using netvault CLI - what is syntax of nvsetcreate when trying to use plugin NDMP Client to backup snapshots

March 27, 2012, 9:11 am

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I am trying to use the command line interface to create a backup job that will backup a snapshot with the NDMP client to tape. Specifically I need help with the syntax for the nvsetcreate command that uses the NDMP Client plugin.

 

here is what I have so far:

 

nvsetcreate -setname Select-Camprod-OLTP -type BS -plugin "NDMP Client"

 

I am not sure what options and parameters I need to be able to select a particular snapshot from a netapp filer and specific volume. The documentation is a bit light on examples for this.

 

does anyone have some examples of syntax and parameters needed that they can share with me?

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December 24, 2012, 6:18 am

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Hello everybody,

 

I have any problems about the Netvault Backup Software, what means these problems please ? I don't understand where is located the problems and how can i resolve it, i don't know the cause which trigger these problems.

 

Problems :

 

"Fatal error processing children of..."

"Media Request Failed...."

"Failed to prepare for an incremental backup.."

"Failed error writing backed up data..."

"Plugin had gone down"

 

 

Thanks for the responses.

Faulting application nvmedmgr.exe

February 18, 2013, 1:06 am

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hello,

 

lask weekend all running jobs failed after the mediamanager faulting.

 

What could be the reason for it?

 

 

 

Faulting application nvmedmgr.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4ff5789f, faulting module nvmedmgr.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4ff5789f, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000246d6, process id 0x1a0c, application start time 0x01ce0a0b9f5c2bc7.

 

 

 

Regard and thanks for help.

NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V version 1.7 and support for Windows Server 2012

July 22, 2013, 4:22 am

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Release notes says:
This release includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012.

http://us-downloads.quest.com/Repository/support.quest.com/NetVault%20Backup/9.1/Documentation/Plugin%20for%20Hyper-V/1.7/NetVaultBackup_Plug-inforHyper-V_1.7_ReleaseNotes.htm

 

to clarify the support statement:

Is the support for free version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 or also for the License based Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V?

Netvault NVDB Locally

October 21, 2013, 9:44 am

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Hi all,

 

I am trying to backup the NVDB, but my Netvault server is only small. So I wish to back it up locally, and copy over the network to our DB site. Then restore it there straight away, on a daily basis.

 

I have been trying to create a virtual drive, but I am new to NetVault. So I am not sure if this is a most efficent way.

 

Any suggestions are greatfully received.

 

Regards,

 

Alan Bailey

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January 30, 2014, 12:00 am

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Hi,

 

We have our Netvault backup servers running in both Datacenter and DR site.

We want to restore the Tape backup taken from Datacenter in DR site.

Tape backup also includes SQL database backup taken using SQL plug-in.

Kindly suggest or direct me to achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards

Jagadeesh

E-mail notification Subject line provide ability to include Job Title

April 9, 2012, 11:35 am

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It doens't seem to make much sense for the email to list the backup server name in the subject field and not the job title.  This used to be a customizable option but has since been removed.  Please add this functionality back. 

High CPU usage caused by nvlogmanager

July 1, 2012, 9:21 pm

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Backup server version: 8.53

OS: CentOS 5.5

 

Sometimes when I Logs does not show any output, I checked with 'top' command on terminal and I can see that nvlogmanager is using 82% of CPU. The netvault's logs folder and system's log folder space are not even reaching 10% used yet. 

 

What else could be causing this issue?

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Job E-Mail Notification - Information level

January 13, 2014, 12:47 am

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Dear comminity,

 

we are using Job E-Mail Notification in NetVault. Is there a possibility to extend the level of information provided by the E-Mail Notfication Service?

Job completed with warnings isn´t very much. It would be helpful to get information about the warnings in the E-Mail then to need to look inside the Software.

 

Is that possible?

 

Kind regards

Library lost!Backup Status:No Suitable Drive or Media Available.

November 28, 2012, 6:16 pm

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Recently，I found a strange question on the NetVault Backup:Sometimes the Library was lose,and Backup Status:No Suitable Drive or Media Available.

 

The log didn't have errors,just warning like that:No Suitable Drive or Media for job xx instance xx.The detail,you can see the attachment.

 

Somedays ago(for one year),every job was right to backup,I didn't know how to happen this problem.

Dose someone know the problem?

 

The NetVault Backup version:8.51, build number 16

Migrating from tape backups to removable storage

January 28, 2013, 12:31 am

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Hi

 

We have as of today about 20 clients and we are running Netvault 8.6.1. Our tape library is about to be replaced by removable storage. Today we run DataCopy to archive-tapes that we move out of the building once a month and once every year we store a set of tapes in a bank vault. That works great but since our tape library is an old LTO-3 we are planning to create the same scenario using removable storage instead of tapes.

 

I have some questions regarding this:

 

• Is it a good idea, do you know of any better way to solve the need for protecting the backups? We do have access to an offsite serverroom.
• I have found the "Backup Implementation Guide Removable Storage", but ius there any other guides that I might have missed?
• Can you recommend some hardware for the external drives? It is critical data that we need to store in a safe way.

 

We have volume based licensing so we access to basically all plugins for NetVault.

 

Thanks in advance!

NVBU 8.6.1 Failed to backup VM

August 26, 2012, 6:34 pm

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NVBU server  RedHat 5.7 x64

NVBU 8.6.1  netvault-R2011DEC09-JUNO-LinuxX86Hybrid.tar

ESXi 5.0

Plug-in  linux_ia32_x86-64_vmw-2-1-80-27-1516

I can backup normal files to Tape or virtual disk tape.When startup virtual machine backup, .the vm snapshot successed finished.

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Information 2012/08/24 05:11:25 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backup virtual machine 'is1352' uuid '420fa805-6949-9687-9a1e-3efcc6802a1d' Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:25 43  Data Plugin backupserver Initiating backup of VM 'is1352' uui d '420fa805-6949-9687-9a1e-3efcc6802a1d' Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:26 43  Data Plugin backupserver VM 'is1352' uuid '420fa805-6949-9687 -9a1e-3efcc6802a1d' is being managed by ESX server of build no '702118' Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:26 43  Data Plugin backupserver Guest within VM 'is1352' uuid '420fa 805-6949-9687-9a1e-3efcc6802a1d' will not be quiesced Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:26 43  Data Plugin backupserver Proceeding to snapshot the VM Information 2012/08/24 05:11:42 43  Data Plugin backupserver Retrieved VM configuration data succ essfully Information 2012/08/24 05:11:42 43  Data Plugin backupserver Retrieved information about VM files successfully Information 2012/08/24 05:11:42 43  Data Plugin backupserver Retrieved VM inventory data successf ully Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:42 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backing up VM configuration summary to media Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:42 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backing up .vmx file to media Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:43 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backing up nvram file to media Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:43 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backing up log files to media Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:46 43  Data Plugin backupserver Determining VM disk areas to backup Information 2012/08/24 05:11:46 43  Data Plugin backupserver All sectors on disk '[datastoreLUN10 ] is1352/is1352-000002.vmdk' will be backed up Information 2012/08/24 05:11:46 43  Data Plugin backupserver All sectors on disk '[datastoreLUN10 ] is1352/is1352_1-000002.vmdk' will be backed up Job Message 2012/08/24 05:11:46 43  Data Plugin backupserver Backing up data of VM disk '[datasto reLUN10] is1352/is1352-000002.vmdk' to media Error   2012/08/24 05:13:14 43  Data Plugin backupserver Failed to open virtual disk Error   2012/08/24 05:13:15 43  Data Plugin backupserver Failed to backup data of VM disk '[datastore LUN10] is1352/is1352-000002.vmdk' to media Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Data Plugin backupserver Failed to backup VM 'is1352' uuid '420fa805- 6949-9687-9a1e-3efcc6802a1d' Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Data Plugin backupserver Failed to backup selected VM(s) Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Jobs backupserver Fatal error: Backup failed Warning 2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Data Plugin backupserver Job completed with warnings/errors Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Jobs backupserver Job Status: Backup Failed Job Message 2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Jobs backupserver Finished job 43, phase 1 (instance 1) Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Media   backupserver backupserver SL_HU1220NG98 (HP Ultriu m 5-SCSI): had channel error Warning 2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Media   backupserver Data transfer to Mid 'backupserver 21 Aug 08:50-1' aborted Error   2012/08/24 05:13:18 43  Media   backupserver (backupserver: SL_LTDE65307954_LL0 (F SC FibreCAT TX08)) Drive 'DRIVE 1:backupserver' has completed its transfer

Error message when adding client - "Client is not responding. NetVault must be active before the client may be added."

October 12, 2012, 12:45 am

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hi,

 

I'm having problem when trying to add client. I've refer to this link https://support.quest.com/SolutionDetail.aspx?id=SOL78930&category=Solutions&SKB=1&product=NetVault%20Backup

 

and go through all the steps.

 

- the server and client can ping each other

- both server and client can telnet to each other

- firewall has been disable

- both forward and reverse lookup are working for server and client

 

but i'm still unable to add client to my netvault server

Smartdisk Netvault capacity edition - how to determine front end capacity

August 12, 2013, 1:45 pm

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It is possible to view used frond end smartdisk capacity in Netvault licensed as capacity edition?

Newbie - simple question about Netvault client/backup

August 8, 2012, 3:04 pm

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Hello,

 

I've got a linux server running Netvault 8.2.2

I've installed the client on a  linux box.

 

When I click on the client from the server, it says:" No plugins available on client"

 

Basically there is a large amount of data on the client that I want to back up, and I want to schedule regular incremental and full backups. @500GB of data reside on the client.

 

It seems to me that the next step would be to install something like a Unix File system plugin, and then I should be able to back up my files. I don't have a support contract with Netvault, so I'm hoping they'll give me access to the plugin.

 

I've taken a good look at the Getting Started Guide and the Administrators guide but it's not entirely clear to me if this is all that needs to be done. Before I call Quest, am I missing anything? Should I ask for some other plugins?

 

Thanks,

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NetVault Schedule set lost

October 4, 2012, 4:12 am

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Hello

 

I am a newbee here, but have some troubles with NetVault 8.53.

 

some backup jobs died, because former schedule set lost - or relation link to it lost in backup job...

 

so I tried to create the schedule set with same name, but I got a error similar to "save not possible - set already exists " but the set would not shown

in set-selection for choosing in backup job...

 

maybee NetVault database is korrupt? - how to check / solve this??

recover fix database - how could this be done?

 

every hint is welcome

 

thank you

Josh

Failed to mount the VM volumes

December 18, 2012, 5:07 am

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Hi. I have NVBU server on phisical platform. Also, I have vmware 2.2 plugin. I can't backup any VM, when I check VM and click to mount it, I saw in vSphere, that plugin makes snapshot and then snapshot deleting. After that I have next errors:

• Failed to mount the VM volumes
• Failed to open the VM disk set

Transport mode is ndb.

Two logs attached

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Hello,

 

I'm having a problem with our system when Netvault attempts to backup a client using the netvault 'datachannel'  (not using NFS,  CIFS or local drives).    Within a few seconds of a client job starting the network goes away for the entire machine.    The link indicates it is up/up,  but all network sessions drop,  no new ones can be established untill you ifdown/up the interface.   I can run backups all day long over NFS or CIFS (via UNC paths) without any network related issues.

 

I can reproduce this issue fairly consistantly,  8/10 times,  some times it fails in under a minute,  other times it may run for an hour or so then fail.    just create a job which is going to use netvaults internal method to transfer data over the network,  then run that job.  within 30 seconds we lose connectivity to the backup server.  dmesg output indicates nothing nor are there any logs created under /var/log indicating what the problem might be.  compairing the kernel log output pre and post show no differences.   The network switch which this machine is plugged into doesn't indicate any issues either.    no errors on the interface,  and as far as the switch is concerned it belives the host interface to be up/up as well.

 

we are using Intel 82599EB 10 gig adapter,  debian 6 linux with kernel 2.6.32-5 amd,  netvault 9.   The clients which cause this issue are windows clients (windows 7/8 and windows server 2008r2 / 2012).  

 

does this sound like a familar issue?  I went threw the read me and the version of debian we are using is supported,  and I was unable to find and documents referencing the intel 10 gig card..

 

These jobs are no larger or smaller than the ones we do over NFS/CIFS,  clients can be 1 gig or 10 gig,  behaviour remians the same.

 

 

I did a packet capture but it doesn't seem to indicate anything of use,  all of a suddent the flow stops,  no tear down.  I can provide if intrested. 

 

 

 

 

below is some info in case it helps.

 

netvault version 9,  but the same problem existed on 8.x.

I tried another distro wtih an older kernel (2.6.27 i think it was),  same result.   

 

I have downloaded,  built and installed the newest driver intel has for this card without change as well.

 

 

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 38

        Memory at df300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]

        I/O ports at ecc0 [size=32]

        Memory at df2f8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

        Expansion ROM at df200000 [disabled] [size=512K]

        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+

        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=64 Masked-

        Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

        Capabilities: [e0] Vital Product Data

        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting

        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1b-21-ff-ff-a3-e4-90

        Capabilities: [150] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)

        Capabilities: [160] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe

 

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sysctl edits:

 

kernel.shmmax=134217728

kernel.shmall=134217728

 

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from dmesg:

 

ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 2.0.44-k2

ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Intel Corporation.

ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 38 (level, low) -> IRQ 38

ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: irq 64 for MSI/MSI-X

ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: irq 65 for MSI/MSI-X

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ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: irq 97 for MSI/MSI-X

ixgbe: 0000:03:00.1: ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme: Multiqueue Enabled: Rx Queue count = 8, Tx Queue count = 8

ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: (PCI Express:5.0Gb/s:Width x8) 00:1b:21:a3:e4:91

ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: MAC: 2, PHY: 0, PBA No: fafa0e-090

ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit Network Connection

st: Version 20081215, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256

ixgbe: eth0 NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: None

 

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snipet from netvault log of failed job:

 

Job Message     2013/03/25 15:43:20     63 Media   backup01        (backup01: SL_ADICA0C0081225_LLA (ADIC Scalar i500)) Media in 'DRIVE 1:backup01' assigned to job ready for data transfer

Information     2013/03/25 15:43:20     63 Media   backup01        Using network socket for data transfer

Background      2013/03/25 15:43:20     63 Media   backup01        Sent Plugin space left estimate of 1447535 Mb

Information     2013/03/25 15:43:24     0 Media   backup01        (backup01: SL_ADICA0C0081225_LLA (ADIC Scalar i500)) Added valid terminator to 'backup01 25 Mar 14:53-1' <BoltsBlipArchive1> in DRIVE 2:backup01 successfully

Background      2013/03/25 15:43:25     63 Data Plugin     DF001   Data channel requested connection to 'backup01.toonboxent.com' (10.101.1.5)

Background      2013/03/25 15:43:25     63 Data Plugin     DF001   Data channel connected to 'backup01.toonboxent.com' (10.101.1.5)

Background      2013/03/25 15:43:25     63 Data Plugin     DF001   Data channel connected from '10.101.2.5' (10.101.2.5)

Background      2013/03/25 15:44:13     -1 System  backup01        NetVault Backup running on 'DF001' has not responded to messages

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:13     63 Jobs    backup01        Process running on 'DF001' has exited unexpectedly

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:13     63 Jobs    backup01        Setting exit status to failed (2)

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:13     63 Jobs    backup01        Job Status: Backup Failed

Job Message     2013/03/25 15:44:13     63 Jobs    backup01        Finished job 63, phase 1 (instance 4)

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:15     63 Media   backup01        backup01 SL_F0A1E95000 (IBM ULTRIUM-TD5): had channel error

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:15     63 Media   backup01        Plugin has gone down

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:15     63 Media   backup01        backup01 SL_F0A1E95000 (IBM ULTRIUM-TD5): had transfer aborted

Warning 2013/03/25 15:44:15     63      Media backup01        Data transfer to Mid 'backup01 25 Mar 15:43-1' aborted

Error   2013/03/25 15:44:15     63 Media   backup01        (backup01: SL_ADICA0C0081225_LLA (ADIC Scalar i500)) Drive 'DRIVE 1:backup01' has completed its transfer

 

 

 

 

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April 29, 2013, 11:33 pm

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Hi Expert,

 

Does NetVault support Oracle SL150 and LTO6 via Linux environment?

 

Thanks.

Does anyone have more insight or a list of setting for creating custom reports???

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I am interested in creating some more custom reports, but need some guidance.

Can someone point me to a list of Field Values and their proper operands and values?

 

For instance, I figured out (by looking at another report) that “Date Written (Date) operand of <= could be a value of  “ now-14DA”

But how can I figure out what operands are available and what values can be used?  The possible values are really what is confusing.

 

There seems to be no list anywhere and the Admin guide has general settings but no specifics as to values.