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discussion comment 20 Mar 2007

JimZ commented on: Vaulting offsite catalog tape

Hi,I did think about doing this, but would this make the Offsite set of tapes the primary set for restores once the images on disk have expired? Or is that governed by the order the copies appear in the Multiple Copies table?For background info, ...

discussion comment 19 Mar 2007

JimZ commented on: Vaulting offsite catalog tape

Hi Joe,Some confusion, I am not making multiple copies of the catalog.All I am doing is creating two sets of data tapes, using the multiple copies settings in the Duplication tab of the vault profile, one set for Onsite, one set for Offsite.The ...

New forum discussion 19 Mar 2007

JimZ posted: Vaulting offsite catalog tape

I need a solution Hi, We used to perform an Onsite Vault job and also an Offsite Vault job over the weekend, but due to the size of the backup the jobs started to overlap and fail and take took long etc; so we've changed

discussion comment 29 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Import phase 2 fails with status 50 ?

Ah, I will try this, I was doing the imports via a Remote Desktop Connection, which may have timed out and locked.I will give it a shot from the server and report my findings.Unfortunately we now seem to have a low space issue so I'm in the ...

discussion comment 28 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Import phase 2 fails with status 50 ?

Hi,The backup was created on the very same server, it then expired and we are attempting to import it back into the database.This error only seems to affect certain tapes, others import fine following the same import process.Its quite puzzling.James.

discussion comment 23 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Import phase 2 fails with status 50 ?

Hi, yes indeed..Windows 2003 Server Std SP1 (OS/App disk in RAID 1)NetBackup 5.1 MP5HP MSL6000 Library includes 4 x HP Ultrium 2 drivesHard Disk storage array in RAID 5James.

discussion comment 22 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Importing tapes - media pool issue and retention?

Thanks!It is a shame that NetBackup doesn't just let you reassign media to another pool as and when you need to, it is all only an entry in a database after alI guess.Thanks for the help everyone.James.

New forum discussion 22 Nov 2006

JimZ posted: Import phase 2 fails with status 50 ?

I need a solution I have come across this error when trying to perform some Phase 2 imports, does anyone know what these mean? Is it possible they relate to reading a damaged tape, or is it something to do with the server...?

discussion comment 07 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Importing tapes - media pool issue and retention?

After just reading the commands manual, am I right in assuming that Phase 2 possibly performs a "bpexpdate -recalculate" to correct the retention of the images on the media to be the current date + retention period?This still leaves the issue of ...

discussion comment 07 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Importing tapes - media pool issue and retention?

Hi James, thanks for the help,These tapes were accidentally manually expired it appears, but we need them back in the database for future restores. So, they are all currently members of the Scratch pool and contain valid data.We need to Import ...

discussion comment 07 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Difference between Expiring the Media Id and Expiring the Images

I believe..There is an expiry date for the images (the data), this is set by the policy which does that backup. When all the images on a tape expire, then this tape becomes available for use again, ie. becomes scratch. At this time the ...

New forum discussion 07 Nov 2006

JimZ posted: Importing tapes - media pool issue and retention?

I need a solution Hi everyone, We are currently undergoing some Importing of old tapes, however I have noticed a few things - As the media was already a member of Scratch pool it would produce a media pool error when attemp

discussion comment 02 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

Thanks for the info Bob,After much discussion in the office, we have decided to keep the current status, not restore the catalogue back 3 weeks, but to see if we can import the lost tapes back into the current database.I have checked the ...

discussion comment 02 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

Hi Bob,We have approx 80 tapes which are classed as Scratch, which must contain the data we need back in the database, which now is now missing a year's worth of backups for one particular client (ms exchange).It may be the case that we could get ...

discussion comment 02 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

Thanks for the info Bob,I think it looks like we may need to perform a recovery of our Catalogue back to a snapshot before the \veritas\netbackup\db\images\* files were removed.I'm assuming this would then rectify the database back to that point ...

discussion comment 01 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

Thanks Bob,We are running 5.1 MP5.James.

discussion comment 01 Nov 2006

JimZ commented on: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

Thanks Bob,We don't seem to have any Bad Image Header errors on our system.Also, when looking at the images folder for the particular client, for a particular date, we don't have any _123456789_FULL or _123456789_FULL.f files at all for the dates ...

New forum discussion 01 Nov 2006

JimZ posted: Catalogue broken, tapes expired, how to restore?

I need a solution Hi! If someone has accidentally removed the following folders, as an example : D:\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images\\1156000000\... etc This would then expire a load of media suddenly from the database? Th

discussion comment 14 Jul 2006

JimZ commented on: Vault using Multiple / Concurrent Drives

Hi, sorry for the delay I have been away etc.I have a question about the Source Drives, you mention above setting this to 2, is this ok since the images are from only 1 source drive, our hard disk array? (all disk staged images are on this 1 disk ...

New forum discussion 13 Jun 2006

JimZ posted: Vault using Multiple / Concurrent Drives

I need a solution Is it possible to Vault using more than one tape drive? We have 4 drives, and use NetBackup 5.1MP5, but it appears only 1 drive is used for the Vaulting process which is slow and wasteful. I've checke

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