Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp VTL Direct Tape Creation and NetBackup

2009-10-27 Thread Clooney, David
Agreed, great thread We currently have a SUN VTL that has NDMP functionality. i.e. the physical drives are zoned into the vtl only. Add the drives are configured as NDMP drives. The idea was to utilise SLP's for the primary write to the vtl and duplicate off to physical with the VTL acting

Re: [Veritas-bu] erase option to bplabel does what?

2009-10-12 Thread Clooney, David
Darren Have written the code already in perl if you want a copy? Runs daily, figures out what vtl volumes have been returned to scratch in the last 24 hours and labels accordingly. Regards David Clooney Midrange Design and Build (MRDB) - Storage Internal x 66059 External +44 20 8760 6059

Re: [Veritas-bu] Make drives read only in NBU

2009-10-09 Thread Clooney, David
is not aware of this until it tries to write and fails so not a goer unfortunately. Regards David Clooney Midrange Design and Build (MRDB) - Storage -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:bob...@attglobal.net] Sent: 09 October 2009 05:21 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: Clooney, David

[Veritas-bu] Make drives read only in NBU

2009-10-07 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Does anyone know if you can make a subset of drives in a library read only in NBU . i.e. I want a specific 10 out of 50 drives in a robot to be read only for duplication purposes? Regards David Clooney Midrange Design and Build (MRDB) - Storage Notice to recipient: The information

Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO and NDMP Jobs

2009-09-24 Thread Clooney, David
Quite right Any media server/filer that wants to utilise drives needs to have FC visibility of them. We use this quite a bit i.e. the same drives zoned into media servers and filers, then utilise SSO. Regards David Clooney -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Media changer co ordinates via tpconfig

2009-07-23 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All When adding a ndmp media changer via tpconfig as apposed to the GUI wizard, does anyone know how to determine the Netapp bus,target, lun co-ordinates for the changer. The NDMP manual doesn't reveal much NBU 6.5, solaris 10 Working environment TLD(16)robotic path = mc1 (emalonfp02n1

Re: [Veritas-bu] ACSLS Vault

2009-07-21 Thread Clooney, David
Nathan 1.)You want the cap mode automatic as as I understand it once all your volumes are in the cap or the cap is full it places in cap in an eject state, otherwise the cap has to manually be placed in an eject state. 2.)Once the eject is initiated in the Vault, the job will wait

Re: [Veritas-bu] Remommended maximum # of drives per media server.

2009-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
[mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 20 July 2009 12:42 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remommended maximum # of drives per media server. Hi Dave, That depends on how much throughput you can drive through the motherboard/network/disk. LTO-3 = 90MiB/s

Re: [Veritas-bu] Recommended maximum # of drives per media server.

2009-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 20 July 2009 12:57 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Remommended maximum # of drives per media server. Hi, When I used to use NDMP I had one media server (i did not setup

[Veritas-bu] Not all NDMP drives being utilised

2009-05-20 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All We have a situation that I am struggling to resolve, even with the aid of symantec. All NBU 6.5.3.1 Solaris 10 cluster Master Solaris 10 media server HPUX 11.00 media server SUN VTL Plus 2 with NDMP 4 functionality L700 with 4 stk T10k drives with encryption -

[Veritas-bu] Determine available drives

2009-05-13 Thread Clooney, David
All Solaris 10 64 bit, NBU 6.5.3.1 In the old 5.1 days I was able to look a the bpsched log in order to quickly determine the num of available drives the scheduler thinks a storage unit has available. Anyone know how to determine this info quickly in 6.5.3.1? Regards David Clooney Enterprise

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP SSO tape drive backup failing

2009-04-16 Thread Clooney, David
Agree with ed, check the fundamentals, i.e. utilise set_ndmp_attr -verify or tpautoconf. We currently share 20 9940B drives amongst 2 solaris 10 media servers, 2 windows servers and 4 FAS NetApp's no problems. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media server choices

2009-04-06 Thread Clooney, David
NBU wise is should work np. However maintenance wise I would stick with unix/linux, unless your VB skills are up there ? David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 david.cloo...@bankofamerica.com -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3.1 Drive limit

2009-04-02 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Anyone aware of NBU 6.5.3.1 having a limit on the number of drives in an environment. When trying to add more than 200, we are getting Already configured the max number drives for this version Adding this drive would exceed the maximum allowed Surely 200 is pretty minimal,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to find image in Restore/Catalog

2009-03-31 Thread Clooney, David
You need to specify whether it's a backup or archive bplist -B/A -C EKMS -t 13 -s 03/22/2009 00:00 -e 03/23/2009 00:00 -R / David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 david.cloo...@bankofamerica.com -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

2009-03-27 Thread Clooney, David
We were looking to setup the same environment, we are starting to look at merging 3 NBU domains into 1. And will therefore be able to inventory a library at site B. as one domain NBU would know about these volumes. No need for importing etc merely lose sight A, inventory site B. Regards David

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

2009-03-27 Thread Clooney, David
You would first have to make siteA volumes non-rbotic and then inventory site B. NBU will assume a tape has been pulled from 1 library and reinserted into another. Its key to make siteA volumes non-robotic however before inventory'ing site B. The replication i.e. same volume will be down to your

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

2009-03-27 Thread Clooney, David
to be honest, any additional info would be appreciated, Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From: Bill Roth [mailto:william.c.r...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 March 2009 18:11 To: sm...@peppas.gr Cc: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL

Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites

2009-03-27 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks for the info Bill David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From: Bill Roth [mailto:william.c.r...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 March 2009 22:04 To: Clooney, David Cc: sm...@peppas.gr; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL Replication between 2 sites David

[Veritas-bu] STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Hit another snag in a new deployment, seem to be requiring knowledge from the group on a number of occasions over the last couple of months, its appreciated. Our DR environment has just acquired an STK SL3000 and we are having issues with the robotic config in NBU. If you run the wizard

[Veritas-bu] STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Hit another snag in a new deployment, seem to be requiring knowledge from the group on a number of occasions over the last couple of months, its appreciated. Our DR environment has just acquired an STK SL3000 and we are having issues with the robotic config in NBU. If you run the wizard

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Clooney, David
...@serverwarecorp.com] Sent: 11 March 2009 14:31 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3 David, I saw this in a posting a few months back...since we resell the STK line I hung onto it in case I ever needed itit may or may not resolve your issue...let us

Re: [Veritas-bu] STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Clooney, David
To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: STK SL3000 - NBU 6.5.3 OK, trying again...another previous post to this forum I saved about this library: The SL3000 is set to HLI by default. I'm told this is what you'd use with ACSLS. But for those of us who prefer FC... In SLConsole

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun NDMP NetBackup 6.5.3

2009-03-11 Thread Clooney, David
Hey Pat, long time We use this config across all our environments, R200 and the FAS series. No issues what so ever. Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Vault Query

2009-03-05 Thread Clooney, David
the vault will then meet its criteria? Thanks in advance David Clooney From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz] Sent: 04 March 2009 21:54 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Vault Query No, Vault can

[Veritas-bu] NBU 6.5.3 Vault Query

2009-03-04 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Am I correct in saying that vault can only vault backups and not duplications? I.e. I am busy implementing a VTL(with NDMP functionality) and utilising NBU Lifecycle management polices. As the VTL is equipped with NDMP Version 4 we are able to zone in physical drives on the

Re: [Veritas-bu] HELP !

2009-01-27 Thread Clooney, David
Correction - couldn't start emm All We have just upgraded a SUN clustered Solaris 10 NBU 6.0 MP4 to 6.5.3. 6.5 GA went on fine, along with 6.5.3 with no errors whatsoever, however we initially couldn't start the emm. With the help of symantec we can now start emm however queries to emm are

[Veritas-bu] HELP !

2009-01-27 Thread Clooney, David
All We have just upgraded a SUN clustered Solaris 10 NBU 6.0 MP4 to 6.5.3. 6.5 GA went on fine, along with 6.5.3 with no errors whatsoever, however we initially could start the emm. With the help of symantec we can now start emm however queries to emm are missing volumes etc. Anyone had these

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

2009-01-08 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All NBU 6.5.1 Master Solaris 10 NBU 6.5.1 windows 2003 Media We have process whereas we split an HDS shadow image pair and mount the secondary volume onto the root of c: on one of our NBU windows media servers, then take a backup. i.e. once the process has completed the volume is

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

2009-01-08 Thread Clooney, David
To: Clooney, David Cc: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Clooney, David wrote: Hi All NBU 6.5.1 Master Solaris 10 NBU 6.5.1 windows 2003 Media We have process whereas we split an HDS

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

2009-01-08 Thread Clooney, David
david.cloo...@bankofamerica.com -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 08 January 2009 14:48 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore Dave, I would give that a try, but first, do ONE

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

2009-01-08 Thread Clooney, David
Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: 08 January 2009 15:22 To: Clooney, David Cc: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com; jpis...@lucidpixels.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Clooney, David david.cloo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Vault question

2008-12-11 Thread Clooney, David
Bill Are you using VTL Plus version 1 or 2? As version 2 Release 3 now offers NDMP 4 which enables NBU to incorporate any physical devices visible to the VTL into a NBU storage unit. What this means is that your VTL would become the data mover over FC as apposed to your current setup where your

[Veritas-bu] 6.5 bpgp bpdir replacement

2008-12-10 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Does anyone know if there a replacement for bpgp and bpdir in 6.5? Regards Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee

[Veritas-bu] client - jbpSA

2008-12-08 Thread Clooney, David
Hi all Just a quick one for confirmation, I upgraded an environment weekend just gone from 5.1MP6 to 6.5.1. Our DBA's are informing me that they are having issues launching jbpSA from the oracle clients. Clients are still at 5.1 MP6 so I guess this is to be expected due to version

Re: [Veritas-bu] client - jbpSA

2008-12-08 Thread Clooney, David
2008 16:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] client - jbpSA We saw lots of issues with RMAN backups until we upgrade the clients to match the master when we went to 6.x

Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving to new master

2008-12-02 Thread Clooney, David
My advice would be to migrate to a unix master. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 26 November

Re: [Veritas-bu] replicate catalog to another server

2008-12-02 Thread Clooney, David
I have certainly used that exact method in 5.1 and included the class,policies etc etc using rsync and it works a treat. 6.5 am yet to investigate the possibilities, if any. Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Mutiple NICS on a Master/Media

2008-11-20 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All I am trying to give some advice to one of international customers that are trying to implement a netbackup solution on a restrained budget. Kit list 1 X Master/media 1 X STK SL148 (SCSI attached) 2 X LTO They will be trying to backup a couple of TB's of data throughout the

Re: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry

2008-11-05 Thread Clooney, David
PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2008 18:08 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry If you go all the way to NB 6.5.2 or higher (and I'd definitely recommend not stopping there), you've got an additional optional available for bpmedia

[Veritas-bu] create mediaDB entry

2008-11-04 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All In our step towards upgrading to 6.5.1 from 5.1 MP6 it has become apparent that some media servers where not decommissioned correctly in the passed causing inconsistencies between the media and image catalogs. We have 2 media servers that I do no have a copy of the mediaDB file.

[Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main: Function connect_to_remote_server

2008-10-03 Thread Clooney, David
Hi I have just had new solaris 10 servers handed over to me from our SA's in order to start the process of upgrading to NBU 6.5.1. My first step is to get NBU 5.1 MP6 onto these new masters then migrate current 5.1 env to new servers and the finally upgrade. I have copied all the 5.1

Re: [Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main: Function connect_to_remote_server

2008-10-03 Thread Clooney, David
Much appreciated rob That was right on the money Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services From: rob worman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2008 17:20 To: Clooney, David Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 16bpauthorize main

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 Catalogs

2008-09-30 Thread Clooney, David
To add In most situations there will only be 1 volDB located on the master server, then each media server will have its own copy of a mediaDB. David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2008-07-29 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Yes we use NDMP, interesting thoughts about having one of the drives visible to a media server, will check it out. Dave David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services Internal X66059 External +44 20 8760 6059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Label

2008-07-28 Thread Clooney, David
Hi ALL Solaris 8 Master 5.1 MP6 NetApp Filer - FC STK L700 + drives Does anyone know if its possible to bplabel volumes that reside in a library that a filer has sole use of? The library and drives are connected via FC to the filer. Thanks Dave Notice to recipient: The information

Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2008-07-28 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks That's the issue, standard media servers I have no problem labelling the volumes however the filer I seem to be having an issue. Reason for labelling is to accurately report on VTL cache size. Regards David Clooney Enterprise Storage Services -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] ACSLS labelling

2008-05-19 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All I have just implemented a SUN VTL, the issue i now encounter is that i need to recycle old available media into the backend of the VTL. I have new labels that i can label the cartridges up with externally, my concern is the tape header information, is there a way through acsls 7.2 to

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP5 - solaris 10

2008-04-14 Thread Clooney, David
Hi all I have just been delivered a new Solaris 10 media server. As this is the first Solaris 10 media server in our environment, can anyone point out any pitfalls that differ from solaris 8 regarding the installation. Regards Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP5 - solaris 10

2008-04-14 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Justin V440 server (4 CPU, 8GB, 2 x Gb network) Regards Dave -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2008 12:20 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 MP5 - solaris 10 On Mon, 14 Apr

[Veritas-bu] Instant message

2008-04-09 Thread Clooney, David
As an immediate now world we live in. What are the possibilities of having an instant message capability. Personally, I know I would be able to contribute a hell of a more if this was possible. As apposed to sending a mail when I need help. What's everyone's thoughts, preferably over http due

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architecture advice

2008-04-02 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Ed From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2008 16:16 To: Clooney, David Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Architecture advice On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[Veritas-bu] Architecture advice

2008-04-01 Thread Clooney, David
Hi ALL I was wondering whether i could pick some of your brains. Master/Media Solaris 8 - 5.1 MP6 I have recently implemented a SUN/FalconSTor VTL into an Netbackup environment I look after, previously in the physical world there where 18 X 9940B drives shared by the Solaris master/media, a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architecture advice

2008-04-01 Thread Clooney, David
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2008 13:29 To: Clooney, David Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Architecture advice On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Clooney, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth my while

Re: [Veritas-bu] VolDB odd behavior

2008-02-01 Thread Clooney, David
Bob Where are you issuing the command from? Personally I would run from the master and use the -h switch, reason for this each media server keeps a separate copy of its on media DB. So you would need to specify which host to expire the media. Pre NBU 6 of course. The other option is that it

Re: [Veritas-bu] drive usage report

2008-02-01 Thread Clooney, David
Jared could you possibly send the link again, doesn't seem to work for me. would be quite interested in this. Thanks Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2008 20:14 To: Deiter, Scott Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

2008-01-31 Thread Clooney, David
remember its a soft SCSI release and not a hardware release. From: Clooney, David Sent: 31 January 2008 10:13 To: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

Re: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1

2008-01-31 Thread Clooney, David
vmoprcmd -crawlreleasebyname drive_name From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 30 January 2008 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for

Re: [Veritas-bu] Urgent Help

2008-01-30 Thread Clooney, David
To: 'Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT)'; Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Urgent Help NetBackup 5.X will ONLY use 6 Characters in the bar code. You can pick the 6 to use by the method below, but it will only use 6. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive

Re: [Veritas-bu] Urgent Help

2008-01-29 Thread Clooney, David
In the middle of implementing a VAL, have just inventoried and the first 2 characters of the virtual media barcode have been removed. From: Clooney, David Sent: 29 January 2008 17:00 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Urgent Help Hi All

[Veritas-bu] Java restriction

2008-01-10 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Solaris 8 5.1 MP6 Does anyone know if I can restrict specific hosts when connecting with the Java GUI. I.e I want a handful of machines to be able to connect to the master via the java gui and not any machine that has app installed? Thanks Dave Notice to recipient: The

Re: [Veritas-bu] Calculate perfomance

2007-11-29 Thread Clooney, David
Another option would be to analyse the bptm logs on the media server doing the writing to ascertain whether you are supply enough or too little data. Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2007

Re: [Veritas-bu] Host Name Change on Master Server

2007-11-28 Thread Clooney, David
Daniel What version of netbackup? I have pefromed this operation sucessfully on 5.1 MP6 Regards Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel Sent: 27 November 2007 19:28 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

[Veritas-bu] VXSS upgrade before NBU 6.0/6.5

2007-11-28 Thread Clooney, David
Hi ALl solaris 5.1 MP6 platform, has anyone gone through the required process of upgrading VXSS prior to embarking on the NBU 6.0/6.5 upgrade. If so any info would be appreciated Regards Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Host Name Change on Master Server

2007-11-28 Thread Clooney, David
Personally I think the 5.1 master hostname change is a walk in the park. After I had planned and tested the change, we did however have Symantec PS on site looking over my shoulder in order for it to be supported. Money spinner if you ask me as all the work was performed by myself. Easy day out

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.1 MP6 to 6.5

2007-11-22 Thread Clooney, David
Top man Rusty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 November 2007 17:17 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.1 MP6 to 6.5 I also was a little confused by this, but as long

[Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.1 MP6 to 6.5

2007-11-21 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All I am imminently upgrading a Solaris 8 master server from 5.1 MP6 to 6.5 in preparation for the rest of our environments I have been reading through all the documentation and there are a lot of references to clustered environments, now I am taking that the documentation id referring

Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error bptm (pid=14834) unable to write bpbrm message

2007-11-13 Thread Clooney, David
Justin Maybe tail your bpbrm log for more info whilst its happening. dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 13 November 2007 15:40 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore problems: Error

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up NetBackup on Solaris

2007-11-07 Thread Clooney, David
Make sure you know what you're doing, You'll most probably find /usr/openv is in fact /opt/openv/. Other than that though I have performed numerous upgrades 5.1 X and my back out plan has always been an archive of /opt/openv Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Veritas-bu] Master Server Merger

2007-11-06 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Was wondering whether I could pick some brains. I am starting to plan the upgrade of NBU from 5.1 MP6 to NBU 6.5. We have three NBU domains with a Master server(Solaris 8 64 bit) in each. Additionally we are planning for the installation of SUN/Falconstor VTL's per domain

[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.x to 6 upgrade guide.pdf

2007-10-09 Thread Clooney, David
Hi all Someone sent me the NBU 5.x to 6 upgrade guide.pdf document a while back however I have deleted it by mistake due to mailbox limits. And yes, I should be shot for not backing up a copy :-) If that someone could forward it again it would be much appreciated Thanks

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.x to 6 upgrade guide.pdf

2007-10-09 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks for the rapid response all Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:03 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.x to 6 upgrade guide.pdf Hi all

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify

2007-09-28 Thread Clooney, David
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2007 14:41 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify We set up a special account that is allowed to send e-mail from the server being

[Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify

2007-09-28 Thread Clooney, David
All Solaris 8 Does anyone know how to change the senders address when backup notify is executed on the master server? i.e. at the moment we get [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need to change it to adhere to policy Thanks Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify

2007-09-28 Thread Clooney, David
the library /opt/openv/lib/libVbp.so the mail program is being used so will endeavour to check the servers mail.cr to possibly masquerade. Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2007 16:26 To: Clooney, David Cc: veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to see skipped files

2007-09-13 Thread Clooney, David
Windows or Unix env ? Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: 13 September 2007 13:56 To: Lawler, Michael C.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to see skipped files I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to see skipped files

2007-09-13 Thread Clooney, David
Of Clooney, David Sent: 13 September 2007 14:03 To: Martin, Jonathan; Lawler, Michael C.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to see skipped files Windows or Unix env ? Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] VMD Core Dump

2007-09-10 Thread Clooney, David
Morning all 5.1 MP5 This morning we had vmd core dump, which in turn filled up the root file system. It was easy enough to get everything back to working order however we would one begin to investigate why this happened. I have checked all the obvious suspects . i.e bperror problems,

[Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation

2007-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Is there any chance someone could clarify MPX for me. If you have MPX set to 4 for example and there are 4 streams hitting the drive. All 4 streams are writing in parallel as the tape spins. And if 3 streams are writing at 15mb/sec and 1 stream is writing at 10mb/sec, would the

Re: [Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation

2007-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
2007 12:43 To: 'Justin Piszcz'; Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation All streams have a buffer associated with them (SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS). The streams fill the buffers. When a buffer is full, it goes to tape. Watch

Re: [Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation

2007-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Kev Ready for what exactly ? Dave -Original Message- From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2007 12:57 To: Justin Piszcz; Clooney, David Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation I would agree, that is what I

Re: [Veritas-bu] MPX Explanation

2007-09-06 Thread Clooney, David
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S4 10mb - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Regards Dave -Original Message- From: Bobby Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2007 13:25 To: 'Kevin Whittaker'; Clooney, David; 'Justin

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 VTL direct to tape

2007-08-31 Thread Clooney, David
Nice post Curtis We are currently purchasing 2 sun VTL3540's and 1 Sun VTL2540. After reading below could you clarify for me, is there no way that the vtl's can duplicate between each other(disk) and still somehow create NBU catalog entries. i.e duplicating outside of NBU but still createing NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Device Manager Wont Start

2007-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Simon You need to remove the following file {install_path}/VERITAS/VolMgr/misc/.ltisymlinks And try again. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 30 August 2007 07:03 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone successfully implemented VXSS?

2007-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Tejas What if our unix NIS domain and windows domain are separate entities? Is it possible to authorize a user on a media server when the account does not exist i.e unix windows accounts are different ? Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Device Manager Wont Start

2007-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
z :-) You removed the file yet ? Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 30 August 2007 15:50 To: 'Jeff Lightner'; Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Device Manager Wont Start

2007-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
Ouch, Whats up, drives/library visible through the hBA's ? Dave -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 August 2007 16:17 To: Clooney, David; Jeff Lightner; Preston, Douglas L; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: update MP4 patch to multiple client at a time

2007-08-30 Thread Clooney, David
First run a bpplclients -allunique -noheader $file Then usage: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients [-ForceInstall -Install_Client_Bins -Install_ADC] \ [-ClientList filename | hardware_type operating_system] Dave From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] bppllist as a non superuser

2007-08-29 Thread Clooney, David
Kyle Possible idea would be to create the command and populate it into some sort of temp file using your non-root user, then have a job in roots cron that incorporates a sleep and an if statement in a loop looking for these files, it runs once found and puts the output somewhere where you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.x to 6.5

2007-08-29 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Simon This is exactly the route we are taking before the year is out. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 29 August 2007 09:25 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.x

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone successfully implemented VXSS?

2007-08-29 Thread Clooney, David
From the GUI's yes, how bout the command line ? D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LTejas Sent: 29 August 2007 13:19 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: Anyone successfully implemented VXSS? Kyle, if you need

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone successfully implemented VXSS?

2007-08-29 Thread Clooney, David
Jared, That's just the tip of the iceberg, that is a specific VXSS command and should work straight off the bat, wait till you start trying to use the standard NBU commands to pull of info from media servers etc out there that are possibly running on different platforms. i.e windows and unix

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone successfully implemented VXSS?

2007-08-28 Thread Clooney, David
The current environment I work in uses VXSS after working in many that haven't. From my point of view it is a pain in the arse. Whenever I encounter issues VXSS is disabled first, just recently I was developing a cross site catalog backup strategy utilising NBU catalog command line utility

Re: [Veritas-bu] bparchive

2007-08-22 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Jonathan From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2007 14:50 To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bparchive BPARCHIVE will not remove the data unless the backup completes

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance

2007-08-21 Thread Clooney, David
I was under the impression that if the drives are directly attached there is not a lot that can be done from an NBU point of view. If you are running a 3 way scenario then the touch file could possibly make a difference, I seem to remember from the past that if you are in a 3 way setup you can

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance

2007-08-21 Thread Clooney, David
- From: Clooney, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:31 AM To: Len Boyle; Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance I was under the impression that if the drives are directly attached there is not a lot that can

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Performance

2007-08-21 Thread Clooney, David
how would SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_NDMP be implemented, somewhere on the filer itself ? Dave -Original Message- From: Dwayne Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2007 15:06 To: Clooney, David; Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 Information Store Backup Slow

2007-07-31 Thread Clooney, David
We too use 262144 buffer size with 9940B's, and achieve in excess of 50mb/sec on exchange backups, albeit on HDS. The blocksize limitation is a windows 2003 SP1 issue that is overcome by installing hotfix 873422, we too use the STK driver and needed this hotfix to overcome the limitation.

[Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Hi All Does anyone have some perl code, that they wouldn't mind sharing, that chops up bpdbjobs -report -all_columns, with filelist count , number of tries etc,? Regards Dave Notice to recipient: The information in this internet e-mail and any attachments is confidential and

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns

2007-07-20 Thread Clooney, David
Thanks Mike That will certainly prove useful Dave -Original Message- From: Mike Andres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2007 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Justin Piszcz Cc: Clooney, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpdbjobs -all_columns Here's

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