Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 71, Issue 11

aging the list at > veritas-bu-ow...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Veritas-bu digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. cold catalog recovery (Infantino, Joe (Contractor))

Re: [Veritas-bu] cold catalog recovery

UJITSU From: Infantino, Joe (Contractor) [mailto:jinfant...@intersil.com] Sent: 16 March 2012 11:56 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: cold catalog recovery It is a standard system build. I did the build and did not change anything to do with DNS Firewall is also tu

Re: [Veritas-bu] cold catalog recovery

(Contractor) [mailto:jinfant...@intersil.com] Sent: 16 March 2012 11:53 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: cold catalog recovery That's what we thought also, but why then would it work just fine before the catalog recovery? I do have a hosts file entry for the s

Re: [Veritas-bu] cold catalog recovery

Doesn't sound like a netbackup issue Sounds like a host configuration issue - maybe dns Are you returning 127.0.0.1 even when you have any entry in your local hosts? The system could be configured not to look at hosts Can you resolve forward and reverse lookup when using nslookup? Regards, Tal S

Re: [Veritas-bu] Device Recognition in RHEL5/NBU7

ember 2010 14:08 To: Shekel Tal Cc: NetBackup Mailing List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Device Recognition in RHEL5/NBU7 As far as the zoning in the old environment, I've gone over both with a fine tooth comb and it looks like I've zoned both environments exactly alike. As far as multipath s

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

The 64k limit was due to a tcp/ip stack limitation I have always found larger buffers (256k) generally provide the best performance. Only if you had lots of small files would I recommend anything less Flashbackup will definitely improve your performance as the data will not need to be unco

Re: [Veritas-bu] need help with mass tape copy

And remember – when you duplicate images the retention period starts from the beginning e.g. a retention period of 1 year starting in may is duplicated in august will only expire in august the following year so if you are scripting the work you may want to check the image retention and modi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Device Recognition in RHEL5/NBU7

Did you by any chance zone the devices into multiple HBA ports in the new config but not the old? Perhaps you had powerpath, DMP or some kind of multipath software installed before? By the way - there shouldn't be any problems with seeing multiple devices and NB will only use the ones configured a

Re: [Veritas-bu] MS-Sql server

Hi Kevin If you use INSTANCE $ALL and DATABASE $ALL NetBackup will automatically try and backup every DB and Instance on the server. You can either logon to the server as has been described and use the SQL client GUI to check the client progress log. An easier method is to just remotely lo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Enterprise Backup software and hardware solutions

Depends on how much data you are backing up and what your retention periods and backup window are? I am a big fan of storagetek libraries and with LTO5 out now you can get 3TB on a single cart. For you regions you may want to look at puredisk clients or perhaps a NetApp filer in Manchester with os

Re: [Veritas-bu] Incorrect File List being Built

Thanks, will try that I can see there is a stream file for each policy which ran with the file structure inside - makes sense From: Marianne Van Den Berg [mailto:mvdb...@stortech.co.za] Sent: 26 May 2010 15:44 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Incorrect File List being Built

Hi Guys I have quite an interesting one here NetBackup 6.5.5 - windows 2003 Master NetBackup 6.5.5 Windows 2003 Media Server behind a firewall backing itself up All comms going through vnetd I am using a file list such as: E:\Folder1\* E:\Folder2\* I am doing this so that I can

Re: [Veritas-bu] Off Topic: Firmware and driver versions?

This may go without saying but I think an important point is to standardise as much as possible. This will make future troubleshooting and stability easier to control. Very often your library vendor will dictate the level of firmware for tape devices but more importantly they will recommend fo

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with Oracle backup NetBackup 5.1

Is your storage unit definitely configured to use all the drives? And this may seem like a strange thing to ask but what is your client_connect_timeout set to on your master server? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.au

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed

[mailto:hemant.kale...@wipro.com] Sent: 11 May 2010 06:10 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed Had done the same but still the issue persists Thanks and Regards Hemant S Kalekar 09819949422 From

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed

[mailto:hemant.kale...@wipro.com] Sent: 10 May 2010 13:24 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed hi pls find the output # more NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS 32 # more SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS 262144 The server hosting the disk system resource utilisation

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed

copy? Have you checked the server hosting the disks system resource utilisation? From: hemant.kale...@wipro.com [mailto:hemant.kale...@wipro.com] Sent: 10 May 2010 11:49 To: Shekel Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow backup speed

Have you tuned you NetBackup buffers? Have a look at the following technote and setup the size and number data buffers - http://support.veritas.com/docs/183702 Are you using agents and mounting the image up after the split or just performing a cold fla

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion

Just use barcode rules and volume pools to separate your media types. Otherwise things can get a bit confusing for the user - additionally I am sure you will want to phase out your older media generations I agree not changing the media type in NBU - especially if you plan on using the lto4 drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

I think to make an informed decision you would need to look at the bigger picture. Your original goal was to increase your backup performance and shrink you backup window Disk can be great but don't expect your backup times to increase just because you are using it. Is your disk being provided fr

Re: [Veritas-bu] retrying Error on job keeps going status 13

What hardware did you change? Error 13/4 can be a real pain but they are often related to network issues or reading data off a file system. As this is happening to all your jobs it sounds network related Have you checked some of your system/NetBackup legacy logs? Also run a "all log entries" repor

Re: [Veritas-bu] Nic Utilization

Hi Heather If you have Cisco switches you can use EtherChannel (PAgP) which is very similar to LACP for port aggregation - you would want to load balance by source MAC. This should benefit your media servers depending on what backup devices they are writing to. You will also the need some kind of

Re: [Veritas-bu] Saving restore requests

Have you checked for any entries in the admin log after firing off the command? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pwhelan0610 Sent: 08 April 2010 17:05 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sub

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backups not running, just stuck at Connecting.

Also - is this a multi-streamed job? There may be more info in one of the other jobs associated with it From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: 06 April 2010 14:50 To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 50 for all backups

When you sent your original email you said your jobs were frequently being killed with error 50 so it sounded like they would fail with error 50 while the server was running. Is it just one or two or do a whole collection of jobs seem to die together during the backup window? Or do you just come i

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 50 for all backups

Have you checked if you are running out of memory or swap space? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 29 March 2010 15:41 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subje

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

on your throughput requirements Regards, Tal -Original Message- From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 15:20 To: jpis...@lucidpixels.com; Shekel Tal Cc: kc.on.the@gmail.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

Thanks for the info Justin Definitely would like to test in our environment and compare . . . very interesting -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 14:56 To: Shekel Tal Cc: Kevin C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

0 MPX 03/20/2010 11:40N/A FULL -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: 02 March 2010 13:53 To: Shekel Tal; Justin Piszcz; Kevin C Cc: verit

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

Sorry, I just noticed now the one data set is encrypted and the other is not. Quite a noticeable difference -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 14:49 To: Shekel Tal Cc: Kevin C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

Tal Cc: Kevin C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: > I have also been looking at this as an option. > One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. > > I ha

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

requirement. Regards, Tal -Original Message- From: judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 14:42 To: Shekel Tal; jpis...@lucidpixels.com; kc.on.the@gmail.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you loose the ability to compress effectively when using compression. Have you noticed an effect on your tape drive compression when using tape drive based encryption

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any gotchas with 10 GB Ethernet?

I haven't followed the whole thread so excuse me if my message isn't relevant but I read in a performance tuning guide you should set your NET_BUFFER_SZ to 4 times the size of your SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS Also - not mandatory but recommended to match the client and media server network buffers The feat

Re: [Veritas-bu] MS SQL Agents

I suppose its personal preference. I prefer using agents because: 1. It avoids a two stage recovery if your backup is not on local disk. 2. It puts more control and understanding in the hands of the backup administrator (and more work unfortunately) 3. It avoids scheduling issues - so you do

[Veritas-bu] Exchange off-host backup options

Hi Guys Anyone done any exchange off-host backups? I am looking for some information regarding Netbackup options for Microsoft exchange. I have been doing some investigating in what options we have when using the netbackup advanced client with the netbackup Microsoft exchange agent - specifically

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance tuning - when to use buffers

You can look in your bptm log for information which will tell you what your buffers are doing If you do a search on the symantec knowledge base you should find a few technotes Search for SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS - that is one of the config files -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Status 25 on connection

Looks like it could be a reverse lookup issue -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: 26 July 2007 17:25 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange Status 25 on connection Thanks ill give it a go. We

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

Doesn't that depend on whether you use the -i option? If you want to pass the policy a file list you run bpbackup without the -i -Original Message- From: Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2007 20:35 To: Shekel, Tal; Justin Piszcz Cc: verit

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade NB 6.0 MP3 to MP4

Looks like you have your answer You should also try keep any db agents at the same MP as the master I have seen issues from this with the Oracle agent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of malabelle Sent: 25 July 2007 18:31 To: VERITAS-BU@mai

Re: [Veritas-bu] Priority w/ an External Scheduler?

Yes - It will still work The jobs will run as user jobs which are prioritised Regards Tal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 25 July 2007 19:10 To: Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Su

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2007 13:30 To: Shekel, Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering Hi Tal As long as the DNS (and it's reverse lookup configuration) is working or a good host files exists, you also can backup the physical names, alt

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

Thanks for the advice Regards Tal -Original Message- From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2007 13:17 To: Shekel, Tal; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering Are

[Veritas-bu] Cross Site Clustering

Hi Guys Anyone have any cross site clusters? I was wondering what solution you have in place (if there is one) to ensure the local storage unit always performs the backup or a backup client which is cross site clustered. As you back up the virtual name you follow the clustered instance around by

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Policy Design for Oracle

Hi Guys I had a query on designing a netbackup RMAN policy design I am putting in a Netbackup solution for about 70 Oracle DB's spread over about 30 DB servers (some cross sites) I want to put in a solution that will keep things neat and tidy Unfortunately from what I can tell to put in an effec

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MP4 on RHEL5 Client:Installation problem

Until you have an [x]inetd process running the system wont be able to listen for bpcd connections You can start bpcd in standalone mode (bpcd -standalone) on the client for the time being -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rizalman_almasi S

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Policy Design for large Oracle environments

Hi All I was wondering what policy design some of you have followed for large Oracle environments I am busy doing a redesign of an Netbackup environment which backs up about 70 DB's spread across about 30 servers (some of which are cross sites) I am doing my best not to end up with a solution whi