Recent content by creakyjoe

...what i forgot to add is that my cronjob runs a few times each morn so it allows for overnight backups to overrun ie the job manages to complete at least once before lunchtime.

What i do is have via cron (and i know that's not what your boss wants but NetBackup can't do everything!) a manual backup of the catalog that checks that no backup jobs are running and if so kicks off a catalog backup to disk on another server. In olden times we would manually back that up (via...

Bob's probably got the best answer there; 3.4 to 4.5 is easy, as is 4.5 to 5.1 (we're a fairly small setup), however can't speak for 6.x as am still collating info on what's involved, but the fact that i'm still collating would suggest that 6.x isn't easy :)

cheers for that one Bob, i've been tasked with collating info to upgrade from 5.1 (MP5 if i recall correctly) to 6.0, so i've got the easy bit ie i can see we'll be going to MP4, just trawling the forums for the difficult bits now :) Been out of the NetBackup loop for quite some months now so...

..neither have i, it means i can't spell for toffee :) ..it should have said unique file

Hi, here's a simple script for exactly this purpose - http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=913978&page=1 (see my last reply at the end of that thread)

this is what i keep in my bp.conf file - # # the below 2 params can only be set between 3 and 720 (up to 30days). # (these settings keep backup job history) # - if a value >720 is used, the default of 72hrs is invoked - not good!.. # 230204 - moved these 2 settings from job.conf as job.conf is...

that might be easy to achieve then.... :)

hi Bob, hadn't got a script specifically for this but i have similar stuff. Rich

there's maybe something wrong in your syntax then, in Global Attributes. to do this manually simple add them to bp.conf file. syntax is as follows - USEMAIL = <email-address> ps you can use multiple addresses or a mail alias as long as there are no blanks or white space between them; not sure...

yes, you must ALWAYS inventory after tape changing; (yes, my vmupdate command in inventorying).. 'fraid i'm not too familiar with NetBackup on Windows in relation to the command line (or severe lack of!); have checked with my Windows colleague and he's always used the GUI for inventorying so...

hi, always run a robot inventory via whichever method is more suitable, every time tapes are changed

'fraid you've got me there, don't know how you would make this windows friendly as i don't know what scripting alternatives are available in the windows world

Nice one with the trainee DBA thing, keep at it, should be good money/interesting career. And if you can keep your hand in with the generalist stuff, should makes you more employable; I'm happy enough doing Unix Admin myself with an unhealthy dose of NetBackup addiction; btw, without saying too...

no worries, i've been using Veritas stuff quite a lot for 6years (gets easier). NetBackup, Volume Manager, File System, Flashsnap etc. My Oracle knowledge is a 'needs must' as our DBA's do all that obviously, i just glean the little bits i need as i go along. can i have the ls -l of the libobk...