[Veritas-bu] Change Media ID in Netbackup

[Dave Markham]

Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris 9 master.

I've realised Netbackup is using the last 6 chars of a barcode to
generate media id's rather than the first 6 which i'd prefer.

I know i can alter this for media introduced into the unit with

MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 0 8 1:2:3:4:5:6 in vm.conf,

BUT if i do that a media which is assigned to say Weekly_Full will then
become scratch as Netbackup will think of it as a completely new media
won't it?

e.g

Barcode BK0001L2
Current Media ID = 0001L2

vmquery -m 0001L2 shows media information
vmquery -m BK0001L2 shows not present in database.

If i take the tape out and add the vm.conf entry what will happen?

Therefore is there a way to tell Netbackup change the media id you know
from 0001L2 to BK0001L2 ??

Cheers

[zimmy00]

You can do little changes like changing the tape type but changing the barcode will make you not be able to restore the data on the tapes as is. You can import the images on the tape after you change the tape barcodes but that is going to be one LONG process

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[A Darren Dunham]

Post by zimmy00
You can do little changes like changing the tape type but changing the
barcode will make you not be able to restore the data on the tapes as
is. You can import the images on the tape after you change the tape
barcodes but that is going to be one LONG process

Media ID and barcode do not have to match. NBU can keep track of that.

You can use 'vmchange' or 'vmphyinv' to change which barcode is
associated with a particular Media ID.

[Fredrik]

Hi any suggestion how to "tune" a netware server 6.5 backup over the wan on a
1mb/sec line. I am thinking on changing the buffer size on the net in the bp.ini
file.
Suggestions please =0)

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[Marianne Van Den Berg]

I'm missing something here... What exactly do you want to tune in
NetBackup when you're on a 1mb/sec line??

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Hi any suggestion how to "tune" a netware server 6.5 backup over the wan
on a
1mb/sec line. I am thinking on changing the buffer size on the net in
the bp.ini
file.
Suggestions please =0)

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[Fredrik]

we have a problem that a few server end up with error 13 because of the thin
connection. I wondering if you can change the net buffersize to get a round it.



Fredrik Dahlberg - Backupadministrator



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I'm missing something here... What exactly do you want to tune in
NetBackup when you're on a 1mb/sec line??

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Hi any suggestion how to "tune" a netware server 6.5 backup over the wan
on a
1mb/sec line. I am thinking on changing the buffer size on the net in
the bp.ini
file.
Suggestions please =0)

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Are you running multi jobs on the same server?

Do they run at the same time?



I had some small servers that I set up to run multi jobs - but to only run 1 job on that server at a time.

(just a thought)



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we have a problem that a few server end up with error 13 because of the thin connection. I wondering if you can change the net buffersize to get a round it.



Fredrik Dahlberg - Backupadministrator

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I'm missing something here... What exactly do you want to tune in
NetBackup when you're on a 1mb/sec line??

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netware vs netbackup tuning

Hi any suggestion how to "tune" a netware server 6.5 backup over the wan
on a
1mb/sec line. I am thinking on changing the buffer size on the net in
the bp.ini
file.
Suggestions please =0)

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[Scott Jacobson]

Had the same issue for error 13's, try changing the connections options
to "0 0 1" (see bpclient command)

-sj
we have a problem that a few server end up with error 13 because of the
thin connection. I wondering if you can change the net buffersize to get
a round it.


Fredrik Dahlberg - Backupadministrator




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I'm missing something here... What exactly do you want to tune in
NetBackup when you're on a 1mb/sec line??

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netware vs netbackup tuning

Hi any suggestion how to "tune" a netware server 6.5 backup over the
wan
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1mb/sec line. I am thinking on changing the buffer size on the net in
the bp.ini
file.
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[Fredrik]

Has anybody out there tried to backup SUSE XEN virtuell server??
And if. How do you do it?

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[Tristan Ball]

We use both the Citrix XEN and opensource XEN, and back up both using
either the normal Netbackup Client, installed inside the VM's (for
Windows VMs, "Tier 1" linux, or VM's larger than about 50G of disk). For
everything else we have an inhouse rsync system that copies the server
to a staging machine, which is then itself backed up by NBU. Mostly that
just saves us on NB client licensees, although historically in gave us a
way to backup systems where it was difficult to get the NBU client to
run, like older versions of debian.

The biggest issue is managing the performance - if all the VM backups
kick off in parallel, not only do the VM's themselves take a belting,
but the backend ISCSI disk array becomes loaded to the point of being
unresponsive. Not an insurmountable issue. :-)

Regards,
T.

Post by Fredrik
Has anybody out there tried to backup SUSE XEN virtuell server??
And if. How do you do it?
Fredrik Dahlberg - Backupadministrator
Rikspolisstyrelsen
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[Martin, Jonathan]

If the MediaID is already in the Volume Manager you should be good to
go. Netbackup scans the barcode, sees that it is already assigned a
MediaID and uses that. If you want to re-label the media to the new
standard, you have to wait until the media is scratch, delete it from
the volume manager and then put it back into a library and run an
inventory. Be careful with mediaID errors. I.E. Netbackup writes the
MediaID to the header, so if you "change" a media from 2-8 to 1-6 you
need to run bplabel to re-write the header.

-Jonathan

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Change Media ID in Netbackup

Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris 9 master.

I've realised Netbackup is using the last 6 chars of a barcode to
generate media id's rather than the first 6 which i'd prefer.

I know i can alter this for media introduced into the unit with

MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 0 8 1:2:3:4:5:6 in vm.conf,

BUT if i do that a media which is assigned to say Weekly_Full will then
become scratch as Netbackup will think of it as a completely new media
won't it?

e.g

Barcode BK0001L2
Current Media ID = 0001L2

vmquery -m 0001L2 shows media information vmquery -m BK0001L2 shows not
present in database.

If i take the tape out and add the vm.conf entry what will happen?

Therefore is there a way to tell Netbackup change the media id you know
from 0001L2 to BK0001L2 ??

Cheers
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