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Re: [Veritas-bu] issue with 6.5.3 and win 2008 servers

2009-02-05 Thread Haskins, Steve
Judy, do you have the W2K8 Windows Server Backup feature installed? Regards. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:36 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB 6.5.3 event log restore hangs subsequent backup

2009-01-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
Steven, This is very interesting and I am glad you shared. I just updated my Windows Netbackup environment to 6.5.3 (from 6.5.1). I'll test this out. I have an issue with the automated Image Cleanup job ending with status 20. Regards, Steve From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing

2008-12-02 Thread Haskins, Steve
I don't think my earlier note went through. Try renaming the Netbackup.dll. The second link states this won't work as you have to close the process keeping a handle open on the file but renaming it has always worked for me. http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 upgrade failing

2008-12-02 Thread Haskins, Steve
I just applied 6.5.3 and received this error on one media server and renaming the Netbackup.dll worked. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nardello, John Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:22 PM To: Haskins, Steve; veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] PBX Service Making My Exchange Guy Really Nervous

2008-11-24 Thread Haskins, Steve
Randy, I opened a case on this to verify. I disable it on non-clustered clients but it is required, as you know, on media servers. Regards From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:06 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issue After 6.0 to 6.5.2 upgrade

2008-11-06 Thread Haskins, Steve
Randy, I had a similar issue and ran the install again with repair option to correct it. Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Samora Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:16 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring?

2008-11-06 Thread Haskins, Steve
I concur with Ed. By default I don't exclude anything as I don't control the applications and changes made to them and have found that covering my back is most important. The issue does arise, as Ed mentioned, when they add new drives in a cluster but I think that the new 6.5 client addresses that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Master server

2008-10-17 Thread Haskins, Steve
Boris, I currently have Windows 2000 master server with six additional media servers on a HP ESL9595 16 SDLT tape drive library and a HP MSL5052SL 4 SDLT tape drive library backing up 330+ Windows clients backing up 50TB a week. I am at Netbackup 6.51. The master has four 733MHz processors

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

2008-08-27 Thread Haskins, Steve
Hello, Try renaming Netbackup.dll then re-run the installation. Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dy018 Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:09 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU6.5 Win Client Installation

2008-08-27 Thread Haskins, Steve
Yes, such as Netbackup.org or Netbackuporg.dll. This if your error message also contains text stating to close Netbackup processes and try again. I have also discovered it best to use the local admin account as my personal account gives an error since my home folder mapped drive changed to a

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

2008-08-18 Thread Haskins, Steve
I had to backout of 6.5.2A as PEM service would not start. After I backed out of it on the master it could not connect to the media servers; error 26. Servers are Windows. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Removing 6.5.2 and going back to 6.5.1

2008-07-31 Thread Haskins, Steve
I had two media server I had to uninstall Netbackup completely and reinstall when I recently went through this with rolling back 6.5.2A. The other 12 media servers and the master went fine, thank goodness. I removed master first as it seemed logical to me. I did not have to deal with tape drive

Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 6.5.2A BEWARE!!!

2008-07-29 Thread Haskins, Steve
and in hoping it fixes some of the minor issues I was applying 6.5.2A for and everyone else's major issues. Regards From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:42 PM To: Haskins, Steve Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 6.5.2A

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 6.5.2A BEWARE!!!

2008-07-25 Thread Haskins, Steve
All; especially Windows Netbackup admins, I upgraded my Windows test Netbackup 6.5.1 environment to 6.5.2 then 6.5.2A. Problem with 6.5.2 in Downing a drive in that it would down the wrong drive. 6.5.2A no problem (test environment again). I upgraded my production environment this past

[Veritas-bu] 6.5 media server rebuild in Windows environment

2008-07-25 Thread Haskins, Steve
All, In Netbackup 4.5 through 5.1 you could copy the Netbackup %installpath%\volmgr\database, %installpath%\Netbackup\var and %installpath%\Netbackup\db\media folders for a media server off the server and if the media server in question need rebuilt it would only require the initial Netbackup

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup error messages - 6.5

2008-06-02 Thread Haskins, Steve
Sometime ago I posted a question on two error messages that I believe I have discovered a fix. At least I have not experienced the errors again for over 30 days. I reran the 6.5.1 update with repair option. The two errors: The procedure entry point ovgetlocale could not be located in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU

2008-04-09 Thread Haskins, Steve
I agree with verifying with the application support techs on what files are being skipped and how to address them as they are responsible for their applications but as the backup and operating system administrator I am held accountable for recovery. I don't like exclude lists especially if it is

Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5

2008-04-08 Thread Haskins, Steve
And programming on punch cards...Oh, what FUN! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:50 PM To: Jeff Lightner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jim Horalek; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question about synthetic backups

2008-02-22 Thread Haskins, Steve
I too want to thank all for the feedback as it has made the manual much clearer to me. I also apologize for apparently muddying the waters that I did not intentionally mean to do and deter from Mr. Bergen's original question. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 event log errors

2008-02-22 Thread Haskins, Steve
I have recently upgraded my test system to 6.5.1 from 5.1 and receive the following in the event logs. Before I open a case has anyone run across these and dealt with them. The logs are from the master on Windows 2003 with SP2. System log entry: Description: A service process other than the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question about synthetic backups

2008-02-19 Thread Haskins, Steve
CBergen, You're not the only one that would like some enlightenment...I mean, on synthetics backups. I don't understand why incrementals have to be continuously run at all. As I understand it, that is the point of synthetic backups as to have a full and just backup the changes from that point

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question about synthetic backups

2008-02-19 Thread Haskins, Steve
I concur that the underlying reason and thus the point of synthetic backups is to shorten the backup window and reduce downtime and network bandwidth utilization (at least after the first full is completed). We disagree on what a true synthetic backup is and how it is implemented. Regards

[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup

2008-01-22 Thread Haskins, Steve
All, Can a Full backup be set up using Flashbackup and then have a different policy do differentials? I might be missing it but the type of backup dictated from the client side as necessary to get the Flashbackup to work would stop a normal backup from running, correct? Regards. Steve

Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup

2008-01-22 Thread Haskins, Steve
I must be misunderstanding Flashbackups. I thought they were only Fulls. Thanks. From: Randy Samora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:09 PM To: Haskins, Steve; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup Success Rate (Non Technical)

2008-01-04 Thread Haskins, Steve
Also, in Netbackup if a job errors out and restarts on its own such as from a 156 error and completes successfully the error is counted as a failure even though it completed. Do partial backups count against the success rate? We use SQL backup utilities to backup SQL databases and as we don't use

Re: [Veritas-bu] Poll: Windows Communications Buffer Size?

2007-11-29 Thread Haskins, Steve
All, in a class the instructor recommended setting it at 129 for Windows. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Schedule Names

2007-09-24 Thread Haskins, Steve
This will be the case, even when an Incremental is scheduled, when the policy name is changed or a client put in to a different policy altogether. Regards From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: Monday, September 24,

Re: [Veritas-bu] windows Client 6.0 mp5 download link

2007-08-13 Thread Haskins, Steve
From this link you can select which version and what platform you desire. http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/support/downloads.jsp?pid=15143 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of prodsacnetworking Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:12 AM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] MS SQL 2005 Backups

2007-07-10 Thread Haskins, Steve
Same here along with trans logs. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:50 AM To: Jimenez, Daniel; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MS SQL 2005 Backups

Re: [Veritas-bu] Shadow Copy Components

2007-05-08 Thread Haskins, Steve
I had to open case with Microsoft on this and NTBackup. My issue was that SQL2000 has a bug in how it interacts with MDSEWriter within VSS. They gave me a work around. If the database is SQL2000 install on a separate partition from the system partition or logs and data are on separate partitions

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Aptare - Real World Benefits

2007-03-21 Thread Haskins, Steve
Hello, In part to the question posed about validating the purchase of Aptare and stating its benefits does anyone have experience with Aptare in comparison to Netbackup 6.0 NOM that they could state reasons to favor one over the other? Does anyone have comments about Symantec Backup Reporter in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.0 MP4

2007-03-14 Thread Haskins, Steve
This a good suggestion as this has fixed various policy issues I have had in the past and I have had Veritas support suggest this previously upon a case being opened. Regards. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Tim

Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Status 71 for one Client

2007-02-06 Thread Haskins, Steve
Veritas support had me do this one time and it worked. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:37 AM To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Odd Status

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: Block or file level

2007-01-28 Thread Haskins, Steve
By raw backups are you referring to snapshots? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Carpe Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:33 PM To: Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: Block or

[Veritas-bu] Install error

2007-01-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
NBInstdlg cannot load resdll.dll Has anyone resolved this error in trying to install the NB client on a Windows server? The server is Windows 2000. It had 4.5 and I was trying to update to 5.1MP5. Got 5.1 installed and the error started with MP5. I have uninstalled the client (cleaned registry

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams

2006-12-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
When I have had this issue consistently on a client I resolved it by hard coding the NIC's link speed instead of using Auto-negotiate. A single stream issue though wouldn't seem to be the case with a NIC issue. Try disabling Tracker on the client, this resolved many of my pesky random

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 compatibility w/ 3.4 Clients?

2006-12-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
I've been told by Veritas support to update clients to 5.x prior to updating 6.0 because the rewrite of the system won't support 4.5 and earlier. My experience after any update is if there are any issues with a client after an update that updating the client resolves the issue (then I only have to

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media Server

2006-12-07 Thread Haskins, Steve
You can have one scratch pool and still have scratch tapes in different robots and the different robots still be able to access them as the system knows what tapes are in what robot and which are scratch. I do it and it works. Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] help please

2006-12-06 Thread Haskins, Steve
I feel your pain... -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:48 AM To: Haskins, Steve; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Curtis Preston Cc: nizar motasim; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] help please Whoops

Re: [Veritas-bu] help please

2006-12-05 Thread Haskins, Steve
I look forward to your email entries. Think you could remind me how to generate a text file of a client list? Regards -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:01 AM To: Haskins, Steve; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Curtis Preston Cc

Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing expiration date

2006-11-16 Thread Haskins, Steve
I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I have in the past used the GUI to delete media and change expiration dates. I then had a problematic database indicating it couldn't expire media that didn't exist and had to call in a case to get the database cleaned up. The support tech informed me that

Re: [Veritas-bu] Weard one

2006-11-01 Thread Haskins, Steve
Title: Message Check your multiplexing setting in the policy. When I want more jobs to run concurrently to a tape drive I up the number of maximum concurrent drives and maximum multiplexing drives for the STU and then in the policy increase multiplexing accordingly. From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpplsched columns

2006-10-27 Thread Haskins, Steve
When I had this issue my two jobs did not have the start window times set identically. When I adjusted both the monthly and weekly start windows to match I no longer had the issue. Thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clooney, David Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Alternate Client Restore Error ......

2006-10-17 Thread Haskins, Steve
Is the media server you are trying to use in the alternate client's list of available media servers? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janardhana Babu Donga Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:04 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: a

[Veritas-bu] renaming a media server

2006-10-17 Thread Haskins, Steve
My application support person, if all of their wisdom, wants to have their app server rebuilt but remove media server from it. Originally it was made a media server coexisting with the app because of the TBs of data it was to house. They want to keep the same host name for their app so I

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: Directing duplication to a specific network

2006-10-16 Thread Haskins, Steve
I used two hostnames for a single media server and defined individual storage units by NIC and it worked fine (removed the network bottleneck and moved it to the processors) BUT when I upgraded to 4.5 FP6 they quit working with error 213 STU unavailable and I called support and was informed

[Veritas-bu] error 71

2006-10-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
Hello, Has anyone experienced an error 71 and been able to resolve it? I am running Netbackup 5.1MP5 on a Windows system and the client(s) are all Windows. I opened a case a few years back and the resolution was to update the client to the same level as the backend but in this case the

Re: [Veritas-bu] error 71

2006-10-12 Thread Haskins, Steve
detail, I'm assuming it may me a temp file that is reoccurringly regenerated by the application. Rusty or Simon, What log would I look in? From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:16 AMTo: Haskins, Steve; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining Number of Additional Client Licenses in NetBackup

2006-10-09 Thread Haskins, Steve
In an open case I had support could only tell me of the bpminlicense -verbose command. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:26 PM To: JAJA (Jamie Jamison) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] How many servers per NBU Policy? - Poll

2006-09-21 Thread Haskins, Steve
A lot of variables are induced into policy creation but on average I have 10 clients per policy. Some have one and some have 40. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:31 AM To: Koster, Phil Cc:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup up db database

2006-09-08 Thread Haskins, Steve
Title: Message Greg, Simon, I couldnt agree more. Nothing worse than a master server crash but at least when I experienced it I had a catalog backup from that day to save my career. Regards From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent:

Re: [Veritas-bu] W2K3 media servers rebooting

2006-09-08 Thread Haskins, Steve
Title: Message Bob, I had the syndrome of device manager doing down on my W2K3 media servers when I took the master down or rebooted the master and it went away when I updated to MP5. I see you are at MP4. Regards. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

2006-09-01 Thread Haskins, Steve
Title: Message KB913648 Regards From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:06 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Shadow Copy Components:\

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Not writing for 2 hours

2006-08-31 Thread Haskins, Steve
Is the client being backed up have numerous small files and/or a vsp setting that is set at a minimum size? The clients I have that take quite some time to actually start writing to backup media have a very large amount of small files. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] Cannot register shared drives for host (media server) on host (master server)

2006-08-29 Thread Haskins, Steve
Has anyone experienced this application event log entry? I have a W2K3 media server, the master is W2K. NB Enterprise 5.1 MP5. The media server is a HP Storageworks 5026 with twp SDLT 160/320 tape drives with the NB SSO option. The message doesnt reoccur from backup activity, cycling the