The only OST difference that I recall is that with OST you don' need the
mount.
As I didn't have multiple media servers, I cannot attest to the effect
of that.
Cheers, Wayne
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lightner, Jeff
wrote
, in part
:
> Thanks for that info.
>
> Just to clarify tho
Congrats on testing! As you found, it is important to also get the archive
redo logs post-backup.
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I'd retire.
Cheers, Wayne
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Dean wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I've never used LiveUpdate, partly because I've never had to do a mass
> update of many hosts, and partly because of some negative comments about it
> on this mailing list.
>
> But my current engagement
There's at least one knowledge-base article on how to do that, but I don't
have its number handy. :-(
My too-old NetBackup experience (i.e., I expect there to be better/newer
info now), is that if you are restoring to the same hardware ...
- install Windows, networking and NetBackup to a sepa
I don't know SAP, so I apologize for answering w/o direct knowledge.
However, in my experience with Oracle databases, I find that backup jobs
can have an extreme impact on the other work of a database ... as in 10-100
times slowdown of other work in some of the databases I work with. On the
other
It's been several years since I've had tape, but it sounds to me like the
DBA has done everything correctly for 6 channels. The problem, if you can
call it a problem, is that the backup server (media server) has only or is
allowed only 3 tape drives for the restore. On the other hand, perhaps
t
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lepley, Michael wrote
, in part
:
> Those doing no tape what is your longest retention time?
>
We backup, but don't archive, with our backup systems. Nearly all
of our backups are retained for 3 months. Due to an event, a particular
backup may be retained
4 years. no tape. like.
Cheers, Wayne
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Dwayne Adams wrote
, in part
:
> Hello,
>
> Who is really doing all disk backups for all their data sets today? I
> keep hearing about the demise of tapes. This email is a survey to see if
> shops are really doing this.
Well, if you can do SQL to the database, then look at view
"v$block_change_tracking" ... for example, "select * from
v$block_change_tracking;"
On the other hand, I have no idea what block change tracking has to do
with snapshots.
Cheers, Wayne
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Michael Graff Anders
To run a little further with what Rusty wrote, it appears that *any* tape
you have used might contain data from the customers of interest. Backup
images have probably been expiring for years.
So if you are required to obliterate their data, not just expire it, you'll
need to move everyone's curre
Rather than echo, try creating a file. I don't recall this exit, but much
of NetBackup uses standard output and your use of it will not work and/or
screw up the works.
Cheers, Wayne
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Dennis Peacock wrote:
> OKRedHat 5.0 box running NBU 7.1.0.2
> This is a
NetBackup has command-line interfaces that a script might use to build the
web pages you want.
However, it sounds easier and more productive to fix the broken backup
system than to build something like you are describing.
Cheers, Wayne
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:46 PM, diabolics wrote:
> Thanks
I forget where it's specified, but NetBackup has a (max) size for a disk
pool someplace ... maybe part of OST? I set it when I setup my Quantum
disk appliance. For example, "nbdevquery -listdv -stype Quantum" shows me
the "quota" in the 5th column. ymmv.
Cheers, Wayne
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2
I'd consider NetApp's Snap Mirror / Snap Vault.
Cheers, Wayne
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Abhishek Dhingra1 <
abhishek.dhin...@in.ibm.com> wrote, in part:
> I have an infrastructure , where i have a critical windows machine on ESXi
> box, total space occupied is 6TB, and the disk are coming
I think you need a new plan.
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Thanks for the reply, Bluejay. Yes, that usually works for me, too, but
not this time. Guess it's time to crank up logging on the server, if I can
find an otherwise quiet time. Wayne
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Bluejay Adametz
wrote, in part:
> > I'm guessing
> > that some part of the N
The easiest migration of backups may be the one that you don't do.
Cheers, Wayne
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Anurag Sharma
wrote, in part:
> Hi Team,
>
> We have one netbackup master server which is on x86 windows 2003 running
> netbackup 6.5.6 with two tape libraries LTO2/LTO3 respectively
Good points and summary, Bob.
My argument wasn't that archives are less restorable, especially if
they were covered by scheduled backups before the archive. They are
probably in as safe a place as the rest of the backups.
What I meant was that without the live copy, my chances of losing the
data
When I consider protecting data, I'm typically thinking of keeping them in
multiple places that are as independent as possible.
If I were to use NBU "archive", I would be basically chopping off one of
the places where the data is stored (its original, live home).
I think the place for NBU "archiv
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dennis Peacock
wrote, in part:
> Netbackup is your backup solution.
> Every backup product is different in strengths and weaknesses. I don't
> know what your budget is, but Netbackup is an excellent choice for backup
> software.
>
While we (I) have apparently misse
Read about "calendar" and "frequency" schedules. Determine which you have
or want.
I much prefer calendar schedules and my "full" backups have "retry after
run day" set. I have a "full" start window on every day and my calendar
schedule has a check for one day each week, often Saturday.
My "Inc
Assuming you're using the standard "vnetd" communication, port 13782 is no
longer required as it was with version 5/5.1 ... just port 13724.
>From your NetBackup server(s), run "bptestbpcd -client< clientname>" for
each client. Telnet on port 13724 will work, too, but the response is not
as clear
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH16116says
"No".
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH33326says
"No".
Cheers, Wayne
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Sanders, Nate wrote:
> What’s the best practice on moving the NBU master catalog
There are probably several ways to do this. While I have a different
vendor's disk appliance, I suspect similar capabilities.
For us, license cost was an issue. Reducing NetBackup licenses (and
involvement) in Oracle database backups to zero, we have our disk appliance
export NFS mounts to our
I respectfully disagree in all respects.
- Refusing to get a database backed up until management hires a DBA could
be a "resume generating event".
- Like it or not, the questioner appears to be the Oracle DBA, albeit one
very early in his DBA career and learning on his own!
- [redac
Ouch, having an Oracle database without a DBA is like having NetBackup
without anyone that knows NetBackup.
There are several ways to do backups of Oracle databases. These include
- Cold, full. You take down the database and backup all associated disk
space (data, redolog, and perhaps oth
Mark,
I would say we don't have enough information to answer the question.
- If the sysadmins and DBAs are good and can be expected to get good at
the client end of NetBackup (installation, connection issues, restore
issues), perhaps with backup admin help learning NBU, much less backup
Perhaps the policy or schedule for this backup is using an unexpected
storage group?
Cheers, Wayne
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, thesunlover wrote:
> I opend that thread you referred.
>
> It looks like the 800 error is regarding storage. There is only one tape
> robot connecting to the single
I can't answer your question either, but there should be a lot of "it
depends" in any answer.
- many dedup appliances will not only dedup but will do traditional
compression. Compress your SQL dump with your favorite compression
utility. Your dedup appliance is unlikely to do better at
Good point, and ditto for us. Our Quantum DXi6550 initially could have
either 1G or 10G, but not both. We required both and Quantum, albeit too
slowly for my taste, resolved in our favor. The next version of the DXi
software has been said to ease the config issues, but I don't know if/how as
we
RMAN and NetBackup each has a retention and one can normally restore from a
backup that has expired from neither. (One can "add back" a unexpired
NetBackup image into the RMAN catalog, as one can import a tape image back
into the NetBackup catalog)
RMAN does not know the Netbackup retention nor d
I may be way off base here, but I suspect something slightly different.
My experience is that recent versions of Oracle database may have
oracle_link run with the database running.
Perhaps pranav did not run oracle_link after upgrading to 6.5.6? Are the
NetBackup servers at 6.5.6?
Cheers, Wayne
I don't recall the sample, but we use os authentication (I.e., "connect
target;" ... no passwords ... os authentication).
Cheers, Wayne
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Snyder, Nicholas A (IS) <
nicholas.sny...@ngc.com> wrote, in part:
> Implementing NetBackup Database Agent backups for Oracle.
No. The normal operation is a true inline dedup, but you have an option to
delay the dedup. We use the inline method and our OST-connected 6550 has
met or exceeded our performance expectations.
Cheers, Wayne
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Robin Small
wrote, in part:
> On the Quantum,
>
>
>
Maybe some new version of NetBackup will use robust, programmed connections
rather than the current hodge-podge that leads to untold customer
frustrations and lost time. So many versions, so little gain.Wayne
P.S. I think a Symantec note admits problems with larger buffers and some
versions o
I've only found this true on older versions of Oracle. In fact, I ran a 6.5
"oracle_link" for an 11.1 home just a week or so ago with a DB up and
running and after trying a backup that went "clunk" because the link had not
yet been made for this Oracle home. Backups ran fine immediately after
run
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, wrote, in part:
> ...
> This would be a very good time for you to investigate utilizing client side
> de-dupe, Pure Disk, Media Server De-Dupe, one of the NBU appliances (which
> have storage built in), or a Data Domain.
> ...
>
or a Quantum ;-)
Cheers, Wayne
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When I went from tape on my telephone answering machine I had some
misgivings, due mostly to "flexibility" of flipping the tape when full and
fixed size storage.
I've wanted a D2D2D backup system for several years and have been enjoying
the one we now have for several months. Like any other IT s
This sounds like a problem opening a connection from the client to the
NetBackup server.
On client and master/media servers (I assume you use the default "vnetd",
port 13724, method and FQDN):
1. Test forward and reverse DNS for servers and client. If multiple IP
addresses, adjust NBU conf
Judy's recommendation to "run as administrator" is a good one. That an
older version was uninstalled makes the hair on the back of my neck tingle
... because of the uninstall, I recommend a Windows reboot before installing
6.5 ... and if anything NBUish happens on the reboot, reboot again. Turn
A
In some earlier versions of NetBackup there was a bug where in some cases
all Oracle backups would end with status code 6, but it's been fixed by
v6.5.
As the others have written, there may be detail in the child jobs or you may
have to use logging that your RMAN script has created. For certain
If I understand this correctly, we've seen a couple of problems like this,
especially after our backup servers were placed back in a private network
- maybe the client can't open a connection to the backup server due to
firewall
- maybe the client can't do reverse DNS lookup (or its domai
As I've written previously on this list, I'm a Quantum 6550 customer ...
smaller than the questioner's system, backing up about 10T from 120 or so
clients on NetBackup v6.5 and OST. I'm a big fan of OST if you go with a
Data Domain or Quantum appliance. I looked at Quantum OST a year ago, but
it'
Take a look at the job details ... you may find that the job waited for a
long period of time for a tape or tape drive to become available.
Also, you might want to exclude the NetBackup catalog from your Master
server backup (and make sure your catalog jobs are working).
At least your DSSU trial
No impressions here, but I'll note that CommVault is advertising their
product's use with Nirvanix.
Cheers, Wayne
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Roy McMorran wrote:
> I recently received a notification from the Symantec beta program about a
> beta for cloud-based backup storage using Nirvan
You might find "How to restore an Exchange 2003 database to a Recovery
Storage Group" (http://support.veritas.com/docs/281259 aka
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281259) useful.
Cheers, Wayne
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Tony1100
wrote:
> I am desperate so any help is much appreciated! I
As you know, the 196 status code means your backup job could not be started
within its backup start window. It didn't start because it required a
resource that wasn't available (to it) during the start window ... probably
a place to put the backups or limits on number of backup streams/jobs for
th
I'm not sure one can learn much from such a generic question.
Not what you were asking, but I get 60+MB/sec on a single stream or
120MB/sec all streams on my 6.5.5 Linux server via OST to a Quantum 6550,
and that's via its 2 1Gb/S interfaces (bonded) ... should do better once
Quantum gets the 10Gb
(Knowing nothing about Win2008R2 and little about VMs, ...)
I'd want to get together with my network folks to see if I'm getting dropped
packets during the test.
Misconfigured connections and overloaded routers can kill performance.
I'd also look at windows performance stats ... perhaps memory is
I used to do more, but recently (on my v5.1 NetBackup setup) I've
- look at /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors once or twice a week,
generally Monday and Friday when I tried to review that each client was
having successful backups.
- From the errors file, I'd look to see if there wer
I like Steven's answer better than mine. ;-)
Mine is to exclude the day for affected clients on my calendar-based backups
... rather tedious, compared to the "nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling" / "nbpemreq
-resume_scheduling" method when one has many policies.
Cheers, Wayne
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:
The answer depends on your version of NetBackup. For v6.5 (and maybe 6.0
and 7.0), you don't need any as the communications defaults to "vnet" (port
13724). Open that port at client and server(s) and all should be well.
Earlier versions required setting the "bpcd connect-back port" to vnetd for
Almost totally ignoring your questions, I'll offer that while NetApp has a
dedup capability, I'm unaware of an OST plugin.
We have a nice pair of Quantum 6550s using NetBackup 6.5.5 and OST ... and
are happy customers.
After using NetBackup "Vault" to duplicate backups to tape for off-site, OST
b
I know this has been an NBU SAN whatever discussion, but ...
Wow ... backing up a TSM system with NBU. I hope you do a lot of testing.
TSM does a lot of stuff in the background. I'd make sure TSM is shutdown,
not just the data volumes and your backup includes everything that is TSM,
especially t
Hi Brian,
Because we backup machines that will be unavailable for periods of time, the
% isn't very interesting for us.
Items I find interesting:
- On Monday morning, what servers have not had a successful full backup
over the weekend (I want a reason for every client failing backups)
-
Do your Oracle DB restore from Oracle (RMAN), not NetBackup.
Cheers, Wayne
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Hi Susan,
I'll offer that the suggestions were for your NetBackup administrator and
are settings on your media server(s), not anything your Oracle admins can
change. Also, the settings apply to all restores/mounts, not just Oracle DB
restores.
Cheers, Wayne
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Hi Mark,
I have 2 much smaller Exchange servers (120GB & 200GB) and use the NBU
Exchange agent (still v5.1 for the moment).
I find the agent does as well pushing data as a small-file-count file
system backup (i.e., very well!), with differential incrementals being a
bit slower ... maybe half-s
One NBU policy per DB works best for us. You don't necessarily have to
have multiple scripts, as long as your script "knows" what DB to backup
and what policy/schedule to use.
Having separate policies makes scheduling changes and reruns easier. It
allows us to see exactly which DB is being ba
Oracle export (or Data Pump in newer versions of Oracle) may give you
the protection you need.
* Have your DBA evaluate the export(s) done and test restores.
Tests may include loss of
o an Oracle row of data
o an Oracle table
o an Oracle tablespace
comments (2) within...
Hickman, Tony wrote, in part, on 2009-03-09 10:26 AM:
>
> This is the first time for me using this mailing list. This list was
> recommended to me by someone and here I am.
Welcome!
>
> Here is my current dilemma:
> We went to using a Data Domain device along with N
We have a few NetApp filers with FC, iSCSI and NFS storage.
We don't do NDMP, but that's because of license costs and ignorance, I
suppose.
Our backups have been host-based with traditional NetBackup file system
and agents.
Recently, we've increased backups with NetApp snapshot (with a mirror,
My 2 cents ...
The master server view of an Oracle Agent backup is just part of the story.
* Your script/template can fail to perform one of its functions and
not even try to backup something critical. From the Master, the
backup looks perfect. As a minimum, you must have and
Thanks for the experiences, Ed!
What level of NetBackup client are you running on the NT machines?
(I'm not having a problem, but will be moving to 6.5.1 or 6.5.2, from
5.1MP6 ... NT client machines at 4.5MP6)
Thanks and cheers, wayne
Ed Wilts wrote, in part, on 2008-04-30 6:06 PM:
> On Wed,
I disagree (never good to disagree with Ed ... he's always right ...
here goes anyway)...
IMHO, Calendar schedules are superior to Frequency based schedules in
this case.
First, NetBackup can do last Friday of the month, but not quarter. If
you use NetBackup scheduling, you need to decide whe
No solution should be based on a single full backup tape that is
rewritten each week! First problem: if a full backup fails, you have
no backup. Second problem: if your full backup overwrites the first,
you have just invalidated (in any logical sense, while probably not
NetBackup sense) any
Hi Marianne,
If you do a little client logging, I think you'll see the cause.
The last time this happened to me, I forgot to set "vnetd" on the backup
server "client attributes". Scheduled fs backups worked fine ... the DB
agent backups would do just what you have shown us. (The logging showed
Sure! Investigate backing up to a disk appliance. There are a number
of vendors ... Data Domain might be a good place to start, as they have
much of the market.
Since you do nightly full backups, they'll love you and you'll be
impressed at what you can squeeze onto their disk (will vary with
A couple of possibilities?
* Vault will suspend on eject (5.1 and above)
* The process of making a new synthetic full backup will (temporarily)
suspend tapes.
cheers, wayne
Deiter, Scott wrote, in part, on 2007-12-04 1:07 PM:
>
> We are getting many tape volumes suspended that are not filled
Symantec/NetApp are pitching "SnapVault for NetBackup" (a NetBackup 6.0
option ... I'm interested in the 6.5 incarnation, if that matters) as
part of my new and improved D2D2D backup and recovery strategy.
I've had the marketing pitch and fear I have the glazed eyes of a deer
looking into head
There was a good discussion of this 6 months or a year ago on this list
(search the archives).
With some versions and some platforms, one can use "bpgp" to find the
NetBackup client or agent version. For example, many versions of
Netbackup might use a default "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version"
My guess is "backup_exit_notify".
cheers, wayne
habscout wrote, in part:
> I'm assisting a Netbackup administrator, and we have an output file that
> appears to be generated from Netbackup but we cannot tell which command is
> doing it. The Netbackup version is 5.0 and this is running on a Sol
Yes, I had a similar problem with 5.1.
I use calendar schedules and "fulls" had been completed Saturday. There
were two types of NetBackup schedule failure that I found.
* Incrementals that finished during 1-2 am then ran a full (there was a
catch-up window, but none should have run because th
I get a few of these (v5.1MP6), mostly during high-load situations.
Inevitably, the status 50 Duplicate job has this in (the middle of) its log:
Warning bpduplicate ... failure logging message to client ... in log
...: can't connect to client (58)
cheers, wayne
dy018 wrote, in part,
Yes, we are in the middle of this (trying to replace D2T2T with D2D2D)
process now.
What I am seeing is that while disk media costs more than tape per TB,
de-duplication is the difference-maker, the enabler, making extra weeks
or months retention of D2D data inexpensive. Buy another appliance f
Perhaps ...
* Link NetBackup for Oracle in to Oracle (NBU Agent install step).
* (Consider) switch to manual controlfile backup with
|* RMAN> configure controlfile autobackup off;
* RMAN> backup current controlfile;
* Put RMAN's and NBU's catalogs in sync with crosscheck.
If I were
Perhaps you have a blank at the end of the folder name?
Are you expecting the "all policies" items to be used when a specific
policy/schedule entry is available? I'm not saying how it works, just
asking ;-)
Actually, I'm surprised that the "*\qmgr*" and "temp" entries work as
you expect. You
Of course! Frequency-based backups don't care about midnight.
No joke, if I was recalling my previous post on Calendar-base backups,
though. ;-)
cheers, wayne
Curtis Preston wrote, in part, on 2007-08-02 5:39 PM:
> You meant that as a joke, right? Almost all of my windows cross
> midnight.
Windows crossing midnight ... kind of like the GhostBusters crossing
streams ... not healthy.
cheers, wayne
dbwallis wrote, in part, on 2007-08-02 5:02 PM:
> Greenberg, Katherine (... wrote:
>
>> It will do it by default, based on the backup that has not run in the
>> longest time being run
If the incrementals are in the same policy as your fulls, NetBackup will
do what you want automatically. (Caveat: If the time of day of your full
and incremental windows vary, or you have an incremental frequency
shorter than your window, my statement doesn't apply).
This works with either freq
A few points for note or discussion ...
* The "shutdown immediate" and "startup mount" (or even "startup
nomount") have certain requirements. Depending on what you are trying
to test (what you have lost), your test may or may not be successful.
* Since you don't have a recovery catalog, RMAN w
The number of days to keep logs is a NetBackup setting. One way to set
the number is via the Admin Console ... navigate to
NetBackup Management -> Host Properties -> Master Servers, right
click on your master and select "Properties", and finally click
"Global Attributes". The "Keep
You might want to look at the new NetApp options in NBU v6.5.
NetApp and Symantec seemed to have found a pot of gold in this NetApp
data backup area. I recently asked for a quote on a NetApp (backup
disk) solution to backup one of our 3050 boxes ... and they came up with
a proposal that includ
I'd add a 4th possibility ... RMAN backup to disk which is then (NBU
user) backed up. Agent not required. (I'd much rather have the NBU
Agent, but it may be cost prohibitive). I have a couple of Oracle 8 DBs
backed up this way.
Also, someone (I think in this thread) mentioned you needed an Or
I, too, agree the 2-week retention should be addressed ... quite risky.
A few thoughts ...
I recently tested Aptare StorageConsole and one of its out-of-the-box
displays is close what you're looking for, I think. When we obtain a
license, I'll be discarding many scripts ... one of which sort
Rather than mess with volume labels, why not use one of the fields that
"Vault" would have used?
Even using the tape description field would be better than messing with
the bar code field ... but maybe I don't understand what you're trying
to do.
cheers, wayne
Brooks, Jason wrote, in part, o
I have no idea. But I thought I would mention that my plan to upgrade
from 5.1->6.0 is to avoid the upgrade. This will be possible in my case
because (1) we don't keep long term backups and (2) we're installing a
new (Linux) server to replace our aging (Solaris) server. We'll run in
parallel
OK, I'll bite.
Yes, it is very important to have a control file backup!
I recommend you make the RMAN setting for control file auto-backup
("CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;"). Then, your control file is
automatically backed up with the DB, and if you lose your control file
(or repository
The (NetBackup v5.1) manual says no:
Using RMAN to Perform a Redirected Restore
Note The same user name (UNIX account) that was used for the Oracle
database backup must be used for the alternate client restore.
cheers, wayne
Evsyukov, Sergey wrote, in part, on 2007-06-25 4:52 AM:
>
I'm never satisfied with 3rd party support and almost never with direct!
For various reasons, we have Sun support of NBU, but expect to change
that. When I have a problem, I want to get to the people that will find
or write the fix asap. 3rd party almost cannot do that. Also, from time
to tim
On at least versions 4.5, 5.0 and 5.1, this gives the platform, version
and maintenance pack level for the NetBackup for Oracle Agent.
If the same holds true for version 6.0 (I'm not there), your example
would mean you have a version 6.0 NetBackup for Oracle Agent that has
yet to be upgraded wi
I spoke with a NYC Symantec/NetBackup Systems Engineer yesterday. He
said (something close to) once 6.5 is available this Fall, there will be
a direct upgrade from 5.1 (or 5.1MP6). cheers, wayne
King, Cheryl wrote, in part, on 2007-06-20 12:47 PM:
> Why do you say v5.1 MP6 first? Sorry I've
What's a "restore schedule"? ;-)
cheers, wayne
w9000i wrote, in part:
> Hi people,
> I'm new at the forum I need to know how to create a restore schedule at the
> Netbackup 5.1
>
> If some one can put a command examples and how to create this?
>
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There is no bible; the topic is too broad and in flux too much for their
to be a "bible", IMHO.
That written, I like (the four year old) Little & Chapa Wiley
publication "Implementing Backup and Recovery: The Readiness Guide for
the Enterprise", as well as Preston's new O'Riley publication "Bac
If your tapes start out in the off site group/pool, they will
return/stay there once they expire.
For example, my "vault tapes" start and stay in a volume pool named
"dup". When Vault writes to a tape, the Vault job ejects the tape and
moves it from a "volume group" I'll call "home" to a volu
This was some time ago, but I found synthetic backups to be either
irrelevant (due to restrictions on their applicability) or unusable (due
to the occasional problems that seem to require new full backups) at my
shop (v5.1). That, and the last thing that my shop needed were more
long tape-to-
and if you have "allow multiple data streams" selected for a policy,
you'll probably have more than three jobs (and more than one drive used).
(Also, I'm unclear if you have 3 or 9 policies ... this and Ueli's
responses are assuming you have no more than one policy for each client).
cheers, way
If this was Windows, I'd expect the disk is fragmented.
What is the nature of the disk space under these files? Same disk or
allocation as others or somehow separate?
Every writer on this list (that I've noticed) has been emphatic that MPs
before MP4 have a myriad of problems.
cheers, wayne
> PS: I'm the kind of guy who doesn't really have time to read a 100
> page installation manual, I'd like to do things fast !
>
... and now, I trust, you are re-evaluating! Fast is good. Fast means
reading and understanding, so you do it once, right and best for your
business.
cheers, wayne
You didn't mention which version of NetBackup you are using. At least
if you are using v5.1 or older, catalog tapes have a different format
than NetBackup data tapes. If you try to write data to a catalog tape,
you receive the infamous "it contains VERITAS NetBackup (tm) database
backup data
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