If you back up the data using separate policies then each policy can
have a different retention level (0-24). These can all have a one month
retention period within DataDomain but will also have different
retention levels.
You can then use the retention mappings within the vault to have a
differe
I am a gui man myself but bpdbjobs -cancel_all seems like a likely
candidate.
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I have only ever had a forced reboot twice during the client install and
that was on servers running NT. The installation procedure for the
maintenance pack does say you have to reboot to get the latest VSP
functionality but the core client should still work ok without it.
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urn a status 306. Also changed the parent job (nbgenjob) to
validate the image for a Vault job that returned an error status 306,
287,
or 288.
I am confused!
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We have only installed MP4 on our master server so far but have noticed
today that the vault job no longer retries if it fails the first time.
Has anyone else seen this?
Regards
Richard
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Hi Steve
We are a Windows based shop running 6.0 MP3. We use an HP MSL6060
library with 4 LT03 drives. When backing up individual servers over a
gigabit network we can get 80-90MB/s especially when backing up
databases. During the overnight backup run when many servers backup
together we get up to
I should add that for those of us who started using NetBackup for the
first time from version 6 the catalogue volume pool is likely to be
CatalogBackup (when using hot catalogue backups). We actually use the
NetBackup volume pool for data backups (fed from scratch) as that seemed
logical during the
I built our DR server environment recently and, as you found, the
catalogue wouldn't restore as the hostname is different so I
re-installed the NetBackup software and entered the prod server name as
the master server then the DR server name as an 'additional server'. You
could possibly add the 'A
Daniel
If you cut and past "WRN - Removable
Storage Management: unable to export database" and feed
it to Google the first item listed is a tech note from
Veritas:-
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/247001.htm
Google is your friend.
Regards
Richard
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Hi Simrat
We went through a similar exercise earlier in the year.
Although you can import the BE tapes in to the NetBackup catalogue they don't
appear in the duplication screen so you can't duplicate them.
I raised a call with Symantec as I noticed that there was a
command called beconv
My vault duplications are running at up to 160MB/s. My environment is
Windows based and we have a 4 LT03 drive HP library.
I did try turning on multiplexing but found that the write throughput
got worse the more I multiplexed so I have turned it back off for the
moment.
The buffers will have an
FWIW, our NOM server runs in a VMWare partition and has 384MB memory and
a 4GB root disk. The disk filled up at one point but having read the
manual I invoked the NOM backup and log purge facility and disk space
usage seems pretty stable now.
Regards
Richard
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Hi Simon
The answer is yes, well it works for us anyway. We have
frequency based daily inc's Mon - Fri with weekly full's over the weekend.
We also have a quarterly scheduled that is calendar based and the run day
scheduled is just the Friday. Any jobs that have not started b
We run with the Vault permanently set to level
5 logging. Info for failed images is then captured in the sessions
directory in the log for that particular vault stream. You can tell from the
activity monitor which duplicating session failed as it will say something like
10 of 12 images dupli
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Phil
One thing we did that was quite useful was to
dump information for all clients to one file. It takes a little while to
run as it has to connect to each client but if you select all of the clients in
the Activity Monitor > NetBackup Management > Host Proper
We saw a much bigger improvement than 10%. Out of the
box we were only achieving 18MB/s when backing up a test database. After playing
with buffers we were achieving between 75 and 80MB/s.
We increased:-
Client buffer to 128MB
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS to 64
NET_BUFFER_SZ to 528384.
The bigg
I see some of you were also contacted by Sharon at Computerworld:-
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090506-users-suffer-major-problems
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For our MS SQL databases we have included a final step in the hourly
transaction log dump which triggers a NetBackup job that performs a
differential backup to a disk staged area on the backup server. The
staged area then gets backed up to tape every three hours.
The transaction logs left on th
That is certainly worth a try. Our LT02 tapes and LTO3's are all set up
as HCART3. The LTO2's are in a different volume pool so that they don't
get used for normal backups.
Regards
Richard
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Scott
You should do. Here is ours from today:-
Picking List for Vault
MEDIA SLOTID LAST MOUNT LAST SID REQUESTED DENSITY CATEGORY
GC9058 47 08/01/2006176 08/08/2006 HCART3 New CTLG
What does the of-site inventory report show?
Off
We are struggling to get all of the backups run during the backup window
and one of the obvious solutions is to start using multiplexing as the
tape drives are not being driven at any where near their maximum
throughput. There has been a rather nasty multiplexing problem fixed in
6.0 MP3 but I wou
Garrett
Can't you just run the Client Backups report then
export the results to Excel for manipulation. It can be sorted by Policy,
Schedule etc. I have even fed it in to MS Project to get a Gantt chart of our
backups.
Regards
Richard
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I noticed last week that one of our clients has stopped doing full
backups so raised a call. The advice so far has been to delete that
particular schedule from the policy and recreate it. The output from the
command 'nbpemreq -tables screen' has changed for that client but I
won't know until Frida
ately.
Are you referring to one of these or is there another one I haven't discovered
yet?
Regards
Richard
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Huh, is there a non java remote admin console or is
that something you get with a UNIX Master?
Regards
Richard
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Paul
The browsing Tim appears to be talking about is on the
backup selections tab in a policy so the server must get a list of file
systems and files via the agent on the client, not physically mount file
systems.
I think it is just a feature (or lack of) of the Java
GUI.
Jim
Do you have the option to create a disk staging unit? That is what we
use to back up servers on our slower links and works well as the data
then takes minutes to copy to tape rather than hours straight to tape
from the network. We also use compression for the very very slow links.
Regards
Ri
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Sandeep
Have you tried the Java GUI? It can be installed and
upgraded independently of the Master server so may allow you to set up a DSSU
properly as you can run it with a different maintenance pack if needs
be.
The Java client patched with MP2 is able to
create a DSSU i
Title: Message
Simon
One of our streams failed over the weekend and I just
right clicked on the failed stream in the activity monitor and
selected Restart Job. Only that stream re-ran. May be a 6.0 thing
though.
Regards
Richard
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Shyam
We got error messages from some servers regarding RSM and
just excluded the ntmsdata directory
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/247001.htm
Regards
Richard
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Hi Mathew
I don't know what is available in NetBackup on Solaris but
in our Windows environment I ran the Client Backups report then exported the
results to a file. I then imported that in to Excel, played around with some of
the fields then cut and pasted the results in to Microsoft Projec
Shyam
Typing
Writer Removable Storage Manager did not respond to a
GatherWriterStatus call
in to Google brings up just three results.
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/274993.htm
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Windows_Server_2003/Q_21134217.html
http://foru
We only have one calendar based schedule (for
quarterlies) and the start window spans the whole weekend. We do that
as the client backups all get scheduled at the same time (Friday night)
so will sit and queue . Some jobs therefore will not run until the
next day. If the window has closed by
Hi Bob
We had a similar problem
with our quarterly backup. It should only run 4 times a year but tried to run
instead of the weekly backup for any new servers added to a policy.
Removing 'Allowed to retry after run day' seemed to cure the
problem.
Regards
Richard
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Out of interest, do you know if this holds true for multiplexed tapes,
i.e. can be read using tar?
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>From the Media Manager Sys Admin guide:-
Frozen: The volume is unavailable for future backups. A frozen volume
never expires, even after the retention period ends for all backups on
the media. This means that the media ID is never deleted from the
NetBackup media catalog and remains assigned to N
My experience is the same as Katherine's and Jack's. We were quoted one
SAN Media Server licence (A159858-20)per SAN media server then one
shared storage option per tape drive (A15989C-00).
Regards
Richard
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Title: Is v6.0 MP2 safe? I'm confused.
Hi Cheryl
I can't comment on the upgrade process as we
migrated from Backup Exec to NetBackup recently and went straight to 6.0 MP2.
The only major problems we have uncovered so far are related to the vault. We
had a problem with retention mapping and
We have daily incs, weekly and Quarterly backups. We had to use calendar
based scheduling for our quarterlies because any new servers added to a
schedule automatically run the quarterly schedule on the first weekend
after they are added. We want all servers to do a quarterly on the same
weekend t
Dan
Have you checked the Maximum Backup Copies setting (global Attributes)
on your netbackup host? We had to change this to get the vault working
when running DSSU as I think the default setting was 2.
Maximum Backup Copies
The Maximum Backup Copies property specifies the total number of backu
Title: NOM on Windows 2003 SP1
Hi Fiona
We run NOM on Win 2003 as well but we use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that is the only one that
seems to work with the admin account.
That does appear to be backed up by the Release
Notes:-
"The
initial domain name is NOM_BuiltIn@FQHN. FQHN is the f
vmcheckxxx?
vmcheckxxx
NAME
vmcheckxxx - Report the media contents of a robotic
library
SYNOPSIS
install_path\Volmgr\bin\vmcheckxxx -rt robot_type
-rn robot_number [-rh
robot_host] [-h
EMM_server | volume_database_host] [[-if
inventory_filter_value] [-if
inventory_filter_value] ...] [-ful
Hi Linda
Thanks very much for posting that. I had actually spotted it on the
other forum but we had already trashed our installation ready for the
Production build by then. If it happens again I will definitely give it
a go.
I had a response from Symantec on the Vault 'feature' and after
investi
Just to clarify the situation NetBackup doesn't mix retention levels by
default, not retention periods.
We have two different retention levels both with a 10 day retention
period, one is for weekly backups and one is for quarterly. The reason
we do this is so that we can use the 'use mappings' o
Hi Alex
If you add a cleaning tape in the Windows V6.0 command console it
automatically gets put in to the 'none' group then the group gets greyed
out so you can't change it. Not sure if you can change it using command
line options but you don't appear to be able to change it anywhere in
the gui.
user with
the new online
catalog backup.
Regards
Richard
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FWIW, in NBU 6 hot catalogue backups are the recommended way to go and a
pool called CatalogBackup gets created especially for that purpose. We
therefore just use NetBackup for the normal data tapes and it is fed
from a scratch pool.
Since we use the vault option we also have a VaultCatalogue and
I know it is for Windows servers but I found this tech note quite useful
as it explains how to use the debug logs to see if the delay is client
or media server based:-
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/244652.htm
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FWIW, the Windows admin console in 6.0 reports the client version for
Windows clients. We are only running 6.0 at the moment so I don't know
if it will report the version for pre-6 clients.
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why it appears in an
MS-Windows-NT policy.
Regards
Richard
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To: Mansell, Richard
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
Is Cross Mount
Hi, we have a number of Windows servers that have
SAN attached disk drives. The ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive does not back up these
drives so I assume we have to explicitly include them in a policy (we don't have
the SAN media server option).
The documentation (6.0) for ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES sa
Does anyone know anything about the beconv command? It is listed in the
NetBackup 6.0 commands for Windows manual but does not appear to exist
in my installation.
We are migrating from Backup Exec to NetBackup and this looks like it
may be a useful command to migrate the catalogue in one go rathe
I don't know how widely people use the
'use mappings' feature in the Vault but there appears to be a rather
fundamental bug in all version of 6.0. I thought I would let you know so that
no one else gets caught out.
We have three different type of backup, a daily, a
week
Renee
I left my HP-UX life behind a couple of years ago but have you installed the
LTO drivers for HP-UX from IBM? We used to have a 3584 connected to various
HP-UX servers and I remember having to install something from IBM.
Here is a link that may help:-
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.
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We purchased NetBackup recently and we were advised then
that in a VMWare environment we would simply need one client license per OS. So
for each physical machine you would need one to back up the VMWare/Linux
environment (if desired) then one Windows client which would cover
pen in the future.
Regards
Richard
From: Greenberg, Katherine A
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amTo: Mansell, Richard;
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use
That sounds to me like it thinks the tape is mounted
Hi
We are in the process of implementing a brand new
installation of NetBackup 6.0 MP2 (Windows based) and I seem to be having
problems with some of the media.
I have 5 tapes that report that they are in use even
though they are sitting quietly in slots the library. If I try and use bpex
Jason
There is a Windows registry entry called "FilesNotToBackup". We are
hoping to use the group policy to distribute it to all of our Windows
servers. NetBackup should honour that key (see page 193 of the 6.0 Sys
Admin guide for Windows part 1)
Regards
Richard
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