[Veritas-bu] Temporarily downing a robot/library

2012-12-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anyone know of a way to temporarily stop using a robot/library. There are several connect to the media server and we want the others to continue. Is there a way, short of downing all the drives, to accomplish this? Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715

[Veritas-bu] db/images question

2012-10-18 Thread Whelan, Patrick
If all the images for a client have expired and the client has been deleted, does NetBackup automagically delete its corresponding directory in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images ? Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715 -

[Veritas-bu] Incremental backup question

2012-10-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, I suppose the answer is obvious, but I'm having trouble getting my head around it. What happens to an incremental backup whose dependent full has expired. For example A full backup is run and expires in 90 days. 89 Days later an cumulative incremental is run and expires in 30 days. Two d

[Veritas-bu] Tuning nbrb

2012-09-06 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience / suggestions regarding the tuning of nbrb. It appears to be a real bottleneck here. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist +44 (0)207 995 9715 -- This message w/attachments

[Veritas-bu] Another frequency based scheduling question.

2012-08-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, You would think after 16 years I would know this answer, and I think I do, but I would like other opinions or facts. Here is the quandary: Backup window 1900 - 0600, frequency 1 day. Backup runs at 0300 for various reasons, including manually run. Question: Will the next backup run the ne

Re: [Veritas-bu] There are no files matching the specified criteria

2012-07-25 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Have you tried the bplist command, such as: bplist –C -R 99 –Listseconds –s 01/01/1970 / bplist –help for more information. I have also seen this problem when there were multiple names for the same client. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.

[Veritas-bu] Exclude System State and/or Shadow Copy Components

2012-05-25 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hello All, How can I exclude the above mention from a backup. I have tried: System State:\ System_State:\ /System Stage/ Shadow Copy Components:\ Shadow Copy Components /Shadow Copy Components/ None of them appear to work, which leads me to one more question, how can I tell if it is excluding th

Re: [Veritas-bu] migrating standalone master serverto clustered-master-server

2010-12-21 Thread Whelan, Patrick
If one or more of these conditions is not met please contact Symantec Consulting Services or your Business Critical Account Manager for assistance. 1. The master server must not be clustered. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading L

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.0 controlling/logging a ufsdump

2010-12-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
You can use NetBackup to get a tape and put it in a drive (assuming you have a library) using tpreq -m media_id [-a (r/w)] [-d density] [-p poolname] [-priority number] [-f] filename Your script could then do a ufsdump and tpunmount [-e exitstatus] [-f] filename [-force] to unmount the tape. Be

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5.5 Backup Selections Paths Report

2010-10-18 Thread Whelan, Patrick
The information is in: bperror -all -l or bpdbjobs -all_columns bperror is the more accurate because bpdbjobs only covers jobs that you can see in the activity monitor. Good luck. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Bankin

Re: [Veritas-bu] Any body have script to accomplish following ?

2010-08-20 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Someone published a ksh version a few weeks ago. I have a Perl version if you want. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups inagiven period

2010-07-30 Thread Whelan, Patrick
P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 30 July 2010 13:17 To: Harpreet SINGH; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.E

Re: [Veritas-bu] command to figure out size of all backups in agiven period

2010-07-30 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Thank you Harpreet. For those who may want to use Perl so that it might work on Windows (not tested) I am attaching a Perl version. If anyone gets it to work on Windows could you let me know, and what you did to get it fixed, please. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Marke

[Veritas-bu] Aptare Question

2010-07-20 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Sorry for the interruption. I know this is not an Aptare mailing list, but I don't what is, and I just installed Aptare and had a question or two. If anyone is willing to help off list please let me know. You man now resume your regularly schedule mailing list. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBacku

Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate

2010-06-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 22 June 2010 16:56 To: V

[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate

2010-06-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, A couple of irrelevant questions. Does anyone know what the -fork option is? Is the -X used to set the dates to Unix time format? I am only the one that just discovered how to see what commands jnbSA executes? :( Does anyone know how to do the equivalent from windows? Regards, Patric

[Veritas-bu] WRN - can't lock raw device for read

2010-06-21 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, I'm getting the above message while trying to do a raw partition back up of a W2k3 server. I turned off snap shot but it makes no difference. Does anyone have any suggestions? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Des

Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpdbjobs jobtypes

2010-06-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
7;t print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: Iverson, Jerald [mailto:jerald.iver...@invesco.com] Sent: 16 June 2010 17:05 To: Whelan, Patrick Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpdbjobs jobtypes no, those are policy

[Veritas-bu] Bpdbjobs jobtypes

2010-06-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anyone know what jobs types 15, 16, 17, 18, ... are? I think 17 is image cleanup, but the others I have no clue. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 P please don't print this e-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Determining date of media freeze

2010-06-14 Thread Whelan, Patrick
bperror -l -media -X -d 169200 -e 127652 | grep -i freez that the large number in the first column: bpdbm -ctime and that will tell you the date. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 612

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Client Installation through AdministrationConsole

2010-04-26 Thread Whelan, Patrick
You can install UNIX/Linux clients from the Java GUI. But not windoze clients. At least the option doesn't appear. If you click on Policies --> Summary of All Policies --> Clients then right click on a client it will show if you can install/upgrade of not. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Speci

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores Slooooooooooooooow

2010-04-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Has anyone else seen this? When I say slow I mean 150 to 300 KB/Sec. Windoze master Netapps NDMP NBU 6.5.3 Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 This e-mail is private and confident

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

2010-04-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
What does the output of vmquery -list_media_genrule show? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:ver

Re: [Veritas-bu] Another stupid question

2010-04-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 13 April 2010 10:42 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Another stupid question Hello All, How do I get the equivalent of the GUI Media and Device Management --> Devices --> Med

[Veritas-bu] Another stupid question

2010-04-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hello All, How do I get the equivalent of the GUI Media and Device Management --> Devices --> Media Servers from the command line? At the moment my Admin Console says everything is good, but the Java Console says two are offline. I want to confirm this from the command line which is far more t

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

2010-03-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: 22 March 2010 14:37 To: Whelan, Patrick; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up I don't know how i

Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

2010-03-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
It's not a matter of whether you can or can not backup an open file, it's the type of open file that you are backing up. If it is a database file and the database isn't aware that you are backing up its file the file will not be in a state that the database can use if/when you restore it. MOST data

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Drive

2010-03-11 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Give all four drives to NetBackup, then use tpreq to request a tape for your tar, cpio or whatever. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-

Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

2010-03-01 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 01 March 2010 18:24 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu]

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

2010-03-01 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, Environment: Master and media servers Windoze 2003. NDMP filers Netapps (sorry don't know model or ontap version). Scenario: Backups from A can be restored to B but not A Backups from B can be restored to B. Backups from B to A may have worked but I don't remember as it was awhile ago.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Parsing through bpimagelist

2010-02-26 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Which OS? on *nix you can use grep, and awk. on toy OS's you can use find. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 Loc: OBS 2C-132 From: veritas-bu-boun...@

Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name

2010-02-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Since you are on MP5.1 MP4 (i.e. before 6.x) you should be able to change the first bp.conf entry to reflect the name of the new master. There is actually more to it than this, and there must be a white paper somewhere, but it is doable. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Ma

[Veritas-bu] Command line to do restore preview

2010-02-18 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hi All, Does anyone know what the 6.5.4 command is to get a list of tapes needed for a restore? Like in the GUI. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 This e-mail is private and confidential and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anyone re-provisioned a media server w/ 6.5.xlately?

2010-02-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Take a look at the nbemmcmd command. Maybe you -deletehost and then -addhost . Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mai

Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't upgrade past 6.0 client

2010-02-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Ditto Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff

[Veritas-bu] NDMP Restores

2010-02-10 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Hello All, Has anyone had a problem with NDMP restores to the same filer? We can restore a file to a different filer, but not to itself. Both restores are going to a separate directory just for the restores. Environment: Windoze 2003 SP2 Netapps filer NetBackup 6.5.3 The restores are from DSU or

Re: [Veritas-bu] Question with Tape Compression: Is it possible to turnit off?

2010-01-27 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Could you not specify /dev/rmt/xxubn instead of /dev/rmt/cbn in the drive configuration? This would stop compression to the drive always. Of course if you are unfortunate enough to be running windows, then you may be out of luck. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury

[Veritas-bu] pbx

2009-12-10 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Where can I find VRTSpbx for NetBackup 6.5.4? Please. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading Lloyds Banking Group Desk: +44 (0) 207 158 6123 This e-mail is private and confidential and may contain privileged material. If you have received this e-

Re: [Veritas-bu] quick eject script

2009-12-02 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Attached is a perl script that will list the tapes in each drive of a robot as long as it is run on the robotic control host. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.

Re: [Veritas-bu] "Bible" for Storage Administrators

2007-05-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I believe Dave Little and Dave Chapa are/were frequent visitors. In fact Curtis's appearance is relatively new, considering how long he's been doing backups. :) :) IMHO. Regards, Patrick Whelan Senior NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect, Engineering & Operations +44 20 7863 5

Re: [Veritas-bu] "Bible" for Storage Administrators

2007-05-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Curtis, any suggestions? :) :) Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angela Akridge Sent: 22 May 2007 15:04 To: veritas-bu@mailman.

Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

2007-05-17 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Not supported or won't work? We are running some 3.4 clients with the master at NBU 5.12MP6 and they work fine. Unfortunately we can't upgrade the Solaris 2.6 clients so we are stuck with 3.4. Of course if they won't work with 6.x then we can push them to upgrade or get rid of the boxes. :) Regard

[Veritas-bu] blib and exclude lists

2007-05-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether blib backups will read or not exclude lists? I have looked through the admin, advanced client and oracle agent manuals with not success. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 **

Re: [Veritas-bu] Start NBU non-root

2007-05-11 Thread Whelan, Patrick
True, NetBackup does require root, but you might be able to setuid on the start-up script and execute it that way, have never actually tried. I have, in the past setuid on all the entire executables in netbackup/bin, and changed the group for the files, then started them with a user belonging to th

[Veritas-bu] 5.1 MP6

2007-05-03 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Has anyone had problems installing MP6 on 5.1 on HP-UX? I have installed on two of our five successfully, but the other three either fail, or fail to start after a "successful" install. Any clues would be appreciated. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architec

Re: [Veritas-bu] Moving tapes to a different pool.

2007-04-30 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Oops. Written, assigned tapes. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 April 2007 14:54 To: Whelan, Patrick Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn

[Veritas-bu] Moving tapes to a different pool.

2007-04-30 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Has anyone tried this successfully and consistently? I have done it for one tape and everything seemed to work, but I wanted to know if anyone has tried it before doing the rest of the tapes. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243

Re: [Veritas-bu] NB6.0 MP4: After change of users to LDAP, cannot start Java GUI anymore

2007-04-20 Thread Whelan, Patrick
The java log files are, I believe, in /usr/openv/java/logs. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: 20 April 2007 08:35

Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup certification exam in London (UK)

2007-04-17 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist (Contractor) COLT Telecom Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick Sent: 17 April 2007 14:38 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup certification exam in London (UK)

2007-04-17 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Having googled myself to death, I'm calling on you all to see if anyone knows where to go to take the NetBackup certification tests in London. Or failing that, if you have a tried and tested google search string that will locate it, that would also be good. Thanks in advance. Regards, Patrick Wh

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem recycling old CATALOG tapes

2007-04-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Try running the first try again only use -d hcart2. According to your vmquery output it is a ½" tape not dlt. If that doesn't' work try HCART2. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 ... Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte

[Veritas-bu] Multiple Retention Levels

2007-04-01 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Environment NBU 5.1MP4 HP-UX 11.11 Does anyone know which command, if any, I can use from the command line (and thefore shell scripts) to determine if the allow multiple retention level box has been ticked by some idiot in another country who will not fess up to it. In case you think I'm pissed of

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to check the approx. available space on a tape?

2007-03-29 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Since no two tapes are exactly the same length, what is this going to tell you, even if you did find out where the EOT marker was? I suppose if your are really insistent on the length of tape (there always seems to be one every year), you could take one apart, measure it's length, try to determi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup behavior

2007-03-27 Thread Whelan, Patrick
For the second question. Do you want to do it from the command line or from a script? If command line then use robtest. If from a script, then xxxtest, where xxx is the type of library, usually tld. For example if you want to move a tape from slot 102 to drive 1 on a TLD library controlled by /d

Re: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?

2007-03-26 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Why not have a script that runs a backup followed by an archive. Check the error code of the backup, if is not 0 then don't run the archive. If it is 0 then run the archive which will automatically delete the files when it completes successfully. It will not delete antything if it fails even with a

Re: [Veritas-bu] (46) server not allowed

2007-03-19 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Be sure DISALLOW_SERVER_WRITES (sp?) = NO. You run bpgetconfig -M and grep/find for DISALLOW and check that it is set to no. If it is set to yes, you can only change it on the client. regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've

[Veritas-bu] add_slave_on_clients

2007-03-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anybody have the parameters for this command? -help or -Q doesn't do anything and there is nothing in the command line manual. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individ

Re: [Veritas-bu] Two Netbackup questions

2007-03-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
1) If you do not backup server2 at all, you could create a symbolic link from server1 so that when you did a search on server2 it would find the backups for server1. 2) tpreq -m media_id [-a (r/w)] [-d density] [-p poolname] [-f] filename rsh dump 0f - /mnt/volume_name > filename tpunmoun

Re: [Veritas-bu] Frozen tape characteristics?

2007-02-16 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Point of clarification. The only differences between FROZEN and SUSPENDED: 1) Suspending has to be done manually 2) When all the images on a SUSPENDED tape have expired the tape will be re-used. Otherwise they are treated the same in that NetBackup will read from the tape if a restore needs it.

Re: [Veritas-bu] List of backuped files

2007-02-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
According to the command line manual for 6.0 bplist is still there. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux media server recommendations

2007-02-07 Thread Whelan, Patrick
and those who don't. ... Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte -- Martin Niemöller -Original Message- From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 February 2007 14:39 To: Whelan, Patrick Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-b

[Veritas-bu] Linux media server recommendations

2007-02-07 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anyone have any suggestions for Linux media servers? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who

Re: [Veritas-bu] RES: RES: Moving assigned media to another

2007-02-02 Thread Whelan, Patrick
The software has been installed on lonbrk11 and 12. Where are the physically located so I can add them to the correct policy? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10

Re: [Veritas-bu] Expiring images and tapes

2007-01-31 Thread Whelan, Patrick
How about with the backupid: bpexpdate: -backupid -d [-client ] [-copy ] [-force] [-M ] Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds

Re: [Veritas-bu] Script for Daily Backup Totals

2007-01-18 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does that work on Windows? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't. ... Als sie mich holten

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

2007-01-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
y 2007 14:16 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: > You could: > > bpdbjobs -most_columns | grep backupid | awk -F, '{ print $17 }' Hm, there's no bpdbjobs on the client :

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

2007-01-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: 09 January 2007 14:16 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: > You could: > > bpdbjobs -most_columns | grep backupid | awk -F, '{ print $17 }&#

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

2007-01-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
007 13:16 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hello again :) Ed Wilts wrote: > On 1/9/2007 6:22 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Whelan, Patrick wrote: >>> Look at bpstart_notify and bpend_notify examples

Re: [Veritas-bu] Exclusions

2007-01-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Have you tried *\.mp3 ? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't. ... Als sie mich holten, g

Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1?

2007-01-09 Thread Whelan, Patrick
ECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: 09 January 2007 12:23 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with NetBackup 5.1? Hi! Whelan, Patrick wrote: > Look at bpstart_notify and bpend_notify examples in > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies. Thank

Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec ?!Support?!

2007-01-04 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Just my £.02 worth. Unless it is absolutely critical, in which case I will ask to be transferred immediately, I send an email from their web site. This does many things: 1) They get my email address right (unless I type it wrong) :-( 2) They send an automated response that they rece

Re: [Veritas-bu] File restore search?

2006-12-18 Thread Whelan, Patrick
What OS are using? You can either use bpflist or from the restore GUI search for a specific file name. If you don't know the name of the server, then it gets a little tougher. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I m

Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams - RESOLUTION

2006-12-12 Thread Whelan, Patrick
es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte -- Martin Niemöller -Original Message- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 December 2006 17:08 To: Whelan, Patrick Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams Hi Pat! couple of things to check How is Busy files set

[Veritas-bu] Error 41 on one of 7 streams

2006-12-12 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Environment: Solaris master server NBU5.1MP5 HP-UX Media Server NBU5.1MP5 Client HP-UX NBU5.1MP4 Has anyone seen a case where seven streams kick off and only one fails with a 41 Error (network connection timeout)? This is very strange. Any suggestions appreciated. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBa

[Veritas-bu] bpversion command

2006-12-07 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Has any used the bpversion command? If so, what does it do and how are the parameters used? Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who underst

Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media Server

2006-12-07 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I have never actually tried this, but you might try putting a SCRATCH_POOL = entry in /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf on the new media server. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There a

[Veritas-bu] Backup networks

2006-12-01 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Does anyone have a similar setup? Separate backup network from clients in one location to media servers in same location, but the master server can only see the clients and media servers on the public network. This causes 41 errors, we have come up with different work arounds but all of them are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading 5.1 mp4 to mp5

2006-11-29 Thread Whelan, Patrick
We had one issue. We have some HP-UX11.00 boxes running BLIB and were on 4.5MP4 because 5.1 with BLIB is not supported by HP-UX11.00. We were running three types of backups, OS, BLIB and User Archive. After the upgrade to 5.1MP5, the User Archive backups started failing. After upgrading to 4.5MP

Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

2006-11-24 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I was under the impression that RMAN backups were supposed to have INFINITE retention and that RMAN took care of expiring the images, there by keeping the RMAN catalog in sync with the NetBackup catalog. Otherwise RMAN will think there is a good backup, but NetBackup has expired it, if the reten

[Veritas-bu] Patch install for NBU5.1MP5 for HP-UX

2006-11-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Patch install for NBU5.1MP5 for HP-UX Does anybody have the correct install script for HP-UX for NBU5.1MP5? The script that comes with patch works find on Solaris but fails on our HP-UX11.11 media servers. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist

[Veritas-bu] "exceeded the configured number of tries"

2006-11-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: "exceeded the configured number of tries" All, Environment: Clustered Solaris master server 5.8 running NBU 5.1MP4 and 4 HP-UX media servers, also running NBU 5.1MP4. The clients that are failing are windows and UNIX. I have been getting the above error for over a week now on vario

Re: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1

2006-10-11 Thread Whelan, Patrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raghunath kandakur Sent: 11 October 2006 15:32 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Writing perl scripts for performance enhancement inNBU5.1 Hi all, I am looking out for help for w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple-Nics

2006-09-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
If you don’t want to use the GUI, you can do it from the command line using bpsetconfig (see manual for details).   Regards,   Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup through firewalls

2006-09-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I have a script that runs bprdreq -rereadconfig 50 times (50 is completely arbitrary) and so far it has worked every time. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kind

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client is not validated to use this server

2006-09-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Are you restoring from another server? Do you have /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames set up properly, see manual for the way that is right for your implementation? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Fame at last.

2006-09-07 Thread Whelan, Patrick
And how do we know you really are Paul Keating? You could be spoofing his address to get him into trouble. :) :) Donald Duck NetBackup Commedian Architect & Engineering +44 20 7123 2345 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Several seperated backup networks..

2006-09-04 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Ok, everybody all at once. YES Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary and those who don't. -Ori

[Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving

2006-08-31 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Catalog Archiving All, Is anyone using Catalog Archiving? If so how is it working for you? I have read the documentation, but it is not clear what the process is if you need to do a restore of files that have archived. Can you enlighten me? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Special

Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Installs

2006-08-24 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Client Installs If you use update_clients from the command line you do not need to add them to a policy.   Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds

[Veritas-bu] Does anyone know what operating system this is and what, if any, NetBackup version supports it?

2006-08-22 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Does anyone know what operating system this is and what, if any, NetBackup version supports it? Linux some-server 2.2.19-SMP #1 SMP Thu Oct 25 17:55:16 GMT 2001 i686 unknown Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I

[Veritas-bu] LTO2 drives and HP-UX

2006-08-08 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: LTO2 drives and HP-UX NetBackup 5.1MP4 IBM and HP LTO2 drives attached to a HP-UX box. Has anyone done this, successfully? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown T

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup 4.5MP6 Linux client - bind question

2006-08-08 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: NetBackup 4.5MP6 Linux client - bind question Does anyone know what the significance of the following error is?: bind(13782) failed: 98 It happens when running bpcd -standalone Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Jobs won't go active

2006-08-02 Thread Whelan, Patrick
I have found that if you run bprdreq -rereadconfig; bpschedreq -read_stunits; bpschedreq -read_stu_config in a loop of about 50, it works every time. I don't know what the optimum number of iterations is, but 50 works and 10 doesn't (most of the time). Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Speciali

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiplexing

2006-07-31 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Probably the best reason for not multiplexing is that an un-multiplexed tape can be read using gnu tar in a worst case scenario. Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds of

[Veritas-bu] Updating UNIX clients from the master server.

2006-07-17 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Updating UNIX clients from the master server. All, One more question. Is anyone aware of a problem updating UNIX clients running Oracle 8 from the master server? I have been told that Oracle holds some of the lib files open so the update can not succeed. Is this true? Regards, Patr

[Veritas-bu] HCART tapes with LTO2 Drives

2006-07-17 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: HCART tapes with LTO2 Drives Does anyone know if HCART tapes will be used by LTO2 drives defined as HCART2 drives? We have just replace all our LTOI drives with LTOII which can read and write LTOI tapes, but do they have to be moved to HCART2, or will it work auto magically? Also, can

[Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?

2006-06-29 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: Typical success rates? All, Do you usually have a 100% success every backup session? If not what is a typical success rate? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown Ther

[Veritas-bu] GridWorks

2006-06-28 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: GridWorks Does anyone have any experience with GridWorks? If so could you share some of your experiences? Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown There are only 10 kinds

[Veritas-bu] vmoprcmd -shmdrive

2006-06-15 Thread Whelan, Patrick
Title: vmoprcmd -shmdrive Does anyone have the fields for the above command? It looks like it could be very useful if I could figure out what fields are what. Regards, Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my min

Re: [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar basedbackupschedule.bppllist included.

2006-06-13 Thread Whelan, Patrick
You could always set the time on the master server ahead, so midnight matches your normal start time. J   Regards,   Patrick Whelan NetBackup Specialist Architect & Engineering +44 20 7863 5243 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown -Original Mess

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