Re: [Veritas-bu] How to remove old media server from configuratio n?

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Darren This is the document I found.. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/230047.htm Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Messag

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Jason Its possible unless the full backup did not fully complete before the differential/Incr was being done. Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[Veritas-bu] How to remove old media server from configuration?

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Dunham
I'm looking at a 5.1 installation that had an old media server attached (just for testing apparently). I haven't been able to remove it from the environment. Since it doesn't exist, 'bpmedialist' hangs (trying to talk to it). I have looked at http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/266720.htm,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Dunham
> > Is there a way to tell netbackup to forget the phase 1 step? I'd > > rather not have the 'bpimport -p' output cluttered with these old > > tapes forever. > > Thought this came up before, but in any event, the expiration of phase 1 > catalog entries is one week. DAMHIK. :-( Ah, great. I ca

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Yes we have 4 L700's,2 on each media server. Adding 2 more media servers so there will be one for each L700. Our filers right now are connected directly to the tape drives.   Greg From: Paul Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:12 AMTo: Hin

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700 Management interface

2006-08-30 Thread Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those out there interested ( I don't think I already posted this in the past), if your L700, L180, or L80 are on some indirect network, but you can get there a hop or two away, here is the port forwarding within an SSH session to get the console to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Brooks, Jason
Not doing TIR or BMR for the policy that executed the job. Time really isn't the question. A delta of 90-95% seems abnormal to everyone in our department. Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Lewick, Taylor > Sent: Wednesday,

[Veritas-bu] Last Backup Date not in 'bpdbjobs -all_columns'

2006-08-30 Thread Yarldi Belac
The date of last good backup does not appear to be in the output of 'bpdbjobs -all_columns', yet if I do a plain 'bpdbjobs', I have the option of using 'BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = LastBackup' in bp.conf.   This gets me the last good backup date, but in my script I really want to use 'bpdbjobs -most_column

Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Lewick, Taylor
Turn of true image restore, you may be amazed how much quicker the backup runs... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Archive bit

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message gotcha.   So you've got 2 media servers and each controls 2x L700s, so you've got 4x L700s in total?   are the NDMP backups "remote" to the media servers? or are your filers connected directly to the tape drives?   so you will end up with 4 media servers, each connected to on

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message We have 1 master and 2 media servers. Each media server is controlling 2 L700's. We are adding 2 more media servers and splitting out the L700 so the each L700 has its own media server which will control it.  Currently 1 L700 does only ndmp backups and the other does regular b

Re: [Veritas-bu] >>NBU 5.1 MP4 bptm performance tuning<

2006-08-30 Thread briandiven
Title: Message 3,733 to be exact.  Everyone thinks we are nuts when they first hear this and then think it's pretty cool and creative what we are doing.  To put it in the simplest of terms, NBU does not allow you to pass parameters, but it does pass the policy name.  Therefore, we use unique

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Message Thanks Paul. Yes we want to move the L700 media and robotic control and all to a new server. This will allow us, among other things, to shut down one server for maintenance while the other server stays up and runs.   Another question. Can I move the media based on volume group

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Well.is your master a 3rd server? If not, ie, one is a master/media, and the other just a media, then you will not be able to shutdown the master/media and continue running with just the media serveryou NEED the master.   I suppose you couldyou would have to invent

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700 Management interface

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
It's a great benefit for our remote library which is across town. Lets us see if there's a tape in a drive that doesn't kive with what NBU reports, unload a drive and move tapes when robtest can't communicate with the drive (not often) Gives a graphical view of what's in use, drive wise, and see if

[Veritas-bu] Archive bit and disk defrag tools

2006-08-30 Thread Brooks, Jason
Folks, Have you ever experienced a defrag utility resetting the archive bit? It appears that we may. We had a server last night backup about 95% of it's file store on it's internal disk (defragged by diskkeeper) while a SAN drive backed up about 5% (not managed by diskkeeper). This was a

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK L700 Management interface

2006-08-30 Thread william . d . brown
And after installing the 'dongle' you have to restart the library for it to recognise it. Then it will say on the front panel that it is web-enabled. It is not the world's best GUI and the annual license charge is very steep, considering there has never as far as I've seen ever been any devel

Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message   Do you want to move the robotic control to a different media server? or you're adding a new media server and you want to move the robotics, and the drives to the new media server?   just wondering, cuz moving the robotic control to another server isn't gonna save much.   So

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Darren Could well be wrong, but I don't think there is anything left over or it is removed by NBU if the Phase 2 is not carried out shortly after. This may be wrong, but I could well be right :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited

[Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

2006-08-30 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Splitting media servers Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We have a media server that is controlling 2 L700 robots. We are going to move one of the L700's to a separate media to improve performance. What steps do we need to take to make sure that the backups and restore will continue to run as no

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cancel bpimport?

2006-08-30 Thread bob944
> For some investigation and other work, I did phase 1 bpimports of a > few tapes. Now the work is done and I won't be doing phase 2. > > Is there a way to tell netbackup to forget the phase 1 step? I'd > rather not have the 'bpimport -p' output cluttered with these old > tapes forever. > > I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Justin I think what is being said, is that unless anyone else other than Veritas / Symantec do the work, then its not supported :-) Symantec do have a Consultancy Service, however I am pretty sure it can be done by yourself, whether it will work successfully remains to be seen! It's a bit like M

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Not really acceptable, we should be able to do it ourselves.. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dean wrote: > I concur with what Stefanos said. > > In relation to 2), Veritas do offer a service where they send you a > consultant with some scripts to do a catalog merge. > > > On 8/30/06, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Dean
I concur with what Stefanos said.In relation to 2), Veritas do offer a service where they send you a consultant with some scripts to do a catalog  merge.On 8/30/06, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the response.On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, smpt wrote:> Hi,> 1) The installation is the sa

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks for the response. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, smpt wrote: > Hi, > 1) The installation is the same as in any UNIX system. Install VCS, install > NetBackup and run the cluster script. It is working fine. But I don't know > the cost > > 2) The only way for an individual to merge tapes from many NetB

[Veritas-bu] FW: bpimagelist columns

2006-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Much appreciated Andy From: Chisholm, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 August 2006 10:07To: Clooney, DavidSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist columns http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/193085.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpimagelist columns

2006-08-30 Thread Ilya Voronin
http://support.veritas.com/docs/193085 On 8/30/06, Clooney, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Morning All > > Does any have the column names for the fragment output of bpimagelist ? Most > of them you can pretty much work out however would be useful to have all the > columns? > > > FRAG 1 1

[Veritas-bu] bpimagelist columns

2006-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message Morning All   Does any have the column names for the fragment output of bpimagelist ? Most of them you can pretty much work out however would be useful to have all the columns?      FRAG 1 1 2048000 0 2 14 156 601557 emalonvme00 65536 4494521 1153941070 4 0 *NULL* 1157483542 0

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification - Policies

2006-08-30 Thread smpt
Hi, If you are using archive bit to take incrementals be aware that any program that reset the achieve bit may cause problems to your backups. Such as xcopy or robocopy. The real problem is that you may not know the use of such programs. I have a customer he had lost data because of this. I alwa

Re: [Veritas-bu] Questions for list.

2006-08-30 Thread smpt
Hi, 1) The installation is the same as in any UNIX system. Install VCS, install NetBackup and run the cluster script. It is working fine. But I don't know the cost 2) The only way for an individual to merge tapes from many NetBackup domains is to import the tapes. But maybe Veritas services have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 4, Issue 150

2006-08-30 Thread WALLEBROEK Bart
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