Re: [Veritas-bu] Redhat Linux Media Server and MSDP Filesystem >16TB?

2013-07-11 Thread JCrowe
+1 for Storage Foundations - the only thing with it is to recognise that it can be finicky about kernels and other file dependences - but since you're only running a RHEL 5.x release, you should be fine. Best place to go, is the Symantec Storage Foundations for Linux site here - https://www.sym

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice & Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-12 Thread JCrowe
I don't (necessarily) see a problem here. My file system is some 16TB large, it is mostly just a standard file system, but it also has an area dedicated to a MySQL database - our 8TB synthetic only backs-up part of this filesystem, ignoring the MySQL database folders and some other, non-import

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice & Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-11 Thread JCrowe
I would look at synthetics ... not quite as large as you, but I backup around 8TBs on one linux (RHEL 4) server over the weekend (every weekend) and it completes in well under 24 hours. (About 16-20 hours from memory) The very first backup has to be a full, but once that is out of the way, you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclude lists on Unix clients

2011-12-05 Thread JCrowe
Dear Patrick, great result, and I, for one, am always keen to see useful scripts that help manage NetBackup better. Cheers Crowey From: pwhelan0610 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Date: 05/12/2011 18:39 Subject:[Veritas-bu] Exclude lists on Unix clients Sent by:

Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware vStorage NetBackup 7 design help

2010-08-22 Thread JCrowe
Gidday, With respect to >You have to use a media server running on Windows as vStorage API is currently only embeded into such platform. This is actually a limitation due to VMware, not NBU. That's not my understanding at all. You do unequivocally have to have a Windows server to backup from,

Re: [Veritas-bu] bperror command

2008-11-25 Thread JCrowe
Dear Judy, I think if you add -t BACKUP to it, so that it would read: bperror -U -problems -t BACKUP -hoursago 24 should do it ... Cheers John John Crowe, Network Engineer 1314 Hay Street West Perth Western Australia 6005 T: +61 8 9488 9440 F: +61 8 9488 9400 M: 0414 637 670