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David McMullin
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discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Max catalog size

My catalog is 200GB and takes 3 hours to backup up - how long does your catalog backup take for 2TB? The document referenced above suggests archiving at 750GB - "Online catalog should not contain more than 750 GB of data"

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Restoring an entire Oracle database

Try setting the NB_ORA values to the source, you should not need the media server name. 90% of my DBA restore issues are typo in name of client or policy, lol... Here is our restore script, runs on the client, edited for space and ...

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: NBU DSSU Disk Space is full

If I remember, some of the 6.X versions had bugs that orphaned fragments on disk - you had to manually clear those...

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: NBU DSSU Disk Space is full

If you only want one day of data on the disk, you need to calculate how big that is. if your one day is 500G, then 2 days would be 1000G - depending on whether you have one large or many small backups, you should set your storage size and ...

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Restoring an entire Oracle database

are you restoring to the same client? the source client should be the 'NB_ORA_SERV' value in your script. Is the media server the same? you may need to change ownership of the tapes if it is a different one. We restore our ...

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Media are not getting expired automatically in netbackup 7

if you have a tape stuck in a drive, any tape that tries to load to that drive will be frozen...

discussion comment 04 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Understanding NetBackup image copy numbers...

And, if you backup to disk as copy #1, then duplicate to create copy #2, then expire copy #1 = copy 2 is automatically moved to primary. no copy 1. If you then copy #2 you get copy #1, and unless you specify, #2 is primary until it expires, ...

idea comment 03 Aug 2011

David McMullin commented on: Ability to not allow ANY backup jobs to start AND make persistent

bcblake is looking for somethnig that will remain in place if he stops all netbackup processes and then restarts them...

discussion comment 11 Jul 2011

David McMullin commented on: Defining HCART type for new drives?

Thanks for the link to the manual - who would have thought reading the manual might solve this issue? I had to make the vm.conf changes, and delete and re-invdentory the tapes. But as of now - I have HCART drives and HCART tapes, so they should ...

discussion comment 08 Jul 2011

David McMullin commented on: Defining HCART type for new drives?

Looks like the vm.conf works, but I may have to remove or delete my tapes: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rt acs -rn 0 -use_barcode_rules -h lorenzo -rh CBC-DL-1528-A Running update: Generating list of recommended changes ...

discussion comment 08 Jul 2011

David McMullin commented on: Defining HCART type for new drives?

That looks like it is a temporary solution - "You can change the default mappings. Changes apply only to the current volume configuration update." I found the vm.conf edits to make it permanent - but the LTO5 tape in NOT ...

New forum discussion 08 Jul 2011

David McMullin posted: Defining HCART type for new drives?

I need a solution We currently have LTO2 and LTO3 drives in an SL8500 robot. All drives are defined as HCART2, and all tapes are defined as HCART2. We do not use any bar code rules. This has worked fine for years. Our LTO2 tapes

discussion comment 01 Jul 2011

David McMullin commented on: manually adding/assigning tapes to NBU

It might be helpfull to indicate your environment as well. For example - I have a SL8500 robot and acsls - and I can go into acsls and tell it to make tapes visible or invisible to NB. I have both an AS/400 and NB both using the same robot, and ...

discussion comment 01 Jul 2011

David McMullin commented on: Setting up email notifications about backups

1. Go to the thread you opened and mark an answer as a solution. 2. Don't open a new thread about the same issue.

discussion comment 30 Jun 2011

David McMullin commented on: Vault log question

Thanks for the clarification.

New idea 29 Jun 2011

David McMullin posted: SSO Drive selection

Suggestion to modify procedure to select drive to use - If I have multiple pools of drives with some drives shared, I would like to use the UNSHARED drives first. I have 12 drives in group A and 12 in group B - sometimes ALL of one group are busy, while the other is idle. So I sh

idea comment 29 Jun 2011

David McMullin commented on: Ability to not allow ANY backup jobs to start AND make persistent

I use this script on unix to deactivate ALL my policies, then another just like it to read the output and reactivate them... # cat deactivate.policies.sh #!/usr/bin/ksh # # get list of active policies and save to file # Look at ...

discussion comment 29 Jun 2011

David McMullin commented on: Netbackup with SL500

You may need to power cycle the robot, so it reinventories its physical devices.

discussion comment 29 Jun 2011

David McMullin commented on: Error 96 even with available tapes

what does it say there, that is the first place to get your clue... I had this happen - tape drive thought it had unloaded a tape but it was still stuck. When you try to load a tape it fails, so it freezes the tape and tries again - you ...

New forum discussion 29 Jun 2011

David McMullin posted: Vault log question

I need a solution When I run my vault process, I see lines like this in the log: cat /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/vault/log.062911 | grep -i skipp 14:27:26.451 [4637] <2> vltrun@FilterImages^3011 : Skipping im