Re: [Veritas-bu] Vault question
Bill Are you using VTL Plus version 1 or 2? As version 2 Release 3 now offers NDMP 4 which enables NBU to incorporate any physical devices visible to the VTL into a NBU storage unit. What this means is that your VTL would become the data mover over FC as apposed to your current setup where your duplication is happening over ip by means of a vault server. All copies are now visible to NBU with this method as apposed to legacy "tape Caching" or "Auto-Archving". NBU 6.5 is needed, however you can see the benefits, all NBU lifecycle management would stay the same. Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Blake Sent: 10 December 2008 18:45 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Vault question Bill- By default, NetBackup will read from the media server which originally did the backup (i.e. "owns" the media). Bpduplicate (which is what Vault uses to duplicate images) does the same thing, so you would want to choose the storage unit that belongs to the media server that originally wrote those images. If you end up duplicating images in one profile owned by multiple media servers, you can use the "Advanced Duplication" check-box on the Duplication tab. Only down side to that is you have to pre-allocate how many drives on each media server will be "used" for duplication. That read/write drive selection basically means how many bpduplicate processes will be started using that media server and storage unit. If you do not specify the "alternate read host", then, by default, bpduplicate will mount the original media on the media server that owns it. The problem that most folks will get into with this, is that they will use the basic duplication screen and select a storage unit for the destination. If they do not filter using the "Choose Backups" tab, then they could potentially duplicate a bunch of images from one media server to another, which causes the data stream to go over the network to the destination media server. B- -- Brian Blake Storage Architect Datalink Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:36:32 -0700 From: "York, Bill, DoIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault question To: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Environment Running NBU 5.1 MP6. Windows master, 1 Windows and 2 Solaris media servers. Using a Sun VTL+ for primary backup and then vault to physical tape. I have separate vaults for each media server. I use different profiles for different retention periods for the physical tape. The VTL drives are in a separate storage unit from the physical drives. Question When I dupe images, does it matter which storage unit I select in the profile? Should I use the SU that the primary image resides on? Please let me know if this is not enough info to answer my question. Thanks, - Bill York Enterprise Storage Systems Supervisor State of NM - Dept. of IT 505-827-2716 505-660-3024 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 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.bankofameri
Re: [Veritas-bu] Vault question
Bill- By default, NetBackup will read from the media server which originally did the backup (i.e. "owns" the media). Bpduplicate (which is what Vault uses to duplicate images) does the same thing, so you would want to choose the storage unit that belongs to the media server that originally wrote those images. If you end up duplicating images in one profile owned by multiple media servers, you can use the "Advanced Duplication" check-box on the Duplication tab. Only down side to that is you have to pre-allocate how many drives on each media server will be "used" for duplication. That read/write drive selection basically means how many bpduplicate processes will be started using that media server and storage unit. If you do not specify the "alternate read host", then, by default, bpduplicate will mount the original media on the media server that owns it. The problem that most folks will get into with this, is that they will use the basic duplication screen and select a storage unit for the destination. If they do not filter using the "Choose Backups" tab, then they could potentially duplicate a bunch of images from one media server to another, which causes the data stream to go over the network to the destination media server. B- -- Brian Blake Storage Architect Datalink Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:36:32 -0700 From: "York, Bill, DoIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault question To: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Environment Running NBU 5.1 MP6. Windows master, 1 Windows and 2 Solaris media servers. Using a Sun VTL+ for primary backup and then vault to physical tape. I have separate vaults for each media server. I use different profiles for different retention periods for the physical tape. The VTL drives are in a separate storage unit from the physical drives. Question When I dupe images, does it matter which storage unit I select in the profile? Should I use the SU that the primary image resides on? Please let me know if this is not enough info to answer my question. Thanks, - Bill York Enterprise Storage Systems Supervisor State of NM - Dept. of IT 505-827-2716 505-660-3024 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Vault question
Hi, Environment Running NBU 5.1 MP6. Windows master, 1 Windows and 2 Solaris media servers. Using a Sun VTL+ for primary backup and then vault to physical tape. I have separate vaults for each media server. I use different profiles for different retention periods for the physical tape. The VTL drives are in a separate storage unit from the physical drives. Question When I dupe images, does it matter which storage unit I select in the profile? Should I use the SU that the primary image resides on? Please let me know if this is not enough info to answer my question. Thanks, - Bill York Enterprise Storage Systems Supervisor State of NM - Dept. of IT 505-827-2716 505-660-3024 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Vault question.
One of our Vault polices was in a hung state. I thought I accounted for all of the batches before I killed the job. After killing it, batch 22 of 43 completed, 0 of 10 images duplicated. Since I killed it, there is nothing in the failed.images file. The batch log in the sessions folder shows nothing. What is the easiest way to find out what images were not duped? Thanks. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
RE: [Veritas-bu] vault question
Thanks Shyam and Johnny. From the two replies and my research, seems like having a 1-1 correspondence between backup and vault policies is not a good idea. Still wondering about reporting. If you have a lot of backup policies, and just a couple or so of vault policies, does that give you adequate info about what happened? All info that you get is just from the Activity Monitor, right? CJohnny Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All my policies have a "weekly" schedule.So when I need to vault tapes to our remote location I run a vault job thatvaults all backups within the week that was run on the "weekly" schedule.My "weekly" schedule is FULL, regardless of the backup type.It's not the most complicated v! ault policy, but it does the job for me./johnny-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris SettiSent: 17. marts 2006 03:28To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] vault questionHow do people configure Vault with a lot of backuppolicies? Do they just have 1/2 Vault policies, or oneVault for every Backup policy? I have a client withabout 30 different backup policies, going to CDL (withvery short retention) and vaulted to tape. 1 policyseems to do the job, but according to them does notprovide good enough reporting. Given that you can have only 1 Vault policy active ata time, how do you ensure decent reporting and yetVault everything before they expire from the CDL?ThanksChris__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.eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.
[Veritas-bu] vault question
How do people configure Vault with a lot of backup policies? Do they just have 1/2 Vault policies, or one Vault for every Backup policy? I have a client with about 30 different backup policies, going to CDL (with very short retention) and vaulted to tape. 1 policy seems to do the job, but according to them does not provide good enough reporting. Given that you can have only 1 Vault policy active at a time, how do you ensure decent reporting and yet Vault everything before they expire from the CDL? Thanks Chris __ 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
