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We are shopping around for a VTL or DSU. Just wanted to get an idea of what some of you are using, why you picked the product your using, and are you satisfied with it. Our environment is: -NetBackup 6.0 MP4 -> we will be upgrading to 6.5.2A after the new year -1 Master, 3 media servers all...

We are testing synthetic backups on a server. We have the full/diff incremental/ and synthetic full in the schedule. We have TIR checked with move detection. My question is, should the incrementals be larger in size than our previously non TIR'd backups. Last night the incremental was at...

We are currently starting to use multiplexing because we have replaced our LTO1s with LTO3s. I have a policy with multiple clients and the multiplexing is set and works great. My question: Can multiplexing be done with different policies going to the same tape? Example: unix_db_oracle_a...

Does a NAS backup using NDMP use take up less catalog space than say a normal (non-ndmp)bkup would? I ask this because I was poking around and it hit me that in the activity monitor for NDMP backup it always shows only 1 file being backed up. Since the catalog images are based on number of...

My boss wants me to post and see if there is a setting in NetBackup that can be changed so that we can allocate more than 2 devices/tapes in the catalog settings at a time. We are running 5.1 on HP-UX. I have never seen such a setting/parameter, if there is one, can someone please enlighten me...

We are upgrading the hardware of one of our HP-UX servers and the DLT7000 drives attached to the current hardware cannot be used on the new hardware platform. The old box is staying as as a media server but being renamed. Current name "hpsis" - New name wil be "oldsis" Would it be easier to...

Can anybody using these resources help? We are budgeting for next years upgrade and we have to decide if we want to go with a VTL or just raw disk for D2D(2T). What are the advantages/disadvantages to either or both. Some that we already know of is that Disk Storage requires managment of the...

Hello, We are preparing for our annaul DRP test at Sungard. We have had issues the last 2 years restoring with LTO tapes. We write to IBM Ultrium 1 drives (Fiber connected) in a STK L700e library, they are still direct connect to the media servers. At sungard we are given HP Ultrium 2 on Low...

Hello, We are currently using: 5.1 HP-UX Master and Media NDMP for NAS LTO 1 (STK L700) and DLT 7000 (STK 9710) Unix, Linux, Windows clients We would like to go to disk staging some backups. We are to get some space on our NAS, but I'm wondering if this will even work. The NAS is from EMC...

Hello All, We just upgraded to 5.1 from 4.5FP6 on Monday. HP-UX - Master and media servers We upgraded the master and media servers with no issues. We now want to push the client out to our Unix and Linux boxes, but the option is not available. We have the correct settings in policies set...

What are your thoughts on the Symantec/Veritas merger. What do you forsee as far as licensing and future product versions? [ponder]

Hello, I am getting ready to build myself a new PC. It will be mainly for video editing, Photoshop, and gaming. It will be at least 3gig CPU, as for AMD XP/64 or Intel I have not decided. I want to run dual channel memory. I have a stick of CORSAIR 512mb, CL 2.5 and want to by another to...

I have built a computer for my wife's friend. It is an MSI Mobo Nforce2 chipset, AMD XP 2400+,512 ddr400,lite-on cdrw, 80gb WD HD. I allocated 64mb ram to video. I loaded XP Pro + SP1 and the machine kept having random reboots and IE would not work. I then Reformatted and started again. I...

I have built a computer for my wife's friend. It is an MSI Mobo Nforce2 chipset, AMD XP 2400+,512 ddr400,lite-on cdrw, 80gb WD HD. I allocated 64mb ram to video. I loaded XP Pro + SP1 and the machine kept having random reboots and IE would not work. I then Reformatted and started again. I...

We are using Netbackup 4.5FP3 on HP-UX11i and have Advanced Reporter and Vault. We have been using Advanced Reporter for daily reads on bakups and restores. The thing is that every time we try and view the Offsite Vaulting List it is blank. Is there something that we need to enable to use this...

I'm planning on building a new computer in the next few weeks. I've always used AMD but this time I'm not sure which way to go. My time is probably spent like this: 30% Gaming 40% Photoshop/Illustrator 25% Internet 5% Office I was Leaning towards a dual proc Opteron with MSI...

Need help in picking the best product to back up Windows NT/2k class Servers, Linux Servers, Exchange Server. We currently run NetBackup 4.5 for HPUX 11i going to STK 9710 and L700 robots. We are looking into getting another L700 with Ultrium 2 drives. Need to know the advantages and...

I'm trying to link a Table from an Oracle Database to Access '97 to be able to create reports and queries. I can get all the tables except one and this one is the most important. The Oracle DB is connected to BMC Control-D and holds all the info on job routing. The table is the Metadata table...

I'm trying to link a Column from an Oracle Database to Access '97 to be able to create reports and queries. I can get all the tables except one and this one is the most important. The Oracle DB is connected to BMC Control-D and holds all the info on job routing. The table is the Metadata table...