Netbackup using SAN / Filer snapshot to backup VMWare VM
Hello, I'm trying to find a way to use my Filer (NetApp) snapshots to do VMWare VM backup instead of VMWare snaps. The idea is to use netbackup default features (like VRay) to do a regular granular VM backup, but instead of using VMWare default Copy-On-Write (performance cost), I would like to use a SAN snapshot (with correct quiescing). It looks like I should use replication director, but I don't know if I can use something easier (I don't need to replicate or mirror data, just need to backup to dedup volume, thencopy to tape). Any idea ? Any one using it ? BTW, if I use NDMP, is netbackup able to catalog the files ? Is Search working with a NDMP image ? Thanks for your feedback,
Exchange 2010 Log files and GRT
I am having an issue where our Journal Log DB fails when trying to backup. After looking through NBU logs and Activity Monitor, it seems like the culprit is GRT. I currently have one Exchange policy that does a backup of the entire DAG. My question to the community is, 1. Do I have to enable GRT for Journal Logs or any log database for that matter and 2. Would it be wise to just create two policies, one for the Mailboxes and and another for the Logs? I am running NBU 7.1.0.4 across the board and all GRT pre-requistes have been installed and configured on the master, media and client servers.
Exchange DAG backup failing status 156, after moving Mail DB to iSCSI LUN
We have a couple of Windows 2008 R2 servers running Exchange 2010 in a DAG configuration. We have been backing them up with Netbackup 7.0 without issue, until we moved one of the Public folder DB's to an iSCSI attached LUN. Now, that DB fails to backup, while the others continue tosucceed, as part of the overall DAG backup. Sample of failure: 4/20/2012 9:21:26 AM - begin Create Snapshot 4/20/2012 9:55:16 AM - Critical bpbrm(pid=680) from client MAILSERVER: FTL - snapshot preparation failed, status 156 4/20/2012 9:55:16 AM - Warning bpbrm(pid=680) from client MAILSERVER WRN - NEW_STREAM0 is not frozen 4/20/2012 9:55:16 AM - Warning bpbrm(pid=680) from client MAILSERVER: WRN - Microsoft Information Store:\Public Folder Database is not frozen 4/20/2012 9:55:18 AM - end Create Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:33:52 4/20/2012 9:55:25 AM - end writing Status 156 I've looked through the info I could find online, and find more articles relating this issue with VMware backups. Can anyone tell me why moving the DB to an iSCSI LUN has created this issue? ThanksRestore Exchange error 59 and MS-Exchange-Server policy restore error(2810)
Dear All I want to restore Mricrosoft exchange but error 4/10/2012 2:46:34 PM - begin Restore 4/10/2012 2:46:37 PM - media 000024 required 4/10/2012 2:46:38 PM - media 000010 required 4/10/2012 2:46:38 PM - restoring image AISMDG01_1333376301 4/10/2012 2:46:49 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=31776) bpcd on pmchg312 exited with status 59: access to the client was not allowed 4/10/2012 2:46:50 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=31776) cannot put rename file on PMDAG306 4/10/2012 2:46:55 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=31776) client restore EXIT STATUS 59: access to the client was not allowed 4/10/2012 3:02:48 PM - restored image AISMDG01_1333376301 - (cannot connect on socket(25)); restore time 00:16:10 4/10/2012 3:02:53 PM - end Restore; elapsed time: 00:16:19 MS-Exchange-Server policy restore error(2810) I do not know how to fix it. Please help me.