Re: [Veritas-bu] status code 73: bpstart_notify failed

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Windoze!!! LOL that's a new one! Is there no "Daemons" or something?? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Paul Keatin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Activity Monitor

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Mike I think this is what you are after Run \bin\admincmd\bpgetconfig on the master server and look for KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS and KEEP_JOBS_HOURS. It will be there and it's a long list :-) If it is set to three days, this is what you see. KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 72 KEEP_JOBS_HOUR

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License

2006-07-10 Thread Wilkinson, Tim
Title: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License Alessandro,   Thanks for your reply.   Unfortunately I'm not sure if the translation comes across exaclty as you meant it; I can guess what you're trying to say but not exactly sure.   Cheers,   Tim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on beh

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License

2006-07-10 Thread Alessandro da Silveira
Yes Tim, just to legacy, because if you are using this without licenses, it's ilegal, please same running fine put your license there, and don't forget everytime when you will increase a new tape tape drive, this one will work fine, but purchase and put a new license. Best Regards, Alessandro

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License

2006-07-10 Thread Wilkinson, Tim
Hi,   I've asked a few people about this but never had what I'd call a complete answer (I've been quoted from the admin guide but it's not hugely helpful as I've already read this and doesn't answer my question) so hopefully someone knows a bit more about this on this mailing list. We have NBU 6

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread Johnny Oestergaard
I went from MP1, over MP2 to MP3. MP2 was better then MP1 and MP3 is better then MP2. I had so BIG problems with loops in NBJM that had no other options just to apply MP3 into production the same second it came ready for download. I still have problems with MP3, but compared to MP2 that is now ch

Re: [Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message How do you setup your environment to get 2 physical tapes? do you backup to 2 tapes at the same time or do you use vault to to dup your tapes?   Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liddle, StuartSent: Monday, July 10, 2006 4:22 PMTo: Paul Ke

Re: [Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Yea that was one idea we came up with as well. But that means we have to go and change all of our policy's over. But it is on the table as an option. Thanks for confirming what we were thinking.   Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Kea

Re: [Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

2006-07-10 Thread Liddle, Stuart
Title: Message I would add that, yes, it would be a good idea to keep images on the VTL for possible restores.  However, if you need the space, then you should remove those images from the VTL as soon as they have been successfully duped.  Our practice is to make two physical tape copie

Re: [Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message I would change the retention in your netbackup policies to be inline with how long you want the data kept on the VTL. When you duplicate/vault you can specify how long you want the data kept on the "tape" copy, independantly..then the VTL copy will expire itself after the

[Veritas-bu] Emc VTL and netbackup question

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Emc VTL and netbackup question Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 EMC CDL VTL Ok here is the situation. We are testing this Emc CDL VTL. We backup data to the VTL and now need to get the data on the VTL copied to physical tape and then expire the image on the VTL. We were trying to use vault to pe

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Stephanos: Thank you. Let me explain. In order for us to do what we wanted with disk-based backups we chose to go from 5.1MP7 to 6.0MP1. We are having issues and Symantec is asking us to patch to MP3. I was wondering if anyone was at 6.0MP1 and patched to MP3 so that maybe there would be feedba

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread smpt
Any changes in MP1 or MP2 are preserved in Mp3. So if you plan to install MP3 it doesn't mater if you install first Mp2 and then MP3 or you go directly to MP3 stefanos > ---Original Message--- > From: Jorgensen, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available >

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:19:02PM -0600, Jorgensen, Bill wrote: > Just a question. Did you patch NBU6 from MP1 to MP3? If so would you > mind sharing any feedback as to what was better? We are currently at > 6MP1 and holding until we hear better things about the patches. Anyone > else in our situa

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-10 Thread Jorgensen, Bill
Ed: Just a question. Did you patch NBU6 from MP1 to MP3? If so would you mind sharing any feedback as to what was better? We are currently at 6MP1 and holding until we hear better things about the patches. Anyone else in our situation? Thanks, Bill -- Bill Jo

[Veritas-bu] Activity Monitor

2006-07-10 Thread Conner, Mike
Hi, I have NBU 5.1 MP5 on Windows and was wondering if anyone knows how to change the default time the status listings of each job stays in the activity monitor. Thanks Mike ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng

Re: [Veritas-bu] status code 73: bpstart_notify failed

2006-07-10 Thread Dustin D'Amour
Oh okay, thanks for the heads up Paul. Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066 www.coyotesolutions.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:41 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sub

Re: [Veritas-bu] status code 73: bpstart_notify failed

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Keating
There's no client to "restart" per se, on a unix host. Simon's referring to windoze. Paul -- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dustin D'Amour > Sent: July 10, 2006 12:39 PM > To: WEAVER, Simon > Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.aubur

Re: [Veritas-bu] status code 73: bpstart_notify failed

2006-07-10 Thread Dustin D'Amour
Haven't restarted the client as it is for DNS, where would I restart the services for the client? I can't seem to find the command in the /usr/openv directory tree. Dustin D'Amour Coyote Solutions Group 505.742.0066 www.coyotesolutions.com -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto

[Veritas-bu] Sun branded Emulex SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 problems?

2006-07-10 Thread Bob Stump
I am experiencing media position errors on a new master/media server using 6.0 MP3. I opened up a support call with symantec and they referred to an internal symantec technote on a known problem. The hardware is Sun branded Emulex SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 on an 890 platform running Solaris 10. They told me

[Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 Recovery Procedure - RFC

2006-07-10 Thread Siano, James C
Hello: My recovery procedure is as follows for a restoration of a wintel box. Please RFC. I do not use Bare Metal product, ghost, Acronis or any other layer: 1. provide similar hardware including array controller 2. rebuild fresh OS -- without service packs! 3. during setup create a local accou

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg Talk to Wintel - can you find out what they use please, then I can respond :-)     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Orig

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message I am not sure what the wintel team uses to try and recover the server before they call the backup team to perform a restore. We perform full systems backups with checkpoints. But we do not use VSP because of the problems it creates. The wintel team uses a imaging tool where the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Keating
That blows Greg. Both in initial Netbackup acceptance tests, as well as most subsequent tests and recoveries, we've had no problems with the documented procedures. I've recovered everything from Citrix Metaframe servers (alternate system drive, M rather than C), DCs, clusters, the works. Only thin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg That is ABSOLUTELY awful Which brings me onto my next point. what disaster recovery tools do you use NOW for your windows OS ??     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Por

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Another option. install the OS as it was before. restore the Data / applications?     Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Greg Well I have done it once - which was basically the following:   No Server OS - completely scre*ed:   1) using smart start 2) install BARE os Win2k3 3) Install NBU client, plus MP that was on the box 4) If Domain Controller, reboot in DS Mode 5) perform restore from master

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
The fix for us was to install a fresh copy of the Os and ap0plications. We then restored the application data. Never an easy process. We were on support line for 6 hours doing this with Symantec support and everything they had us do would never allow the server to be restored in full and have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Does anyone have a tested, working restore procedure to recover a windows server failure and crash? I would love to see what steps you do to recover a windows box.   Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam HazariSent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:48 AMTo: WEA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Shyam Hazari
  So what was the fix ?   Thanx   -Shyam  On 7/10/06, Hindle, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good luck. This has never worked for us. Very rarely do we get a full system restore of windows and have it boot just fine.   Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sh

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Hindle, Greg
Good luck. This has never worked for us. Very rarely do we get a full system restore of windows and have it boot just fine.   Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shyam HazariSent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:48 AMTo: WEAVER, SimonCc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.au

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Ok well that link does not work for me :-( Was this a Win2k3 Domain Controller or member server? Did you build the server with a BASE build (ie: bare OS plus Netbackup client + MP) ?   Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium L

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Shyam Hazari
I did the restore as per the DR document. Now the host is continuously rebooting. I found the following technote, Will give it a shot.   http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/251163.htm   Thanx   -Shyam  On 7/10/06, WEAVER, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shyam It should be covered in the disast

Re: [Veritas-bu] status code 73: bpstart_notify failed

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Dustin The client that's causing the problmes... Have you restarted the NetBackup service(s) or rebooted by chance? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best Practices

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Keith Other than the planning secions on implementing NetBackup and configuring it, I do not know of anything myself. What I have learned is the following (and all of this assumes on your environment or money) Buy a large Tape Library using the latest LTO technology where possible. All client LA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Shyam It should be covered in the disaster recovery document   But as long as you have a bare OS and the NetBackup client is installed and the client has been configured as before, you should be able to perform a FULL RESTORE from a last known backup tape.   The Restore ca

[Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore

2006-07-10 Thread Shyam Hazari
  One of our Windows system crashed during patch install. It has been rebuilt now. I need to restore the OS from tape. I am looking for a procedure. Is there a technote or a procedure I can follow ?   Much appreciated.   TIA   -Shyam ___ Veritas-bu mailli

Re: [Veritas-bu] Congratulations Italy

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Lightner
>From the American perspective: Was there some kind of game being played this weekend? Just kidding :-) Congrats to Italy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:04 AM To: 'Alessandro da Silveira';