpem process, clear the *pem.ior files under /usr/openv/var and restart the nbpem daemon by running nbpem command. if above doesnot work , increease the logging level of nbpem(117) using the command vxlogcfg command Abhishek Dhingra IBM Global Services, Delhi, Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile : +91-9818675370 *Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/07/08 06:34 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Strange schedule problem Guys i have Master server (NBU 6.0MP4) and a number of media servers and clients. One media server which is SSO Media server sharing drives is NBU 5.0MP7 and has been fine but all of a sudden as stopped automatically running backups. We can run manual ones fine but its as though the scheduling system isnt working for it or something. Anyone any pointers as to where to look? There isn't a bpsched log directory on the master server with NBU6 so i'm a bit stuck. Everything else is working ok. Cheers This is all on Solaris, and please no need for replies with Why not upgrade to 6 on the media server i know i know and i'm trying to get it passed by service management. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Fun with EMM internals
And I don't doubt Symantec is doing weird things with their version of the database too. But on the other hand, their blank NBDB creation script at /usr/openv/db/bin/create_nbdb is not a binary, so there's no reason you can't go through and look at every step they take to crush a fresh database into their own mold. I just don't know enough database stuff to understand everything it's doing. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:06 AM To: Michael Graff Andersen; Nardello, John Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Fun with EMM internals Once upon a time I worked on Andersen Consulting's Foundation CASE software that used Informix for its repository. Whenever that DB flaked out I had to use a mixed bag of Informix and AC steps to recreate the DB. Simply recreating the schema and reloading dumped data never worked which let me know they were doing something proprietary in their setup steps. Probably same for NBU and Sybase. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graff Andersen Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:01 AM To: Nardello, John Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fun with EMM internals Yes because it is actually a Symantec OEM database not a real free ASA database according to the consulant we had out from Symantec Regards Michael 2008/7/9, Nardello, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone had the time to look around at the various binaries included with the internal ASA database in /usr/openv/db/bin ? In particular, I've been playing with dbunload and was wondering if there's anyone who knows something about ASA or Sybase who could explain why it dumps what look like a perfectly good reload.sql command file and associated files for the tables, but then refuses to reimport them into a clean EMM database (without erroring out. Lots of Primary key for table 'EMM_AllocationStatus' is not unique and such errors. And yes, I know support would laugh themselves silly if I tried calling this in. Just thought I'd see if anyone else is out there causing trouble and had any ideas. =) - John Nardello [ Obligatory CYA - No, I did NOT tell you to go play with those commands on your production NetBackup server. ] ___ 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 -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Fun with EMM internals
Has anyone had the time to look around at the various binaries included with the internal ASA database in /usr/openv/db/bin ? In particular, I've been playing with dbunload and was wondering if there's anyone who knows something about ASA or Sybase who could explain why it dumps what look like a perfectly good reload.sql command file and associated files for the tables, but then refuses to reimport them into a clean EMM database (without erroring out. Lots of Primary key for table 'EMM_AllocationStatus' is not unique and such errors. And yes, I know support would laugh themselves silly if I tried calling this in. Just thought I'd see if anyone else is out there causing trouble and had any ideas. =) - John Nardello [ Obligatory CYA - No, I did NOT tell you to go play with those commands on your production NetBackup server. ] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Non-root administration
The last time I looked into individual sudo rule access to NetBackup I came up with something on the order of 450-odd sudo rulesfor a small Master. Remember, we're talking about full read/write/execute/create/delete access to the vast majority of the NetBackup directories. This includes the images directories, which I wouldn't let our SA's within 10 feet of, as good as they are. =) I'll totally agree with the can of worms statement but from the flip-side. Your SA's do not know what they're going to get into if they try to restrict full sudo access from the higher-end backup administrators (I'd tend to agree with some limits on root access for Skippy the Backup Intern). The SA's have to figure out how to provide that full read/write/execute/create access to every directory in /usr/openv through individual sudo rules, or they spend however many weeks creating and debugging a wrapper script that attempts to do exactly the same thing which will probably never allow everything you need to do (cat, tail, head, touch, mkdir, vi, mv, dos2unix, etc). Plus patching and initial installs of course. Sure, the SA's could do those for you I imagine but probably in twice the time it'd take someone familiar with the process. And what if it fails or does a partial completion ? Right back to needing root access to fix... If the SA's still kick up a fuss, you can always send your backup admins to the basic training for OS administrators - that would cut out the argument about them not knowing what they're doing. =) If it's a trust issue then you've hired the wrong backup admins. - John Nardello, full time NetBackup Admin, ex-Solaris Admin. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:55 AM To: Ed Wilts; Curtis Preston Cc: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Non-root administration Well - I'll agree with Curtis. In large organizations unfortunately the backup tool isn't the only one that will let you back door into root. However, one has to have policies in place that make it clear that administrators of these tools (if they are not also the System Admins) aren't allowed to do things outside the scope of the tool. Handing people direct root login implies they have equal rights to a system as the SAs and my experience at my current job has driven home what horrible can of worms that assumption is and how hard it is to overcome it. Making folks request sudo access to various commands makes it clear they are being given limited access and more difficult for them to say I didn't know that wasn't allowed after they do something untoward. It won't get rid of malicious intent but it does help to tamp down on experimentation without change control. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:30 PM To: Curtis Preston Cc: Esson, Paul; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Non-root administration On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you, there, Ed. I trust a new backup admin in that I trust him not to circumvent the security that I have set up. (OK, Trust but verify.) That's not the same thing as saying Well, he's the backup guy, so he can easily get root if he's a black hat, so we might as well give him root. The backup admin is often a junior person, and handing them the complete keys to the kingdom just because it makes his/her job easier isn't something I'm interested in doing. Around here, we have 3 key people in charge of backups and each of us has been with the organization for over 10 years. You're probably right in that it is often a junior person, but then most organizations are often wrong - backups are such a critical part of operations that assigning them to a junior person is very shortsighted. I saw a recent presentation going over restore workflows. It should surprise you, but I'll bet it doesn't, that a very common restore workflow is to submit a request to add the client to a new backup schedule so you can restore it the next time you need to... So what's the official non-root admin answer for 6.5? I didn't realize the non-root-admin script was gone. Symantec has this whole access control/security thing (VxSS?), but every time it gets brought up on this list, people just say how much it sucks. I haven't yet read a single post from anybody who's implemented it and been satisfied with it. It's a really tough problem... My suggestion that you form a good partnership with your admin group still stands. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If I've helped you, please make a donation to my favorite charity at
Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing Retired backup clients.....
Removing a NetBackup 5.x Media Server : http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/230047.htm Removing a NetBackup 6.x Media Server : http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/289139.htm - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peacock Dennis - dpeaco Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:35 PM To: Shyam Hazari; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing Retired backup clients. NoRemoving them altogether from Netbackup and unassign the tape drives from the two retired client/media servers. Thank You, Dennis Peacock EBCA Acxiom Corporation 501-342-6232 (office) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam Hazari Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:32 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing Retired backup clients. I am assuming removing from the backup policy. Here is the command line version bpclclients policy name -delete client Name -Shyam On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Dennis Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Backup environment is Netbackup 5.1 MP5 Master server and all clients are media servers. 2 of the 4 clients have been retired and now I can't seem to find a way to remove them from Netbackup without the GUI hanging. Any ideas on how I can remove 2 client/media servers? +-- |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 * The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank you. * ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] [spam]:Re: FYI - Symantec made a changetotheirFTP(nolongerallows list)
Maybe I missed the original thread topic.what's the problem again ? Seems like ftp access works for me via web browser still. ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_ Server/ And at the risk of making my throughput rate drop like a rock, looks like 6.5.2 has been released and patches are available for download. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:08 AM To: Bill Coleman Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [spam]:Re: [Veritas-bu] FYI - Symantec made a changetotheirFTP(nolongerallows list) A Google mini appliance is pretty cheap...http://mini.google.com Google site search is also pretty darn cheap: http://www.google.com/sitesearch/index.html There's really no excuse for a major corporation to offer a poor site search these days. And no, Symantec is not the worst. I think HP may take credit for site searching futility. .../Ed On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Michael Graff Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bill Think I'm not the only who like to se a google like (default and) search engine for the support site. Regards Michael 2008/5/30, Bill Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your feedback on the ftp impact is recognized and Symantec apologizes for the impact. Efforts are underway to restore LIST access early next week. Due to software export compliance anonymous access will not be available, but Technical Support can supply you details on account access so you can access the product directory as in the past. There are also focused efforts underway to improve the NetBackup online experience including finding technotes. You can me email or talk to me at Vision. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Director NetBackup Customer Advocacy Office Office: 651 746 7118 Data Protection Group Symantec Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:45 PM To: Peacock Dennis - dpeaco; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Curtis Preston; Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FYI - Symantec made a changetotheirFTP(nolongerallows list) -Original Message- From: Peacock Dennis - dpeaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:35:37 To:Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FYI - Symantec made a change to theirFTP(nolongerallows list) No matter whatit does not explain why the new web site is so complicated to navigate and find anything one needs. Did someone forget about Web Site Design 101 Want me to use your backup product and be able to support my customers? Then how about making information and patches easy to get to. Thank You, Dennis Peacock EBCA Acxiom Corporation 501-342-6232 (office) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:28 PM To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FYI - Symantec made a change to theirFTP(nolongerallows list) The hacker argument? PUHLEEZE. The hacker/theft is far more determined and won't be stopped or even bothered by having to script his way around a poorly architected website. Any more than a decent hacker is stopped by Apple's DRM-full songs. Takes about 2 seconds to rip that stuff out. Just like DRM, all this does is make it harder for real people to do their job. Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: +1 760 710 2009 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glasshouse.com http://www.glasshouse.com/ Infrastructure :: Optimized From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:09 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FYI - Symantec made a change to their FTP(nolongerallows list) I definitely think your sales team should be giving you some sort of response to this. But its not like Symantec isn't
Re: [Veritas-bu] enterprise media manager failing to start!
But did you clear _enough_ space though ? EMM will actually refuse to start unless it has 1% of the total volume available as free space (by default). Technote 286020 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/286020.htm Alternately, Technote 283693, http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/283693.htm talks about changing that if needed, although I wouldn't recommend it. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abhishek Dhingra1 Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] enterprise media manager failing to start! How much Space is there in /usr/openv filesystem, used space should be less then 95 %, and which command you are using for bring up the database. Command is :- /usr/openv/db/bin/nbdb_admin -start NBDB Abhishek Dhingra IBM Global Services, Delhi, Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile : +91-9818675370 mark wragge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/08 02:58 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] enterprise media manager failing to start! Hi, our disk drive containing the Netbackup database and installation has run out of disk space and the netbackup services had stopped. After making some space on the disk device when I now start the Netbackup services the Enterprise Media Manager starts and stops immediatley. How can i overcome this problem and get the EMM service to start? Will it be necessary for me to recover the catalog and databases? THanks, Mark Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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] HOWTO troubleshoot VBR ( failing to collect datafrom master server ).
There are several places this could be messing up. 1) Did you set up VxSS correctly on your VBR ? 2) You need a VBR agent running on a server for each Master OS version. For example, if you've got a Solaris 10 Master, you need a VBR agent installed on a Solaris 10 server. If you've got AIX, you need a AIX agent, etc. Once you've got your agent installed and working 3) Have you authorized the appropriate agent server in your Master's bp.conf file with a SERVER= entry ? If the agent can't run queries against your Master, you won't get any data. 4) Have you configured the agent to go query your Master ? - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Miele Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HOWTO troubleshoot VBR ( failing to collect datafrom master server ). Anil, I don't know if VBR works the same as command central did, but I remember you had to have a NBU client on the machine that was running the commands (IE: CommandCentral Server) against the NBU Master server and you had to add that machine to the servers list on the NBU server so that it had access to the master. Hope this helps. Regards, Kevin Miele On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed NBU reporter ( VBR ) but its failing to collect data from master server. Does any body has any document how to troubleshoot VBR 6.5 ? THX ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Best Practice: Location of the NetBackup Catalog
Depends on how much money you want to throw at your setup I guess. =) Most of our large catalogs are quite happy living on the SAN. Of course, our SAN is DMX3s, dual-pathed to separate fabrics and switches, and runs to two different physical HBAs on the servers themselves. Even if you're looking at only a single path though, having your catalog on a SAN volume means you're probably getting automatic hardware RAID of some level. That's generally a little harder to pull off using local disks and still have any reasonable amount of usable space leftover. Plus, leaving it on the SAN gives you the option to do frame-based replication, snapshots, BCVs, etc etc etc. But only if you can afford it. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:13 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best Practice: Location of the NetBackup Catalog All, Just a general query on the best practice for the location of the NetBackup catalog (Its DB, images, ect). When you install NBU on a Server, the location can be accepted as the default or you can customise the installation and choose an alternative location (ie: Spare drive on local server, SAN attached drive, ect). Presently, I have NetBackup and the catalog installed locally, on RAID5 set, hot swappable. My question is this: Is there a best practice for the location of the Catalog? For example, SAN attached disk? I sort of feel uncomfortable with this for several reasons: 1) If you lose SAN connectivity (due to a major disaster or failure) the catalog has gone 2) NetBackup and the OS relies on that disk being available constantly Being stored locally, means the Server and its application (including the catalog) goes with it, and does not rely on an extra layer of hardware for the catalog to be available. I think my concerns come from a previous environment where the catalog was stored on a SAN, and was totally destroyed and unrecoverable, which meant a complete import of hundreds of tapes. If anyone has any feedback on this, would like to hear the pro's and con's to storage off the physical server itself. I have always had the catalog locally stored. Thanks, Simon This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)
Start watching your message queue numbers on your Master, might be time to bump them up a bit. We saw this frequently on our largest Windows Masters and ended up having to increase the heap sizes quite a bit on them. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tim Hoke Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject) for your info http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/230200.htm Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:26 PM To: Tim Hoke Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject) Thanks TIm, I understand what you mean and thats what i used to think, but bptm has already selected the media and is stating it is writing. I've checked ACS logs and can see the associated mount and no subsequent job grabs the same tape. So in effect it's saying it can't lock the media itself, not sure whether the old SCSI reserve comes in to play and something has been left around from a previous mount. I'm prepared to be completely blown out of the water. MP6 at the moment/ Mike Michael Ketley Senior Support Analyst Storage Support * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Mobile: +44 (0)7968 409214 -Original Message- From: Tim Hoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2008 15:16 To: KETLEY, Michael Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject) Michael, The unable to lock media message has to do with bptm selecting media. Without the log, my guess is that you'll see bptm is attempting to obtain a piece of media for a backup. One part of that process is going through it's local mediaDB to see if it fan find a match for what it needs (correct volume pool, retention, etc). If a particular tape is in use, then you'll see the unable to lock media message. I don't think this is related to the problem you originally posted. BTW, what patch level? -Tim On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Not sure whether anyone can help or give a workaround solution? We're having issues in NBU 5.1 environment with HP-UX media servers and jobs not going to end writing. This is a fairly irregular occurrence but always tends to occur with logical logs in the middle of the night (oh joy!). This isn't a scheduler issue as everything else chugs along nicely. We're using ACSLS 7.1.0. From bptm logs I can see lots of occurences of 12:08:30.310 [27067] 2 db_lock_media: unable to lock media at offset 14' . Which could mean the media is in use by another host, but I know it isn't. My guess is theres a communication error between Media server and ACSLS. So my question is, what can I do to kickstart this? Sometimes I can go into the Activity Monitor and end job, and it miraculously finishes. Other times when on-bar processes go, then it's a Master server restart. Regards Mike K * This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu * This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. This email (including any attachments) may contain
Re: [Veritas-bu] How to regain disk space from failed backup to DSU
My favorite technote of all time, if slightly dated. =) http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm Contains info on running cleanups manually, as well as info on a why-the-heck-isn't-it-a-default!!! touchfile. If you want to see what NetBackup has been doing for cleanup lately (all one line): egrep Cleanup running in background|delete_expired_backups: deleted /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpdbm/log.* -John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to regain disk space from failed backup to DSU Norman, Thank you for your reply. Looks like bpimage from NetBackup 3.4 doesn't have -cleanup option... I am a bit scared to remove the files myself. Veritas document 875-1921-10 Datacenter 3.4 System Administrator Guide UNIX doesn't even list bpimage in NetBackup Commands chapter :). [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/nagios2/local/conf/mtpMonitor # /netbackup/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage bpimage: -[de]compress [-allclients | -client name] bpimage: [-M master_server,...,master_server] bpimage: -npc copy # -backupid backup_id [-client name] bpimage: -newserver name [-oldserver name] [-id id] bpimage: -deletecopy # -backupid backup_id bpimage: -testlock # -backupid backup_id bpimage: -prunetir [-allclients | -client name] bpimage: -create_image_list -client name bpimage: -index n -client name bpimage: -wff path bytes -backupid backup_id [-client name] bpimage: -update [-secinfo [0|1] | -rfile [0|1] | -filesysonly [0|1] | -numfiles number | -keyword keyword phrase | -objdesc string] [-client name -class name -t type -d mm/dd/ hh:mm:ss] [-client name -d mm/dd/ hh:mm:ss] [-id backup_id] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/nagios2/local/conf/mtpMonitor # Aleksandr On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you manually delete anything from disk I would highly suggest running a bpimage -cleanup so that your catalog is consistent. This is suppose to happen automatically but you may want to look at the command guide for the specific options so that it doesn't take so long to complete i.e. specifying client name or backup ID. Also, depending on how you are backing up to disk, you may not be able to realize your space savings until your disk appliances complete a cleaning cycle. For example, if you are using Data Domain devices, simply deleting the images from disk will not give you back that space. You have to allow the devices to complete a full cleaning cycle which is a 10 phase process and let me tell you, it can take a LONG TIME!! This of course depends on the amount of data you are purging. For the specific case with Data Domain devices, we do not use them with the VTL option so while it would still be true that a cleaning cycle would still need to complete the time that takes may be different. Can any other Data Domain users out there add any color here?? Dave Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/18/2008 07:04 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] How to regain disk space from failed backup to DSU Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote: Dear Gurus, My apologies - it is probably very simple question. Files from failed backup to Disk Storage Unit are taking space (which I need immediately for other backups). How I can reclaim the space back? Thank you, Aleksandr ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Try expiring the image or crudely just deleting the image files from the disk location D ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Own the landmark Planet Earth series on DVD! Find more great gifts by shopping online at http://discoverystore.com This e-mail, and any attachment, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, copying, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of Discovery Communications, LLC. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Re: [Veritas-bu] install client with ssh
1) Do a normal /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files ftp client to some Solaris 10 box in your environment. 2) On the client you'll now have a /tmp/bp directory on the client with all the needed files and stuff you need to automate future installs. 3) Hack the /tmp/bp/bin/client_config script to do automatic configuration of the CLIENT_NAME, REQUIRED_INTERFACE, other desired bp.conf entries, exclude_list, etc. 4) Copy in any additional files needed to support your hacking (i.e. exclude_list file, etc) to /tmp/bp 4) tar up /tmp/bp and then you can use your favorite method to move the tarball onto any client that needs to be installed, untar it, then just run your hacked client_config script to automatically do the install and client configuration. I will say you have to re-hack the client_config script at each new NetBackup version, or at least check it to make sure they haven't added/removed any files to/from the install, but otherwise it's been working pretty well here. I now have install tarballs I can get loaded onto any of our UNIX clients and Joe-SA can run a single command to do all the needed configuration. And my favorite part, I didn't have to start from scratch. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] install client with ssh Yeah good call, and i have done that before. Problem is i want to install solaris 10 clients and i'd have to script all the service stuff and im not totally up on solaris10 as yet ( i know i know i should be ). I have had some good responses and a couple of scripts passed to me so thanks guys and i'm sure ill get it going D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it's solaris, it's really easy to just copy it from another working client, too. Grab the entire /usr/openv directory in a tarball and just untar it on the new machine. Change the client name other info in bp.conf. Grab the bp entries from /etc/services /etc/inetd.conf and add them to the other client. HUP the inetd daemon. It should work. Verify the bpcd port is listening correctly with netstat -a | grep bpcd. You should see inetd listening to the bpcd port. Other than that, just finding the install script and replacing rsh with ssh works fine, too. Of course, the trust relationship needs to be setup first (and the first contact made host key accepted and all that other normal prep work.) -M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Amado Gramajo; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Jeff Lightner Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] install client with ssh Thanks dude, ill give the rsh rename a go. I know i tried this on older versions and it didnt seem to work but Im happy editing scripts so will set keys up and try. To answer some other replies :- Im not on v 6.5 and being in a large company with stupid rules and customer change controls and accreditations etc i cant upgrade to 6.5 soon. Im remotely managing hundreds of clients in a datacenter and putting a CD into a new client just is not feasible. There is nothing under the /usr/openv/netbackup/client/Solaris/ tree which has sftp or ssh in it from the server install and so i assume people who have these scripts have created them. I dont see any sftp or ssh install scripts under Linux or BSD client directories either. If someone does have them would they mind mailing me a copy and i could then try and hack the Solaris one. Weird thing is i cant see why it doesnt work globally replacing ftp with sftp as when i run a diff on my v5 scripts i cant see that much else has changed. Cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are willing to set up shared ssh keys between hosts you can modify the /usr/openv/netbackup/client/Solaris/Solaris9/install_client script. There is an install_client script for each OS version. A crude hack is to replace what Netbackup discovers for RSH and RCP with SSH and SCP. If you don't want to modify the scripts, you could rename RSH and RCP and replace them with a link to SSH and SCP. We don't use R commands anymore so that works for us. install_client: ...snip # Find the rsh and rcp commands if [ -x /usr/net/rsh ] ; then RSH=/usr/net/rsh elif [ -x /usr/bin/remsh ] ; then RSH=/usr/bin/remsh elif [ -x /usr/bin/resh ] ; then RSH=/usr/bin/resh elif [ -x /usr/bin/rsh ] ; then RSH=/usr/bin/rsh elif [ -x /usr/bsd/rsh ] ; then RSH=/usr/bsd/rsh elif [ -x /usr/ucb/rsh ] ; then RSH=/usr/ucb/rsh else /bin/echo Cannot find rsh command exit
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size
Count yourself lucky you haven't used LVM on AIX. I keep dreaming of ways to get the SAs to install Storage Foundation onto our AIX boxes. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:40 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Paul Keating Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size I second Ed's recommendation of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). Not just for NetBackup but for most filesystems (including those for terabyte databases). The options one has for controlling things such as buffering, block sizes etc... are important for databases. Moreover since it allows you to grow/shrink filesystems on the fly it is a great tool for Production environments where downtime Is hard to get. Finally since it allows one to do software RAID in environments where hardware RAID isn't available it has that added benefit. Most Sun Solaris shops of any size use VxVM. Many HP HP-UX shops use VxVM even though HP has its own Logical Volume Manager (LVM) but many still use LVM. On Linux most Enterprise folks use LVM which is very much like the one on HP-UX. AIX has one called LVM that I haven't used. Using Windows for very large enterprise class environments simply isn't an option for most folks due to scalability issues. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:35 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Paul Keating Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size Ed I use Robocopy alot, but I feel that the product may have been ill-advised by someone who thought we needed the product, when clearly we have proven this is not the case. Robocopy and Diskpart :-) works like a charm! From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:22 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: Paul Keating; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:27 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I am not a fan of Veritas Volume Manager, and I certainly cannot recommend it. That's because you're a Windows guy and the product certainly doesn't function on Windows like it does on Unix. If you're a Unix guy, you'll see the limitations of Windows and its lack of a volume manager very quickly. My catalog is in a volume manager and yes, we've grown it. We've bounced a lot of our storage around between SAN frames as well as expanded volumes. On the other hand, my Windows admins do nothing but bitch and moan when they have to do the same thing. Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, VMS - all move data nicely around. Windows, well, just say no. Robocopy is not an alternative to a volume manager :-) .../Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size Build your catalog filesytem using a Logical Volume Manager, such as Veritas Volume Manager (Storage Foundations) on a SAN attached LUN. As your catalog grows you can grow both the LUN and the filesystem hot, without an outage. Or, if you have availability of a recent Enterprise class array such as the HDS USP-V, you can build it on a DP (Dynamic provisioned) LUN (aka thin provisioning) The array presents your server with a large fixed size LUN, even several terabytes, but only occupies as much disk space as needed, initially, then auto allocates disk as needed. Personally, I'd just go the volume manager route. Paul -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended
Re: [Veritas-bu] big issue with netbackup upgrade; any insight?
I'm assuming you have multiple hostnames defined for the Master/Media servers, one per interface ? If so, welcome to the fun word of EMM aliases. =) # mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nbemmcmd -machinealias -help NBEMMCMD, Version:6.0MP5(20060530) Help requested. Usage: nbemmcmd -machinealias [-brief] [-addalias -alias string -machinename string] [-deletealias -alias string] [-deleteallaliases -machinename string] [-getaliases -machinename string] -machinetype api | app_cluster | cluster | master | media | ndmp Command completed successfully. I've seen this kind of thing when the Media Servers in particular have multiple interefaces and are attempting communication over a different one than normal. You basically just need to add an alias to authorize that interface. So if your alternate interface is myhost-backup on your media server, then you'd run: nbemmcmd -machinealias -addalias -alias myhost-backup -machinename myhost -machinetype media Then you can use the 'getaliases' option to list out what you've currently got defined and make sure all your interfaces are listed. Hope that helps. John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rascal Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:38 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] big issue with netbackup upgrade; any insight? Good morning/afternoon/evening all, So I have run into a fun, fun issue with my netbackup upgrade. Here are the details: 1. mix environment; primarily AIX5xxx boxes, master/media servers, all have multiple NIC interfaces (pub/private/backup) 2. going from NB5MP5 to NB651 3. procedure went like so: a. stop services b. upgrade environment c. run nbpushdata and note errors (go back and fix in nb5 if required) d. patch e. start services f. push client g. test backups/restores So here is what is interesting. 1. Hot catalogs fail; here is an error: 03/09/2008 11:00:20 - begin Catalog Backup 03/09/2008 11:00:24 - Error bpbackupdb (pid=5779600) jmcomm_RequestMultipleResources() failed with stat = 800 03/09/2008 11:00:24 - Error bpbackupdb (pid=5779600) NBJM returned an extended error status: resource request failed (800) 03/09/2008 11:00:24 - end Catalog Backup; elapsed time 0:00:04 03/09/2008 11:00:25 - Error bpbackupdb (pid=5779600) Offline catalog backup to media id XX FAILED 03/09/2008 11:00:22 - requesting resource XX 03/09/2008 11:00:22 - Error nbjm (pid=1810436) NBU status: 800, EMM status: The host is not defined in EMM An extended error status has been encountered, check detailed status (252) 2. Restores to different locations other than local server: 03/11/2008 09:09:25 - begin Restore 03/11/2008 09:09:30 - number of images required: 1 03/11/2008 09:09:30 - media needed: XX 03/11/2008 09:10:09 - restoring from image _1191236706 03/11/2008 09:10:13 - connecting 03/11/2008 09:10:16 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00 03/11/2008 09:10:17 - Error bptm (pid=4772066) NBJM returned an extended error status: resource request failed (800) 03/11/2008 09:10:15 - requesting resource XX 03/11/2008 09:10:15 - Error nbjm (pid=5107866) NBU status: 800, EMM status: The host is not defined in EMM 03/11/2008 09:10:15 - Error nbjm (pid=5107866) NBU status: 800, EMM status: The host is not defined in EMM 03/11/2008 09:10:18 - Error bptm (pid=1904656) The following files/folders were not restored: 03/11/2008 09:10:22 - Error bptm (pid=1904656) more than 10 files were not restored, remaining ones are shown in the progress log. 03/11/2008 09:10:23 - restored from image _1191236706; restore time: 0:00:14 03/11/2008 09:10:25 - Warning bprd (pid=5132452) Restore must be resumed prior to first image expiration on Sun Sep 29 07:05:06 EDT 2013 03/11/2008 09:10:26 - end Restore; elapsed time 0:01:01 the restore failed to recover the requested files (5) So here I sit, trying to figure out what the issue is that I am experiencing but I can't seem to get it nailed to anything in particular. It seems that it is only happening on the upgrades though; these same boxes can be just installed with 6.5.1 (no upgrade) and it works fine. Anyone else see this? Anyone else run into the emm 800 errors? -- Matthew MCP, MCSA, MCTS, OCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Define Trouble: Why did you apply THAT patch?? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries
NB_51_5_M_283089.winnt.x64.exe is the full installer, since it didn't exist before that release. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:13 AM To: Dave Carpe; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries Thanks, Dave! (Front line support passed my call over to customer care, and to a location on fileconnect, which does seem to have the original 5.1 install media for most architectures and a Q18330C.NB.MP4.51.tar.gz collection of 5.1MP4 patches... including winnt.intel and winnt.IA64, but apparently lacking winnt.x64. Weird.) I take it there isn't a separate Java patch for x64? Do you happen to know whether NB_51_5_M_283089.winnt.x64.exe will also perform a full install, or does one need to lay the initial x64 client down from NB_51_4_M.winnt.x64.exe and then apply the MP5 maintenance pack? (I'd just find out on my own but the Windows SAs haven't yet built the x64 system in question...) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 From: Dave Carpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:41 PM To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries Gabe, The MP4 .exe files are on the support website and contain what you need. Here the appropriate Tech Notes and downloads: NetBackup Installation Files And Support For x64 Servers And Clients http://support.veritas.com/docs/294816 http://support.veritas.com/docs/294816 Maintenance Pack NB_51_4_M.winnt.IA64.exe provides fixes to the VERITAS NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 5.1 on Windows XP/2003 64 bit clients. http://support.veritas.com/docs/280424 http://support.veritas.com/docs/280424 Maintenance Pack NB_JAV_51_4_M.winnt.IA64.exe provides an update to VERITAS NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 5.1 Java on 64-bit Windows 2003/XP platforms. http://support.veritas.com/docs/280451 http://support.veritas.com/docs/280451 David K. Carpe Principal Systems Engineer Symantec Corporation Office: 646.487.6012 Mobile: 908.963.6818 Home Office: 973.940-1805 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:30 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries According to the latest 5.x compatibility list (http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/263839.htm), 64-bit support (both for AMD64 as PC-X64 hardware and Itanium as PC-IA64) is present with NetBackup 5.1MP4 and later, which is somewhat reassuring because the Windows SAs are in the process of rolling out 64-bit Windows servers on AMD chips at my employer. There is one problem, though: I don't have install media more recent than 5.1 GA (which gets installed and then MP5 layered over it through their software distribution mechanism), which means that I don't think I even have the 64-bit binaries. Am I right in believing that I need to open a service call to get the appropriate installers? (The closest I could get was http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/283089.htm, but that's just the x64 MP5 patch, not the baseline x64 binaries.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick question intermix Solaris 64bit withWindows/Linux 32bit?
We have several setups with 64-bit Windows media servers (newer fileservers) pointing at 32-bit Masters (older Windows boxes). Also have 32-bit Windows Media servers pointing at 64-bit Solaris Masters. No issues apparently. Restores have been working fine. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:19 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick question intermix Solaris 64bit withWindows/Linux 32bit? Does anyone on the list have a mixed media server setup with intermixed 32 and 64bit hosts? Are there any Endian issues with the catalog? Example: Linux Master (32bit) Solaris Media Server (64bit) Windows Media Server (64bit) Linux Media Server (IA64) Would there be any issues in this configuration? Obviously you'd probably not architect any solution this way but if you wanted to test a different architecture in your production environment, this may not be a bad way to do it-- swap one existing machine out, put the new machine in and test. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries
Shoot, sorry, didn't read that as closely as I should've. You need to install the full installer NB_51_4_M.winnt.x64.exe first, then you can patch it. The full install showed up under MP4 first. - John Nardello From: Nardello, John Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:53 AM To: 'Rosenkoetter, Gabriel'; Dave Carpe; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries NB_51_5_M_283089.winnt.x64.exe is the full installer, since it didn't exist before that release. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:13 AM To: Dave Carpe; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries Thanks, Dave! (Front line support passed my call over to customer care, and to a location on fileconnect, which does seem to have the original 5.1 install media for most architectures and a Q18330C.NB.MP4.51.tar.gz collection of 5.1MP4 patches... including winnt.intel and winnt.IA64, but apparently lacking winnt.x64. Weird.) I take it there isn't a separate Java patch for x64? Do you happen to know whether NB_51_5_M_283089.winnt.x64.exe will also perform a full install, or does one need to lay the initial x64 client down from NB_51_4_M.winnt.x64.exe and then apply the MP5 maintenance pack? (I'd just find out on my own but the Windows SAs haven't yet built the x64 system in question...) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 From: Dave Carpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:41 PM To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries Gabe, The MP4 .exe files are on the support website and contain what you need. Here the appropriate Tech Notes and downloads: NetBackup Installation Files And Support For x64 Servers And Clients http://support.veritas.com/docs/294816 http://support.veritas.com/docs/294816 Maintenance Pack NB_51_4_M.winnt.IA64.exe provides fixes to the VERITAS NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 5.1 on Windows XP/2003 64 bit clients. http://support.veritas.com/docs/280424 http://support.veritas.com/docs/280424 Maintenance Pack NB_JAV_51_4_M.winnt.IA64.exe provides an update to VERITAS NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 5.1 Java on 64-bit Windows 2003/XP platforms. http://support.veritas.com/docs/280451 http://support.veritas.com/docs/280451 David K. Carpe Principal Systems Engineer Symantec Corporation Office: 646.487.6012 Mobile: 908.963.6818 Home Office: 973.940-1805 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:30 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1mp4/5 Win2k3 x64 binaries According to the latest 5.x compatibility list (http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/263839.htm), 64-bit support (both for AMD64 as PC-X64 hardware and Itanium as PC-IA64) is present with NetBackup 5.1MP4 and later, which is somewhat reassuring because the Windows SAs are in the process of rolling out 64-bit Windows servers on AMD chips at my employer. There is one problem, though: I don't have install media more recent than 5.1 GA (which gets installed and then MP5 layered over it through their software distribution mechanism), which means that I don't think I even have the 64-bit binaries. Am I right in believing that I need to open a service call to get the appropriate installers? (The closest I could get was http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/283089.htm, but that's just the x64 MP5 patch, not the baseline x64 binaries.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278938.htm And no, nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling does not carry over across daemon bounces or reboots. If you want to not have jobs trigger immediately after those actions, you'll need to either disable your NB startup script or be really quick with another suspend command. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holowinski, Scott Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:26 PM To: Len Boyle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Kevin Whittaker Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs Len, That doesn't appear to be a documented command line switch. So how do you turn scheduling back on after using it? Thanks, Scott From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:32 AM To: Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs Kevin, Try the command nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:59 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 and holding Jobs Ok, when I was on 5.1 I could change the behavior file to # of tries 0 and rereadconfig to allow NB to be running but no new jobs to kick off. But I could still submit jobs manually. When I went to 6.5, VERITAS told me to just stop the bprd daemon. Well, with that not running I can not submit jobs manually. Sometimes, I am working on the master server and bring up netbackup and don't want any jobs to run. Anybody have any ideas on how to do this? Kevin Whittaker Syniverse Technologies Systems Engineer - UNIX Admin Work: (813) 637-5502 Cell: (813) 810-6456 Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?
Since you've brought this to mind then, anyone want to reveal the largest number of clients they're reporting on through Aptare ? Just curious if some of our Aptare slowness is due to the several thousand clients we report on or something on our server. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:01 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum? Probably a good thing. It'd be like a convocation of iMac users, just a public love-in. ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:13 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum? On 11/6/07, X_S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know of an aptare forum out there? i am a new user to aptare and it would be nice if there was a forum to discuss features, issues, reports, etc. This is it. There are a number of us who are Aptare users and are willing to help. Aptare also reads this mailing list but has yet to post to it. They have been known to respond privately to public postings although this list is not an official support channel for Aptare (obviously). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4
What, you've only got two engineering binaries applied ? You should try harder to break stuff, we've got 6! =) We keep making cracks about not needing the next MP release at all since we're already running it... John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:25 AM To: Conner, Neil Cc: Cornely, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Are those 2 bugs only in 6.0 MP5 or MP4 as well? I am migrating from Solaris to AIX, and I have to tune the buffer settings on AIX media server to get good throughput. I haven't been able to test NDMP on it yet though. Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) Conner, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/2007 01:19 PM To Cornely, David [EMAIL PROTECTED], veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 6.0 MP5 has two significant bugs that I know of: 1. Compressed catalogs cannot be read when browsing backups to be restored: You have to open a support case and get a new bpdbm binary. 2. NDMP backups fail if you have tuned Netbackup with NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. You have to open a support case get a new bptm binary. Neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cornely, David Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:52 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Well, I'd say got to 6.0 MP5 (not MP4) since it addresses some issues in MP4, specifically things we've had issues with. I'm always very hesitant to move to any new software version of any product, be it Netbackup or anything else. But with Netbackup I've learned not to touch it until at least MP2 is out - clearly Symantec, like most software companies, considers time to market more important than addressing all bugs out of the gate so I strongly suggest 6.0MP5 unless there is a feature only available in 6.5 that you absolutely must have... caveat emptor. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 09:10 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Hi there, I am looking for opinions whether or not to go to 6.5 or 6.0MP4 Currently on 5.1MP6/Solaris - Master/ Solaris, Linux, Windows, Exchange, VM - Clients/ Flashbackup, BareMetal, Oracle raw partitions, - future options Alex Gerber CISSP, CISA Senior UNIX Systems Administrator Sepracor Inc. p. 508.357.7445 f. 508.357. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS COMMUNICATION AND ANY ATTACHMENTS HERETO IS CONFIDENTIAL, MAY BE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED, AND IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE ADDRESSEE(S). IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR AN AGENT THEREOF, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION OR ANY ATTACHMENT HERETO IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY E-MAIL, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE . ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, duplication or other use of this message and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and its attachments. Thank you. == ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help
I'd try either: nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename string -machinetype api | cluster | master | media | ndmp-mediaid string or Inside the GUI, Devices--Hosts, then right-click on your server name and choose Remove device host. Sorry if you've tried one or both of these already, the early part of the thread didn't specify which method you'd already attempted to try and get rid of the old box. John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:50 PM To: Preston, Douglas L; Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help Yea...I figured that...but there has to be a way to clean out the EMM database... Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:10 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills); Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help I had that same issue and once images on the media expired (6 months later) I was able to remove the dead media server. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:53 PM To: Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help Tried that too...after I run the bpmedia -movedb yada yada, I would move a media to stand-alone, but again, no luck, the old media server is still there... Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:52 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help Hmm, I have had to do that with jnbSA with 5.1 you were/are able to force remove it, but you may have to move the media to type - standalone first.. If I recall there is a 2-5minute delay but then it lets you remove the old media server/tape drives (at least in Linux). Justin. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: It works fine, but the I can't get rid of the old media servers from the Devices Hosts. They are offline / deactived, but when I go to delete them I am getting Unable to remove device host Servername from the Enterprise Media Manager Server Masterservername: The EMM server failed to process the request(78). And the only thing I can think of is the old media server names are still tied in with the current media... I have a case w/ Veritas but am not getting much help there. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:20 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help That sounds right, do a test restore to make sure it works! Justin. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: Old one back in is not an option. Where do I put the Force_Restore_media_Server = OLD_Retiree new_server. Remember...Master server is a W2K3 box. If it goes in via the GUI of Host Properties of the Master...General Server...Media host override, then I did already enter them. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:04 PM To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help Hm.. Put the old one back and do it properly OR.. Use: (workaround) FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = old_retiree new_server Hmm, there are probably more options but those are the ones that immediately come to mind. On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote: I rebuilt two media servers and renamed one. And no like a dope I did not following the retiring the media server whitepaper that Veritas so gracefully wrote. So now I have an issue. My entire Master / media servers are Windows 2003 6.0 MP4. The issue I am having is getting all the media changed to the new media servers. I've tried the: Bpmedia -movedb -ev media_ID -oldserver old_server newserver new_server command and it seems to
Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows 2003
And after it's been documented, you'll be adding a chapter in your next
book that covers it in detail? =)
- John Nardello
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis
Preston
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:41 AM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows
2003
I said it was a try. ;) My idea was to start a discussion, not solve
the problem in one email.
I think your comment is confusing two issues:
* Moving from Unix - Windows
* Changing the name of the master server
They are two very different problems. Try to do them both at once, and
you'll have a mess. In my message, I was only trying to do the former,
not the latter. The latter is also an oft-discussed issue, but there's
an unsupported doc from Symantec about how to do it. I think there
should be an unsupported doc on how to deal with this issue. It's been
done. It's been done hundreds of times. Let's document it already and
get it out there.
As to if you have to ask, then you don't have the skill, I understand
what you're saying, but I don't agree with it. I'd say if you don't
understand the process, then don't try it. Or If you haven't tested
the process every way back and forth, then don't do it. Or Don't you
dare use the new server until you've verified that everything made it
over.
As I said in another post, it's all about those line feeds, and in some
cases the endian issue. If you know what to do when, you could do it.
All I'm trying to see is if we can get someone to talk about what they
did when to see if we can get this sucker documented.
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Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:01 PM
To: Curtis Preston
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows
2003
Nice try, but I hope nobody follows the template below. Having been
heavily
involved in a Windows to Solaris migration back in 3.4, I can tell you
it's
a lot more complicated than this. If you have to ask for how to do this
migration, honestly, you don't have the skills to complete it.
The short answer is to get professional help. If you don't know what
you're
doing, you'll corrupt the works, lose backups as you revert, and
generally
create a huge mess for yourself. You've got both the image catalog and
the
volume database to deal with. You can't do one without the other.
Along with the fun stuff that Curtis documented below, you'll run into
files
that are over 2GB that unix2dos won't handle, and internal references to
the
master server name. It's non-trivial and you'll watch NBU break in
weird
and wonderful ways when you try.
When we did a *media server* rename with a Level 3 person on site (and
this
was on 6.0MP4), it still took us several hours and a call to engineering
before we gave up and left it the old name.
.../Ed
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:47 PM
To: Akker Henk van den; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form Solaris to Windows
2003
Back to the original question. I think the databases (Sybase/emm, etc)
would restore just fine, but the text files would have a problem. So
what if you just fixed the text files?
Although it's unsupported, I'm thinking that it's like the scenario
below. (Test and try at your own risk. I'm typing from memory/ideas,
not testing.)
1. Load NBU software on the new master
2. Load Unix utilities on the Windows server (you're going to want
them
anyway)
3. Recover the database (don't start the daemons yet)
4. Run a script like the following
cd openv
find . -print |xargs file |grep text |awk -F: '{print $1}'|while read
i
do
unix2dos $i $$.$i
mv $$.$i $i
done
Again, try at your own risk.
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Catalog Checker
This is the only one that came up when searching for NBCC. This version says it only runs on NB 5.x servers. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: Wilkinson, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:49 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Nardello, John Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Catalog Checker 0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:50:13PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: Wow, going to grab this very quickly and archive it away for safe keeping. On 4/30/07, Nardello, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://support.veritas.com/docs/287433 Is there one for 6.x ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] New technote for Windows NetBackup Masters
http://support.veritas.com/docs/286545 (posted 4/25) Within NetBackup, this repair will automatically occur when accessing the calendar dates of any schedule (Figure 1). This could include the Calendar Schedule tab or the Exclude dates tab within a backup policy or the disk staging schedule of a disk storage unit. When such a calendar component is accessed, it triggers Windows to verify the presence of all the files that are included in the NetBackup installation. If any of these files are missing, Windows will automatically launch the installer to repair such missing files. As a part of the repair, the installer will automatically terminate any NetBackup services. This will result in the immediate termination of any active backup or restore jobs. (emphasis is mine) Hope none of the Windows users out there want to use the Calendar scheduler. =) And if that technote doesn't generate nightmares by itself, picture what happens when your NOC or Operations people stumble upon this issue at 2am in the middle of your largest backup window. Fun fun fun. Yet another reason to use UNIX Masters. - John Nardello ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] New technote for Windows NetBackup Masters
I don't mind the feature necessarily, it's Microsoft's definition of critical I'm concerned about. If the file was truly critical, then I wouldn't be able to access the Calendar features through the Java GUI and have them work. Or heck, even have NetBackup function at all. And yet Java works fine, as does NetBackup, as has for months before we noticed this issue on several Masters. I haven't had time to prove it yet but I'm pretty sure their definition of critical includes readme files and PDF documents installed by default with NetBackup. So yes, I'm a little annoyed that they're shutting down my services in order to 'repair' this problem. Anyone with time and a test box want to double-check that ? And for the record, my lawn is currently about 7 high so certainly direct all the complaints to me that you want. =) - John Nardello The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:59 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] New technote for Windows NetBackup Masters Ok.. I was going to reserve comment but after those two comments bump that... INCOMING SARCASM - FLAME ON Synopsis of Technote - If you remove any of the critical Netbackup files from Drive:\Program Files\Veritas when you run the Admin Gui on the Netbackup Server, Windows Installer is (::ghasp / horrified look::) going to try and put them back. I mean, seriously, what is Microsoft thinking trying to put application critical executables back into their proper places? What kind of a drunken imbecile of an admin wants their applications where they belong? And even if we thought this was a good thing, we certainly wouldn't want to call it a feature!? And surely Symantec should realize a patch to fix this undesirable good idea! Thank you very much for pointing this out, I appreciate the effort. I think its great that you Xnix guys lob whatever bit of windows misunderstanding across the fence you can find to potentially hit us on the head with. We after all as Windows admins aren't very smart, and hitting us in the head with misunderstanding is certainly the best way to educate us. For the record: This is a feature of windows (go delete excel.exe and try running excel and you will also find this issue present on non-nbu machines too!) Once the msiexec (windows installer) is done replacing the missing files NBU will function fine and your operations people at 2:00AM will continue sleeping as usual, calendar function fully restored. I really am APPALLED at the level of blatant disrespect thrown around on this forum between Xnix and Windows admins. You should be ashamed. As both an SCSA and MCSE who supports everthing from Windows NT and Solaris 2.6 to Windows Server 2003 and Redhat 4 I find your attitudes pathetic. If you feel the need to make someone miserible, why not go complain to your neighbor when his lawn gets over 3 high because I'd prefer this forum remain clear for good natured assistance from Netbackup Administrators and peers. -Jonathan I work with whatever makes you happy Martin PS: No I am not going to buy your book. FLAME OFF ___ 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 Catalog Checker
http://support.veritas.com/docs/287433 Confirmed you can still download it too. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:45 PM To: Barstow, Allan (SN) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Catalog Checker Symantec does not give this tool out. On 4/26/07, Barstow, Allan (SN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to determine the current level of NBCC and how to download it. There was a document 285909 at one time, but it appears to have been removed. The current 6.0 upgrade manual still lists the use of this program as a requirement. Any help would be appreciated. Allan Barstow Spirit AeroSystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] bpshed activity entry
Forget checking the sched log shudder. bpconfig is your friend. =) C:\PROGRA~1\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmdbpconfig -U Admin Mail Address: Wakeup Interval: 30 minutes Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 15 Backup Tries: 2 time(s) in 12 hour(s) Keep Error/Debug Logs:14 days Max drives this master: 12 Keep TrueImageRecovery Info: 0 days Compress Image DB Files: (not enabled) Media Mount Timeout: 0 minutes (unlimited) Shared Media Mount Timeout:15 minutes Display Reports: 24 hours ago Preprocess Interval: 4 hours (default) Maximum Backup Copies:4 Image DB Cleanup Interval:12 hours C:\PROGRA~1\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmdbpconfig -l *NULL* 30 12 15 2 14 12 0 0 900 12 24 0 0 4 You want your script to check field 2 for the wakeup interval. You may want to check the 'backup tries' field as well (field 5) to make sure it's larger than 0. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:45 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpshed activity entry Hi all Its been a while , hope you are all well. Quick Q which someone might be able to answer straight off the bat. We had a situation where the wake up interval was set to 0, probably due to some planned work however this was not changed back out of error and therefore all scheduled backups failed understandably. Want to put a quick script together to check the bpsched log to confirm bpsched is in actual fact waking up scheduling jobs. Need I say 5.1, as the bpsched log is huge can anyone point out the text I'm looking for to save me trawling ? Much appreciated Dave Clooney Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender immediately by telephone. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to external clients any opinions or advice contained in this internet e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing terms of business or client engagement letter issued by the pertinent Bank of America group entity. If this email originates from the U.K. please note that Bank of America, N.A., London Branch and Banc of America Securities Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ___ 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] NBU 4.5 end of life
Last info I heard from my Account Manager on NB 4.5 support: ..full support stopped on 7/1/06. From there we still take calls and troubleshoot the product but will not release any more fixes, etc. That continues until 4/29/07 at which time we can't dedicate any more resources to supporting the product in any fashion. And to anticipate your next question: =) NBU 5.1 was actively sold until 10/3/05. Full support (MP's, patches, etc) for the product is scheduled to end on 10/3/07. Final end of Support Life (where we no longer take calls for it) ends on 12/1/08. Given that I've never worked for Symantec and that these answers were provided in December '05, please take them with a grain of salt. If you're impacted by either statement, absolutely check with Support and/or your own Account Manager and see if the dates have been modified. Or just use them as a stick to beat your users into upgrading, either way. =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Skates Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:56 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 4.5 end of life When is (or when did) Veritas going to end of life version 4.5 of NBU? Regards, Andy Skates ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Poll: Who is running ACSLS (SL500/STK8500/etc) with6.0 MP4?
ACSLS 7.1.0 last patch applied was PTF835586S two SL8500 libraries Currently running NB 6.0 MP4 on the two environments that hook into this ACSLS server, no problems. Heck, even when we were below MP4 I don't think we had ACSLS problems. =) Very stable application. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:57 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Poll: Who is running ACSLS (SL500/STK8500/etc) with6.0 MP4? How stable has it been? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris client software
Possibilities: 1) Take a look at whether you can use the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files script to rsh or ftp the files to the clients. 1a) Hack the install_client_files script to use scp and sftp if you need to bypass a firewall or don't allow unsecured protocols like rsh/rcp. 2) If you can't go to them directly, run install_client_files and ftp the files to a server close to your Master (can't be a Master or Media though). Then make a tarball up of the /tmp/bp directory and copy THAT over to your client. 3) Last choice: copy over one at a time the 125-ish files that make up the NetBackup client for Solaris 8, making sure you put them all into the right place with the right permissions. And add the /etc/services entries needed. I really recommend options 1 or 2 though, if for no other reason than they'll build clients that are patched to whatever level your Master is. If you absolutely have to do option 3 for some other reason, shoot me a note offline and I'll get you something that might help. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WALLEBROEK Bart Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 4:11 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Solaris client software What part of the Veritas NetBackup 5.1 for Solaris install CD is needed to install the client software on a Solaris server. In other words: Instead on inserting the Installation CD in the client (which is sometimes not possible -- geographically speaking) what files are needed (minimum) to be able to install the client software on a Solaris server (so I can copy those files over and install it) ? Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Systems Applications Management Support Specialist Customer Operations - SDC Deployment Tel: + 32 2 655 30 75Mob: + 32 478 31 61 77Fax: +32 2 655 41 85 S.W.I.F.T. SCRL ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] File restore search?
In the restore GUI, select all the images the file might be in. Then there's an icon on the far-right of a pair of binoculars you can hit, or go under the Actions menu and select Search backups. The window displays the file name, size, backup date, modification date, and path for each hit. Of course, if you advertise this to your users they'll never give you an exact path for a restore ever again =) - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Fogarty Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:52 AM To: 'Sixbury, Dan'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] File restore search? /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bplist -R -PI file_name from the root, will search all backups for the whole server for file_name Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sixbury, Dan Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:18 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] File restore search? Is there a way to search a list of backups for a specific file name to see if it exists on the backups? i.e. I have a file name, but the person requesting the restore can't recall what directory / File System the file was stored in. Thanks Dan ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Moving media ownership doesn't work under NB 6
Has anyone else noticed yet that you can no longer move media ownership between Masters running NetBackup 6 ? So much for our typical site decom procedures Trying it gets you a -1 exit status (invalid error number), and the bptm log will show the following: 13:19:02.685 [1240.4812] 4 get_mediaDB_byid: (-) Translating EMM_ERROR_Success(0) to 0 in the Media context 13:19:02.763 [1240.4812] 16 change_server: (-) Translating EMM_ERROR_MachineNotExist(200) to 220 in the NetBackup context 13:19:02.763 [1240.4812] 16 change_server: unable to change the Assigned Host Name from alpha to beta 13:19:02.763 [1240.4812] 4 DeleteConnectionID: (-) Cleared Connection ID 0 13:19:02.763 [1240.4812] 4 emmlib_uninitialize: (0) Successfully released EMM session and database objects 13:19:02.763 [1240.4812] 2 bptm: EXITING with status -1 -- Anyone have any creative ideas for getting around this problem ? Just thought I'd check. - John ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] The *NEW* support site
NB 3 4 Technote digest for the month: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NETBACKUPDC_digest.htm NB 5 6 Technote digest for the month: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/NBUESVR_digest.htm Always interesting reading. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne T Smith Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:34 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] The *NEW* support site I wasn't too fond of the old Veritas site, but the Symantec NetBackup site is way beyond functional. If customers don't demand better than the v6.0 debacle and this dysfunctional support site, why should Symantec change? Grinding salt into the wound, Veritas sent me their monthly URL to the digest of new TechNotes, something I've always found useful. Their e-mail process still works, but the provided URL no longer functions and I can find no similar function on the support web site. The new site is so bad that I'm at a loss to find suggestions for improvement, besides suggest: start over; be the customer. :-( cheers, wayne Greenberg, Katherine A wrote, in part, on 11/13/2006 3:45 PM: OK, So, is it just me or does the latest re-design of the support site suck more than any previous BAD incarnation of the support site? ___ 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] 64 bit
Yep. 64-bit binaries are not available until 5.1 MP4 though. These are full installers, not patches. NB_51_4_M_280424.WINNT.IA64.EXE NB_51_4_M_280590.WINNT.X64.EXE http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NBUESVR_view_DOWNLOAD.htm - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wooten, FH Frank @ ISSent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:28 PMTo: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] 64 bit I have been trying to load NB 5.1 onto a windows box which runs SQL. Whenever I try and load the software it breaks the installer and doesnt allow anything to be installed. I guess my question is does veritas have a software package specifically for 64bit machines. Thanks Frank Frank Wooten E-mail Server Group L-3 Integrated Systems 903-457-3934 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Networking / client issue?
I've also seen that issue when you install software that doesn't support that version of the Client's OS. For example, installing NetBackup 5.1 onto a server running HP-UX 10.20. Just a thought. - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry KempSent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:51 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Networking / client issue? Hi Dan, I've seen this a few times - I think its a name resolution issue on the client. Log onto the client and run the bpclntcmd command (/usr/openv/netbackup/bin on Unix and something similar on Windows) with the following flags: bpclntcmd -pn bpclntcmd -self bpclntcmd -hn master_server bpclntcmd -ip master_server_ip bpclntcmd -server master_server If you compare this output against a working backup client you should be able to identify the issue. Rgds, Henry On 17 Oct 2006, at 18:34, Sixbury, Dan wrote: I have been having an issue with one of my clients backing up getting a 54 Error. I tried some basic network troubleshooting, like checking the duplex, which was fine and also made sure that port 13782 is listening on the client. All of that seemed fine, and if I am on the client, I noticed that I can telnet client 13782 which works fine. Going to the master server and telnet client 13782 gives the following # telnet client-host 13782 Trying 10.10.x.x... Connected to client-host. Escape character is '^]'. gethostbyaddr: Error 0 Connection to client-host closed by foreign host. Suggestions on what else to try? Thanks,Dan ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu **This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential andintended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom theyare addressed. If you have received this email in error please notifythe system manager.This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept byMIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.www.mimesweeper.com** ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Hardware Requirements
Couple of quick things that'll hopefully provide someone some ideas of what to expect. I've got it running on an older test box (v480) with Solaris 10. 4 900 MHz CPUs, 16 GB memory. I'm monitoring three NB 6 servers and the load on my NOM server usually looks like: load averages: 0.24, 0.22, 0.18 58 processes: 57 sleeping, 1 on cpu CPU states: 95.7% idle, 1.9% user, 2.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 16G real, 13G free, 655M swap in use, 21G swap free (first few lines from a top) This is a server doing nothing else but running NOM. From what I can tell, both the database back-end to NOM and its web interface will require some decent horsepower to keep users happy with the results. Hope this helps somewhat. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:36 AM To: Koster, Phil Cc: veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Hardware Requirements $ du -sh *NOM* 234MNB_60_NOM.tar.gz The program itself is big, you need to install ICS, setup tunnel/authentication/brokering etc.. I remember the patches were 50-250MB as well, which I thought was crazy. I had set this up 4-5 months ago for test purposes and I do not recall the exact amount of memory; however, I do remember there were a lot of processes in use, the ICS stuff, a number of webserver-like applications for NOM, etc.. Perhaps someone on the list who is -currently- using NOM can shed some light on this? Thanks, Justin. On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Koster, Phil wrote: My intention was on Linux but in this case I guess I will have to go Windows. What kind of RAM and HDD was this thing using? GB of RAM and 5 GB HDD? More? We are going to use VMWare/ESX 2.5 and I would rather get this thing sized right to start with. Thanks. Phil 456-3136 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:08 AM To: Koster, Phil Cc: veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NOM Hardware Requirements Unless you meant running the application within Windows within VMWare or similar-- I installed it once on a Windows Server box, it was a big hog IMO for memory/disk space. On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote: NOM requires Solaris or Windows server, it is not supported on any other platform. On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Koster, Phil wrote: We are getting ready to put NOM in a Linux VM. Can anyone give me some idea as to what kind of resources this needs? Specifically looking for RAM and HDD space requirements. I looked at the NOM getting started guide, Admin guide for Windows vol I II, and all I could find were common sense things like a reliable server. Thanks. Phil Koster Network Administrator City of Grand Rapids Direct: 616-456-3136 Helpdesk: 456-3999 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux Shared Memory Configuration
Technote talking about Linux kernel tuning recommendations: http://support.veritas.com/docs/263755 A little old but I doubt the variables have changed any. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathryn Hemness Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:59 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Shared Memory Configuration Greetings, My backup enterprise currently consists of a Solaris 9 Sun V240 master and 3 Sun X4200 RHEL3 Linux Media Servers running NB51MP5. I've been getting the following messages for backups and duplications to storage units on my Linux media servers: problems encountered during setup of shared memory (89) I use disk storage units and a mixed LTO2/LTO3 library. I've attempted to setup my Linux media servers similar to my Solaris 9 master by using the same NUMBER/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS files in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config. But on my Solaris 9 master, I also had /etc/system settings for msgsys, semsys, and shmsys values. I haven't been able to find anything about needing similar /etc/system tuning on Linux (I believe the /etc/system equivalents are set via the /etc/sysctl.conf file). I'm hoping someone can tell me if all of the /etc/system parameters can be set with sysctl on Linux and if their names are the same. Here are my current Solaris /etc/system parameters: set msgsys:msginfo_msgmap=512 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmax=8192 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=65536 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmni=256 set msgsys:msginfo_msgssz=16 set msgsys:msginfo_msgtql=512 set msgsys:msginfo_msgseg=8192 set semsys:seminfo_semmap=64 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300 set semsys:seminfo_semopm=32 set semsys:seminfo_semume=64 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=536870912 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=220 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 Any help is appreciated. --Kathy ___ 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] NetBackup and HSM ?
Is anyone using NetBackup to back up a server that has files archived by TSM's HSM product ? Does it handle the stub files okay, or would doing this result in pulling everything back from the archive ? NetBackup 5.1 MP4 or better, if that matters. I'd appreciate any tips or pointers on pulling this off. - John Nardello ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and HSM ?
I'm concerned with backing up Tivoli HSM stub files - if I can back them up in the first place, I'm much less worried about successfully restoring them. =) We're not using VSM at all. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall, Christian N. Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and HSM ? John, I have successfully restored VSM 5.1 meta-data after we re-creating VxFS file system with a larger block size. What is your reasoning for restore? -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nardello, John Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:58 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and HSM ? Is anyone using NetBackup to back up a server that has files archived by TSM's HSM product ? Does it handle the stub files okay, or would doing this result in pulling everything back from the archive ? NetBackup 5.1 MP4 or better, if that matters. I'd appreciate any tips or pointers on pulling this off. - John Nardello ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicates in bpmedialist.
The big problem is that with two media servers thinking they both own the same tape, they'll each go through and happily overwrite the other's images. I've seen a tape marked as FULL on one media server and barely used on a second - not pretty. Your best bet is going to be to expire the tape contents on each media server (so the catalog is consistent again) and then import the tape back into the catalog (from the server of your choice). Alternately, you could run a media contents report against it and delete every image the media servers showed except the ones on the report. Little easier to mess that up though. That's the only way you're going to get a good feeling about the true tape contents and your ability to restore images from that tape. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:20 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicates in bpmedialist. Are you saying you have two media with the same barcode label? Nope (at least I don't think so). I believe there is one media and it had been allocated by different media servers at different times (at some point in the past). (Maybe someone deassigned it instead of expiring it?) I've had that problem in the past with SDLT tapes. I just ran the mediacontents report on each tape. You can't have them both in the robot at the same time. I always found that one of them didn't have any images on it. I took the empty tape label off, threw it away, and put a new label on it. Even before you did that, did you have two 'bpemdialist' entries? That's the bit I need to correct. One of them believes it is an empty, frozen tape. The other thinks it is a normal, full tape. I want to tell the one that thinks it's empty and frozen to get rid of it's information. Interesting is that if I do 'bpmedialist -m volume' I only get one entry. If I do 'bpmedialist | grep ^volume', I see it twice. I think in the first case after it finds an entry on one media server it stops looking. # bpmedialist -l | grep ^0151L2 0151L2 *NULL* 1 14 1099888658 1100061437 2147483647 1118707970 308609962 15 15 24 8 3 552 1024 0 1054426 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0151L2 *NULL* 1 14 1078041614 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 17 1024 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 # status = 17 = 0x11. Anyone know what status 0x10 bit is? I don't see that in the man page. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] Client Installation Questions
Title: Message SET CLIENT=%computername%.%userdnsdomain% - John Nardello From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conner, MikeSent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:26 AMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Client Installation Questions Hi everyone, we have NBU 5.1 MP4 on a windows platform. I have a couple questions for you We script out the installation of NetBackup to not require any user interaction. We currently have installation documentation that states that we should run the NetBackup service under administrative credentials, therefore requiring us to use a specific domain account. We are wondering what the best practice is here? Seeing as the default installation setting sets up the service to run as Local System. We would like to simply use the Local System account. If however, it is best practice to specify an administrative account, can we include that information in our MSI installation script? I do not see where to do so. We do not have an advanced packaging environment to create custom MSTs, knowing that we could probably use such a method to install the client service using whatever account we wish. We also know we can go behind our installation with a VBS to change service login information. However, this does not provide that specific account Log on as service rights in the Local Security policy. We do not currently control this setting using a GPO. One more question: In our installation script, we are using the %computername% variable to specify the computers name in the client software. This however, provides the NetBIOS name. Is there a way, or variable, to automatically provide the machines Fully Qualified Domain Name?
[Veritas-bu] Managing client versions through Marimba ?
Is anyone else is trying to manage NetBackup client versions through Marimba (http://www.marimba.com/)? I'm especially interested whether anyone has pulled off doing it with Windows clients yet and what kind of impact this has (if any) on the host when you push out an upgrade. Just wondering. - John Nardello ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and VXSS
Tried it at version 5.1MP3. Eventually got a note from Symantec saying that they were giving up implementing it in our environment. It produced a quite noticeable amount of lag accessing the GUIs, and since they weren't able to get AD to work here it would've required managing 60-odd users' permissions on each of our ~30 masters. Most of the problems are apparently slated to be fixed in NetBackup 6.5. For us anyway, it wasn't worth the headache or the time wasted. I'll also say I haven't seen anyone yet post to the list that they're using it and it works. =) YMMV of course. - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mkiles Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:44 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and VXSS I just want to check if there are users using VxSS and Netbackup? What benfit does VXSS give, is it worth the headaches? Also is there a some simple docs to read on VxSS, the sysadmin manuals are a drag. TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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] re: sharing tape library across solaris 10 zones
See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/275107.htm A new Solaris 10 feature, Containers or Zones allows the configuration of global and non-global zones. NetBackup Server is supported only in a global zone. I'd be interested if you can pull it off anyway though. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zhisong Jin Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 12:19 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] re: sharing tape library across solaris 10 zones Hi, Q: what is the best way to share devices such as tape library among different zones? I have a situation that I need run vertas netbackup in two separate zones, while sharing the same tape library due to budget constraints. in order to share it, I'm thinking about shuttle the devices via zoneadm/zonecfg to add/remove devices to the zone(s) , reload the zone. and use zonecfg/zoneadm to shuttle device after backup is done. and on .., and doing this via a cron script. is this a sensible thing to do ? any better solutions? Thanks. Jason ___ 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] Windows backup failing to Unix Server - Succeeds to Windows server
Title: Message Under Windows the bp.conf entries are all stored in the registry instead. Just go into the host properties of the client through the JAVA GUI and it'll look much the same as a UNIX client. Go and configure yourSERVER and MEDIA_SERVER entriesas normal. If you get another "access denied" message when trying to pull up the client's host properties, you'll need to have your SA go in through his Windows Master and add the UNIX Master to the SERVERs list on the client. Otherwise, it sounds like you just need to add your media server as a SERVER or MEDIA_SERVER. - John Nardello -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff LightnerSent: Friday, December 30, 2005 1:10 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Windows backup failing to Unix Server - Succeeds to Windows server An odd one here. Our Windows Admin has attempted to setup a Windows machine to be backed up by our Unix Master. When he does he gets a Status 59 which means the server isnt recognized by the client. When he uses his Windows Master to do this it goes just fine. Per the troubleshooting we turned on logging on the client. In the bprd log we see lines like: bpcd valid_server: comparing cthroat.water.com and atubks01.dsw.net. atubks01.dsw.net is the name of the Unix server. cthroat.water.com was our old server and that address has been aliased to point to the new server. After the initial statements we see bcd valid_server hostname comparison succeeded so that seems good. Later in the log though I see it comparing the Windows Master to my main Production DB server which is confusing because: 1) Weve told it to use the Unix Master which doesnt know about the Windows Master. 2) It says the Production DB server is not a server (presumably meaning master) which is true but also says not a media server which is NOT true. If this were Unix Id think he had odd entries in bp.conf that needed to be changed. However I dont know Windows and didnt see anything called bp.conf when doing an explore of the Netbackup directory there. Any ideas on what I could check? The troubleshooting guide makes it clear this is an issue with the client recognizing the server not vice-versa so I need some idea what to check on the Windows side. Jeffrey C. Lightner Unix Systems Administrator DS Waters of North America 678-486-3516
RE: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question
Veritas says to create a different filesystem for Full and Incrementals, due to the backup sizes generally involved and how many files have to get deleted for each when cleaning a DSSU. Future versions of NetBackup sound like they'll do a much better job of handling staging disks. Some light reading for you: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/270101.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/270079.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/268777.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/265305.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/278169.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273532.htm Depending on what you're using for back-end storage, EMC also has a pair of whitepapers/briefs you can get on running backups to disk. They should be available from their webpage somewhere. Effective Write Bandwidth with CLARiiON ATA Disk Drives and RAID 3: Backup-to=Disk and Streaming Media EMC Backup Storage Solutions: Backup-to-Disk Guide with VERITAS NetBackup Have fun. =) - John Nardello Your backups are only as good as your restores. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:51 AM To: Johnson, Eric K Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk volume layout question On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Johnson, Eric K wrote: We are in the early stages of migrating from Legato NetWorker to Veritas NetBackup 5.1. As part of our migration, we are adding enough disk space to hold one week worth of backups before they are staged to tape. When configuring our disk (approximately 9.6TB before RAID in a Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA array. NetBackup server is a Sun E450 running Solaris 10) are there any recommendations for how it should be separated out into volumes? Is it better to have one large volume? Many small volumes? What are the advantages and disadvantages to the given volume sizes from a NetBackup perspective? With 5.1, a job will fail if the DSSU fills up. There are no mechanisms to throw a bunch of volumes at it and let NetBackup chose. With 6.0, this problem is supposed to go away. For now, I'd think that you would want to create a single large array. All of this assumes that all backups are created equally. If there is some stuff that you need to guarantee stays on disk for a week, you may need to set up individual DSSUs for that stuff (we're doing this for some Oracle databases). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 MP4
From the MP4 readme: Etrack Incident = ET313352 Description: Disk staging only submits one duplication job at a time so it was unable to make use of idle tape drives. Additional Notes: Up to four bpduplicate jobs are submitted at a time. The duplication jobs contain images grouped into jobs of 25 Gigabytes. By creating files named MAX_STAGING_JOBS and STAGING_JOB_KB_LIMIT in the NetBackup directory on the master server, these defaults can be adjusted as needed. For the STAGING_JOB_KB_LIMIT, the value is in kilobytes and the default is 26214400 (25 gigabytes). A smaller value causes more jobs to be submitted, but there will only be MAX_STAGING_JOBS running at a time. It's not a bug, it's a feature. I've also seen those bid files present under 5.1 MP3a so it's nothing new anyway. I haven't seen hundreds either so I'm pretty sure NB is cleaning up after itself at some point. - John Nardello Your backups are only as good as your restores. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geyer, Gregory Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 3:14 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 MP4 We've upgraded to 5.1 MP4 and are now experiencing issues with Disk staging. We've got a ticket open but interested to see if anyone else has experience these issues: The disk staging process now automatically takes 4 tape drives per DSSU when going off to tape. This is a problem if you have 6 DSSUs and only 15 tape drives, not to mention those drives are needed for other media servers. It is now also creating these files on the DSSU media servers in /usr/openv/netbackup: root@hostname:/usr/openv/netbackup# ll bid* -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1984 Dec 15 13:20 bid_file_bladestore_oracle0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 530 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_1_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1219 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_2_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root18 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_3_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 293 Jul 1 2004 bid_file_bladestore_staging_1TB0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4375 Dec 15 10:04 bid_file_bladestore_unix0 SNIP In the files are a listing of images to get backed up. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] VMD Buffer Overflow patch
Took a while to dig this info up - you'd think something this important would be in bold flashing letters at the top or something From the NB_CLT_51_3S2_M patch release notes, http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280098.htm - Etrack Incident = ET494041 ET494466 ET498548 Description: A vulnerability has been confirmed in the NetBackup Volume Manager daemon (vmd). By sending a specially crafted packet to the Volume Manager, a stack overflow occurs. This is caused by improper bounds checking. Exploitation does not require authentication, thereby allowing a remote attacker to take over the system or disrupt the backup capabilities. Further testing and code inspection has revealed that all other NetBackup 5.1 daemons are potentially affected in the same manner. Therefore, any Master Servers, Media Servers, CLIENTS and Console machines at this version level are subject to this vulnerability. However, NetBackup 5.1 database agents are not affected by this issue. - Looking at the .cab file, it's applying new bpcd, bpfis, bpinetd, bpjava_msvc, bpjava_usvc, mtfrd, and ssm executables, plus a new netbackup.dll and version file. I expect the UNIX patch has much the same stuff. Going by this, you have to patch everything. Again. =) - John Nardello -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Williams, Kristopher L Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:00 AM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMD Buffer Overflow patch From what I can tell, the problem really isn't just with VMD, it's with a shared library that VMD uses. Other things use that same library, so I'm thinking both the clients and master/media servers need to be upgraded. I've opened a support call, but it seems like I keep getting different answers from them. It sure would be nice for Veritas/Symantec to give a definitive answer on something than is so important. Below is the technote where I got my info. Check it out and see if you read it the same way I do. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/279553.htm http://support.veritas.com/docs/280091 Thanks, Kris -Original Message- From: James Pattinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:46 AM To: Williams, Kristopher L; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VMD Buffer Overflow patch Hi There is no vmd on a client so I think we are ok! Cheers James Williams, Kristopher L wrote: I'm sure everyone is aware of the latest security patch release for NB 5.0 and 5.1. Has anyone figured out yet if both clients and master/media servers need to patched? For the sake of long nights of patching, I certainly hope it's just the master/media servers! Thanks guys, Kris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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
