Solaris Netbackup and Oracle

[01backuper]

As another member said, i don't have to do any action to overwrite tape media in order to use it (DLT tapes).
That would of course mean that we're talking about already used tapes from what i understand. How about out-of-the-box new ones? Do i need to prepare them in some way, or just put them in the drive and start working?

 

[comtec17]

Depends on the type of unit you have. Is this an autoloader or a stand alone tape drive?

If it is an autoloader, then you will have to do nothing as NBU will label the tapes for you.

If you have a stand alone drive, NBU can label the tapes for you as A00000 and so on, or you can manually label them.

I highly recommend that you read the Admin Guides as well as the Media Manager guide to get a better understanding of your needs.

 

[Stumpr]

NetBackup attempts to read the tape's internal label (header) every time it mounts a tape. It checks to see if the internal label on the tape matches what is on the outside of the tape. If they do not match then the tape will be frozen. If no internal label exists on the tape then NetBackup will create a one at that time. Or, you can manually place a label on a tape via the GUI or by using the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel command.

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and that is truth.

 

[01backuper]

It's an L8 Sun Autoloader with an 8 tape capacity and robotic capabilities. The already existent 8 tapes that are in the drive have a bar code label attached on them, but i was thinking about the backup policy, whereas i haven't decided yet, but i suppose i'll be using another set of 8 tapes to interchange every week in order to backup everything on a weekly basis. Not sure yet, though..
Many more questions in mind. The spare tapes are still paxkaged and sealed, with no label yet on them, so i was thinking if i needed to do something to prepare them before i use them..
Thanx once again

 

[Viconsul]

If you are using an autoloader tape library, then the only action you need to perform before loading the tapes unto the library, is to put the barcode labels on the tapes and do an inventory of the library.
Provided the barcode on the lables are recognised by the scanner then the tapes headers will be indexed accordingly by the numbers on the individual labels on them.

 

[01backuper]

Thanks for all the answers you sent till now!
Can someone please tell me how you manage to print the appropriate bar code on the paper labels you place on the media? Do you use a third-party software to name and print them? And if so, is it in Solaris platform, or is it a x86 platform program?
One more question which is a bit more difficult. Say you decide to backup your whole disc including the file system and all directories that might exist. Is there an easy way of doing so from NetBackup by just a single selection, or do i have to go and select each and every individual item till i get them all?
Has someone located anything about that in the official documentation, and if so, where?

 

[comtec17]

Barcodes are usually ordered with the tape. If you already have tapes then you can print the barcodes using an x86 utility called "LTO Barcode" located at

http://www.jdtools.ca/ltobarcode.html.

When you create your backup policy and are ready to make your selections for which filesystems/files to backup, you can use the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive to choose all filesystems/directories/files to be backed up. You can also seperate your selections as follows;
/
/var
/opt
/usr
/export
/opt

If you are using multistreaming then;
NEW_STREAM
/
NEW_STREAM
/var
NEW_STREAM
/opt
NEW_STREAM
/usr
NEW_STREAM
/export
NEW_STREAM
/opt

This is located in the Administrators Guide.

 

[Vela]

We experienced something recently with Storage Tek Drives. We enter new tapes an it bombs out with alot of media error's. Apparently Storage Tek came out with a new code that works with the new tapes and tensions the actual tape more efficiently.