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[Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0

2006-09-07 17:18:03
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0
From: mikekiles at yahoo.com (mkiles)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:18:03 -0700 (PDT)
NBU 6.0 MP3, if in your multiplexed backups, one
backup fails with status 41, all other jobs to the
same drive get killed with exit 41 also.

This was supposed to be fixed in MP3, but doesnt look
like it is fixed. I encountered it few times.

MK

--- "Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)"
<JMARTI05 at intersil.com> wrote:

> We're doing something similar here.  We are creating
> a new backup
> infrastructure from the ground up, importing our
> policies and then
> keeping the old environment around for another year
> to do restores.
> This method made a lot more sense to us then trying
> to upgrade and
> re-import.
>  
> -Jonathan
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu]
> On Behalf Of Yang
> Xiao
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:12 PM
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to
> 6.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/7/06, WEAVER, Simon
> <simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net> wrote: 
> 
>       Yang
>       Oh dear, oh dear! this is when you start to feel
> that the
> support is not so good :-(
>        
>       how many tapes are we dealing with?
>       
> 
>       Phase 1 process takes an hour1, and based on my
> findings, and
> experience, an LTO Phase 2 takes 4 hours, give or
> take.
>        
>       Again, if you have a limited set of tapes, I guess
> its "OK", to
> do this and you have the time. also, bear in mind a
> drive will be in
> full use while the import takes place. So unless you
> have a spare drive
> backups will not run correctly and could fail.
>        
>       Also, there appears to be some concerns about 6.0
> and the so
> called MP3. If the Support engineer is going to be
> AT hand , during the
> whole process, then its probably worth considering
> this.
>        
>       I run 5.1 MP2 and to be honest, its absolutely
> fine. I am not
> saying this is what you should do, but if you have
> to upgrade, youll
> need to go to 5.x and then to 6.0
>        
>       As for your OS - If symantec say do it, then it
> must be
> supported!
>       Hope this is of some help
>        
>       
>        
> 
> We are looking at 80-100 tapes, and they are on a 3
> week rotation, so
> every week when we get them from Iron Mountain, the
> contains on them are
> expiring. 
> This makes me think I don' really need to import
> anything except the
> policies, because I just need to keep the tape
> rotation going and if
> something happens, lets say in the first week, I
> need to restore
> something from 2 weeks ago, I will have to reconnect
> the old backup
> server and call back the tapes, and since we have
> copy 2 and copy 3 of
> each backup on disk, I may not even have to bother
> with the tapes.... 
> So in this case, do you think I can just add the
> tapes to the new server
> each week without importing them?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Yang
> 
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