CMMDB - Path away from it?
I inherited an environment with 2 Cell Managers. One acting as MoM for centralized licensing and CMMDB to make life interesting and the other cell manager at another site is tied to it.I've had 2...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Virtual Machine restore "poweron" option
DP 9.07 buildCurrently, if backing up virtual machines with the DP "vepa" integration to smartcache, 3par or storeonce, the poweron option on restore is "only" supported if the backuphost selected is...
View ArticleVM backups - How to set custom Free Space Required percentages
Using DP 9.07:I ran into an issue with switching a filesystem backup to virtual environment on a VM that is a document server: and getting a higher available than the required setting.[Major] Virtual...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Enabling OB2BMASTATISTICS can assist in troubleshooting...
OB2BMASTATISTICS=2# Default: 0# This variable is used to mesure Backup statistics/performance# To enable this varaible set environment variable OB2BMASTATISTICS=2 on# all Media Agent hosts...
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Connection to CRS failed on DP 6.11 installation
Hi!I am having issues trying to connect from the GUI to cell manager. The cell manager server which at the same time is the installation server is running hp-ux 11.31, and I have installed DP 6.11 on...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Faster method to recover DataProtector on UNIX
A faster method to recover from issues with DataProtector on a UNIX cell server (HP-UX, Linux) would be to copy the three DataProtector directories on the UNIX cell server : /etc/opt/omni/...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Single Object per Store Media
Hi, "Single Object per Store Media" is a property of a Data Protector StoreOnce device which can be enabled in the Settings tab. If not set and a session is serially backing up objects (that is when...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: BSM reports "Too many backup sessions are running in...
If you are seeing the below message during backups, consider installing the 9.07_110 patch for the Cell Manager and enabling the new option OB2IGNOREPARALLELSESSIONS to skip the check. |Normal| From:...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Stopping StoreOnceSoftware stores.
Hi, Before stopping the StoreOnceSoftware service/daemon, all stores should be stopped first. That can sometimes take a long time. If there is no time to wait then the --force option should be used:...
View ArticleOracle: spfile backup
I don't understand if DP 8.13 is able to backup the single Oracle spfile and to restore it.
View ArticleProblem in Data protector incremental backup
I have the same issue, I'am running on dp 9.07.But the bizar thing is dat I have this only when I run an incr backup, when I run a full I don't get this error on my backup job. [Major] From:...
View ArticleDeduplication is not supported on clusters
When Source Side Deduplication Gateway device configured on cluster node it should failed with the following :[Major] From: BSM@Cell_Manager_hostname.xxx.yyy "backup_specification" Time: 31.03.2016...
View ArticleVirtual Machines backup not using all devices as selected on backup...
Virtual Machines backup used only 10 devices although more than 10 drives were selected on backup specification and concurrency set 30 ( Min=1, Max=30)Reason for this behaviour is that...
View ArticleWhile upgrading DP 7 to 9.07, Hyper-V backups failed... From VEPALIB_HYPERV...
Hello Everone, Thought I'd share this information in case it helps others...Problem-------During a DP 7 to 9.07 upgrade, after upgrading the DP 9.07 Cell Manager and the Hyper-V 2012 R2 clients in a...
View ArticleDP9.07 - VMware backups - use of multiple devices greyed out
I am configuring some new vmware backups with DP9.07 and writing to 2 x D2D 4700 appliances. Using catalystI have a gateway for D2D_A and a gateway for D2D_B....In the vmware backup specification I...
View Article(DP) Support Tip: Debugging OpenVMS clients
There are 2 possible ways to enable debugs an OpenVMS client:1)- $ edit OMNI$ROOT:omnirc.OB2DBG=1-99 Debugs.txtAnd restart services:- $startup:omni$shutdown.com- $startup:omni$startup.com2)-...
View ArticleDP9: [61:1002] Inactivity timeout on CONFIGURATION object
We do currently face some problems on different jobs where we are running a backup of the complete machine (see the error below):If I unselect the CONFIGURATION object the job runs without any error....
View ArticleClient Installation agent
Hi currently i have DP 9.0, i have got a few new server to add in DP 9. i need to know which client agents do i need to install during the client installation. below are the type of server 1. Domain...
View ArticleDP GRE Plugin Problems with Smartcache on MS-Cluster
Hello! We have DP 9.07 and VSphere 5.5.After New GRE-Request in WebClient we want to browse the disks. Then we get an error:Error while trying to get the partitions for the disk(s).Unable to present...
View ArticleAdvanced backup to disk - data protector 9.07 - StoreOnce catalyst
Hi ,I'm currently installing a new license "Advanced backup to disk" and want to backup over COFC to catalyst stores.license capacity is 300TB and i'm curious if i can use Catalyst store for it or it...
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