Backup Mapped Drives

[OHWS]

Is it even possible to backup mapped drives in Veritas Netbackup 4.5fp6? Basically I'm in a situation where my company is too cheap to bite the bullet and purchase an NDMP license. So they want me to backup a drive that is mapped on a currently licensed windows client that points to out NAS device. I am receiving 71 errors which usually indicates and empty directory or not enough permissions. Any input would be appreciated! P.S. This is NOT MY IDEA only management telling me how to run my backups, because they are all experts in backup/recovery. lol

 

[OHWS]

Found an entry in the admin guide that states the option to backup network drives was supported in 95/98/ME clients but is not supported on 2000/NT/XP clients. If any of you have found a way around this let me know. Thanks!

 

[lenski]

I have a funny feeling that Veritas are wise to people trying to cheat them out of the old licence fee. So I don't think you can do this because they will make sure you can't. 71 normally means that the listed path does not exist, which makes sense. Totaly agree with your comments on managment.

 

[hpuxrules]

Hey guys,

I just (still am) implementing NBU 5.1 NDMP with my EMC NS600 (NAS).

Prior to cutting over to NDMP, we had a Win2K box sitting in front of the NS600 with mapped drives.

My policy had the full UNC patch defined in it, and it worked fine....

For example:

\\MANAGEWISE\PUBLIC
\\MANAGEWISE\USERS
\\MANAGEWISE\DATA
...
...
...

Although, beware of doing restores. Especially if you have to take Active Directory into consideration.

I am a unix guy, and don't know a thing about AD...but it could sometimes creep up on us during a restore.

Good luck!

 

[xxx01]

good luck with the ndmp on the emc box. i had to do it a couple of months ago, and it was hard getting someone at veritas that worked with ndmp on the celerra. let us know how it goes.

 

[OHWS]

We are also going to go the NDMP route. Unfortunately we have not upgraded yet from 4.5fp6 to 5.1 and we will have to dedicate the drives strictly for the NDMP backups. Some interesting info to add to the mapped drive scenario. The Linux admins added a link from a directory on the Linux server to the NAS device and did not notify me of this action. I ended up inadvertantly backing up the data that was linked on the NAS device. Very interesting that this works! I now exclude this directory from the Linux backup.

 

[hpuxrules]

While we're still on the EMC / NDMP discussion....

I am plagued with a problem with using vault to duplicate my NDMP backups.

In a nutshell they just aren't working. Second stream is hanging.

Using multiple drives to read and multiple drive to write seems to be giving either our NS600 or Netbackup on my solaris server fits.

And of course nobody seems to know the environment well enough to really help me out. EMC says it's a Veritas (oops...meant Symantec) problem and as you'd suspect, Symantec says it's an EMC problem.

Oye Vay

 

[xxx01]

hpuxrules, i'm actually having a vault/duplicate issue as well. but it's only one tape drive to another single tape drive. duplication will say it's successful but vault won't eject the copy?

 

[hpuxrules]

Hi xxx01,

Funny you say that....as my NDMP duplicate tapes won't eject either.

I haven't opened up a ticket with Veritas (umm...I mean Symantec) yet....but I can see it's forthcoming.

Not sure if this is a problem for me, however, I am using the same tape drive(s) and tape(s) currently to vault/duplicate my regular backups AND my ndmp backups.

Netbackup wants a Storage unit with no segment size defined for writing ndmp backups to.....

Can I mix my regular backups (with a 2gb segment size) and my ndmp backups (infinite segment size) on the same tape???

By the way, the way I am setup, I read my ndmp backups on my dedicated ndmp tape drives, and duplicate them to my regular tape drives.....

This is the way that Veritas said I would have the best performance.

Let me know if you figure out a way to eject those vaulted ndmp tapes.

And thanks for the reply!

 

[OHWS]

I do not have the NDMP installed yet, but I do run Vault and I have run into some issues with ejecting tapes. If you have your reports set to deferred in the profile I have seen cases when it will not eject the tapes until the report is ran immediately following the duplication. Also make sure your eject mode is set to immediate ( I know this is obvious but you never know). This probably isn't what you need but it's the only problem I've ever had that was similar. Good Luck!