Interview with GlaxoSmithKline – a better quality of life

There have been mass news about GSK hiring new candidates for their IT center, recently launch in Merana Lien Hoe, Tropicana.

For those who dont know what GSK is, you can refer to it here : GlaxoSmithKline

Quoted from GSK website:

“GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s leaders in pharmaceutical research and development with a combination of skills and resources that provide a platform for delivering strong growth in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment

GSK’s mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.  Read more... (464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Moving old Netbackup master server to new master server

Recently, we have a customer who wants to move their master server from old master server to new master server, and also upgrading from 5.0 to 6.5, but for this post, I will only blog about moving servers, not upgrade yet since upgrade is not yet done, we still waiting for the downtime from customer.

The process looks simple, but before that, since there is 2 task involve in here, moving and upgrading, there are prerequisites that needs to be follow to make sure everything is clear on the way;  Read more... (726 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

Veritas Backup Reporter – issue with gathering media data

Hi,

It’s been almost 3 weeks since the last time I troubleshoot this issue. For now, VBR able to gather data for other components like image, jobs, policy and tape drive usage but not for media list. I googled around but cant find the exact solution for it.

VBR issued a command bpmedialist -l -M master when gathering media list from master server, with that command it will be able to gather the media list from master.

Inside the log file of Netbackup – admin -, I found this;  Read more... (731 words, 1 image, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

Netbackup for Oracle – Linking Netbackup database agent with Oracle database

It has been a while since I stucked with moving this site to new server in Canada. My old host, which is midPhase, is too slow in responding to tickets, I dont have to tell you about the bandwidths, you can already guess.

Recently, I have a call for help from a friend asking me on how to setup Netbackup for Oracle with Oracle 10g. Well let’s take a look on the setup first;

Master server running on SLES 10 32bit with Netbackup 6.5.3

Client running on HPUX 11.23 with Oracle 10g with Netbackup Client for Unix 6.5.3  Read more... (1304 words, estimated 5:13 mins reading time)

Building drive mapping / indexing on Netbackup with library not using ACSLS

If you take a look on my previous post, then you will know what actually going on. Right now all the drives configuration becomes haywire and we have to build it from scratch. Suppose to be, Sun Storagetek SL3000 operates on ACSLS, but due to wrong consultation by Sun sales consultant, they have configured the library to operates on SCSI interface which produce a lot of problems, especially when reconfiguration of drives occur (tpautoconf -a) or swapping the drive position.  Read more... (1707 words, estimated 6:50 mins reading time)

Happy Labour Day!

This Labour day, I celebrate it at Site, yeah, while even Bangladesh hanging around at The Curve yesterday, I was at Site troubleshooting drives problem.
Well, let’s take a look at the current setup first;

HP-UX 11.11
Netbackup 6.5 Enterprise Server – Master Server
Sun Storagetek SL3000 library with 22 drives and 400 slots  Read more... (747 words, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)

VBR – Veritas Backup Reporter

It’s been almost a month since installation completed, since I have to wait for customer to open up port 7806 for data collection between VBR Management Server and backup agent.

VBR stands for Veritas Backup Reporter, an advanced reporting system for backup application produced by Symantec, amazingly also support other products than Symantec, like Tivoli and EMC Legato, quite amazing isn’t it? It’s viewing method is similar to NOM, via web browser but with more advanced customizable reporting template.  Read more... (758 words, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

Installing Sun QF4 HBA on Solaris 9

I’ve just came back from a chat with friends at Kota Damansara, after going to the gym.

Still feel a bit dizzy due to not enough sleep, just 4 hours sleep to finish up this activity.

Printed below is the setup for this activity;

Sunfire v880 x 2 – Cluster

Solaris 9

SG-PCI2F-QF4 x 2

Netbackup 6.5

Before this, our sales people – again, made a mistake by ordering an HBA that is not supported for this kind of setup, always remember to check inside compatibility list, it maybe supported to run under Solaris 9 but it maybe not working with Netbackup or other backup application, for Netbackup case, we need to rebuild the sg drivers, that’s why.  Read more... (1286 words, estimated 5:09 mins reading time)

DB2 inside Windows x64 backup troubleshooting – Day 2

Again, today, I went onsite to troubleshoot the issue since customer SMS’ed me about the backup failure last night.

Well guys, one word from me, never trust your presales department, you will know why after this.

I went in and this time I prefer to go directly to the server rather than remote troubleshooting, this way I feel a bit more open to troubleshoot.

This time is for deep troubleshooting part.  Read more... (416 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

DB2 inside Windows x64 backup troubleshooting – Day 1

Stay tune guys, I’ll update this post once completed the job this morning

8:00pm

Alright, I’ve looked at the problem and seems like it is far more complicated.

First of all, let me print out the setup first;

Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Server

Netbackup 6.0MP6

Netbackup for DB2

DB2 v8.2 64bit

Originally, installation for this customer was done by me, and so far no problem with it, it’s kinda straight forward;

1. Install Netbackup v6.0  Read more... (633 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)