Simon,
You might want to create locks for each stream, and delete the stream when done, and check for all streams completed (no more stream lock files) which will then run the last job - start the AV.
See this doco: http://support.veritas.com/docs/208340
JdS
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Morning Greg,
The
recommended way (and the only way that I use) is the following command
parameter
bpmedia -m
-unsuspend
This should release the tape back for
Netbackup to use
HTH
Simon
WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator
EADS
Astriu
* Greenberg, Katherine A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-31 11:15]:
> The only way I can conceive of you doing this is to
>
> 1. Set up separate policies for each stream of the database.
> 2. Set up 3 volume pools.
> 3. Assign a different volume pool to each policy.
This is the most likely way
Funny, BakBone supported Dynamic Drive Sharing on NetApp over 2 years
ago. I don't think the issue is with NetApp nor has it ever been.
~JK
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I haven't used the filer as a remote agent so I can
not comment on that. Well actually I can't comment on
the Unix version either. I am using direct attached
filers to HP LTO2 drives for direct dumps of my larger
systems. For the smaller filers I use three-way NDMP
through the Win2k3 Master atta
All,
I am on NBU 5.1 MP3A in a Windows 2k3
environment, we are looking to upgrade to 6.0 here in the near future,
reading the documents for the install / upgrade, it appears that VxSS needs
to be installed and configured prior to the upgrade to 6.0.
I have seen several strings on this
forum that
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Thanks!
Greg
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Suspended tapes
bpmedia -m -unsuspend.
Title: Suspended tapes
bpmedia -m -unsuspend.
They
return to normal use after all the images expire if you just let them age
without intervention.
-M
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GregSent: Tuesday, January 31,
For those of you using Remote NDMP, how many are using the Netbackup for
NDMP agent on a unix server to act as the third-party agent? How is the
performance of the Unix agent as compared to using a filer as a remote
agent?
-M
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From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:[EMAI
Title: Suspended tapes
Nb 5.1 mp3
I have a few suspended tapes and I need to un-suspended these. What is the recommended way to put these tapes back in service?
Greg
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This is in the compatability list:
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_DataCenter/251713.pdf
You will notice that for the EMC product line it says
support for SSO, which lacks in the NetApp line.
The issue is that NetApp doesn't support SCSI
Reserve/Release. They use p
Daryl,
We’re running 256KB buffers on our
Win2003 Dell servers with Emulex fibrechannel HBA’s. I would estimate
that our throughput went up about 25% when set the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS to 256 KB,
and set the NET_BUFFER_SZ - or the Communications buffer size in the Host
Properties -> Clien
Title: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun GigaSwift (ce) cards
Scott:
On the Sol10 network inquiry. They have
rearchitected the stack so that UDP and TCP are not separate STREAMS between IP.
They have combined them to improve on efficiency by about 20% on network
transactions.
That is all I know at
on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:45:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Just FYI: although the v6.0 feature list has shared drives for NDMP, both
> Netapp & Veritas say it doesn't work.
Hi Mark
This is very important for me. Do you know where veritas and/or netapp say
this doesn
I am using these cards with little tuning, but I am also using these to
create a trunk (cisco etherchannel) with them for our backup network.
The backup servers have a 4 x 1gig trunk to the backup network. This
works very well . . .
I also just found out that the trunk software is free to use on
Hi,
From what I have seen , the 64KB limit is due to some
HBA's. You can do some test backups and then restores with more than 64K
buffers. If you dont have a problem, then most probably you wont have any in the
future. I have run backup's with 256KB without any problems (though on
LTO2 b
I attached some notes I took from previous disk backup discussions on
this Email list. Hope it helps.
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Subject: [Verita
Daryl
A large SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS is not always the
best configuration. If the Windows limitation is 64KB I would go with that. You
also need to set the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. Since you are using a smaller data buffer
size I would increase the number of data buffers X 4. Example: If y
Title: Message
We
tested all sorts of configurations on our windows/unix environment. We have a
w2k master/media and a w2k3 media server to lto-2 drives. Lots of win, redhat
servers, a few sco. In the end we always found that a 64kb block size throughout
performed best. I also use 768 buffer
Hi.
You can use storage in a VTL in an SSO fashion , which means you can share
storage amoung various Media servers. If you use it as a DSU ( or DSSU) you
cannot share the space amoung servers unless you have some kind of common
filesystem sharing system.
Regards,
Jim
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Hello all:
Am in the midst of deploying new HP LTO3 (Fibre) drives in
our NBU environment and am finding some conflicting information regarding NBU
buffer configuration.
(Using Qlogic & Emulex HBA’s).
HP recommends the following settings:
\ NetBackup\db\config\SIZE_DATA_BU
You could use a separate policy for the E: drive. Details: Copy your
current policy to a new policy. On the new policy, remove all other
clients and change the backup spec to just E:\ . On your client, make
an exclude for E:\* for just (specifically) the old policy. Now the new
policy and cl
I do not understand the advantages/disadvantages between using a disk farm as a
virtual tape library as opposed to a simple disk storage unit. Which makes
better use of the available space and which is easier to maintain...etc.
___
Veritas-bu maillist
I am using a couple in Solaris 9 master/media servers. The only tuning
I have done is make sure they are doing 1Gb auto, and have the adv_pause
setting enabled.
-Andrew
Paul Keating wrote:
> anyone using them?
>
> any tuning you've done to maximize performance?
>
>
> Paul
>
>---
Title: Message
Oh -
and to answer your question, we just NFS mount the filers to a central box &
backup via NFS. Not very efficient but we didn't want to spend the drives
for dedicated backups.
We're
consisdering it now that our backups have grown so huge - it may pay us back on
time s
Title: Message
Just
FYI: although the v6.0 feature list has shared drives for NDMP, both Netapp
& Veritas say it doesn't work.
Coming
soon to a patch kit near you, I guess. It takes a pretty high level
of OnTap, too. Something to verify.
-M
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Unix, for a brief time, stores the filesystem to JobID reference in:
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/ffilelogs as .f. Mine seem to go back
to depth of my job-viewer info.
I think that one day I should mine these out and create a database of them.
-M
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If I use bpimagelist to retrieve a list of backup IDs
associated with a client backup how can I determine which job (file system) is
associated with which backupID. For example if I want to duplicate the E:\
drive but my client has a C D and E I am unable to determine which of the three
bac
Mark
You need to also do a bpmedia
–oldserver –newserver to move the mediaDB entries if you are
decommissioning the media server. The bpimage command goes into the
images catalog and changes each header file media server entry from oldserver
to newserver for every image that has oldser
Thanks for your suggestion but it wouldn't work unless I was able to script it
to do the suspend at the moment the stream finished one tape rather than at the
end of the stream. Each stream can use 2-3 tapes (actually 4-6 since we're
doing 2 copies at once) so that a retry on another stream co
Title: Message
The only way I can
conceive of you doing this is to
1. Set up separate
policies for each stream of the database.
2. Set up 3 volume
pools.
3. Assign a
different volume pool to each policy.
Kind of a lot of
work for something you could potentially correct.
-Or
Well, there's no setting of this kind, so you'll need other
workarounds...
As you mentioned, single stream backup. Not very desirable, so that's
out.
The only other item I can think of is to suspend the tapes which were
used when each stream is done. This will prevent any subsequent
backu
Title: Message
Jeffrey
If the
streams are in the same policy, then as far as I can see (and check) it may not
be possible, unless you put the stream that is causing you an issue into its own
seperate policy.
You
mentioned you got a Status 52; without looking into my manual, is this a timeo
Title: Message
To forestall further answer of this kind:
I am NOT looking for assistance in
resolving the 52 error on the backup. This problem would be caused if the
issue had been any other issue that caused a retry so wouldn’t be
restricted to a status 52 exit in any event.
I am
Title: Message
Jeff
sorry... I already did, however that was before I got this
post!
So
feel free to ignore the advice :-)
Simon
WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator
EADS
AstriumTel: 02392-708598
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Title: Message
Why don't you try
to identify and repair what is causing the 52 errors?
There are a few
technotes and fixes for that specific error code, as it is fairly
common.
~Kate
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Hi
I've been asked by my manager to look at our existing backup infrastructure
and see how scaleable it is.
We use NetBackup here and are running version 5.0MP5 but I am unfamiliar
with the interfaces etc.
I have asked some colleagues of mine to provide me with some information
regarding how muc
Title: Message
I'm
currently backing up a pair of NetApp gf940 filers, using Netbackup 5.0MP4 on a
Solaris 8 master, with HP LTO3 drives in a STKL700 library.
The
master is configured as the robotic control host.
Drive(s) MUST be dedicated to the filer in pre NB6.0
versions
I have
a pai
Title: Restricting tapes to a single stream
Is it possible to setup a policy in such a way that any stream will not use a tape previously used within another stream of the same backup?
Background:
We run our Production DB backup using 3 streams. This backup is used for doing refreshes to
Title: NetApp/NAS - Backups
Solaris 9, Netbackup 5.1 MP 3
STK L700 - 5 - 9840C drives, SSO, ACSLS
I am reading some conflicting information so I thought I would ask the experts. How are all of you backing up your NAS devices? Is anyone using the "enhance" Netbackup 6.0/NDMP a
Title: Message
A client asked if it
is possible to restore ACLs on a windows file system without restoring the
files.
In other words, if
the file exists on the filesystem, set its ACL to what it was on the backup
image without overwriting the file, but if it doesn't exist on the FS, then
I would like to change the media server that I recover from
in a veritas 5.1 MP4 Windows 2003 environment. I have managed to successfully do
this by using the command bpimage –newserver nbumedia –oldserver
nbumaster. What exactly is the command doing when it is run? Is it accessing
every im
Title: Restore failure of Windows Domain Controller
Hi
We recently attempted a DR restore test.
We started by restoring the Domain Controller.
The system owner installed W2003 SP1 (Standard). (No domain was created - Workgroup was selected).
NetBackup 5.1 Client s/w was installed + MP
Dave
Check the event logs for the client (Start / Run / Eventvwr) and note any
unusual error messages
Restart the servers in question that are having poor backup performance
Check Network speeds - ensure they are running at full capacity
Uninstall / resinstall the netbackup client and also apply t
Bob
For clean running, I personally "do" stop and manually restart the services,
just for my benefit that everything comes up cleanly.
I don't believe it's a requirment, however in any type of support case, you
may get asked the question and possibly asked to do it :-)
Simon Weaver
Technical Su
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Jim
Think
you are right, believe it still stays in the volume pool it was assigned to
:-)
Simon
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[mailto:[EMAIL
Title: Message
It
should not cause a full, however I personally now leave any changes for
Netbackup for Friday, when the full backups run!
Simon
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Hi.
Failed backups do not occupy VAILD space on tapes. When a
new backup runs and appends to a tape which was used with a failed backup,
Netbackup will position the tape to the end of the last VALID image on the tape,
thus overwriting the invalid image.
If the tape was blank (in the scra
Only when doing VSP :-) I have certainly run backups fine without reboots,
and even got away, by stopping and restarting the Netbackup service on the
client :-)
Good Luck !
Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
Tel: 02392-708598
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Bill
May need to check if the upgrade supports the vault; I am not too involved
with 6.0 of NBU, but I thought this was now tightly ingtegrated with the
vault.
What is the host o/s? if its windows, can you stop the service and set to
manual?
Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Admin
Cannot think of one. If you do a full backup, everything is backed up.
There is a product called TREESIZE that I think (??) shows you when the
files were last accessed. You could either:-
1) Archive the Data that is old OFF to tape and delete from the drive
2) Move the Data that is not required
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Hi
Tim
Yes
that is my understanding. If the backup shows a "BOMB" icon or a red circle with
a white cross, it usually means that this is an invalid backup, and I believe
that netbackup will not contain any data or images for this backup
job.
Thanks
Simon
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