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the certificate revocation list could not be downloaded
hi allSo I used NetBackup approx. a month ago, logged in without issue (it's been in the same environment for years). I've tried to login to the console this morning but it errors with..Status Code: 552The Certificate Revocation List could not be do...
Resolved! External backup to portable hard disk to keep offsite
Hello, I am designing a new NetBackup (fairly small) architecture with 2 media servers in two rooms on the same site. I would like to keep an external copy of at least some of the backups in a fire resistant safe every few months for a complete DR ...
Resolved! VM optimization 0%
One of our machines in one of our VM policies always says 0.0% optimization. We have many other machines in the same policy that have no issue with optimization rates ranging from 99% to 65%. This one machine takes a long time to backup because it ...
VM does not seem to use accelerator
One of our machines in one of our VM policies always says 0.0% optimization. We have many other machines in the same policy that have no issue with optimization rates ranging from 99% to 65%. This one machine takes a long time to backup because it ...
NETBACKUP COPIES are not showing in the JAVA or WEB console
Some years ago (Jan/23/2023 we create a backup and copy1 was created to disk with short of retention and copy2 was created to tape with long retention. Actually the copy2 is the primary copy.Now we created from the copy2 a new copy to ADVANCED DISK ...
Resolved! Deduplication - impacts of data the is already compressed, encrypted or large numbers of tiny files.
Is this still a significant problem? Had a quick look at the doco on deduplication and there is no mention of if.In the past vendors including Veritas/Symantec warned that data that is already compressed and/or encrypted would result in poor dedupli...
PureDisk disk volume constantly going DOWN
Hello,I have a PureDisk disk volume on Hitachi HCP for Cloud S3 appliance.Suddenly the disk volume went down. I changed its status to UP:nbdevconfig -changestate -stype PureDisk -dp disk_pool_name -dv volume_name -state UPHowever when NetBackup trie...
500 SQL instance best practice to improve backup time
Hello we have 500 SQL instances that we are running more than 20 hours.We want to shorten the backup time for this SQL backup but not sure how we can improve it. I saw some technote that we will increase the BATCHSIZE however is there any bad effect ...
Post Backup Image Cleanup
Hello,Please support me on the following topic.We need to run a command (bpimage -cleanup -allclients) when finishing a specific backup. It is possible to perform this configuration using the scripts that are under /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodiesIf ...
Support for OST in a Windows Primary Server
Can a Windows Primary Server use directly an OST Storage Server? A Media Server is not required nor recommended for that purpose? I'm asking because I learned the hard way that MSDP is not supported in a Primary Server when it's Windows (https://www....
Hard Disk Amber light
Hi all, We had been having failed backup jobs every alternate date. We tried to reboot the NBU media server.Today, we checked that all our 12 hard disks are showing amber light. Is this some hardware failure? In the master server, we can see these er...
bprestore
good morning;I need to automate the recovery of several Nutanix mvs. My master server is at version 10.1.1. I would be grateful if you could guide me as to which way would be correct. Thank you so much
Netbackup Oracle Intelligent Policy Windows client hang
Hi,i have a backup Oracle on windows client configured with intelligent policy and for few time it's ok. Now the backup write but after some hour it remain in writing status and not fail.Please someone had same problem?Thanks & Regards,
Media Server in Offline status
HiI have a problem with our MediaServer, that shows Offline(instead of Active for Disk).We have two media servers, one with master server and the other one(MediaServer2) was added later.Everything was good while the Master and new MediaServer were in...
Upgrade from 9.1 to 9.1.0.1 - software admins no longer get catalog backup DR emails
Upgrade from 9.1 to 9.1.0.1 - software admins no longer get catalog backup DR emails This has already been read and complies with what is on the appliance.NetBackup Catalog Backup fails to send the notification e-mail when using "mail_dr_info.sh" (ve...
Resolved! Oracle redirected restore: bug from Netbackup version 8.3 still affecting version 10?
Hi folks.I'm not a Netbackup admin/engineer but a member of the database team trying to understand the issue.Platform and setup:Netbackup ver. 10Oracle 19c, RAC with Dataguard.Netbackup-managed backup. Multiple databases in RACBackground:We are attem...
Why can't Veritas do well in products like CDP?
Why can't Veritas do well in products like CDP? Is there any employee inside Veritas who can answer this question?
2106: disk storage server is down and 2074 EMM status: Disk volume is down.
We are using Netbackup 9.1.0.1 and NBU model 5240. We have 2 errors that appear under the Master Server (reports > problems) First error that appeared: PureDiskVolume is marked down. Storage server {rtmo}Second error: NBU Status: 2074 EMM status: Dis...
Resolved! Email notification
Hi All. Please tell me if I can set up email notifications for different people?. For example Policy1 - email1 Policy2 - email2 Policy3 - email3
Batch file doesn't run as i scheduled on Admin Console
Hi, i'm trying to schedule Postgresql backup with batch file for windows.When i run batch file manually in the client server, it runs successfully and default-Application-Backup job appears on activity monitor.But when i run a scheduled job on Admin ...
