Re: [Veritas-bu] Not all drives appear to be used

2009-03-18 Thread Patrick
There could be several reasons for this. Are all 10 drives defined in the storage unit? Do you have enough licenses for 10 drives? The fact that it is different drives is normal, NBU uses a least used first algorithm to determine which drive to use. Regards,   Patrick Whelan VERITAS Certified Ne

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 post install tape drive issues

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Butland
I have recently upgraded from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 and am having some issues following the install. My environment is: 1 master server at 6.5.3, 1 media server at 6.5.3, 3 media servers at 6.5.2. 2 libraries: 1 SAN attached DELL Power Vault 136T with 4 tape drives, and 1 StorageTek L20 with 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape usage for last 15 days

2009-03-18 Thread Baumann, Kevin
Found a way: bpimagelist -media -d 03/03/2009 From: Baumann, Kevin [mailto:kbaum...@akamai.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:45 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape usage for last 15 days All, Is there a way to find out how many tapes that I have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape usage for last 15 days

2009-03-18 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Under reports do the 'Tape Written' report for the dates you want. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Baumann, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:45 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailma

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is best approach to share one ACSLS library ?

2009-03-18 Thread Jack . Forester
Have you considered partitioning the library and treating it as two separate libraries? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Recovery Administrator Mylan 1000 Hampton Center Morgantown, WV 26505 jack.fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 anil.mau...@sanofi-aventis.com Sent by: veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN to backup big empty DB

2009-03-18 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Dennis Peacock < netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > > On your master/media server, you may want to check and see if you have the > following tuning parameters in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config: > > NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS > SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS > SIZE_DATA_BUFFER

Re: [Veritas-bu] What is best approach to share one ACSLS library ?

2009-03-18 Thread Bustamante, Luis Eduardo
The best approach must be: 1) Be sure that your ACSLS is in a clustered environment, cause its is going to be a critical service for whole operation to work 2) Upgrade all your media servers to 6.5.3 (site A) You can follow 2 ways: 1) Make your Site A Master Server a Media server and make all

[Veritas-bu] Tape usage for last 15 days

2009-03-18 Thread Baumann, Kevin
All, Is there a way to find out how many tapes that I have used in the past 15 days? I don't need to know what is on the tapes, just if they have been written to or not. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. -Kevin __

Re: [Veritas-bu] SUDO

2009-03-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Reynolds, Susan K. < sreynol...@semprautilities.com> wrote: > Does anyone here use SUDO for non-root access to Netbackup; and, if so > can you send a copy of what your SUDOERs file looks like? > > Interested in allowing backup admins the ability to do their jobs as

Re: [Veritas-bu] SUDO

2009-03-18 Thread Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is what I use: # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias NETBACKUP = /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/, /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/, /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/, /usr/openv/bin/, /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/ %sysad ALL=(ALL) ALL %sysad ALL=

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to read Logs

2009-03-18 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Look for <16> (that is a 16 inside of the arrows - this usually an error. That is the best I can do for you because there is a lot of stuff in them. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of sachinar1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-18 Thread Mark Glazerman
We had an issue where we were almost maxed out on one of our Data Domain appliances. We went about it in two ways. We went into NBU and expired images via NBU that we knew should have been expired already. Our issue came about after an NBU upgrade when the catalog lost track of a large numb

Re: [Veritas-bu] SUDO

2009-03-18 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
We just install netbackup console on the windows pc's of the NB admins then add the pc name to the list of other servers on the master properties. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Reynolds, S

[Veritas-bu] SUDO

2009-03-18 Thread Reynolds, Susan K.
Does anyone here use SUDO for non-root access to Netbackup; and, if so can you send a copy of what your SUDOERs file looks like? Interested in allowing backup admins the ability to do their jobs as needed while trying to strike a balance with security concerns of UNIX group. Thanks for your help.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-18 Thread Dushyant Mehta
Thanks Randy, however I would like to ask you other question. How much time does the clean process run ? What datadomain system are you using ? We have DD580g systems with 20TB limit. We are planning to upgrade to DD690 systems as well. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [ma

Re: [Veritas-bu] REPORTING OPTION

2009-03-18 Thread Kurian K Oommen
I require , Backup Include files and Media used for the backup also for reporting along with the fields mentioned below. Could any one help out with a autamated solution for such a report from Netbackup ? Regards K.O Kurian IBM India Private Limited  (+91-9810912456 |  *: ko.kur...

Re: [Veritas-bu] Not all drives appear to be used

2009-03-18 Thread Marianne Van Den Berg
How many drives in your storage unit(s)? -Original Message- From: mcw012765 Sent: 18 March 2009 19:20 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Not all drives appear to be used I am a Netbackup 6.5.2A user. I currently have 100+ clients that I back up on a daily ba

[Veritas-bu] How to read Logs

2009-03-18 Thread sachinar1
Hi! I m new to Netbackup and required help for reading error logs. There are so much written in logs in contination and I tried understanding it but it was invain Can some one help? +-- |This was sent by sachin...@gmail.com vi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-18 Thread Randy Doering
What we do when space gets tight on our DataDomain is to identify Images that are soon to expire within NBU. Go ahead and pre-expire them, then afterwards kick off a clean. In our case, we use VTL and pre-expire the volumes that are soon to expire (we have 3 month retention), go out to the DD a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Not all drives appear to be used

2009-03-18 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Tape drive usage can be based on your storage unit. If you have 10 tape drives but you have 2 storage units with 4 drives each That means at the most you will only use 8 drives. So it could be that the storage units you are using are not set up to utilize all the drives. As to the fact that 2 di

[Veritas-bu] Not all drives appear to be used

2009-03-18 Thread mcw012765
I am a Netbackup 6.5.2A user. I currently have 100+ clients that I back up on a daily basis (fulls and cumulative incrementals). I have a Sun/STK SL3000 tape library with 10 LTO-4 tape drives. My issue is with tape drive usage. I have multiplexing and multistreaming turned on for all of my p

[Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-18 Thread dmehta
Hi, We are using NBU 6.5.3 and all our backups are going to Data Domain. One of our backend disk is at 100% and we want to get some space back. However we do not know how can we get it faster other than running the clean process of DD, even after which we will be getting 265 GB space. Any help

[Veritas-bu] What is best approach to share one ACSLS library ?

2009-03-18 Thread Anil.Maurya
Hi I have one big library ( 8500 ) controlled by ACSLS. We have two site site A ( one master and many media server all running on 5.5.x have small library ( DLT)(NO ACSLS here) ) and site B ( one master and many media server all running 6.5.3 with big library 8500 on ACSLS ). I need to st

Re: [Veritas-bu] REPORTING OPTION

2009-03-18 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
This tech doc may help. Document ID: 247902 http://support.veritas.com/docs/247902 E-Mail this document to a colleague DOCUMENTATION: The command line equivalents for running the NetBackup reports available in the NetBackup user interface -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@m

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can I dump an entire NBU Catalog???

2009-03-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Dennis Peacock wrote: > > I haven't found a way to do thisdoes anyone here know of a way to do this? > > +-- > |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentr

[Veritas-bu] Can I dump an entire NBU Catalog???

2009-03-18 Thread Dennis Peacock
I haven't found a way to do thisdoes anyone here know of a way to do this? +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---

Re: [Veritas-bu] REPORTING OPTION

2009-03-18 Thread ckstehman
Greetings: Aptare Storage Console will give you this information from the job details link on the Job Summary report. there may be a way to get this report from a sql script . Aptare stores it's information in an Oracle database, and has some custom scripts that can be run from cron. They do h

[Veritas-bu] REPORTING OPTION

2009-03-18 Thread NBU
Hi Forum, I am trying to get one report which has following details of any policy. Backup ID / Job IDClientBackup Date/Time Policy Number of Files Kilobytes Schedule NameSchedule Type Ela

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some Help Please - Status 89 on Win2k3 Standard Server SSO San Media

2009-03-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi This problem caught Symantec out, as the failures were 40, 41, 89 and 174 - very very odd, and happening with one client. After over 1.2gb of logs, the problem I found (not symantec) was due to a hardware problem, that DIDNT even report it had a problem ! Even so, since last night, the bac

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some Help Please - Status 89 on Win2k3 Standard Server SSO San Media

2009-03-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
I dont! That was the point . Win2k3 Standard Server mate. ... as per subject line :-) And as per my email >> The docuemnts seem to show its related to a Solaris box, but this is a Windows SAN Media Server. Simon From: Steve Fogarty [mailto:steve.foga

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some Help Please - Status 89 on Win2k3 StandardServer SSO San Media

2009-03-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Unfortunately, that document was of very, very little help! Without Symantec help, I actually narrowed down the problem to a hardware level. Even caught Symantec out with this problem. As of this morning, everything is now ok. Many MANY thanks for the response Peter, at least you replied back

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auxilary and Inline Copy ??

2009-03-18 Thread smpt
For inline copy the answer is yes. (At the schedule level or at the lifecycle policy storage unit) For the Auxiliray copy, it depends what you mean with the word Auxiliray. Netbackup can do automatic and manual duplications. You can restore from the copy you choose and you can delete a copy. But f

Re: [Veritas-bu] xen servers

2009-03-18 Thread smpt
You also need one database license for each database type. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Horalek Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:15 AM To: 'Kathy Baron'; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.aubur

Re: [Veritas-bu] dedup/replication

2009-03-18 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Actually, TOP said he had backed up to an EDL/3DL (EMC Quantum box). Jeff (Kaplan), Is it possible to use tape shadowing on the replicated system, so that the backup to one virtual tape, replicate to another virtual tape, then eject that virtual tape to create a physical tape? __

[Veritas-bu] Auxilary and Inline Copy ??

2009-03-18 Thread Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean
Hi All, Im new to NBU. Does NBU support Auxiliray and Inline copy ? If yes, what does it require ? BR, Martin Panggabean ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu