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The_Director · 06-01-2011

We don't use scratch tapes because LTO5's are expensive and just beacuse I have 12 idle drives and 12 streams of small jobs doesn't mean I would like to write to a fraction of all 12 tapes when it could all fit on 2 or 3 so I assign the number of tap...

The_Director · 02-01-2011

All our Hitachi NAS (BlueArc) NDMP jobs are failing when they reach the fragment size set in the storage unit. No matter what fragment size we use the job will write until that size and then get an "Error bptm (pid=19100) FREEZING media id XXXXXX, ...

The_Director · 11-17-2010

I recently upgraded from 6.5.5 to 7.0.1. We have also introduced a few new media servers, and are configuring them for OST. I ran accross some wierd output on an nbdevquery -liststs... [root@******* admincmd]# ./nbdevquery -liststs V6.5.5 *MEDIA SE...

The_Director · 07-27-2010

Recently we moved our backups to use an OST disk pool off our DataDomains. We had previously just mounted up an NFS export from the DataDomain as a basic disk storage unit and then duplicated our backups with vault to an i2000 library. When we would ...

The_Director · 12-12-2007

Does anyone have experience doing NDMP backups on a Celerra using VBB?I can get TAR and DUMP backups to work but the file systems are full of millions of small images so the performance is still at best 25MB/sec. When I try VBB and have it automatica...

The_Director · 04-17-2012

You could script out something with nbstlutil to check for active/complete SLP jobs and cron it to run on a schedule. Or depending on your SLP policies you could use backup_exit_notify to alert you when the jobs are finished... ...come to think of it...

The_Director · 03-01-2012

If all the settings in the post are set and you have specifically 1 tape that is not mounting then I am going to assume that the issue is with that tape. Do you have any other tapes you can assign to the pool you are writitng to or even assign an ext...

The_Director · 02-29-2012

We had this issue accidentally, the "fix" was to enable the 'are you sure' check. This way if someone does accidentally push cancel all jobs it will at least prompt them before they can actually commit. I'm guessing you already have this but it was w...

The_Director · 02-29-2012

If you are using the built in hardware encryption of LTO5 you will have to configure the library to enable encryption which will require using some sort of key management weather its from Symantec or another vender. Once that is setup you will just s...

The_Director · 02-29-2012

Are these all set? Master Server Properties > Global Attributes > Maximum Jobs per client : >12 Storage Unit > Maximum Concurrent Write Drives : =4 Storage Unit > Enable Mulitplexing : checked Storage Unit > Maximum Streams per Drive : >4 Policy > ...

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Error 96 - Pause and notify before cancelling

NDMP job failing when is reaches tape fragmentation size

nbdevquery output

Issues using vault to duplicate backups on OST Disk Pool.

Celerra NDMP using VBB

nbstlutil or backup_exit_notify

If all the settings in the

Not a solution but...

If using LTO5 hardware encryption

Are these all set?