Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question

2009-09-28 Thread Wheeler, Gideon
Hi, No cross blade routing is allowed So the masking will only work within each blade. This doesn't prevent you from presenting 4 tapes drives down 1 FC port. To present more tape drives to a host you need to zone them in at the switch side. What version of the firmware are you using ? Hope this h

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Oracle agent using RMAN crosscheck command

2009-09-24 Thread Wheeler, Gideon
Has anyone had experience using the RMAN crosscheck command to keep the oracle RMAN catalogue in sync, particularly when duplication is involved. Its highly probable that the original RMAN entry will point to an expired image ( although the 2nd copy is still active) Regards Gideon __

Re: [Veritas-bu] otman5

2009-09-22 Thread Wheeler, Gideon
Hi ibakes, This seems like an underlying file/hardware issue. Have you looked at the event/system logs and see if there is any hardware issues. Also run a chkdsk on the data volume. To confirm this, turn up logging and create the bpkar directory in the logs directory and create the empty file /u

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment size for LTO4 on NBU 6.x

2009-09-17 Thread Wheeler, Gideon
I agree a 2GB fragment size for an LTO3 / 4 drive is a little on the small size, but rather than choosing the fragment size to fit the tape technology perhaps it would be useful to select fragment size based on the type of the data we are backing up. Large single file data such as image, audio or e