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discussion comment 04 Oct 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: NetBackup 6.5 documentation

Turns out i don't need the 6.5 docs now anyway, a 5.1 upgrade to 6.5 failed abysmally due to those kind Symantec folks 'retiring' 2 of our tape robots. Now reinstating 5.1 at one site to re-attempt a 6.0 MP4 upgrade (as 6.0 sort of worked ...

discussion comment 03 Oct 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: NetBackup 6.5 documentation

I see this thread was raised in August, however i only downloaded the various 6.5 tar files last week, and found the Docs tar file is indeed still corrupt (at source ie at Symantec's end). Annoying but i managed to extract most of the tar file, ...

discussion comment 05 Jul 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: How can i make tunning to bpdjobs?

In addition to David's reply, here's an example of parameters you can add to the bp.conf file -# The following added so as to tune the fields reported when using 'bpdbjobs -report' command..BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = JOBID 5 true# Added 'Type' field so ...

discussion comment 20 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: Scratch tapes going to the netbackup pool...

Darren Dunham wrote:So it sounds like you're preferring that expired tapes external to the library remain in the backup pool rather than return to 'scratch'.What is the advantage you get from that? If I see 'scratch' tapes outside my library, ...

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: 6.0 MP5 release?

Subscribed just in case one of you good fellows posts here when MP5 is available

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: Scratch tapes going to the netbackup pool...

Here's my 7yr old basic script, which is still in daily use today on a couple of Master servers -http://news.support.veritas.com/dnewsweb.exe?cmd=article&group=veritas.netbackup.datacenter.english&item=13342&utagI don't use the ...

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: Increse retention time in activity monitor

in UNIX there's a maximum of 720 hours for this parameter, in versions up to 5.1 (don't know if it's the same maximum in Windows or in NBU 6.0) -https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=21&message.id=34048#M34048Message ...

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: What's the Point of Posting Here?

Bob Stump wrote: Bad news is that I will probably not have the time to participate as I once did. Nooo, say it isn't so Bob :mansad:

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: Longer Done Jobs retention in activity monitor....

Frank Cavadi wrote:Add the something like the following to /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf of your media servers -(of course, 240 hours equates to 10 days of Activity Monitor history) KEEP_JOBS_HOURS = 240KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 240I can vouch ...

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: Upgrading to Netbackup 6

David Rawson wrote:there are still key "bugs" in v6.0 MP4 that are preventing me from upgrading. I'm still waiting to see if they are resolved in v6.0 MP5.- that is concerning, though not completely unexpected; had deliberately stayed ...

discussion comment 14 Jun 2007

Richard Bannister commented on: /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors

Yes, field 4 is indeed the drive index numberRegardsRichard

discussion comment 10 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Any problems when upgrading to NB 5.1 MP5

i upgraded our remote site (Solaris 8) from MP3a to MP5 a couple months ago (no issues) and our local site (Solaris 9) about 3weeks ago, again no issues. (was happy enough on MP3a, but saw the slew of Disk Staging fixes in MP5 so it was rude not ...

discussion comment 10 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: How many volume pools do you have configured?

i have 26 pools (never counted them before). I err on the side of managable admin, too few pools isn't easy on the eye/brain, too many is too heavy on the spine ie too much admin work.I still don't like Veritas's scratch pool feature as it moves ...

discussion comment 10 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Date format in bpdbjobs ouput

I'm not quite happy with my response :) - looks like i hadn't finished it...here's an example output from the script - Tue Oct 10 08:00:03 BST 2006Previous Nights NetBackup Stats (5pm thru 8am)STATUS CLIENT POLICY SCHED ...

discussion comment 02 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Recovering Activity Monitor -Job Overview- and -Detailed Status- info.

edited as i was taking too long to reply whilst Bob replied..Hi Keith, i figured that'd be the case. i'm just trying to attack this from other angles. I have a multitude of scripts that i've written over the years, to cater for all manner of ...

discussion comment 02 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Date format in bpdbjobs ouput

in addition to Bob's post, i have a script running every day via cron -bash-2.05# cat NetBackup-Previous-Backstats.sh#!/bin/ksh## - first check if NetBackup is running or not.#if ; thenecho "This email was generated by script that calculates ...

discussion comment 02 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: unable to lock media at offset ??

these are normal messages; to verify, check the relevant section of bptm logfile, ie i looked for just section '9466'. the bptm -U is trying to umount all tapes, the tapes are in use and being written at the time; then you should see EXIT STATUS ...

discussion comment 02 Oct 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Recovering Activity Monitor -Job Overview- and -Detailed Status- info.

Can't help you with getting Activity Monitor to re-display the jobs, but i can help with making sure that in future you have the maximum available job information displayed (up to 1 month); i have this set in bp.conf - ## RRB - the below 2 ...

discussion comment 29 Jul 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Help: vmchange eject error

Nathan, that's definitely not good.i always use the command i posted, whether at the command line or via script (i detest/distrust GUI's). anyway, i can happily vmchange upwards of 30 tapes in one sitting with no problems. The only time i have ...

discussion comment 28 Jul 2006

Richard Bannister commented on: Help: vmchange eject error

I have the errors/messages every single time i change tapes, but it's never caused a problem; and it happens when the robot is completely quiet too.I've long ignored the errors myself