Re: [Veritas-bu] count of scratch tapes

2006-05-23 Thread Bluejay
; fi FREE=`vmquery -w -pn $POOL | awk "\\$20==\"00/00/\" && \\$7 == \"NONE\" { print \\$0 }" | wc -l` echo "s/a: $FREE / $TOTL" fi done - Bluejay Adametz "The society whic

Re: [Veritas-bu] Using Different Hardware Platforms for NetBackup Media Servers...

2006-10-04 Thread Bluejay
vers to the mix. - Bluejay Adametz Never borrow for what you don't need. Never think you need what you have to borrow for. -Irish Proverb ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailma

[Veritas-bu] Tuning Windows backups

2007-05-18 Thread Bluejay
plexing, but with everything other than a few gig all on that one drive, I'm not sure that would buy me anything. Any ideas? - Bluejay Adametz Look for opportunities...not guarantees. ___

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up mysql data in regular OS Filesystem backup.....

2007-08-20 Thread Bluejay
st recovery, should that be required. It does require disk space, through. You'll probably want to exclude the database files themselves from your OS-level backup. - Bluejay Adametz "Anyone who has never made a mi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows

2007-11-05 Thread Bluejay
re you backing up directly to tape or are you going over the network? We back up about 125gb of Notes mail files directly to LTO3 from our Linux-based server and average about 45mb/sec, using the Notes agent in Netbackup 5.1MP5. Proliant DL385.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 85's

2007-11-09 Thread Bluejay
; happen now with SCSI reservations, but if reservations are not working properly, it's a possibility. - Bluejay Adametz Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any BMR with Linux clients success ?

2007-12-20 Thread Bluejay
y recovery CD, tell it what system to recover, and come back in an hour. - Bluejay Adametz "Don't take life too seriously ... You'll never get out of it alive." - Bugs Bunny _

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any BMR with Linux clients success ?

2007-12-21 Thread Bluejay
larly, via formal audits, as well as using that CD to create copies of systems in our test lab. >Do > you have a copy of that CD in your offsite storage location? Yes. BTW, we do the same thing for our Tru64 systems.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux Restore: Status 24, 13 & 41

2008-05-12 Thread Bluejay
new RAID array? The machine crashing and not rebooting makes me think that there's something more than a Netbackup problem going on. Those status codes could all be a symptom of the client hanging or crashing. Anything in your /var/log/messages file?

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-13 Thread Bluejay
, and has no plans to do so. Some fiddling around managed to get a guest to see such tape drives, but they did not work reliably at all. - Bluejay Adametz "I took off my watch and found I had all the time in the

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Bluejay
f these bits of information were easy to get out of them. - Bluejay Adametz "People generally react to any new situation in one of four ways: AhA!... Ho-hum... Oy Vey!... and Yum, Yum. These illustrate t

Re: [Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library

2008-05-29 Thread Bluejay
3.4 days. - Bluejay Adametz To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] vmchange use for eject of tape from library

2008-05-29 Thread Bluejay
ble to modify it to wait until one or more slots were free and then continue. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Unipea n. A peanut with only one compartment. ___ Ver

[Veritas-bu] What platform for a master server?

2008-08-14 Thread Bluejay
p is around 5tb. - Bluejay Adametz "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup on RedHat Entr. or windows server 2003?

2008-08-18 Thread Bluejay
er on. Remember that, in a disaster-recovery situation, one of the first things you'll need recovered is your master server. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Expresshole n. One who sneaks more than '8 items or l

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2A media server with 6.5.1 master server

2008-08-18 Thread Bluejay
er at this point if I can avoid it, but need to resolve this issue on the Windows server. - Bluejay Adametz In 1914 the first school of cosmetology opened. All the students had to take a make-up

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2A media server with 6.5.1 master server

2008-08-19 Thread Bluejay
I knew it'd be unsupported, but just wondered if it would work anyway and give me an option. Looks like it doesn't work at all. Thanks for all the responses! - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Gyroped n. A kid who can

Re: [Veritas-bu] Most recent stable release?

2008-08-21 Thread Bluejay
,say, trying to run a backup or something... - Bluejay Adametz I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can I backup multiple policies to the same tape drive

2008-09-25 Thread Bluejay
mental backups than full backups. - Bluejay Adametz The highest bird-airplane collision ever recorded occurred at 37,000 feet, according to the U.S. Air Force. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

2008-10-01 Thread Bluejay
the installations. - Bluejay Adametz I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -Noel Coward ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] checking backup quality

2008-10-03 Thread Bluejay
le and compared it with the original file. And it was the tape drive itself. - Bluejay Adametz You manage things; you lead people. - Adm. Grace Murray Hopper ___ Veritas-bu ma

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Upgrade

2008-10-28 Thread Bluejay
ntec.com/docs/301175.htm - Bluejay Adametz Don't byte off more than you can queue. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Serious bug w/ 6.5.2 (and beyond?): perpetually requeueing jobs, starting this weekend.

2008-11-02 Thread Bluejay
some extra jobs run due to the interaction of 12-hour frequencies, 12-hour windows, and the change from Daylight Saving Time to Daylight Wasting time, but no repeating jobs. We're running 6.5.1, Tru64 master server. - Bl

Re: [Veritas-bu] Importing 6.5.0 Image on 5.1MP6

2008-11-21 Thread Bluejay
h a 6.5.1 client. The restore failed when the tar process aborted (consistently) at a point well into the restore. Upgrading the 5.1 client to 6.5.1 resolved the problem. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Subatomic Toasticle

Re: [Veritas-bu] Mixing POlicy Types in a Volume Pool

2009-04-20 Thread Bluejay
> Has anyone had any issues with not being able to do a successful > restore when mixing policy types within a volume pool? Nope. I have just two pools: one for my offsite tapes and another for everything else. Both pools get multiple policies and policy types. And I have restored from them, w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: Netbackup BMR Thoughts

2009-05-26 Thread Bluejay
to do is build a new initrd file with drivers for the boot disk. - Bluejay Adametz Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on. _

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

2009-05-28 Thread Bluejay
s/315021.htm and see if there's anything there that might cause an issue in your environment. - Bluejay Adametz "Communication is the imparting of meaningful informational modes or concepts that impact on in

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Catalog Location

2009-06-24 Thread Bluejay
irst recover that 165gb before you can begin recovering anything else. - Bluejay Adametz How come our saddest sadness comes from what were our most joyous joys? - Ziggy ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading from 6.5 to 6.5.4

2009-07-15 Thread Bluejay
> We are planning upgrade from NetBackup 6.5 to 6.5.4 ... > Please let me know is there any risk in upgrading? > Does any body have planning documentation? This is probably a good document to keep an eye on: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/324985.htm ___

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tru64 and LTO4 drives

2009-07-23 Thread Bluejay
manipulated. My servers are 3 CPU ES40s with 6gb RAM. - Bluejay Adametz The person who has nothing to say often proves it. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5.4 Upgrade

2009-10-01 Thread Bluejay
.symantec.com/docs/324985.htm - Bluejay Adametz My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose."

[Veritas-bu] How's 6.5.6?

2010-06-07 Thread Bluejay
han a little gun-shy. I'm being told by Symantec that 6.5.6 is a Good Thing and is focused mainly on fixes, but what's been y'all's experiences with it? - Bluejay Adametz I bought some pow

RE: [Veritas-bu] Vmware virtual machines vs Netbackup

2006-01-11 Thread Adametz, Bluejay
RedHat virtual machine, so at least that much works. - Bluejay Adametz We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. - Eric Hoffer, "

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netbackup Report Status by each mount point.

2009-12-15 Thread Bluejay Adametz
," STROUT; STROUT=substr(STROUT,1,length(STROUT)-1); return STROUT; } BEGIN { FSYST[0]="unknown"; FSBYTES[0]=0; FSFILES[0]=0; I=1; LONGESTFS=-1; while ( ( getline 0 ) { FSYST[I]=$0; FSBYTES[I]=0; FSFILES[I]=0; if ( index(FSYST[I],":\\") != 0

Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4

2009-12-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
I've tested this case on Tru64 UNIX and RedHat EL3, 4, and 5 and NetBackup 6.5.4 without seeing the problem. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Waftic adj. Describes anyone in whose direction smoke always blows. verit

Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb6.5.4

2009-12-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
Tested on HP-UX B.11.23 on IA64, with NetBackup V6.5.1 and V6.5.4 with no problem. - Bluejay Adametz According to my best recollection, ... I don't remember. -Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo Sent by:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving Solution

2010-12-10 Thread Bluejay Adametz
tems on the same array.          - Bluejay Adametz In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences. - Robert G. Ingersoll NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidentia

Re: [Veritas-bu] Server OS and NBU upgrades

2011-03-28 Thread Bluejay Adametz
hy would you need to roll back your master server? A 6.5.6 master should work just fine with a 6.5 client. Heck, I still have 5.1 clients being backed up by my 6.5.6 master/media servers. - Bluejay Adametz Success is getting up one more time.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix backup Policy exit Status Code.

2011-05-03 Thread Bluejay Adametz
y This is a script called by NetBackup when any backup job finishes. Parameters passed to it identify the the client, policy, etc... - Bluejay Adametz "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then w

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Server Upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
question before going that route. - Bluejay Adametz Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privil

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trigger 2nd job on completion of first job in Netbackup

2011-06-27 Thread Bluejay Adametz
is the one you're interested in (perhaps using the supplied client, policy, and/or schedule) and take action (e.g. bpbackup...) to initiate the next job. - Bluejay Adametz The reason things are as they are is that they were as they we

Re: [Veritas-bu] What to do with our growing Catalog on the Master server??

2011-09-08 Thread Bluejay Adametz
local disks on my master and do catalog backups to an array at the other end of the campus. - Bluejay Adametz Diplomacy is the art of letting others have your way. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intend

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog on NAS/SAN

2011-11-15 Thread Bluejay Adametz
restore it. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Porkus non gratis n. The scraggly piece of bacon at the bottom of the package. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and

Re: [Veritas-bu] MISSING PATH for tape devices in RHEL5 for NetBackup 7.1

2012-01-12 Thread Bluejay Adametz
expect. If they're there, you can use the mt utility (from mt-st) to see if you can actually access them: the status option should return some information from the drive. If all that works, themn the next suspect would be NetBackup.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.5.0.1 restores fail when restoring large numbers of files?

2012-05-08 Thread Bluejay Adametz
uch data? How many files? I'm testing 7.5.0.1 in my test lab right now. So far I haven't seen any issues for my environment, but I haven't tried any "large" (more than a few dozen files) restores yet. - Bluejay Adametz

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Device Config on Redhat server

2012-05-24 Thread Bluejay Adametz
nstall the lsscsi package to get this command, which is actually quite handy. - Bluejay Adametz Above all success is a journey, not a destination. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended rec

Re: [Veritas-bu] restores from client not working

2012-06-26 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ssages come back. For example: telnet clientnode 13782 Or try starting various NetBackup binaries manually on the client and see if any errors result. - Bluejay Adametz "The ocean is so bountiful - it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup , Vmware and Netapp

2012-09-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
2 for more on how this works. - Bluejay Adametz Sometimes it good to pause in our quest for happiness and be happy. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup appliance hangs

2012-11-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ngs wasn't often enough to really say there was a statistically-significant improvement. > Did 1.4.2 fix it? We did end up at 1.4.2, and have not had a problem since, and it's been long enough now that I consider the issue resolved. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII,

Re: [Veritas-bu] backup_exit_notify isn't being called.....Help

2012-11-28 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ting on a "root cause"... - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Definition: Sirlines n. The lines on a grilled steak. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged inf

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to identity Status of a backup using Netbackup CLI ?

2013-08-22 Thread Bluejay Adametz
script is running for (I know, I could probably collapse all those grep's into one - this is an olde piece of code). - Bluejay Adametz "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they

Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

2013-11-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
4 is able to slow down to match that rate, while that knocks the LTO5 out of streaming? What sort of network connection does this server have? If it's 1gb/sec, it should support faster than 14mb/sec; maybe increase your multiplexing?

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can I upgrade from 6.5 directly to 7.5 or 7.1?

2013-12-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
om NetBackup Enterprise 6.5.6 to 7.5, then 7.5.0.3, with no damage, and still running fine over a year later. I have some clients running 4.7, 5.1, and 6.5, and they still work. - Bluejay Adametz Some jump to conclusions while others d

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup logs

2014-03-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
there (really, that's the best way to verify a backup). Or you could run bpverify on it. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Unipea n. A peanut with only one compartment. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....

2014-03-24 Thread Bluejay Adametz
all associated patches, updates, and software, then restore the data from backups. b. Use NetBackup's "Bare Metal Restore" functionality (which used to be a separately-licensed product, but is now included). This requires a bunch more infrastructure, but does work.

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 - Windows Slow duplication Tape to Tape

2015-01-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ss and leave them multiplexed on the copies. - Bluejay Adametz "Imagine that you are funded by the Universe, because you are." - Burt Goldman -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is onl

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 - Windows Slow duplication Tape to Tape

2015-01-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
etup Duplication Variables" screen and set the destination of the copy, there's a checkbox near the bottom that says "Preserve multiplexing". - Bluejay Adametz Notice is hereby given that all notices to be given with regards