Re: POLL: Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups

2018-11-06 Thread Deschner, Roger Douglas
We have blocked backup of Windows System State for many years, because it could not be successfully restored. Also backing it up became a major part of nightly backup load. BMR has never been one of WDSF->Spectrum Protect's strong points. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago

Re: Backing up Oracle 18c with - TDP

2018-11-06 Thread Mark Yakushev
It is good that the upgrade worked! tdposync syncdb command is interactive, so you would need to create an input file for the responses. Yes, the password would need to be in plain text in that input file. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSER7G_8.1.0/db.orc/r_dporc_util_tdposync.ht

Re: Windows ARL change

2018-11-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Bob, If SKIPNTPERMISSIONS YES is in effect, then SKIPNTSECURITYCRC might be moot, but yes, you have the idea. I would agree that setting SKIPNTSECURITYCRC YES and using the default SKIPNTPERMISSIONS value can present a challenge since you cannot know which files are restored with the latest pe

Re: POLL: Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups

2018-11-06 Thread Andrew Galloway
Change the domain statement. SYSTEMSTATE_ON is ALL-LOCAL and SYSTEMSTATE_OFF is ALL-LOCAL -SYSTEMSTATE >>> Zoltan Forray 2018-11-06 1:05 PM >>> What do your scripts do? On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:34 PM Andrew Galloway < andrew.gallo...@ssc-spc.gc.ca> wrote: > We created a couple of scripts (SY

Re: POLL: Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups

2018-11-06 Thread Zoltan Forray
What do your scripts do? On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:34 PM Andrew Galloway < andrew.gallo...@ssc-spc.gc.ca> wrote: > We created a couple of scripts (SYSTEMSTATE_ON and SYSTEMSTATE_OFF) and > run them as needed. > > >>> Zoltan Forray 2018-11-06 10:27 AM >>> > We are trying to reduce our ISP storage

Re: POLL: Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups

2018-11-06 Thread Andrew Galloway
We created a couple of scripts (SYSTEMSTATE_ON and SYSTEMSTATE_OFF) and run them as needed. >>> Zoltan Forray 2018-11-06 10:27 AM >>> We are trying to reduce our ISP storage/footprint and one idea that came up was to stop backing up Windows server SYSTEMSTATE. By quick calculations, this woul

Re: Windows ARL change

2018-11-06 Thread Robert Talda
Andy, et al: Shared the meat of this discussion with our end users. A question came up about restores. Scenario: Large Windows File Server on which the SP client is configured with the SKIPNTSECURITYCRC is set to YES. End of academic year arrives in June with the usual turnover in faculty a

POLL: Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups

2018-11-06 Thread Zoltan Forray
We are trying to reduce our ISP storage/footprint and one idea that came up was to stop backing up Windows server SYSTEMSTATE. By quick calculations, this would eliminate 50TB+ of what I consider unnecessary backups. We are not aware of anyone ever restoring a Windows server OS - usually rebuild f

Node password issue when VM is DRS moved

2018-11-06 Thread Zoltan Forray
I have been made aware of an issue where nodes suddenly have password issues when VMware DRS moves the server being backed up. The password becomes invalid for all of the nodes on the VM server (Windows 2016 - ISP client 8.1.0.2). 11/5/2018 8:12:04 AM ANR0424W Session 48564 for node ISILON-SUCCES

Re: Backing up Oracle 18c with - TDP

2018-11-06 Thread Carlson, Raymond L.
Thank you Mark. By following these instructions and ignoring the warning about uninstalling the API because TIVsmCba depended on it, I was able to successfully get 8.1.0 for Oracle installed and working. Now I am told that UNIX and Linux operating systems Synchronize the Tivoli Storage Manage