[Veritas-bu] Is the veritas-bu list still alive?

2017-05-28 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I know I've been gone for a while, but I was surprised to see the archives stopped in 2016. Did something happen I don't know about? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-08 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Nope. You verified what I believed to be the case. Although the documentation suggests otherwise, and something that the original poster is experiencing does as well, it's nice to see that it works as I thought it should -- at least somewhere. ;) Thanks. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups

2009-07-07 Thread W. Curtis Preston
And you're verifying that the original full does not need to be kept around? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Crowey Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:55 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy types

2009-05-16 Thread W. Curtis Preston
To each his own, of course, but I believe the one client per policy setup is actually just as easy, if not easier to manage than the multiple clients per policy type. I laid out my reasoning for this a while back: http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/51/47/ -Original Message-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up disk space on Data Domain

2009-03-20 Thread W. Curtis Preston
If you're using the VTL, all you really have to do is re-label the tapes in NBU after they're expired. That tells DD that it can erase the rest of what's on the tape. That's the case with any VTL. If you're using the file interface, it deletes the files for you when they expire. _

Re: [Veritas-bu] dedup/replication

2009-03-18 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Actually, TOP said he had backed up to an EDL/3DL (EMC Quantum box). Jeff (Kaplan), Is it possible to use tape shadowing on the replicated system, so that the backup to one virtual tape, replicate to another virtual tape, then eject that virtual tape to create a physical tape?

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to properly calculate the Catalog

2009-03-16 Thread W. Curtis Preston
You make some good points, Bob. -Original Message- From: bob944 [mailto:bob...@attglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:47 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: wcplis...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] How to properly calculate the Catalog That formula in the manual

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to properly calculate the Catalog

2009-03-14 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Todd, That formula in the manual is completely worthless. I can't believe they still publish it. The SIZE of the data you're backing up has NOTHING to do with the size of the index. What matters is the number of files or objects. I could backup a 200 TB database with a smaller NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] how to copy backups from data domaintotapew/netbackup 6.5

2009-03-09 Thread W. Curtis Preston
If you ask me, you should be considering the OST interface, not the VTL interface. It will give you a bigger boost in performance than the VTL interface will, from what they've been publishing lately. In addition, in a few months, OST will support copying to tape via OST. You'll get better

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I guess my question is to question the requirement to do this. I've never been a fan of special backups going to special tapes. I'm relatively OK with segregating backups (e.g. Oracle on its own tapes, etc), but who cares what backups go to what tapes? Just let NBU put it on whatever tape it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client

2009-02-09 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Good point. -Original Message- From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:mark.donald...@staples.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:28 AM To: W. Curtis Preston; Justin Piszcz; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client Note: Anything initiated

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-18 Thread W. Curtis Preston
And IMHO, anyone with a retention policy should also have a relabeling policy. When a tape goes into scratch, you should have a script relabel it. If you do this on a regular basis, you're protected. If all you do is expire it without relabeling it, a savvy plaintiff could ask you to re-import

Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-18 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Agreed. Simply relabeling the tape puts a EOD (END OF DATA) mark after the label. Every expert I've ever talking to says that getting past that is impossible. Therefore, my TECHNICAL opinion is that relabeling a tape falls under the 'reasonable man' standard for making sure a tape is unreadable

Re: [Veritas-bu] Searching Forum Archives

2008-12-30 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I prefer the format of the search at http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2 , but I may biased. :) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Nardello, John john.narde...@wamu.net Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:46:10 To: Randy Samorarandy.sam...@stewart.com;