Recent Discussions
NBU security questions
Hello, We have a question, if any expert can give us their opinion: Is there any advantage to using an ECA (external certified authority) or NBCA (NetBackup Certified authority), are both methods safe? Pros and cons? And the second issue about encryption, if we have a Flex Appliances, where we can enable encryption at the WORM Storage Server level, is there any need to manage the encryption keys with a KMS, or with an external KMS? at this point we are a little confused In short, we do not know if the most practical thing is to let NBU automatically manage the certificates (NBCA) and at the data at rest encryption level in the same way. Because if the encryption keys are lost or are not managed correctly, then the data is unrecoverable. Thanks for your comments. Greetings
NBInstallAnswer file CLIENT silent install
Hello everyone, I'm attempting to perform a silent installation on some client machines. My ultimate goal is to automate the procedure, but I'm encountering some issues. Even after correctly populating the /tmp/NBInstallAnswer.conf file, I'm still being interactively prompted to confirm if I want to proceed with the installation, and subsequently asked to enter the Primary Server information, etc. I'm certain that the NBInstallAnswer.conf file is being read correctly because the ACCEPT_EULA parameter is processed properly. (I've included a screenshot where I explain that I added the "Proceed to install" message in the source code to verify it's being read.) Here my NBInstallAnswer.conf Additionally, I tried performing a push installation from the Primary Server to the same client using the same answer file, and the installation proceeded without requiring interaction (after exchanging keys with the Primary Server) and completed successfully. Has anyone experienced the same issues or found a solution? Thank you all.AIR replication – restart of the replication job, deduplication
Hello I have a job that does not complete successfully in the normal replication time window and is aborted due to the time window. Does the replication job start again from 0 or is the data retained on the target system longer so that data that has already been transferred does not have to be sent again? thanks
NetBackup REST API - How do I do a Restore / Recover?
I'm using NetBackup 10.2 and inthe UI I typically go to Backup, Archive, and Restore, click on the Restore Files TAB and set my start and end date appropriately and then I can Restore files from a recent backup. I've recently started experimenting with the REST endpoint/admin/manual-backupto do a Backup but I can't find the REST API to Restore/Recover the backup. Is there an REST equivalent to the Restore that I typically use in the UI?MSDP 2 MSDP duplication
I am participating in a project where I have to free up a MSDP storage server (running on NBA 5350). Backup images which are stored on this MSDP are duplicated (optimized duplication) to other NBA, within the same NBU domain, this time 5240. Both appliances are running 5.3.0.1 SP1 MR2, and have the same patch installed: NBAPP_EEB_ET4145974-5.3.0.1-6.x86_64. After initially seeding this target appliance 5240 with few days of backups, I cut over the backups directed to 5350 and repointed these to 5240 - played around with the SLPs. The problem that was faced is that source MSDP on 5350 was occupied ca. 120 TB. Now after a week after backups are cut off and not having all backup images being duplicated to target 5240 MSDP, that target pool is occupied in 174 TB. We are running out of disk space on target MSDP, no one knows why we see such an increase in the disk occupancy. IMHO target MSDP should not occupy more than - let's say - 130 TB. Do you have any idea as to why we see such discrepancy from our anticipation and real world?
NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Hi latest netbackup virtual appliance is 5.1.1 and latest netbackup appliance is 5.3 any news for virtual appliance? can I install netbackup appliance on vmware? I tried netbackup virtual appliance and wen I tried upgrade online it was unsuccessful 2024-09-14T02:58:24.457+00:00 [281199] [Error] Error reading content from https://sort.veritas.com/public/appliance/nba/patches/196604 : 500 Can't connect to sort.veritas.com:443 (certificate verify failed) 2024-09-14T02:58:24.474+00:00 [281199] [Error] Failed to access the Veritas Support website. Check your network connections and try downloading the software update again. 2024-09-14T02:58:43.902+00:00 [281884] [Info] cmd=/bin/rpm -q -a 2024-09-14T02:58:43.928+00:00 [281884] [Info] There are no EEBs installed. 2024-09-14T03:02:23.096+00:00 [288397] [Error] Error reading content from https://sort.veritas.com/public/appliance/nba/patches/196604 : 500 Can't connect to sort.veritas.com:443 (certificate verify failed) 2024-09-14T03:02:23.113+00:00 [288397] [Error] Failed to access the Veritas Support website. Check your network connections and try downloading the software update again. 2024-09-14T03:09:13.928+00:00 [298178] [Info] cmd=/bin/rpm -q -a 2024-09-14T03:09:13.944+00:00 [298178] [Info] There are no AddOns installed. 2024-09-14T03:09:29.328+00:00 [298644] [Error] Error reading content from https://sort.veritas.com/public/appliance/nba/patches/auraIndex : 500 Can't connect to sort.veritas.com:443 (certificate verify failed) 2024-09-14T03:09:29.346+00:00 [298644] [Error] Failed to access the Veritas Support website. Check your network connections and try downloading the software update again. 2024-09-14T03:09:50.985+00:00 [299173] [Info] cmd=/bin/rpm -q -a 2024-09-14T03:10:12.689+00:00 [299875] [Info] cmd=/bin/rpm -q -a 2024-09-14T03:10:12.708+00:00 [299875] [Info] There are no EEBs installed. 2024-09-14T03:19:25.642+00:00 [313293] [Info] There are no available software updates downloaded. it seems to need install MR3 or later to solve it, but I haven't access to it. any other solution?Control number of VM backups running concurrently
We have been using the "Resource Limits" feature to control the number of VM backups which run concurrently for years. The backup host (media server) is a Windows 2016 server/NetBackup 10.4. Over time the free space on C:\ has gone down due to Windows updates. This is causing some backups to fail when free space on the media server goes down to less than 1GB at a certain time during the night. From investigation, I discovered that the backup policies which backup VMs on a particular cluster are respecting the resource limits. But there are a 3 policies where we backup some VMs which are exceptions, e.g. once a week full backup only, or backup OS disk only, etc. The fact that non-cluster VM backup policies may have VMs on any host or datastore, causes a lot of backup jobs to start simultaneously. This causes sudden usage of disk space on the media server. I have tried to use the "Jobs per policy" to control the number of concurrent backups but it does not seem to have affect. Has anyone tried that? Any other way of doing this? I set Jobs per policy = 21 (1 parent job, 10 snapshot and 10 backup jobs); but I still saw 24 backup jobs start for that policy between 6:30:18 - 6:31:03 (45 seconds).restoring file from linux source to windows target; is possible?
Hi people: We are using NBU 10.x on windows 2022 media/master server (both roles same server). Have a mix of windows and linux clients. We need to restore a file from /wrk/app/app-baks.tar to a windows server on e:\wrk\app. My co-worker running this restore tells me that NBU GUI is telling that restore path is invalid. Tried e:/wrk/app but don't work. And seems that isn't supported. Any idea to accomplish this task ? Maybe UNC or and NFS on the same server? Hope to being clear.
