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> 1. Re: Remote Online Backups (Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com)
> 2. Re: full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something longer)
! > (A ndrey Halezov)
> 3. Re: NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007 (Ambrose, Monte)
> 4. NBU 6.0 Master Server hangs...many bpdbm process running
> (Sponsler, Michael)
> 5. Is NBU v6.5.1 stable? (King, Cheryl)
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> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:56:52 -0600
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> Performing backups at every remote site is complicated, expensive and
> risky too. Doing backup across the WAN is easier, reliable, and more
> secure.
>
> Have you experimented Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU)?
> It would be a great fit.
> By overcoming bandwidth limitations and reducing network latency,
> Riverbed's WDS facilitates network-based backup approaches in most of
> the customer environments. Riverbed technology optimizes:
> 1. Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines
> in remote offices
> 2. Replication of centralized data repositories between data
> centers
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> in your distributed enterprise for backing up large amounts of data. > R CU for disaster recovery can also be used for your remote backup
> solution just as effectively.
>
> http://www.wdsforum.org/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=10
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:20:38 -0500
> From: "Andrey Halezov"
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] full DSUs in old NBU revs (was: something
> longer)
> To: bob944 AT attglobal DOT net, cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com, ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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> Bob, Curtis, David, Ed,
> Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
>
> I will follow David's suggestion to melt all my small drives into a
> big Volume using Solstice or Veritas VM.
>
> Thank you
>
> On 3/24/08, bob944 wrote:
> > > I have setup several 34G disks mounted as /backupdisk_1,
> > > /backupdisk_2, /backupdisk_3 and etc... Each mount point
> > > becomes a separate Disk Storage Unit. I also have a Media
> > > Manager Storage Unit - DLT tape library with 20 tapes.
> > >
> > > All my backup classes are setup with property "Storage_Unit"
> > > set to "any available".
> > >
> > > Expectation
> > > ===========
> > > To continue backup on the next Storage Unit (Disk or M! edia Ma nager,
> > > whichever has space available) after one of the Storage Units
> > > fills up.
> >
> > Many users (myself included) somehow assumed that DSUs would work that
> > way when they were introduced. They don't. DSUs and STUG[roup]s get
> > smarter every release, though; this is the default setting for 6.5
> > STUGs:
> >
> > Prioritized
> > NetBackup chooses the first storage unit in the list that is not busy,
> > down, or out of media. Also, the storage unit must not have reached the
> > maximum concurrent jobs setting. When one of the specified conditions
> > occurs, the next storage unit in the list is examined until NetBackup
> > finds an available storage unit. If one is not available or if one does
> > not have enough available space, the job fails and is not queued.
> > (Default.)
> >
&! gt; > ; > Looks like NetBackup chooses Storage Unit for the job and
> > > doesn't change to different one after the chosen Storage
> > > Unit fills up.
> > > Is there a way to fix my setup?
> >
> > If you're expecting a job, a stream, to start on one STU, then continue
> > on another, that's not going to happen (unless it's a new 6.5 thing and
> > someone will correct me if that's the case)--you aren't going to write a
> > 40GB backup to 34GB STUs, no matter how many you have. You may need to
> > adjust your understanding of what a storage unit is. As
> > David_Cornely AT intuit DOT com points out in his reply, combining your 34GB
> > disks into larger volumes makes them both more usable and more robust.
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:20! :46 -07 00
> From: "Ambrose, Monte"
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 and Exchange 2007
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> We are backing up only the active node and it truncates the log files. - Monte
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of osonder
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> Ok. I'm doing a Full backup of mailstore, with Status 0. We are running Exchange
> CCR and take backup of the active node. > I have heard that the backup have to be done by the passive node for the LOG
> files to be deleted. Can anyone confirm this?
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:36:15 -0500
> From: "Sponsler, Michael"
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6.0 Master Server hangs...many bpdbm process
> running
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> Master Server : Netbackup 6.0 MP5 Solaris 10 on a SunFire v440 with 4x
> 1593 Mhz UltraSparc IIIi CPU's and 16 GB of RAM.
>
> I do have roughly 55 Media Servers, and a couple dozen clients on my
> Netbackup Domain. All are Netbackup 6.0 MP5.
>
> What I'm seeing is that my Master server will have many bpdbm processes
> running. All four of my CPU's get pegged out and the system hangs.
> Ultimately it becomes unresponsive and it needs to be shut down.
>
> All of my Media Servers run Oracle, and I have to do hourly Oracle
> Archive Log backups (contractual agreement).
>
> Why would so many bpdbm processes be running, and why would they need to
> suck up all of the processing power? Does each backup spawn a bpdbm > process? I have 70 Active backup jobs running right now, and 40 bpdbm
> processes running. Is it normal for that many bpdbm processes to be
> running?
>
> --
> Mike Sponsler
> Northrop Grumman Information Technology
> Michael.Sponsler AT ngc DOT com
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:15:21 -0600
> From: "King, Cheryl"
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
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> I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I
> now find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until
> 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for
> opinion! s on th at version.
>
> Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media.
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