[Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable
Encryption works great for the physical media. But for Virtual Tapes or the Deduped Tapes, encryption is not recommended. I think the way dedup works is once Netbackup relabels the tape, the pointers to the data from the tape are lost. Is this true ? Thanks ewilts wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, rvadde > backupcentral.com (netbackup-forum < at > backupcentral.com)> wrote: > > > > > I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are > > aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the legal > > purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a possibility that > > legal might come back and ask to hold all tapes including the scratch tapes > > because Netbackup has a mechanism to read those tapes and import them. > > > > Is there a way we can make Netbackup tapes as unimportable easily with out > > rewriting the whole tape? > > One way I can think off the top of my head is to start by encrypting all of > your tapes. Then, once they expire, do a bplabel on the tape. This will > rewrite the label on the tape and throw and end-of-tape on it. Your tape is > now unreadable. You can't send it to a data recovery firm either since the > contents are encrypted. > > The opinions that I've received here suggest that we only have to go to > reasonable efforts to recover data. That does not include an import of all of > the scratch tapes to see if we happen to have the data in expired images. > Once the data is gone from the catalog, we're supposed to be okay. Until some > lawyer/judge says otherwise :-(. > > > .../Ed > > > > Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE > > ewilts < at > ewilts.org (ewilts < at > ewilts.org) > +-- |This was sent by rajesh_va...@fanniemae.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] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable
Greetings, I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the legal purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a possibility that legal might come back and ask to hold all tapes including the scratch tapes because Netbackup has a mechanism to read those tapes and import them. Is there a way we can make Netbackup tapes as unimportable easily with out rewriting the whole tape? Thanks +-- |This was sent by rajesh_va...@fanniemae.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] IBM TS 3500 Tape Library Control Path Fail Over
Thanks. In tpconfig do you use /dev/smc as the robotic path or /dev/ovpass? According to IBM if we use /dev/ovpass robotic path will not fail over. +-- |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] IBM TS 3500 Tape Library Control Path Fail Over
Is there any one using IBM TS 3500 Tape Library Control Path Fail Over using under netbackup? IBM says to use this feature we need to use IBMtape driver. Symantec says we need to use only ovpass/sg driver for the robots. If we don't use Control Path Fail Over feature if a drive which has the robotic control path fails we need to reconfigure the robotic path. Ugly situation. Any suggestions/recommendations? Thanks +-- |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] LTO4 Media Type
Greetings, We currently have a lot of investment in LTO3 Drives and Tapes and moving forward with LTO4. Is there a way we can se LTO4 Media Type to be different than HCART3 in Netbackup? 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] Fragment Size Any Guidance
Greetings! Is there some one who has recommendations about the Fragment Size for Tape Drive Storage Units (Physical and Virtual)? With newer faster tape drives - do we really need to fragment the backup images? I know the benifits of fragmenting - to position to a specific file quickly which helps the reoveries. But it seems when we use fragmenting - for every fragment the tape has to position which stops streaming and slows down. Any suggestions? Thanks +-- |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] Flash Backup Bugs - 6.5.2
Greetings! Just want to share the bugs we identified with Flash Backups on NBU 6.5.2. Symantec is continuing their tradition of breaking flash backups with every major release. a) The old method of specifying the cache partitions in policy includes does not work. The Flash Backup Admin Guide specifically mentioned that it will work - but it won't. b) For every raw partition that is mentioned in the policy includes list - snap is created during the parent job. Even the actual backup is not active snap is created upfront. c) There is a limit to the max. number of snaps - which is 64. That means you cannot have more than 64 raw file systems in the includes list. We have some work arounds to deal with these issues and symantec is working to fix these. +-- |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] Netbackup Copy Creation time
Guess what. You are absolutely right. My mind is not with me definitely today. Thanks again for pointing out. +-- |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] Netbackup Copy Creation time
Thanks Mike. We are indeed running NBU 6.5.2 on one of our masters and I don't see the additional fields in the FRAG Lines. According to the technote, Filed 25 should be the copy creation time, but I don't see those many fileds. Here is the example of the FRAG Line from a 6.5.2 system - FRAG 1 1 495360 0 2 6 198 D00145 262144 429751 1216869152 0 0 *NULL* 1217734709 1 65536 0 0 0 0 0 1217047219 0 *NULL* +-- |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] Netbackup Copy Creation time
Greetings, Is there a way that we can identify a Backup Copy Creation? A Netbackup Image can have multiple copies and the copy creation time of each copy can be different. Bpimagelist and bpimmedia seems to have only assigned times in their output. How can we identify the copy creation time? Thanks +-- |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] Backup Reporting & Monitoring Tool for NetBackup
We used Aptare for 2 years and did not like the product. It was missing a lot of information and finally we ended up dumping it. It seems like a nice tool for smaller environments but now for environments like us - around 6000 jobs and 100 TB per night. +-- |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] Media Tracking -
This thread is to get a feeling of what others are using for tracking their media. We have around 30,000 media and we don't have a tracking system built in. We depend on Netbackup and some other tools, but no tool is complete now. Are people using any off the shelf tools such as Vertices or so? If so what are the thoughts. 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
