[Veritas-bu] Some info on my experiences with 10GbE

I just started testing 2 T2000's with dual 10Gbps SUN Nics directly connected to each other... I'm somewhat pissed that I'm only able to get about 658Mbps from one thread on the 10Gbps nic while I'm able to get 938Mbps using the onboard 1Gbs nic with when using the iperf default values. Whi

[Veritas-bu] Slow offline backup problem on NetBackup 6.0MP4 Solaris 10 resolved

I posted a query to the list a few weeks ago asking if anyone else had seen problems with offline catalog backups taking excessive amounts of time a Sun T2000 running Solaris 10 and with NetBackup 6.0MP4. Several people e-mailed me informing me that Veritas recommends using the hot catalog backup f

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0MP4 not expiring old backup images

I use DataDomain restorers as my primary backup system and then duplicate the images from the restorers to tape. The backup images residing on the restorers have a retention period of 1 month and I duplicate them to tape using vaulting policies that create secondary copies with either a two month o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Samba as a DSU

o mount. > I've tried both using the UNC path and a mapped drive letter when defining > the DSU, but that didn't make a difference. HELP! > > Thanks, > > - Yang > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

[Veritas-bu] Getting the following error when running BPMEDIA command lin

Running the following sample in a batch bpmedia -movedb -m 000653 -oldserver unix516 -newserver unix140 or bpmedia -movedb -ev 000653 -oldserver unix516 -newserver unix140 I get the following error in the BPDBM log file. redacted... 14:13:00.735 [2980.2832] <2> lockclient: unable to obtain lock

Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

Since everyone else gave you the troubleshooting steps for the error 41, I will just try to help you with your problem. I have run in to this issue on both unix systems and Windows. It is because of the # of files. Sometimes just running the find command is not possible. I have always resorted

[Veritas-bu] BPCOVERAGE in 6.0

What's the 6.0 equivalent of bpcoverage? Thanks, Randy ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

Jeff, You won't be able to get a file list in the method you have attempted. Once the backup fails, NBU removes the information from the catalog. A couple of items for you... 1. You may want to enable the checkpoint restart feature (at the policy) so that you could resume the backup from the po

Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup upgrade to 6

On 1/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a netbackup datacentre 4.5 version installed and is running on > same master/media server. Please let me know what all things should be taken > in mind, if I am planning to upgrade to version 6. > http://seer.entsupport.syma

Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

d failed to mount. I've tried both using the UNC path and a mapped drive letter when defining the DSU, but that didn't make a difference. HELP! Thanks, - Yang -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-b

[Veritas-bu] Email notification script for down'd drives?

Does anybody happen to have a script to monitor when a drive goes down/up in NetBackup for Windows? Jason Ellis Technical Consultant IT Storage - Data Protection Office: 714-520-3414 | Mobile: 714-889-8734 Fax: 714-520-3470 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.indymacbank.com __

Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

Jeff, Have you checked the KB/sec rate while the backup is running. Sometimes a "41" error can be caused by a mis-matched LAN connection. If the rate is much slower than you expect (in the order of 100KB/sec or so this could be an issue) When you are doing full backups alot more data is bei

[Veritas-bu] netbackup upgrade to 6

Hi All, I am having a netbackup datacentre 4.5 version installed and is running on same master/media server. Please let me know what all things should be taken in mind, if I am planning to upgrade to version 6. Thanks & Regards, Ratheesh R Das M I N D S P E E D Technologies Storage and Backup |

[Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

Greetings, I have a file system that has started to fail full backups on a regular basis. The incremental backups run fine. This file system is on a hpux 11.11 server, There is only 228 gig of used data, but it does have ~5.5m inodes in use. The backup fails with a status 41. This server

[Veritas-bu] ExaGrid D2D w/ NBU 5x or 6.5

Anybody out there using D2D from ExaGrid along with NBU? How has your experience been? Speed to Backup/Restore? Using Replication between sites? What kind of compression are you seeing? Any info regarding their management & scalability? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sc

[Veritas-bu] Samba share as Disk Storage Unit?

Hi Guys, I'm running NB 6 MP5 on Win 2003, have been trying to configure a samba share as a disk storage unit and it sees the storage fine, just whenever I try to do a backup to it, I get invalid STS storage and failed to mount. I've tried both using the UNC path and a mapped drive letter when defi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

Oh, absolutely! If you store digital imagery, for instance, DD becomes very, very expensive! Encrypted data is another example. Ed Wilts wrote: On 1/4/08, *Steven L. Sesar* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I second Data Domain as a disk target for backups! We eval

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

On 1/4/08, Joe Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BackupExec implies Windows. Not necessarily. There are agents for Unix, Netware, Macintoshes, etc. I believe that the server is almost always Windows but the clients don't have to be. http://www.symantec.com/business/products/agents_options.j

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

BackupExec implies Windows. IMHO Cumulative incrementals are not useful in Windows as they produce unexpected results. Read up on the archive bit. You can make it work, but the trade-off is performance. I agree with staggering the Full. But I also agree with one of the other replies that yo

[Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup to 6.5 from 6.0MP4 on Windows 2003

I am going throught the "Veritas NetBackup™ Installation Guide Windows Release 6.5" I cant find reference to upgrading ICS in the install guide. Does anyone know that if I have to upgrade ICS to version 1.4 (It came with 6.5) by using instructions in "Symantec™ Infrastructure Core Services Instal

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

A couple of things. 1) In my original write of email I had mentioned databases were an exception. Apparently on editing I left it out. However I did note that it was overkill only for things that don't frequently change. Having worked in several large IT shops I've yet to run across one that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

On 1/4/08, Steven L. Sesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I second Data Domain as a disk target for backups! > We evaluated them here and they don't work with a darn in our environment. For small parts of our environment (replicating remote sites back here), a PureDisk solution is working well bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How Many Engineers Does It Take To Backup a Lightbulb

On 1/4/08, Randy Samora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know, or know where I can find out, the industry standards > used to determine how many Engineers I should have on my Backup and Recovery > team? Is it determined by the number of clients? Amount of data? I'm > trying to justify

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

I also use data domain as target for backup. I am relieved of all the tapehandling . You get enormous compression rates also. Thanks & Regards, Ratheesh R Das M I N D S P E E D Technologies Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Steven L. Sesar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

Also, in Netbackup if a job errors out and restarts on its own such as from a 156 error and completes successfully the error is counted as a failure even though it completed. Do partial backups count against the success rate? We use SQL backup utilities to backup SQL databases and as we don't use

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

Same here. I filter out the retries if the final attempt was successful. I also filter out 150's (I cancelled the job) and I filter out failures that were out of my control like a server being decommissioned and no one told me before the backups ran. Thanks, Randy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] How Many Engineers Does It Take To Backup a Lightbulb

Randy, There is an ancient riddle that applies to this. How many cows' tails would it take to reach from here to the moon? Answer...only one, if it is long enough! Complexity of the environment is the main determination factor. There are small complex environments that require a lot of atte

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

I support a large backup infrastructure 10 media servers 1 master with a remote site intergraded into ours. Over 1000 clients. Our fulls are typically in the neighborhood of 30tB, daily incrementals are typically around 8tb. Using a HP ESL712e w/ 20 LTO3 drives, utilizing SSO. Mutiplexed backups

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Strategy

I second Data Domain as a disk target for backups! Wayne T Smith wrote: Sure! Investigate backing up to a disk appliance. There are a number of vendors ... Data Domain might be a good place to start, as they have much of the market. Since you do nightly full backups, they'll love you and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

For management, I count successful jobs. They care that our data has been protected, and regardless of the number of attempts, it has been. We *do* parse out the number of attempts in the report. One successful job counts for one job in the report, regardless of how many tries it took, same wit

[Veritas-bu] How Many Engineers Does It Take To Backup a Lightbulb

Does anyone know, or know where I can find out, the industry standards used to determine how many Engineers I should have on my Backup and Recovery team? Is it determined by the number of clients? Amount of data? I'm trying to justify hiring new people and I need all the ammo I can get. Than

[Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

do you guys count retries to the success rates? number of Job Attempts as opposed to just number of Jobs. Our overall completion rate is fairly high as well but i too wondered the definition of "success rate" +-- |This was se

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

700+ Windows clients, 2 Masters, 21 Media/SAN Media servers . . . if my success rate falls below 99%, I lose my quarterly bonus. Thank you, Randy Samora Team Lead - Enterprise Backup & Recovery Enterprise Server and Storage Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 713.256.8224 Office: 713.625-8369

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

I have worked in 3 large Enterprise environments in 2007. 1 Fortune 100 (contractor), 1 Government (contractor), 1 private industry (current employed). All 3 have multiple master/media sets. All are doing over 10TB's per night. All have more than 400 unique clients. Oracle agents, sql agents, u

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

I recently have been looking at a backup reporting tool, and I gave them 35 days of information for them to show me reports. Well, they came back with my success rate average at 99.1%. I was told that was quite high, most are in the 80s Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]