Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrate master from HPUX to Solaris

2010-03-03 Thread Roedy boy
Hi All, does anyone has document/steps to do the migration? the server name/ip address will be the same, only OS different, migrate from hp-ux to solaris. any info will be appreciate. Thanks, Roedy From: Roedy boy To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
We have recently been given the chance to goto 7, but only recently got 1 environment to 6.5.4 six months ago, and still have another environment in the process of still being moved from 5.1 - 6.5 VMWare components would be the only real interest for me. Simon __

Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread Scott Jacobson
Affirmed, recently integrated with existing LTO II drives in SL8500 library. Barcode rules are important as well, make sure the suffixes are modified from "L2" to "L4", If you don't you'll have problems in legacy migration tape copies. -sj >>> "smpt" 3/3/2010 8:40 AM >>> You can do it. Use HCAR

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-03 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Just wanted to share my stats, on compression and encryption. I am using NetBackups kms (not mseo) application managed tape encryption. I have one full tape that is encrypted. All the other full's are NOT encrypted. I seem to be getting about the same in the amount of data on the tapes. Less than

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

2010-03-03 Thread Robin Small
Fair enough.. Or at least along the lines of what I was suspecting was the case (the supportability of it). I'm running mine on SLES (was v9 with v6.x, upgrading as we speak to v11 to go with NBU v7). That resolves my curiosity, Thanks.. ~ Robin From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Se

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Robin Small wrote: > I’m wondering if any of you know why CentOS isn’t supported as a NBU > Master? > The compatibility matrix isn't really about what works - it's about what Symantec will support. Many people have done all sorts of things that work, although m

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Shawn Plummer
On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Jim Caldwell wrote: > I am contemplating installing NBU 7.0 any known issues or gotcha's? Solaris > 10 is my Master/Media Server, clients, Solaris, Windows, Hyper-V and SQL. My > current level is 6.5.4. We have upgraded our productions servers to 7.0 here. The upgra

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

2010-03-03 Thread Robin Small
I'm wondering if any of you know why CentOS isn't supported as a NBU Master? I've tried googledredging, but all I've really managed to find is that it's technically possible, but not supported. I've done it in a VM for a test env., and while it installs fine, I haven't really ran it through its

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Wilts
Symantec just published their first Late Breaking News article for 7.0. Keep an eye on the LBN updates as you get closer to your update. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/341271.htm .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin

Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread smpt
You can do it. Use HCART2 drive and media type for LTO2 and HCART for LTO4. Configured the appropriate barcode rules and you are ok. This may be helpful http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336024.htm From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.e

Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread Boris Kraizman
Hello, I would not recommend to mix LTO2 and LTO4, better go completely with LTO4 or LTO3, you can configure LTO3 tape drives to read and write LTO2 tape media. When I was planing to mix LTO2 and LTO3 tape drives on SL500, I was told by STK engineers, I would need to have a converter in the tape d

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Wilts
I haven't heard any horror stories from anybody yet, either in discussions for which I'm under NDA nor on the list. So far, it seems to be no worse than any recent 6.5.x release and for some things (like VMware backups) it's significantly better. There are certainly people upgrading their product

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread scott . george
Getting ready to roll it into Test. They give you similar warnings that they gave for the 5.1 to 6.0 upgrade, (i.e. database consistency), but I have heard that it isn't that brutal and glides right through that portion. I gotta test dedupe really bad, so my test system will be on it in the n

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Jim Caldwell wrote: > I am contemplating installing NBU 7.0 any known issues or gotcha's? Solaris > 10 is my Master/Media Server, clients, Solaris, Windows, Hyper-V and SQL. My > current level is 6.5.4. [ .. ] It is built off the 6.5.4 code base, I only have been using it

[Veritas-bu] NBU Rel 7.0

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Caldwell
I am contemplating installing NBU 7.0 any known issues or gotcha's? Solaris 10 is my Master/Media Server, clients, Solaris, Windows, Hyper-V and SQL. My current level is 6.5.4. James M. Caldwell NCCCS Unix Support Operation & Systems Analyst caldwe...@nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7234 (Offi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 to use a specific tape drive forrestoration.

2010-03-03 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Just put the tape you want to restore from in the standalone drive. I have a sdlt standalone on my master as well as a library. And when I need to do a restore I just put it in the standalone drive. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.

Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Sure , just make sure all the media that is LTO2 goes in as LTO2 (hcart2) and the LTO2 drives are also set up as hcart2. Then make sure all LTO4 media goes in as hcart and all LTO4 tapes are setup as hcart. Then setup your storage units and polices to use the type of tape you want. From: veri

Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, I currently have a similar setup, LTO-3 and one LTO-4 drive in a test SL500 robot. I remember doing a something similar with an L700 back in the day with LTO-2 drives and STK 9840s, it had a lot of issues in that environment (L700), although I did not set that one up originally. For the S

[Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4

2010-03-03 Thread Grigore Petrisor
Hi I want to know if there is a possibility to mix LTO2 and LTO4 drives and media in the same library StorageTek SL500 with Netbackup 5.1. If there is documentation for this ... pls i want to know TY ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Res: (no subject)

2010-03-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
Open Windows system/application syslog to verify what error is occurring. T+ Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Jundiaí - SP Brasil http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlostoca http://netbackupblog.blogspot.com/ carlos_lis...@yahoo.com.

[Veritas-bu] Res: Netbackup 5.1 to use a specific tape drive for restoration.

2010-03-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
Hi Calvin you can't specify what tape you want to reserve for restore, you can create a Storage Unit with there tapes drives, so always will be a tape available to make restores. Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Jundiaí

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 to use a specific tape drive for restoration.

2010-03-03 Thread Calvin Chen W. K.
The current setup of the Netbackup is 1 unit of Server running Solaris 8 configured as Netbackup Master/Media Server. 1 unit of L180 tape library with 4 SDLT320 tape drives and 1 unit of SDLT320 standalone tape drive is connected to the server. May I know how to restore using the SDLT320 st