Re: [Veritas-bu] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.

Title: Message I had to go to NBU 6.0 because we have been waiting for SPS 2003 support since SPS 2003 came out. I upgraded from NBU 5.1 MP4 to NBU 6.0 MP1 without any problems except the normal EMM stuff (hire a NBU consultant who has done this before, as I did, is my best advice)   The

Re: [Veritas-bu] shared memory and BUFFERS with dssu's

I recall a previous thread discussing dssu's from about 6+ months back that may have mentioned a 10 GB limit   I'm not sure this is true at all or would apply to your infrastructure.   -sj>>> "bob944" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/24/2006 11:23 AM set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=33554432> set shmsys:s

Re: [Veritas-bu] Path Restrictions for Windows Backups (fwd)

Please forgive my multiple postings of the same message. I got bounces on all of my attempts so I didn't realize my question actually made it. --kathy ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/l

[Veritas-bu] Pre & Post backup scripts

Title: Pre & Post backup scripts We would like to execute a pre backup script and a post backup script on a Windows 2003 server – We are using Netbackup 6.0 clients and a 2003 Windows 6.0 Master server. IS there a best practice method of executing these scripts from the client using Verit

[Veritas-bu] Path Restrictions for Windows Backups

Greetings, I've an issue with a large backup (200GB) of a Windows 2003 server behind a firewall. There are other large Windows 2003 servers behind the same firewall whose backups do not have issues. For the particular problem server, I've found a path whose backups consistently fail with the fol

[Veritas-bu] Path Restrictions for Windows Backups

Greetings, I've an issue with a large backup (200GB) of a Windows 2003 server behind a firewall. There are other large Windows 2003 servers behind the same firewall whose backups do not have issues. For the particular problem server, I've found a path whose backups consistently fail with the fol

Re: [Veritas-bu] removing old vault sessions

Just add to your bp.conf:   KEEP_VAULT_SESSIONS_DAYS = 30 ..or whatever time frame you want.   -M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liddle, StuartSent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:23 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] removing old vault

[Veritas-bu] removing old vault sessions

I have set up vault to run several times per week.  Some of the vault runs do not produce any results (that is, there are no images to vault).  However, it will still create a vault session in the /usr/openv/netbackup/vault/   directory   This leaves several sid directories, onl

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.

Title: Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused. Hi Cheryl   I can't  comment on the upgrade process as we migrated from Backup Exec to NetBackup recently and went straight to 6.0 MP2. The only major problems we have uncovered so far are related to the vault. We had a problem with retention mapping and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.

Title: Message Cheryl,   I can't speak for everyone but we upgraded from 5.1mp4 directly to 6.0mp2 and have had no real problems related to the application. We have a W2K3 master.media and another W2K3 media server attached to a scaler 2000. I have tested it fairly well including restores to

[Veritas-bu] Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.

Title: Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused. I usually rely on this list to identifying issues with new versions and maintenance before I install them myself, but I’m confused.  Is there a problem with MP2 or are the people having problems with MP2 not implementing properly? Thanks, Cheryl King

Re: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

This is what Falconstor promotes as one of their features. You backup server doesn't see the physical libraryonly the VTL...then the VTL creates it's barcode inventory by the inventory of the libraryyou backup to virtual tape 01, which is then in the background duplicated to physical ta

Re: [Veritas-bu] shared memory and BUFFERS with dssu's

> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=33554432 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 > 33554432 * 100 = 3,355,443,200 = 3GB > I have 32 GB physical memory available. > I am getting error 89's and would like to make more shared > memory available. > I don't know why the system admin is only presenting 3GB? > Ther

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Device Daemon not starting

Did you run the nbpush command to populate the DB's?   (I think its nbpush -a)   Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg ColemanSent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:19 PMTo: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 - Device Daemon not sta

Re: [Veritas-bu] bprestore command

The default restore is going to place the files back in the same full path as the original file. If you want to place the files in a new location, you have to use a "rename" file. It's the "-R" option for bprestore. It'll handle partial path names so you don't have to rename every single file.

[Veritas-bu] shared memory and BUFFERS with dssu's

  dssu's have 2 stages. How do I configure stage 1 - read from client and write to media server dssu How do I configure stage 2 - read media server dssu and write to media server tape     stage 1 uses according to techtip #273532 NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK = 16 SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK = 1048576  

Re: [Veritas-bu] bprestore command

Jason, Thanks for the quick response. I will give it a try. Matthew Johnson Entertainment Partners Backup Administrator Work - 818-955-6357 Cell - 805-469-8867 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 200

Re: [Veritas-bu] bprestore command

In my experience, I don't know of a way to skip the directory structure. But you can use the command line for scripted restores - see the Commands reference for bprestore. Here's an example of mine: @REM NBU Restore script for mailbox @REM @REM bprestore -B -C mail.site.edu -D mail2.site.edu -S

[Veritas-bu] bprestore command

Hello all and thanks in advanced for any responses. We currently have data on server that is being end of lived. With that said we are thinking of using NetBackup specifically the bprestore command and performing a redirected restore to the new server. Using the GUI is going to time consuming a

[Veritas-bu] Windows XP client software

Hi All Does anyone have a link to just the client software for windows xp clients. I am offsite and dont have access to the cd's Thanks Mark Goodchild Branches Remediation J.P.Morgan Chase Phone: 01202347149 Mail: Mark A Goodchild/[EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]_

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, when I inventory an SL500, the tapes show u p as DLT!?

Justin What labels are placed on the tapes - are they different to the others? And to confirm drives are HCART2/3 Not seen this problem Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, when I inventory an SL500, the tapes show up as DLT!?

Thanks, fixed. On 5/24/06, Jayson Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > check your barcode rules ,I am sure that the barcodes are similar to those > used by your dlts > > -Original Message- > From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 May 2006 01:38 > To: List V

Re: [Veritas-bu] Help, when I inventory an SL500, the tapes show up as DLT!?

Hi Justin, check your barcode rules ,I am sure that the barcodes are similar to those used by your dlts -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2006 01:38 To: List Veritas List Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, when I inventory an SL500,the tapes show up a

Re: [Veritas-bu] inventory failed

Thanks Simon for your respons   2 drives status is standalone because it will be used as NDMP drive . So at My library detect 10 drive but at NBU side still using 8 drive i am not select 2 drive when i run device configuration wizard Now i am using 8 drive for client based backup next mo

[Veritas-bu] Help, when I inventory an SL500, the tapes show up as DLT!?

Under NB 5.1MP4, when I inventory 4 tapes, they all show up as DLT. Even though 2 are LTO2 and 2 are LTO3. Yes, the drives correctly show up as HCART2 and HCART3. When I inventory the robot they all show up as DLT though, has anyone had this problem? __

Re: [Veritas-bu] inventory failed

Title: Message You input new drives - did you run the device configuration wizard again.   And also, just to confirm, is all the drives online and connected correctly?   Thank you     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (

[Veritas-bu] inventory failed

Dear NBU expert   i got a problem when running inventory robot at ADIC I2000. This problem comes after i add 2 new drive at  I2000 library My enviroment is NBU 5.1 with Sun Solaris 8 server as master server Using ADIC I2000 and 10 drives LTO 2 The message i got is   inventory failed. Una

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude lists

Hi All, Thank you all for your help. I tried to remove the asterisk and the backup succeeded. Thank you Katherine, Mark, Steve, Karim & bob and sorry I didn't mention that our master server & client on the same machine. Thanks All, Mohamed Wahdan     -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailt