Author: Larry Mascarenhas <LMascare AT comcast DOT net>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:57:52 -0400
Hi Clem, Spoke to Symantec. There is a notify script called media_deasssign_notify in the goodies directory (netbackup 60, not sure of other versions). It is called whenever a piece of media is de-as
Author: "Clem Kruger" <clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:43:54 +0200
Hi Larry This sounds as though it may be an answer. The thing to look out for is that the data on the tape is cleared. This can only be tested in a lab as there is a portencial for backups failing! K
Author: "Cruice, Daniel \(US - Glen Mills\)" <dcruice AT deloitte DOT com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 07:30:11 -0400
I have a similar question...I think I have retired three media servers, well actually rebuilt two with new names and new IP and renamed the third...(All Windows 2003 NBU 6.0 MP4) I know NBU does not
Author: swaltner <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:32:27 -0700
We deployed a VTL last month, which has been working very nicely. This is in a NetBackup 5.1 environment with the VTL attached to our Solaris based master server as well as to our NAS server for loca
Author: "Clem Kruger" <clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:23:30 +0200
Hi Steve, This is the downer on VTL's. You do not get your "tape" space back automatically. It is for these reasons I recommend that one never go VTL's. NetBackup 6.0 and 6.5 allow disk to disk backu
Author: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:15:02 -0400
And you don't get the space back on a DSU until you expire the image. So what? I also argue that what Steve is asking for isn't necessary. (I think he's MAKING it necessary by oversubscribing, but th
Author: "Clem Kruger" <clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:32:54 +0200
Hi Curtis, You have to delete the tape to get your space returned. This is the real pain and cost Clem. --Original Message-- From: Curtis Preston [mailto:cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com] Sent: 22 Sept
you're going to use NAS Actually it doesn't. Don't forget about PureDisk as a NetBackup storage unit. Write to locally attached disk, whether it's local SATA or SAN-attached. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHC
Author: "Liddle, Stuart" <liddles AT amgen DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:35:03 -0700
Clem, You have made a rather curious comment. You don’t have to delete the tape to get the space returned. (My experience is with the NetApp VTL.) There are settings on the VTL that you can set
Author: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:22:31 -0400
My understanding with Netbackup Pure Disk is that you can manage it like a DSU but in reality its a server with storage (not a media server) like most other de-duplication softwares. I was quite exci
Author: "Clem Kruger" <clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:18:22 +0200
Hi Stuart, In my experience we had to as the “DISK SPACE” was still in use! Kind Regards, Clem Kruger From: Liddle, Stuart [mailto:liddles AT amgen DOT com] Sent: 22 September 2007 21:35
Author: Larry Mascarenhas <LMascare AT comcast DOT net>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:26:39 -0400
Clem, I'm moving from Legato to Netbackup. In the Legato world, relabelling the VTL volume resulted in the space being returned to the disk. This is true even for an expired tape. ie I needed to rela
Author: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:36:12 -0400
pool >automatically. No it doesn't. It gets put in the Scratch, but it is not relabeled. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT ed
Author: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:28 -0400
Yes, the disk space is still in use until you reuse the tape. This is the same as a tape library. Technically the rest of a tape is in use until you start writing to it from the beginning. Then the r
Author: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:53:55 -0400
I try not to comment on specific named products in a public forum. (People tend to do crazy things like sue me.) Having said that, make sure you ask an SE familiar with that product what type of perf
No, the volume is merely abandoned at expiration time. All the data remains on it, just like a Networker volume. Netbackup no longer tracks any information about the volume, so it can be transferred
Author: "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:33:56 -0400
Not entirely true, Curtis. When your virutal tape expires, the VTL has no way of knowing this untill the tape is written to again. Depending on the VTL, this may be too late. I've got about 2TB of "f
Author: "Kevin Whittaker" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:41:11 -0400
I agree with Paul on this issue. The same is true with the VTL that I currently use. Kevin Whittaker --Original Message-- From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bou
Author: "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:18:20 -0400
NBU does not relabel expired tapes before assigning back to Scratch. Inline copy to physical and virtual tape is a pain because you lose the advantage of defining as many virtual drives as you want,
Author: "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:12:18 -0400
unless the VTL has the option to "free" the disk space on a schedule, which it sounds like what Stuart is saying about the NetApp. ie, your tape retention is set to 3 weeks, then your VTL essentially