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Ah I see - ok so MAYBE, if a job initially fails
with 196 (backup window closed), and you attempt to re-run, it may automatically
fail again.
Now this is interesting, because another site that
uses the method you described complained the job re-launched but got 196
strai
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If the policy fails to work (and all settings look
correct and the same), then I would start by removing clients and re-adding
them.
Its not easy to identify a corrupt policy - the only way I have
personally found to get around the issue is to create a new one. You could also
Title: Message
I've just double checked, on a machine that
conveniently failed it's backups last night.. :-)
The job in question was a single stream of a multi
stream backup, which had failed with an error 156. The job was "Done", not
suspended. The window closed at 6am this morning.
I rig
Title: Message
Guys
Still not fully convinced my problems are fully resolved now (go
one step forward, 2 steps back!)
Done a full backup, that completed with NO
problems.
Ran an Cumulative_Incr and found 2 streams still running, for the
past 2 hours.
Its clearly working as the amount of KB
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I
always thought you would get a 196 status (Backup Window closed). I assume you
restarted by choosing a stream that failed and right clicking on it and
selecting "restart job" ?
Regards
Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows
Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
Limi
Title: Quantum DX100 Issue
Hi,
We have a Quantum DX100 Virtual Tape Library and are experiencing issues where the device regularly goes "Offline".
I am wandering if anyone is experiencing the same problems.
Regards,
Peter
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I've restarted streams after window closure, it seems to
work OK.
T.
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Jonathan (Contractor)Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 3:30
AMTo
I've had similar experiences with 6.0mp2, both calender and frequency
based schedules.
It seems that the PEM gets confused about which schedules are
running/have run. For us, the fix has been to shut down netbackup, then
edit the bin/bpshed.d/pempersist file, removing the entries (and
subsequent b
I do not have documentation for my specific error. I called in Case
280-593-264 to Veritas support for help with my issue. I have used
calendar based scheduling for 3 years now and have used it on 5.0 mpX,
5.1 mp2-3 and now 6.0mp2. When I upgraded from version 5.1mp3 to 6.0mp2
all of my Full_li
I am not sure allow is the correct word. If I scheduled a full backup
to run across midnight and checked both days in the calendar schedule
then I had an issue where the backup job never ran. I did not fail or
anything it just did not run. The interface would allow me to configure
the policy and
I did not have any
problems with Pre 6.0 crossing the midnight boundary.
-Jonathan Marks (970)295-5362
From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,
June 13, 2006 10:21 AMTo: Marks, Jonathan - Fort Collins, CO;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: Re: [Veritas-bu] whats
We only have one calendar based schedule (for
quarterlies) and the start window spans the whole weekend. We do that
as the client backups all get scheduled at the same time (Friday night)
so will sit and queue . Some jobs therefore will not run until the
next day. If the window has closed by
Calendar-based scheduling was better once I got to a certain level of
understanding.
Pros:
A good benefit was being able to add a client to a policy and, like
magic, a full backup is done that evening, even though 98% of my fulls
are done on a weekend.
Like many, I have a weekly full backup
> [...] As far as the person
> who said the window should be shorter than your backup time, I have to
> respectfully disagree. You really just need to make sure that your
Assuming you are referring to
> 10. windows should be shorter than the backup. Since it isn't
> frequency based it will re-
Does anyone have experience with the Solaris
10 X86 client for NBU 5.1? I just had a site of mine running 4.5 decide to
put in a new Solaris 10 X86 box with no warning and I'm scrambling to get the
license (We run plenty of 10 here, but no X86) and upgrade the 4.5 Media
Server to 5.1 MP4.
LOL
I use frequency based for
daily and weekly backups. It works well. I also use calendar based
scheduling to duplicate the weekly backup (in a different schedule of course) to
run on the last day of the month for monthly backups with longer retention
periods. As long as the Monthly sc
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With
Vault, yes.
However, I use bpduplicate run via cron.
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I would second your vote Bob. When I read, in this thread, that having
windows cross days was bad form, I thought to myself, "I would never get
anything backed up if that was the case". Glad I'm not the only one.
Jason
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> If you are using Netbackup 6.0 you can not have your start
> window cross
> midnight. I was told that it is bad practice. I think Netbackup has
> gone goofy.
And your documentation is what, exactly?
If this is fact, _I_ want to know about it; please provide a pointer to
your documentation a
Title: Frequency based versus calendar based
What are the pros and cons of each?
We have switched from calendar base to frequency based but there are rumblings about switching back. I need more info to keep this from happening. I have copies down ideas from the current discussion but thoug
My apologies for ever contemplating the use of calendar scheduling!
Whatever was I thinking??
I fully understand frequency based scheduling and I will continue to use it until Control Data Corporation, OpenVision Technologies, VERITAS Software, symantec, or whoever owns BackupPlus, Axxion-NetB
> I have years of experience with frequency based scheduling but I have
> always shied away from calendar based. Today I made my first
> attempt and
Gone over to the dark side, have you?
> I cannot see where I made a mistake. Please review this and help me if
> you can. Thanks.
>
>
> Here is
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retry after runday means "anytime after" the
defined runday...not just the next day.
so when you create a new policy, or add
a client to an existing policy, the first time tha backup runs, it hits all
schedules to see which takes precidence.if your monthly/quarterly exist
Title: Help, runaway restore caused my catalog filesystem to get up to 99%
All:
Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups. My problem is that on occasion when doing a restore using the gui. If you get your dates all set an
I'm an advocate of calendar-based scheduling, so I'll kick in my 2 cents
worth ...
You got a "17.30_mon_calendar" full backup Monday evening because (1)
you have a window there, (2) you have "retry after run day" and (3) the
schedule does not yet have a backup. It's kind of like NetBackup thin
I think I may not have read correctly - this referred to Calendar-based
schedules, correct?
-Steve-
Steve Beuttel wrote:
> I'm sorry ... did I read correctly that you have verified that NBU 6.0
> will not allow a start
> window to cross midnight? And someone actually told you that was a
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bpduplicate will be your friend on this, just make sure you set the global
parameters as far as how many copies you can have of an image
bpconfig -max_copies 3
...or what ever. Not sure what you mean by merge the copy 3 tapes
in.
Thanks
Peter
Pe
What version of NBU ... the early Calendar based jobs (4.5ish) had some bugs with the logic.
As far as having Calendar based schedules crossing midnight you should not do that. I don't think its goofy, it just defats the purpose of Calendar based Schedules. You told NBU that you want it to run on a
Copy 1 is considered the data sitting
on the DSSU
Copy 2 is considered the data copied
to tape
I'd like to do some testing, so i'd
like to create a 3rd copy. Doing a manual relocation isn't possible since
the data is already to tape.
Would i just run bpduplicate manually?
My assumption is that t
You could always set the time on the
master server ahead, so midnight matches your normal start time. J
Regards,
Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist
Architect & Engineering
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Mess
I'm sorry ... did I read correctly that you have verified that NBU 6.0
will not allow a start
window to cross midnight? And someone actually told you that was a
feature because to
do so is a "bad practice"?
Is this common experience?
Thanks,
-Steve-
Bob Stump wrote:
> goofy isn't the wo
The tapes are indeed the proper media.
And the robot and drive respond perfectly to the robtest in
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin.
The robot and drive are seen and I can get an inventory report etc from within
NBU.
Within Netbackup, I never get as far as being able to load a tape into the
drive. The ar
goofy isn't the word I was thinking ofbad prcatice to do backups from 6PM to 6AM
anyhow. I should have included that I am using NB5.1_MP4
>>> "Marks, Jonathan - Fort Collins, CO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/13/2006 12:02 PM >>>
If you are using Netbackup 6.0 you can not have your start
I ran the Problems report the today and yesterday and started finding
Corrupt Images in the logs. Here's the text of one entry:
rename(D:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images\ciscoacs\113700\Windows_Differenti
al-Inside_1137678315_INCR.f,D:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db.corrupt\cisc
If you are using
Netbackup 6.0 you can not have your start window cross midnight. I was
told that it is bad practice. I think Netbackup has gone
goofy.
-Jonathan Marks (970)295-5362
From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,
June 12, 2006 4:02 PMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.e
Title: Message
I have had this problem since going to 6.0. On my
systems I found it occurs when I have a start time that crosses midnight.
I rebalanced my jobs so they do not cross midnight and all work
well.
-Jonathan Marks (970)295-5362
I
knew there was something I forgot! and if
Perhaps the calendar schedule has to be in its own policy?>>> "Bob Stump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/12/2006 6:01 PM >>>
I have years of experience with frequency based scheduling but I have always shied away from calendar based. Today I made my first attempt and I cannot see where I made a mistake. P
Title: Message
Thanks Simon and Tim, will investigate and
check. For some reason deleting and recreating policy does seem to work. I
wish there was a way I knew of to check for policy corruption. That would be a
time-saver.
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Sent:
Hello All ...
Can Netbackup duplicate NDMP backup like with diskStaging Storage Unit ?
I do not want to use the bpduplicate !
Many Thanks
Didier BRUN
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After upgrading from 5.1 to 6.0, the drives that were DOWN now show up as
missing? I can manually add it and up it but then it goes DOWN and missing
again, is this just how it looks in 6.0 when a drive goes down?
The second drive (06) was up before and after the upgrade.
$ sudo
/usr/openv/v
Yeah, if you have a complicated DNS environment, that is the cause of the
163 errors.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>
> Justin
> Ok that bring it back to the daemons or name of server or your unix host
> master I guess!
>
> What if you restart
>
> Also, I assume all pings and name r
Or at least it was for me.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Yeah, if you have a complicated DNS environment, that is the cause of the 163
> errors.
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>
>>
>> Justin
>> Ok that bring it back to the daemons or name of server or your unix ho
Tried running the tptext command, did not help.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>
> In fact, just found this article If it helps?
>
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280402.htm
>
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
> 3rd Line Technical Support
> Windows Domain Administrator
>
> EADS Ast
I figured it out!
I set the hostname to NON-FQDN temporarily and it worked.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>
> In fact, just found this article If it helps?
>
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280402.htm
>
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
> 3rd Line Technical Support
> Windows Doma
Justin
Ok that bring it back to the daemons or name of server or your unix host
master I guess!
What if you restart
Also, I assume all pings and name resolutions is ok???
Not much help here :-(
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited
On two of my media servers, I get:
Error: the operation requested has failed (163)
When running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbpushdata -add
Has anyone gotten this before?
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In fact, just found this article If it helps?
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/280402.htm
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
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Justin
Could be wrong but if I recall, the 163 was meant to indicate the
installation may not have completed ok or the services have not started
correctly (Daemons in your case).
Is there an install log file created by chance?
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Admi
Ed
Myself / Justin replied off topic, so that has been covered and I think it
was just clarification.
Justin should now be a ok :-)
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:56:45AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> The master server should be upgraded first, then the media servers,
> correct?
Correct. Read the installation manual - it's *very* important.
.../Ed
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I figured it out, if /bin/hostname returns x.y.z.com, you need to
/bin/hostname x (only the servername itself).
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> All hosts are fully qualified.
>
> VxIF::Info:: Entering ThunkAll::stop_product_processees
> VxIF::Info:: Entering _pbx_comm_stop_processes
All hosts are fully qualified.
VxIF::Info:: Entering ThunkAll::stop_product_processees
VxIF::Info:: Entering _pbx_comm_stop_processes
Stopping Private Branch Exchange daemon
V-9-0-0 Cannot determine localhost's dns domain name. This can cause
problems during installation if you have entered localh
I will be out of the office starting 06/13/2006 and will not return until
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I will respond to your message when I return.
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We’re backing up our Exchange server and I want
to exclude a store which is called leavers.
What is the syntax which I will put in the exclude
list?
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The master server should be upgraded first, then the media servers,
correct?
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Yes there is that, although the renewal process for DHCP should mean that
this may not happen.
Even so, as mentioned before, an exclusion should be in place for Servers
ideally!
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
A
Carl,
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:
> It's perfectly fine to use DHCP for Windows servers as long as you use
> reservations. The good thing about using DHCP for reserved IPs is if the
> network configuration changes, you don't have to manually update the
> values on every box as it c
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I
knew there was something I forgot! and if this still does not work... try
creating a new Policy. I have definetely seen a corrupt policy where nothing
would run, but re-creating has solved it!
Regards
Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows
Domain Administrator
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