24 de jan. de 2013

Capacity Report

As networks administrators, we are always requested to run reports for every reasons, such as executive requests and environment monitoring. One of the most useful reports of NBU is the capacity report because it shows the amount of data under protection of NBU.

How does it work?

When you run the capacity tool it examines the header of the images to calculate the amount of data under NBU. It then exports the data to a spreadsheet file where you can easily extract the information you are looking for. The way policies and schedules are set up can reflect in the amount of data retrieved by the tool hence affect the result shown on the report.

For detailed information regarding the tabs of the capacity report, please, refer to the link below:

About the capacity licensing report on Windows

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO68388#v49368067

Running the Capacity tool

To run the Capacity tool you must access the command prompt as administrator and type the command nbdeployutil --gather:


#nbdeployutil --gather
NetBackup Deployment Utility, version 7.1.0000.0000
Gathering license deployment information...
 Discovered master server marybl2g1
 Output for marybl2g1 at: D:\Program Files\VERITAS\netbackup\
 var\global\reports\20101029_170534_marybl2g1
Gather DONE
Execution time: 1 min
To create a report for this master server, run the following:
 nbdeployutil.exe --report "D:\Program Files\VERITAS\netbackup\
 var\global\reports\20101029_170534_marybl2g1"

If you want to export the data to a spreadsheet file, run:

#nbdeployutil.exe --report "<install_path>\VERITAS\netbackup\var\global\reports\<file_name>"

It is also possible to extract data from a remote Master server:

# nbdeployutil --gather --master=<master_server_name> (use the FQDN)

You can get a capacity report from a subset of clients:


# nbdeployutil --gather --client=client1,client2 
or 
# nbdeployutil --gather --clientlist=filename.txt

I hope you have enjoyed the post.

17 de jan. de 2013

DOC's

Hello Folks.

Here you can find all doc regarding Netbackup


Netbackup 7.0

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126327

Netbackup 7.1


Netbackup 7.5



Enjoy!!

VMware restore fails



Hello Folks, 

A tips to VM restore... when fails with status 5 or status 2817.

Check the file log BPVMUTIL on VMWARE backup host.

Ex.

14:02:07.798 [4344.4700] <2> createVMwareVM: Create virtual machine failed for with 6
14:02:07.798 [4344.4700] <2> bpVMutil main: Create VMware VM failed
14:02:07.798 [4344.4700] checkBackupRegEntry: looking registry for KeepVMXmlFiles
14:02:07.798 [4344.4700] RegQueryValueEx failed with 2
14:02:07.798 [4344.4700] <2> bpVMutil main: EXIT STATUS 5: the restore failed to recover the requested files

Identify the account used by NetBackup to access the vCenter Server under NetBackup Administration Concsole Media Management Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers 

Ensure this account has sufficient permissions in vCenter as described in the article "What are the minimum permissions needed to properly backup and restore using vStorage api?"
 (see link below).




Good luck!!

15 de jan. de 2013

A long time

Hello Folks,

We are a long time without updating the blog .... wait ... let's back up with more tips / doc etc ...

12 de jul. de 2010

When exclude lists using wildcards are used on NetBackup 7.0 clients on UNIX/Linux, extra files and directories may be incorrectly excluded from a backup.

ALL NETBACKUP 7.0 UNIX/LINUX CLIENTS utilizing exclude lists which include "*" wildcards


A quick summary of the issue(s) covered in this Alert:
If your include list entry contains the asterisk wildcard, the entry may unintentionally match - and exclude - files which only match a substring of that entry.  For example, a common exclusion is *.dbf - but due to this issue, that entry not only matches files ending in .dbf, but also files ending in .db, .d or even a single period (.) - this can lead to a lot of files and/or directories getting excluded which the customer is expecting to be able to restore!