[Veritas-bu] Policy Export / Import?

2006-09-06 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Title: Message All, I'm building our new Netbackup 6.0 infrastructure from the ground up, as opposed to upgrading from 5.1. Is there a way I can export my policies and them import them into 6.0 as opposed to me manually reproducing them in the GUI? Current: NBU 5.1 on Windows 2000 Future:

[Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5

2006-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
Hi all Just a quickie, Is NBU 5.1 MP5 supported by Oracle 9i and 10g? Regards DaveNotice to recipient:The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Here's the compatibility matrix. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/264318.htm -- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, DavidSent: September 6, 2006 11:06 AMTo:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5

2006-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message AIX5 Dave From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2006 16:23To: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5 What O/S? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5

2006-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
Title: Message More specific AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3 (Both 32 and 64 bit versions for both AIX versions) From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2006 16:23To: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle 5.1 MP5 What

Re: [Veritas-bu] FROZEN acts like SUSPEND in 6.0 MP3 with bpexpdate command?

2006-09-06 Thread smpt
Hi. Yes, this is the behavior ob bpexpdate with 5.x too smpt ---Original Message--- From: Wayne Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FROZEN acts like SUSPEND in 6.0 MP3 with bpexpdate command? Sent: 05 Sep '06 17:56 I think it's just the way NetBackup (and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Export / Import?

2006-09-06 Thread smpt
I haven't try it with ver 6, but you can copy the ../netbackup/db/class directory. ---Original Message--- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Policy Export / Import? Sent: 06 Sep '06 15:17 All, I'm building our new

[Veritas-bu] Q about status 134

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Keating
So I've been testing in my lab to determine what happens when several storage units over subscribe the available number of drives. So basically, 3 drives, 2 STUS, each STU configured to use max 2 drives. So the STUs are oversubscribed by 1. It seems jobs won't queue, but re-try, over and over

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Hi Paul, Thanks for your concern. Its a minimum of 5 GB that a tape can contain. The tape grows tilll the max vol size. Since the problem appears confusing, I'l narrate some details 1. We have say 10 TB of VTL, I use 3 TB a day, The VTL shd ideally last 3 days. But say if my vault does not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message This is confusing due to the fact that the tape sizes are variable. This doesn't fit into the paradigm most of use are used to with tape. if you want to use fewer tape IDs, you should probably increase the MPX level, and somehow force larger amounts of data on each tape ID.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Q about status 134

2006-09-06 Thread Darren Dunham
So the STUs are oversubscribed by 1. It seems jobs won't queue, but re-try, over and over and over, every approx 15 seconds, each time throwing a status 134, then requeuing for a couple seconds, then retrying. That's exactly the behavior I've seen. It appears that after being queued, it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Q about status 134

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Keating
That's actually all I want to do for the moment. I was just wondering if it was better developed for a pay to play product like SSO, since I'm looking at implementing it in the near term when I add a couple media servers.or otherwise, hardcoding a fixed number of tape drives per media server.

[Veritas-bu] User Restores?

2006-09-06 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Is there any feature of NBU that would allow users to restore their own data? I suppose we could give them access to the restore GUI, but they could then restore any file to any location, which is a major security issue. (Whoops, did I just overwrite the kernel?) Is there some sort of way we

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread David Rock
* Yang Xiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-06 14:02]: Hi all, After talking to Veritas support, I guess since we are running 4.5 on RH 7.3, and non of them is really supported, they suggested that we just build the new server with ES 4 and NB 6.0 MP3, and import all of the tapes to rebuild the

Re: [Veritas-bu] User Restores?

2006-09-06 Thread Mark.Donaldson
The can't exceed their unix permissions on the restore, so, in general, they can't overwrite the kernel. The bprestore tool runs as their unix UID. There used to be a problem where no group other than their primary group was considered but I don't know if that's still a problem. (for example:

Re: [Veritas-bu] User Restores?

2006-09-06 Thread David Rock
* Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-06 16:35]: Is there any feature of NBU that would allow users to restore their own data? I suppose we could give them access to the restore GUI, but they could then restore any file to any location, which is a major security issue.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Yang Xiao
ouch?How many tapes are you dealing with?If it's a relatively small number, you could get away with that.Make sure you have a dump of your imagesand their retentions to help with researching images to import in anemergency and then work on a schedule to get as many as you deemimportant imported as

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 Happiness (WAS: RE: Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0)

2006-09-06 Thread Major, Rusty
Title: Message I have installed a very small (3 total clients, one of them is NDMP) fresh 6.0 environment and had a couple of strange issues forcing me to use the Java client onthe Windows Master. I installed it when MP2 came out and it was working fine, but then I ran into the scheduler

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 tape selection problem

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Friedman
Title: Netbackup 5.1 tape selection problem Hi all. We are running 5.1 of Netbackup Enterprise for Solaris, when executing a backup, Netbackup skips over valid tapes in the pool, and even tries some in other pools, then fails with code 96. I included the bptm log entries for the backup. The

[Veritas-bu] Fame at last.

2006-09-06 Thread Mansell, Richard
I see some of you were also contacted by Sharon at Computerworld:- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090506-users-suffer-major-problems -with.html ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup running on fedora 5

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
Allen, Jimmy wrote: Our environment Netbackup 5.1 mp1 running on a Solaris 2.9 master server IBM3584 Tape library with 12 LOT2's and 3 LTO3's Are there any issues running Netbackup media servers and clients on a Fedora 5 OS. The compatibility matrix is online at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
Yang Xiao wrote: After talking to Veritas support, I guess since we are running 4.5 on RH 7.3, and non of them is really supported, they suggested that we just build the new server with ES 4 and NB 6.0 MP3, and import all of the tapes to rebuild the catalog, since they said the 6.0 should

Re: [Veritas-bu] Q about status 134

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
Paul Keating wrote: That's actually all I want to do for the moment. I was just wondering if it was better developed for a pay to play product like SSO, since I'm looking at implementing it in the near term when I add a couple media servers.or otherwise, hardcoding a fixed number of

Re: [Veritas-bu] User Restores?

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: Is there any feature of NBU that would allow users to restore their own data? I suppose we could give them access to the restore GUI, but they could then restore any file to any location, which is a major security issue. (Whoops, did I just overwrite the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fame at last.

2006-09-06 Thread David Rock
* Mansell, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-07 12:39]: I see some of you were also contacted by Sharon at Computerworld:- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090506-users-suffer-major-problems -with.html There was also an article in Storage. -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Any Gotchas migrating from 5.1MP5 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Ray . Hill
I'm about to migrate from VNB 5.1MP5 to VNB 6.0, I ran across the below article, has anyone ran across any of the issue represented in the article. Is 6.0 stable. Please advise. Thanks in advance http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9003009 Ray H.

[Veritas-bu] VNB 5.1 MP5 and Encryption

2006-09-06 Thread Ray . Hill
I'm running VNB 5.1MP5 in a Solaris 5.8 environment. Anyone using the encryption feature. If so please enlighten on how its working. Thanks in advance for your Input. Ray H. ext 8527 *** The single biggest problem in communication is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any Gotchas migrating from 5.1MP5 to 6.0

2006-09-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On 9/6/2006 9:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to migrate from VNB 5.1MP5 to VNB 6.0, I ran across the below article, has anyone ran across any of the issue represented in the article. Is 6.0 stable. 6.0 MP3 is not stable. Wait until at least MP4. We are up to about 20 cases

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Yes Paul, My privlege, the following section shd suffice, though I can mail u the entire doc offline {Pls let me know}. Its the CDL Admin guide available from EMC powerlink that describes, and I had got some inputs from the EMC support engineer.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup VTL tuning

2006-09-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Some more snippets from the best practices guide...! ~ It works as follows 1. Initially a 5 GB area is allocated on LUN. 2. When the backup software fills the initial 5 GB, the disk library allocates another 5 GB area. The new