[Veritas-bu] NOM - Top 10 Policies report broke?

2009-01-16 Thread Stafford, Geoff
Just wondering if the built-in NOM report 'Top 10 Policies Using most Server Space' is broke for anyone else? It seems like it reports policies using ITC with twice as much data as it should like it is counting both streams. NOM and master @ 6.5.3 Geoff Stafford Barclaycard US Data

[Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread rvadde
Greetings, I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the legal purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a possibility that legal might come back and ask to hold all tapes including

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, rvadde netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the legal purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.2a - Duplication without Vault

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Jacobson
Hello 6.5 users, I've have a implementation coming up where I'd like to run the equivalent of a in-line tape copy or duplicate a tape(s). I've been fortunate to have the Vault option in doing this but it's use in this new implementation that won't be applicable in this particular

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Lightner
I'm assuming you want to be able to use the tapes as scratch tapes. If so then I'd suggest just loading in the drive and doing a simple tar to the tape - that will overwrite the header information. Of course if you KNOW that there is a possibility legal might NEED these tapes for litigation

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Your email address ends with a company that's in the hot seat right now so personally if I were in your shoes I wouldn't do anything until a lawyer told you to. Destruction of evidence is punishable by prison. Not nice white collar prison either, but pound you in the ass prison. (I hope somebody

[Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread rvadde
Encryption works great for the physical media. But for Virtual Tapes or the Deduped Tapes, encryption is not recommended. I think the way dedup works is once Netbackup relabels the tape, the pointers to the data from the tape are lost. Is this true ? Thanks ewilts wrote: On Fri, Jan 16,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Marianne Van Den Berg
Try label or quick erase. -Original Message- From: rvadde netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com Sent: 16 January 2009 18:50 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable Greetings, I am pretty sure

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Lightner
I meant to say do NOT really rather than do really. By the way this is all my opinion. I'm not a lawyer so follow the advice at your own risk. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.2a - Duplication without Vault

2009-01-16 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:03:39AM -0700, Scott Jacobson wrote: Hello 6.5 users, I've have a implementation coming up where I'd like to run the equivalent of a in-line tape copy or duplicate a tape(s). I've been fortunate to have the Vault option in doing this but it's use in this new

[Veritas-bu] Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread David McMullin
AFAIK - Here is the key - You need to insure whatever action you take is in line with EXISTING retention policy and is NOT being done in light of some legal action that is pending. You MUST have a retention policy. If your retention policy says you keep it for X days, then scratch the tapes,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 Thread Bryan Bahnmiller
I've often wondered about requesting an enhancement for a NetBackup option - Expire with prejudice - just for these situations. Something you could set on a global, pool or retention level basis... Greetings, I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are aware

[Veritas-bu] Buffer settings LTO II vs LTO IV

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Jacobson
Environment: Linux, NBU 6.5.2a In an environment with HP LTO II's, I've been using for some time and with good results: NET_BUFFER_SZ (65536) SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS (262144) NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS (32) My question is has anyone seen the need, or any performance improvement by changing these

[Veritas-bu] Exchange 2007 passive node backup

2009-01-16 Thread schmaustech
In your policy did you check the Snapshot option down below? +-- |This was sent by benjamin.schm...@baesystems.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.