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discussion comment 12 Jan 2012

RonCaplinger commented on: GRT on virtual tape

I'm pretty sure your tape cope is listed as the primary copy. You need to go into the Catalog display and bring up the image that you copied back to disk, right click it, and select "Set Primary Copy". Then your restore job ...

discussion comment 11 Jan 2012

RonCaplinger commented on: Can NBU auto erase tape after data expires?

If you are using standard non-dedupe disk appliances that don't have to run a "cleanup" or reclaimation job, then as soon as NBU expires the image, the space is available. However, if you use a dedupe appliance, such as Data Domain ...

discussion comment 09 Jan 2012

RonCaplinger commented on: Can NBU auto erase tape after data expires?

If your device is acting as a VTL, I would either expect it to automatically delete the data on disk, or require a disk space reclamation job (such as on Data Domains, where you run the "Clean" process), which can be run manually or ...

discussion comment 09 Jan 2012

RonCaplinger commented on: Automate vmchange

Mike, If your tape library supports/generates the "unit attention message", and if you are not using a partitioned library, you can just add AUTO_UPDATE_ROBOT to your vm.conf file on the robot control host. This causes the ...

discussion comment 30 Dec 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Please provide a command to get the deactivate policy list and date

I'm not a wizard of scripting, but I was able to cobble something together from things I found on the internet. I have this in one file, called "check_offline_clients.sh" find /usr/openv/netbackup/db/client/ | grep OA_ | ...

discussion comment 10 Nov 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Updating Windows NetBackup client

We are using a Windows server as a NetBackup LiveUpdate server and it work great for this. I just went through the steps to upgrade all of our servers from 6.x to 7.1.0.1 and found that some of our NBU clients could not be upgraded from ...

discussion comment 03 Nov 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: basics of netbackup

The Planning & Performance Tuning Guide should help the most. With just 15 servers, one NetBackup server could easily act as both Master and Media Server for all Unix/Windows clients. You must install the NetBackup client software on ...

New forum discussion 31 Oct 2011

RonCaplinger posted: How to back up Exchange setup that uses SCR for DR

I need a solution We are using NetBackup 7.1.0.1 on master server (Solaris 10), media server (Solaris 10), and all clients (Solaris & Windows). Our MS Exchange team is implementing Standby Continuous Replication from our

discussion comment 31 Oct 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Windows Open File Backup best practice

All of our Windows clients are set up to use WOFB. We use VSS, not VSP. And the Linux boxes won't make any difference if it is turned on or not; WOFB is "WINDOWS Open File Backup". It won't have any effect on ...

discussion comment 30 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Netbackup Liveupdate error code 11

Ignore my first question, I didn't see the line where you said they had 7.1 installed; 7.1 always installs LiveUpdate. In the output of the job that worked, the line "15:53:07.992 [972.1268] <4> nbliveup main: Updating LiveUpdate ...

discussion comment 26 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Virtualise Master and Media Servers?

The NBU master can be virtualized without too much trouble. The media servers can be vurtualized but only if they use disk storage units, not tape. Tape libraries/drives don't virtualize. Be sure to go through the NBU ...

New forum discussion 23 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger posted: Change Journal backups not any faster than directory scanning

I need a solution NBU Master - Solaris 10, Netbackup 7.1.0.1, 10Gbit interface. Client - Windows 2008 R2, NetBackup 6.5.6, 1Gbit interface. File system is located on SAN and has 2.5 million files. About 10,000 files chan

discussion comment 23 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: NetBackup 7 - How to display data expiration on a disk image

I just looked through the docs on the bpexpdate command again. Andy is 100% correct, and I was 100% wrong. Ignore me on this one! :)

discussion comment 22 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Netbackup Liveupdate error code 11

I'm thinking two things that might cause this: 1. The NBU client doesn't have the LiveUpdate agent already installed. 2. The LiveUpdate server is not listed as a valid NBU server in the client's properties.

discussion comment 22 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: How to Auto Vault after backup/duplication jobs have finished

The NetBackup scheduler has no built-in function to trigger subsequent jobs. The policies will just run at specific times. The Storage Lifecycle Policy will duplicate almost immediately after the backup jobs complete, but it has no way to ...

discussion comment 22 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: NetBackup 7 - How to display data expiration on a disk image

Do you know that changing the media expiration date has no effect on the images stored on that media? If your goal is to change the expiration date of an image, whether on disk OR tape, you still need to use the second format ...

discussion comment 21 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Running OpsCenter on a media server?

The problems I experienced had nothing to do with the load on the server. It was compatibility with some of the support services (VX.....can't remember now) that get installed with OpsCenter. OpsCenter was using the same ...

discussion comment 21 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Set aside a tape drive for dups

Change the current storage unit to only allow Max Concurrent Write Drives of "29". Then create a new storage unit for the same media server/Storage Device combination with only 1 Max Concurrent Write Drive. When you define ...

discussion comment 13 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: Retetion Level Issue in the Vault Duplication Process

William, I can't see how or why NBU would change the expiration of the image like that. Ignore this if it doesn't apply. Are you looking at the Retention Level 3 somewhere and thinking that means 3 months retention period? ...

idea comment 12 Sep 2011

RonCaplinger commented on: OpsCenter Alerting for all Data Types on the Data Collection Status Tab

Since upgrading to 7.1.0.1 + EEB, we have not had a data collection failure yet. But our experience with every previous version of OpsCenter was that data collection could fail and the Data Type would affect reports without us knowing that ...