Author: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:54:12 +0000
All I've been trying to troubleshoot performance and backup issues at an environment where all LTO4 drives are maxed out with these type of jobs and causing many others to queue or run at an incorrec
Author: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:03:42 -0500
Hi Simon, Some comments: 1. How many jobs are too many? 500 concurrent jobs? 1000 concurrent jobs? 2000 concurrent jobs? With a UNIX master, if properly spec'd out-- I've seen it handle 1000-1500 job
Author: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:55:39 +0000
Hi Justin In specific it's SAP jobs. As mentioned over 60 policies start from 9pm but each one is a SAN media server and each client in its own policy. So I have 10 SAP jobs each using a tape drive f
Author: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:02:23 -0500
Hi Simon, If there are multiple SAN media servers, have you looked into SSO and/or unrestricted media sharing? http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/can-we-assign-medias-multiple-media-s ervers One
Author: David McMullin <David.McMullin AT CBC-Companies DOT com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:10:31 -0500
If your tape drives are maxed out and jobs are queued too long, think about putting storage in the middle. Our infrastructure is fiber based not 10G, so we got two DD990 as an intermediary backup tar
Author: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:19:37 -0500
Dave, Curious how you determined/measured the available capacity on the disk staging area (and also to ensure not to fill it up) and how often you have it in cron (or similar) to manually purge the d
Author: David McMullin <David.McMullin AT CBC-Companies DOT com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:31:24 -0500
Before we bought, we had the vendors replicate the throughput to prove the system could handle the ingest and output. A lot of the sales numbers are one way, not both at once. We have 16 LTO5 drives
Hi folks. The place I have recently started working at have a requirement that all monthly backup tapes are sent offsite to a secure storage location (similar to Iron Mountain), and remain there fore
Author: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:03:53 -0500
Hello Dean, I have specific experience in this space. If the tapes are stored in clean environments and are not dropped or damaged, I have restored data up to 4-5 years old (.. the data was from 2005
Author: "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:39:54 +0000
Weve used Iron Mountain for years and theyve never had this requirement. We use the transports (their boxes) to put multiple tapes in without the original plastic cases after ejects. The return tapes
Author: "Bahnmiller, Bryan E." <bbahnmiller AT dtcc DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:59:05 +0000
Dean, Both Justin and Jeff make good points. If you are required to use tape, the specifications for _optimum_ LTO tape life include things like: - The operational environment must be kept at the spe
- Transport the tapes in the proper orientation. which is? - The tapes should be read and re-tensioned twice a year. Anyone know if Iron Mountain, or someone similar, will perform this service on arc
Author: Vygur <nbu-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:16:09 -0800
Hi Everyone, I've recently taken a new job as a backup admin at another company (so coming from a networker backup admin and now a netbackup admin) - one thing i'd like to try and do is create a scri
Author: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:01:24 +0000
Hi All Hope everyone is well. Can someone advise on this? I have implemented an HP G3 ESL Library under NBU 7.5 - However, I have a problem. When doing the Inventory, it is showing the Media ID as th
Author: "Stier, Matthew" <Matthew.Stier AT us.fujitsu DOT com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:11:11 +0000
Documented here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH10824 From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT e
Author: Nic Solomons <Nic.Solomons AT attenda DOT net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:16:14 +0000
You should have (or need) a line in your vm.conf along the lines of: MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 0 8 3:4:5:6:7:8 Assuming ESL is lib0, 8 character barcodes. Cheers, Nic From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailm
Simon If you go to the java admin gui to the Media and Device management è Media Robots TLD(0) or whatever your robot is Then netbackup should show you the volumes that it has picked up in the invent
Author: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:30:43 +0000
Matthew I do not have anything like this in VM.conf I have existing Tape Libraries, that are reading the last 6 digits of the Barcode just fine. If I create a Media ID Generation Rule, then this mean
Author: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:36:20 +0000
Hi Len Thanks. I sort of get this, but this is what I have done: Deleted the one tape from the Robot in NetBackup. So in essence it knows nothing about the Media ID Gone to the Robot TLD(1) and inven