DPcfgCreator – An additional tool for Data Protector!!! This time written by Stephan Voss, he wanted to ease the modification of the Data Protector config files. For more details please refer to his site at http://hpux.de/?s=dpcfgcreator.
Current Patches DP 6.21
If you own a valid support contract you can download the patches from http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/patches, for login you need the HP Passport account.
Older messages for the patches will be moved to the end of this article.
Update 2012/06/22: HP released on 2012/06/07 and 2012/06/22 new patches for DP 6.21; the patch bundle DPXXXBDL_00621 is a requirement to install the new patches. As always keep in mind to follow the right installation order and to read the description for the patches.
- Windows
- DPWIN_00564 – SharepointGRE patch
- DPWIN_00573 – Oracle patch
- DPWIN_00581 – CORE patch
- DPWIN_00577 – Disk Agent patch
- DPWIN_00578 – Media Agent patch
- DPWIN_00579 – VE Agent Patch
- DPWIN_00580 – VMWARE GRE patch
- DPWIN_00575 – Cell Server patch
- DPWIN_00576 – Cell Console patch
- DPWIN_00563 – Documentation patch
- DPWINBDL_00621 – Data Protector 6.21
- HP-UX (Itanium/PA-Risc)
- PHSS_42998 – Core patch
- PHSS_42999 – Oracle patch
- PHSS_42773 – Documentation patch
- PHSS_42857 – Cell Server patch
- PHSS_42858 – Cell Console patch
- PHSS_42860 – Media Agent patch
- PHSS_42859 – Disk Agent patch
- PHSS_42855 – VE Agent patch
- DPUXBDL_00621 – Data Protector 6.21
- Linux
- DPLNX_00200 – CORE patch
- DPLNX_00201 – Oracle patch
- DPLNX_00193 – Documentation patch
- DPLNX_00196 – Cell Server patch
- DPLNX_00197 – Cell Console patch
- DPLNX_00198 – Disk Agent patch
- DPLNX_00199 – Media Agent patch
- DPLNX_00194 – VE Agent patch
- DPLNXBDL_00621 – Data Protector 6.21
- Solaris
- DPSOL_00494 – CORE patch
- DPSOL_00495 – Oracle patch
- DPSOL_00487 – Documentation patch
- DPSOL_00490 – Cell Server patch
- DPSOL_00491 – Cell Console patch
- DPSOL_00492 – Disk Agent patch
- DPSOL_00493 – Media Agent patch
- DPSOL_00488 – VE Agent patch
- DPSOLBDL_00621 – Data Protector 6.21
Update 2012/05/16: HP released on 2012/05/03, 2012/05/10 and 2012/05/16 new patches for DP 6.21; the patch bundle DPXXXBDL_00621 is a requirement to install the new patches. As always keep in mind to follow the right installation order and to read the description for the patches.
Update 2012/03/22: The patche bundle DP621 with time stamp from 2012/02/24 is not a new release; only the timestamp was changed. Sorry for the confusion, thanks to support bringing light into the dark. However, you need to install the known hotfixes after installing the patch bundle DP 6.21. The multipathing problem is fixed with SSPNT620_008.
Update 2012/02/24: The patche bundle for DP 6.21 was rereleased in a new version, the solved problems can be found within the patch description.
Backup Exec no longer for the Enterprise
Briefly: Symantec published an article and set some components for Backup Exec 2012 end of life; meaning (from my point of view) that Symantec is no longer able to provide Backup & Recovery solutions for the enterprise. For the medium-sized businesses I would have doubts to use BE, especially when SAP is running. Following a short summary how the support for some components look like.
Update: Got a very interesting article regarding BE 2012 and unsatisfied customers – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/28/backup_exec_2012_users/.
The items below are a short summary only, options in Data Protector as GRE, Zero Downtime Backup, Instant Recovery, StoreOnce, etc. are not covered here. For additional details please refer to the data sheets for DP and BE.
All the details from the Symantec announcement can be read here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178552
Agent for filesystem backups using BE 2012: Agent for Windows and Linux are available. Agents for NetWare, Solaris or any other Unix system are EOL.
Agent for filesystem backups using DP: Agents available for Windows (w/o W2K), Novell NetWare/OES, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux Red Hat/SUSE/Debian, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, SCO OpenServer, SCO Unixware, HP Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, MacOS. Additional operating systems are supported via: NFS/shared disk, CIFS, NDMP NAS filer.
Integration agents in BE 2012: agents available for MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS SharePoint, VMware, Hyper-V and Oracle. SAP and DB2 are set to EOL
Integration agents in DP: Agents available for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MS SQL Server, MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS ScharePoint, SAP, SAP DB/MaxDB, Baan IV, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Solid Database, DB2. Full virtual platform integration with VMware vSphere, ESXi and ESXI server using vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) and VMware Consolidated Backup VM-level support for Citrix XenServer, HP Integrity Virtual Machine, MS Virtual Server, MS Windows 2008 Hyper-V Backup device servers.
Advisory DP621 Patches
During the installation of the latest DP 6.21 patches you may receive following error: WARNING: Before installing this patch, you must install the DPWINBDL_00621 patch. Cause: the included install.bat assumes that you installed DP into c:\program files\omniback.
Update: 2012/06/01
A Non-Critical Patch Warning has been issued for DPWIN_00571:
DPWIN_00571 – windows xp OV DP6.20 Windows – Media Agent patch
The following information has been added to the patch documentation for DPWIN_00571:
Warn: 12/05/25 – This Non-Critical Warning has been issued by HP.
– DPWIN_00571 may fail to install when Data Protector v6.2 is installed in a non-default location that does not contain a space character in its path. The installation will fail with the following message even if patch DPWINBDL_00621 is installed: “WARNING: Before installing this patch, you must install the DPWINBDL_00621 patch.”
– Additional details on this behavior may be found in Change Request QCCR2A3822.
– To work around this behavior the following steps should be taken:
1. Extract DPWIN_00571.exe to a temporary folder (using 7-zip/WinRAR or similar tool)
2. From the extracted files, modify lines 4 through 8 of the Install.bat script as follows:
From:
FOR /F “tokens=1,2” %%i in (%temp%\DP_Path.txt) do (
SET DP_PATH=%%i %%j
)
if exist “%DP_PATH%\b621_patch” (
To:
set /p DP_PATH=< "%temp%\DP_Path.txt
if exist "%DP_PATH%\*b621_patch" (
3. Execute Install.bat
- This behavior will be corrected in superseding patch DPWIN_00578 which is expected to be available by the end of June 2012.
DP 7.0 – omnirc – connection abort
With Data Protector 7.0 you may receive the error below during backup. The error has been verified in a case. As a solution you may add OB2INETTIMEOUT=10 to the omnirc file on all involved clients.
Thanks to Dennis Lorentsen, he sent the information.
Error:
[Major] From: BSM@cellmanager.local “test_1″ Time: 01-05-2012 14:15:07
[61:3003] Lost connection to VBDA named “server1.local [/CONFIGURATION]” on host server1.local.
Ipc subsystem reports: “IPC Read Error"
System error: [10053] Software caused connection abort