[Veritas-bu] Master Server Migration

2008-01-11 Thread Keith W
I need to migrate my NB 5.1 master server off an old Redhat 7.1 machine to a new machine running Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise 5. Is there a document floating about for preserving things and migrating them to a new server? Thanks keith ___ Veritas-b

Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT Format Issues

2007-05-02 Thread Keith W
be formatted by your current drive, and you should get the best > performance out of the tapes. > > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:42:00 -0400 > From: "Justin Piszcz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT Format Issues > To: &

[Veritas-bu] DLT Format Issues

2007-04-27 Thread Keith W
I have a hundred or so DLT IV tapes that were in a different/unknown tape stacker. I need to get them cleaned up so that my Overland machine will properly see them. Will a simple erase (mt -f /dev/st0 erase) clean them up enough to be seen by the newer DLT tape machine or do I need to have them deg

[Veritas-bu] NB 5.1 and Overland DLT

2007-04-24 Thread Keith W
NB 5.1 see's my devices as separate. The robot shows that no drives are available and the drive is showing up as a stand alone. Here are my system stats. Any advise is greatly appreciated. System I am running: OS: Red Hat Linux 7.1 NB: 5.1 Machine: Overland DLT LoaderExpress

[Veritas-bu] Scsi Issue or ?

2006-09-12 Thread Keith W
On one of our tape backup systems, we keep getting the following errors in NBU 5.1. I am curious if this is caused by a bad termination on the tape device. The first backup to tape goes perfectly, while seeking to the second position on the tape it dies and ejects the tape. These tapes are brand

Re: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup

2006-08-24 Thread Keith W
Here is what I do, always seems to work for me. Expire the image, where A3 is the volume name. ./bpexpdate -ev A3 -d 0 I then go into the GUI and delete the images, I do this because I am not sure how to do that part command line. +---+ + Keith + +

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to install a media server

2006-07-26 Thread Keith W
Install the media server by installing as a server. It will ask you if it's a media server durring the server install. You will start/stop the media server when the system boots or by running /etc/init.d/netbackup start on the media server. You must first configure the media server from the master

[Veritas-bu] Best Practices

2006-07-08 Thread Keith W
I'm trying to learn as best I can the industry standards for doing backups.(50 clients or more) I am wondering if there is best practices reference document somewhere to be read. Thank you much. +---+ + Keith + +---+ __

Re: [Veritas-bu] CLI or GUI

2006-06-30 Thread Keith W
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Paul Keating wrote: > If you run jnbSA on unix with the command log option, you will get a log > file with the appropriate CLI to do whatever task you are doing in the > GUI. > Dunno if you can do that with the windows GUI. This is an increadible bit of info. I didn't know t

[Veritas-bu] CLI or GUI

2006-06-30 Thread Keith W
Reading the mails coming through this thread, I get the impression that most folks use the CLI more than the java gui, is this true and why? Just a curious semi-newbie question. +---+ + Keith + +---+ _

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: NetBackup 5.1/Old Robot

2006-06-13 Thread Keith W
e drive type. > Then check that the storage unit has the correct robot number, and density > (density should match the drive type). > Finally, check that your policy is pointing to the correct storage unit. > > > On 6/13/06, Keith W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1/Old Robot

2006-06-12 Thread Keith W
I am having trouble getting my old Exabyte EXB210 to work in NB 5.1 using Red Hat 7.2 as the media server. I know the robot is old and whatnot but it is indeed in the list of supported robots and I have used it recently in another setup so I know the robot and drive to be good. The specific probl