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Marianne van den Berg

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I started working for a Veritas reseller in 1999, being a Solaris System Administrator up to this point in time. Having to support customers, I had to learn the traditional Veritas products - NetBackup, Volume Manager, Cluster Server.
Like other TA's I stumbled across the forums looking for answers and ended up answering more questions than finding answers. I nevertheless still learn from fellow users every day.
I live west of Johannesburg in sunny South Africa, close to my grown-up son and daughter. I love gardening, photography, getting out into Nature....

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Symantec Accreditations

Symantec Technical Specialist (STS)

Symantec NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX
Veritas Cluster Server 5 for UNIX
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for UNIX

Symantec Sales Expert Plus (SSE+)

Symantec NetBackup 7
Veritas CommandCentral 5.2
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for UNIX
Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows 5.1

Symantec Sales Expert (SSE)

Symantec NetBackup 7
Veritas CommandCentral 5.2
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1

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Symantec Certified Specialist (SCS)

Storage Foundation 4.0 Administrator
Symantec NetBackup 7.0 for Windows Administrator

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discussion comment 46 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Storage Foundation 4.1 MP2 support on thinrclm LUNS from Hitachi 9990V Storage

Thin Storage Reclamation support is mentioned for the the first time in SF 5.0 MP3 Release Notes: https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sf/5.0MP3/solaris/pdf/sf_notes.pdf No mention in previous releases (not even 5.0).

discussion comment 1 hour 47 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Storage Foundation 4.1 MP2 support on thinrclm LUNS from Hitachi 9990V Storage

Thin reclamation is supported as from SF 5.0 MP3. Best to upgrade to (much) newer version such as 5.1 SP1 or 6.0. Please note this EOSL post: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/SF4x-EOSL

discussion comment 1 hour 52 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Life Preserver icons removed?

Example of 'Just Sharing' post where users jumped in to solve problem: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/upgrade-7102-7103-overwrites-backupexitnotify

discussion comment 2 hours 41 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Full catalog backup not finish

Please show us Details tab for your Parent job. This will answer Martin's question: If you compare your output to mine, where are you 'stopping;'.

discussion comment 2 hours 44 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: How to create Oracle .tpl Template for RMAN Backup?

PLEASE remember to upgrade your environment BEFORE NBU 6.5 runs out of support.... http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH74757

discussion comment 2 hours 47 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: expire backup image

Please have a discussion with your management about retention/recovery needs. You are going to have this problem on a daily basis if you keep on doing backups with retention of INFINITY. No tapes can be reused automatically and you will need to ...

discussion comment 3 hours 7 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: expire backup image

If we have another look at your 'status 96' post, it is clear that you need to free up tapes for new backups. Right now media server prodbar1 needs media right? According to bpmedialist output, the following media id's seems to be ...

discussion comment 3 hours 38 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: expire backup image

This method will expire images, but not necessarily make tape available. The only way to make tape available to be overwritten is to expire ALL images on the tape. We do not recommend manual expiration because retention period on images is a ...

discussion comment 3 hours 45 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Life Preserver icons removed?

I need SOME sort of indication if a post needs solution or not. Right now there is NO indication. Another option would be to add a small 'banner' in the opening post, like on Connect Mobile:

discussion comment 4 hours 13 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Backup 3 volumes on windows and each one is 2 TB

I like Kenneth's suggestion. Only thing right now is to be mindful of supported STU's for Backup Accelerator: Supports the disk storage units only. Supported storage unit types are PureDisk (MSDP, PureDisk, appliance), cloud storage, ...

discussion comment 4 hours 23 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: How to restore to an alternate client

OK - now we can all see what the problem is. I had a feeling that this was causing the problem on 17 May: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-restore-alternate-client#comment-7142151

discussion comment 4 hours 26 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: How to restore to an alternate client

Remove ALL other CLIENT_NAME entries in master's bp.conf except the entry for itself: CLIENT_NAME = ajva5000 CLIENT_NAME = AJVASUN You are telling NBU to redirect the restore to the master with additional CLIENT_NAME entries. See ...

discussion comment 4 hours 32 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Error 96

Now that we are s-l-o-w-l-y getting more information about your environment, the following seems to be true : Multiple Media Servers Multiple robots More that one drive type and media (different densities) With all of the ...

discussion comment 5 hours 15 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Error 96

Have a look at bpmedialist for prodbar1 - There is one hcart3 tape that is not FULL. All hcart tapes are FULL. So, if you do not have spare tapes in Scratch Pool (in the correct robot) and if you don't have Media Sharing enabled there will ...

discussion comment 5 hours 50 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Error 96

Please show us all of the following (run all commands from cmd on Master): Policy that fails with Status 96 (tell us which schedule is failing): bppllist <policy-name> -U Media list report: bpmedialist On Unix/Linux, the commands are ...

discussion comment 5 hours 56 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: NBU7.5 accelerator feature.

As far as I am aware NONE of the OST hardware solutions are supported at this point in time. This can be confirmed in HCL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76495

discussion comment 8 hours 36 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Error 96

Robot does not care about retentions. NetBackup does. You need to find out from your organization what the REAL recovery needs are and adjust your retention levels accordingly. Please take note of my previous post and the Status 96 ...

discussion comment 8 hours 45 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: nbu 7.1.0.2

Version Compatibility can be seen here (as well as in NBU Release Notes): http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH29677

discussion comment 8 hours 48 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: Amber light

Hardware is not something a NetBackup forum can help with. Find the user manual for your library make/model. Most of them are available online if you Google the make/model. This manual will help you identify warning lights and action to be taken.

discussion comment 9 hours 39 min ago

Marianne van den Berg commented on: How to create Oracle .tpl Template for RMAN Backup?

In addition to Yasuhisa's excellent post, have a look at the NBU for Oracle manual. Steps are documented under the topic About creating templates and shell scripts Note that templates do not reside on the clients. Templates reside on the ...