Thanks Jason
-Original Message-
From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brook...@longwood.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 7:53 PM
To: Lightner, Jeff; Preston, Douglas; Reynolds, Susan K.;
'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: RE: Unquoted path vulnerability
We've ran into thi
Thank you Jeff.
-Original Message-
From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 5:02 PM
To: Preston, Douglas; Reynolds, Susan K.;
'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: RE: Unquoted path vulnerability
Looks like this document disucsses t
Interesting...thank you Doug.
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From: Preston, Douglas [mailto:dlpres...@lereta.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:54 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: RE: Unquoted path vulnerability
I went through and updated all m
Has anyone heard of this being a security issue before:
+++
The remote Windows host has at least one service installed that uses an
unquoted service path, which contains at least one whitespace. A local
attacker could gain elevated privileges by inserting an executable file
in the path of the a
...one thing to check, make sure you're not backing up mksysb files. If
you are add them to exclude list and try again.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pranav
batra
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:16 AM
To: Veri
I call it the "orphaned job bug." It's great to hear that it may have finally
been addressed in 7.5.0.4!! I too have always done bpjobd -r
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of
scott.geo...@parker.com
Sent: Thu 11/8/2012 12:45 PM
To: ver
Is client part of a Windows cluster?
You might check this:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH150081
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of brettkan
Sent: Friday,
We're getting 94.29% savings on SQL backups with a different vendor. We have
not tested backups with Data Domain although their product was strongly
considered during our RFP process.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.e
Your initial performance may be misleading because it could be buffered data.
I would make sure your tuning is in order; and then I would start investigating
how the data is getting to the VTL...ethernet or fibre...what is the hardware
in between...we ourselves in one instance discovered a 10 G
I installed it a couple of weeks ago in my QA environment; I intend to upgrade
entire environment to 7.1 once my testing is successfully completed.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Pi
Sybase -- single thread prior to NBU 7.0, and multi-thread in 7.0 and above.
NBU 7.0 has better performance as a result.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of javed_bhai
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2
Supposed to be available at end of the year in 7.1
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Chapman, Scott
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:03 PM
To: David Stanaway; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
10 TB...YIKES!
Yes, make the SAP box a media server and backup over fibre via SAN...multiple
streams to multiple drives...as many as you can spare at the same time. With 6
concurrent drives you can get it done in 15 hours or so (if not better
depending on your drives and environment).
I've sta
I would like one also. Good reference.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimenez, Daniel
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:33 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Process Flow for Netbackup 6.
for a particular purpose we have.
From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:57 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script
Well - dunno why. Certainly doesn't work that
If slot=0 then it is in a drive; I did a vmquery on a tape that was in a drive
and that's what came back
From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:55 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
Does anyone have a quick eject script the logic of which goes something like
this:
1. Eject any tapes in the OFFSITE volume pool if it is in the tape library
2. Ignore tapes in a drive (vmquery slot number =0)
3. And email the list of tapes to me with a report title and today
Thanks Mark - it appears only re-labeling required (thank goodness). Thanks
very much for your help. Susan
From: Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:56 PM
To: 'VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'; 'Mark Eisenhardt'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape conversi
From: Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:56 PM
To: 'Mark Eisenhardt'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape conversion
I would LOVE it if re-label would work!!
I'm wondering whether we need to buy a degausser?
I would like a 3592 drive prior to E05 to be able to use
Does anyone know how to make a tape written by an E06 drive be usable again by
drives older than E06?
Is a full erasure in order for each tape, is it good enough to just
re-label...does anyone happen to know off hand?
Thanks much.
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MPX restore was on 60 seconds and unmount delay was on 30 seconds, so I se set
those per your instructions. I'll forward your note to the ORACLE people.
Thank you.
From: Kevin Corley [mailto:kevin.cor...@apollogrp.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:20 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Su
We have a group of DBAs running a restore and I was wondering if there was
something in the way they kicked off their restore that caused the following:
"They initiate restore, tape is loaded, image is restored, tape is returned to
slot in the library...then restore moves to the next image...goe
we're comparing apples to apples in
terms of performance when firmware levels the same.
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Susan
K.
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:40 PM
To:
No, not in this case.
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From: Jonathan Dyck [mailto:jd...@bank-banque-canada.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:14 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; Justin Piszcz
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Dean
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SAP backups
Are you behind a firewall by
6.0 mp5, on the phone w/Symantec right now. He thinks Patrick may not be on
the right track.
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:13 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: 'Dean'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.e
ou could try creating the logging directories :
/usr/openv/volmgr/debug/reqlib
/usr/openv/volmgr/debug/daemon
(from memory)
Cheers
Dean
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Reynolds, Susan K.
mailto:sreynol...@semprautilities.com>> wrote:
And again, OS backups to same clients fine:
11:42:08.876 [1646
(3192679)
11:52:29.263 [1646662] <2> set_job_details: LOG 1256755949 8 bptm 1646662 media
id S05200 load operation reported an error
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From: Marianne Van Den Berg [mailto:mvdb...@stortech.co.za]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:14 AM
To: Reynolds, Sus
I'll have to do that -- stand by for that.
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:47 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SAP backups
Add VERBOSE = 5 in bp.co
It will run the OS backup just fine on the same tape in the same drive.
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From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:45 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SAP backups
Has anyone encountered a problem where a SAP Agent backup just stalls, fails to
load the tape, freezes the tape and then downs the drive...while the OS backups
have no problem?
And does anyone have an idea of what may cause this?
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Can anyone tell me a command line that will work with a TLH tape library
to check whether drives need to be cleaned as well as how many cleanings
are left on a cleaning tape?
The normal TPCLEAN isn't working for my TLH library.
Thanks.
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Many thanks Ed.
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client version
I posted this to the list a while back:
r...@osiris bin]# cat get-client-versions.sh
#!/bin
Thanks Jim - looking for it to list all the clients though.
From: Jim Horalek [mailto:j...@federaledge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:30 PM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Client version
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
Is there a quick command that can be run that will list the current
version of Netbackup for each client on the command line without having
to extract the information from the GUI or Administrative Console?
Just looking for a shortcut.
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In addition to the other things mentioned it has been my experience that
it eventually times out. I use to see this on rare occasion when I was
on 5.X NBU and had an Scalar i-2K.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Does anyone here use SUDO for non-root access to Netbackup; and, if so
can you send a copy of what your SUDOERs file looks like?
Interested in allowing backup admins the ability to do their jobs as
needed while trying to strike a balance with security concerns of UNIX
group.
Thanks for your help.
Is anyone aware of repositories or resources for customized report
scripts for APTARE? It is a great tool, just would like to customize
some of the reports for our specific needs.
Thanks.
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htt
That's also why I hate giving Activity Monitor access to some users
because they can hit the wrong thing by accident. I am very eager to
receive Aptare license and just keep people out of the GUI all together
who don't need to be there -- not that I'm trying to be exclusive, but
looking for better
ch it
Reynolds, Susan K. wrote:
> We did this and had the same result.
>
>
> From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of wrobbins
> Sent: Wed 10/22/2008 1:27 PM
> To: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NFS and Status 6
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Wed 10/22/2008 1:56 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NFS and Status 6
We did this and had the same result.
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We did this and had the same result.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of wrobbins
Sent: Wed 10/22/2008 1:27 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NFS and Status 6
Follow NFS option needs to be enabled in the policy
http://seer.entsu
Have a client that does a SAP Agent recently go NFS, and now its DB backups end
in a Status 6. Here is the output...any ideas?
Backup started Wed Oct 22 11:43:13 2008
11:43:18 Initiating backup
11:43:26 INF - Starting bpbrm
11:43:28 INF - Data socket =
cpbkp2.saic.com.IPC:/tmp/vne
1:30 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Retention problem
Hi
The retention level of the Default-Application-Backup schedule determines how
long images are kept.
Retention for Automatic Backup schedule controls how long NetBackup keeps
records of when scheduled backups have occurre
SQL backups in the policy have retention level set to two weeks, but Netbackup
is only retaining the images for one week. Is there a setting that I am
missing? We need the images to be retained for two weeks.
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That's pretty cool -- I added it to my notes for future reference. Thanks
Justin.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Justin Piszcz
Sent: Mon 5/12/2008 10:16 AM
To: Kevin Miele
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to List Files in
...and double check your auth.conf file in /usr/openv/java.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of selwyn
Sent: Mon 5/5/2008 2:24 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cant access policies from Java GUI
Try restarting the nbsl daemon.
Our admins executed a kill script when we were back on 5.0 and occasionally had
hanging processes (especially on Linux and HP-UX boxes) that ate up CPU...they
made it a cron job. [hanging processes have not been an issue in 6.0 and beyond
for us] That's how they did it.
Is there any way to perform user directed MS Exchange Agent backups where the
logs get truncated just like they do in a regularly scheduled backup?
Is there any kind of fix out there to achieve this result?
Thanks.
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I will forward your message to him and let you know what he says...
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 3/28/2008 6:35 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 3/27/2008 8:48 AM
To: Reynolds, Susan K.
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux to NetBackup Environment as
aMasterandMedia Server.
Hmm. Never thought to check persiste
I'll just caution you to make sure you're using persitent binding. We had a
situation on a new Linux media server not configuring device paths for drives.
I got a super helpful suggestion from someone in this news group that fixed
that problem...but once fixed I was able to see there was a seco
I had this problem in one of my OS policies -- for me "cross mount points" was
not checked when it should have been.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jeff Lightner
Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 10:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.en
configured properly.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Thu 3/13/2008 10:09 AM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Media Server problem
We recently upgraded tu NBU 6.0 MP5.
When we did this we added a linux
We recently upgraded tu NBU 6.0 MP5.
When we did this we added a linux media server.
The Linux media server will only configure for drives 1-7 and 15.
It says "missing device path" for drives 8-14 and 16. (the devices files are on
the media server ready for use, but the autoscan does not ass
NBU 6.0 MP5
Linux media server only makes device paths for half of the drives.
Drives that have paths:
(Fabric A)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
15
Drives that do not have paths:
(Fabric B)
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
16
Can anyone tell my why the drive paths on Fabric B cannot be detected and
configured?
This is
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