We are trying to restore a full server backup from the Java console on one of our media server, (not master media server).
The backup was taken as "Standard", and we are using Standard as the restore option.
We direct the restore not to the original server, but to a hyper VM.
In the restore log, the job tries to restore the files to the master media server.
Environment:
Master: Windows 2008 R2
Media server: Windows 2008 R2
NBU version: 7.5.0.5
Using MSDP on one of my media server. I did a hardware refresh as per the dedup guide and used the bpexpdate -nodelete command to expire images before deleting the disk pool, storage server and storage unit.
Everything went smoothly till the recreation of the new media server where I tried to use the same path as previous storage path and got this error: system call failed.RDSM has encountered an STS error:updateStorageServerConfig.
After numerous tries and work around nothing worked. I finally used new paths on the same SAN attached disk and this time it work. Now when I try to import the images I get this on activity job monitor:
16/04/2013 02:55:24 PM - begin Import
16/04/2013 02:55:25 PM - requesting resource @aaabs
16/04/2013 02:55:25 PM - granted resource MediaID=@aaabs;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=media_server_PD;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=media_server;MediaServer=media_server
16/04/2013 02:55:28 PM - end Import; elapsed time: 00:00:04
16/04/2013 02:55:30 PM - Info bpdm(pid=1704) started
16/04/2013 02:55:30 PM - started process bpdm (1704)
16/04/2013 02:55:32 PM - Warning bpdm(pid=1704) INF - No importable NetBackup disk images found in path PureDiskVolume.
the requested operation was successfully completed(0)
Any suggestions? I have the bpdm log file if required.
Hi All,
Just trying to understand the contentrouter.cfg file, its located in \veritas\pdde\ and in msdp\etc\puredisk
The files look identical, so im just wondering why in both locations, and if I update the one in \msdp\etc\puredisk, i take it i have to do the same with the file in \veritas\pdde?
Thanks
Hi Forum, I've had a quick search through the DeDupe Admin Guide for v7.5 and I couldn't find any recommendations for volume manager or file system type for the MSDP database and/or data spaces. I guess an appliances uses VxVM and VxFS - but what else might be suitable if we were to build our own Linux based MSDP media server. The local server disks will re RAID-1, and the SAN LUNs will be:
- MSDP DB on one x 2 TB LUN from 3PAR
- MDDP data on four x 16 TB LUNs from 3PAR (i.e. 4 x PG of RAID-6 6D-2P)
I guess my question really relates to the MSDP data space - I was thinking of a simple logical volume of the four LUNs concat together and an ext4 file system on that logical volume. Or might I be better off in carving the MSDP data storage as a concat 2 x LUNs (i.e. 2 x PG of RAID-6 14D-2P)?
And I assume a sector cluster/blocking factor of 64 KB is appropriate for ext4, just as it is for NTFS.
Anyone have any advice, or willing to share what they did and whether they ripped anything up and started again?
Hi,
Just a quick question. I need to get the actual path so that I can setup MSDP on a RHEL5 media server (7.5.0.5), Windows is easy since it would be E:\MSDP or whatever you would use for the logical drive letter.
NBU is installed on the primary partition and we want to utilize the full 2nd volume for MSDP but how would I find the path in the GUI Wizard?
Do I just create an MSDP folder under /home ?
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
When does full disk processing take place? At 96% or 98% ?
And doesn't this all imply that a high water mark is probably best set to something like 90% (max)or probably (85%) so that clenup can occur before it gets full. If so, then why is teh default 98%
Hi ,
I added some disks from my dell md 3000 storage array to my linux box but for some reason these disks dont have labels assosiated with it allowing me to format them for use.. We use puredisk application and its on suse linux 10
In below [3:0:0:4][3:0:0:5] are not getting recognized
What could be the problem ?
we are running puredisk 6.6.0.3 version on suse 10 linux. We have currently run out of storage and are trying to extend the /storage/data partition .
the storage is presented from a dell md3000 but for some reason newly presented disks have no lables on it ..
what could be the reason that the some of these disks arent recognized ??
# lsscsi -g --transport
I have a ticket open on this issue as well, but the tech I am working with is out till Sunday. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I appear to have a corrupt DO. My TSE pointed me to http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH168555 But, when I run the dbutil, I dont get a container ID. Here are the results. The KB doesnt really say what to do with a corrupt DO.
s003244:~ # /opt/pdcr/bin/dbutil -d 5192eac8dcea2403dbae7f66518b0865
5192eac8dcea2403dbae7f66518b0865:
Status : Corrupt
Original size : 1
Segment Size : 1
Original crc : 1
FP type : 1
DO type : 0
No of segments : 1
Segment 0: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
TREF 0: P9:01016a71112a3f86d6fdd15670926da0
When sorting though error messages in Puredisk, we have 33,611 critical error messages. the error itself has been resolved, but I would like to remove these messages. Does anyone know a way to mass delete these? Right now I can only remove them 20 or so at a time and that will take 1500 instances of me deleting and confirming.
Does anyone here have any experience yet using Cisco UCS blades as NBU media servers?
We are migrating our existing Oracle x86 and Solaris Sparc media server hardware connecting to Data Domains over NFS, to Cisco UCS blades running Red Hat Linux and fiber channel attached storage using NBU's Media Server Deduplication Pools. We are running NBU 7.5.0.5 on all servers, and most clients are running 7.5.0.4.
We have been experiencing sporadic status 2074's during heavy backup loads on one MSDP. But the MSDP is not actually down, and the jobs auto-retry 1-2 hours later and are successful. I am not upping the MSDP, and I can't find any indication that anything else is cycling the services or rebooting the server.
I do not find a storaged.log or spoold.log on the server, and I just uncommented the /usr/openv/lib/ost-plugins/pd.conf line to enable PureDisk logging and cycled NBU on that server a little while ago, so I don't have any logs from that yet.
If you have worked with this combination of hardware/OS/NBU, do you have any advice on UCS tuning or settings? We're also having other issues with TCP tuning (socket reads/writes failing).
hello freinds
i am using netbackup Pure Disk 6.6.3 on linux
whn i am restarting services ,one service Pure Disk Controller Monitor is showing as unused
but it is working in the background, but showing as if it is not working
is netbackup puredisk 6.6.1 support with nbu 7.5.0.5?
Hi Forum,
Page 30 of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide v7.5 says that... by default MSDP encryption is disabled by default, but they it is recommended by Symantec.
Page 70 says that to enable encryption that we need to add "agent_crypt" to "ServerOptions=" in the ContentRouter.cfg file.
But looking at the comments in the file:
...indicates that using "agent_crypt" instructs the client-side deduplication agent to encrypt data.
At our site we are not implementing client side deduplication so it woudl seem to me that setting :agent_crypt" won't have any effect.
My questions are:
1) Is "agent_crypt" really the option to use if what we are trying to achieve is encryption of the post-dedupe blocks on teh MSDP data storage local to teh MSDP media server?
2) What does the "ServerOptions=encrypt" option do, and how is it different to "agent_crypt" ?
3) If we can determine which option really does enable post-dedupe encryption - then does anyone know what the CPU overhead is ?
4) Are there any particular models of CPU (SPARC or Intel or AMD) that implement the encryption/decryption in their hardware instruction sets - i.e. are there any CPUs that are much better suited for use with MSDP encryption ?
Thanks,
Dave.
I am in the process of upgrading my NetBackup environment from v7.1.0.4 to v7.5.0.5. Master server on Linux is done as are some of my Linux based media servers.
I am now starting on my Windows 2008 based MSDP servers with one done so far. However, I find that the bpup -v command on Windows is now taking significantly longer; seems like it now stops on the Deduplication engine (spoold) startup whereas before it didn't. It is as if it now waits for the cache load to finish before proceeding on. With a 15TB volume to load this is taking 1.5 hours or so minimum.
I recall reading somewhere about the change in startup but am unable to find anything now. Is this normal now?
I also find that the disk pool doesn't come online at all after startup; I have to issue a
nbdevconfig -changestate -stype PureDisk -dp Dedupe-Pool -dv PureDiskVolume -state RESET
command from the Master Server to get the pool back online; a simply UP doesn't work either. Symantec are looking at this fom me.
Anyone have any comments or suggestions?
Is it possible to modify puredisk agents in bulk with new spa address
We are installing Puredisk 6.6.3a to our new Suse Linux Enterprise Server10 Service pack 4
So is it compaitible or not ?
i searched but failed
Can anyone tell me if there is a limit to the number of restores that can be launched/running concurrently from a single MSDP, and if so what the constraints are based on?
Hi,
Im getting below error message when try export data from Puredisk 6.6.3 to Netbackup (tape backup)
please advice the solution
Error: 5: Failed to create an XBSA object
[2013-Jun-16 20:50:04 PDT]Error: 5 : Failed to create an XBSA object
Error: 5: The sequence of calls is incorrect.
[2013-Jun-16 20:50:04 PDT]Error: 5 : The sequence of calls is incorrect.
Hi Everyone,
I am wondering if there is a way I can duplicate images that I have stored on either disk or tape to a Dedup Pool?
Windows 2008 R2 Media and Master servers running Netbackup 7.5.0.5