Re: [Veritas-bu] help please

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Whoops bppclient is what you want. Sorry I was multi-tasking and like Windows, crash often !! 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

Re: [Veritas-bu] help please

2006-12-06 Thread Haskins, Steve
I feel your pain... -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:48 AM To: Haskins, Steve; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Curtis Preston Cc: nizar motasim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] help please Whoops

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne T Smith
A retention level setting is programmable by you. That is, you can make Level n be just about any amount of time you wish. If you need, for example, a 10-year retention, pick one of your unused levels and change its value to 10 years. On the v5.1 Admin Console, this is done by choosing the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Hi Wayne A now I understand. If I can customise it, EVEN better! Cheers Wayne! Appreciate the reply Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Wayne Quick Q - Level 9 is not changeable. Do you know what infinite date would be set? Would be it something like 2030 ? Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR

2006-12-06 Thread Clooney, David
Rsync is great, use it too . Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Fogarty Sent: 05 December 2006 17:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Hindle, Greg' Cc: 'NB List Mail' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR I do something

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Bobby Confirmed its 2038 - done a test! Its unlikely NBU 5.1 will ever be around by then Unless its for sale on eBay :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Bobby Williams
I am sure that it is 2038, but I can't verify right now. A word of caution about custom levels. If you have multiple masters in your organization, make sure that you customize them all the same. When you import a tape (DR or alternate site or some other reason) to another master, the tape will

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Change one of the infinity retention settings that isn't being used (number of policies using any given retention listed there) to 10 years. We use this one here for long term archiving. You'll find it under your Master Server properties. -Jonathan From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Stump
BEWARE that many times you are legally obligated to maintain 7 years of data. Unfortunately, you may be required to ALSO provide data past the 7 year legal requirement IF you have it and IF you can restore it. One company I was at, determined that infinity should only be 7 years in order to avoid

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Bob As long as you have the Media on tape, even if it the media has expired from the Catalog itself, the tapes can be imported? That counts as being able to retain the Data and restore it (although just not as quick!) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Keating
However if you keep only enough spare media in the scratch pool to leave enough to do a full backup, plus only a small buffer, then your tapes will usually be overwritten within a week or two of the retention expiring. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Bobby Williams
the rule that became law on 12/1/06 seems to make it a crime to arbitrarily start erasing tapes. Does anyone have a link to the law that is causing all of the E-discovery discussions? Bobby From: Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/12/06 Wed AM 09:37:24 EST To: WEAVER, Simon [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Clooney, David
Agreed Simon, I have written a script to report on every image, which tape it resides on and which file number each fragment resides on the tape, we have used the report a number of times to retrieve info from tape that has expired in NBU. We used this method as purely a get of jail card and not

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Works for me too here David! So will stick with it :-) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Keating
The issue is not arbitrary. For instance.if you have a policy that all category X data isdestroyed after 6 months, and you get sued and have to provide all dataof category X for the past yearyou cannot say Oh crap, I've got allthis data of category X that's older than 6 months, I'd

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: how to restore the data from one master server to another master server in netbackup 6.0

2006-12-06 Thread Veritas Netbackup
Just try this trick and trust me it works! Say my local master server is masterindia (10.16.17.22) and My offshore master server is masteruk (10.16.18.99) I know bring the tapes from masteruk to masterindia for restore, copy the image files via ftp, thus eliminating the need for phase1 and

[Veritas-bu] Max Streams

2006-12-06 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I'm working on setting up our DSSUs for our new Netbackup system, and I've got an idea I want to float here. I've got 86% of our data on a guaranteed gigabit backbone that can all push somewhere in the neighborhood of 50MB/sec+ to media servers with trunked 4xGbit Ethernet. I've also got a

Re: [Veritas-bu] make_scsi_dev woes under Linux

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Jacobson
In 5.1 MP1+ placing ENABLE_AUTO_PATH_CORRECTION in the vm.conf file should also help. Additionally, it creates files in /dev/sg/ that point to any SCSI device (disks, tape, controllers, etc. This appears to aid in auto-detection, etc). Look at /proc/scsi/scsi, everything in there should