[Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?

And we'd run 5.1 everywhere still, if I wasn't caught on one side with a
requirement for an EM64T Linux master server (only "supported on 6.0),
and a management directive to run the same software everywhere.
 
Unfortunately we had a lot of other changes at our small offices at the
same time as the 6.0 deployment - both staff and systems, so reliability
in the period around the 6.0 upgrade was very poor.
 
But we've got a reasonable handle on 6.0's bugs, and we've improved our
reporting systems a lot, so we have clear visibility of big (whole
client rather than single stream), or repeat failures. And our systems
have stabilsed a lot, we're not upgrading and replacing frontline
servers. Things are actually pretty good at the moment - I'm back to
just checking the reports in the morning, rather than eyeballing the
netbackup console in the evenings. Still, I'm really looking forward to
6.0mp3. :-)
 
Our last "big" failure was when the local admin at a small site
accidently deployed windows firewall rules via AD Policy to the servers.
Hardly netbackup's fault. :-) 
 
Regards,
    T.
 
 
---
Tristan Ball
System Administrator
Vision Systems
+61-3-9211-7064
 
 

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From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net] 
Sent: Friday, 30 June 2006 6:17 PM
To: Tristan Ball; Whelan, Patrick; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?


We run 5.1 MP2 and have had NO problmes with the product itself (exclude
the fact that 2 Media Servers were destroyed by non technical backup
people!)
 
 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
<mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net> 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Tristan Ball [mailto:Tristan.Ball at vsl.com.au] 
        Sent: 30 June 2006 08:15
        To: Whelan, Patrick; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Typical success rates?
        
        
        For me it depends on the site. And at the moment, on the
netbackup version.
         
        At my small sites, backing up 3-5 clients, we get 100% success
80-90% of nights. On the nights that we see failures, it's usually one
stream that fails, not a whole server. These are fairly static sites.
         
        At my "large" site, with about 30 clients, I get a failure or
two most night - but this is mostly environmental rather than NB itself.
It's machines that have been moved, changed or disconnected. But of
those 30 machines, many are secondary machines, development servers or
workstations - basically, subject to a reasonably large amount of
change.
         
        And I have to say that 5.1mp2+ is a lot more reliable than
6.0mp?, especially when it comes to the scheduler.
         
        Regards,
            T.
         
        ---
        Tristan Ball
        System Administrator
        Vision Systems
        +61-3-9211-7064
         
         

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        From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan,
Patrick
        Sent: Friday, 30 June 2006 3:48 AM
        To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: [Veritas-bu] 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

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