we configured oracle backup using netbackup. Policy type is 'oracle'. configured daily backups and archived log backup. our client is requesting to give privilages to them to trigger archive log backup. I believe there are commands to trigger archive log backup from client itself  without using netbackup GUI. Please share the command to trigger scheduled archived log backup manually from client end.

I have a IBMTS3310.  I have 10 drives and up to say a week or two ago I have been able to use all 10 drives.

Server is windows 2008 R2 SP1

Master/Media is the same server

Netbackup 7.5.0.6

Here is what I am seeing when I go look at the storage units.

It says ten but when I try to save I get this error.

Windows see all 9 "One is down for repair"

Here is what I see on the activity monitor

IBMTS3310 see all drives working fine

I have deleted and re added these drive.  Installed the updated drivers, up graded the code on the TS3310 nothing has worked

Any suggestions or help would be great I need all these drive or my duplications will take forever.

My setup for backups are

All but Lotus notes for the a IBM VTL, then are writen to tape on the IBM3310.

Hi ,

Getting error code 69 . Only shadow copy not being backed up . 

Netbackup version 7.5

window server 2008 r2 .

Thanks

Greetings,  I've looked all over and have seen conflicting ideas and need clarification.  I have added my backup setup below.

1 Master & Media server with direct attached storage 2 Drive library direct attached

~40 TB (will grow in the 80 range when project completed) NAS Head Equalogic Container with 3 sub containers (I.E. /Departments /Programs /Users)

The NAS is being backed up by NDMP of course.  I have three policies setup to allow multistreaming, the  library SU is set to run multiple drives, the global attributes are set to allow multiple.  I understand I cant multistream to Tape unless I setup individual backup selections rather than the implied inclusion by using the sub container.  Using one LTO5 drive takes longer than our backup window allows. When backing up the NAS to Disk which DAS we get about 120MB/s so that is something along the lines of 432 GB/h D2D over NDMP.  I assume this is just the increased performance compared to writing to tape.  

I don't want to have to make explicit backup selection every time we create a share because someone might miss it and its more "overhead" for our understaffed department.  The SAN admin cant resize the containers and doesnt want to have to create new ones if we dont have to since we would lose the space.  

Ultimately we will have two DAS totaling about 100TB attached by SAS to our media server.  However I have to move the data that is on them to the NAS before moving them to the current media server.  I will then setup the disk staging storage units to copy to tape not having an effect on performance of the live data medium.  We will also gain two more drives to the logical library once that data is moved and I can decom the old backup server.

Here's what I'm requesting help on:

1) Is there anythting I should look into in the current config to increase performance

2) Multistreaming isnt possible with one backup selection ever?

3) Would it be ideal to split the containers add them as 2-3 TB "slices" and add each of them as backup selections effectivly allowing to multi stream with one policy per container type? (This is my preference, based on my understanding)  I could do ~7.2 TB w/4 drives over 10 hours if my math was right direct to tape.

Thanks for your time, Helping a novice netbackup user.

Hi,

I spoke with Microsoft about the mimimun requirements for restoring an Exchange 2007 database in an Exchange 2010 environment.

Essentially, what 2007 roles can I uninstall and still restore a 2007 database.  The response was a server with the mailbox and CAS roles.

We have multiple mailbox roles and given that the discussion didn't include what the Symantec Netbackup requirements are, I'm wondering if the answer is complete.

If I uninstall an Exchange 2007 mailbox role from the Exchange organization, can I still use Netbackup to restore a mailbox from a database that resided on that server on another 2007 server using its Recovery Storage Group?

If we take a simple scenario, an environment without any 2007 roles, can your restore a 2007 database if you decide to install a new 2007 mailbox role with a new server name?

What are the Netbackup conditions that must pertain to restore an  Exchange 2007 database using a Recovery Storage Group?

Do you need a server with the same server name when it was backed up because Netbackup is aware of the path of the database and expects to see it in AD and it needs to restore to that path?

Thanks,

rudif

Hello,

We are creating MSDP deduplication pool of 16TB. Backened storage is hosted on Raid 6. I have read it in admin guide that it is recommended to have the deduplication pool in different volume possibly on faster raid group like Raid 10.

But I am not able to find out what should be the size of that different volume? Please let us know if we have some time of mapping table that for this much storage we need this much of databse space. We need to carve out that much big LUN from the storage and assign it to the media server.

Hope my question is clear.

Thanks in advance.

Hi !

I search the best policy for EV backup policy in Netbackup !

How you backup EV ?

How you backup closed partition ?

You use 1 policy or various policy ?

Thanks for help !

* I'm sorry by bad English, I'm French !

Hi,

I am trying to exclude  a  directory  called  “vormtest” from backup and so far the excludes that I have tried are not working.

I have tried the following

/home/tynchep/vormtest/

/home/tynchep/vormtest/*

/tynchep/vormtest/*

/home/tynchep/

/vormtest/

/vormtest/*

vormtest/*

vormtest/

/tynochep/

/tynochep/*

The client server is using AIX 7.1 and we have 7.6.0.3 installed on the client

Can anyone see where I am going wrong? and why none of those excludes work?

Thanks in advance!

The master server is Linux runnning 7.6.0.3

Hello All,

Can we run Enterprise vault closed and  open partition backup simultaneously however in two separate agent based  backup policies. From what I understand closed partition backup does not place EV in backup mode however open partition backup does though I'm not sure if this is relevant or not.

Thanks

Just recently got engaged with a customer who has a specific Oracle RMAN backup failing time & time again.  It was observed that it ran fine for about 2 hours before it bombed. 

Here is the error message. 

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 05/04/2015 20:26:37
ORA-19502: write error on file "db_GMEPRD11_878847280_642482_1", blockno 1491713 (blocksize=1024)
ORA-27030: skgfwrt: sbtwrite2 returned error
ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
VxBSASendData: Failed with error:
Server Status:  Communication with the server has not been initiated or the server status has not been retrieved from the serve

We are suspecting it to be a NIC issue (Probably NIC Hanging) and possibly trying to swap NIC’s around, if we have a spare one.
Workaround formulated is:
1.        Swap the NIC with another to see if the problem moves.
2.       Replace the card and see if we still have the problem.

Please advise...

Just recently got engaged with a customer who has a specific Oracle RMAN backup failing time & time again.  It was observed that it ran fine for about 2 hours before it bombed. 

Here is the error message. 

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 05/04/2015 20:26:37
ORA-19502: write error on file "db_GMEPRD11_878847280_642482_1", blockno 1491713 (blocksize=1024)
ORA-27030: skgfwrt: sbtwrite2 returned error
ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
VxBSASendData: Failed with error:
Server Status:  Communication with the server has not been initiated or the server status has not been retrieved from the serve

We are suspecting it to be a NIC issue (Probably NIC Hanging) and possibly trying to swap NIC’s around, if we have a spare one.
Workaround formulated is:
1.        Swap the NIC with another to see if the problem moves.
2.       Replace the card and see if we still have the problem.

Please advise...

I have windows 2008 master (64 bit) & media server (32 bit) with netbackup 7.0.1

I have NOM for 6.5 for 32 bit that come with our toolkit earlier. From the file comnnect I can't found any NOM package

so I tried to install Netbackup operation manager 6.5 on media server (7.0.1). 

from install folder I run

->Veritas NetBackup Operations Manager.msi

It is successful. Then I run

->SETUP.EXE

After some step It shows the following screen

I just change the password and continue and it is install successfully

But while I want browse it shows

please help me how I can procceed?

Thanks

Can we configure the Netbackup master/ media server on Virtual server or Backup Exec media server on virtual server, kindly find the below environment details,

ESX version 5.1 U1

Netbackup 7.5.0.6

Backup Exec 2010 R2 SP3

We are using tape library as storage.

Hi,

1)

I have scheduled NDMP backup. In backup selections I have created 6 New Streams and inside each stream I have specified some paths of the data to be backed up.

When the policy is triggered 1 Master job and 6 Child jobs are initiated. After their completion some child jobs show partially completed. I note the paths failed from the detailed status of the child job. I opened one policy named as partial policy and went to Backup Selections and created 1 New Stream and under this I pasted the paths which were failed.

But when i run the partial policy - 1 master job was initiated then one child job. But 1 more job initiated named as "New Stream" as showing in job overview.

Theoretically only two jobs should start  -  1 master and 1 child then what is the purpose of the 3rd job.

2)

One more thing I am getting. As I know if all child jobs are completing successfully i.e. 0 then the master job should also reflect the status code 0 i.e. completed successfully. But why in some cases it shows partial with status 1 and in some cases failed with status 99.

Hi !

I cannot restore !

When I launch restore, the job are ever created ! In the GUI "View status" I don't have a verbose progress...

In the logs C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\logs\user_ops\Admin000\logs , I have 2 files NBWIN003 & NBWIN004 but they are empty !

Netbackup version is 7.6.1.1 with this hotfix : https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH230... .

Media server , sharepoint frontend & backend : Windows 2008R2 sp1

Thanks for you help !

I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm French !

Hello,

We  have one Backup client that’s getting the code 155 disk full error

NetBackup status code: 155

Message: disk is full

Explanation: The write to the catalog file failed because the disk that contains the catalog database is full, or the track log folder is full.

Recommended Action: Free up space on the disks where NetBackup catalogs reside or where the track log folder resides and retry the operation.

Question for freeing up space on where the track log folder resides are there specific files that we can delete without the intervention of the AIX sysadmin? I don’t want to delete something that is important.

I check the /usr  and it only has 1.77GB of space left

root)/> df -g /usr

Filesystem    GB blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on

/dev/hd2          10.38              1.77   83%      84616    17%       /usr

The Code 155 error is only occurring one  backup client the bkpkar.log is below

Bkpkar

20:54:24.375 [22413352] <16> fwrite_and_log: fail to write <fix size entry block> for track journal, backup id:<NULL>, file:<11000232fb.tif>, err_num:<28>, to write:<1>, wrote:<0>

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <16> bpbkar SelectFile: fscp_add_full_entry() failed, error : disk is full

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 155: disk is full

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 155: disk is full

20:54:33.258 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ERR - read server exit status = 155: disk is full

20:54:33.473 [22413352] <16> ct_cat_close: failed to fflush for file in dir(/datasink/importDRM/backup_0315/15069/03/359832/), error is -1

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <2> ct_cat_close: close current track journal

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <2> ct_cat_close: close previous track journal

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ct_cat_close() failed, error (14)

20:54:24.375 [22413352] <16> fwrite_and_log: fail to write <fix size entry block> for track journal, backup id:<NULL>, file:<11000232fb.tif>, err_num:<28>, to write:<1>, wrote:<0>

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <16> bpbkar SelectFile: fscp_add_full_entry() failed, error : disk is full

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 155: disk is full

20:54:24.400 [22413352] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 155: disk is full

20:54:33.258 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ERR - read server exit status = 155: disk is full

20:54:33.473 [22413352] <16> ct_cat_close: failed to fflush for file in dir(/datasink/importDRM/backup_0315/15069/03/359832/), error is -1

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <2> ct_cat_close: close current track journal

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <2> ct_cat_close: close previous track journal

20:54:33.485 [22413352] <16> bpbkar: ct_cat_close() failed, error (14)

21:04:42.097 [34275332] <4> is_excluded: Excluded /datasink/importDRM/backup/2015/15035/04/337763/core by exclude_list entry core

21:27:57.930 [34275332] <16> fwrite_and_log: fail to write <fix size entry block> for track journal, backup id:<NULL>, file:<21000522rb.tif>, err_num:<28>, to write:<1>, wrote:<0>

21:27:57.946 [34275332] <16> bpbkar SelectFile: fscp_add_full_entry() failed, error : disk is full

21:27:57.946 [34275332] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 155: disk is full

21:27:57.947 [34275332] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 155: disk is full

21:28:05.949 [34275332] <16> bpbkar: ERR - read server exit status = 155: disk is full

21:28:06.197 [34275332] <16> ct_cat_close: failed to fflush for file in dir(/datasink/importDRM/backup_0315/15069/03/359834/), error is -1

21:28:06.211 [34275332] <2> ct_cat_close: close current track journal

21:28:06.211 [34275332] <2> ct_cat_close: close previous track journal

21:28:06.211 [34275332] <16> bpbkar: ct_cat_close() failed, error (14)

The backup client is  7.6.0.3

Thanks in Advance!

Hello,

We have Windows client that is constantly getting the dreaded 156 error when I click on the details I see these type errors.

WRN – Snapshot Error while opening directory: GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy34\Program Files\Common File\System

WRN -Snapshot Error while opening directory: GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy42\Program Files\Common File\System

I checked the vssadmin list writers and they look ok. I check the viewer logs and I see nothing to indicate it’s a shadow copy issue

C:\>vssadmin list writers

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'

   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}

   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'

   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}

   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'

   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}

   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'

   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}

   Writer Instance Id: {4d51c367-77d7-418c-adf6-256aac9c25a3}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'

   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}

   Writer Instance Id: {62430e04-d624-40c6-bc5a-2826aed1f08d}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}

   Writer Instance Id: {90a6807d-f573-4600-aaa5-742a4dff80e7}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'

   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}

   Writer Instance Id: {3377fc33-6642-437a-95a8-4ac6ea60e2f3}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}

   Writer Instance Id: {6aeeb7c2-03ee-4b64-86ed-c3d948935757}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}

   Writer Instance Id: {dd2a0f44-38ab-4bde-b8d6-47c7acefcb81}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Also, I  changed the client so that it is using VSS and  NOT VSP for open files however we are still getting the 156 error.

I attached the bpcd log however is doesn't  show much and the bpfis and bpbkar logs are empty and the remain empty for each backup.

NOTE: This is a relatively new backup and it has been getting the 156 error since we started backing it up, so it has never got a completely successful backup.

Client info

Windows 2008 64bit server

We have  7.6.0.3 client running on it.

WRN – Snapshot Error while opening directory: GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy34\Program Files\Common File\System

  WRN -Snapshot Error while opening directory: GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy42\Program Files\Common File\System

Please help to fix the below error message  -

5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - BACKUP STARTED USING        
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3000.0 (X64)     
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) Oct 19 2012 13:38:57         
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation         
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: ) (Hypervisor) 
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) Batch = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\DbExt\MsSql\Daily_Differential.bch, Op# = 5      
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - Using backup image <SQL Server Name>.MSSQL7.<SQL Cluster Name>\VCENTER.inc.VUM_DB.~.7.001of001.20150526211827..C       
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - backup database "VUM_DB" to VIRTUAL_DEVICE='VNBU0-4840-2896-1432642709' with  stats = 10, blocksize = 65536, maxtransfersize = 4194304, buffercount = 2, differential
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - Number of stripes: 1, Number of buffers per stripe 2. 
5/26/2015 9:18:29 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - Created VDI object for SQL Server instance <VCENTER>. Connection timeout is <300> seconds.
5/26/2015 9:18:37 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - Thread has been closed for stripe #0    
5/26/2015 9:18:41 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - OPERATION #5 of batch C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\DbExt\MsSql\Daily_Differential.bch SUCCEEDED with STATUS 0 (0 is normal). Elapsed time = 14(0) seconds
5/26/2015 9:18:43 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - Results of executing <C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\DbExt\MsSql\Daily_Differential.bch>:      
5/26/2015 9:18:43 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) <4> operations succeeded. <1> operations failed.       
5/26/2015 9:18:43 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - The following object(s) were not backed up successfully.   
5/26/2015 9:18:43 PM - Info dbclient(pid=4840) INF - master          
5/26/2015 9:19:03 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=2204) from client <SQL Cluster Name>: ERR - command failed: the requested operation was partially successful (1)
5/26/2015 9:19:03 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=2204) from client <SQL Cluster Name>: ERR - bphdb exit status = 1: the requested operation was partially successful
5/26/2015 9:19:03 PM - Info bpbrm(pid=2204) validating image for client <SQL Cluster Name>        
5/26/2015 9:19:03 PM - end writing
5/26/2015 9:19:04 PM - Info bphdb(pid=1192) done. status: 1: the requested operation was partially successful    
the requested operation was partially successful(1)

The job was successfully completed, but some files may have been
busy or inaccessible. See the problems report or the client's logs for more details.

Hello,

        I am trying to evaluate the Netbackup Latest version. Can some one help me from where do i download the latest version of Netbackup and also to get the license key to enter so that i can install the master and client and check a backup and restore?

I need it immediately.

Thanks in advance.

We are currently on 7.5.0.6 on HP-UX IA64 and planning to upgrade to 7.6. Which way should we go,  7.5.0.6-->7.6.1-->7.6.1.1 or 7.5.0.6-->7.6.0.1-->7.6.0.4?