Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-30 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:38:16PM -0400, Patricia Harmon wrote: > I have NetBackup running 5.1 MP4 on Windows master and media servers. > I am upgrading the media servers hardware only and would like to use > 64 bit. Does anyone know if this is supported or know of problems? I > see from the rel

[Veritas-bu] NBU6 and Windows remote installation

2006-05-30 Thread Wilkinson, Tim
I've been testing to see if it's possible to deploy multiple clients remotely from the same session but it's not looking good. I've come across some strange issues with authentication on the remote clients. In my test environment, I've got a Windows 2003 box and a Windows 2000 box. Both have

Re: [Veritas-bu] remove devices from dead media server

2006-05-30 Thread Ambrose, Monte
Title: Message Sometimes you have to remove the entry from the /usr/openv/volmgr/database/robotic_def file as well   Monte   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlisle, D Renee Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:55 PM To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu@mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Inconsistency with DSSU

2006-05-30 Thread Ambrose, Monte
Veritas made a change in the consistency check - I think at 5.1 MP4 where it will actually move the image to a temporary holding place if it thinks it is bad. Incidentally if you have any jobs running it will also kill the jobs because it thinks the image is bad. I am wondering if it tried to do a

Re: [Veritas-bu] remove devices from dead media server

2006-05-30 Thread Carlisle, D Renee
Title: Message You need to remove it from the Global Device Database (I am assuming you are not on 6.0 yet).  Go to Media and Device management, and expand hosts.  Click on the decommissioned media server (just click on stop or cancel if it is trying to contact the media server).  Go to

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO question

2006-05-30 Thread Carlisle, D Renee
Title: Message No, the other jobs would just queue if a tape drive wasn't available.  Once one of the other jobs finishes on any tape drive, the job would pick up and load a tape.       Reneé Carlisle Sr. Systems Administrator675 Basket RoadWebster, NY 14580 Jer 29:11-

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO question

2006-05-30 Thread Spearman, David
Title: Message Paul, we do use SSO, with one master and one media server, but we also throw ndmp in the mix. We do indeed limit the total count of our master and media servers to the drives actually available, 4 drives on the master and 6 on the media server. However, since the two servers

[Veritas-bu] remove devices from dead media server

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message ok.on a roll with stupid questions today.   I had a media server in my lab, and once it was built up, and functionality tested, it just got torn down and moved. So I removed the storage units, and policys and the media server references in the master server preferences, b

[Veritas-bu] SSO question

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Assuming you have several tapes drives share among several media servers.   ie, 10 drives and 3 servers.   if you configure each server to see all 10 drives and then configure a STU on each server to use a max of 4 drives, you will encounter situations where there is demand fo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Email Archiving

2006-05-30 Thread Steve . Bally
Jonathan, We just returned from training on the product.  We are going to use it for file archiving and then use it for exchange when we migrate from notes.  It is certainly and exchange centric product, it does integrate with NBU, there are allot of caveats. I can say this, if it is not setup c

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Windows master at 32 bit and NetBackup 5.1 media servers at 64 bit

2006-05-30 Thread Patricia Harmon
I have  NetBackup running 5.1 MP4 on Windows master and media servers. I am upgrading the media servers hardware only and would like to use 64 bit.  Does anyone know if this is supported or know of problems? I see from the release notes 64 bit is supported  on Windows but I don't know if a med

[Veritas-bu] VTL Webinar hosted by Sepaton - June 7th

2006-05-30 Thread alex.gerber
Hello Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that Sepaton (My choice for VTL Vendor for 3 years), will be hosting a Webinar on "Benefits of Disk-Based Data Protection: Present and Future". We own a 68 Tb unit - very happy with both the product and vendor. BTW - VP of Gartner will be featured.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 3.4.1 upgrade to 6.0 ?

2006-05-30 Thread Dave Carpe
That is correct, you do have to upgrade your 3.4.1 Servers to NBU 4.5 before going to 5.X and the 6.0. Clients of course can go straight to 6.0, as long as the OS version is still supported. Here is the document that explains what is supported: http://support.veritas.com/docs/264767 -Origi

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 3.4.1 upgrade to 6.0 ?

2006-05-30 Thread Darren J. Wise
Hi All, I've had a quick look through the archives and didn't find any relating to my problem. We are looking at updating our Solaris 5.8, Netbackup 3.4.1 install with a Sun L20 with two DLT8000 drives attached to the latest version of Netbackup v6. I believe I found a document that said I would

[Veritas-bu] Email Archiving

2006-05-30 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Well I'll be damned, I need some more information! Our messaging administrator (glorified Exchange admin) recently approached management about Email Archiving, and I've got until tomorrow to become a guru on Veritas Enterprise Vault. I guess because it says "Veritas" that makes it my job, but I'v

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP4 - Windows clients generating big VSP files

2006-05-30 Thread Covington, Garrett
I have been working a few cases with Veritas about this issue... Here is a way to delete the vsp temp files WITHOUT a reboot!! To delete the VSP temp files without a reboot. 2. This is the tool to manually remove the tmp files left over. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.sht

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration Documentation NBU 5.x -> NBU 6.0

2006-05-30 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
There is a Symantec training class for this. I took it. It was mediocre, at best, but the documentation was worth the pain of 2 days in class. The class covers both Windows and UNIX. Goes over all the new features, how to upgrade, the new logging and database, EMM (and all its components) and a bi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Resource Management

2006-05-30 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
Also, FWIW, I wouldn't view any of the below products as SRM tools... in the general sense of how I would define SRM. A backup monitoring tool, yes. SRM, no. That said, I second Ed's sentiment on Aptare Storage Console. It's a great product. It's as *real time* as you're ever going to get (when

Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Resource Management

2006-05-30 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:52:16AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: > After some prodding by Management I've been looking into "Storage > Resource Management" (SRM) tools to assist with monitoring backups, > reporting, troubleshooting etc etc... Currently under evaluation are > the foll

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 13 on Shadow copy components

2006-05-30 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I used to get these errors all the time, and I think we've posted about 10 or more fixes here in the past from the various Windows NBU admins. Here's mine again: 1 - Upgrade your NIC drivers to the most recent "stable" release (Windows Update Works Wonders!) 2 - Check Speed and Duplex Settings o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup on-line agents

2006-05-30 Thread Austin Murphy
This will at least narrow it down to which systems to take a closer look at: bpplclients -allunique -pt Oracle bpplclients -allunique -pt MS-Exchange-Server I don't know the exact policy type for SAP, prob. just "SAP." Austin On 5/29/06, Coen, Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How ca

[Veritas-bu] Storage Resource Management

2006-05-30 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
After some prodding by Management I've been looking into "Storage Resource Management" (SRM) tools to assist with monitoring backups, reporting, troubleshooting etc etc... Currently under evaluation are the following three tools which each have their own strengths / weaknesses and I'm wondering wh

[Veritas-bu] Status 13 on Shadow copy components

2006-05-30 Thread ida3248b
Hello All I keep getting status 13 on Shadow Copy Components on my NBU 5.1MP4 master server, actually the job gives 13 and then rerun with status 1 partial successfully. The support site didn't give anything. Any ideas/suggestions ? Regards Michael -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercit