NetBackup doesn't "get it" until version
6. I am 100% windows here with a mixture of 19 Media and SAN Media
servers sharing a library with 24 drives. First, stabilize it. Zone
your library and make sure that the only servers that can even see the library
are servers that you want to see the library. Check HBA settings
and disable removable storage service. Until you have the communication
paths really stable between servers and drives, the problems won’t ever
cease. But once you have it stable, it typically will stay that way.
However, in version 5.1, whenever I had to do any type of
maintenance on my library causing it to lose connection to NetBackup servers, I
had to reboot all of my NetBackup servers before I could get NetBackup to see
the library again. My SAN Media servers are high profile servers and
rebooting them periodically wasn’t a popular activity with our
customers. Microsoft said it wasn’t Windows, Symantec said it wasn’t
NetBackup and I could never get a straight answer. But 6.0 doesn’t
have that problem. I can reboot the library all day long and as soon as
it is back on line, NetBackup is back on line.
Thanks,
Randy
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Whats Best Practice for SSO in NBU 5.1
but would you implement such a large sso environment with
Windows servers? we've shared 20,30,40 drives across many windows servers
and it becomes hell whenever drives go offline and/or is replaced and then
shuffles in the os. we've used persistent binding but this doesn't help
with vtl drives. but sometimes, netbackup just doesn't get it.
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