Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Netbackup 7.0.1 and Encryption

Upgrade of the client to Netbackup7.0.1 breaks encryption, which makes the backups of that clients hang.
Here is the solution:
1. Locate and rename the file keyfile.dat (\Veritas\Netbackup\var\keyfile.dat)
2. Run bpkeyutil -client (from \Veritas\Netbackup\bin)
(Keyfile.dat gets re-created)

Friday, February 4, 2011

Scheduled Task as a Clustered Resource

1.- Modify the following
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent so that the tasks
folder location is pointed to the tasks subdirectory on the shared disk.

2.- Go into Cluster Administrator to create a new resource in one group and
choose Generic Service
3.- Possible owners and choose Next and for dependencies, add the Disk and
the Network Name
4.- Service Name: “Schedule”, Parameters: “%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs”; Root Registry Key: Software\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent