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Extending db file
by Richard L. Rhodes 12 Feb '00

12 Feb '00

Ok, I'm stumpted! I've brought an Oracle db (7.3.4.3) up on a RS/6k(aix432)/Netapp(534r2) system. The mounts are using nfs v3 and udp. All has gone really well except when I went to extend the size of some of the db files. When I do this I get the following messages: SVRMGR> ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/oracledata/orac/dbfiles/orac_gis_1.dbf' RESIZE 1600M; ORA-01237: cannot extend datafile 10 ORA-01110: data file 10: '/oracledata/orac/dbfiles/orac_gis_1.dbf' ORA-09967: sfsfs: unable to resize a file larger The db runs correctly. Oracle has permissions to, and can, create/delete files in this directory. The netapp filesystem isn't out of space - I can (as oracle) create large files in this dir. Snapshots are not using the space. There's no AIX error message. There's no error message in the Netapp messages file. In general . . . . I'm stumpted! Does anyone have any idea of what might be causing this? I highly suspect user error (me) but right now I'm blind as to what I may be doing wrong. THanks Rick

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Quota Manager
by Michael Plett 11 Feb '00

11 Feb '00

Does anybody with a filer use the Microsoft product Quota Manager? If so please let me know we are trying to find out if this product works with a filer. Thanks ********************************************************************* Michael Plett Application Engineer Axis Technologies Office: 972/588-1874 16633 Dallas Parkway Fax: 972/588-1876 Suite 600 Email:maplett@axistec.com Dallas, TX 75248 USA http://www.axistec.com ********************************************************************* ___ _ _______ _ / _ \ __ __ (_) ___ |__ __| __ __ | |_ | |_| | \ \/ / | | ( __) | | / _) / _)| _ \ | _ | > < | | _ \ | | ( _)( |_ | | | | |_| |_| /_/\_\ |_| (___) |_| \__) \__)|_| |_|

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Quota Manager
by Michael Plett 11 Feb '00

11 Feb '00

I have the producer of the program wrong. Its Software Shelf International, Inc not Microsoft that make Quota Manager? ********************************************************************* Michael Plett Application Engineer Axis Technologies Office: 972/588-1874 16633 Dallas Parkway Fax: 972/588-1876 Suite 600 Email:maplett@axistec.com Dallas, TX 75248 USA http://www.axistec.com ********************************************************************* ___ _ _______ _ / _ \ __ __ (_) ___ |__ __| __ __ | |_ | |_| | \ \/ / | | ( __) | | / _) / _)| _ \ | _ | > < | | _ \ | | ( _)( |_ | | | | |_| |_| /_/\_\ |_| (___) |_| \__) \__)|_| |_|

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RMA reminder calls
by Jim Harm 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Has anyone else gotten just a little bit miffed at the frequency, speed, and pointlessness of the calls about NetApp RMAs? I get called in less than a week. shipped on 1-31, received on 2-1, reminder(actually more of a where is it, ya dead beat?) call on 2-2!, it is scheduled to be installed today and I don't want the broken box in office; it gets shipped when I have time. sometimes I'll get a call with a list of RMAs from the last 6 months and they expect me to respond with the whereabouts of every RMA when the fact is they have all been shipped back to NetApp. I have to schedule work to replace parts and it takes sometimes a week or more(usually less) and I don't want to have to deal with some extra middle man company to try to justify what I am doing with the RMA. And I feel guilty if I shine them on. }}}===============>> LLNL James E. Harm (Jim); jharm(a)llnl.gov (925) 422-4018 Page: 423-7705x57152

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New to Filers
by Andrew Webster 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

I have a couple of basic questions:- 1) I cannot see the ~SNAPSHOT directory at the root of each share. The directory is certainly there, but it doesn't appear in the list. I'm using NT 4, IE5, SP6 and the "Show all Hidden Files" turned on. The manual says I should see it, but it isn't there. Am I missing something? 2) When a create shares I sometimes get the "Device or Directory cannot be found" but the directory exists. Should I be using the C:\stuff name or c:\vol\vol0\stuff? Filer F760 Version: 5.3.4R2P2 Regards -- Andrew Webster Windows NT Consultant Sanno Move Project Deutsche Real Estate Consulting Ltd. - Tokyo Tel. +81-3-5408-4787 Fax. +81-3-5401-6998 Andrew-M.Webster(a)db.com

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RE: Backing up a filer
by Steve Kappel 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

>Do you know what the impact on the filer is? Does the "media server filer" need to have extra CPU capacity or disk capacity? I asked the following of Grant Melvin of Network Appliance: > >This is one thing we are considering: > >Another plan is to have a storagetek with NDMP media servers... say we have the L700 with 20 tape drives, with OnTap 5.3 I can have 5 filers driving those 20 tape drives (two tape adapters per filer, two drives per tape adapter). These are now my "NDMP" media servers. The backups would go across a dedicated GB network. > >So, with NBU 3.2 I can do the filer to filer backups through these filer media servers, right? Yes. A 3-way backup is automatic when you refer to a storage unit on a different NDMP host than the data host. >My question is: what impact is this operation on the filer -- both CPU/disk space needs, etc? What is the minimum filer I could use as these media servers -- little 720's with one shelf/minimal disk? or would this require a beefier filer? There isn't any disk space impact on the tape agent host (at least as far as I am aware). The NDMP server is just moving data from the network to the tape drive. Someone from NetApp would be a better source for what CPU resources would be needed. Note that even if NetBackup supported backup to NBU media servers you would still have the impact - its just moved from a filer to the NetBackup media server. __________________________________________________________________________ Steve Kappel steve.kappel(a)veritas.com VERITAS Software steve.kappel(a)iname.com (Personal)

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FW: Backing up a filer
by [ISS] Veritas-Users 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

-----Original Message----- From: Kelly Wyatt Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:35 PM To: 'Steve Kappel' Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backing up a filer Do you know what the impact on the filer is? Does the "media server filer" need to have extra CPU capacity or disk capacity? I asked the following of Grant Melvin of Network Appliance: This is one thing we are considering: Another plan is to have a storagetek with NDMP media servers... say we have the L700 with 20 tape drives, with OnTap 5.3 I can have 5 filers driving those 20 tape drives (two tape adapters per filer, two drives per tape adapter). These are now my "NDMP" media servers. The backups would go across a dedicated GB network. So, with NBU 3.2 I can do the filer to filer backups through these filer media servers, right? My question is: what impact is this operation on the filer -- both CPU/disk space needs, etc? What is the minimum filer I could use as these media servers -- little 720's with one shelf/minimal disk? or would this require a beefier filer? ------ Is anyone actually doing 3-way NDMP backups w/ NetBackup. We have been pleased with using NBU with NDMP and directly attached drives for our filers for about 18 months... but, we are about out of capacity in our two tape libraries. Most filers have two tape drives (which we prefer), so when we install the three filers we just received, we have hit our limit... and we have three more filers on order... So, we need to either get another tape library or come up with a solution that doesn't require an entire tape library for every 5 filers. Thanks for any input -- Kelly -- Kelly Wyatt, Kelly.Wyatt(a)SAS.com Systems Programmer Integrated Solutions Consulting SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Drive / Cary, NC 27513 http://www.sas.com

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RE: Backing up a filer
by Kelly Wyatt 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Do you know what the impact on the filer is? Does the "media server filer" need to have extra CPU capacity or disk capacity? I asked the following of Grant Melvin of Network Appliance: This is one thing we are considering: Another plan is to have a storagetek with NDMP media servers... say we have the L700 with 20 tape drives, with OnTap 5.3 I can have 5 filers driving those 20 tape drives (two tape adapters per filer, two drives per tape adapter). These are now my "NDMP" media servers. The backups would go across a dedicated GB network. So, with NBU 3.2 I can do the filer to filer backups through these filer media servers, right? My question is: what impact is this operation on the filer -- both CPU/disk space needs, etc? What is the minimum filer I could use as these media servers -- little 720's with one shelf/minimal disk? or would this require a beefier filer? ------ Is anyone actually doing 3-way NDMP backups w/ NetBackup. We have been pleased with using NBU with NDMP and directly attached drives for our filers for about 18 months... but, we are about out of capacity in our two tape libraries. Most filers have two tape drives (which we prefer), so when we install the three filers we just received, we have hit our limit... and we have three more filers on order... So, we need to either get another tape library or come up with a solution that doesn't require an entire tape library for every 5 filers. Thanks for any input -- Kelly -- Kelly Wyatt, Kelly.Wyatt(a)SAS.com Systems Programmer Integrated Solutions Consulting SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Drive / Cary, NC 27513 http://www.sas.com

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RE: Backing up a filer
by [ISS] Veritas-Users 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I understand that you can do NDMP dump across the network to a media server... it is even mentioned in technote 3066, section 4.3 (# 4 below): ---- The NDMP protocol specification allows the following backup configurations: 1. Local backup from a filer to a SCSI-attached tape device 2. Three-way backup from a filer via the network to another filer with a local tape device 3. Backup from a UNIX or Windows NT server via the network to a NetApp filer with a local tape device 4. Backup from a NetApp filer via the network to a UNIX or Windows NT backup server with a local tape device ---- We currently backup filers via dedicated directly attached tape drives (using Veritas NetBackup)... but, this is a costly solution because the tape drives are idle probably 75% of the time. We will be testing NDMP across a dedicated GB ethernet network in the near future. Even if we see some decrease in backup throughput, it will good if we can get those 20 dedicated DLT7000 tape drives in S'Tek 9710's doing more work for us... Is anyone already using a private network and NDMP to backup a filer? Kelly -- Kelly Wyatt, Kelly.Wyatt(a)SAS.com Systems Programmer Integrated Solutions Consulting SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Drive / Cary, NC 27513 http://www.sas.com -----Original Message----- From: Roth, William [mailto:William.Roth@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 11:21 AM To: 'gwong(a)futureshop.com' Cc: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Backing up a filer Greg, If you want to use NetBackup with NDMP to back up the filer, you need to have at least one direct attached tape drive connected to the filer(not considering a three way NDMP backup using two filers with a tape device direct connected to the remote filer). You can dedicate one or more drives from an existing library controlled by NetBackup, or you can attach a new/different library to the filer(yes, the filer does support a locally attached library). Either the NetBackup host (NDMP client) or the filer can be direct connected to the robotic portion of the library(assuming the library has individual scsi ports for the connection). In the end, NetBackup ends up controlling the library either way. If the robot is direct connected to the NetBackup host via scsi, NetBackup controls it. If the robot is connected to the filer via scsi, the NetBackup host sends scsi cdb's via NDMP to the robot through the filer, thus the robot is still controller by NetBackup. What other information or assistance do you require? Bill Roth Technical Marketing Engineer Network Appliance, Inc. 495 East Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Telephone 408-822-3308 -----Original Message----- From: Greg Wong [mailto:gwong@futureshop.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:45 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Backing up a filer Hi all, I'm kind of new to the this filer business and I have a question about backing it up. We have an F720 on site that isn't doing much since we aren't backing it up. I need some options on how to do this. We currently back up our other systems vith Veritas Netbackup and a tape library. Now, my question(s) is if I want to use Veritas to back up the filer using NDMP, do I have to dedicate a drive on the remote tape library to the filer? Will the filer support a locally attached library, and if it does, does Veritas control the library or does the filer? Thanks for your help Greg

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FC SAN Tape Solution for Filers
by Alvarado, Michael 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

http://www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20000202.html -----Original Message----- From: Mark D Fowle [mailto:Fowle_Mark_D@CAT.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:22 PM To: toasters Subject: Tape Drives Does anyone have Spectralogic 4000 (dat) with 4 drives, or Spectralogic 10000 (ait-2) with 2 drives or a Breece Hill (DLT 7000) with 2 drives .... attached to your filers ? Mark Fowle

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