Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 maximum block size of 65536 bytes; a buffer size of 262144 cannot be used

2006-04-05 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:18:29PM -0600, Scott Jacobson wrote: >Simrat, > >I've seen many discussions in this forum about using 262144 for a buffer sizes on Windows, and most of those discussions talk about it not being recommend or successful based on Windows TCP/IP Stack siz

[Veritas-bu] New Vault User

2006-04-05 Thread Tristan Ball
Hi everyone, I'm new to Vault, and I've got a couple of questions for the experts..   1) Is there a reasonably easy to disable Vault's insistance on using the MAP for ejecting media? It's much quicker for us to access the magazine and pull the tapes ourselves!   2) How and when is the retu

[Veritas-bu] Media in use

2006-04-05 Thread Mansell, Richard
Hi   We are in the process of implementing a brand new installation of NetBackup 6.0 MP2 (Windows based) and I seem to be having problems with some of the media.   I have 5 tapes that report that they are in use even though they are sitting quietly in slots the library. If I try and use bpex

RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 restore error issue

2006-04-05 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Is this a recovery information store (2003) and have you checked the box for "allow this database to be overwritten by a restore?" Its in the database property sheets under Exchange System Manager. I usually follow the Exchange Administrator's Guide and that procedure has worked every time.

RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 maximum block size of 65536 bytes; abuffer size of 262144 cannot be used

2006-04-05 Thread Johnny Oestergaard
I never used LTO3, but I have done the same last week on a Windows 2003 server running NBU 6.0 MP1 but using STK9940B I had the same problem as you have seen. I tried out different tapedrivers and ended up downloading the newest drivers from Veritas and that one worked. Since my implementa

[Veritas-bu] Backup Selections

2006-04-05 Thread Wooten, FH Frank @ IS
Title: Open files? ALL,     I am trying to backup a rather large folder on a file server. This folder has subfolders starting with the letter A and going through W. I would like to select A - L in one job and the select M - Z in another. I cannot get the wildcards to work and im wondering if

[Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 restore error issue

2006-04-05 Thread Kohli, Vidit
Anyone seen this error for exchange 2003 restore done to alternate server 16:26:41 (303660.001) (303660.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\SG01\NYCPEXV006-SG01-DB02 (BEDS 0xFE08: ) THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENT MAY BE

[Veritas-bu] Oracle 10g Backup to Windows 2003 Media Servers

2006-04-05 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Running an Oracle 10g backup with 5.1MP4 to Windows 2003 5.1MP4 Master and Media servers. This is my first 10g database, so I'm wondering if something is different from older versions of Oracle? Basically backup starts, kicks off child job for database backup which goes to queued and times out /

RE: [Veritas-bu] Global Exclusion Lists

2006-04-05 Thread Mansell, Richard
Jason There is a Windows registry entry called "FilesNotToBackup". We are hoping to use the group policy to distribute it to all of our Windows servers. NetBackup should honour that key (see page 193 of the 6.0 Sys Admin guide for Windows part 1) Regards Richard -Original Message- From

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 maximum block size of 65536 bytes; a buffer size of 262144 cannot be used

2006-04-05 Thread Scott Jacobson
Simrat,   I've seen many discussions in this forum about using 262144 for a buffer sizes on Windows, and most of those discussions talk about it not being recommend or successful based on Windows TCP/IP Stack size limitation.  Others have indicated they have been able to get buffers sizes like th

[Veritas-bu] Determine compression rates.

2006-04-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Does anyone have a script that will show the compression rates per each tape in the library and an average / total as well? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] LTO3 fiber drives

2006-04-05 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: LTO3 fiber drives We are getting in 20 of these drives. Does any one else use Hp LTO3 fiber drives? What is the best performance setup to use for these drives? Greg >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged informatio

[Veritas-bu] LTO3 maximum block size of 65536 bytes; a buffer size of 262144 cannot be used

2006-04-05 Thread Sekhon Simrat S.
Hello,   We are using Netbackup 6.0 MP1 on Win2k3 STD with HP MSL 6030 tape library housing two Ultrium 3 LTO 960 drives. Any idea on how can we change the block size from 64Kb to 256 Kb on the tape drive?  We’ve change the buffer size in Netbackup and it seems to be writing at 256kb but

RE: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Test

2006-04-05 Thread Dhotre, Shekhar
Title: Open files? Smitha , The Ignite-UX server's make_tape_recovery command creates a bootable operating system recovery tape for a system while it is up and running. When a system has a logical volume layout, the recovery tape only includes data from the root volume group, plus d

[Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery Test

2006-04-05 Thread Pillapalem, Smitha
Title: Open files? Hi all, We are planning to do DR test for our environment which consists of Netbackup 5.1 MP 3 running on HP -UX . We have to do the following : Go to a different location called DR site. Rebuild the backup server right from scratch with the same hostname but pos

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0 and bpdbjobs performance

2006-04-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:40:55AM -0400, Steve Quan wrote: > We're evaluating Aptare's Storage Console on our NetBackup 6.0 MP1 system. > One of the commands that it requires is, the output of bpdbjobs -report > -all_columns, which takes a very long time to complete (over 6 minutes). > This is wit

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0 and bpdbjobs performance

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Quan
Hi, We're evaluating Aptare's Storage Console on our NetBackup 6.0 MP1 system. One of the commands that it requires is, the output of bpdbjobs -report -all_columns, which takes a very long time to complete (over 6 minutes). This is with only around 800 jobs (per the activity monitor). /Steve

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Title: Message Not everyone can do this, but if you can spare the downtime I've scripted in the past a brief suspend, File Copy to Another Directory and then Resume the Virtual Session.  You can backup that copy of the system whenever is convenient, and you have a simple way to restore.   -J

[Veritas-bu] Open files?

2006-04-05 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Open files? How does everyone handle backing up open files? I just cant believe that we just skip them all the time. Does anyone use a product that will trap open files? Greg >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread Roger Wilber
Another possibility exists, especially for temporary test setups:While backing up the the Windows VM host (lets call it vmhost), I just add into the backup selection something along the lines of  "\\vm1\C$" where vm1 is one of the virtual machines.  The Netbackup client on vmhost has to be running

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Well think of the virtual server as a physical one. As long as it can resolve name resolution, is not blocked by any firewalls, and can communicate with its host netbackup server, should be ok.   We used to do this on NT4, so my guess is, not alot has changed :-) Its a standar

RE: [Veritas-bu] Open files?

2006-04-05 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Yay I know its there. But it causes more problems that to fixes. We usually turn it off when it creates a problem. But I was curious as to what others do, or if they have found a better open file agent. Heck, I am event old by Symantec support to turn it off!   Greg From: W

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Yes it does. This was my t5hinkibng as well. But wanted to see how others were handling virtual servers.   Greg From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:29 AMTo: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu]

RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg Are you referring to something like Virtual PC's or virtual Servers? VS that are on a HOST Machine?   If so, what you could do is implement the Netbackup Client on EACH virtual machine and ensure it can see the Master.   In theory, you should still be able to perform a bac

RE: [Veritas-bu] Open files?

2006-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg NBU does it!!! In 5.1, you can use Veritas Snapshot Provider if you like! Mind you, majority of all my backups end in 0 and that is WITHOUT VSP running or VSS for Microsoft Windows Clients.     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EA

[Veritas-bu] Backing up virtual servers

2006-04-05 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Backing up virtual servers Currently we backup up the hosting server that has the virtual server directories. But running a restore means we have to restore the entire server and we are not able to restore individual files. How does everyone else backup virtual servers. Greg >>> T

[Veritas-bu] Global Exclusion Lists

2006-04-05 Thread Brooks, Jason
I've been trying to smooth out our backups and eliminate recurring status code 1s. What I've found is there are common files/directories across all of our Windows servers that cause this. For instance, one is %WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\. Is there a way to globally exclude this from

RE: [Veritas-bu] Restore to an exchange cluster problem SOLUTION

2006-04-05 Thread ida3248b
Not that I could find, and the messages in logs didn't really give any indication that this was the problem. We found it by comparing timestamps in the progress log and tar log with timestamp on errors in the different event logs and the irpstacksize came inside 1 second every time. Regards Mic

RE: [Veritas-bu] Restore to an exchange cluster problem SOLUTION

2006-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Michael Is there any technote that this refers to?? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

[Veritas-bu] Restore to an exchange cluster problem SOLUTION

2006-04-05 Thread ida3248b
Hello All It turned out the problem was that irpstacksize was to small on the physical nodes, after increasing this parameter the restore has been done without problems. Regards Michael -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk) ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] vmd, ltid, bpdbm, and bprd unstable

2006-04-05 Thread Martin Ruslan
Yes, the patches is alreadu updated.And the Maintenance pack is the 6 series.This unstable make a lots of error, because the daemon services always down by themself..Thx..=Martin= On 4/5/06, WEAVER, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not understand, can you be more specific on the proble

[Veritas-bu] vmd, ltid, bpdbm, and bprd unstable

2006-04-05 Thread Martin Ruslan
dear guys..I'm having a problem, where my daemon vmd, ltid, bpdbm is unstable. They always on and off by themself.I dont know what happen.. can anybody help?I'm using netbackup 5.0 MP6, on HP-UX11.thx for the respond.. :) -- Best Regards, Martin Ruslan Support Service EngineerPT. Millennia Infokom

RE: [Veritas-bu] vmd, ltid, bpdbm, and bprd unstable

2006-04-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message I do not understand, can you be more specific on the problem? Are there any errors reported or anything shows in your logs to indicate a problem?   Has any updates or patches been applied to your Server recently?     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domai