Re: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

Hi Jeff. For the 41 issue for a specific client, there a few items you want to check: 1) With that many files, you will want to increase the CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT value with the bp.conf file residing on the client. By default, it is 300 and you may want to try 900, etc. 2) On the client,

[Veritas-bu] Number of restore tape drives

Hi. We have a Netbackup 5.1 MP6 master/media server with 8 tape drives. We run a large standard backup (1.5 TB data size w/multistreaming and no multiplexing) that uses all 8 of the drives during the backup. The backups run successfully and we have no problem in this area. We see an issue when

[Veritas-bu] Flashbackup concerns

Hi. We have a few Windows file servers using NBU 5.1 MP4 which we are currently running standard backups on. The amount of data and number of files on these servers has increased significantly within the last year. It is now taking NBU almost 3 days to completed a full backup on one of these

[Veritas-bu] FlashBackup restore

Hi. We are testing the NB 5.1 Flashbackup Advanced Client feature and it is working well. When attempting to perform a restore of the Flashbackup data the files within the java gui window have a red circle with a slash icon next to each file name. I was thinking that this icon might mean

[Veritas-bu] Fixed or Variable length blocks

Hi. I am working on a project to duplicate several legacy tapes that were written using a AIT-2 (SONY SDX-500C) tape drive to a different media format. I am getting read errors when attempting to perform the duplication on almost ever backup image. I have adjusted the st.conf (Solaris media

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 and checkpoints

We are using Netbackup 5.1 MP4 and have enabled checkpoints for our Standard (Unix) and Windows-based backups. The checkpoints are occurring every 30 minutes I need to know if a backup job fails during the 1st attempt (example: status 84) will the 2nd attempt (retry) continue from the 1st attempt

[Veritas-bu] RE: Netbackup monitoring

Question 6: Does anyone use external monitoring tools for netbackup? We have many custom scripts created to perform some monitoring tasks but I have been tasked with looking for something that can automate allot of the monitoring without having to write a customer script for everything.

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.1 MP4 Vault eject failures

Hi. We have a Vault duplication job that duplicates Virtual tapes (using a EMC CDL) onto standard tapes (using 9940B drives/L700 Tape Lib). Within the Vault Profile, we have 00_009_TLD as the source Volume Group. This volume group is used by our EMC CDL (Virtual Tape library). The destination

[Veritas-bu] RE: ] list all client version

I have been using the bpgetconfig command to query our client version. We are in the mist of upgrading to version 5.1. The query shows that the clients are 5.1, How do I verify that mp4 has been applied ? --- As Wayne had stated, the only way to find out the client version is to

[Veritas-bu] RE: Can't kill an Active job..

Hi Aaron. To remove the active job form the job monitor, you will want to do the following: 1) Shutdown Netbackup 2) Move the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/bpjobd.act.db file to bpjobd.act.db.date (directory listing shown below). DO NOT move the bpjobd.db file. 3) Restart Netbackup. The