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Exchange backup Using DAG - which NIC will be used?

September 11, 2015, 12:42 am
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Hi,

 

I have deployed Exchange 2010+ Integration agents to my Exchange servers from my cell manager and imported the clients. I have also imported the DAG as a 'virtual host'. The Exchange servers have both a Production and  BUR NIC.

 

When I go to create a backup I have each exchange server to select from or can select the DAG and backup all Exchange databases that way.

 

I would like to backup using the DAG, however, when I do this there is no option with regards to which NIC on the Exchange servers the backup data will use, I want it to use the BUR NIC.

 

How would I ensure that the data goes via the BUR NIC? I was wondering whether deploying the agents via that NIC in the first place might make sure of that, but thats just a guess.

 

Thank you for any advice

 

 

 

 

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backup to disk

September 11, 2015, 3:17 am
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how to take backup from backup server to a disk storage using HP DP
is it related to storeonce

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Restore database very slow, about 5-8MB/s, with LTO3 tape drive

September 11, 2015, 8:10 am
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Dear expert,

 

Because of the production storage is damaged,  I need restore and recovery a database. Its size is about  1TB, and it use file system to store db files.

 

There are 154 datafiles and the full backup include two backup piece.

ANd there are 15 days archive log files need to be restored and recoverd.

 

After 30 minutes, I just restored 9GB data.

 

Pleae give me some advise to make this faster. Thanks and appreciate!

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(DP) Support Tip: Logging of user actions in GUI

September 11, 2015, 8:19 am
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Did you ever wonder who changed some backup schedule, or added new clients in a specification? There is a handy global file option that might help:

 

EventLogAudit=1

# default: 0
# This option enables (1) or disables (0) logging of GUI-related user actions
# into the Data Protector event log. Logging is disabled by
# default.

 

When enabled it logs events like: 

 

Normal DATE TIME GUI/CLI EventLogTrigger "[138:719] Media "Media_Name" was recycled by user "GROUP\USER"."

 

Normal DATE TIME GUI/CLI EventLogTrigger "[138:719] Operation "Specification Modification" performed by the user "GROUP\USER" on the backup specification(s) "NAME"."

 

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Can I do "media copy" or "session copy" then restore with the two copies ？

September 12, 2015, 5:33 am
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I have a two-drives library, and I need restore the Oracle standalone database.

The data is backuped using just one drive.

 

Because the tape is LTO2 and the capacity of the backup is about 1TB. So the time would be very long.

I want to speed up the whole restore time.

I'm thinking if I can do a "media copy" or "session copy" than use the two tapes via the two drives to restore.

 

please help me, thanks a lot!

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when restore oracle, "an error occurred while browsing rman repository" displayed.

September 12, 2015, 6:11 pm
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but I can restore control file using "Perform RMAN Repository Restore".

And restore database / datafile using rman cmd is ok.

 

How to resolve this problem?

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(DP) Support Tip: MYSQL backup failiures with License errors

September 14, 2015, 4:26 am
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Dp 9.04

Backup of MYSQL fails with the following even if Online extention Licenses for windows/Linux is available

 

[Warning] From: BSM@server "MySQL"  
License not available "Extended On-line Backup for Win/Lin Software"

 

 

MYSQL backup requires New Extended On-line Backup for Win/Lin license and this is different from the traditional online extension licenses for windows and Linux.

Backup will work once the new Licenses are installed.

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VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In

September 14, 2015, 6:01 am
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Hello there,

 

so currently im failing in installing the VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In. I get this error:

 

[Critical] <VMWARE-HOST> Post-installation script for the VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In failed with the output:

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>perl -I "..\lib\perl" vmwgre_wp.pl -install
There was a problem during VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In installation.
vmwaregre-agent -register_plugin -FlexPlugin returned *RETVAL*17101
Connection to client host failed.
Details:Invalid connection information.

 

vSphere Version:  Version 5.5.0 Build 1441077 

DP: 9.04

 

What am I doing wrong? The informations given in the help_topics for this thema are pretty rare.

 

Thanks in advance

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VMware Granular Recovery Extension

September 15, 2015, 12:14 am
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Hello there,

 

so currently im failing in installing the VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In. I get this error:

 

[Critical] <VMWARE-HOST> Post-installation script for the VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In failed with the output:

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>perl -I "..\lib\perl" vmwgre_wp.pl -install
There was a problem during VMware Granular Recovery Extension Web Plug-In installation.
vmwaregre-agent -register_plugin -FlexPlugin returned *RETVAL*17101
Connection to client host failed.
Details:Invalid connection information.

 

vSphere Version:  Version 5.5.0 Build 1441077 

DP: 9.04

 

What am I doing wrong? The informations given in the help_topics for this thema are pretty rare.

 

Thanks in advance

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Restore Oracle Database Backup from copy session

September 14, 2015, 6:50 am
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Hi

 

We have Oracle Database Backup (DP 7) to VLS destination and every day we are running a Object Copy session to Physical Library destination.Object Copy session finished succesfully we changed original data protection session to expired state (virtual media used in the backup are recycled for reuse and the next day session is purged from IDB)

What is the best way to see the backup tapes used in this copy sessión for this particular backup job? (because remember that original backup session no longer exists in IDB)

 

If I run a restore process  it should work fine and choose copy tapes or I need mark it as original?

 

Thanks in advance

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Read-only permission DP manager

September 15, 2015, 4:45 am
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Hi all!

 

I would like to ask some help!

 

Is there any possibility to grant read-only permission to AD users for browsing.

Check backup jobs, devices...see everything without any modify capability...without start job, restore, abort...etc.

 

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Migration DP 7.0 to 9.0 fails, IDB storage area creation failed

September 15, 2015, 6:12 am
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Hi,

 

I´m working on a upgrade of our DP installation from version 7 to 9. I checked all prerequieries an all consistency checks ran o.k.. The setup starts, exports DB. Runs further, at the end it reports "IDB storage area creation failed". The IDB doesn´t work an no data is imported. The setup log provides:

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[NORMAL] The IDB service account added to the Inet impersonation database.
[CRITICAL] IDB storage area creation failed.
[CRITICAL_DETAIL] IDB storage area creation failed:
  Log file: C:\Windows\TEMP/dp_idb_install.log

  ERROR: IDB storage area creation (initdb) failed.

  Reason:

  'initdb: could not create directory "C:/Programme/OmniBack": File exists

  '.

  *RETVAL*8010

  evkXXXXXXX.evkwesel.local

[CRITICAL] IDB storage area configuration files update completed with errors.
[CRITICAL] Some services started with warnings or errors.
[WARNING] Timeout reached before Data Protector IDB started.
[NORMAL_DETAIL] Service Data Protector IDB connection pool started.
[NORMAL_DETAIL] Service Data Protector Application Server started.
[CRITICAL] IDB initialization failed.
[CRITICAL_DETAIL] IDB initialization failed with the output:
  Unable to connect to the Internal Database. Aborting...

...

The dp_idb_install.log mentions the same:

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###############################################################################
Execute command: "%DP_HOME_DIR%\idb\bin\initdb" -D "%PGDATA_PG%" -U hpdp --pwfile="%PGDATA_PG%\..\pwd"
Command exit code: 256
Command output:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Administrator".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale German_Germany.1252.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to WIN1252.
The default text search configuration will be set to "german".

creating directory C:/Programme/OmniBack/server/db80/pg ... initdb: could not create directory "C:/Programme/OmniBack": File exists

###############################################################################

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I can´t see there any problem that "C:/Programme/OmniBack" exists. It is the path the DP 7 is installed. The path was  mandatory by migration from 6.2 to 7 and change from server 2003x86 to server 2008R2x64.

I tried serveral setups, as lokal Administrator, as Domain Administrator all failed in the same manner an I reverted Cell manager from snapshot to DP 7 (thanks for virtualisation :-)).

What can I do to get a succesfull migration?

Thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards

Michael

 

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HP Data Protector and VMWare Configuration

September 15, 2015, 7:39 am
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New HP Data Protector and trying to find some documents specifically for VMWare 5.x backup best practice \ Configuration guides or administration documentation

 

Also if anyone can advise how HP Data Protect backs up virtual machines (VMDK backups) is this based on a client install or do VMs have to reside in a specific folder that is selectable from with the HP DP GUI?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Need help with DP features

September 15, 2015, 8:51 pm
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Hello experts,

 

We have received this requirement from our customer to get the confirmation for DP feature, unfortunately it is kind of knowledge that is not available on our manual guide. Could you please suggest us if DP can support these features of not?

- For virtual environment such as Oracle OVM, VMWare, the backup software should have vStorage API certification (for advanced data protection).

- The backup software must not introduce any stream handlers for deduplication processing.

- The backup software must provide Block based backup feature for CBT-type backup of large windows file systems with millions of files.

- Pre-set schedules for Tape Out must be configurable.

- The backup software should utilize encryption stack "BSAFE" for FIPS 140-2 compliance. 

 

Thanks in advance and any help is much appreciated.

Hien.

 

 

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(BN) Support Tip: BN is not able to collect data in case ECC is enabled

September 16, 2015, 6:37 am
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In case Encrypted Control Communication (ECC) is enabled on the DP Cell Manager, Backup Navigator (BN) will not be able to collect data.

The solution is to add the BN Server to the security exception list.

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Troubleshooting some types of SQL Restores

September 16, 2015, 4:07 pm
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When using the Data Protector MSSQL Integration, Catalog information is written to the Data Protector

Internal Database. What is not widely known is that simimar Catalog information is also written into the MSSQL catalog

databases. This information is easily accessable using the MSSQL Management Tool "SQL Server Management Studio" when selecting the restore feature. Initiating Data Protector restores using the SQL management tool is not supported, however being able to query this information can be useful when troubleshooting some types of restore issues.

Please see the screen shot below:

 

 

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Fun times with Major Error 81:78 Cannot read 20 bytes at offset -20

September 17, 2015, 11:50 am
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DP 8.13 running on Centos 6.6 box.

 

Moved file storage that was being backed up via DP from Windows 2003 Cluster Servers (Physical) to Windows 2012R2 Cluster Servers (VMWare 5.5 u2).

 

Storage moved from HP EVA4000 and now sits on HP 3PAR and is added to VM's via RDM per VMWare's directions. Followed HP's directions for MSCS setup with Enhanced Incremental Backups from the F1 help (and data protector 6.0 documentation).

 

Got 6 LUNS for Storage and 1 for Quorum.  I can move them back and forth within the cluster without issue.  Data Protector backups are working fine on all but 1.

 

On the 'special' one... I'm getting the following error for every file that I try to back up:

 

 [Major] From: VBDA@padcisnas01.hostname.lan "I:[Storage]" Time: 9/17/2015 11:03:13 AM
[81:78] GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2\Storage\Applications\7Zip\7z465-x64.msi
Cannot read 20 bytes at offset -20(:2): ([32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ).

Details

Description:  

The specified object could not be read and will not be backed up.   The error message indicates the reason as reported by the OS. 

 

Actions:  

* Eliminate the problem cause described by the error message and restart the backup session.
* If you find this message annoying, you may exclude the specified object from the backup fileset using the -exclude option.

 

 

The job will end Completed\Errors and I was able to complete a restore from it, but I'd really like to not have a couple thousand warnings showing up in my logs everytime the job runs nor exclude every file from the backup...

 

 

What I've done so far:

I've verified it's perennially set for VMWare and compared the settings in 3PAR to the other LUNS, done several reboots, tried from both nodes - issue persists, updated the 2 2012R2 VM's, ran a scandisk on the storage drive (no issues), used ProcessExplorer to look for processes or handles holding on to the files - find nothing.

 

Doing a search for 81:78 got me Windows KB 304101 which after looking at the Windows 2003 cluster I can see it matches that.  So I tried that, still get the error.  

 

Neither the old Server 2003 Cluster nor the newer 2012 had any omnirc file in use.

 

TIA for any suggestion/possible solutions,

Tim

 

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(DP) Support Tip: DPInet not reachable

September 18, 2015, 7:49 am
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Environment
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OS CS: Linux
MoM with CMMDB

 

In case DPInet of a Linux MoM CS is sporadically not reachable it may be helpful to check inet.conf.
Such an event may occur if omni service (DPInet) was deactivated by xinet and restarted after 10 sec.

 

Then messages file would show temporary deactivation of service omni
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   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: START: omni pid=15446 from=CS1-IP-1
   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: EXIT: omni status=0 pid=15441 duration=0(sec)
   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: EXIT: omni status=0 pid=15442 duration=0(sec)
   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: EXIT: omni status=0 pid=15446 duration=0(sec)
   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: Deactivating service omni due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 10 seconds.                  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   Aug 19 11:00:04 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: FAIL: omni connections per second from=127.0.0.1
   Aug 19 11:00:14 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: Activating service omni
   Aug 19 11:00:14 ob2clmomx01 xinetd[14873]: START: omni pid=16296 from=CS1-IP-1

 

Cause
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In case of too many incoming connections services may be deactivated by the LINUX OS and restarted after a certain time. This is configurable by a parameter in xinetd.conf.

 
/etc/xinet.conf
=====================
 Define access restriction defaults
#
       no_access      =
       only_from      =
       max_load       = 0
       cps            = 50 10                  !!!!

 

Doubling the incoming connections and reducing the sleep time may solve such issues.
       cps             = 100 2

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Error Connecting to Client [110:24] after domain name change

September 18, 2015, 5:01 pm
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Data Protector Cell Server A8.1x (Windows 2003)

 

I'm receiving the following error when I execute a "check installation":

 

[Normal] Starting installation session on Friday, September 18, 2015, 4:50:19 PM...

[Normal] Getting list of clients for installation...

[Normal] Connecting to client dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net...

[Normal] <dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net> Checking for response from system dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net.

[Critical] <dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net> [110:24] Client dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net : client not responding.

[Critical] <dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net> Error connecting to client dhcp-pr-1.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net
Skipping client!

[Normal] Installation session finished on Friday, September 18, 2015, 4:50:19 PM.

 

Here's what I've tried:

 

  • I can ping the client from the cell manager and the installation server.  
  • I can connect to port 5555 on the client.  
  • Restarted xinetd on the client.
  • Attempted the process on multiple clients.  Same result.

 

Not sure what else to try.  This issue happened after our domain changed and I updated the cell_info file.  I did this exact same work on a different server a few weeks ago and it worked OK.  I'm sure it's something dumb but can't figure it out yet.

 

BTW, backups fail but I figured I'd narrow the focus with the "check installation" process.

 

 

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Data Protector Configuration Template

September 20, 2015, 11:31 pm
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Hi

 

Is there a Data Protector configuration template that an implementor can use to discuss with customers prior to doing the actual configuration? I envisage that it is likely to be in a spreadsheet form with each tab pertaining to a task. For example,

Adding Devices, Media Management, Users and Group, etc.

 

If there is such a document shared in this forum, please let me know where I can retrieve it.

 

Thanks

YewHoong

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