Re: [Veritas-bu] Determine shared tape drive useage

On your vmda host, which is usually the master :   vmdareq -driveinfo   Although I believe this command disappears with NBU 6.0     On 1/13/06, Jim McD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Is there a command line method of determing the actual useage of a tape drives by individual media servers? Tape dri

[Veritas-bu] Checking Drive Configuration on Unix

In one of our environments, we have one Master with one Media, both Solaris. I believe that the tape configuration has changed and is causing the normal strangeness that goes on when this happens (abandoned tapes, tapes mounting forever, etc). Being more familiar with Windows, I could check

[Veritas-bu] Intractable a000846b Problem Solved

Thanks to all who gave me advice, and as repayment, I'll be brave enough to announce my error of ignorance. When changing the services and network account logon password (same domain account for each), I assumed that changing those changed credentials everywhere it was needed. Well, we all kno

[Veritas-bu] Determine shared tape drive useage

Hi Is there a command line method of determing the actual useage of a tape drives by individual media servers? Tape drives are SSO shared including some ACS managed Cheerrs Jim  

[Veritas-bu] Continued Intractable a000846b Error

All: I still haven't been able to get jobs to run on my BackupExec instance. The services are running as my domain account, and I've triple checked that the right password's been entered. The software only backs up local files, and my account is an administrator on the local machine. Everythin

RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RAC backups

We did NOT give the DBAs access to the Netbackup GUI. We tell them the name of the policies and they include them in their RMAN scripts. You HAVE to run RMAN because Netbackup and Oracle only support RMAN for the OCFS filesystems used on Linux. (We didn't do ASM - suspect its true for that as w

RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation

  Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files.  However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10% of our reason for slow backups and that 90% pertained to network configuration.  I guess

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RAC backups

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Just starting to do some testing of backup and > recovery of Oracle RAC environment running on Redhat > Linux. I have no particular issue, backups are > running fine, but I have very limited experience > bac

RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message look for stray spaces in the exclude list.  Trailing spaces are significant, even in unix backups because the exclude list is made consistent for windows, too. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Pillapalem, Smitha

[Veritas-bu] RE: snapshot errors 156 etc..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I had the same problem w/ the 156 errors. With VSP enabled I would get the 156 errors, but the backup would complete and there was an image in the catalog. I tried everything to fix this and nothing worked. I finally resorted to disabling VSS, w

[Veritas-bu] Oracle RAC backups

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just starting to do some testing of backup and recovery of Oracle RAC environment running on Redhat Linux. I have no particular issue, backups are running fine, but I have very limited experience backing up Oracle and am looking for some "best

RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation

Yes.   Though I would not have believed it at this time.   12 Disk RAID set on SAN.   We noticed a large decrease in our backup window after defragging our drives.   Andrew From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:2

RE: [Veritas-bu] I have manually duplicated Tapes / Images

Since you know the image name:   bpimagelist -backupid   Look for this:   IMAGE ug-50 0 0 7 ug-50_1137009456 P_NAS_1_FS 0 *NULL* root Monthly 0HISTO -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1FRAG 1 1 2304 0 2 14 47 004958 ug-50 262144 479976 1135940822 9 0 *NULFRAG 1 2 256 0 2 14 48 004958 ug-50 262144

[Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation

I have a database volume that is 95% fragmented. I'm getting poor performance on my backups. In your experience, has file fragmentation caused slow performance on Windows systems? Thanks Karl

[Veritas-bu] I have manually duplicated Tapes / Images

I have manually duplicated tapes / images. Now I would like to verify that this has been done... I have a list off all the image names affected Is there a Command line out there that would help? Once I verify  I'm going to make these images the primary Then delete the origina

RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message For Unix/Linux clients your exclude list file name should contain the name of the policy.    i.e. If the policy is named “HOSTNAME-OS” rather than just creating: exclude_list You should create: exclude_list.HOSTNAME-OS       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

RE: [Veritas-bu] RMAN Error in Solaris 8

Can't say I've seen this before but these two lines: RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.BACKUPPIECECREATE Strongly imply the error is within Oracle RMAN itself. RMAN creates the backup piece, then delivers it to netbackup's agent for backup to tape. It appears to

RE: [Veritas-bu] looking for ACSLS user guide or admin guide

Tom,, STK do an Installation, Configuration and Administration Guide and also a Quick Reference Guide. They should be able to provide a copy for you. STK in the UK did for me. Regards Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Nguyen Se

RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message Hi Not knowing much about Linux clients, my guess would be, to exclude certain roots or folders, you would goto the properties of the client and add then in the exclude list.   I would think this is done on the master, under host properties / clients and/or the client itself.

RE: [Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message Omit the three mount points from the policy and put them in an include_list on util1.   Regards,   Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pillapalem, Sm

[Veritas-bu] exclude list on Linux client

Title: Message Any suggestions please? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Pillapalem, SmithaSent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:01 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduCc: Pillapalem, SmithaSubject: [Veritas-bu] exclude list

[Veritas-bu] Calculationg the drive utilization

Title: Calculationg the drive utilization Hi NBU Folks, I have the requirement to calculate the data size written on particular drive for the day. If anybody is having any kind of script to calculate this, I would really appreciate if you can share it. Regards, Mrutyunjaya Dash IT Enginee

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 and autofs/Linux

Title: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 and autofs/Linux Remove cross mount points and use a user backup from the client with each directory bpbackup from the client with an available user policy setup works best. Eric Ljungblad From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Afsheen BigdeliSent: Tue 1/

RE: [Veritas-bu] Vmware virtual machines vs Netbackup

Title: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vmware virtual machines vs Netbackup Using DNS  should work but the master / media servers might pick up on the alternate MAC id's presented from VMWARE virtual machines? Virtual machines seem to alteranate MAC ID's on a boot basis. Suggest setting VM machines to st

RE: [Veritas-bu] MP4

Doon >From my experience, it appears on the root of the drive letter that netbackup backs-up Ie: If I do a VSP backup of C:, then its on the root of C: Hope this helps Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]