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How to tell if linux disk IO is causing excessive (> 1 second) application stalls

I have a Java application performing a large volume (hundreds of MB) of continuous output (streaming plain text) to about a dozen files a ext3 SAN filesystem. Occasionally, this application pauses for several seconds at a time. I suspect that…
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Network tape restore is faster than disk to disk copy

How can this be? Running a cp or rsync (with -W --inplace) takes two hours for 93Gb; a tape restore over the dedicated backup network is 41 minutes. Tape restore is 50 Mb/s; disk to disk was measured and calculated to be 16 Mb/s tops - 2 Mb/s if…
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help me setup Veritas 9.1

So we are running with veritas 9.1 with exchange agent, and I am having issues setting it up. I tried following the manuels, but I do not believe I have archived the backup-setup that I want. I do believe I need someone experienced with Veritas…
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VXFS (veritas) File system filling up - except it's not

I have a Solaris 10 server which is reporting that a file system is filling up: # df -h /opt/CSCObac/var Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/RDU-VAR-DG/RDU-VAR-VOL # df -F vxfs…
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How to get drive info from the solaris commandline for veritas netbackup

We use Veritas Netbackup to control our L180 tape robot at $WORK, but I'm getting some weird results from the GUI. So in the age old struggle for truth.. it's back to the commandline. Unfortunately, I can't work out how to pull the info I need. Can…
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Can I format a Veritas cluster shared volume from windows?

We have a Microsoft Failover Cluster with dynamic disks managed by Veritas Storage Foundation. Today the sysadmins added a new disk for SQL Server but the cluster size on the volume was wrong, so I issued a quick format to change it. The disk volume…
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Has anyone switched from Netbackup to Acronis?

We're a site with over 100 servers and we're considering a switch from traditional file-level backups (using Netbackup) to block-level (using Acronis). Of course, with this, we're also considering a switch from the traditional tape based system…
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Netbackup. How to move frozen tape to bad_tapes pool

In the backup server one of the tape has frozen and I want to move this frozen tape to bad_tapes pool. Please let me know how to do this. I am using veritas netback
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Veritas Cluster Server for HA for regular user processes

In the past I have used Veritas Cluster Server for HA clusters of Sybase and other databases at large financial institutions. Now I am going to have locally written processes that could benefit from some similar behavior. e.g. "fail onto this…
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vxprint equivalent in Solaris volume manager

vxprint -m -g command in vxvm give lot of inofrmation about the volume like rid , pub offsets etc. Is there a command in solaris volume manager to get the such information? and vxprint -F %len -g -v gives volume length in blocks. Is there any…
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Solaris to Linux conversion: Use VxFS or GFS?

We're a Solaris shop looking at RedHat Enterprise Linux and one of the things we're wondering is if we should keep Veritas Volume Manager + FileSystem or go with LVM+ext3 or RedHat's preferred cluster filesystem solution, GFS. One of the things we…
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Veritas BackupExec 9.1 on Windows 2003 R2 x64

Will Veritas BackupExec 9.1 install (and work) on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64? I know the Agent is supported but I need to install the Veritas Backupexec 9.1 for Windows Server.
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How to repair a Veritas tape that has been overwritten a bit?

I meant to restore some files, but I forgot that there was a monday backup job just waiting for tape loading. So veritas 10d started to write over my tape and that valuable data is now gone. The original data size was about 40 GB and that…
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Veritas and VNX LUN Expansion

I have an EMC VNX Storage array and a front end Linux server running Veritas. A 4TB lun has been assigned from a diskpool on the VNX and presented to the server where Veritas has split it out into volumes, I now need to expand one of those…
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VERITAS Backup Exec does not accept tapes

VERITAS Backup Exec 8.60 Rv 3878 does not accept brand new Sony SDX3-100C tapes using a Compaq AIT 50 GB tape drive. I want to introduce new tapes to an ancient backup system as described above on a Windows 2k machine. I tried the "Inventory" and…
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