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New NetBackup 10.5 Plug-In Gives DNAS Protection to Azure Files
A new plug-in allows NetBackup 10.5 to protect Azure Files as if it was a NAS filer. It does this through the new NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM) NAS plug-in for Azure Files. NBSM uses Azure’s Software Developer Kit (SDK) storage API to connect with and move data to/from Azure Files. You can select this plug-in like all the other NetBackup plug-ins as shown below. The new plug-in can use Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) protocols to access Azure Files data. This lets you select the protocol(s) that meet your organization’s transport and security requirements. As of SMB version 4.X, NFS has a slight performance advantage over older SMB versions. See the NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide version 10.5 for detailed plug-in installation and configuration instructions. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM) establishes a connection with Azure Files Storage using the REST client. It then discovers whatever resource groups, storage accounts, file shares, and file share snapshots are available. This discovery gives NetBackup 10.5+ the following Azure File snapshot operations: Creating file share snapshots Exporting snapshots Restoring snapshots Deporting snapshots Deleting snapshots A NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) is required to run the snapshot and call a NAS-Data-Protection policy to coordinate the backup. The new Azure Files plug-in also offers the same great DNAS features available in previous versions. See these links for more information on these features: My DNAS backup tech paper: NetBackup Dynamic Network Attached Storage (DNAS) Filer Protection Version 10.4 Update: NetBackup 10.4+ DNAS Multi-Mount Capability Greatly Improves Snapshot Backup Performance
Storage unit media server option
I have flex appliance 5260 2EA and each appliance has a storage shelf connected to it. I created a master/media server on appliance A and only configured a media server on appliance B and connected them to each other with a fiber cable. I created a storage unit with msdp and checked "Use any available media server" and "only use the following media server" among the options. I created msdp1 on media server A and msdp2 on media server B. I checked the "Use any available media server" option in the msdp1 storage unit settings and found that both A/B media servers work when backing up and the data goes to msdp1. Is it okay to use the use any media server setting like this? How do you use it in normal cases?(69) invalid filelist specification
Buenos días. Me sale el siguiente error cuando se ejecuta una política tipo VMware Apr 22, 2025 6:00:26 PM - begin Application Resolver:Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - Error nbpem (pid=140959) Two or more backup components with the name masteropenshift were found with conflicting information Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - Error nbpem (pid=140959) backup of client masterbk02 exited with status 69 (invalid filelist specification) Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - Error nbpem (pid=140959) Two or more backup components with the name masteropenshift were found with conflicting information Operation Status: 69 Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - end Application Resolver:Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed; elapsed time 0:00:01 Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - begin Application Resolver:Stop On Error Operation Status: 0 Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - end Application Resolver:Stop On Error; elapsed time 0:00:00 Operation Status: 69 Apr 22, 2025 6:00:27 PM - end Parent Job; elapsed time 0:00:04 invalid filelist specification (69) Que validaciones puedo realizar puesto que reviso en Vcenter y no encuentro alguna anomalidad. Muchas gracias, quedo atenta
Image Cleanup - error 2027
Hello! At the moment, we periodically receive a massive error - (2027) The media server is not active. Image Cleanup performs correctly in the vast majority of tasks. Job Type - Image Cleanup ...... Apr 26, 2025 6:13:10 AM - Info nbdelete (pid=9992) deleting expired images. Media Server: media4003 Media: @aaaeE Apr 26, 2025 6:13:10 AM - Error nbdelete (pid=9992) Cannot obtain resources for this job : error [2027] Apr 26, 2025 6:13:10 AM - requesting resource @aaaeE Apr 26, 2025 6:13:10 AM - Error nbjm (pid=8046) NBU status: 2027, EMM status: Media server is not active Apr 26, 2025 6:13:10 AM - Error nbjm (pid=8046) NBU status: 2027, EMM status: Media server is not active Media server is not active (2027) .............. Apr 26, 2025 2:12:31 AM - Info nbdelete (pid=10762) deleting expired images. Media Server: media4003 Media: @aaaeM Apr 26, 2025 2:12:31 AM - Error nbdelete (pid=10762) Cannot obtain resources for this job : error [2027] Apr 26, 2025 2:12:31 AM - requesting resource @aaaeM Apr 26, 2025 2:12:31 AM - Error nbjm (pid=8046) NBU status: 2027, EMM status: Media server is not active Apr 26, 2025 2:12:31 AM - Error nbjm (pid=8046) NBU status: 2027, EMM status: Media server is not active Media server is not active (2027) .............. Please tell me what to do, I haven't really found any information on this error, only special cases that don't fit my case.
Netbackup CDP problem
Hi I have Netbackup 10.5.0.1 on RHEL 8.10 my media server is msdp and cdp gateway with same version of netbackup and os I installed io-filter on esxis, vcenter is 8.0.3 and esxi is 7.0.3 I created vtstap storage policy, but it's incompatible with san datastores (vmfs 5 and 6) and compatible with local datastore I tried with 2 vm, one is stored on local and other in san attached these vm with vtstap storage policy and shows both of them are compliant in storage policy then I created a protection plan for these assets and attached cdp gateway, when finish it, it says for 2 vm: List of trusted Certificate Authorities could not be fetched operation failed for VM id ... of CDP host ...
Malware Scanning Configuration | Windows Server
Dear all, I`m somewhat confused from the documentation about this and to this date, I was not able to get malware scanning working. Our environment: - Master+Media server windows 2019 (same physical machine, BYO device) - local storage for disk backups - Attached Tape Library for tape backups - NBU 11.0 Desired functionality: Backup to Disk -> Scan if certain anomaly score is detected (e.g. medium) -> stage to tape -> expire Image on disk As a first step, I wanted to setup malware scanning to scan images manually without luck. In some way, all routes seems to end up in a "you need Linux or an appliance" way. Unfortunately, I`m forced to use only windows machines at this moment. What I did: - setup MSDP for local storage (storage server, storage pool, storage disk) - created a 2nd VM as Scan Host (windows server 2022), deployed NBU malware scanner and poweshell script "setting up windows server as scan host" as described in the documentation + netbackup client - configured a scanpool using "Netbackup client communication", nbu scanner and SMB - created a SMB share on a random folder on master/storage server Where I struggle: Where/how do I configure the share on netbackup webUI? Is this even possible? My current understanding is, that "Universal Share" feature is needed, which is reserved for Linux. Is there a way to use Malware Scanning Feature on a fully windows server environment with BYO devices? Thank you in advance! Marco
