RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP oddity

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Keating
How are your filers setup to point to the drives? I ask because you mentioned storage unit group which is a shared scenario. Sounds like you have multiple STUs in a Storage Unit Group, and you have the filers policies pointing to the group. Have you tried pointing the policies to the specific

[Veritas-bu] Bpmedia -movedb problem

2006-02-13 Thread ida3248b
Hello All I'm moving a master/media server to a new machine. I'm trying to use the procedure in this technote: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/266720.htm But I keep getting: 2bpmedia: INITIATING: version NetBackup 5.1 created: 0 2bpmedia: client/server handshaking failed client/server

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

2006-02-13 Thread MCare Backup
I had this same issue trying to do a year-end catalog backup to send offsite for 7 years. Turns out that I could not specify a specific media ID, and I couldn't run the command to copy one of my catalog media IDs either. The only way I could make it work was to manually reconfigure the

[Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules

2006-02-13 Thread Conner, Mike
I was just curious about retention schedules that everyone has out there. I know they vary according to what kinds of laws you have, however, I was wondering about just any general backup. We currently have the following: Incrementals - 2 weeks Full-weekly - 5 weeks Full-monthly - 1 year

RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Keating
Profile A (most windows and some Unix): Incrementals - 2 weeks Fulls - 3 Weeks Profile B (some windows) Same as A Plus: Monthly Full - 1 Year Profile C (Most Unix) Incrementals - 7 weeks Weekly Fulls - 9 weeks Monthly Fulls - Infinite -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2006-02-13 Thread Sekhon Simrat S.
Hi! Im using Netbackup 6.0 MP1 with SQL Server client to run a weekly job to backup and truncate SQL database logs. The backup job runs successfully but the logs are still growing. Are there any known issues with the Netbackup SQL client piece where it would not truncate the logs?

RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules

2006-02-13 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Incremental - Onsite - 2 Weeks Full Weekly - Offsite 3 Months Full Monthly - Offsite 1 year Databases (including the above) Full Weekly - Onsite 2 months Email (including the above) Full Monthly - Offsite 5 years -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules

2006-02-13 Thread Xu, Ying
Title: RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules It depends on the nature of the data. Our OS backup only keeps 1 month for incr, and 3 months for full. For data backups, each business unit will give us the requirement, so it depends. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list on Linux

2006-02-13 Thread Mark . Donaldson
This may not work - file locking on Linux/unix is very different than the NT world. exclude the database files by excluding either the directory they live in or the default extension, for example: *.dbf for oracle. -M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list on Linux

2006-02-13 Thread Mark . Donaldson
Excludes life on the client in the ../netbackup directory as files, not in a registry-like file. Create /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.policyname with the excluded patterns within on each client. -M -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On

RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules

2006-02-13 Thread Safran, Becky K
Title: RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention Schedules We backup over 60 TB per weekand had to setretention standards to make the best use of our tape drives and tapes: Prod OS and Application : Weekly Cumulative Incrementals Retention : 2 weeks Monthly Full Retention: 3 months, 6 months or 1 year

RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclusion list on Linux

2006-02-13 Thread Brooks, Jason
Thanks to all, both on and off list who pointed out my error. I've been successfully avoiding some Oracle db files with Busy File option, but I am going to test the exclude_list option. Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpmedia -movedb problem

2006-02-13 Thread Mark . Donaldson
bpmedia -movedb is designed to move mediadb files between media servers in the same environment. I'm not sure it'll work to move to a new master. The new master may have to start life as a media server to the original master, then be converted. Still, this is probably more complicated than

[Veritas-bu] bplist problem

2006-02-13 Thread Dirk_Lutz
bplist -C client -k policy -t 13 -s 2/5/2006 -e 2/10/2006 -S master media server -l -R /$PATH bplist -C client bplist -C client -k policy All commands above return EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found even though successfull backups ran across the first command's specified date range and over

[Veritas-bu] How to backup open files using VSP

2006-02-13 Thread Naidu V. T.
Hi All, We are getting partial backup (1) from one of our media server (Windows 2000). We want to backup this client using Open file using VSP as our client is windows 2000 and cannot implement microsoft VSS. Secondly is it important to specify cache size ? for example my drive size is 10 gb

[Veritas-bu] Upgrade

2006-02-13 Thread kdeems
I have a couple questions regarding a 4.5 FP6 to 5.1 MP4 upgrade on our AIX 5.1 master server. Are new licence keys required? Will I need to make any licence changes or additions during the upgrade process? (I am not adding any new products). One of the first steps of the 4.5 to 5.1 upgrade for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpmedia -movedb problem

2006-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:01:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm moving a master/media server to a new machine. I'm trying to use the procedure in this technote: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/266720.htm Does the new host have the same hostname and IP address? If not, moving the

RE: [Veritas-bu] How to backup open files using VSP

2006-02-13 Thread King, Cheryl
This is what I do: Host propertiesMaster Serverclient attributes. Select client then Windows Open File Backup tab. Set snapshot provider to User Veritas Volume Snapshot Provider. Set Snapshot error control to disable snapshot and continue. Host propertiesclientsclient nameWindows

[Veritas-bu] Help selecting DDS4 tapes

2006-02-13 Thread MCare Backup
This isn't really NBU related, but figured someone here could help out. We need to start doing system configuration backups to local DAT drives on our HP9000 machines. We've got 2 machines with slightly older DAT4 drives, and one brand-new machine with a DAT72 drive. To ensure

[Veritas-bu] how to make Veritas netbackup log file show detail backup info?

2006-02-13 Thread bbb bb
We have several Redhat LInux servers (AS 3) use Veritas Netbackup client to backup file systems. I checked /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbkar/log. file and it did NOT show detail backup information like : 03:10:18.082 [6439] 4 bpbkar: INF - Compression: 25%

Re: [Veritas-bu] how to make Veritas netbackup log file show detail backup info?

2006-02-13 Thread Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You also need to make VERBOSE = 5 in the bp.conf file on the client. Peter DrakeUnderkoffler Xinupro, LLC 617-834-2352 bbb bb wrote: We have several Redhat LInux servers (AS 3) use Veritas Netbackup client to backup file systems. I checked

Re: [Veritas-bu] bplist problem

2006-02-13 Thread Michael L. Barrow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bplist -C client -k policy -t 13 -s 2/5/2006 -e 2/10/2006 -S master media server -l -R /$PATH I recommend using the first bplist command with a pathname of /. That way, you can see all of the paths in the database in the event that you're specifying the path