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How to Enable Security Events to be Sent to the System Logs Using the WebUI and CLI
Since data protection has merged with cyber security, it’s critical to know how to configure NetBackup to send its events to the syslog. This is done with the WebUI and CLI procedures below. These procedures have been used and tested at customer sites by our Sales Engineering staff. Once added to the system logs (syslog), these events become part of the security records of the server operating system records. They are then available for forwarding to other systems, security analysis/reporting, and troubleshooting. WebUI Procedures In the Security events window, click on the “Security events settings” in the top right of the window. The security events settings window appears. Mark the checkbox for “Send the audit events to the system logs” and then click on the box “Select audit event categories.” Select the categories of events desired and click “Save”. This updates the bp.conf file with the SYSLOG_AUDIT_CATEGORIES parameter. CLI Procedures Add the following line to the primary server bp.conf file. This activates the event forwarding feature: SYSLOG_AUDIT_CATEGORIES = [categories] The categories that you select will depend on what you want to be logged. For login and backup policy events, the minimum categories selected will be LOGIN, and POLICY. When selecting more than one category, there needs to be a comma between each category. For example: SYSLOG_AUDIT_CATEGORIES = LOGIN, POLICY Here is a list of all categories: ALL – All of the below categories are selected ALERT - Alert ANOMALY - Anomaly ANOMALY_EXTENSIONS – Anomaly extensions ANOMALY_EXTENSIONS_DETAILS – Anomaly extensions details ANOMALY_NEW – Anomaly new ANOMALY_RULES_RESULTS – Anomaly rules results JOB_STATUS – Job status ASSET - Asset AUDITCFG – Audit Configuration AUDITDB – Audit database AUDIT_LOG_FORWARD – Audit log forward AUDITSVC – Audit service AZFAILURE – Authorization failure PAUSED_CLIENTS – Paused Clients BMR – Bare Metal Restore BPCONF – bp.conf CATALOG – Catalog CERT – Certificate CONFIG – Config CONNECTION – Connection CREDENTIALS – Credentials CREDENTIAL_SCHEMA – Credential schema DATAACCESS – Data Access DISCOVERY – Discovery EVENT_AUDIT – Event audit EVENT_LOG – Event log ECMS – External CMS Server HOLD – Hold HOST – Host ASSETGROUP – Intelligent group IRE – Isolated Recovery Environment JOB – Job LICENSING – Licensing LOGIN – Login MALWARE_IMPACTED – Malware Impacted MALWARE_SCAN – Malware Scan – NBU v10.4 MALWARE_SCAN_CONFIGURATION – Malware Scan Configuration - NBU v10.4 MALWARE_SCAN_STATUS – Malware Scan Status MALWARE_SCAN_TRIGGER - Malware Scan Trigger POLICY – Policy POOL – Pool PROTECTION_PLAN_SVC – Protection plan RETENTION_LEVEL – Retention Level SEC_CONFIG – Security configuration SLP – Storage lifecycle policy STORAGESRV – Storage server STU – Storage unit TICKET – Ticket TOKEN – Token USER – User Here is an example of how NetBackup events will appear in the operating system logs after performing the procedures above:
Redirecting Restore to a Different Media Server
Hi, I would like to ask if it is possible to change the destination media server for my restore. When I perform a restore, the media server used was the same one that performed the original backup. I am planning to decommission all currently active media servers and use the Master Server as the Media Server as well. How can I change the ownership of the backup image or media to a different media server? Master server Information: NBU Version: 10.3.0.1 OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Thank you in advance.
Failure in restoring Oracle RAC 12.2 to an Oracle standalone instance
一、environmental information： production machine：2-node RAC using ASM storage, with backup pieces as follows: [root@449c65cd test]# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bplist -C peer1 -t 4 -b -l -R / -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 19922944 Jul 02 16:52 /c-4025591446-20250702-02 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 19922944 Jul 02 16:50 /cntrl_22_1_1205427004 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 19922944 Jul 02 16:49 /c-4025591446-20250702-01 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 262144 Jul 02 16:49 /al_20_1_1205426929 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 2883584 Jul 02 16:48 /al_19_1_1205426891 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 12582912 Jul 02 16:48 /al_18_1_1205426891 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 19922944 Jul 02 16:47 /c-4025591446-20250702-00 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 369098752 Jul 02 16:40 /bk_16_1_1205426033 -rw-rw---- oracleora oracledba 288358400 Jul 02 16:33 /bk_15_1_1205426033 二、question： Failed to restore to another standalone instance using /c-4025591446-xxxx Allocated channel: CH0 Channel CH0: SID=136 device type=SBT_TAPE Channel CH0: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 9.1 (2021052518) Command sent to channel: CH0 Starting restore at 2025-07-03 19:36:54 Channel CH0: restoring control file Released channel: CH0 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: restore command failed at 07/03/2025 19:52:00 ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece /c-4025591446-20250702-00 ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="/c-4025591446-20250702-00", parms="" ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error ORA-19511: Non-RMAN media manager error. Vendor-specific error text: Failed to open backup file for restore. RMAN> RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: sql statement command failed at 07/03/2025 19:52:00 ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for details
Replication from Datadomain to Netbackup appliances
Hello Team, We have two domain here, one domain is using Netbackup appliances and another domains are using Data domains. Source domain are using Datadomains and Destination domain are using Netbackup appliances. Is this possible to initiate the Replication from source domain to destination domain considering one using data domains and another using Netbackup appliances
Duplication of small images into MSDP-C takes longer time as usual
Hello, I have a serious performace issue with duplication of many images to an MSDP-C pool. NetBackup 10.5.0.1 is duplicating images to the MSDP-C pool at an on-premise S3. There are about 600 backup images created per hour. The duplication jobs cannot process this number at the same rate, although several dozen of them are running simultaneously. The problem is not in the volume of data - the vast majority of images are database log backups of tens of kB to several MB in size. The problem is that the duplication of even the smallest image takes several minutes. An example: duplicating one image of 670 kB took an incredible 14 minutes. I see large delays between individual actions in the job details. Please see details of the duplication of this image below. The media server's HW resources are under-loaded. As long as a small number of images were duplicated per hour, duplicating individual images took an average of 2 minutes - that was fine. What is the cause of the slowdown and how can I eliminate the cause? Thank you, Lubos Example of a duplication job details with long delays: 26. 6. 2025 10:02:53 - Info bpduplicate (pid=125788) The data-in-transit encryption (DTE) is disabled, as the global DTE mode is set to 'Preferred Off' 26. 6. 2025 10:02:53 - Info bpdm (pid=3633773) started 26. 6. 2025 10:02:53 - started process bpdm (pid=3633773) 26. 6. 2025 10:02:53 - requesting resource @aaaaw 26. 6. 2025 10:02:53 - granted resource MediaID=@aaaaw;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=Pool4;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=MediaServer1.x.y;MediaServer=MediaServer1.x.y 26. 6. 2025 10:02:54 - Info bpdm (pid=3633773) requesting nbjm for media 26. 6. 2025 10:03:37 - begin writing 26. 6. 2025 10:03:37- end writing; write time: 0:00:00 26. 6. 2025 10:06:08- begin writing 26. 6. 2025 10:06:08 - Info bpdm (pid=3633773) Waiting for storage server MediaServer1.x.y, disk volume PureDiskVolume 26. 6. 2025 10:07:08 - Info bpdm (pid=3633773) Transferred 688937 bytes, to storage server MediaServer1.x.y, disk volume PureDiskVolume 26. 6. 2025 10:08:08 - end writing; write time: 0:02:00 26. 6. 2025 10:08:44- Info MediaServer1.x.y (pid=3633773) StorageServer=PureDisk:MediaServer1.x.y; Report=PDDO Stats for (MediaServer1.x.y:PureDiskVolume): scanned: 672 KB, CR sent: 25 KB, CR sent over FC: 0 KB, dedup: 96.3%, cache disabled, where dedup space saving:0.0%, compression space saving:96.3%, new transferred data unencrypted 26. 6. 2025 10:17:08- Info bpdm (pid=3633773) EXITING with status 0
API call for nbstlutil
I am having problems with replications on multiple of our master servers. I manually execute "nbstlutil report" command to see if there are any incomplete SLP copies on backlog. Is there an API that will show the same kind of data for SLPs? I would like to automate the report. I am looking for the same info that nbstlutil report gives: SLP Name: (state), Number of copies, SizeUpgrading Netbackup hardware. We have money to spend - any advice?
Hi to all, We currently have 1 x NB 6.5.4 (Win2003) Master Server with a SCSI attached Dell TLD containing 6 x LTO3 tape drives. Additionally we have 1 further media server (Win2003) which we use for disk backups (occasionally as it is extremely slow!). We also have 1 x NOM (Win2003) server and 1 x NB PureDisk 6.5.1.2 (PDOS) server which has 2TB of local disk space. We have noticed that since we introduced multiple copy backups and all 6 Tape devices are in use, the NB platform slows to a halt. We are going to try and spread the load around a bit more. Our thinking is that we buy a media server for each of the 3 LAN's that have servers that we backup (SQL DB and File/Folder backups mainly). Each of these new media servers would either have a lot of local disk storage or would use DAS hardware. We are keen to get more out of our PureDisk software and are considering beefing that up and making it a clustered environment to an offsite device. Quite simply, I have been asked to provide a design document and I wanted to ask if anyone had any reccomendations on how they think we should invest? Our largest backups are around 2TB and these happen on a weekly basis. We also send tapes offsite on a weekly basis for the critical backups so we are not keen on disk-only solutions. We are happy to upgrade to NB7.0 too if this has any relevance with regards to our forthcoming hardware purchase. Any advice greatly appreciated..... Martin
status: 96: unable to allocate new media for backup
Hi, my backups are failing with the following error. Jun 11, 2025 5:01:02 PM - requesting resource LCM_HONETBKUPSRV-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:02 PM - granted resource LCM_HONETBKUPSRV-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:02 PM - started process RUNCMD (pid=1447098) Jun 11, 2025 5:01:02 PM - begin Duplicate Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpduplicate (pid=1447098) window close behavior: Suspend Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpduplicate (pid=1447098) The data-in-transit encryption (DTE) is enabled, as the DTE mode of the backup image is set to 'On' Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) start Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) Encrypting data-in-transit Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - started process bptm (pid=1447102) Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) start backup Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpdm (pid=1447106) started Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpdm (pid=1447106) Encrypting data-in-transit Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - started process bpdm (pid=1447106) Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpdm (pid=1447106) reading backup image Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpdm (pid=1447106) using 30 data buffers Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bpdm (pid=1447106) requesting nbjm for media Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) Waiting for mount of media id K686L6 (copy 2) on server HONETBKUPSRV. Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - started process bptm (pid=1447102) Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - mounting K686L6 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) INF - Waiting for mount of media id K686L6 on server HONETBKUPSRV for writing. Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - requesting resource HONETBKUPSRV-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - requesting resource @aaaad Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - reserving resource @aaaad Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - resource @aaaad reserved Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - granted resource K686L6 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - granted resource IBM.ULT3580-HH6.000 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - granted resource HONETBKUPSRV-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - granted resource MediaID=@aaaad;DiskVolume=honetbkup;DiskPool=DataDomian;Path=honetbkup;StorageServer=172.16.11.5;MediaServer=HONETBKUPSRV Jun 11, 2025 5:01:03 PM - ended process 0 (pid=1447098) Jun 11, 2025 5:01:05 PM - begin reading Jun 11, 2025 5:01:52 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) media id K686L6 mounted on drive index 0, drivepath /dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-fc-0x2002000e11167dfd-lun-0-nst, drivename IBM.ULT3580-HH6.000, copy 2 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:52 PM - Error bptm (pid=1447102) incorrect media found in drive index 0, expected K686L6, found TNK686, FREEZING K686L6 Jun 11, 2025 5:01:52 PM - current media K686L6 complete, requesting next media __ANY__ Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) Waiting for mount of media id 1AOLL6 (copy 2) on server HONETBKUPSRV. Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - started process bptm (pid=1447102) Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - mounting 1AOLL6 Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) INF - Waiting for mount of media id 1AOLL6 on server HONETBKUPSRV for writing. Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - granted resource 1AOLL6 Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - granted resource IBM.ULT3580-HH6.000 Jun 11, 2025 5:02:49 PM - granted resource HONETBKUPSRV-hcart3-robot-tld-0 Jun 11, 2025 5:03:41 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) media id 1AOLL6 mounted on drive index 0, drivepath /dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-fc-0x2002000e11167dfd-lun-0-nst, drivename IBM.ULT3580-HH6.000, copy 2 Jun 11, 2025 5:03:41 PM - Error bptm (pid=1447102) incorrect media found in drive index 0, expected 1AOLL6, found 311AOL, FREEZING 1AOLL6 Jun 11, 2025 5:03:41 PM - current media 1AOLL6 complete, requesting next media __ANY__ Jun 11, 2025 5:04:36 PM - Error nbjm (pid=1442986) NetBackup status: 96, EMM status: No media is available Jun 11, 2025 5:04:36 PM - Info bptm (pid=1447102) EXITING with status 96 <---------- Jun 11, 2025 5:04:36 PM - Error nbjm (pid=1442980) NetBackup status: 96, EMM status: No media is available Jun 11, 2025 5:04:38 PM - Error bpdm (pid=1447106) media manager terminated by parent process Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - Error bpduplicate (pid=1447098) host HONETBKUPSRV backup id HOACSSRV19.IFL.NET_1749642400 read failed, media manager killed by signal (82). Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - Error bpduplicate (pid=1447098) host HONETBKUPSRV backupid HOACSSRV19.IFL.NET_1749642400 write failed, unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available (96). Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - Error bpduplicate (pid=1447098) Duplicate of backupid HOACSSRV19.IFL.NET_1749642400 failed, unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available (96). Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - Error bpduplicate (pid=1447098) Status = no images were successfully processed. Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - end Duplicate; elapsed time 0:03:41 Jun 11, 2025 5:04:43 PM - Error nbpem (pid=1443028) duplicate exited with status 191 (no images were successfully processed) no images were successfully processed(191) I have found an article related to this problem: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023592 According to this article I am changing the Max Mounts and Expiration Date of the Media ID but it is not changing.
Another duplication Question for Netbackup
Netbackup 10.5 Windows environment one primary server as master/media All Tapes are LTO6 (about 350 Archive Tapes with expiration set to Infinity most in the same volume pool but we do have tapes a few different volume pools). Currently Two Libraries - Scalar Quantum i500 robot type TLD (six fiber lto6 IBM tape drives in one library & four fiber Lto6 IBM drives in the other i500) SNIP of the LTO6 library Storage Units): We are obtaining quotes for a Quantum i6 robot type TLD containing LTO9 fibre IBM tape drives. (I know LtO9 drives cant READ or WRITE LTO6 tapes) This is my thinking and I need to know if Im on the right page sort of speak before we spend money on a tape generation that cant read or write our current tapes. Plan is to still continue to have the two i500 LTO6 libraries online when the new i6 LTO9 Library is bought and put online in the same netbackup primary master/media environment. Therefore we would have the two i500 LTO6 libraries and a brand new i6 LTO9 library As you see in the above snip the storage units are seen as a whole and not by drives (whether thats possible to see it by drives or not?). For example - currently daily backups/fulls are set to either use one library or the other library and also some policies have a storage unit group which it can use either library. I checked the compatibility doc/pdf and it appear a Quantum i6 with LTO9 IBM drives are compatible with Netbackup 10.5. Question Can I perform duplication via Netbackup Admin Console using the CATALOG | Action = Duplicate, and go from a LTO6 Archive tape (expiration date = infinity) that would be located in our LTO6 i500 quantum library and DUPLICATE the Image(s) to a LTO9 tape / drive in the new i6 quantum library we plan on buying containing LTO9 tape drives.? Once in the "Setup Duplication Variables" dialog box, the STORAGE UNIT (below SNIP) should be the library Im duplicating to or the destination - correct? - which would be the new LTO9 library. Is this doable /correct? Please advise SNIP: ALSO - For duplication does the new LTO9 tapes media type/density need to match the LTO6 or does that not matter? Im always a little confused here. Im thinking it should match. Thanks - BCScript for listing Policy name and vm host name?
Greetings, Has anyone found a way to get the vm hostname/display name from a VMWare Intelligent Policy that uses a vmquery to find the vm host to backup? I'd like to script this so I can feed it a list of about 500 servers / vm's and verify that they are in an active backup policy and the backups are running. Anybody done this already on Linux via bash script and NetBackup commands?
