[Veritas-bu] db_marker.txt

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan Kippen
My system hung this morning and when I tried starting netbackup it was complaining that the db_marker.txt file is missing. Can I touch the file, and start netbackup ..or is there something more to it? ___ Veritas-bu maillist -

[Veritas-bu] flashbackup on hp-ux

2010-07-27 Thread Nathan Kippen
Is it possible to back up multiple raw disk in a logical volume on hp-ux? The volume is too big for me to back up, so I want to backup the individual disks that make up the logical volume. I'm trying to do this using the VxFS_Snapshot method. Backup selection list: /dev/rdsk/c10t0d5

[Veritas-bu] Question about flashbackup

2010-07-20 Thread Nathan Kippen
Just to make sure I understand the process, During a flashbackup, when a block is updated in the parition that is being backed up, the previous contents of the block are written to the cache partition. So the old data is copied to the cache, while any updated blocks are written to the partition

[Veritas-bu] /vrts_image_size_record

2010-06-16 Thread Nathan Kippen
I have windows clients that are continually hanging on streams that are backing up system_state or shadow copy components. The job details window shows /vrts_image_size_record as the current file being backed up -- which is not a file, but a process the master server is doing to do some checks

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP-Backups

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Kippen
Do you have to use SLP? In the intial backup why don't you just do inline copy? On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:52 AM, dirk.muel...@lvr.de wrote: Hi, we backups a lot of data with NDMP - Full-Backup = 13TB Is there any chance to duplicate our NDMP-Backups? Now our backups runs over 8 drives (4

[Veritas-bu] trunking with hp-ux ia64 11.23

2010-03-10 Thread Nathan Kippen
Has anybody successfully setup a trunk group using hp-ux ia64? I currently have 4 media servers and a master server that are all hp-ux ia64 11.23 -- I've got apa configured using LACP_AUTO and LB_MAC -- however I only see netbackup traffic being passed through one interface. When I start an sftp

[Veritas-bu] Q: Job retry attemps with multiplexed jobs

2009-12-16 Thread Nathan Kippen
I have a job that is kicked off manually every day .. (I have Tivoli monitoring this particular backup.) I have 36 streams writing to 18 tape drives. Every now and then I get a media error (status 84) on a drive which causes two streams to fail (since they are multiplexed). The tape drive is

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP to basic disk

2009-12-16 Thread Nathan Kippen
We are writing NDMP backups to disk. We are doing 3-way backups ... NDMP sends data to media server, which then writes to disk. We are running NB 6.5.4. That is odd you aren't getting any error messages .. Have you checked the VxUL logs? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Spearman, David

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 71 for System State backup

2009-12-16 Thread Nathan Kippen
what version are you running? I was seeing the same error until I upgraded to 6.5.4 .. the other option is to disable multistreaming. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:04 AM, mince netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: hi still getting system state backup status 71 for Windows 2000 server

[Veritas-bu] ACSLS Vault

2009-07-20 Thread Nathan Kippen
A couple of question for you ACSLS users: 1- Do I want the cap door mode automatic or manual? (What is the difference) 2- I use the Vault option with Netbackup Enterprise. How does the eject process work with ACSLS? 3- When I put tapes in the access port, I cannot click on 'Empty access

[Veritas-bu] Configuring ACSLS Help with configuring drives

2009-07-15 Thread Nathan Kippen
I've configured my master server to the the ACS robot control host. I'm trying to add drives that are zoned to my media server. Is it possible to have my master control the ACS robot, and have tape drives on a different media server? If this is possible can you explain how to do it. When I add

Re: [Veritas-bu] Some Help Please - Status 89 on Win2k3 Standard Server SSO San Media

2009-03-19 Thread Nathan Kippen
We started to get lots and lots of status 89s on our hp-ux media server. It ended up being a memory leak and symantec gave us an eeb. should be fixed with 6.5.4 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM, rusty.ma...@sungard.com wrote: Simon, 89 is a shared memory error, usually seen on a Solaris

[Veritas-bu] Catalog backup exit with Status 130

2008-10-10 Thread Nathan Kippen
I was wondering if anybody can shed light on the problem I've been having. My catalog randomly fails with status 130 more times then not. I think it has to do with the images being cleaned but I'm still having problems even after trying to disable the cleaning. Here is what I'm seeing in my

[Veritas-bu] NB 6.0 Analyzing Wait and Delay counters (Performance Tuning)

2008-07-02 Thread Nathan Kippen
I've been reading the Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide and I've run into a problem. While trying to analze my wait and delay counter values I'm unable to find any of these values in my bpbkar log file. I see them in my bptm/bpdm but not in bpbkar. I have logging enabled (level 1)

[Veritas-bu] replacing ndmp drives in SSO configuration

2008-05-20 Thread Nathan Kippen
I have 4 drives that I was using for NDMP. These 4 drives were shared with other media servers. I removed the drives temporarily because I was having some problems with NDMP -- but now when re-adding them back in as ndmp drives I get the following error: drive name already in use. I only get

[Veritas-bu] How to set windows client e-mail from CLI

2008-03-31 Thread Nathan Kippen
Does anybody know how to set a windows client e-mail address for notifications in netbackup via the command line using something like bpsetconfig? I know that if you are on the client you can type bpconfig -ma email address and with unix clients you can set it via the bp.conf file. thanks,

[Veritas-bu] Help - Can't access any item on Media menu

2008-03-19 Thread Nathan Kippen
Ever since I upgraded from 5.1MP6 to NBU 6.0MP5 I have been unable to view anything under the Media and Device Management -- Media menu. This includes Volume Pools, Volume Groups, Robots, etc.. I can access the Device monitor and everything under the Devices menu. (Drives, Robots, Hosts, NDMP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Server with multiple NICS

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Kippen
This might be late in the topic but its my 2 cents... We have an enviornment where we have 4 media servers and 1 master server. Each server has at least 3 different nics/networks. We use one network for administrative purposes, another for backup purposes, and a third for production purposes.

[Veritas-bu] include_list question

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Kippen
I have my media master servers in a single policy. This policy is setup to follow nfs mount points, and each server in the policy has the same nfs mount point mounted. I'm trying to have the backup that runs on my master server to be the only backup for the nfs share. I've built an

Re: [Veritas-bu] include_list question

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Kippen
that is hosting the share Paul -- -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Nathan Kippen *Sent:* February 27, 2008 12:22 PM *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] include_list question I have my media master