Re: [Veritas-bu] VCB doesn't work with drive's multiplexing

2009-07-23 Thread Peters, Devon C
We've got NBU 6.5.3 and VCB 1.5 running, and multiplexing works well for us. You mention the storage unit is set to a max MPX of 2 - something to check if you haven't already, is to make sure that the schedules are also set to 2. -devon - Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:3

[Veritas-bu] Java GUI to Manage Windows - Strange Behavior

2009-07-23 Thread Rusty.Major
I'm trying to utilize a Java GUI to manage a Windows 6.5.3 environment. When the auth.conf file is present, and having proper name entries, I get an error that the username is not listed. If I remove/rename the file, the Java Console loads everything and seems just fine, as long as I'm using a

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-23 Thread Dennis Peacock
Mark, We use the Catalog backup policy that is standard with Netbackup. We push backups to VTL, DSSU, FSU, and tape. We have requirements for offsite as well as onsite storage. My issue is that we could not get the media pools back upone recovery at Sungard. BTW, we haven't figure out an inex

[Veritas-bu] Adding an NDMP device to a NetBackup Media Server

2009-07-23 Thread dwmarsh
More information... I ran set_ndmp_attr -verify on the Media Server and got proper responses. The host supports NDMP v4 and supports LOCAL and 3-way backup/restore. The NetApp does not have any locally-attached devices, so setu_ndmp_attr -probe gives no results. +

[Veritas-bu] netbackup VS backup exec - shared SCSI tape library

2009-07-23 Thread mark wragge
I am aware that with netbackup I can share a SCSI tape library with a master and media server and that the server that can see the robot can manage the tape mount requests.   Is it possible to use backup exec to do this? If i have 2 backup exec servers and one tape library with 2 tape devices -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
Dennis, What do you have as your backup selection inside your catalog policy. We have always used the default backup selection in our catalog policies (1 Daily full, daytime cumulative every hour, night time cumulative every 3 hours) and a quick look at our policy shows we have specified CATALO

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-23 Thread Dean
> I wish there was a way to post a screenshot on this forum. :) > You could just upload the screenshot to something like http://imageshack.us/and then post the link here. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.a

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Media changer co ordinates via tpconfig

2009-07-23 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All When adding a ndmp media changer via tpconfig as apposed to the GUI wizard, does anyone know how to determine the Netapp bus,target, lun co-ordinates for the changer. The NDMP manual doesn't reveal much NBU 6.5, solaris 10 Working environment TLD(16)robotic path = mc1 (emalonfp02n1 [

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tru64 and LTO4 drives

2009-07-23 Thread Bluejay
>After zoning the libraries in, installing > the device mappings files from Symantec support and what not, What "device mapping files"? In all my years with Tru64, the only thing I've had to do to use a new tape drive was do a SCSI bus scan (hwmgr -scan scsi (v5) or scu scan edt (v4)). I'm only

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue???

2009-07-23 Thread Andy_Welburn
Dennis Peacock wrote: > > Do you show anything under /usr/openv/netbackup/volmgr/database? > I don't show a single file or directory under that directory. > > Just to add my tuppence worth. I also only do full catalogs & just to confirm what we backup (checked in BAR GUI): /usr/openv/netbac

Re: [Veritas-bu] Second Device Path

2009-07-23 Thread smpt
Hi, This is true for NBU 6.5 (I do not remember if it is an option for 6.0). You can have more than one path to the drives and are working as active/passive paths. I do not know how netbackup choose the path to the tape for every backup but it seems that it is random. I have seen it, one day to u