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Cumulative Incremental Netbackup
Good morning, I am currently experiencing a backup problem on our file server. This is a multi TB server. FULL backup takes around 30 hours to back up (it takes place on weekends) We have implemented the cumulative incremental backup week. Some weeks, the backup will be completed in 1 hour or 2 hours Other weeks it will take 14 - 15 hours to complete. There aren't as many files modified to save for that long a week. I've heard of backups based on the archive bit. Can you tell me if in my case it is better to deactivate it? Thank you in advance for your feedback. We are currently in Netbackup 10.3.0.1, and my file server is in Windows 2012 R2adminsrs6 minutes agoLevel 264Views0likes3CommentsWhere's my Gigabytes?
I've got a duplication running (manual "bpduplicate" with a "-Bidfile") that seems to be moving about 50G every 10 minutes or so (just an "eyeball average"). This is definitely not reflected in the GB/sec counter at the bottom of the job detail screen. Even if I acknowledge that it's not frequently updated or even updated only in between images in the list of images supplied to bpduplicate, I seem to be missing a lot of gigabytes. Anybody know where my GB are? screen snap attached. -MarkMark_Donaldson20 minutes agoLevel 31View0likes0CommentsHow to add a Oracle RAC instance with #nboracmd to 10.4
Hi, we use Netbackup 10.1.1 with OIP in our production and manage our Oracle assets with #nboraadm. - Everything works fine! In our Test environment we use Netbackup 10.4.0.1 and everything has changed :-( The CLI commend #nboraadm was replaced with #nboracmd and this command is not so powerful! With the command "#nboracmd modify database" i'm able to register the Database, but it is not possible to add a new Instance to the Database. Has somebody the same issue and can provide a solution? I'm sure over the API it will work, but i don't use API scripts.38Views0likes2CommentsOrace RAC credentials validation is failing
Hi, Customer has oracle RAC (12CR2) on top of windows 2016 (two nodes) which is compatible in netbackup CL. communication is working fine and confirmed that port 1556 is enabled between client and master and media and vice verse. (bptestbpcd and bpnetconn are successful). webUI discovery is able to discover the databases but when we are using the credential validation we are facing below error the same account (oracle sys) is working fine locally on instances (so it is not locked out nor has permission issue as it is DBA ). anything I am missing in this scenario?Solvedkiyan2 days agoLevel 627Views0likes1Comment- 116Views0likes2Comments
Installing a New Media Server and Transferring the Media Server Role
Dear NetBackup experts, Through this thread, I would like to document the installation of a new media server into an existing NetBackup infrastructure. In this case, the Master server, which currently also functions as a media server, will remain in the infrastructure, but a new media server is going to be added to take over the media server role. Below is the procedure for installing media server software on a Linux server: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/27801100-155313967-0/id-SF890399007-155313967#v13834504 Could you recommend any additional articles or guides that describe how to transfer the media server role from the existing Master server to the new media server?SolvedJimmyB24 days agoLevel 474Views0likes4CommentsNetBackup for VMware: Exclude deleted blocks
The NetBackup 10.1 admin guide [1] says about the "Exclude deleted blocks" VMware optimizations: Reduces the size of the backup image by excluding any unused or deleted blocks within the file system on the virtual machine. This option supports the following file systems: Windows NTFS, and Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4. This option uses proprietary mapping technology to identify vacant sectors (allocated but empty) within the file system. Currently all our RHEL based virtual machines are using XFS filesystem, which is the default by Red Hat. Is this feature likely to come for XFS or is it worth to change our templates to use ext4 filesystem instead? [1]https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/21902280-158271263-0/v62458922-158271263SolvedAdN4 days agoLevel 4661Views0likes3Commentsnew esxiis not viewable when browsing from Netbackup console
recently , i faced problem to get the new esx server backup via the flashbackup -windows policy . Because im unable to browse the new esx host from the client selection list. I have checked that the C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\online_util\fi_cntl vc.host.xml didnt show the new esx host name. But from the GUI , im unable to view it . I have also cleared the all files on the fi_cntl and restart the netbackup service on the vmware backup host. But still the same . Is there any method to force a update . bpclntcmd -clearhostcache?Solved1.7KViews0likes11CommentsHow to add NAS share as storage for duplication jobs?
Hi experts, I would appreciate, if someone could share some tips how to solve this task: We have Netbackup master/media and separate Netbackup mediaserver for duplication jobs. We want to decommission the media server and replace it temporary with NAS share. We can mount the share to master server(RedHat), but not sure about next steps. How to add this share to Netbackup config and add it to SLP as an alternate backup location? I was looking at universal share https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/150157642-154787255-0/v141680925-154787255 Is this the right direction? Netbackup 10.1.1 Redhat8 Best Regards, JPSolvedJP810 days agoLevel 364Views0likes4Comments