Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive is assigned with a tape loaded ...Yet no tape in the tape drive...

2009-04-24 Thread Len Boyle
Check on the netapp side, what does it report. Does it show the tape drive as in use. Is there an active ndmp job using the tape drive. Try the storage show tape command And the sysconfig -t command Try the ndmpd status and session kill commands len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.

[Veritas-bu] Need Information about Catalog Backup and DR exercise

2009-04-24 Thread Dennis Peacock
Judy, This would be on a bare metal box at SunGard. Taking out stuff there and DR'ing a customers environment. So, this would be a clean install of Netbackup on a freshly built Solaris 10 box. We're just trying to figure out how we can keep from backing up and restoring ~250GB worth of Netback

Re: [Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and otherITC wierdness)

2009-04-24 Thread Donaldson, Mark
Our use for storage unit groups is for failover in the possiblity that a media server goes down. The only backups we have that go direct to a standard storage unit is the few servers reachable through our firewalls. The permissions are only setup for a single destination for backups. Since ITC m

[Veritas-bu] 6.5 bpgp & bpdir replacement

2009-04-24 Thread blakberye
bpgetconfig -M {client name} exclude This command will list the exclude information bpgetconfig -M {clientname} include Will list include information. There are several things which can be viewed with bpgetconfig -M {client name} and you might try nbgp and nbdir? +

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Oracle Script for Window Systems

2009-04-24 Thread Wayne T Smith
Oracle export (or Data Pump in newer versions of Oracle) may give you the protection you need. * Have your DBA evaluate the export(s) done and test restores. Tests may include loss of o an Oracle row of data o an Oracle table o an Oracle tablespace

[Veritas-bu] Puredisk experiences ?

2009-04-24 Thread tburrell
I work with Ed so I have to be careful here or he'll start throwing sharp objects over the wall at me- but I don't agree straight-up with everything he's said. The Puredisk pricing model does make sense in some environments: our initial purchase of 2 TB covered 15 offices- that's pretty good m

[Veritas-bu] vcb backups using backup exec

2009-04-24 Thread mark wragge
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is using Backup Exec to perform VCB backups and do they work successfully?   Also , what functionality would i be missing if i choose backup exec over netbackup for VCB backups for Win2003 VMs? I know that backup exec will not permit multiplexing of jobs to a single

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris

2009-04-24 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
We have a T2000 master server and a T2000 media server. We also have a V240 as a media server, because our LTO1's and the L700 require HVD SCSI...and we weren't able to get a working controller for the T2000's. T2000's have fibre attached LTO3's and SAN (6140) storage. (D2D2T) LTO3's are the da

Re: [Veritas-bu] Total Client Data

2009-04-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Sushil wrote: > > 2. Can we get a list of all clients that have backed up over the last > month and howmuch data they send per night The built-in pieces in NetBackup do a pretty poor job of long-term trending. Start with NOM since the license is included with N

Re: [Veritas-bu] Total Client Data

2009-04-24 Thread ckstehman
Aptare Storage Console will give you all that, check them out at http://www.aptare.com -- Carl Stehman Distributed Services Pepcoholdings, Inc. 701 Ninth St NW Washington DC 20068 202-331-6619 "Marianne Van Den Berg"

Re: [Veritas-bu] Inline Tape Copy vs Storage Unit Groups (and other ITC wierdness)

2009-04-24 Thread Girish Jorapurkar
Storage unit group is, typically, used for load-balancing jobs across mutliple STUs - possibly residing/attached to different Media servers. Inline-tape-copy creates multiple copies at 'backup time' by writing each copy to a different media from STU(s) attached to same Media server. Essentially

Re: [Veritas-bu] Puredisk experiences ?

2009-04-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tristan Ball < tristan.b...@leica-microsystems.com> wrote: > I’d second both of these points, but especially the pricing one. When we > looked at it, pricing was based on the volume of data pre-deduplication, and > bought in blocks of n Gigabytes or Terabytes. >

[Veritas-bu] Tape drive is assigned with a tape loaded ...Yet no tape in the tape drive...

2009-04-24 Thread Joseph Despres
Master = NetBackup-Solaris9 6.0MP6 Tape drive is attached to NetApp Filer... And is controlled from the Master... Tape drive shows in vmoprcmd that it has a tape loaded... And bpdbjobs shows a job associated with that tape drive... Yet nothing is running and has been hung out there for a bit

Re: [Veritas-bu] Total Client Data

2009-04-24 Thread Marianne Van Den Berg
Tell your management that you need some advanced reporting option (). There is only so much the basic report options in NBU can give you... Show them the stock standard reports. Regards M. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...

Re: [Veritas-bu] Decru Dataforts

2009-04-24 Thread Jeff Lightner
FYI: On HP-UX you might want to use fcmsutil to force a reset of fibre card as ioscan doesn't do one (in fact it will hang if the fibre card is hung for some reason). -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]

[Veritas-bu] Total Client Data

2009-04-24 Thread Sushil
Thank yoy very much for the reply guys...your solution really helped... Now i have been given some more task once i have achieved this one..Can you guys please help me on this one as well? 1. How can we get a total of all data in the infinity class i.e. does not expire and can this be listed