Guys
Help required,
I want to be able to calculate how many tapes I have written to with a
certain retention period over a certain number of weeks.
Thanks in advance.
Jon
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4. Re: Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State (Randy Samora)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:47:22 -0500
From: "Preston, Douglas L" <dpreston AT LANDAM DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] EMM status: Invalid pool
To: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>, "Martin, Jonathan"
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Justin do you have any override storage unit or override media pool
marked in the schedules for your policy you are trying to back up? I
had that issue when I created a DSU for testing.
Doug Preston
Systems Engineer
Land America Tax and Flood Services
Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:32 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] EMM status: Invalid pool
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Martin, Jonathan wrote:
>>
>>> Have you run a catalog backup anytime soon? I've had EMM issues
related
>>> to the EMM Database growing too large because catalog backups
weren't
>>> being run, and thus the database logs weren't being pruned. I also
see
>>> the same error below when the disk the EMM Database is on fills up.
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>
>> Yes, a catalog backup was run about 5 minutes ago and the disk has
4TiB free.
>>
>> 02/15/2008 01:49:23 - requesting resource ddr-unit
>> 02/15/2008 01:49:23 - requesting resource
>> master-server.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.meda_server2
>> 02/15/2008 01:49:23 - requesting resource
>> master-server.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.test
>> 02/15/2008 01:49:23 - Error nbjm (pid=1009) NBU status: 800, EMM
status:
>> Invalid pool
>> resource request failed (800)
>>
>> The policy is set to use the correct media server with the
appropriate disk
>> unit, yet why is it checking to see the max jobs for media_server2?
>>
>> Something very strange going on and I've also tried
deleting/re-adding the
>> unit and also cycling services on master,media servers to no avail
(yet).
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Nevermind about the server2, that is the one I am backing up...
>
> Will try to create another disk unit on another media server host and
see
> if it works.
Same deal, even on the master server, created a little dsu, same error,
looking into it.
Justin.
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:01:03 -0500
From: "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
To: "Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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No, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES includes the appropriate one of System_State:\ or
Shadow Copy Components:\ based on how you've listed the client
(Windows2000 v. WindowsNET, for example).
Or, I think it's based on that. It might be based on what the client's
bpcd says when the media server connects to it.
(The docs are hazy. Ahem, Veri... er, Symantec readers.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
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From: Randy Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I'm using the All Local Drives directive. Does it make a difference to
list Shadow Copy Components separately?
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Randy
In the backup policy where this client belongs, are you selecting the
"Shadow Copy Components" directive?
S.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab
environment. The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there's
not really much we can test because the client looks for the production
network. Today I had to restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production
environment and most of the registry wasn't restored; services and other
objects were missing. With the test restores, I always had the option
of doing an ntbackup of the System State and then I would run a full
backup of the client. I'd take my tape to the lab, run a full restore,
but before I rebooted the restored client, I restored the ntbackup of
the System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That seemed to work just
fine. But today when the server blew up, there was no opportunity to do
an ntbackup of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year if the ntbackup
was still needed and they said no, a full backup and restore should
recover the client. I just never had the chance to test that theory.
Am I missing a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded
the NBU client, and then did a full restore. But it's as if the system
state was never restored so I'm wondering if I'm even backing it up.
How can I tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good
copy of the system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we
were having problems with the orphaned cache files. I've never gone
back and changed the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to
start using VSS but haven't gotten to that task either. Is there a
trick or an added step to getting a good backup of the system state on a
Windows 2003 Server server or is there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] EMM status: Invalid pool
To: "Preston, Douglas L" <dpreston AT LANDAM DOT com>
Cc: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>,
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Preston, Douglas L wrote:
> Justin do you have any override storage unit or override media pool
> marked in the schedules for your policy you are trying to back up? I
> had that issue when I created a DSU for testing.
>
> Doug Preston
> Systems Engineer
> Land America Tax and Flood Services
> Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104
> Email dlpreston AT landam DOT com
Hey Doug, no I do not, and that's what makes it so perpelxing, in
addition
I also used an override just 'for fun' for the DDR only and the problem
persists..
Justin.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:10:57 -0600
From: "Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
To: "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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I've always wondered about that. In the client list of the policy, if I
say the client is a 2000 Server and it is actually a 2003 Server. Does
NBU override my 2000 Server selection?
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 8:01 AM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
No, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES includes the appropriate one of System_State:\ or
Shadow Copy Components:\ based on how you've listed the client
(Windows2000 v. WindowsNET, for example).
Or, I think it's based on that. It might be based on what the client's
bpcd says when the media server connects to it.
(The docs are hazy. Ahem, Veri... er, Symantec readers.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
________________________________
From: Randy Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I'm using the All Local Drives directive. Does it make a difference to
list Shadow Copy Components separately?
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Randy
In the backup policy where this client belongs, are you selecting the
"Shadow Copy Components" directive?
S.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab
environment. The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there's
not really much we can test because the client looks for the production
network. Today I had to restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production
environment and most of the registry wasn't restored; services and other
objects were missing. With the test restores, I always had the option
of doing an ntbackup of the System State and then I would run a full
backup of the client. I'd take my tape to the lab, run a full restore,
but before I rebooted the restored client, I restored the ntbackup of
the System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That seemed to work just
fine. But today when the server blew up, there was no opportunity to do
an ntbackup of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year if the ntbackup
was still needed and they said no, a full backup and restore should
recover the client. I just never had the chance to test that theory.
Am I missing a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded
the NBU client, and then did a full restore. But it's as if the system
state was never restored so I'm wondering if I'm even backing it up.
How can I tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good
copy of the system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we
were having problems with the orphaned cache files. I've never gone
back and changed the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to
start using VSS but haven't gotten to that task either. Is there a
trick or an added step to getting a good backup of the system state on a
Windows 2003 Server server or is there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:00:36 -0500
From: Doug Hughes <doug AT will DOT to>
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The majority of people were not against the occassional job posting for
netbackup hiring people, since it's highly topical to the people on this
list. A few were very much for it, a few were against it.
There were a couple of excellent suggestions that this could be handled
at BackupCentral.com, which I think is a great idea and I'm approaching
Curtis about it.
In the mean time, it's unlikely that things will devolve into a job
market free for all short term, so we'll allow posting on these
conditions:
* 1 posting *total* per job
* must be for Netbackup related job (no TSM, legato, etc)
* strongly prefer it would be list members doing the posting in their
capacity as a hiring manager or at a company looking for such position,
*not* recruiters (as there would be no way to guarantee
non-deduplication in the case of multiple recruiters). If there is a
single recruiter for a particular job (sole-contract) and that recruiter
doesn't make a nuisance of himself/herself by posting dozens of jobs,
that's an acceptable exception.
* must include off-list contact information for responses
* subject of message should include keyword JOB so that people can
filter.
If things devolve, we can revisit. I expect there will be at most 1 per
week and lost in the noise. I won't be monitoring this closely, so I
rely on you, the members, to be eyes on policy violations.. (I have
little doubt. ;)
Thanks for all of your thoughtful responses.
Doug
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:25:27 -0500
From: ken_zufall AT goodyear DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
To: Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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Yes, NBU will override the selection. We discovered that recently when
we
realized we had a bunch of Win2k servers mistakenly configured as
Win2k3;
System_State was still being backed up as opposed to Shadow Copy
Components.
Ken Zufall
Technical Analyst
D660C
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
GTN 446.0592 or 330.796.0592
"Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
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02/15/2008 09:10 AM
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"Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
cc
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I?ve always wondered about that. In the client list of the policy, if I
say the client is a 2000 Server and it is actually a 2003 Server. Does
NBU override my 2000 Server selection?
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 8:01 AM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
No, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES includes the appropriate one of System_State:\ or
Shadow Copy Components:\ based on how you've listed the client
(Windows2000 v. WindowsNET, for example).
Or, I think it's based on that. It might be based on what the client's
bpcd says when the media server connects to it.
(The docs are hazy. Ahem, Veri... er, Symantec readers.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
From: Randy Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I?m using the All Local Drives directive. Does it make a difference to
list Shadow Copy Components separately?
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Randy
In the backup policy where this client belongs, are you selecting the
"Shadow Copy Components" directive?
S.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy
Samora
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab
environment. The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there?s
not
really much we can test because the client looks for the production
network. Today I had to restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production
environment and most of the registry wasn?t restored; services and other
objects were missing. With the test restores, I always had the option
of
doing an ntbackup of the System State and then I would run a full backup
of the client. I?d take my tape to the lab, run a full restore, but
before I rebooted the restored client, I restored the ntbackup of the
System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That seemed to work just fine.
But
today when the server blew up, there was no opportunity to do an
ntbackup
of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year if the ntbackup was still
needed and they said no, a full backup and restore should recover the
client. I just never had the chance to test that theory.
Am I missing a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded
the NBU client, and then did a full restore. But it?s as if the system
state was never restored so I?m wondering if I?m even backing it up.
How
can I tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good copy
of
the system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we were
having problems with the orphaned cache files. I?ve never gone back and
changed the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to start
using VSS but haven?t gotten to that task either. Is there a trick or
an
added step to getting a good backup of the system state on a Windows
2003
Server server or is there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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From: "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
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Though the client will show up under host properties with its real OS
type (probed from the master), it's my understanding that it'd be Best
Practice to change its OS type in the policy definition (ie, remove it
and readd it with the same name). I also don't know what effect that
does or doesn't have. (I do Windows as infrequently and rapidly as I
possibly can.)
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Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
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From: Randy Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:11 AM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I've always wondered about that. In the client list of the policy, if I
say the client is a 2000 Server and it is actually a 2003 Server. Does
NBU override my 2000 Server selection?
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 8:01 AM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
No, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES includes the appropriate one of System_State:\ or
Shadow Copy Components:\ based on how you've listed the client
(Windows2000 v. WindowsNET, for example).
Or, I think it's based on that. It might be based on what the client's
bpcd says when the media server connects to it.
(The docs are hazy. Ahem, Veri... er, Symantec readers.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
_____
From: Randy Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I'm using the All Local Drives directive. Does it make a difference to
list Shadow Copy Components separately?
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Randy
In the backup policy where this client belongs, are you selecting the
"Shadow Copy Components" directive?
S.
_____
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab
environment. The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there's
not really much we can test because the client looks for the production
network. Today I had to restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production
environment and most of the registry wasn't restored; services and other
objects were missing. With the test restores, I always had the option
of doing an ntbackup of the System State and then I would run a full
backup of the client. I'd take my tape to the lab, run a full restore,
but before I rebooted the restored client, I restored the ntbackup of
the System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That seemed to work just
fine. But today when the server blew up, there was no opportunity to do
an ntbackup of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year if the ntbackup
was still needed and they said no, a full backup and restore should
recover the client. I just never had the chance to test that theory.
Am I missing a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded
the NBU client, and then did a full restore. But it's as if the system
state was never restored so I'm wondering if I'm even backing it up.
How can I tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good
copy of the system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we
were having problems with the orphaned cache files. I've never gone
back and changed the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to
start using VSS but haven't gotten to that task either. Is there a
trick or an added step to getting a good backup of the system state on a
Windows 2003 Server server or is there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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