[Veritas-bu] Corrupt file system on Solaris 9. NetBackup 6.0 MP4

2007-07-25 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Hi Gang, I am hoping one of the NetBackup/SUN UNIX Guru's might be able to help here. We have a strange issue here at the moment. We have created a separate file system for NetBackup on /opt/openv. The /opt/openv filesystem filled with logs in the /opt/openv/logs directory. When doing a fsck o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

2007-07-24 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
We have 8 Clariion VTL's and have a retention period of a week for everything. We use In Line Tape copy for weekly and monthly backups for offside storage. We are looking to use SRDF to replicate these VTL's, but this may just take too long. Brian, what replication software are you using to sen

Re: [Veritas-bu] URGENT HELP - Advice

2007-07-19 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Hi Simon, This is unfortunately the trade off of using multiple streams, the backup are fast but recovery is ssllooww. Regards, Clem Kruger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 19 July 2007 11:11 AM

[Veritas-bu] Resource overheads.

2007-07-12 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Morning all, Does anyone have the overhead cost of the recourses we use everyday? e.g. 1. LTO tape drive requires a processor and 750KB memory to drive the tape drive 2. 2 X 2GB HBA's requires a processor and 500KB memory etc. I want to create a rule of thumb that we can give to

Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas 6 upgrade

2007-07-11 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
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[Veritas-bu] Veritas 6 upgrade

2007-07-10 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Hi Group, Has anyone created an upgrade document they may want to share? Regards, Clem Kruger ~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telko

[Veritas-bu] Status Code 136

2007-06-27 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Hi Group, I am hoping someone can help me. I have a Solaris cluster of which both nodes are media servers. When I try to add the one cluster as a media server, I get a code 136. Weird! Anyone got an idea? Kind Regards, Clem Kruger Senior Consultant Technology Cabangis

Re: [Veritas-bu] oracle hot backup

2007-06-05 Thread Clem Kruger (C)
Good day, This is what we use! PV_daily.sh #!/bin/sh OUTF=${0}.out # if [ -f "$OUTF" ] # then # rm -f "$OUTF" # fi { # output block echo "`date` Beginning of Script" echo "Script name: $0" # ---

Re: [Veritas-bu] clients in hosts files and forcing NICs to FULL

2007-04-13 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi All, Just to add my bit. A common issue today is that there constantly seems to be issues with 1GB networks. A NetBackup standard is that all cards do need to be set to full duplex; hence the switch port also needs to be set to the same. As Glen has suggested there is an issue sometimes on t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Virtual Tape library or backup to disk

2007-04-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day Dan, My personal recommendation would be to stay away from any VTL and rather use the DISK to DISK to tape feature which is part of version 6 of NetBackup and even stronger in 6.1. The Veritas (Symantec API) has been released and is currently being included in most of the hardware ven

[Veritas-bu] Hardware required tool

2007-03-20 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day all, Does anyone have a tool that can be used to determine the CPU and Memory requirements, given the number of tapes, I/O cards etc. Regards, Clem Kruger 'Plan, Plan, Plan - Train hard, expect the worst and you'll be surprised at how you grow and what one's te

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Consolidation

2007-03-07 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day all, I am hoping to get some help from everyone. We are embarking on a consolidation of all our master servers into a powerful SUN master server. Has anyone done this? What are the steps we will need to take? Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Cle

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 Java Console to manage 5.1?

2007-02-28 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day all, Those of us who are green with envy, will have to be satisfied with using Microsoft along with great products like Cygwin, Windows services for UNIX, VMWare (using Solaris or Linux). Cygwin offers a great X as well. http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html Regards, Cl

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to resolve error 41 & error 24 ??

2007-02-20 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day, Are both the switch and the server set to full duplex? Make sure that reverse lookup on the domain is working correctly. Regards, Clem Kruger 'Plan, Plan, Plan - Train hard, expect the worst and you'll be surprised at how you grow and what one's team can

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 R2

2007-01-21 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi Ken, I did not see this post. The issue is probably the DNS. The reverse lookup may not be working correctly. Regards, Clem Kruger "Listen to what is said, not he who speaks" Arabian Proverb Telkom SA Ltd ITS Infrastructure Storage Management : +27 (12) 680 31

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers

2007-01-05 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi There, There are a number of issues that may cause the Windows backup to slow down. 1. Make sure you do not have tracker.exe running 2. Ensure that all networks a set to full duplex. Some NIC's cannot be set to 1000 full duplex. Rather set these to 100 full in that case (Nic's

Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating media: Undocumented Gotcha's??

2007-01-05 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi Phil, I would install the new drives and then clone the old tapes using the cloning facility within vaulting. I have found this works well and keeps the catalog updated correctly. Regards, Clem Kruger Telkom SA Ltd ITS Infrastructure Storage Management : +27 (12) 680 3102 : +27 (12

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC

2006-10-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi All, I am very keen to hear what the take is on BCV's and the requirement of SOX. I prefer to use snapshots from the advanced client, as it is quicker, easier and faster to restore. Regards, Clem Kruger Telkom SA Ltd ITS Infrastructure Storage Management : +27 (12) 680 3102 : +27

Re: [Veritas-bu] Trying to implement synthetic backups

2006-10-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day Larry, Synthetic backups will not save you space as you will still be creating a full using the last full and the incrementals. You will however save time as you can have the synthetic backup run in the off peak backup time, thereby decreasing you backup window. This can save time if yo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Have to get rid of STK L180

2006-10-11 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Title: Have to get rid of STK L180 Hi Cheryl,   You and others on this list could donate all your old equipment to us here in South Africa. I would make sure that the equipment would find a good home in our underprivileged schools.   I myself assist and mentor underprivileged youngsters

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Schedules - 3 Schedules in 1Policyad vice

2006-10-06 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Hi David, What I do is to have one policy per server. Within that policy, I setup the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and ad-hoc backups. I use the calendar function to ensure that I do not have any clashes. I sometimes set an earlier start time for the weekly, monthly etc. where the backups my

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6

2006-09-21 Thread Clem Kruger \(C\)
Good day all, I would like to hear every ones thoughts on NetBackup 6? Regards, Clem. ~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegal