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Where's my Gigabytes?
I've got a duplication running (manual "bpduplicate" with a "-Bidfile") that seems to be moving about 50G every 10 minutes or so (just an "eyeball average"). This is definitely not reflected in the GB/sec counter at the bottom of the job detail screen. Even if I acknowledge that it's not frequently updated or even updated only in between images in the list of images supplied to bpduplicate, I seem to be missing a lot of gigabytes. Anybody know where my GB are? screen snap attached. -Mark
How to add a Oracle RAC instance with #nboracmd to 10.4
Hi, we use Netbackup 10.1.1 with OIP in our production and manage our Oracle assets with #nboraadm. - Everything works fine! In our Test environment we use Netbackup 10.4.0.1 and everything has changed :-( The CLI commend #nboraadm was replaced with #nboracmd and this command is not so powerful! With the command "#nboracmd modify database" i'm able to register the Database, but it is not possible to add a new Instance to the Database. Has somebody the same issue and can provide a solution? I'm sure over the API it will work, but i don't use API scripts.Orace RAC credentials validation is failing
Hi, Customer has oracle RAC (12CR2) on top of windows 2016 (two nodes) which is compatible in netbackup CL. communication is working fine and confirmed that port 1556 is enabled between client and master and media and vice verse. (bptestbpcd and bpnetconn are successful). webUI discovery is able to discover the databases but when we are using the credential validation we are facing below error the same account (oracle sys) is working fine locally on instances (so it is not locked out nor has permission issue as it is DBA ). anything I am missing in this scenario?
Expired Tapes not changing over to Scratch NBU10.5
Dear all, I`m seeking your advice on troubleshooting this issue. We run several master servers on different sites in our nbu environment. One location has problems with transferring expired tapes automatically to the scratch pool. NBU 10.5 on Windows Server 2022 (Same Master+Media server) Already tested: 1. Checked for "NoExpire" file 2. Checked bptm log for any "delete_expired_media" entries -> these can be found frequently 3. Ran bptm -delete_all_expired (no output in cmd was given) G:\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bptm -delete_all_expired 4. Ran bpexpdate -deassignempty \NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -m A00212 -deassignempty Search for empty media that meet the following criteria: Media id: A00212 Continue? y/n (n)y No media matching criteria were found to be deassigned. no entity was found 5. Checked media for its origin pool vmquery -m A00212 -X ... Previous Pool: Scratch 6. Checking tape media with bpmedialist \NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedialist -m A00212 Server Host = sbbg05 id rl images allocated last updated density kbytes restores vimages expiration last read <------- STATUS -------> On Hold -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A00212 3 2469 10/15/2024 19:00 10/18/2024 23:34 hcart 12306768008 0 MPX 11/18/2024 22:54 N/A EXPIRED FULL 0 The only thing that seems to be working at the moment is manually resetting the tapes through bpexpdate <mediaid> -d 0 Any advice? Thanks!Simplifying NetBackup Management at Scale with MSDP Volume Group (MVG)
Modern enterprise IT environments are rapidly evolving and growing, requiring a data protection solution that optimizes and manages storage at large scale. The NetBackup MSDP Volume Group (MVG) feature, released in NetBackup 10.5, is designed to address the storage scalability and manageability challenges. Customer pain points Workload distribution and balancing: Managing multiple MSDP pools with thousands of workloads can be complex and time-consuming. The process of assigning workloads to these pools is labor-intensive during the initial deployment. It is equally challenging to assign new or rebalancing existing workloads as part of the day-to-day operations. Failure handling and resilience: Although Storage Unit Groups can be enabled to provide fault redundancy for MSDP, Storage Unit Groups do not support many advanced copy functions and do not address load distribution Storage scaling: As data and workloads grow, more MSDP pools are needed to scale the storage, which in turn needs workload rebalancing, and configuration change. Why NetBackup MVG? NetBackup MVG addresses all these challenges by grouping multiple physical MSDP volumes to create a virtual volume for NetBackup. Simplified Backup Management at Scale: Automatic workload assignments to physical nodes within an MVG volume Adjust workload assignments when storage becomes imbalanced Load balancing for opt-dup and replication jobs Improved Resilience Redirect backup jobs to other nodes in case of node failure Seamless Storage Capacity Expansion Expand storage capacity within an MVG volume without job interruption What is NetBackup MVG? As shown below, an MVG server is a lightweight MSDP server that groups multiple MSDP physical volumes (local disk or cloud) together to form a large MVG volume and presents it to NetBackup as a single storage pool. During backup, restore or other NetBackup operations, the MVG enabled OST plugin running in NetBackup communicates with MVG server to select the physical MSDP server to use. MVG server selects a physical MSDP server according to its load balancing and failure handling algorithms. Once an MSDP server is selected, OST plugin will use the server directly and thus no data goes through MVG server itself. This makes MVG volumes highly dynamic, scalable and efficient, and gives MVG server the flexibility of managing the physical MSDP server for load balancing, failure handling, storage expansion etc. to simplify the management at scale. Configuring and using NetBackup MVG Configuring an MVG server and MVG volumes is straightforward. To set up an MVG server, simply check the “Enable MSDP volume group (MVG) service” option during the MSDP server creation process as shown below. When creating a new disk pool, select an MSDP server with an MVG tag in the storage server list and choose “Add MVG volume” as shown below. The Web UI will display all the physical MSDP volumes, and one can use the filter to select the desired volumes to create the MVG group. MVG disk pools are tagged with an “MVG” label in the Web UI as shown here. MVG as an enabler for software defined scale-out storage for NetBackup With NetBackup MVG’s ability of managing multiple nodes as a single system, performing dynamic storage scaling and workload distribution, together with proper storage and node management layer, it can be used to build scale-out storage systems for NetBackup as shown below. For example, with NetBackup Flex HA appliances, one can build a system that provides data resilience, service level availability, and management at scale. This feature system leverages the best technologies in the market: a reliable and high-performance storage subsystem for data availability, resilient and secure services from Flex HA, and storage pool scalability with MVG. A major advantage of this approach is that all of these are based on existing NetBackup components requiring minimal learning for deployment, management, and support. One can also build such system with BYO hardware with proper storage and node resilience. MVG Use Cases MSDP MVG can be utilized in all scenarios where MSDP is applicable. It is particularly powerful in large NetBackup environments. Below are illustrations of potential MVG use cases. Use case 1: Backup to local MSDP MVG pool and duplicate to MVG cloud pool NetBackup Environments Thousands of workloads Multiple MSDP pools, each with a local disk volume and one cloud volume Build two MVG volumes, MVG-local-vol and MVG-cloud-vol, from MSDP nodes Workload Management All workloads are directed to MVG-local-vol and duplicated to MVG-cloud-vol MVG automatically assigns backups to individual physical nodes Failure handling Workloads are reassigned in case of new node addition or node failure Use case 2: Multi-Site NetBackup with MVG volume as optimized duplication source and target NetBackup Domain Setup One NetBackup domain with two sites: an active primary server at one location and a passive primary server at the other Each site has media servers and MSDP servers to protect the clients in that location High Availability (HA) The active primary catalog is replicated, such as Primary Server Availability (PSA) on Flex or InfoScale Virtual Volume Replicator (VVR), to the other site through storage-level replication for primary HA MVG Server Configuration An MVG server, preferably with HA, is set up at each site as the backup storage unit for that location Backups are duplicated with optimized duplication from one location to the other for data resilience Failover and Resilience In case of site failure, the primary server can switch to the other site and continue backup and recovery operations This configuration provides multi-level resilience against node, storage, and site failures Use case 3: Use MVG as replication target Previously, it was administratively challenging to have regional offices replicate backups to the main data center in domains with multiple MSDP servers. Now, with MVG replicated backups between MSDP nodes are automatically distributed as shown below. This eliminates the need to manually assign a remote MSDP server to one of the data center MSDP servers. Remote NetBackup domains simply replicate to the MVG pool, and the MVG server coordinates the load distribution. This approach eliminates the need for backup administrators to be aware of the internal deployment details in the data center, allowing for future changes without interrupting the NetBackup setups elsewhere. Summary MVG provides an elastic storage pool by grouping multiple MSDP servers, and it simplifies NetBackup management for large customer environments with thousands of workloads. It enables building scale-out systems for NetBackup with either BYO or NetBackup appliances to provide storage availability, serviceability and management at scale. Since MVG is built on top of existing NetBackup components, it requires minimum learning for deployment, support, and day-to-day operations, all while providing much needed large scale storage management capability.
Unable to connect to Java Console -7.6.0.1
Hello All, This will be a long shot, but I've tried everything else: I have a master server on version 7.6.0.1 that has been working fine and consistently for the past several years. It is installed in a Linux server and I usually connect to the java console from a Windows server, on the same network, no firewalls in between. Two days ago, I tried to connect to it and I got an error: "Unable to connect to the selected NetBackup host 'mastername' 1 - Make sure the user 'myusername' has privileges on the host. 2 - Make sure the local host is listed in the server list of the destination host 'mastername' 3 - Make sure there is a valid network connection 4 - Check authentication 5 - Make sure all the services are running on the host" 1 - I'm not sure how to check my username in the master, since I have no access to the console. I've looked around and there is supposed to be a command "bppluser", which I don't have. Maybe it came in version after 7.6? 2 - The server is listed in bp.conf of master, both with and without fqdn 3 - Same network, pings ok, ssh ok, all good 4 - How do you check authentication? 5 - All services running as far as I can tell. Master was rebooted, and also netbackup services were rebooted several times. At some point, I've started trying different things, including redeploying the security certificate, but got an error: # admincmd/bpnbaz -setupat You will have to restart NetBackup services on this machine after the command completes successfully. Do you want to continue(y/n)y Gathering configuration information. ERROR: Failed to start security services - /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbatd -f Unable to fork child process. I tried it both with the nbu services running and stopped, same result, always using root account. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanceAutomating a NBU Restore with bprestore
Greetings, NetBackup 10.3.0.1 Master and Media servers Entire environment is Linux - RHEL 9 I'm looking for a way to automate a NetBackup restore in a script. I do speak "BASH". :-) I would like to take the server name, start and end date range and the path/filename from a menu and then do all the crunch work behind the scenes for data recovery. Some of the data will be on disk in the MSDP pool while others will be older data to be restored from tape. Backup policy is a Standard policy backing up 2 specific locations on a Linux server. Has anyone done this already? Tips and Pointers welcomed. :-)
