Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-26 Thread Jeff Cleverley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, all you should have to do is bpexpdate the tape number and the tape should be reusable. That has worked in the past. It just seems to be this one batch had problems. deassignbyid is a bit of a big hammer to use casually. I'd do: bpexpdate -d 0 -m

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec

2008-03-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Does this help? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/274287.htm Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:25 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Exec

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, King, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for opinions on that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, King, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Martin, Jonathan
For what its worth I've been running 6.5.1 (upgrade from 6.0 MP4) at our 2nd largest site for 3 months now without issue. Its Windows (unlike the OP's Solaris config) but I've only had one issue so far and its only been medium as far as criticality. (Error-191's when duplicating dssu data to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups

2008-03-26 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I dislike spam too, but lets not go throwing the Riverbed product under the bus because of it. =P We did a pretty thorough analysis of the Riverbed product versus three major competitors two years ago and found that *by far* Riverbed was the best WAN Acceleration device on the market.

[Veritas-bu] LTO3 connectivity Issues

2008-03-26 Thread Andy Skates
Has anyone come across an issue with a connectivity limitation with HP LTO3 drives? I have a customer with a large SSO environment. They are having issues with connectivity dropping to their FC attached HP LTO3 drives. One of the initial observations from the suppliers are that there is a limit

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread ckstehman
Cheryl We have been running 6.5.1 in our test lab for 3 months now, with no problems. = Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 [EMAIL PROTECTED] King, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Randy Samora
Cheryl, Make the leap of faith. I have 3 installations and I upgraded from 5.1 MP6 to 6.0 MP4 at one location and from 5.1 MP6 to 6.5.1 at another location and both upgrades went smoothly and both sites have been running great for over 2 months. Use the nbcc utility and work with Symantec to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread King, Cheryl
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15143 Check this link. -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:51 PM To: King, Cheryl; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like 6.0MP6 is the place to be or a lot of testing with 6.5.1 should be performed first ;-) I did not say that. With *ANY* release, testing should be done, if possible. I do not believe that 6.0MP6 is more stable

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Michael Graff Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are about to replace our backup server and I have used the Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide for 6.0 to size our new server Our server people think the sizing is wrong, more specifically that it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread King, Cheryl
Lol. Thanks for the feedback and for getting the bugs out for us, over the years. From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:45 AM To: King, Cheryl Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
Oops, didn't write that the master/media server will have 4x 1 Gbit NICs 8x LT03 tape drives. Using the document I arrived at 8 CPUs 4.6 GB RAM Trying to get a server that can handle the NICs tape drive at full tilt peoples experiences with using this document or other methods of sizing

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
You didn't specify the OS either. You're going to need some serious staging units since you have 400MB of theoretical bandwidth in and about twice that out to tape. You either have too many tape drives or they're going to be underutilized. No matter what OS, that memory seems awfully tight. I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like 6.0MP6 is the place to be or a lot of testing with 6.5.1 should be performed first ;-) I did not say that. With *ANY* release, testing should be done, if possible.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
How do you arrive at 16 GB memory ? Regards Michael 2008/3/26, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You didn't specify the OS either. You're going to need some serious staging units since you have 400MB of theoretical bandwidth in and about twice that out to tape. You either have too many tape

Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare StorageConsole web forum now available

2008-03-26 Thread Brian.Beaird
About time they got us one of these. I see on there where they've also promised us an aptare mailing list. Very cool. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:27 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sizing experiences ?

2008-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Michael Graff Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you arrive at 16 GB memory ? Some things can't be calculated - it's based on gut feel and experience. Symantec's performance and tuning guide is seriously lacking in way too many places. I've already

[Veritas-bu] bpbackup -f file_list (where file_list 1 MiB)

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
Question, On 32bit Linux if you try to backup millions ~3.3 million hardlinks/symlinks/files, the bpbkar process will coredump/crash as it hits the 3 GiB limit in a 3/1 split on 32-bit Linux. If you have an include_list that you are telling bpbackup to use to backup files and it is 1 MiB or

Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as a Master andMedia Server.

2008-03-26 Thread rascal
Is there something specific you are looking to get answered or just experiences? On 3/25/08, Robin Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're running SLES9SP4 (I'd like to get up to 10SP1, but haven't yet) We had some issues with init scripts starting on 6.0, but with 6.5 it's been addressed.

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbackup -f file_list (where file_list 1 MiB)

2008-03-26 Thread Ulate, Mauricio (Tape Storage)
Can you please take me out of the distribution list. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: MiƩrcoles, 26 de Marzo de 2008 12:31 p.m. To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpbackup -f file_list

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate disk = tape. Can running backup and duplicate share the tape?

2008-03-26 Thread Andrey Halezov
Dear NetBackup experts, I am trying to bpduplicate from disk to tape (NetBackup 3.4 Solaris 8) and getting error 96 - unable to allocate new media for backup. At the moment the only tape drive is running backup, but I expect the duplicate to use the same tape. The backup I am trying to duplicate

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate disk = tape. Can running backup and duplicate share the tape?

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrey Halezov wrote: Dear NetBackup experts, I am trying to bpduplicate from disk to tape (NetBackup 3.4 Solaris 8) and getting error 96 - unable to allocate new media for backup. At the moment the only tape drive is running backup, but I expect the duplicate to use

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate disk = tape. Can running backup and duplicate share the tape?

2008-03-26 Thread Andrey Halezov
Justin, Thank you for your answer. I have available tapes (I rerun available_media each time bpduplicate failed ). xbpmon JobMonitor GUI shows currently running backup job, which explains why NetBackup can't mount the new tape (I only have one tape drive). I am trying to understand why backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate disk = tape. Can running backup and duplicate share the tape?

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrey Halezov wrote: Justin, Thank you for your answer. I have available tapes (I rerun available_media each time bpduplicate failed ). xbpmon JobMonitor GUI shows currently running backup job, which explains why NetBackup can't mount the new tape (I only have one