Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 14, weird problem

2006-10-26 Thread ida3248b
Hello Greg I would try to increase the CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT and the CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT parameters on the client. Regards Michael On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:58:48 -0400, Hindle, Greg wrote > Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9        > I am running a differential backup on a Windows 2000 server and it keep

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Jerry Vochteloo
After I configure drives I tend to use robtest to see if I have them right m s1 d1 unload d1 m d1 d2 unload d2 etc m dx s1 The move moves the tape into what the robots thinks is drive 1 the unload unloads what is configured to be drive one, if there is a mismatch you find it then (ie it wil

Re: [Veritas-bu] Merging Master servers

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message They won't help? err..won't tell you how to do it? or won't provide someone to do it?   Our local Veritas VAR does this as a PS deal..it's inline with "renaming a master server" which Veritas doesn't "support", so I'm not surprised if they won't tell you how to do it.

[Veritas-bu] Merging Master servers

2006-10-26 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Merging Master servers We have 1 Red hat Linux netbackup 5.1 master server that we need to merge with a Solaris 9 netbackup 5.0 master server, Symantec support will not help with this. Anyone out there done this or know the best way to do this? The Linux master will be replaced with a

Re: [Veritas-bu] >>Pre-requisites for SQL backups Windows 2000/20 03

2006-10-26 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Yeah guys, I have already done that, i just wanted a few examples or expereinces from any one of you. This was an attempt to roll out a small guide explaining our clients the impact of any change on the system that affects backup. On windows 2000 with SQL 2000, a normal administrative NT acount

[Veritas-bu] SOLVED RE: Linux Media Server + Win2K3 Master

2006-10-26 Thread Brooks, Jason
I found it. The drive in question was not properly shared. Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Brooks, Jason > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:44 PM > To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Medi

[Veritas-bu] Linux Media Server + Win2K3 Master

2006-10-26 Thread Brooks, Jason
In testing the Linux media server, I've ran across a problem I've not seen before. When I initiate a backup that will use the Linux media server, I received this: 10/26/2006 2:40:45 PM - awaiting resource sharptop-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Reason: Tape media server is not active., Media Server: sharptop

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape not mounting

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Brown
I've had this happen when the drive needed to be cleaned -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:14 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape not mounting Netbackup 4.5mp6

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Brooks, Jason
I think I've just found mine. The drive in question issued a Tape Alert 37 Drive Voltage Limits Exceeded. Not sure why, currently on hold with ADIC/Quantum support. The ADIC GUI says replace. We'll see what a human says. Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mail

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Keating
OddI've had similar misconfigurations, thanks to autoconf/configwizard, and what I experienced, was a tape getting loaded into a drive,the drive going "DOWN", then another tape in another drive, that drivegoing "DOWN", repeatedly untill all drive were down, but no tapes wereused. Paul -- >

[Veritas-bu] Tape went down due to room temperature

2006-10-26 Thread Marianu, Jonathan
on a different site but on a same domain. I am looking for any documentation that suggests how to set this server up? Do I create a second master server? Your help is appreciated. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Brown
I had this happen to me when my drives were mismatched on the robot. I had a robot with 4 drives and what the robot called drives 0,1,2,3 were actually configured in NB as 0,3,2,1. When tape went into NB drive 3, it was actually in robot drive 1. I confused NB and used all of my tapes. I had to

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 advantages?

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message with 5.x, you configure a number of retries and a retry period.   ie, 3 tries in 12 hour period, it will fail up to three times, requeuing after each failed try, untill the max of three tries is reachedif all 3 fail, it will wait 12 hours, and if the window is still open,

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 advantages?

2006-10-26 Thread Brandon Zermeno
Title: Message It has been about a year since I ran 5.1 so I don’t quite remember how they ran but with 6 a failed backup, like a full monthly, will retry at your set frequency (in our case 12 hours) until it completes with a 0 or 1. Sometimes it will try and run the same job everyday for a

[Veritas-bu] Script to query Logging level on all clients

2006-10-26 Thread Hadrian Baron
Title: Script to query Logging level on all clients Is there any CLI or script used to poll all the clients for their logging level?  For sql client too :) Thanks, Hadrian ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://m

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup server clustering

2006-10-26 Thread Henry Kemp
Hi Greg,In my last site we ran everything on VCS so we setup our master server as a clustered application within that framework and NetBackup has all the scripts to install on cluster nodes - this gives you cover for local hardware failure. To cover us for site failure we used VVR/GCO in async mode

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape went down due to room temperature

2006-10-26 Thread Hall, Christian N.
Asif, Do /dev/rmt/cbn definitions exist? More then likely the drives might have tapes stuck in them. Try mt -f /dev/rmt/?cbn? status to see if tape are stuck. Also perform a robtest. If you run robtest make sure no jobs are active. Also look at your logs /usr/openv/vol/debug for more information.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Server Licenses for Exchange

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message Your master server must be licensed.   if you're backing up the "OS" on your Exchange environment then you will need one windows client license per hostie, a three node cluster, you'd need 3 windows client licenses to backup C: System_state, etc, then you'd need one Excha

[Veritas-bu] Tape went down due to room temperature

2006-10-26 Thread Asif Iqbal
I have a tape went down due to overheat room temperature. The room cool down since then but the tape still shows down. Is there a way I can bring it back up remotely? tpconfig -d Index DriveName DrivePathTypeShared Status * * **

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Server Licenses for Exchange

2006-10-26 Thread Kathy Falakfarsa
Hi,   I am planning NetBackup installation.  I need to know what licenses I need for Exchange Server.    I have one Master server and one set of Exchange clustered server connected to SAN that I would like to backup.  It will be a SAN backup.   Please let me know what licenses I shou

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Brooks, Jason
Yes, they're all set up as others. Proper density and type as well. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Hindle, Greg > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:05 AM > To: Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [V

[Veritas-bu] Linux to Solaris 10 master

2006-10-26 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Linux to Solaris 10 master We have a netbackup 5.1 server running on Linux. Our UNIX team wants to replace this master server and run Solaris 10. Does netbackup store the catalog different under Linux than it does under Solaris? Are there any gotcha's I need to worry about when copying

[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup System Requirements

2006-10-26 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
All, We're purchasing the Advanced Client option to enable us to pull raw data off our HDS SAN and as a bonus I'd like to use Flashbackup to grab our fileservers. My question is, how processor/memory intensive is the backup? The Media servers are specced' as follows (3 of them) Dell PowerEdge

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Hindle, Greg
NB is probably freezing all of these tapes and that is why you ran out of tapes. Do you have the correct bar code rule setup for these new tapes? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:51

[Veritas-bu] Tar Write Errors and Tape Consumption

2006-10-26 Thread Brooks, Jason
The last two mornings, I've come into work finding my scratch pool all but empty, consumed by an Exchange policy. Digging in, I found that the job reported a Tar write error and requested new media. This must have gone through all 50 or so scratch tapes, dumping them into the Exchange pool with n

[Veritas-bu] Error 14, weird problem

2006-10-26 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Error 14, weird problem Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9        I am running a differential backup on a Windows 2000 server and it keeps failing with error 14 tar file write error 40. When I look at the backup it keeps hanging when it tried to backup a particular file /system_state/boot_fil

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup server clustering

2006-10-26 Thread Hindle, Greg
Title: Netbackup server clustering Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 We are thinking of cluster our master server. Does anyone else cluster their server? Can someone send how they did this and why/advantages? Greg >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM

2006-10-26 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
If I'm not mistaken, Windows Applications can only use up to 3GB (with David's Boot switch, below) and any memory usage after that has to be done with Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) where the application itself bypasses the given 3GB Virtual Address space and writes pages directly to RAM. I'v

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM

2006-10-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283037 This could also be worth a look! 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 Message- From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM

2006-10-26 Thread Spearman, David
Try using this switch option multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003,Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /3GB If you want more info on the switch settings go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721 David Spearman County of Henrico, Va. -Original Message-

[Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM

2006-10-26 Thread ida3248b
Hello We have a Windows 2003 SP1 master/media server with 32GB RAM but it is only using about 1-2 GB of it and have over 100 pages/sec when running backups. The line in boot.ini looks like this multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fast