[Veritas-bu] Disk Staging on Media Server and relocation on Master Server

2006-06-06 Thread Didier BRUN
Hi,   Do you know if it is possible to make backups on DSSU localized on a Media server and make the relocation of the images to tape by a storage unit, robotics and drives localized on the Master server ?     thnx & regards, Didier ___ Veritas-bu mail

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about MediaVolume PoolsandT ap esandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Paul As mentioned below, I already write new month end tapes to the new pool! So that is not a problem. This was an oversight on the last person here, so its no big deal, but would be nice to "clean" things up a bit!     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Do

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools andTapesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Ok thats my thinking too, as alot can change in several years :-)     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-F

[Veritas-bu] RES: RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and TapesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos
Title: Message     Hi Simon,       I sent a wrong tech, in that has an example of use of the commands deassignbyid and assignbyid than can help you, if don't work, the best way is to make a copy of the images to another tape in other pool.   http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/247898.ht

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning, your opinion

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Does anyone knoew if the HP ESL322e has a facility to clean drives as I cannot get NetBackup to do it!! I have so far performed it manually, but I have never seen the drive require a clean yet..!     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrato

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume PoolsandT apesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message bpduplicate the images to the destination pool you want them to be in, expire the original tapepresto. or, as I said, change your monthly backup policy to write to the new pool from now on, and forget about the old tapeswithin a year, they will have all gone to scratch

[Veritas-bu] RES: RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and TapesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos
Title: Message     Simon,       Don't have problems, you don't need the policie and the volume pool to import a expired tape. In the Veritas support site (support.veritas.com) you can find technotes about expired tape imports.   T+   Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos Eng. Computação – Jundiaí

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume PoolsandT a pesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Paul This is a Tape Pool created 1 year ago. It contains 7 tapes - month end with a years retention. I wanted to get rid of the pool, but try to save the images by moving the tape into a pool that is used for month end backups.     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical Suppor

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups using all tapes in a jukebox

2006-06-06 Thread Roger Wilber
Thanks everyone. I was worried that doing this would would be invalid (due to the 4 drives using a single robot) but apparently not. As of this time, everything appears to be working just fine. I have noticed that while I can limit a storage unit to only 2 drives, I can't tell it which two. Go

[Veritas-bu] RES: Backups using all tapes in a jukebox

2006-06-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos
Hi Roger, You can create a new STU just containing two drives and use this STU instead of another with four drives. T+ Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos Eng. Computação – Jundiaí SP-BR * [EMAIL PROTECTED] H https://www.linkedin.com/in/tocals icq 123987362 - skype carlostoca msn on

[Veritas-bu] RES: Drive Cleaning, your opinion

2006-06-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos
Title: Drive Cleaning, your opinion     Hi Hindle,       The bedst way to clean the tape drives, is to configure the tape library to do this, because NetBackup will clean the tapes by frequency and not when the drive is really needing cleaning.   T+   Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos Eng. Com

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools andT apesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message there's no sense in changing a tapes pool if it's already been written.   change all your policies to write to whatever pools you want to continue with.as old tapes expire they'll go to scratch and get picked up in a new pool by the new policy definitionover time, only

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and T apesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Carlos the Technote - it seems to imply the images have expired - they are not in an expired state my friend, they are still live, containing images from Dec 2005.   Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and T apesandPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Carlos I just had an afterthought!! Lets ASSUME I remove the policies and volume pools?   What if I have to do an IMPORT of 3 year old tapes??   What happens?     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)A

[Veritas-bu] RES: 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and Tapes andPolicies

2006-06-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos santos
Title: Message Hi Simon,   1 - if you are sure that won't use more this policies, you can remove them. 2 - you can remove if don't exist policies that use those pools. 3 - you can use this technote to do the movie - http://support.veritas.com/docs/248093   T+ Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos E

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups using all tapes in a jukebox

2006-06-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
Simple, create a storage unit with only two of the drives and make sure the policy uses that storage unit. On 6/6/06, Roger Wilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure I have a setting wrong somewhere, but one of my huge backups > has decided that it wants to take over all 4 drives in our jukebo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups using all tapes in a jukebox

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Roger What is the storage unit set for that it uses? Goto storage units, double click on it and it should tell you how many drives its set to use. Also, what multiplexing per drives is this set for. In regards to the policy, you need to verify how the multiplexing is setup for the schedule (ie:

[Veritas-bu] Backups using all tapes in a jukebox

2006-06-06 Thread Roger Wilber
I'm sure I have a setting wrong somewhere, but one of my huge backups has decided that it wants to take over all 4 drives in our jukebox when it does full backups. I use streams but would really like to set it so the policy can use a maximum of 2 drives at any one time so other policies can run as

[Veritas-bu] 3 Questions about Media Volume Pools and Tapes and Policies

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi guys I am looking at cleaning up my Volume Pools, as I have at least 13 volume pools that are now empty and 2 that contain month end media id's in the NetBackup DB.   1) I have old policies that have been deactivated for some time. Can I safely remove these? they have not b

Re: [Veritas-bu] [vmd] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58)

2006-06-06 Thread King, Cheryl
In Solaris 9 TCP wrappers are enabled by default. If /etc/default/inetd contains the following line: ENABLE_TCPWRAPPERS=YES Entries have to be added to /etc/hosts.allow as follows: bpcd: vnetd: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Catalog Backup

2006-06-06 Thread Justin King
Sort of. I write the catalog to tape, then write it again to disk, then ZIP the whole thing up. The raw catalog will compress to around 25% of it's original size, so you'll probably end up with something around 20GB. I then burn that to DVD and include it with our weekly offsite rotation. It's

[Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning, your opinion

2006-06-06 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Drive Cleaning, your opinion How does everyone clean their drives? Heir are to rules of thumb (It think). One for allowing netbackup to do tape drive cleanings and the other is to allow the hardware to clean itself when it needs it. What are the pros and cons in each of these ways? G

Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning, your opinion

2006-06-06 Thread Greenberg, Katherine A
Title: Message Our library is an *intelligent library* and we handle all cleaning thru it on a time basis, not mounts. Using Aptare Storage Console, we were able to determine the lowest usage point of all of our drives per library in each 24-hour cycle and for each day of the week.  W

[Veritas-bu] Restore logs

2006-06-06 Thread Clark, Jeanne L [IT]
Title: [Veritas-bu] Restore logs The restore logs are kept  /logs/user_ops/ Jeanne Clark Engineering & Storage Svc Sprint IT Recovery Management Work 913.794.7834 PCS 816.721.5149 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Verit

[Veritas-bu] Remote Catalog Backup

2006-06-06 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I'm looking into getting away from tape based catalog backups and writing them to disk, then scripting them to copy to our DR site. Anyone doing anything like this? I'm thinking I'll have to compress, given the 80GB of Catalog files produced. Has anyone tested Zipped or RAR'd Catalog file restore

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Device Configuration problems :-(

2006-06-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hi Phil Alot of this is unix stuff - so not too sure if it will all work here, however I think I have made some progress.   I am able to configure server001 now, although unable to configure sso as I have backups running and it wants to restart the Services once completed. Did

Re: [Veritas-bu] [vmd] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58)

2006-06-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
Did you try running vmd with the -v options and also increasing log verbosity for the volume manager to get more information? On 6/6/06, Wilkinson, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy all, > > OS: Solaris 9. SAN Media Server. > > When I exec() the /etc/init.d/netbackup script I am seeing the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Device Configuration problems :-(

2006-06-06 Thread Weber, Philip
Title: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Device Configuration problems :-( I've occasionally found it necessary to delete everything NetBackup knows about the attached robots and drives, and re-scan from scratch, using the steps below.  Seems a bit drastic, but it does the job and the configur

[Veritas-bu] RMAN backup failed with error 40

2006-06-06 Thread Song
Hi all,   I have RMAN backup running but the parent job always failed with error 40 (network connection timeout) but all application (child job) were completed successfully. I check the RMAN log and all backup were completed without any error.   Anyone encounter this problem?   I'm running Ne

[Veritas-bu] [vmd] terminating - daemon cannot obtain socket (58)

2006-06-06 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Howdy all, OS: Solaris 9. SAN Media Server. When I exec() the /etc/init.d/netbackup script I am seeing the following errors via syslog. Jun 6 12:50:31 hostname.dsto.defence.gov.au vmd[28983]: [ID 625030 daemon.error] unable to obtain bound socket, no port number available for vmd (0) Jun 6