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Netbackup/Deduplication Space Issues

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Evening,

I'm currently troubleshooting an issue regarding space on a 40 TB VLS, and am using NB 6.5.5 on a windows 2003 SP2 enterprise edition as the master. If more information is needed to provide relevant help later I will provide it. 

 

For now lets jump in to the problem I am having. We have upwards of 75 clients writing full backups to this VLS, and we do a weekly, 6 month retention backup, and a daily 2 week retention backup of most of these clients. Last week we ran out of space entirely on the VLS, and now I am being asked to troubleshoot the issue. I have a bit of experience with VLS as well as a significant amount of experience managing backups on a day-to-day basis, and have been troubleshooting issues relating to this for approximately 2 years now. The first thing I did was check each client writing to this VLS to see if for some reason the images werent expiring from the catalog, as expected all of the clients were inside or right on their 6 month window, so I was fairly content there. I also checked frozen tapes and for any other of the more obvious issues. I spoke to a few senior staff who recommended I expire some older images in order to free up space. I had done this in the past for other clients and in semi-similar situations so from the catalog I went through each client that writes to this storage unit and expired a months worth of images (with some exeptions, I had not yet received approval for certain clients). After completing these steps and seeing the images expired from the catalog I ran the image cleanup command(Not sure this is necessary), logged on to the VLS, enabled writes, relabeled all available unassigned media relating to this storage unit in NETBACKUP, then reclaimed space on the VLS, as well I took a count of unassigned media assocated with this volume pool (232 unassigned tapes). Naturally I didn't expect this to immediately clear up the issues but by 15:00 the following day I noticed I went from .8 TB free on the storage unit to 3.11TB free. I wasnt' really happy with this so, and by this time I had the approvals to delete the rest of the images that I had not before the were older than 5 months. I went ahead and did this and waited yet another day, following the same steps before relabeling tapes and also reclaiming space, and monitoring the unassigned tapes in my scratch pool in netbackup (The number went up to 433 unassigned tapes).

 

In lieu of these issues happening I started reading some surrounding documentation relating to VLS / Netbackup and started comparing cartidges on the VLS and the images they hold, to what was in netbackup and noticed some discrepancies tonight. After going through about 30~ cartidges on the storage unit I am seeing images about 13-16 months old that should have already been expired stored on cartridges in the storage unit. I found about 15 instances of this on the 30 cartridges I checked and im wondering why it is that although I have removed these images from netbackup, why the images are not removed from the storage unit, or at least netbackup is not re-using this space. I know in the past NB would not always delete images but would for sure see the space as usable. Is it because these tapes are marked as full?

 

If necessary I can provide signifcantly more documentation surrounding my issue and apologize if anything I stated was unclear. As it stands right now I am about to drop retention down from 5 months to to 4 months.


Setup a Backup Symantec 12 with Source of Backup is Mapped Drive

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I was wondering if I setup or create a backup job with the source being a mapped drive from one of my Linux Samba Share Directories will Symantec see the drive as I create the backup job wizzard.  I have backup exec installed on my Windows Server 2008R2 Domain Controller.

 

A million thanks,

Johnn Mac

Setting up two 5020 Appliances

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Thrown in the deep end with a couple of 5020 appliances, and I need to setup replication between the two on a single NBU domain (WINDOWS 7.1.0.3)

I've been able to find plenty of doco on setting up the Appliance itself, but can't find any on setting up the NetBackup side of things?

Can anyone please comment on the process I think I need to follow? I might be way off the mark.

 

1. Configure both appliances as seperate all-in-one storage pools (bit confused here.... do I need a SPA? Or both SPAs?)

2. Create two new storage servers (selecting the master server? in the 'media server' dropdown box)

3. Create the two new diskpools

4. Create the two new Storage Units

5. Create an SLP which duplicates data from one STU to the other

 

Surely I'm missing some steps here, any help would be hugely appreciated!

 

Thankyou!

Retention Period

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I am trying to create new Retention of 2 Weeks on my Master server running 7.1.0.1. From Master Gui, I selected a Level 12 and updated from infinity to 2 Weeks and applied "2 weeks" retention to a schedule and started a backup using same schedule. When I double click on the Backup job it is shows infinity retention and not 2 weeks. Did anyone ran into this issue?

New VM Server Timing Out

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Hi,

I am trying to configure a New Virtual Machine Server on Netbackup Enterprise Server 7.5.0.3.  When I click ok after filling in the credentials it times out with the following error:  The operation timed out.  The operation exceeded the time out limit, though the service or daemon may still be processing the request. (195).

Any help appreciated.

 

Cheers

Recovering Exchange 2012 Database

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Our large Exchange 2010 DAG environment is configured to perform Weekly Full and daily incremental differential backups. I am trying to restore a DB using last Full backup and two increnemtals. NBU document says I can select a Full and incrementals in one job and recover DB. However the job fails with too many DBs selected to restore. I am able to restore a Full without selecting Commint after restore and then restore each incremental backups and select Commit while restoring last incremental. This works just fine but takes too long.

Active SQL backup job operation stuck on 'mounting'

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NBU 7.1.0.3, two node clustered RedHat Linux master server, two Win 2008 R2 media servers, using MSDP.

I've one SQL job ID which is active on the Netbackup Admin Console but not doing anything - its operations view shows as "mounting" but I dont see any tape in the drive. From the Netbackup MS SQL Client's progress view it remains "In Progress".

I've tried to cancel the job from the NB Admin Console, also tried to cancel by stopping the Netbackup client services from the client itself, ran command bpdbjobs -cancel <job number>, also stopped all NB services on the media services and ran command bpdbjobs -cancel <job number> again but without success.

I cross-checked the PID ID in any of the media servers and client itself in an attempt to kill the ID, but no match.

All other jobs are running fine.

Any suggestions before I restart the master services?

 

use update_clients to upgrade clients to 7.5.0.3 but failed

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hi,

as per the doc http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178490 , I upgrade linux clients to 7.5.0.3 from NBU master.

currently our NBU master and media server are running NBU7.5.0.3;

Master:  [root@lx0034nbumast iyang]# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version
              NetBackup-RedHat2.6.18 7.5.0.3
Media : [root@lx0034nbumed01 ~]# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version
            NetBackup-RedHat2.6.18 7.5.0.3

and clients are running with NBU7.1 or 6.5.

[root@lx0034nbumast ~]# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplclients -allunique -noheader |grep Linux |grep fin > clients_name

[root@lx0034nbumast iyang]# cat clients_name   ====>I only pick 2 boxes
Linux RedHat2.6 client1
Linux RedHat2.6 client2

[root@lx0034nbumast iyang]# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients  -ClientList clients_name     
There are 12 clients to upgrade.
Do you want the bp.conf file on the clients updated to list this server as the master server? [y,n] (y)
Enter the number of simultaneous updates you wish to take place [1 - 2] (default: 2): 
The upgrade will likely take 1 to 2 minutes.
Do you want to upgrade clients now? [y,n] (y)
Please be patient.
Updating client client1-- Linux hardware running RedHat2.6
Updating client client2-- Linux hardware running RedHat2.6
The update trace can be found in /tmp/update_clients.09-06-2220.14843.

[root@lx0034nbumast iyang]# cat  /tmp/update_clients.09-06-2220.14843    
Will not update client client1
        client1 is defined as a client type from an earlier release of NetBackup.
Will not update client client2
       client2 is defined as a client type from an earlier release of NetBackup.

Any one who can help point theright direction?

 


Perform SQL transaction log backup

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Hi,

I set up a backup schedle for my MSSQL server. It goes for weekly full and daily incremental backups. Additionally the first weekly backup every month is a will be archived permanently.

The first backup logged the exception V-79-40960-37914. The solution is to create a backup with a Backup Method of  'Log - Back up Transaction Log'. This can be set in the Microsoft SQL section of the backup job properties.

For me this is only possible when I create a one-time backup. When I set up a job that runs once a month, I cannot choose to back up transaction logs. Do I really have to do this manually?

My second question is: Must I keep the transaction log backup until I create a new transaction log backup?

Regards,

Monster

How to Create Storage Unit For Network Drive?

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Dear 

NB; 7.5.0.3

os win 2008

i want SQL Server (nb 7.5.0.3) (192.168.1.200) backup on Disk (disk is located on another server on network path)

Master server  (192.168.1.10)

Shared Path made on 192.168.1.253 (adsvr)( NB 7.5 cLIENT Installed on it)

on master server there is storage unit on network location as shown below 

Question is that i want to made storage unit on Network location ,

when i made browse on path name to directory , Network locations are not shown in it

and when i wrote manually the network location as \\adsvr\backup  or Y:backup ,it fails to accept 

 

Kindly help me ? how i will add network location on storage unit ? 

Can't install NetBackup 7.5 with UAC turned on

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I need to install NBU 7.5 on a Windows 2008R2 server. But when I run the installer (even when I select "Run as Administrator") the install fails. What happens is the setup.exe runs but disappears and runs forever and nothing happens. I then need to kill the task in task manager to run setup again.

I see in the NBU install guide it asks me to "log on as the official administrator". But how can I do that? I can turn off UAC but I don't want to reboot it because people are using the server.

Note: To install NetBackup on Windows 2008/Vista and

Windows 2008 R2/Windows 7 UAC-enabled environments,

you must log on as the official administrator. Users that are

assigned to the Administrators Group and are not the official

administrator cannot install NetBackup in UAC-enabled

environments. To allow users in the Administrators Group

to install NetBackup, disable UAC.

Backing up from a second domain

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Our environment has 8 different domains. I have no problems connecting to any of the other domains. Recently I have been tasked with backing up another domain. I created the service account and it is a domain admin. the subnets are behind the same firewall. I've verified that I can telnet on port 10000.

There is a trust between the domains as well.

I am unable to view the domain in the selection list. I have added the domain and it will prompt for credentials but I get a failed to logon error. I've tried other domain admin accounts that have already been created as well.

When I try to deploy the remote agent I receive an error stating the remote registry is not accessable. I have verified that the remote registry service is turned on and I can connect to the remote registry from regedit on the media server.

I am running backup exec 2010 r3 with all updates and service packs. servers vary between windows server 2003 and 2008. all have microsoft security packs and service packs installed. All are physical servers.

I even added the service account to the backup operators and remote desktop users groups.

What am I missing?

Command. to know the next scheduled tape.

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Hi Team,

 

Please advise, is there a command to know what is the next scheduled tape to be injected on the tape drive.

regards

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What happens during a live SQL Server backup

Full recovey mode for Sharepoint databases

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it seems very odd to me that we do not have an option to use the full recovery model on the SP sql dbs when trying to backup using the sharepoint agent (or whatever it is called).

Is there really NO WAY to enable transaction log backups, so that we can take advantage of log files to recover items that may have been deleted during the day (and after the last backup)?

 

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duplications

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Yesterday my Data domain went down.Backup to Datadomain got failed.

But duplications was also failed because of this.I dont know the reason.

My Duplications are on tape.and copy 1 on Data domain.

 

Nbu 7.1

master os:Linux

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difference between primary copy and copy 1

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PLease help me in this.

 

I know restore is done from Primary copy.

 

What is the basic difference between copy 1 and primary copy?

 

NetBackup FT backup-restoration

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Hi,

I'm implementing LAN free backup options for some client server in our NetBackup infrastcture. I've a windows Netbackup 7.5.0.3 master server and RHEL NetBackup 7.5 media server. The media server, two tape library (4 drives, 3 robots) and one client server(Solaris 10) are zoned to communicate each other through FC. Testing flat file backup and it happening through FC. But when I'm trying to open the restore windows for restoration, firstly it takes more time to open and then getting "Error: Pipe Close Failed" box.

Regards,

Dharmendu Maity

 

 

 

incorrect media found in drive index 0 when running duplication on Netbackup 7.1.0.3

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I encountered this when running duplication. I normally use 6 media. The 4 tapes always freeze.

Error bptm(pid=4740) incorrect media found in drive index 0, expected 127FAO, found DT3CBO, FREEZING 127FAO
9/7/2012 1:47:51 AM - current media 127FAO complete, requesting next resource Any
9/7/2012 1:48:42 AM - Info bptm(pid=4740) EXITING with status 96 <----------       

I tried to unfreeze the media affected, and expired again and ran duplication job. Still my duplication job is partially successful.

I'm thinkng that the media affected is defective and I will try to use new one. But any inputs/solution to my problem is much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Backup is partialy success

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Hi,

i have a backup that run weekly with 4 streams  ,always at 1st all 4 streams give status =1 after that the retry again and success giving status 0

 

Backup on client kabapp1 for user root by server m4 was partially successful.

Policy = kabira_weekly
Schedule = Full_edl_l14

File list
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/exec/applis

 

 

Symantic Product Name: Symantec Netbackup

Product Version: 7.0.1

Operating System: HP-UX 11iv3

 

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