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Data Protection Administrator for UNIX using NetBackup 6.5

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discussion comment 21 Mar 2011

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Scripted automated Restore

Hey Kstasky, Netbackup doesn't provide an option to schedule restores like the way you can do with backups. You have to rely on OS schedulers or some third party schedulers. Short answer: It is possible to automate restore ...

New idea 26 Jan 2011

Manoj Siricilla posted: Ability to multi-stream user backups

It would be very helpful, if user backups are allowed to spawn multiple streams. Please add this feature. - With this feature we can capitalize on the capability of disk drives, like scheduled backups do. Overall performance/throughput improves. - Feature could be implemented by adding an

discussion comment 12 Aug 2010

Manoj Siricilla commented on: RMAN Restore failing in NBU 6.5.5

Paste the output of the following bpgetconfig | grep -i 'DISALLOW.*RESTORE' bpclient -client srvycoras18 bpclient -client srvycoras18.XXXXXX.priv

discussion comment 05 Jan 2010

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Exclude List Overhead

The following point is an excerpt from the symantec knowledge article http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/268665.htm 4. When using the exclude_list and the include_list, one should give significant thought and planning to the process. ...

discussion comment 04 Jan 2010

Manoj Siricilla commented on: NDMP Backups failing

- Start a backup and then at the ndmp prompt run the command >ndmpd status See the seesion and verify if ndmpd is on Also, review the log file on the nas filer by running the command >rdfile /etc/log/backup 99 - is a generic ...

discussion comment 04 Jan 2010

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Allow Multiple Data Streams on a policy

Elvis Martinez, If you using RMAN, multiple streams have to be enabled from RMAN. This can be achieved by allocating multiple channels on the rman front which will be treated as individual jobs on netbackup front. Here is an example... (I'd ...

discussion comment 04 Jan 2010

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Media server going offline.

When EMM doesn't receive a heartbeat from any of the media server's it will take the media server OFFLINE. First place would be looking at the EMM logs. /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/vxlogview -i 111 -t 06:00:00 ...

discussion comment 03 Dec 2009

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Netbackup 6.5.4 Backups Fail

Here is an article recommending VSS over VSP. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292787.htm Are you still having problems with backups? If you want to switch from VSP to VSS on a windows 2003, do the ...

discussion comment 14 Jan 2009

Manoj Siricilla commented on: timed out connecting to client (Error Code=54)

Hi Sherin, Couldn't reply any earlier than this. Seems to me that /etc/services isn't having bpcd settings in there. Can you try this? telnet <aix client> 13782 and telnet <aix client> 13724 Paste me the exact outputs please

discussion comment 13 Jan 2009

Manoj Siricilla commented on: timed out connecting to client (Error Code=54)

Hi Sherin, As you mentioned that on changing the IP the backups are failing with error 54, I wouldn't suspect that something is wrong with the process or ports rightaway 1. Can you tell me what OS is your master server running?2. Can you do a ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Backups failing since the Windows patching is done on client server .....

Sreekanth, From your output, I see that the client is listening so its not a problem there. Did u try that from the media server that is connecting to the client? Now, can you paste me the output of /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf from your ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Calculating Media Count Schedule wise

Here you go... If you want to know the tapes used between 09/01/2008 and 10/01/2008, for the policy Windows and schedule being Full, run the following. /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -media -d 09/01/2008 -e 10/01/2008 -p Windows ...

discussion comment 19 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Netbackup Installation on SUSE 10 Linux help

I suggest you create a new volume, if you have provision to do that. But, since you want to test, we can create a folder /teststunit using mkdir /teststunit. Now, we can create a basic disk storage unit using the following ...

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Netbackup Installation on SUSE 10 Linux help

I am not sure what kind of filesystem is your box setup withIf its vxfs create a new volume and mount it to something like /teststorageunit or if its ufs create a new folder /teststorageunit Now create a new disk storage unit and use it in the ...

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: globalDB hostname has not been set (MM status 4)

Good catch! could be they are connected. Sure, thanks for the update. All the best!

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: Change default directory for bpstart_notify.bat in NB6.5

you should fina all your netbackup keys in the following location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion you probably should be looking at the keys INSTALLDIR, INI Directory, Log Directory bp.conf on windows is under the ...

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: globalDB hostname has not been set (MM status 4)

Matts, Where do we stand on this problem? Can you uninstall all the installed packages and reinstall the correct ones? The libraries are the suspect here.

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: NetBackup v6 Administration Console performance issues

Since you are running straight of the Netbackup Master server you do not require Java admin console. I guess, we do not have a easy way to analyze what is causing the delay without enabling verbose logging.

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: NetBackup v6 Administration Console performance issues

Did you apply the Java Admin console patches? You can get them from the symantec site.

discussion comment 17 Oct 2008

Manoj Siricilla commented on: How to restore several files from a 560000 files backup's directory

Make a list of all the files you are intendeding to restore in a file, say C:\filelist if its windows or /filelist if its unix. you can restore these files as follows /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprestore -B -K -C <client name from which you ...