RE: [Veritas-bu] EMM Database error 196

2006-05-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Eustace The command was NBPUSHDATA. You never actually said what version of NBU you were running - I think Justin took it that as it's an EMM DB, you are on 6.0 ! Any more info would be handy! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited,

RE: [Veritas-bu] backup_exit_notify script question

2006-05-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg Not sure it can be easily done, but if the email was going to you (or a mailbox), you could create a rule to say anything with "xx" in the subject line or maybe a Server name in the description goes to your colleague as a forwarded rule.   Thanks     Regards Simon Weav

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type--let's get it right

2006-05-18 Thread bob944
> "frequency is measured from when the backup ends" Many posters have made this statement; please state your sources as this is demonstrably false. Policy Name: DEMO-prod-std Include: / Schedule: full Frequency: every 1 hour Daily Windows: Thursday 0

SV: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Hampus Lind
Title: Message Yes, I am referring to ProtecTIER.     Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43 Tel mob: +46 (0)70 - 217 92 66 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För

RE: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Tristan Ball
Not necessarilly. :-) We can calculate the time to start our job based on the end time of the last job, while still using the start time of the last job for calculating which files to backup. And the SysAdmin Manual for Unix, Vol 1, Page 108 says: "Using the Frequency schedule type, administrator

RE: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool - EMM 196 w/ NBU 6.0MP2

2006-05-18 Thread Fernandes, Eustace
Java worked fine before I upgraded to MP2 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Smirnov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:30 PM To: Justin Piszcz; Fernandes, Eustace; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool - EMM 196 w/ NBU 6.0MP2 Some stupid ideas:

RE: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool - EMM 196 w/ NBU 6.0MP2

2006-05-18 Thread Fernandes, Eustace
Thanks does not sound like a good idea to run nbpushdata, will just have to wait for Veritas to call -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:10 PM To: Fernandes, Eustace; List Veritas List Subject: Fwd: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool -

RE: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Wilkinson, Tim
Bob,   I've got this from the VERITAS Netbackup 6.0 Administration course manual :   "Frequency Select the frequency radio button to enable administrators to specify how much time must elapse between the successful completion of a scheduled task and the next attempt at the task"   Cheers,  

RE: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool - EMM 196 w/ NBU 6.0MP2

2006-05-18 Thread Dmitri Smirnov
Some stupid ideas: - try to use Java gui to add pool - make sure your filesystems are not full - ... No more ideas Dmitri -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; List Verit

RE:[Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Koping Wang
Hi, We are also looking in D2D solution which work with netbackup. We are going to make decision between DataDomain and Dilligent. This is my thought about these two products. Dillignet: Pro: VTL - low impact on configuration. faster - it use fiber channel. more add on functions -

Fwd: [Veritas-bu] Add Volume Pool - EMM 196 w/ NBU 6.0MP2

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Here is a thread of another person having a similar issue and what he found. Brooks, Jason to veritas-bu More options Apr 13 I am trying to add another volume pool to my environment today, and it failed with an EMM Database Error(196). I've searched through google and support, bu

RE: [Veritas-bu] EMM Database error 196

2006-05-18 Thread Fernandes, Eustace
Why do I need to populate the database, I am just applying MP2 patch no upgrading from another release? Anyway what is the command is it nbdata or nbdb_upgrade Nbdb_upgrade -dbn NBDB was run successfully during the MP2 patch Eustace -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: [Veritas-bu] EMM Database error 196

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Did you run the nbdata (dont have docs in front of me) -push command to populate the database? On 5/18/06, Fernandes, Eustace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After upgrading to MP2 I am unable to vmadd or vmpool add any ideas ? Eustace Fernandes Technical Support vo

RE: [Veritas-bu] New Search Solution from Symantec Enterprise Technical Services

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Peppas
Hi.   Maybe we should sign a email all together and sent it to them   Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahnmiller, BryanSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:24 PMTo: Bob Stump; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] New Search Solution

[Veritas-bu] EMM Database error 196

2006-05-18 Thread Fernandes, Eustace
Title: EMM Database error 196 After upgrading to MP2 I am unable to vmadd or vmpool add any ideas ?  Eustace Fernandes Technical Support   voice (403) 237-1534

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread alex.gerber
Title: Message I've been using Sepaton (www.sepaton.com) for almost 3 years now (Since Sept. 2003) - Two Words - LOVE IT.   Hardware is awesome - Service is great - Sales are not pushy.   I have a 45 Tb (RAW) unit (formatted down to 30TB - I am paranoid when it comes to Redund

RE: [Veritas-bu] backup_exit_notify script question

2006-05-18 Thread Mark.Donaldson
You can't do this with stream number because there's no guarantee what in order the streams will complete.  Most of us have nasty hacks for this.   My version has every stream that ends write a line to the same file.  Then it checks the size of the file, if the number of lines matches the ST

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message are you referring to Diligent's ProtecTIER, content based screening, that only backs up the changed blocks, minimizing the amount of data on disk??   Falconstor, IIRC, does software based compression before writing to the virtual tape, and that's it.   Paul     -- -

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Ashby, Andrew
We have DD200's here and they have been true to our expectations.    We push all of our non-critical, short expiration, jobs to them. We have been happy with the compression and reliability - though we have had a few issues.   Nothing we couldn't get fixed. If its not already out there - the

SV: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Hampus Lind
Title: Message I have been going through falconstor homepage and cant find anything about “de-deuplication” or “compression” which some call it, like the one diligent offers. Do they have these functions?     Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message My intent is to backup to VTL at night, and duplicate to tape during the day, every day. we'll keep at least 2 weekly FULLs plus subsequent incrementals on disk   we're using the disk primarily as a means of getting away from multiplexing, as we have so many slow clients, tha

SV: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Hampus Lind
Title: Message J   Do you have any thoughts on how you would use tapes in a diligent or falconstor environment? Or are you looking at only use disk as a backup media? For safety reasons one could mirror the disk and replicate the servers to different sites, but yet I don’t know if its e

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message LOL...not far...based on features, those are the two we are going to start looking at soon.   Paul     -- -Original Message-From: Hampus Lind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 18, 2006 2:05 PMTo: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: SV

SV: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Hampus Lind
Title: Message Ok..   How fare have you come in you evaluation with diligent and falconstor? Have you found any big difference between the two? We have looked at diligent for some time now, the down side right now is that there is only one test installation here in Sweden which results

RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message we're looking at Diligent and Falconstor.   primarily because Netbackup isn't "there" yet..DSSU doesn't cover what we need, and it doesn't look like they're ready to go wide open with purdisk yet, so with falconstor or diligent, we can license the SW and run it on commodity 2U

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup PureDisk vs datadomain / Diligent..

2006-05-18 Thread Hampus Lind
Hi,   I am looking datadomain and diligent products and have noticed that Netbackup are doing something similar with its PurDisk function. Have anyone looked at Netbackup PureDisk?   Best regards,   Hampus Lind Rikspolisstyrelsen National Police Board Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43 Tel

[Veritas-bu] backup_exit_notify script question

2006-05-18 Thread Pero, Greg
Running Netbackup 5.1 mp4 on W3K – have backup_exit_notify.cmd configured to send email alerts (based on the status code) via blat to the NB Sys Admin.  I need to figure out a way to send a single email to a user after a specific scheduled policy has completed (the job runs from the master

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0MP2 BMR

2006-05-18 Thread Karl . Rossing
Hi, I'd just like to verify something. As it relates to windows servers, SRT's are kept on the windows boot server but driver/servicepack packages are kept on the netbackup master. I'm thinking that in the event of a DR, netbackup master is cloned and all i have to do is install a BMR boot serve

RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.0

2006-05-18 Thread Dmitri Smirnov
During the test restore we found that we may face data corruption on media since our environment matches to conditions described below: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280140.htm at the end we found that issues with restore were related to bad SCSI cable (backups are 100% good, restores are

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:39:09AM -0400, Bob Stump wrote: > bpimagelist returns with the "start time" of the image. The image > name contains the ctime of the start of the image. Because of these > reasons, I believe that "Freq is measured when the backup STARTS if > you are using Freq based sch

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question with bpduplicate.

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks! On 5/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin - NetBackup keeps track of the Primary Copy. All restores are performed from this Primary Copy. In order to perform restores from another copy (not always number 2...), you need to change the Primary Copy to the other c

RE: [Veritas-bu] Nbwin.exe crashing

2006-05-18 Thread Brooks, Jason
I just found that all 5600 or so are in the same directory. It finally rendered in nbwin. Not sure why it's crashed recently, though. Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brooks, Jason > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:37 AM

RE: [Veritas-bu] Question with bpduplicate.

2006-05-18 Thread Robert.Thelen
Justin - NetBackup keeps track of the Primary Copy. All restores are performed from this Primary Copy. In order to perform restores from another copy (not always number 2...), you need to change the Primary Copy to the other copy number. One way to do this is with the following command :

[Veritas-bu] Nbwin.exe crashing

2006-05-18 Thread Brooks, Jason
I've been trying to peruse a restore tree for our NDMP mail device. When I attempt to expand the folder containing the use folders (around 600 sub-folders), nbwin will eventually die. I've successfully navigated into the structure before. And I've even opened one that contains around 5000 sub-fol

RE: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Keating
I have experienced this with Weekly backups set to 1 week frequency, but never on dailies with 1 day freq. Odd. :o\ Paul -- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Rock > Sent: May 17, 2006 10:36 PM > To: veritas-bu@mailman.en

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Bob Stump
bpimagelist returns with the "start time" of the image. The image name contains the ctime of the start of the image. Because of these reasons, I believe that "Freq is measured when the backup STARTS if you are using Freq based scheduling." But I have no proof and I have read conflicting posts fro

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Steve
Sorry, I had the INTERVAL and FREQ parts backwards and it was not very clear. The write-up below may make more sense: Freq is measured when the backup ends if you are using Freq based scheduling. If you are using Interval mode scheduling when the backup ends does not matter. Its a bit confusing bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Steve
I hate to send this out 3 times in a row but it does address the question. Freq ONLY depends on when the backup ends for INTERVAL based schedules. This is what used to cause sliding windows of old. Freq based Freq schedules do not care when the backup last finished. Below is a small write-up conce

RE: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

2006-05-18 Thread Bob Stump
"frequency is measured from when the backup ends"   Will someone please provide me the documentation that states this? I have been looking for it for literally YEARS...           >>> "Tristan Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/17/2006 10:07 PM >>> Yes - and be aware that the frequency is measured from

RE: [Veritas-bu] Question with bpduplicate.

2006-05-18 Thread Bobby Williams
Unless you promoted the duplicated tape to be the primary copy, you won't see it in the restore list. If the duplicated tape has a longer retention than the original tape, then the duplicated copy will automatically be promoted to the primary when the original primary copy expires. "bpimmedia -

[Veritas-bu] Question with bpduplicate.

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
After you run bpduplicate on a backup image, server_12029394 etc and it dupes the tapes to another set, where/how do you restore from the second set of duplicated tapes? When I go to the client in restore mode, I only see the originals backup image (with original tapes), thanks.