Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 on Windows and VMWARE Backups

2009-01-07 Thread Mike Kiles
Thanks. When I do my restore test, I will let you know. For now it is going to be 3 - FullVM and File for Incrementals Cheers MK --- On Tue, 1/6/09, bob944 wrote: > From: bob944 > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 on Windows and VMWARE Backups > To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Cc

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication job

2009-01-07 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:16:26PM +0200, Asiye Yigit wrote: > We have duplicated some tapes using catalog backup. After duplication, > when we search the images from the original copy, > > It says skipping media id xx it has already two copies. What do you mean by "search the images"? What

Re: [Veritas-bu] nbu 6.5.1 lifecycle policy issue

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Lightner
We're running 6.5.1 and not having this issue. Also FYI - Upgrade from 6.5.1 to 6.5.3 would not be as painful as the one you just went through. From 5.1 to 6.0 there was a major change in the way things were done. We upgraded from 6.0 to 6.5 with no real issues. -Original Message- Fro

Re: [Veritas-bu] nbu 6.5.1 lifecycle policy issue

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:09 AM, smehta wrote: > Thanks for the update. I did open a call with Symantec and they came back > with the same solution. Upgrade to 6.5.3. However, we just completed the > upgrade to 6.5.1. from 5.1 and have all the clients at 6.5.1. Upgrade was > painful and so don't

[Veritas-bu] Duplication job

2009-01-07 Thread Asiye Yigit
Hello, We have duplicated some tapes using catalog backup. After duplication, when we search the images from the original copy, It says skipping media id xx it has already two copies. What is the reason? Duplication process can expire the images on the primary copy? Regards,

[Veritas-bu] nbu 6.5.1 lifecycle policy issue

2009-01-07 Thread smehta
David McMullin wrote: > Regarding the error you are getting – you might want to open a trouble ticket > with Symantec. > > For the error: > “Caught CORBA SystemException from SSmgrOperations: system exception, ID > 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/NO_PERMISSION:1.0' > OMG minor code (0), described as '*u

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Stump, Bob A wrote: > The government requires that tapes be smelt Sounds fishy to me :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelt .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillis

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
I wondered what they did with the leftovers. I just never got into the details. Was told they were deposed of in the proper way. I have seen the claw thing that breaks/shreds/crushes the tapes into small bits. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:v

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Stump, Bob A
The government requires that tapes be smelt but I don't know what they are supposed to smell like :-) Bob Stump Fidelity National Information Services -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf O

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
I use a company to do it. Was Media Recovery - Now known as dataSPAN. 1) They will degauss onsite before the tapes leave your building 2) They may buy the tapes from you after that (they clean and sell them as used - because they are degaussed before they leave your site they are good to go) 3) Th

[Veritas-bu] nbu 6.5.1 lifecycle policy issue

2009-01-07 Thread David McMullin
Regarding the error you are getting - you might want to open a trouble ticket with Symantec. For the error: "Caught CORBA SystemException from SSmgrOperations: system exception, ID 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/NO_PERMISSION:1.0' OMG minor code (0), described as '*unknown description*', completed = N

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Lightner
You might want to degauss even before sending out to such a company. At least one poster on this list noted how he had gotten "used" tapes that were supposedly wiped but on checking he found other people's data. As for us we degauss any bad tapes after images have expired in NBU. We don't destro

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > 1. How do you handle it? > 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you > send them off-site, that is one option. Iron Mountain also offers a tape destruction service. For a fee, of course. > 3. How much are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread James Osbourn
I the past when I have had to get rid of a bunch of old media. I did some net searching and found a company that specifically dealt with this as well as equipment recycling. They agreed a price for the amount of tapes that I had; collected them and then they were confidentially destroyed. I b

[Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Had a few questions. 1. How do you handle it? 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you send them off-site, that is one option. 3. How much are the machines that "securely" and physically destroy the tape media? 4. If they're physically destroyed, how do you deal w

Re: [Veritas-bu] socket read and write error

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Lightner
If the clients are UNIX or Linux you can try doing login from the master to the client then doing a check to see from which IP or hostname the login appears on the client. If it shows IP instead of hostname it might be a sign the IP isn't recognized as the master's hostname. -Original Message

Re: [Veritas-bu] socket read and write error

2009-01-07 Thread monalisa.kundu
Hi, Thanks fr the reply bt we have not made any change in the n/w but all the bkps except the catalog are failing fr all clients.The customer is saying tht they have not done any chnge to their n/w bt from last week the bkp is failing.I can tell you tht it is running with NBU version 5.0 and solar

[Veritas-bu] Where is the 6.5.3 Oracle Agent?

2009-01-07 Thread FrSchind
The Oracle Agent has not been updated: http://support.veritas.com/docs/315028 "Oracle Agent: No Release Update at this time. The latest Release Update (NB_ORA_6.5.2.tar)" +-- |This was sent by fr...@schindelasch.de via Backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.x oddity: st 0:0:0:0: reservation conflict

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Anyone ever seen this before? > > I have 4 servers, 2 old and 2 new, all run 6.5.2a, now 6.5.3 as of this > morning. I see this error occur in the logs a few moments after midnight, > every night. I did notice mt-st was not installed on the machines

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.x oddity: st 0:0:0:0: reservation conflict

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Anyone ever seen this before? I have 4 servers, 2 old and 2 new, all run 6.5.2a, now 6.5.3 as of this morning. I see this error occur in the logs a few moments after midnight, every night. I did notice mt-st was not installed on the machines that were getting this error, so I installed that a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Where is the 6.5.3 Oracle Agent?

2009-01-07 Thread Larry Fahnoe
Justin, If the Oracle agent did not change from the prior release, Symantec does not re-kit and re-release a new version. As far as I know, there is not a 6.5.3 Oracle agent; we're using the 6.5.2 agents in our environment. --Larry On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > lftp >

Re: [Veritas-bu] Where is the 6.5.3 Oracle Agent?

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks Larry. Justin. On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Larry Fahnoe wrote: > Justin, > > If the Oracle agent did not change from the prior release, Symantec > does not re-kit and re-release a new version. As far as I know, there > is not a 6.5.3 Oracle agent; we're using the 6.5.2 agents in our > environmen

Re: [Veritas-bu] socket read and write error

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Lightner
I saw a lot of these recently (and status 25 as well). It was because our master had two NICs in our backup LAN IP range and the routing we'd setup had gotten screwed up. I was able to solve it temporarily by adding the master server twice to /etc/hosts on the clients that were failing using bot

[Veritas-bu] Where is the 6.5.3 Oracle Agent?

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
lftp ftp.nbu.support.veritas.com:/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server> ls -1 | grep 6.5|grep ORA NB_ORA_51_2_M_274695.linux64.tar NB_ORA_51_7_M.hpia64_302615.tar NB_ORA_6.5.1_294667.tar NB_ORA_6.5.2_304438.tar lftp ftp.nbu.support.veritas.com:/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterpri