[Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 upgrade

2010-10-21 Thread Saran Brar
Hello All, We have a Netbackup upgrade planned from 6.5.3 to 7.0. Can anyone please confirm if device mappings file will get updated during this upgrade or we will have to update them manually. Regards, Saranjit Singh Brar : saranb...@hotmail.com

[Veritas-bu] NBU 7.0 upgrade

2010-10-21 Thread Dennis Peacock
We just upgraded one of our master server to 7.0.1 from 6.5.6. We leared to run the consistency check, shut it all down, bring it all back up, run the check again to make sure that we were sure, and THEN upgraded. All device mappings were fine after the upgrade. Do be aware that the 6.5x Java

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 restore for a SAN Client

2010-10-21 Thread Tanuja Korlepra
Hi Dennis, You don't really have to do all this to disable SAN Client functionality on a NetBackup client. These steps are to delete a SAN Client from the configuration. All you have to do is, on NetBackup GUI go to - Media and Device Management Devices SAN Clients (select your client) SAN

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.6 restore for a SAN Client

2010-10-21 Thread Dennis Peacock
Tanuja, I'm sorry, but we did what we did to get it to work. The avenue you suggested was one of the first things we tried. No success until we did what we did. [Wink] BTW, the master servers (3) and media servers (9) are all Solaris 10 boxes, ACSLS server, with 3 master servers feeding an

[Veritas-bu] Duplicating using bpduplicate gives a smaller size

2010-10-21 Thread Tamimi
Hi All, I converted LTO1 tapes to LTO4 tapes using bpduplicate. LTO1 tape read with LTO2 tape drives (compressed) and write to LTO4 tape drives (compressed). The result were some of the images have the same size and some have smaller size. We are using Netbackup Enterprise Server version