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Monitoring NetBackup Daemons

April 27, 2016 – 9:25 pm

Here’s an example of a script you can use to monitor NetBackup server daemons in a Linux environment. The main difficulty with keeping track of these services is that there are so many of them. …

NetBackup is an enterprise-level distributed backup and recovery application. The environment consists of the master server, media server, storage library, networking hardware, and client agents. NetBackup supports a wide variety of Unix, Linux, VMS, and Windows systems. The original backup solution was developed by Control Data Corp., later acquired by Openvision, which gave the product its “NetBackup” name. NetBackup was then bought by Veritas and is currently owned and supported (poorly) by Symantec.

Copying Data: Are We There Yet?

December 27, 2009 – 7:12 pm

I am sure this will sound familiar: you are copying a large amount of data – either locally or over the network – and you are wondering how long it will take and if there is a way to make things go faster.You may be surprised, but it does matter what type of files you are copying: 1Gb-worth of many small files will take considerably longer to copy than two 500Mb files. The hardware you are using is an important consideration, but it’s not the only factor limiting data transfer speed.

VxVM Recovery Cheatsheet for Solaris

May 15, 2008 – 6:22 pm

This is a quick-and-dirty guide to recovering VxVM volumes and filesystems on a Solaris server. These instructions are not intended to be an in-depth troubleshooting guide for the Veritas Volume Manager. This is just something …

Veritas Cluster Troubleshooting

February 27, 2008 – 1:26 am

Veritas cluster server is a high availability server. This means that processes switch between servers when a server fails. All database processes are run through this server – and as such, this needs to run smoothly. Note that the oracle process should only actually be running on the server which is active.