Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Patrick schrieb: > If I read you right, you want to backup /usr/openv then uninstall 5.1, install > 6.5 and restore the database. No, that's not what I'm planning to do. Plan is: 1) Create backup of NBU 5.1 installation 2) Deinstall NBU 5.1 3) Install NBU 6.5 4) Configure 6.5 Best regards, Alex

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trial version NetBackup

2007-11-07 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Contact your software / symantec sales rep and they should give you a link to download or send the software to you, and then you should get a key (trial key of course) that opens up all the features to try. HTH Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which tape drive type for DLT7000 tape drives and NetBackup 3.4

2007-11-07 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:58:42PM -0800, Andy Sparrow wrote: > An earlier poster alluded to this phenomena. > > That header information will never be overwritten by any DLT drive > once written. > > And you can't access it via regular commands like mt, dd etc. to > overwrite it either. That's no

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-07 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Trey Can you tell us how big your database has become. I assume from you note below that there is only one database for all 6500 clients. Also can you give us some idea of what kind of hardware you use to support this. Thanks len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix Master Server Recovery

2007-11-07 Thread Preston, Douglas L
It works with 6.0, I did it earlier this year for our DR test, I haven't tried with 6.5 yet. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which tape drive type for DLT7000 tape drives and NetBackup 3.4

2007-11-07 Thread Andy Sparrow
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:11:04PM -0500, Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote: > Can you suggest how I can get more per tape capacity? > Should I relabel tape using different device (at the moment > /dev/rmt/0cbn on Solaris 8) ? > > DLTIV tape with DLT7000 tape drive should give me 55-70G There are tw

[Veritas-bu] Unix Master Server Recovery

2007-11-07 Thread kdeems
Every year we go to Sungard and test disaster recovery of our Netbackup Unix Master server on dissimilar hardware. I just upgraded from 5.1 to 6.0 MP4. With 5.1 is was able to Put down the master server mksysb backup image Deleted the files below - since im recovering to dissimilar hardware -

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled

2007-11-07 Thread Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
What was the reason? Thanks Dan From: Bobby Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:20 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled One of my co-workers was registered for the 6.5 NB Admin on Solaris class. He

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled

2007-11-07 Thread rcarlisle
Did they say why? ReneƩ Carlisle ServerWare Corporation _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:20 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled One of

[Veritas-bu] 6.5 Training is cancelled

2007-11-07 Thread Bobby Williams
One of my co-workers was registered for the 6.5 NB Admin on Solaris class. He was contacted yesterday and told that all 6.5 Admin training has been cancelled. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 ___ Veritas-b

[Veritas-bu] Sizing the NOM server

2007-11-07 Thread Chris . Romano
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience that may help me to choose a server to install NOM on? I am looking at SUN hardware, and was thinking of getting a T2000, but am wondering how much cpu horsepower and memory this will take (and also diskspace!). Our Netbackup environment consists

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 NetappR200

2007-11-07 Thread Tharp, Trey
The alternative to this configuration is to do 'Remote NDMP backups' This is where the NAS box doesn't have access to the tape drives, but your media server does. Since in your case you have a SCSI-attached library this is the method you would have to use. This means all the NDMP traffic would go a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trial version NetBackup

2007-11-07 Thread Jared . Seaton
Call Symantec. Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) "keph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/07/2007 01:48 PM Please respond to VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Tri

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-07 Thread Tharp, Trey
We have just over 6500 clients and 35,000 jobs per day and our database server is getting buried right now. We plan to upgrade it at the beginning of next year and hope that will help with the response times and slowness. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Patrick
If I read you right, you want to backup /usr/openv then uninstall 5.1, install 6.5 and restore the database. If I understand this correctly, then the biggest problem I see is the restoring of the database, as it needs to be converted to 6.0+ standards. Maybe this can be accomplished after the insta

[Veritas-bu] Trial version NetBackup

2007-11-07 Thread keph
Do I have to try to buy NetBackup? And will they let me to download it and will give a trial key free of charge? Or it's nessery to pay even for trial key? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPA

Re: [Veritas-bu] Which tape drive type for DLT7000 tape drives and NetBackup 3.4

2007-11-07 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:43:08PM -0500, Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote: > I am using Soalris 8 device /dev/rmt/0cbn and I saw on library's LCD > that during the backup compression is on. Is this the correct device > to use to get max tape capacity? Likely, yes. I'd want to make sure that I had

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trial version NetBackup

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Keating
You don't. You get the "full version" of the software and a trial license key, which can be replaced with a perm key at a later date. Contact your local Symantec Sales office, or VAR/Reseller. Paul -- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

[Veritas-bu] Trial version NetBackup

2007-11-07 Thread keph
Hi, everyone. Is there a trial version of NetBackup 6.0 or higher? And where can I download it? Thanks. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +

[Veritas-bu] Windows clients - open file backups and exclude lists

2007-11-07 Thread rcarlisle
Ok, I am coming from more of a Unix admin side of the house and trying to learn more about NBU with Windows. So, for all you Windows NBU admins I have some questions about snapshots and exclude lists: 1. I know VSP is supposed to be enabled by default, which is better to use VSP or VSS (in an a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On 11/7/07, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to upgrade an installation of NBU 5.1 to 6.5. As I'd > like to change quite a bit in the way the system is setup, I'm > actually rather planning a new installation of 6.5, after having > de-installed 5.1. > > But to do that, and

[Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-07 Thread X_S
we started not too long ago with Aptare. so far things are ok but the lack of documentation from Aptare is killing me, taking up some time trying to find things on my own. we will have about 1100+ clients. +-- |This was sent

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Clooney, David
Make sure you know what you're doing, You'll most probably find /usr/openv is in fact /opt/openv/. Other than that though I have performed numerous upgrades 5.1 X and my back out plan has always been an archive of /opt/openv Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] aptare forum?

2007-11-07 Thread ckstehman
We have two master servers reporting to our Portal. A total of about 650 servers. The main slowness I see is then you drill down to the backup job details, that can be slow. Also certain reports that involve going back several months and looking at thousands of backups. We are running on Sola

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Gregory Demilde
Alexander, /usr/openv or /opt/openv should be sufficient ... Greg On Nov 7, 2007 1:47 PM, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'd like to upgrade an installation of NBU 5.1 to 6.5. As I'd > like to change quite a bit in the way the system is setup, I'm > actually rather plan

[Veritas-bu] import tivoli tape?

2007-11-07 Thread X_S
thank you all for your help. i'm off the hook with this one. :) +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---

[Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I'd like to upgrade an installation of NBU 5.1 to 6.5. As I'd like to change quite a bit in the way the system is setup, I'm actually rather planning a new installation of 6.5, after having de-installed 5.1. But to do that, and to have an easy fallback, I'd like to backup the NBU 5.1 insta

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vault reports and the ftp parsing server at IronMountain

2007-11-07 Thread Kevin Whittaker
Yes, I have been doing this for over 2 years works great! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:02 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault reports and the ftp par