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Today's Topics:
1. Offsite backups (Tariq Zawahir)
2. Pass job ID to script? (Schroen, Christopher C Mr IMCEN/CEXEC)
3. NIS+ and User backups (dallen AT axa.com DOT au)
4. sftp from inside a script (mander47 AT sca.csc DOT com)
5. Re: Report functionality in NetBackup (John Meyers)
6. NetBackup FAQ - New & Updated questions (W. Curtis Preston)
7. Number of slots suddenly decreased! (Schroen, Christopher C Mr
IMCEN/CEXEC)
8. RE: Number of slots suddenly decreased! (David A. Chapa)
9. RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products? (Lumpkin, Buddy)
10. RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products? (James Mello)
11. Re: RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products? (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 02:27:10 -0500
From: Tariq Zawahir <Tariq.Zawahir AT diamondcluster DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Offsite backups
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We are running Netbackup v3.4 on a Sun E420 with solaris 2.6 and an L180
with 4 dtl7000's.
I am sending the full backups off site - how do I keep track of whats on
what tape with out having to look in the report manager and look at images
on media? I know what tapes get written but I don't know if the data is a
from a full or incremental backup. Is there an easy way to do this?
Tariq Zawahir
(See attached file: Tariq.Zawahir.vcf)
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Message: 2
From: "Schroen, Christopher C Mr IMCEN/CEXEC"
<Christopher.Schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil>
To: "'Veritas-BU List'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:36:16 -0400
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Pass job ID to script?
Backup gurus:
I'd like it if bpstart_notify and its friends could include the Job ID
number in the information it sends me. I know this is not one of the
parameters that gets passed to the script. How could I get NetBackup to
automatically tell me the Job ID of a backup job it's kicking off?
Thanks!
========================================
Christopher Schroen
UNIX System Administrator
IMCEN/CEXEC Pentagon
tel +1 703 697 3362
mailto:christopher.schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil
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Message: 3
From: dallen AT axa.com DOT au
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:21:49 +1000
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NIS+ and User backups
Hello all,
I am seeing an error message whenever I submit a User backup. I believe it
is related to NIS+ being setup recently.
The backup fails with Status Code 11 : System CallFailed
The following error message is seen in the logs:
mpx_setup_shm: could not getpwnam() for user dallen
Backups which run under root or oracle work fine, but those userid's are
not defined to NIS+.
Netbackup is 3.4. O/S is HPUX 11.
Does anyone have a soution for this problem?
Thanks
Dean
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Message: 4
From: mander47 AT sca.csc DOT com
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:23:05 +0200
Subject: [Veritas-bu] sftp from inside a script
Hi all
I am trying to get Netbackup to use secure ftp (sftp) to install clients.
When I run sftp from inside a script, I get the following:
Warning: tcgetattr failed in ssh_rl_set_tty_mode: Inappropriate ioctl for
device
Any ideas.
Thanks in Advance.
Michael Andersen
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:50:45 -0400
From: John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Report functionality in NetBackup
To: RYAN ANDERSON <RYAN_ANDERSON AT udlp DOT com>
Cc: Veritas NBU <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Organization: Wright State University
I just tried out the reporting script backup_report.pl and ran into some
problems. Basically the Gbytes reported was incorrect and the summarys
weren't printing as expected. I had jobs backing up ~ 30 Mbytes that were
reporting 3+ Gbytes.
I thought I would pass along the changes I made to get this working as
expected in case anyone is interested.
Code changes:
After the following comment, add the next to lines, (approx line 38)
############
# Grab any flags or switches that
# may have been passed from the
# command line
############
$omit_fulls = 0;
$omit_incs = 0;
Change the line that begins with (approximately line 230),
if ($type =~ /Full/) {
to
if ($type =~ /full/i) {
change (approx line 240)
elsif ($type =~ /Incremental/) {
to
elsif ($type =~ /incr/i) {
To fix the total Gbytes field, make the following changes, (approx line
366)
$end= $jobs_hash{$job}[5];
$gbytes= $jobs_hash{$job}[4];
$gbytes= sprintf ("%6.4f", $gbytes); # <- add this line
$elapsed= $jobs_hash{$job}[6];
That should take care of if. If you don't want a 20 digit Gbyte value
under
the summary, you could probably also add a similiar sprintf statement for
the
$total_full_gb and $total_inc_gb variables prior to the print statements.
Cheers.
John Meyers
Computing Services
Wright State University
E-mail: john.meyers AT wright DOT edu
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 23:14:22 -0700
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
From: "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT backupcentral DOT com>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup FAQ - New & Updated questions
As you probably already know, there is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
list for this mailing list. Since this FAQ can be updated by every member
of this mailing list via their web browser, it's constantly being kept up
to date. The list below contains the questions that have been added or
updated within the last month.
Feel free to browse these links to increase your knowledge. Even better,
we'd really appreciate your help in maintaining the FAQ! To do so, you
simply need to get a free Backup Central User ID, and click on "Append
To This Answer," or "Add a New Answer" within the FAQ-O-Matic display.
You can get your Backup Central ID at:
http://www.backupcentral.com/register.html
You can browse the FAQ at:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/1.html
Questions added or updated in the last month:
============================================================================
How do I get <some script> to run before a backup job starts?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/69.html
How do I backup through a firewall?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/70.html
Is there a way to check the consistency of the database?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/93.html
One way to backup data outside a firewall.:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/169.html
What is the expected 9840 tape longevity?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/173.html
How do I know if I have a volume that is FROZEN or SUSPENDED?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/180.html
How do I clear the client list in the NetBackup Windows client?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/186.html
What are the "client type" values, as used in bpbackup -t <client type>?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/188.html
What's with all of these different "max jobs" settings?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/191.html
How do I restore a tape using just the "tar" command?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/192.html
How can I securely push a UNIX NetBackup client?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/193.html
How do you decipher the output of "bpdbjobs -report -all_columns"?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/194.html
What is the format of the image name?:
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/195.html
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W. Curtis Preston
Principal Consultant for Storage Designs, your storage experts
Webmaster: http://www.backupcentral.com Phone: 760 653 1007
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Message: 7
From: "Schroen, Christopher C Mr IMCEN/CEXEC"
<Christopher.Schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil>
To: "'Veritas-BU List'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:56:38 -0400
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Number of slots suddenly decreased!
Has anyone ever seen this happen?
During last night's backups, I started seeing errors like this:
07/03/2001 01:24:58 k410ts k410ts media id 000016 is in a DOWN drive,
misplaced, write protected or unmountable;
attempting retry with a different media id
07/03/2001 01:25:00 k410ts k410ts media id 000017 is in a DOWN drive,
misplaced, write protected or unmountable;
attempting retry with a different media id
And so on, up to media id 000025.
I have an ADIC Scalar 100 which has 30 slots. 25 of them have tapes, with
media ids 000001-000025. The front-panel interface on the Scalar 100 still
tells me it has 25 full slots and 5 empty ones, which is correct. But
NetBackup has decided that the device only has 15 slots...
I ran "robtest" and it thinks there are only 15 slots. I can't access
anything in slot 16 or above.
What could have happened? I didn't see anything in Veritas' Support
Knowledge Base. I'm running HP-UX 11.00 (HP9000/800), NetBackup 3.4GA. Any
help would be most welcome.
Thanks!
========================================
Christopher Schroen
UNIX System Administrator
IMCEN/CEXEC Pentagon
tel +1 703 697 3362
mailto:christopher.schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil
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Message: 8
From: "David A. Chapa" <david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com>
To: "Schroen, Christopher C Mr IMCEN/CEXEC"
<Christopher.Schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil>,
"'Veritas-BU List'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Number of slots suddenly decreased!
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:18:42 -0500
Were you always able to access these other slots?
Sometimes the library manufacturers (STK does this with their timberwolf)
will sell a 15 slot version of their 30 slot library by simply configuring
the library with limiting firmware and / or hardware. If you were able to
see these slots before, then I would get in touch with your hardware folks
first. I wouldn't suspect software right away.
David
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David A. Chapa
Consulting Manager
DataStaff, Inc.
847 413 1144
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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Schroen,
Christopher C Mr IMCEN/CEXEC
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:57 PM
To: 'Veritas-BU List'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Number of slots suddenly decreased!
Has anyone ever seen this happen?
During last night's backups, I started seeing errors like this:
07/03/2001 01:24:58 k410ts k410ts media id 000016 is in a DOWN drive,
misplaced, write protected or unmountable;
attempting retry with a different media id
07/03/2001 01:25:00 k410ts k410ts media id 000017 is in a DOWN drive,
misplaced, write protected or unmountable;
attempting retry with a different media id
And so on, up to media id 000025.
I have an ADIC Scalar 100 which has 30 slots. 25 of them have tapes, with
media ids 000001-000025. The front-panel interface on the Scalar 100 still
tells me it has 25 full slots and 5 empty ones, which is correct. But
NetBackup has decided that the device only has 15 slots...
I ran "robtest" and it thinks there are only 15 slots. I can't access
anything in slot 16 or above.
What could have happened? I didn't see anything in Veritas' Support
Knowledge Base. I'm running HP-UX 11.00 (HP9000/800), NetBackup 3.4GA. Any
help would be most welcome.
Thanks!
========================================
Christopher Schroen
UNIX System Administrator
IMCEN/CEXEC Pentagon
tel +1 703 697 3362
mailto:christopher.schroen AT hqda.army DOT mil
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Message: 9
From: "Lumpkin, Buddy" <Buddy.Lumpkin AT nordstrom DOT com>
To: "'James Mello'" <kingjamm AT colltech DOT com>,
veritas-vx AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu,
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:05:48 -0600
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products?
So there are a couple of features that are all add-on licenses to vxfs even
though the functionality is there by default.
1) Checkpoints are done on a filesystem basis. A common use of this feature
is putting a DB in backup mode, then taking a checkpoint which is pretty
quick ( 1 - 2 seconds ), then taking the DB out of backup mode.
The checkpoint really just creates a block map of the filesystem, then any
subsequent writes to that filesystem occur as normal, but then a
copy-on-write operation occurs to another area on the disk. pointers are
established and maintained in the block map to the old data in case a roll
back occurs.
Multiple checkpoints can be done for point and time recovery to different
exact times.
The cool part is that you avoid a full atomic copy of the file system and
only the changed blocks are copied which usually amounts to a very small
percentage of total disk space over a short period of time.
2)
Leveraging this technology, Storage Edition for Oracle offers block-level
incremental backups and storage rollbacks to protect mission critical
database data....
------snip-----
BLIB - block-level incremental backups
I think this feature actually became available before checkpoints.
It allows you to backup change blocks only in a file and provides the
glue/api for Netbackup to do it. Therefore it requires VxFS and Netbackup.
Hope that helped,
--Buddy
-----Original Message-----
From: James Mello [mailto:kingjamm AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:44 PM
To: veritas-vx AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn
DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products?
I was reading some literature that said that with Storage Checkpoint, that
a DBA can do rollbacks and rollforwards... What the heck is storage
checkpoint? Is it another VM or VxFS feature, or is it a seperate
product. Also, can someone explain this too me? It's an excerpt from the
Veritas product literature....
Leveraging this technology, Storage Edition for Oracle offers block-level
incremental backups and storage rollbacks to protect mission critical
database data....
Is this an add on to the NetBackup product, or does it leverage existing
features of VxVM or VxFS?
-- Cheers
-- James
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:18:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Mello <kingjamm AT colltech DOT com>
To: "Lumpkin, Buddy" <Buddy.Lumpkin AT nordstrom DOT com>
cc: veritas-vx AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn
DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products?
> So there are a couple of features that are all add-on licenses to vxfs
> even though the functionality is there by default.
>
> 1) Checkpoints are done on a filesystem basis. A common use of this
> feature is putting a DB in backup mode, then taking a checkpoint which
> is pretty quick ( 1 - 2 seconds ), then taking the DB out of backup
> mode.
>
> The checkpoint really just creates a block map of the filesystem, then
> any subsequent writes to that filesystem occur as normal, but then a
> copy-on-write operation occurs to another area on the disk. pointers
> are established and maintained in the block map to the old data in
> case a roll back occurs.
>
> Multiple checkpoints can be done for point and time recovery to
> different exact times.
So how is this different that snapshots? Why do you have to license it
seperately if you could do this with VxFS natively? Is there something
obvious that I'm missing?
> BLIB - block-level incremental backups
>
> I think this feature actually became available before checkpoints.
>
> It allows you to backup change blocks only in a file and provides the
> glue/api for Netbackup to do it. Therefore it requires VxFS and
> Netbackup.
So this is a seperate license for NetBackup or for VxFS? How do you
implement such a thing? Does it require use of a bpstart_notify script, or
is there an agent that Veritas Provides?
-- Cheers
-- James
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:25:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk AT QueerNet DOT ORG>
To: James Mello <kingjamm AT colltech DOT com>
cc: "Lumpkin, Buddy" <Buddy.Lumpkin AT nordstrom DOT com>,
<veritas-vx AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>,
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products?
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, James Mello wrote:
> So how is this different that snapshots? Why do you have to license it
> seperately if you could do this with VxFS natively? Is there something
> obvious that I'm missing?
Snapshots require a separate container for storage; checkpoints live in
the same device as the parent.
Snapshots are read-only; checkpoints can be read-only or read-write.
Snapshots are transient; checkpoints are persistent.
Snapshots are disposed of at unmount; checkpoints can be committed or
rolled back to, so any of the branches can be the new "main" data.
Snapshots are one-level -- though more than one can be in effect at a
time, all are based on a single parent for the file system; checkpoints
can have other checkpoints as parents.
--
ROGER B.A. KLORESE
rogerk AT QueerNet DOT ORG
PO Box 14309 San Francisco, CA
94114
"Go without hate. But not without rage. Heal the world." -- Paul
Monette
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