I've ran into an issue where certain clients, backing up to tape, took an excessively long time and caused everything else to blow up. My config is a Win2K3 Master, 1 Win2K Media backing up to a fibre attached ADIC Scalar i2K. We only have 2 LTO3 d...
Greetings, We are testing our BMR implementation right now. We've successfully done a restore of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3 box, but have a few issues. Has anyone seen the following: 1) After grub loads, once the restore is complete, w...
In my prep to migrate our Backup Environment from NBU 5.1 to NBU 6.0, I'm working on BMR for both Windows and Linux. NB - I've not taken the BMR class as of yet.The "NetBackup Bare Metal Restore System Administrator's Guide" says the following:"Linu...
I've been testing NBU 6.0 MP1 and NOM on a Win2K SP4 server before rolling to production. This morning I noticed that if I add a policy, storage unit, etc in the NBU Admin Console, NOM doesn't see it. I've bounced the NOM services and rebooted the ...
When we purchased and installed NBU 5.1, included was the Open File Option license. If I view Help->License Keys in the NBU Admin Console, I see it as installed (Open File Backup). I was trying to debug a problem earlier this week and turned on the...
Bob, I've thought about it, but have't been able to work on it yet. One issue I have is that Windows Services for Unix (by MS) always leave a core dump. Scripts run, but there's always cleanup. That, so far, sounds to be the neatest way. But a...
I'm backing up about 50-60 servers, both Windows and Linux. I have about 24 policies and close to the same amount of schedules. The notify scripts may work, I'm getting ready to look them over.My biggest concern would be to kill any excessivly long...
That's the idea. Our weekend backup kicks off at 11PM on Friday, and has most of the weekend to run. I don't typically log in to look at things, and don't want to be in the habit. It appears to have been one or two boxes that killed everything els...
I recently went to a dog and pony cheerleading session for MOM. There are non-MS system agents out there. Here's one article pointing at that fact (eweek, 2005)http://tinyurl.com/fhz2gI remember looking at the session and found an NBU agent, but do...