[Veritas-bu] NDMP job backing up more data than exists??

Hello all, We have a large NetApp volume (14TB) that we are trying to backup through NDMP. The job is still running after 71 hours and it is reporting 25TB currently written. This volume is being deduped with NetApps block-level dedupe, so maybe I'm not understanding the true size of the

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

Hello All, We are in the process of implementing 2 new Solaris media servers with 10 GB Ethernet. Are there any gotchas on the OS side or the NetBackup side I should be aware of? Any buffer settings we need to tweak or new touch files, etc? Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific

[Veritas-bu] Drives disappearing on SUN servers with i2000 library

We have configured a new environment consisting of one SUN master as the control host, and two SUN media servers sharing 32 LTO-4 drives. Each server is a T5240 running Solaris 10. The library is a new Quantum i2000 with a single partition. The FC ports on the library can be set to Loop, Loop

[Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving

Is anyone using this feature within NetBackup? I recently found out about it, but it's been around since 4.5 Our catalog is approaching 1 TB in size and this looks like a good solution, as long as there are no gotchas. Just curious how it's working for people. Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida

[Veritas-bu] Preferred hardware for Master Server?

Hello all, Does anyone out there have recommendations or possibly white papers for preferred Master Server hardware? We are looking at either a SUN T5240 or a SUN M4000. Although I'd be interested in any info on AIX too. Any info is greatly appreciated. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific

[Veritas-bu] Qualstar Libraries??

Hello All, We are in the middle of a Physical Tape Library selection process. We have narrowed down our choices to the Quantum Scalar series and the STK SL3000, but I came across some info on the Qualstar SLX library and it looks very intriguing. So finally to the question. Is anyone out

[Veritas-bu] Can I change a Media ID?

All, We just added a new robot to our environment and didn't get barcode rules set up right away. We now have a handful of Media ID's that are missing the preceding letter. For example a tape labeled C01234 is showing up with Media ID 01234L (the L designates LTO media). Other than duplicating

[Veritas-bu] set_ndmp_attr question

I see there's been a wave of NDMP questions lately, so I thought I'd join in too. I'm trying to set up NDMP 3-way backups with NetApp filers. I've successfully configured the primary filer, but I keep receiving Status 99 errors for the 3rd party filer. The detailed status shows: Error bptm

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6

You're right about the STK's. We have L20's, L40's, L700's and even an old 9740, and they can al be opened without taking them off-line. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent:

[Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP

All, Hopefully these are two quick and easy NDMP questions for the group: 1) How do I enable multiple jobs per filer with NDMP? 2) In a Dell tech doc, it specifies setting the max fragment size per NDMP storage unit to 0. Is that really the recommended setting? Thanks much. Tom Tschida

Re: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP

To: Tschida, Tom (STP); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 2 questions about NDMP Hello Tom, The answer to question 1 depends on what you mean by multiple jobs per filer. First of all are you looking to do multiple jobs in parallel or just do multiple volumes or qtrees

[Veritas-bu] Aptare gotchas?

Title: 185 error Hello all, we're looking at purchasing Aptare for our NetBackup and BackupExec (yes, they will be supporting BE this starting this month) environments. It's it promoted for the most part as easy plug-n-play. Does anyone have any lessons learned regarding the implementation

[Veritas-bu] Trying to identify expired tapes

Gurus, I have a request from our legal department to identify all tapes written within a one year period. Unfortunately, that period is just outside of our retention. What I did: From a Full backup of the Master server just after the requested period, I restored the images directory,

[Veritas-bu] AIX pSeries for master?

Just curious if anyone is using an AIX LPAR on a pSeries frame as a Master Server. Any gotchas or hints? Thanks in advance. Tom Tschida Guidant Corp ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu