Re: [Veritas-bu] Udev rules for Linux distros prior to 5.3...

2009-08-05 Thread Peters, Devon C
I assume you're doing this to help keep the devices from becoming mis-configured in NBU after a reboot - because the lack of persistent binding ends up changing the target number for the drives. We've always used ENABLE_AUTO_PATH_CORRECTION in the vm.conf file for this, which seems to work wel

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapes without catalogs?

2009-08-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
That is what I am doing right now. Easiest method: Phase 1: Open jnbSA, click catalog, go to import -> type in the tape number, repeat for each of the tapes. Phase 2: Search for the phase1 images and then select all and then proceed to do the phase 2 import (the second import option in the G

[Veritas-bu] Tapes without catalogs?

2009-08-05 Thread J . Keating
Hello All; I have been recently tasked with preparing the DR at the company I'm currently with and what I have found thus far is the NBU catalogs only span back to Jan08. And, some of the tapes I have in my possession are not listed in NB. Despite the lack of knowing what happened to the old

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.4 backup speed to IBM LTO-4 w/ENCRYPTION

2009-08-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Nothing else going on with the host, run all backup jobs to a disk staging unit, then perform the duplicate -> to tape. Speed to LTO-4 (w/encryption+AES256): Fiber Card: QLogic Corp. ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel The bytes [io/bi] in (reading) off of a RAID-6 with 20+ 15k RPM drives: procs -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up

2009-08-05 Thread Donaldson, Mark
Yeah - what the other guys implied. There's lots of possibilities, first stop is the details under the job viewer - that should tell you what the job is waiting on. -M -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO and VTL

2009-08-05 Thread smpt
Check this. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/327648.htm Although the title is "Best Practices for using Storage Lifecycle Policies in NetBackup 6.5.3 and 6.5.4" it has many VTL related maters. At page 10: Do not share virtual tape drives Because NetBackup does not differentiate between p

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up

2009-08-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
What OS is the master running? What do the logs say? What do the kernel logs say? Is your robot offline? Are there any corefiles? Justin. On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, smwoodcrafts wrote: > > I don't know what is going on. We have a master and media server set up > running 6.5.3.1 and it has been backin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up

2009-08-05 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Have you stopped / restarted the Master Services? What is disk space like on the Master? Is there any indication it has mounted a tape in Activity Monitor? Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behal

[Veritas-bu] Backups are active, but nothing is being backed up

2009-08-05 Thread smwoodcrafts
I don't know what is going on. We have a master and media server set up running 6.5.3.1 and it has been backing up the clients fine. Today, when checking the administration console, I noticed that all the backups running, have been running for hours but there is no activity. Everything is still