Not 100% agree,
NBU 5.0 introduced some errors in our environment but mostly related to
clients with mistakes in configs (missing reverse DNS entries, wrong
hostnames, etc). In general 5.x is working faster and more reliable in
our case.
I don't have much sleep since we upgraded to 5.0 (have to restart server
on a daily basis to clean up garbage in remote Admin for Windows, kill
hanged jobs, etc ) but I'm really excited about new features
(checkpoints, inline copy, staging units, synthetic backups, etc).
We immediately started to use most of them and finally replaced custom
scripts..
BTW, Veritas is posting MP1 right now on the support site (MP for agents
and client is already posted - waiting for a server part). Hope it will
solve most of our problems.
Dmitri
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From: Mason, Adam [mailto:adam.mason AT intechnology.co DOT uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:04 AM
To: Monique Marais; Paul Yahnig; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 upgrade and now all kinds of
media errors and network errors
Hi Monique.
The apparent "features" within NBU 5.0 are wide and varied. There are no
specific focus areas in which the software reliably falls down. The
overall picture of failures seems to be drawn loosely around the
interfaces with the other components of the software. Especially the
agent interfaces and the interpretation/handling of errors or anomalies
in the BPKAR (backup/archive) agent.
Depending on whether you have upgraded or done a fresh install, you will
see very different errors, and in some cases you may not see any at
all!. Frustrating, I know, but unfortunately this seems to be the case.
Veritas have told me that the first MP is due out mid to late April, so
I would cross your fingers and hopw it all hangs together until then.
They purport to have "addressed" the majority of the teething problems
that have been reported within the first few months, although they are
not, as yet, willing to disclose exactly what they have fixed!.
Rgds,
Adam.
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From: Monique Marais [mailto:monique.marais AT alindigo DOT com]
Sent: 13 April 2004 21:39
To: adam AT masons.demon.co DOT uk; 'Paul Yahnig';
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 upgrade and now all kinds of
media errors and network errors
Hi Adam
I've just upgraded one major scientific research company, and have
another client who's purchased and installed nb 5.0 - been reading
everything about the "bugs" too. What I'd like to know from anyone
saying "dont upgrade" is... what exactly makes this upgrade/install such
a major issue? Whats going wrong to make it a bad upgrade? Reason I'm
asking is... I cant exactly go to the clients now and say "hey guess
what, your software is buggered, here's lets turn everything upside down
and reinstall 4.5" :) as much as I'd like to, this cant happen. So what
do i look out for in 5.0 thats apparently such an issue?
We are currently having issues at one client and I'd like to see if it
may have something to do with 5.0 being a bad upgrade option.
I'm very new to netbackup, so im taking things slow before i jump the
gun.
thanks and kind regards, :)
Monique Marais
Support Engineer
African Legend Indigo (Pty) Ltd
South Africa
Business: +27 11 808 6300
Fax: +27 11 802 0795
Cell: +27 083 727 8556 / 083 397 2377
www.alindigo.com
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Adam Mason
Sent: 05 April 2004 08:44 AM
To: 'Paul Yahnig'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 upgrade and now all
kinds of media errors and network errors
Hi.
NBU 5 is, "Less than Perfect" at the present time!, as I'm sure
you will have seen by the number of posts to this newsgroup and the
general Veritas support forums around the net!.
The general consensus is NOT to upgrade until at least the first
service pack (MP1) comes out, which is supposed to stabalise the
product. Veritas seem to have ushered the initial release out the door
like most other software vendors to get it's presence in the market with
new features such as disk staging etc.
My personal advice to anyone thinking of upgrading now is
DON'T!!!.
I see about 10 - 15 clients a week on a consultancy basis and
have had the same problems with each and everyone of them who have
upgraded.
If you have upgraded, you could try applying the first patch
they have released on support.veritas.com but you're still going to have
to grin and bare it for the most part, I'm afraid!.
Rgds,
Adam Mason.
Senior Consultant - InTechnology plc.
________________________________
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Yahnig
Sent: 04 April 2004 16:14
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 5.0 upgrade and now all kinds of
media errors and network errors
Hello all....
We have just upgraded to 5.0 from 4.5. Our 4.5 environment was
running clean with no errors. Now after the upgrade, I am getting a ton
of 54, 84, 86 errors. Oracle RMAN backups are getting errors at times
then other times they are perfect. My catalog backup some days is great
then other days I get 84 errors non-stop.
Master/Media server is Solaris 9 with Spectra 64K AIT-3 Library.
Has anyone seen this?
Thanks
Paul
Paul Yahnig
Manager, Systems & Network Administration
PR Newswire
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