[Veritas-bu] drives not available error
i doubt it since most times it will use all three drives at the same time i'm in the process of rebooting and was going to update the firmware on the HP robot/drives and while shutting down some netbackup services they hung. so for now i'm thinking this is just a memory leak or something similar where it just hung +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] drives not available error
i have a HP tape robot with 3 LTO-4 drives on a master/media server. we use it to backup a few servers, nothing major. all my policies are set up to use the max number of drives lately i've noticed that sometimes NB will not use a drive even though one is available, up and should be used. did some googling around and it seems to be a bug on version 6.5.x which we are on. maybe even on 7.x has this been fixed on 7.x or is it still a problem? and anyway to fix it other than a reboot? +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] SQL file stats not correct
you may have a database with a huge log file and/or white space in the data file. most of our databases have white space for future growth +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] replicating backup data
i support a small environment of backing up 15 or so servers to LTO-4 tape using netbackup 6.5. keep some tapes onsite, recycle others and send one offsite every month. nothing high tech. now there is discussion of having all of the backups or some of the recent ones in a DR site. question is how to do it using netbackup. is it supported natively in 7.1? will we need to buy multiple appliances? +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] some hosts in a policy not backing up
took a little while to figure it out, but turns out i ran manual backups of at least one of these hosts on Monday and the frequency is set to 1 week. changed it to 5 days and might do it to 4 +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] some hosts in a policy not backing up
i've created some more policies recently to get backups to start at the end of the business day. trying to group my backups so that the shortest running jobs start earlier and the longer running ones run at night. One of the new policies i created has 6 hosts and only 2 back up. i looked at activity monitor to check to see what time everything backed up and there is nothing for the other 4 hosts in that policy. it's like they don't exist. thought it was a frequency issue, but some of the databases in that policy haven't had a full backup in 2 weeks +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] NBU 6.5.4 appearing on FTP site
anyone brave enough to install it yet? i know it's a service pack but i'm always getting emails from Symantec about how your backups are gone if you do so and so +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] LTO4 recognized as DLT
yes, we had them barcoded by the vendor before they sent them to us +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] NBU 5.1 Migration from Win to HP-UX
been a long time since we had 5.1 what do they use? has to be a way to read the raw data somehow +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] LTO4 recognized as DLT
this is a brand new install. the old environment is so old that it was too expensive to upgrade it or buy something to hold both types of tapes. the ADIC is using DLT 8000 drives and we have the 40/80 GB tapes. the SDLT drives that can read them can only be bought from junk dealers. since this is my first time setting up netbackup, it's a learning curve. and there is so much documentation it's too much to take in at once. when it discovered the robot, drives and tapes it automatically labeled them as dlt. next week i'll probably change it to hcart. for now we'll probably use the old robot and server for old restores. but it has been flaky in the past and in case it dies for good we'll need to buy an old SDLT autoloader. +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] NBU 5.1 Migration from Win to HP-UX
since netbackup is sybase you can try to manually copy the db. set up new server. use sybase tools to connect to old and new servers. copy the data and schema +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] NBU 5.1 Migration from Win to HP-UX
i'm doing a solaris to Windows migration. plan is to just import the old tapes into the new environment when needed. or just keep the old hardware around. if you can connect both robots to the old server you should be able to migrate the data from the old tapes to the new ones. what we do is we have a few archive SQL databases for old data and anytime we restore SQL data that is not in the archive, we just add it to the archive. this reduces the amount of future restores we have to do. storage is pretty cheap, so you can also buy some to restore the old data and back it up on the new server and new tapes +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] Media Import & Restoration
i'm a windows guy and always needed pictures i would run phase 1 from the netbackup admin console. go to catalog and then under actions choose import. then pick the dates and choose import in the gui part for phase 2. last year i had issues with phase 1 and had to open a support case and they sent me the commands to run. turned out our catalog was corrupt +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] LTO4 recognized as DLT
hypothetically we aren't going to junk our old ADIC Scalar 1000 and the solaris server that's running netbackup 6 MP4. we're just going to not use them and/or shut them down until we need to restore something. Or we're going to put in a SCSI card in the new server and just run the ADIC to the new server or buy a 1 drive robot with 10 tape slots or so for old restores. not sure yet. if we end up importing our old DLT tapes into this new installation will it be a problem? can we just label those tapes hcart or something else? if we have to completely destroy the test backups we made so far, it's not a problem since we're still testing. +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] LTO4 recognized as DLT
i just had the same thing happen to me on NB 6.5.3. we're still in the testing stage of a new HP MSL 8096 and NB 6.5.3 running on a HP x86 server on Windows 2003. the compatibility list says the robot is type TLD and it recognized it as such. all the tapes were recognized as DLT. we're getting very good perfomance, but long term we might connect an old autoloader to this to import old DLT tapes and i'm concerned this may be a problem. should I delete the robot and set it up again making sure it says HCART3? we're using LTO-4 drives and tapes +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] Is anyone using a HP MSL 8096 tape library?
we'll see what happens if we lock in 8 years of support then the TS 3310 is pretty much the same price as the HP robot. At 3 years, HP is cheaper. i've read a lot of good things about IBM and Sun but not too much about HP tape robots and was wondering if anyone used it. waiting for pricing to come back on a SL500 and Sun's quarterly financials come out tommorow after the market close. +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] Is anyone using a HP MSL 8096 tape library?
we looked at Quantum a few months ago and were ready to buy an i500, but something else came up. Now Quantum is in serious financial trouble and we probably got lucky not buying it. TS 3310 is cheaper anyway. i went to see it at IBM's NYC lab and the guys there ran through some tasks and I didn't think it took a long time to insert tapes. but then again i'm doing it on a Scalar 1000 and it's pretty slow compared to the TS 3310 +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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] Is anyone using a HP MSL 8096 tape library?
We're looking to buy a new tape library and the MSL 8096 is a favorite so far with the IBM TS 3310 being a close second. Also looked at the Sun SL500 but they are a mavbe due to Sun's financial problems. HP and IBM are doing OK. For pricing we were quoted about the same for each one with the difference being IBM support is 3 times HP support. We know we can't upgrade the HP, but pricewise it's the same to buy another 8096 compared to buying a new expansion for the TS 3310 and 2 drives. Looking for any opionions if anyone has used it. +-- |This was sent by alent1...@gmail.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
