Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP authentication failing for NetApp.

2009-06-08 Thread william . d . brown
I'm fairly certain that does not apply if you create an ndmp user account on a NetApp filer. The documents have said that for years and we've managed fine with a user-defined account. However, we are not using NBU 6. We did have to limit the NDMP passsword length to 8 characters, which was

Re: [Veritas-bu] Move EMM Database to another host?

2009-06-08 Thread POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR)
Hello, Can you give us more details on the process of moving the EMM database ( the command associated ) ?? Thanks Gilles -Message d'origine- De : veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]de la part de backupgirl Envoyé : vendredi 5

Re: [Veritas-bu] Move EMM Database to another host?

2009-06-08 Thread POUSSARD, Gilles (APX SYNSTAR)
Hello, In fact, I wish to migrate an EMM database and NBU catalog database 6.5.x from a Solaris master server to a Linux Redhat master server keeping the same hostname and IP adress. If someone has experiences on that, I will be interested. Gilles. -Message d'origine- De : POUSSARD,

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread Jeff Lightner
NetBackup is essentially doing file level backups rather than block level so it can't do the in file delta. If you have a need for doing that then you should look at the data deduplication technology out there such as Data Domain, Avomar and others. If you look through the archives you'll

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you reassure my understanding.

2009-06-08 Thread Donaldson, Mark
I have done a full system restore, or attempted to, and it doesn't work. Somewhere along the way, you start over-writing the library files linked into the running bpbkar executable and then the restore will die. BMR is an exception, but just doing a full restore from root downward doesn't

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:20:44PM -0400, Jorge F?bregas wrote: I'm still learning Netbackup (got around 1.5 years working with it) and I'm wondering... Is there a way to perform incremental backups using in-file delta technology (backup only changes within a file)? I've seen a lot of

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread Girish Jorapurkar
NetBackup DOES provide file-level backup with block-level incremental (BLI) IF your source file system is VxFS and if you are using Snapshot client (with VxFS Storage Checkpoint) option. - Original Message From: Jeff Lightner jlight...@water.com To: Jorge Fábregas

[Veritas-bu] Move EMM Database to another host?

2009-06-08 Thread backupgirl
Can you give us more details on the process of moving the EMM database ( the command associated ) ?? Sure... We migrated from an AIX to Windows Master and the DBA discovered it was not as simple as unloading and loading the media tables. The database schema was different between the two

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread william . d . brown
Is there a way to perform incremental backups using in-file delta technology (backup only changes within a file)? I've seen a lot of features/options for Netbackup but I have never seen this...If indeed there isn't ...why isn't this type of ESSENTIAL technology part of Netbackup? As

[Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

2009-06-08 Thread BeDour, Wayne
Our environment, HP-UX 11-31 with a SureStore 20/700 tape library, one master / media server running NetBackup 6.5.2 backing up mainly HP servers with a few Sun and Windows boxes thrown in. One NBU 6.5.2 SSO media server running on windows. Here is the scenario. The auditors give me a date

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

2009-06-08 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:36:29PM -0400, BeDour, Wayne wrote: Here is the scenario. The auditors give me a date and a host which I can relate to a backup policy. From the date, they need me to verify the backup ran, the bar code of the tape(s) written to and if the tape(s) went offsite.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

2009-06-08 Thread Jeff Lightner
To see which media / backup IDs etc... were used for a given policy: bpimmedia -L -policy policy -d MM/DD/CCYY HH:MM:SS -e MM/DD/CCYY HH:MM:SS Where policy is the policy used to do the backup, -d specifies the start of the time range in which you're interested and -e specifies the end of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

2009-06-08 Thread Dean
echo get real auditors Assuming it hasn't expired, bpimagelist will tell you what backup images exist for a particular host, from a particular time, and what tape they are on. As for whether the tape was actually sent offsite, I don't see how Netbackup could ever know that. If you use Vault,

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread Nick Majeran
Most modern OSen should have a capable fs abstraction layer, like VFS, which should remove the client from having to know too much about the underlying file system, I would assume. Plus, rsync can do it, as long as you aren't using the --whole-file option. -- nick The quick answer is that it's

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:18:48PM -0500, Nick Majeran wrote: Most modern OSen should have a capable fs abstraction layer, like VFS, which should remove the client from having to know too much about the underlying file system, I would assume. The abstraction layer usually doesn't have enough

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

2009-06-08 Thread Ed Wilts
# bpimagelist -U -d start -e end -client client -media This will give you the list of all tapes used for that client for that date. Given that, check your vault logs to see when/if the tape was ejected, and get the audit trail from your vault provider to see when/if they received the tapes. I

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 08 June 2009 12:33:45 pm A Darren Dunham wrote: Yes same with doing file-level backups of a database. Similar options apply:   * Run some sort of de-dup product I'll take a look at dedup for sure. * Backup from within the virtual host, not the image files from the   server This

Re: [Veritas-bu] In-File Delta Technology

2009-06-08 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Thanks William for the nice explanation and to everyone else for sharing their feedback. All the best, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP authentication failing for NetApp.

2009-06-08 Thread Jeff Cleverley
From what I could tell from the documentation it did not require a root account. It looks to be the case in real life. I was given a link to the NDMP 6.5.3 update and installed it. Things at least backed up to tape. I need to verify what exactly it backed up since the amount it backed up

[Veritas-bu] Status 93 - DB is Down 6.5.3

2009-06-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
All re: Technote : http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/284164.htm I am getting this message, but ONLY when a Cold Catalog Backup of 6.5.3 is taking place!! Surely this is not normal? In 5.1 MP5, even if a Cold Catalog was taking place, Restores were still possible. Could anyone clarify