There used to be a LOT of activity on this forum. What did I miss?
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Netbackup 7.5.0.5
Files are not growing during backup.
If you take this number: 2775784693 and divide it by 1024, you will get the
exact number Netbackup posted in bplist output. The problem is coverting that
number BACK to the original byte count.
This is part of an audit process.file name
I have an odd problembut aren't most of my problems "odd"? :)
blist gives large file sizes in KBytes.I need to "correctly" convert those
file sizes listed in KBytes to the real Unix/Linux file Byte size.
Example:
File A - 2775784693 Bytes on the server
File A - 2710707K as reported by Ne
Well I can't do BMR setup every time I hope to recover a Windows box. We have
HUNDREDS of backup clients spanning Unix, Linux, and Windows. Maybe hundreds is
a bit of an understatement because I do know of at least 2,000 backup clients
in our world here.
To setup an infrastructure to BMR any of
OKFirst let me say that I'm sorrybut I'm not a Windows dude. I live,
eat, and sleep in the Unix/Linux world. I have a couple of Windows backup
clients that my customer wants backed up to include system state (or whatever
they call it now days).
Master server is Solaris 10 box running NBU
Is there a way to force bplist to list all Unix/Linux files in their true byte
count size instead of listing the larger files in Kbytes?
-rwxr-x--- owner group 3923487K Mar 16 19:00 file_a
-rwxr-x--- owner group 100312292 Mar 16 19:00 file_b
-rwxr-x--- owner group 4001095 Mar
Sorrythe log info I got from netbackup/volmgr/debug/daemon log.
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NBU 7.5.0.4 master
NBU 7.5.0.4 media
Master is Solaris 10
Media is Linux Rel 5.5 64-bit
ACSLS 7.2 on Solaris 10
Tape library is a STK SL8500, 12,000 slots, 64 drives. Many drives are T10KB
drives. 4 robots in this library. Library is shared between 3 masters.
We are experiencing MANY drive down
Import the tapes?
No.
Didn't do it before either.
Is there a requirement to import the RMAN tapes?
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So...please allow me to ask another question.
6 channels allocated for the recovery (rman).
If it's only using 3 streams actively now...and it gets past one stream waiting
on another, will it every get to using 6 streams? How does RMAN deal with that?
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Shoot.I forgot to add another fine detail.
Multiplexing is set to "1"...We've had RMAN recoveries to fail on
multiplexed RMAN backups/recoveries, so we've changed all our policies on every
master server (over 105 of them) to not use multiplexed rman backups.
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Well...my initial analysis for the DBA was that RMAN was allocating 6 channels
but 3 active streams were spinning tapes and the 3 waiting streams were waiting
on tapes that were currently being restored from. This didn't make the DBA
happy and wanted all 6 streams to be streaming data.
Sometime
OHand it's a LTO-5 tape library
10 tape drives
All drives UP
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RMAN backup was 35TB across 40 tapes.
Backup is claimed to have used 6 streams.
All masters & clients/media servers and oracle instances share the same RMAN
catalog.
This is a disaster recovery of a 35 TB database from one master backup
solution/client to another.
Tapes shipped from my location t
The Oracle DBA allocated 6 channels for the backup and also 6 channels for the
recovery.
I see 6 streams in the GUI...but 3 are always waiting on tapes that he active 3
streams are using.
Make sense???
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OK...please help me out here if you can.
Client RMAN backup ran on client server corvette via master server stingray.
Tapes were removed and shipped to another location for RMAN recovery.
Backup was done via allocating 6 channels.
Recovery is only using 3 channels. Why?
All boxes are Netbackup 7.1
Good Morning,
I opened a support case with Symantec on this as this should NOT be this hard.
[Wink]
They have determined that it is an HBA issue via the VSCSI0 controller. We are
moving forward with diagnosis and resolution. More to come and I find out more.
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Out of the job detail log:
11/12/2013 10:07:26 - current media KC0063 complete, requesting next media Any
11/12/2013 10:28:34 - Waiting for scan drive stop IBM.ULT3580-TD5.002, Media
server: node-B
11/12/2013 10:28:38 - granted resource KC0063
11/12/2013 10:28:38 - granted resource IBM.ULT3580-
ltid starts just fine manually.
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AIX 7.1 boxes.
Node A - Master/Media server with fiber attached LTO-5 library.
Node B - Media server/client with tape drives in the Node-A library zoned so
Node B can see the drives.
Setup a regular flat file type backup for Node B and tell the policy to use
Node B as the media server. Kick off
Just to provide an update here:
I'm requesting a server reboot to see if that will help with the semaphore
issue when trying to start ltid.
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YesOracle and RMAN both run on this box.
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client/media server settings:
kernel.sem = 1510 214420 1510142
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Linux boxRedHat.
I'm getting further now.
Manually try to start ltid.error in getting semaphore
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LOL @ Rusty...
Yes, we do have a support contract, but we are "encouraged" to not use it
unless it's very critical. Why? I have no clue. Just going by the big-boss
directions.
SoI'm here asking. :D
gdbhost is the same result from client/media and master/media servers.
vm.conf on the
Jeff,
No...not trying to give robot arm control to the new media server. The master
is keeping that control. :)
Thanks for asking though.
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Just so we are clear here..
Node_A - Master/Media server
Node_B - Client
Conversion happens.
Node_A - Master/Media server
Node_B - Client/Media server
Node_B is zoned so it can see the robot arm and tape drives that are attached
to Node_A.
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Jeff,
I went through TN 180055 and everything came back clean.
I ran all steps on both master and client/media.it all came back with the
same respone.
Server node_A
Master node_A
media node_B
All those entries you are talking about areon different lines. Probably a
difference in copy/pas
SSO license key applied.
NBU software restarted.
I can't scan in the devices because of the "globalDB host name not set (status
4)" message.
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OKI've done many things suggested here.
nbemmcmd -listhosts:
server machine_A
master machine_A
media machine_B (which is good, right?)
Then...bptestbpcd
came back with NB_MACHINE_TYPE = MEDIA _SERVER
Now the master see's the media server "machine_B"
But it is only active for diskn
AlsoI still get:
globalDB host name has not been set (status 4)
For whatever that means. :)
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I've been asked for the client side bp.conf file:
SERVER = MasterServerName
SERVER = ClientServerName_FQDN
CLIENT_NAME = ClientServerName_FQDN
CONNECT_OPTIONS = localhost 1 0 2
USE_VXSS = PROHIBITED
VXSS_SERVICE_TYPE = INTEGRITYANDCONFIDENTIALITY
EMMSERVER = MasterServerName
HOST_CACHE_TTL = 3600
Netbackup 7.5.0.5
Both boxes are RedHat Linux Release 6
Box "A" is the master and has always been the master/media server.
Box "B" has always been a standard client backing up across the network.
Licensing purchased and Box "B" was cleanly installed as a media server.
The master server can't see
Maybe Netbackup has the robot arm and mtx can't talk to it.??
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AIX 6.1 box
NBU 7.5.0.4
RMAN backup runs for about 5 hours or a little more and a stream fails with a
RC=50
Anybody experience this?
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NBU 7.1x running on Solaris 9 box.
01/15/2013 16:29:29 - Info bptm (pid=24504) Waiting for mount of media id
EF0997 (copy 1) on server gandalf.
01/15/2013 16:29:29 - mounting EF0997
and it sits there foreveruntil the job fails. This has been a working
environment and there are 2 clients tha
Running NBU 7.x on several Windows master servers.
We are primarily a Unix/Linux shop so Windows is a new world to me.
I want to get the jobid out of Netbackup when a backup job fails so that I can
automatically cut a ticket to fix the failed backup. I want this to be part of
the backup_exit_not
Okissue resolved.
for some stupid reason, the O/S could not execute the scripteven though
permissions were set to 777, tested, 775, tested, 755, tested, 750,
tested.blah.tested.
I copied back the original script and added my TWO lines of code to echo the
NBU arguments out to fi
I have a line of code in the script that outputs the arguments passed from
Netbackup to the backup_exit_notify script and I append that info to a file in
/usr/local/backup/logs.
The backup_exit_notify script is in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin (normal location)
and have permissions of 750 and owned
OKRedHat 5.0 box running NBU 7.1.0.2
This is a master / media server and I run processes off of the
backup_exit_notify script.
My problem now is that the backup_exit_notify script doesn't appear to be
called by the scheduler any more. How can I check this and most of allhow
can I fix thi
Hello Rusty.!!
Nopenot saying it's a bad thing. Just stating that there are "tools" to get
the info we need and each tool uses those same tools to get the same info and
then present it to us in different user front-ends.
Various people like different tools. That's why there is more than one
I also have an Aptare server/reporting tool as well. It does a fine job but
it's just not as user friendly as Profiler.
StillI restate the obviousthey all get their info the exact same
way...by running bperror and other commands to get the info and populate the
database for reporting.
I have experience with various reporting tools. These include "WysDM", Backup
Profiler by Solarwinds, and OpsCenter with Analytics.
The info you want out of OpsCenter will require you to write your own SQL code
to generate the report and format you want. Profiler does a great job and has a
lot
Solaris master / media servers.
Nebackup 7.1 on master/media
Windows client
Multiple streams run and only 1 fails with an RC=10.
Is this a client side or master/media side issue?
(all local drives is selected in the policy)
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Patrick,
I'm not a windows guy, so I'm trying to see what I can do without having to
find someone that can write a "windows script" to do this.
What I'd prefer to be done is for me to setup a backup policy in NBU that is an
Archive type policy. Point that policy to D:\Archive_Data\LZ and schedul
Wayne,
I don't purchase the software, I just support it.
We have over 117 master backup servers.
60+ are Netbackup
40+ are Legator Networker
and
< 6 are Backup Express
< 10 are Backup Exec
For simplicity of install and support - Backup Express
For bulletproof once you have it all setup and working
Patrick,
Here's the picture. Customer pushes files to a designated Landing Zone (LZ) and
we have an Archive Backup Policy in place that runs each night to backup
anything that happens to be in the LZ location...i.e. D:\Archive_Data\LZ\*
If nothing there? Then ok.
If there are files there, the bac
Netbackup is your backup solution.
Every backup product is different in strengths and weaknesses. I don't know
what your budget is, but Netbackup is an excellent choice for backup software.
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Contact me via email dpe...@acxiom.com
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How would this be accomplished on a Winodws client? Most all our boxes are
Unix/Linux boxes, but we are getting some customers that have Windows boxes
that we backup. They want an Archive backup policy to backup an LZ and then
they want a list of what was backed up.
Any tips, pointers, and such
Ken,
Thanks for the info, but this is for SURE a multi-channel backup. I have a
backup SLA for the DB backup and I just don't think I can squeeze 17 TB onto a
single drive via a single channel in the backup window we have. :)
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Does anyone here know if you can setup the bpstart / bpend notify scripts and
have them work properly for an Oracle RMAN DB backup?
AIX 6.1
NBU 7.1
Single LTO-5 tape library with 6 drives
HBA's are 8 Gb dual port
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Oh yea, this is Netbackup 6.5.6just in case you needed to know that.
[Rolling Eyes] :D
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Looking to migrate an extisting Netbackup master/media from an HP-UX SuperDome
server to an AIX IBM770 server. Software encryption has been used and existing
LTO-3 tape library will be migrated over to the new AIX server.
What are the issues you see with this?
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Just wondering if anyone here has any tips as to how to get the information out
of the SLConsole software without having to actually login to the GUI. I'd like
to be able to do command line scripting to get the info I need out of it.
Anybody have any tips, pointers, hacks, or even a web link??
SheKhar,
That's some pretty "deep" stuff right there.
I did a little Google research and found this:
http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html
This should provide you more reading than anyone can take in a single day.
Hope this helps a little.
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tify,
> also backups that netbackup has rerun automatically. But it is not a very
> stable solution so now we are looking at opscenter alerting.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
> 2010/10/21 Dennis Peacock backupcentral.com
> (netbackup-forum < at > backupcentral.com)&
over LAN until you change it back to "Use defaults" or
> "Preferred"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tanuja Korlepra
> NetBackup Engineering, IMG
> Symantec Corporation
> www.symantec.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
>
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 or
Anybody here have a script that will run at the end of EVERY backup job and if
it's a failure code it will send an email or something to Remedy to cut a
ticket for fixing the troubled backup?
NBU 6.5.6
Remedy AR System
Thoughts, ideas, pointers, suggestions?
Thanks,
Dennis
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Tanuja,
We just tried all of the above steps on a totally different 6.5.6 Master server
/ Client. We are getting RC = 25 no matter what we do.
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Tanuja,
Here is what was done to enable us to perform the restores (BTW, we are running
6.5.6):
This is what I had to do to restore files from netbackup to a client that is
San client enabled. (Which Symantec needs to fix)
1. Log onto the San client and stop the nbclient process.
2. Modify t
Been working on a few boxes that are backed up via NetBackup. They are SAN
Client (clients) and we are finding that we are unable to restore anything for
these boxes.
Master/Media servers are all Solaris 10 boxes.
We cover the entire spectrum of client hardware & O/S's (almost 2,000 backup
clie
This is Windows 2003 R2 and there are 3 Storage Groups.
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In general, what's the trick to backup and then recover an Exchange Message
Store?
Can it be multi-streamed or must it be single stream?
I understand about the MS-Exchange policy type and that is set.
I also understand that there are preferred ways to do an exchange backup, but
I'm too new at
OK...Problem solved.
The actual problems was in fact the Windows WMI Repository. It had to be blown
away and rebuilt. Then the NBU client s/w could be installed and backups
resumed as normal.
Thanks to all who responded here and I just wanted to jump back on here and
post what the fix was.
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I'm trying to install NBU 6.5 Client on a Windows server. 5.1 used to be on the
box but it stopped working long ago. During the install of the 6.5 client, I
see "Installing Veritas NetBackup Client". It runs for a bit more and then I
get "The Veritas NetBackup Client install was interrupted bef
Does anybody here have a clue as to what an RC 174 really is? I know what the
troubleshooter says, just checking to see if anyone here has experienced failed
backups with an RC 174 before.
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OK...thanks Marion.
We are now chasing that down and seeing if we can get that taken care of.
Thanks very much.
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OKjust one more thing.
Anybody have any backup or performance issues with Sun J4400 disk arrays?
Just askin'. [Wink]
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Since we've upgraded 3 of our master servers and media servers, we've noticed a
serious performance hit on all 3 masters.
All master servers are Solaris boxes running version 10 of the O/S.
All media servers are Solaris 10 boxes.
Backing up to 2 VTL systems with 400TB each.
Backing up to DSSU sp
I have a need to restore a file backed up on a Unix box to the D:\Restore on a
Windows box. Both boxes are under the same master server.
I pick the originating client (unix) and then choose the destination client
(Windows), choose the file I want to restore from the backup type of "Archive"
a
Why not keep your old library for historical restores and put in your new LTO-4
library for current and future backups/restores? Would be easier and less
trouble over time. [Wink]
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Mark,
We use the Catalog backup policy that is standard with Netbackup.
We push backups to VTL, DSSU, FSU, and tape. We have requirements for offsite
as well as onsite storage.
My issue is that we could not get the media pools back upone recovery at
Sungard.
BTW, we haven't figure out an inex
Judy,
Do you show anything under /usr/openv/netbackup/volmgr/database?
I don't show a single file or directory under that directory.
The only thing that spurred this was when we were at DR last week and the media
pools were not there after the catalog import.
I wish there was a way to post a s
We are running Solaris 10 boxes, Netbackup 6.5.3.1
1 master server
4 media servers
SL8500 tape library with T10Kb drives
Just got back from a Disaster Recovery Exercise at Sungard in Philly.
What we discovered is:
Full Catalog backup does NOT backup /usr/openv/db but DOES backup
/usr/openv/ne
Windows. What's that? :P :P [Wink]
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Sungard only has one tape library available for our up and coming DR Exercise,
an IBM 3584 with 8 LTO-4 drives. SG doesn't have any more tape libraries and we
have 2 master servers to setup and do multiple restores from for two different
businesses/customers.
What's going to be my best method
I want to give a specific user account the ability to view the following:
Activity Monitor
Media to include pools
Would also like to give the ability to Inventory the library while keeping
restricted user access and ability.
Please advise.
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Judy,
This would be on a bare metal box at SunGard. Taking out stuff there and DR'ing
a customers environment. So, this would be a clean install of Netbackup on a
freshly built Solaris 10 box. We're just trying to figure out how we can keep
from backing up and restoring ~250GB worth of Netback
We have a setup that uses DSSU/FSU and we have allocated just over 18 Terabytes
per media server. We do the "round robin" across 5 media servers to help
balance out the load. As Ed has already stated, you can saturate your disk
performance and then all you have done is create yourself a bottlen
I haven't found a way to do thisdoes anyone here know of a way to do this?
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If you need to speed up a backup across the network?
NOTE: This is between the MEDIA SERVER and the BACKUP CLIENT:
2 files should be manually created in /usr/openv/netbackup (Unix).
/usr/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ
/usr/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ_REST
Here is what each of those files shou
On your master/media server, you may want to check and see if you have the
following tuning parameters in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE
These are text files inside the db/config directory on Unix. These can be
"tuned" to give yo
I need to dump an entire Netbackup catalog out to a flat ASCI file. I need to
get the tape volser, filename, file size, file directory path, and when it was
backed up. Anybody know of a way I can do this? It's a NBU 6.0 MP4 catalog on
AIX (unix).
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Well Ed..Perfect timing my friend. :D
I figured that it could be done as we've already been through this with
Symantec before and their Contract support engineer. It wasn't cheap, but it
was supported by Symantec after all was said and doneAND...it worked well
too. [Wink]
I guess
Greetings and thought I'd ask the talent here 1st:
Server A is going away.
Customer want to keep the Netbackup "backups" for data recovery.
Customer wants to move the Netbackup environment over to server B.
Server A - HP-UX Superdome, IA64 O/S
Server B - IBM Server, AIX 5.3 O/S
Server A's name
Thanks, but I need to be able to support multiple versions...like 6.0, 6.5,
6.5.2, and 6.5.3 as well as
Legato 7.x and Backup Express 2.3x and 3.x
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Anybody know where I can get it.??? The 6.5.2 Windows Java GUI will not connect
to a 6.5.3 box. Any clues? TIA..
BTWHAPPY NEW YEAR!
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OK...here's what I'm looking to do. I have 149 master backup servers. 47 of
them are Netbackup. Each master is a different customer. I'm looking to
automate a "Backup Audit Report" for Netbackup. It was easy enough to do for
Backup Express and Legato.
I need a post script that will insert the
We have 152 Master backup servers here. We backup just over 2.7PB per month. We
have the following backup products:
Netbackup - 71
Networker - 52
BackEx - 28
Tivoli TSM - 1
Legato 7.4.2 is stable and the new GUI front-end is nice.
I've been doing data protection and disaster recovery for seve
OK...I read through the documentation. Found out about these ports. We are
trying to develop a "standard" with our firewall team for:
1. What ports need to be opened on a new master server setup.
2. Which direction does the communications need to take place with each
requested port (bi-directio
Does ANYONE here understand what is needed in order for a team to access a
Netbackup 6.5.x Master Server via a Windows workstation with the Netbackup 6.5
Windows GUI installed?
Server BIRD is behind a firewall.
BIRD is a master server and a media server.
There are 3 support teams that span va
I'm looking for the 6.5x Windows NT GUI for NBU Admin work. I'm not talking
about the Java GUI. Anybody got any hints of where it is?
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Backup environment is Netbackup 5.1 MP5
Master server and all clients are media servers.
2 of the 4 clients have been retired and now I can't seem to find a way to
remove them from Netbackup without the GUI hanging.
Any ideas on how I can remove 2 client/media servers?
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Tek-Tools product called PROFILER. Works GREAT across O/S platforms and various
backup products. We've been using it for about 4 years now.
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So...you mean to tell me that there is NOT an easy way to get a file listing
from a single backup image?
Say I ran policy: redbaron-archive
This backup ran last night.
I now need to get the following information for audit purposes:
1. Directory path and file name
2. File Size
3. VolSer(s) used
People need to stop looking at backups as "backups".
People and management need to view data backup as "data protection" and
recovery.
If you really think about itit's reall DATA PROTECTION and the true test of
your Data Protection process is called "Data Recovery". If you can't recover?
I've got a 6.0 setup on AIX 5.3. It's been running fine for a while now. The
problem I have now is that the FULL hot catalog backup fails with a RC of 27
(child process killed by signal).
What is this and how can I fix it?
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Interesting and very informative thread here. The more info added here can be
very beneficial to all of us. :D
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