Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
I used the "media_deassign_notify" script. Put this in your ..\netbackup\bin directory. This is for linux but can be made to run in Windows. Just make sure to not use the robot number of the actual library. We had 2 VTLs at this location and robot 0 was a tape library. I'm sure it could be cleaner but it worked so we left it alone. $4 = robot number $1 = mediaid Just put the following at the end of the script. ___ if [ $4 -eq "1" ] then /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel -o -m $1 -d hcart -p Scratch elif [ $4 -eq "2" ] then /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel -o -m $1 -d hcart -p Scratch else exit 0 fi ___ Joe Infantino MCP, MCSA, Security+, ITILv3 Senior Systems Analyst Security and Server Operations Intersil Corporation email: jinfant...@intersil.com office: 321-724-7119 fax: 321-729-1186 www.intersil.com -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of ellisj1 Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:08 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) This is not elegant but it does the job. I suspect you may have moved on from this issue quite some time ago. I use this script for Veritas NetBackup 6.5.6 installation with a VTL library and a physical library. First I navigate to the installation directory\volmgr\bin directory cd\ cd "Program Files"\Veritas\volmgr\bin" Next I create a list of tapes in the Scratch pool vmquery -pn Scratch -l>c:\scratchlist.txt (Note: The name of the pool is Case-sensitive so be sure you list the pool the way it shows up in Veritas) Finally I run a FOR loop command using the file just created above. for /f %a in (c:\scratchlist.txt) do C:\"Program Files"\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bplabel -m %a -d hcart -o -p Scratch -host mediaserver -erase I have schedule this CMD file to run daily to reclaim the VTL disk space for the expired media. The above information was gleaned from other online submissions but I have added a few clarifying comments that should help implementation, especially for folks just starting out with this issue. +-- |This was sent by jerry_el...@hotmail.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] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
This is not elegant but it does the job. I suspect you may have moved on from this issue quite some time ago. I use this script for Veritas NetBackup 6.5.6 installation with a VTL library and a physical library. First I navigate to the installation directory\volmgr\bin directory cd\ cd Program Files"\Veritas\volmgr\bin Next I create a list of tapes in the Scratch pool vmquery -pn Scratch -l>c:\scratchlist.txt (Note: The name of the pool is Case-sensitive so be sure you list the pool the way it shows up in Veritas) Finally I run a FOR loop command using the file just created above. for /f %a in (c:\scratchlist.txt) do C:\"Program Files"\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bplabel -m %a -d hcart -o -p Scratch -host mediaserver -erase I have schedule this CMD file to run daily to reclaim the VTL disk space for the expired media. The above information was gleaned from other online submissions but I have added a few clarifying comments that should help implementation, especially for folks just starting out with this issue. +-- |This was sent by jerry_el...@hotmail.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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Interesting - I'll look at bplabel the next go around. Thanks From: A Darren Dunham To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 3:47:50 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:14:12AM -0800, Randy Doering wrote: > Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space > gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. > > > ? vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32 > # > # DD - Export/Delete/Add/Import the tape > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl export DD-VTL slot $slotn" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape del $barcode" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape add $barcode capacity 100" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl import DD-VTL barcode $barcode" > ? done > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "filesys clean start" I'm sure what you're doing works fine. But you can replace everything above with a single 'bplabel' command, and you don't have to run an inventory afterward. (And it'll work with any VTL) -- Darren ___ 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] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
I'm a different poster from the original requester, this is my solution to what I presume is the same issue... (bplabel and time is all that's needed, works great ;-) -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of A Darren Dunham Sent: November 10, 2009 3:52 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Jonathan Dyck wrote: > > Has to do with fragmentation (at least with my Diligent VTL). The VTL > wants contiguous space to allocate to virtual tapes. I think I've > posted this script before, but feel free to take a look: Oh, so you *are* doing the bplabel, but it's not freeing all the data or something? -- Darren ___ 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 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Jonathan Dyck wrote: > > Has to do with fragmentation (at least with my Diligent VTL). The VTL > wants contiguous space to allocate to virtual tapes. I think I've > posted this script before, but feel free to take a look: Oh, so you *are* doing the bplabel, but it's not freeing all the data or something? -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Has to do with fragmentation (at least with my Diligent VTL). The VTL
wants contiguous space to allocate to virtual tapes. I think I've
posted this script before, but feel free to take a look:
===
more /NB-scripts/label_script.sh
# more /usr/openv/util/label_script.sh
#!/bin/sh
# This script generates a list of media located on VTL which have
expired and #
# have been returned to the Scratch pool since the last time the script
was run. #
# It should be called on a regular basis from cron, or by a Netbackup
session #
# notify script.
#
# Assumes /usr/openv/volmgr/tmp exists, and contains a file called
prev.scratch #
# which contains a listing of the scratch tapes labelled on the previous
batch. #
# Also, assumes this script is run as 'root'
#
# vmquery provides a list of all tapes in Scratch pool and residing in
the VTL#
# and dumps this list to a temp file.
#
# NOTE HERE, my VTL tapes start with "VT", change those characters to
your #
# prefix if you'd like/need
#
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn Scratch -b | grep VT | sort | awk
'{print $1}' > /tmp/oihJKHb.tmp
# diff compares the curent list of Scratch to the list from the previous
#
# iteration of this script and stores the new IDs in a new temp file
#
/usr/bin/diff /NB-scripts/prev.scratch /tmp/oihJKHb.tmp | grep ">" | awk
'{print $2}' > /tmp/pjKLJHn.tmp
# we now bplabel all of the new Scratch media
#
for i in `cat /tmp/pjKLJHn.tmp`; do
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel -m $i -d dlt -o -p Scratch;
done 2>&1
# The script is finished with the previous iteration's info, so we clean
up #
# Once the bplabel is complete, we take today's list of total Scratch
and store #
# it as prev.scratch for the next iteration.
#
/bin/mv /tmp/oihJKHb.tmp /NB-scripts/prev.scratch
# We also clean up the list of today's unique scratch
#
/bin/rm -f /tmp/pjKLJHn.tmp
# The script has now prepared the info required to run again.
#
===
-Original Message-
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of A Darren
Dunham
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that.
It's not datadomain specific. It would happen with any VTL.
If you have a small scratch pool (tapes tend to be reused shortly after
they expire) and you're not near capacity on your VTL, then you might
not notice.
If you have a lot more virtual tapes than you need, then your VTL will
need to retain a lot of data. NBU never tells the VTL when a tape has
expired, so the data must remain.
> Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU?
Image cleanup doesn't erase tapes. So if the tape is on a VTL, it
contines to consume space. Even if it has expired within NBU.
I'd love for NBU to have a checkbox (maybe on a per-pool or per-robot
basis) that would tell it to erase a tape when it expires if the tape is
in a robot slot.
--
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:14:12AM -0800, Randy Doering wrote: > Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space > gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. > > > ? vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32 > # > # DD - Export/Delete/Add/Import the tape > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl export DD-VTL slot $slotn" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape del $barcode" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape add $barcode capacity 100" > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl import DD-VTL barcode $barcode" > ? done > ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "filesys clean start" I'm sure what you're doing works fine. But you can replace everything above with a single 'bplabel' command, and you don't have to run an inventory afterward. (And it'll work with any VTL) -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote: > We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that. It's not datadomain specific. It would happen with any VTL. If you have a small scratch pool (tapes tend to be reused shortly after they expire) and you're not near capacity on your VTL, then you might not notice. If you have a lot more virtual tapes than you need, then your VTL will need to retain a lot of data. NBU never tells the VTL when a tape has expired, so the data must remain. > Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? Image cleanup doesn't erase tapes. So if the tape is on a VTL, it contines to consume space. Even if it has expired within NBU. I'd love for NBU to have a checkbox (maybe on a per-pool or per-robot basis) that would tell it to erase a tape when it expires if the tape is in a robot slot. -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32:00AM -0800, Jimenez, Daniel wrote: > This would probably help us with NDMP jobs since they cannot be quick > erased, thanks. Not sure I understand. Why would an NDMP tape be different from another? Can't you bplabel it? I don't know that I can test this. All the tapes that my NDMP jobs use are visible to a regular media server. Is your VTL attached only to an NDMP host and not to other media servers as well? -- Darren ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Randy This would probably help us with NDMP jobs since they cannot be quick erased, thanks. OneWest Bank, FSB Daniel Jimenez Technical Consultant 16608 Valley View Ave La Mirada, CA 90638 Phone: 714-520-3421 Cell: 562-480-2966 Fax: 714-520-3470 daniel.jime...@owb.com<mailto:daniel.jime...@imb.com> Website: http://www.owb.com/<http://www.imb.com/> Website: http://www.onewestbank.com/<http://www.imb.com/> This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please let the sender know and delete the message. Thank you. From: Randy Doering [mailto:rdoeri...@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:14 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. #!/bin/sh for tapeid in `cat delete-DD.txt`; do slot=`vmquery -m $tapeid | grep "robot slot"` slotn=`echo $slot | cut -b 13-` barcode=`echo $tapeid"L1"` date echo $barcode echo $slotn # Netbackup Expire the tape. bpexpdate -m $tapeid -d 0 -force vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32 # # DD - Export/Delete/Add/Import the tape ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl export DD-VTL slot $slotn" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape del $barcode" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape add $barcode capacity 100" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl import DD-VTL barcode $barcode" done ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "filesys clean start" - The L1 above is because we use LTO1 in the DD. SSH keys are setup from one of our Linux Media Servers to do both the NBU and DD commands. Randy From: "Jimenez, Daniel" To: Jeff Lightner ; "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu" Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 2:07:15 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff Try running quick erases on your tapes after you run a filesys clean and then run a filesys clean again and see if you recover additional space on the DDR’s. This will tell you how efficiently you are using your tapes. In addition, this is information we received from our Data Domain representative and from other techs we have worked with so this takes us right back to why we need the script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) We use Data Domain here and haven’t seen that. Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR’s if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB’s or several hundred GB’s that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There’s no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Daniel, I use the follow script (nothing to do with scratch tapes) when space gets tight on our DDs and I want to pre-expire some NBU images. #!/bin/sh for tapeid in `cat delete-DD.txt`; do slot=`vmquery -m $tapeid | grep "robot slot"` slotn=`echo $slot | cut -b 13-` barcode=`echo $tapeid"L1"` date echo $barcode echo $slotn # Netbackup Expire the tape. bpexpdate -m $tapeid -d 0 -force vmdelete -m $tapeid -h b2u32 # # DD - Export/Delete/Add/Import the tape ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl export DD-VTL slot $slotn" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape del $barcode" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl tape add $barcode capacity 100" ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "vtl import DD-VTL barcode $barcode" done ssh -l sysadmin datadomain "filesys clean start" - The L1 above is because we use LTO1 in the DD. SSH keys are setup from one of our Linux Media Servers to do both the NBU and DD commands. Randy From: "Jimenez, Daniel" To: Jeff Lightner ; "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu" Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 2:07:15 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff Try running quick erases on your tapes after you run a filesys clean and then run a filesys clean again and see if you recover additional space on the DDR’s. This will tell you how efficiently you are using your tapes. In addition, this is information we received from our Data Domain representative and from other techs we have worked with so this takes us right back to why we need the script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From:Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) We use Data Domain here and haven’t seen that. Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? From:Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR’s if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB’s or several hundred GB’s that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From:Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There’s no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Jeff One other thing to take into consideration is the amount of space you have available on your DDR's. So if you have a large amount of space you probably would not notice the difference but when you are limited on space on your DDR's, you will notice right away. OneWest Bank, FSB Daniel Jimenez Technical Consultant 16608 Valley View Ave La Mirada, CA 90638 Phone: 714-520-3421 Cell: 562-480-2966 Fax: 714-520-3470 daniel.jime...@owb.com<mailto:daniel.jime...@imb.com> Website: http://www.owb.com/<http://www.imb.com/> Website: http://www.onewestbank.com/<http://www.imb.com/> This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please let the sender know and delete the message. Thank you. From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that. Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR's if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB's or several hundred GB's that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Jeff Try running quick erases on your tapes after you run a filesys clean and then run a filesys clean again and see if you recover additional space on the DDR's. This will tell you how efficiently you are using your tapes. In addition, this is information we received from our Data Domain representative and from other techs we have worked with so this takes us right back to why we need the script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that. Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR's if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB's or several hundred GB's that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
We use Data Domain here and haven't seen that. Are you running image cleanup jobs in NBU? From: Jimenez, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jime...@owb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR's if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB's or several hundred GB's that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Jeff When you use Data Domain DDR's if one of the tapes becomes scratch and is not re-used right away, they hold data that is not cleaned up on the DDR until they are used or quick erased so there can be a few GB's or several hundred GB's that can be sitting on the DDR that can be cleaned up. Which is why we are looking for a script. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
There's no need to erase scratch tapes. When they are scratch then they will be overwritten the next time NBU uses them. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:04 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quick Erase Script (Windows) Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. -- 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] Quick Erase Script (Windows)
Hey guys Does anyone have a quick erase script for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 (Windows 2003 Enterprise server)? I would like to be able to schedule the script to find all scratch tapes and run a quick erase on these tapes on a weekly basis. In addition, we have Unix utilities on the box so we can use these commands on the server. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Daniel Jimenez Data Protection Team ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
