Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading our Exchange Cluster from Win 2000 to Win2003

2007-02-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
The key thing here, is that if you have a latest MP on your client, then your Master needs the same - as the latest MP will contain updates that your earlier MP will possibly not know about! What you should be doing is ensuring you are in a prime position to recover BOTH nodes at its current

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading our Exchange Cluster from Win 2000 to Win2003

2007-02-02 Thread Mohammad, Junaid
I forgot to mention that our Netbackup Master is at 5.1 MP5 Question 1 Is it possible to have different version of Windows OS and still perform Backups and Restores, while failing over the package between the Exchange nodes? Is this supported by Veritas. Kind Regards

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading our Exchange Cluster from Win 2000 to Win2003

2007-02-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Veritas should support all versions of Windows providing its a client that can be backed up with the current version of NBU with the corresponding MP. As for while its failing over - possibly. you know, if I was in your position, I would do what I mentioned below to cover yourself, in case

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading our Exchange Cluster from Win 2000 to Win2003

2007-02-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Just to add to my comments, if you are performing a rolling upgrade from Win2k to Win2k3, the cluster should also get updated at the same time. There is a process to follow in order to upgrade the last node of your cluster, but I would have thought your Admins would have prepared for this (ie:

[Veritas-bu] MS Excahnge 2007 backup

2007-02-02 Thread Christian Sønder
Hi, Im trying to backup our test enviroment - both server and client side I get : Using : http://support.veritas.com/docs/284857 http://support.veritas.com/docs/284857 NetBackup\binbpbackup -p CHRS_TEST_EXCH -S MASTER-w -t 16 Microsoft Information Store:\Second Storage Group I get

Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Excahnge 2007 backup

2007-02-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Hi Are you licensed to backup Exchange? Look for a Key on your Master Server - It will enable the exchange add-in component. Also, in case I overlooked it, what is your NBU environment? 5.1, 6.0 ? I think its likely that NBU may not fully support Exchange 2007, as its a brand new piece of

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare

2007-02-02 Thread ckstehman
We have been using Aptare for about 5 years now and it has worked very well. Their support is excellent. I agree, that even with NOM, we will want to keep Aptare for historical purposes. We use Aptare for our SOX reports. Without it collecting that information would be very painful.

Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Excahnge 2007 backup

2007-02-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
The Exchange agent is part of the standard windows client install. Try Microsoft Information Store:\Storage Group\ (notice the trailing slash) Its silly, but that's the only thing that comes to mind. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] HOSTNAME vs FQDN

2007-02-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
Server: 6.0 MP4 Client 5.1 MP5 I'm working on DNS authentication for my back end (versus huge hosts files) and I've got it working for most clients. Two clients however refuse to work. NBU documentation says add the FQDN to your media servers list, but isn't there a switch to turn off the

Re: [Veritas-bu] HOSTNAME vs FQDN

2007-02-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
As I mentioned below... I know that will work. However, the same configuration on 50 other clients works just fine and server01 resolves to server01.intersil.com without issue. I'm wondering if there is a client switch that tells NBU to be a little less picky. -Jonathan

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MP4 Catalog Hot Backup

2007-02-02 Thread Barber, Layne Mr CTR US DISA CDM2
Just upgraded from 5.1 mp5 to 6.0 mp4. The only problem I have is the hot backup of the catalog. When I run it, it errors out with status 233 premature eof encountered. The cold backup works fine. I have searched the KB and there is nothing related to this for 6.0 only pre 6.0. Any ideas? Thank

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MP4 Catalog Hot Backup

2007-02-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
I had this problem or something very similar. You have corrupt images most likely. There is a command, which I forget the name of, check google/etc, it will go through all of your images on disk and move them to an old/ or bad/ folder, once the crap images have been removed, the catalog

[Veritas-bu] Locate SCSI command failed

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
check out the device driver, its one of the drive errors which occurs because of incompatibilty betweent the driver and the HBA card. gotta talk to the Hardware personnel Warmest Regards Ankur Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
Carlos its like playing with a gun, you never know when its gonna fire. vmquery -deassignbyid - would deassign the media from the VolDb on the master server. - means its available to be assigned again for backup. vmchange would change the volume pool listed in the VOLDB without changing the

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

2007-02-02 Thread Whelan, Patrick
The software has been installed on lonbrk11 and 12. Where are the physically located so I can add them to the correct policy? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

2007-02-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
That will work (vmquery) under 5.1 and no longer works under 6.x, FYI. Justin. On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, ankur kumar wrote: Carlos its like playing with a gun, you never know when its gonna fire. vmquery -deassignbyid - would deassign the media from the VolDb on the master server. - means its

[Veritas-bu] Windows Vista

2007-02-02 Thread Carl Mathews
Hi, Will Netbackup 5.1 back up Windows Vista? Thanks Carl Mathews University of Arkansas ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Expiring images and tapes

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
try bpexpdate -ev media id -d mm/dd/ the date you want to specify or bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid -copy -d mm/dd/ Warmest Regards Ankur Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] No need to miss a

[Veritas-bu] Unable to get the local EMM server for the

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
can you go to - 1)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - VERITAS - Netbackup - Current Version - Config edit the SERVER key : the first entry should be your master server name. 2) restart the services I hope this works Warmest Reagrds Ankur Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] HOSTNAME vs FQDN

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
AS per the bpcd log file, people please do correct me if i am wrong : 00:00:06.441 [3744.2704] 16 bpcd valid_server: server2.intersil.com is not a server 00:00:06.441 [3744.2704] 16 bpcd valid_server: server2.intersil.com is not a media server 00:00:06.441 [3744.2704] 2 bpcd main: output

[Veritas-bu] Vendor Support for Daylight Savings Time

2007-02-02 Thread peterschmidt
A few weeks ago, there were a handful of notes on the upcoming Daylight Savings Time change and the solutions from different vendors. Those notes indicated java patches, O/S patches, etc. and various sources and procedures to obtain and install them. My impression was that some vendors were

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MP4 Catalog Hot Backup

2007-02-02 Thread ankur kumar
can you check up with your policies if you using any pluses commas or maybe periods for the policy names. Warmest Regards Ankur Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at

[Veritas-bu] Warning - Unable to Set Short Name on Restore

2007-02-02 Thread Brooks, Jason
Today, after doing two restores on two different Windows2K3 servers, I started seeing the following error: 2/2/2007 4:14:00 PM - Warning bpbrm(pid=3840) from client server1: WRN - unable to set short name on restore: X:\wwwroot\StudyAbroad (err=0020) 2/2/2007 4:14:01 PM - Warning

[Veritas-bu] ZFS

2007-02-02 Thread Karl . Rossing
I'm toying with the idea of running zfs on my DSSU's. This way i can compress the data to the dssu as it's being written thus decreasing the amount of space needed for the dssu's. It might not be the best flow client - NB Server - DSSU write the data with zfs compression zfs uncompress - tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Warning - Unable to Set Short Name on Restore

2007-02-02 Thread Brandon Zermeno
I see these errors when I am restoring a folder that is shared in Windows. Restarting the server service will recreate the share. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks, Jason Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:23 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS

2007-02-02 Thread Darren Dunham
I'm toying with the idea of running zfs on my DSSU's. This way i can compress the data to the dssu as it's being written thus decreasing the amount of space needed for the dssu's. It might not be the best flow client - NB Server - DSSU write the data with zfs compression zfs uncompress -

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Aptare

2007-02-02 Thread Karl . Rossing
Spoke to support today. They just ADDED some more support personnel. W00T!___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] RES: RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

2007-02-02 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
Hi Ankur, it's really dangerous, so I said for to do this when doesn't have backups being executed. And after change the volume pool you need use the parameter assignbyid. As I mentioned in another e-mail I used this some times to solve catalog issues.

[Veritas-bu] Anyone running 5.1 on a Solaris 10 master?

2007-02-02 Thread Peters, Devon C
Go for Solaris 10, it's worth it. We've been running 5.1 master servers with Solaris 10 for over a year, and haven't had any issues with the OS (I definitely prefer it to Solaris 8/9). One thing to keep in mind is that when installing 5.1GA, don't try to start any processes until you either 1)

[Veritas-bu] Type 1 Error on Duplication Caused by Image Already Existing

2007-02-02 Thread JAJA (Jamie Jamison)
I've seen this error before on duplication jobs when I was running tests and manually duplicated an existing image. But what would cause this to happen with images that were automatically duplicated? TCB1:duplicate.log.1_en failed batch dup: 03:12:51 INF - Duplicate of backup id

[Veritas-bu] Tape Eject failures

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Winn
I'm unable to eject tapes from within Netbackup, version 6.0, MP4 The eject process ends with Completed with Errors / Eject Aborted / Status Code 23 - A read operation from a socket failed. However, when running a vault job, and ejecting the tape(s), it is successful. Any thoughts on