Re: [Veritas-bu] Share media server w 2 masters, 1 master restores only

2011-05-29 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
backup to partition the library and keep the old tapes in a ‘restore partition’ Brian J. Greenberg b...@acm.org http://briangreenberg.net http://about.me/brian.greenberg 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter On May 27, 2011, at 10:20 AM, BA65 wrote: > I w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Data Removal

2010-12-15 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
providing you with the reports for off-siting your media. Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter Follow GSD on Twitter On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:59 AM, McDonald, James F. II wrote: > Is th

Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

2010-10-07 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
rious architectures and I'd be happy to discuss them with you off-list if you like. Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter Follow GSD on Twitter On Oct 7, 2010, at 5:45 AM, WEA

Re: [Veritas-bu] mystery FRAG field...

2010-05-18 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
Additional info: I did the bpimagelist -L and looks like its something called a "Key tag", whatever that it. Can't find it in the manuals anywhere. On May 18, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Brian J. Greenberg wrote: > I recently got a bpimagelist output dump from a Windows backup

[Veritas-bu] mystery FRAG field...

2010-05-18 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
his before? Is this a NBU7 field? I don't see any documentation or reference to it. Brian J. Greenberg b...@acm.org Follow me on Twitter ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

2010-04-29 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
the lawyers and the courts showing that you preserved the data as well as a running financial impact report it's having on your company. Brian J. Greenberg b...@acm.org http://briangreenberg.net 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter On Apr 29, 2010, a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

2010-04-28 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
Mark, For a single instance, I agree. For organizations that are constantly changing retention of data and need to keep track of the original expiration dates and manage shared data, especially for legal holds, it's an excellent solution. Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics L

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

2010-04-27 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
You can also use Data Manager to accomplish this. It's designed for legal holds but does exactly what you want to do too. Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter Follow GSD on Tw

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can I find out when a policy first ran?

2010-04-01 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
You can also use bpimagelist to show you the oldest active backup in the catalogue. Although it doesn't give you the date for when the policy was first created, it will tell you how far back you can possibly go with that policy. bpimagelist -d 01/01/1970 -policy -U Brian J. Greenberg Ge

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tool for auditing offsite vault with barcode scanner

2010-01-24 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
David, I've done this many times for clients in the past. We have our own tools that work with hand scanners as well as robots where we extract the vault inventory from NBU and/or from the off-site vendor like Iron Mountain and provide a full audit report. Brian J. Greenberg General S

[Veritas-bu] Applications for participants in th e Data Manager™ beta program now open.

2009-10-14 Thread Brian J Greenberg
ting on the beta program. -- Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: Backup cost calculator

2009-09-29 Thread Brian J Greenberg
Rodigo, I'm not aware of any similar software available, free or commercial, hence, my motivation to develop it. Let me know how I can help. -- Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com On Sep 29, 2009, at 1:05 PM, > wrote: Hi Brian, Is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup cost calculator

2009-09-29 Thread Brian J Greenberg
like to learn more. I'd love to help. -- Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Stafford, Geoff wrote: All- I’m working on a little exercise to determine what it costs us to backup a TB of data (or whatever other siz

[Veritas-bu] bpimport - Phase I Issue

2009-04-20 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
d. I was faced with this problem before. -- Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How do you report on utilization?

2008-07-31 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
An update from Symantec. Apparently the current version of CCS allows you to collect from bpdbjobs and bpimagelist and choose which to use for your utilization reporting. -- Brian J. Greenberg http://briangreenberg.net ___ Veritas-bu maillist

[Veritas-bu] How do you report on utilization?

2008-07-30 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
be collecting from bpdbjobs and not bpimagelist. I still have a case open with Symantec. -- Brian J. Greenberg http://briangreenberg.net ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] mystery directory showing up - %SysTrustDir%

2008-04-22 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
As I suspected, it was the line in the VRTSatlocal.conf file. I made the change to the line, so it now reads; "SystemDefaultTrustDirectory"="/var/VRTSat/.VRTSat/profile/systruststore" . This seems to have fixed the problem. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Brian J. Greenbe

Re: [Veritas-bu] mystery directory showing up - %SysTrustDir%

2008-04-21 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
not giving it the correct path as you mentioned. My guess is that it really wants a path like /var/VRTSat/.VRTSat/profile/systruststore instead. That is the directory that is currently on our file system. -- Brian J. Greenberg ___ Veritas-b

[Veritas-bu] mystery directory showing up - %SysTrustDir%

2008-04-18 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
use it was in the staging directory and NBU couldn't delete it. Once I deleted it the catalogue backup ran fine. But something is creating it and I think it's NBU when it does a backup. I know, it doesn't make sense but I can't think of anything else. Any

Re: [Veritas-bu] Celerra NDMP tuning for NBU

2006-12-14 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
ere able to increase our performance quite a bit following their recommendations. We were getting 90MB/sec but we have a couple of Clarions Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones SBS Unix Admin -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Brian J

[Veritas-bu] Celerra NDMP tuning for NBU

2006-12-14 Thread Brian J. Greenberg
on the Celerra. Anybody have any recommendations for tuning the NDMP config on the Celerra [e.g. buffer size, etc.] to get closer to the 150+ MB/sec rates that I should be seeing? Perhaps config changes elsewhere? Brian J. Greenberg ___ Veritas-bu maillist