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[Veritas-bu] migrating NB 4.5FP4 master servers

2004-05-27 16:57:54
Subject: [Veritas-bu] migrating NB 4.5FP4 master servers
From: Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov (Brzozowski, Dwayne)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:57:54 -0500
I am having a major problem migrating master servers, both have the same
name. My current master is on Solaris 8. New master is Solaris 9.When new
master is up, old master is shut down. We've been testing functionality
daily and now getting to backup/restore issues. This was the setup:
old master-6 nics, multiple subnets, multiple hostnames-unique for that
subnet in hosts/bp.conf entry. example:

dns name shilling
nic1-shilling-g -subnet a
nic2-shilling-b -subnet b
nic3-shilling-bg -subnet c
nic4-shilling-gb -subnet d


new master-1 subnet 1 ip (4 gig cards trunked). 
shilling is master, in /etc/hosts on master as shilling, in hosts file on
client and client bp.conf.
When I try to restore a client that had used one of the shilling-x names, no
images appear. I have also tried adding that client name in the altnames
directory with all of shilling's interfaces in this file, restart NB and
still cannot see any images. I can only see images that have been backed up
on the new server. I have copied all databases to new server during this
migration, then copy back at end of the day before production backups kick
off so I know everything is there. Has anyone experienced this or have any
ideas what's going on? Thanks!!


-Dwayne


Dwayne J. Brzozowski
Department of Veterans Affairs
Austin Automation center
(512)326-6728 work
dwayne.brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Dimitris
Peppas
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Outlook .PST open file backup nightmare.


The VSP cache files are *.vsp , so I don't think that the TMP files are from
VSP.
The log for VSP is ssm.
Did you upgrade from MP or FP. I wonder if the VSP.sys file is loaded (MP
used OTM)
To enable VSP on the client, you have to go to the Client Attributes tab on
the master server properties.
>From there you can select (or add ) the client and enable Open file Backups

Read about VSP prerequisites (needs a non snapped volume to place the VSP
file, quite time etc)



-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Louis-Luc 
Le
Guerrier
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:04 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Outlook .PST open file backup nightmare.


Hello,
I have upgraded to NetBackup 5.0 on a Solaris 9 Ultra 2
server, and we have 2 Windows clients that contain .PST 
files to back up, which many are open.

Veritas VSP feature is supposed to do that, and here's what
happens:

Since Upgrade to 5.0 on both the Server and the Windows Client is done, and
the client has rebooted (before reboot open .PST files failed), the .PST
open files are successfully backed up. Suddenly, the cache drive on the
Windows client got full of .TMP files left there by Veritas (or VSP
feature), to a point that it became unoperational for other applications.
These files could not be deleted, because they were locked in some kind of
way (claimed in use by another process). We rebooted the Windows client, and
all .TMP files erased by themselves!, but since then, open .PST files can no
longer be backed up, they're just skipped. VSP is enabled as I can see on
the Solaris server in that client's properties. On the 
Windows client, I couldn't
find the way to determine whether or not VSP is enabled. I generated logs on
the client in the 'bpbkar' and 'bpcd' 
directory, and these claim VSP is disabled, but I still can't figure out how
to enable it or other ways to verify status.

I have a case open at SUN, for nearly a month, and they've
been of no help so far.  But since then, we have no backup!!!

Does anyone have any idea, or experience to share?

Thanks for precious help, 
Louis-Luc

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