Re: [Veritas-bu] Fibre Transport HBAs

2010-07-12 Thread William Brown
At the FT Media Server you must use the specified QLogic HBAs and no other. At the moment that is the 2Gb and 4Gb HBAs, no support that I have seen for 8Gb HBAs. Also no support for ones on mezzanine cards or other packaging, like the Sun blade server modules. We use the Sun branded Qlogic HB

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fibre Transport HBAs

2010-07-12 Thread Bahadir Kiziltan
check the latest hw comp. list @ page 167. http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/336875.pdf On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Heathe Yeakley wrote: > I've purchased some Enterprise clients and plan on using the Fibre > Transport Feature to back them up.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fibre Transport HBAs

2010-07-12 Thread Lightner, Jeff
For our Linux systems attached to EMC storage we use only Qlogic HBAs. Haven't done any fibre to tape on Linux yet. The other vendor in that space is Emulex - the one time I tried to use Emulex in a test setup for disk arrays offsite they didn't seem to work for me but I'll admit I didn't spend a

[Veritas-bu] Fibre Transport HBAs

2010-07-12 Thread Heathe Yeakley
I've purchased some Enterprise clients and plan on using the Fibre Transport Feature to back them up. I'm on the market for the QLogic HBAs that my media servers need in order to backup a SAN client. From what I've read in the NetBackup 7 FT Guide, it just says that as long as I get a Q Logic 234x

Re: [Veritas-bu] Library inventory with vmupdate from cron every hour

2010-07-12 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I use the following command every 30 minutes on several Windows 5.1, 6.0 and 6.5 Masters without issue. If the robot happens to be offline the task fails without issue. I've never had an issue with inventories and normal operations. vmupdate -rt tld -rn 0 -use_barcode_rules -Jonathan -Origin

[Veritas-bu] Library inventory with vmupdate from cron every hour

2010-07-12 Thread Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
Dear All, I want to setup a cron job to inventory tapes every hour (to exclude this task from the scope of work of the personnel doing the tape swaps). Please see the quote from Backup Central NetBackup FAQ "How do I inventory my library?" at http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 7.0 dedup

2010-07-12 Thread Mark Glazerman
We have been playing with the new dedup option in a small test environment pushing data from 2 clients through a windows 2008 media server to a 2TB lun presented to that same server. We have things setup to dedup at the media server, not the client and have each of these 2 clients in their own pol