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Netbackup disaster recovery
Hi Guys, Hi, we have lost the Netbackup primary server which was installed on a Windows server, so next Saturday we will perform a disaster recovery procedure. This primary server was installed by default but after a while the images folder was moved from drive C to drive E. I´m trying to find documentation about this specific situation but is very confusing, I´m following article: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/15179611-148872028-0/v95648579-148872028 in the article I see "Specify the default workgroup. Do not restore the domain", there is no information about rejoinig the new server to the domain. If I recover the catalog to the default location, is it going to work? The idea is recover everything to the C drive (default) and then move to drive E:AndresV2 hours agoLevel 624Views0likes4CommentsNetbackup 7.6.1 failed to remove trusted master server
Dear fellows, We are still using a legacy Netbackup version 7.6 in Windows server. Recently we noticed failure of SLP replication to remote server. We did some research and tried to re-setup the trusted relationship between the two master servers. But with no luck. error message is below. I got a password error message if I use a wrong password. And the two servers have the same version. Did someone experience the same? and can share some thoughts. Thanksbrookwk10 hours agoLevel 232Views0likes2CommentsDecrease in volume backup
I am contacting you regarding a subject wich concerns a decrease in backed up volume of 20% for all client VMs since the upgrade of master and media from netbackup version 10.1.1 to 10.3.0.1 on 03/12/2024. The concerned environment only contains VMware backups (85 VMs), and 15 filer policies for which most of them there is no decrease observed. If I take the example of the VM X, before the upgrade, the full had a volume of 409GB, and after the upgrade, the volume decreased to 368GB, a decrease of 40GB was noted, for the same number of files and no client side modification was made. Another example, VM Y, before the upgrade the volume was 404GB, and after the upgrade it went to 364GB. Are you aware of this behavior for version 10.3.0.1 ? (no information in the release note) Is there a way to conduct an analysis for this topic ? especially since the 40GB drop is the same for all VMs. FYI: the upgrade from netbackup 10.1.1 to 10.3.0.1 was made just for the master and media, no modification for client servers. Master and media are under NBU 10.3.0.1 and RHEL 8.933Views0likes3CommentsBacking up data using 2 tapes drives at the same time
Hello We are on NBU 10.0.0.1 - windows (one server as master/media). We have a backup job containing like 30TB of data. The data are MS SQL *.bak files. We want to put this to tape. On the backup policy what is the best way to utilize 2 tape drives. I dont think we want to send multiple streams to the same tape drive correct? So the data needing backed up is on the network and its laid out like this: \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod1\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod2\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod3\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod4\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod5\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod6\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod7\ \\xxx-xxxxx.com\xxx\xxx_Backups\FULL\xxx123\Prod8\ I thought about splitting the 8 paths into two different policies - this I know will use two separate tape drives. What is the protocol or the correct attributes on a Netbackup policy (MS Windows) to set it up to use 2 tape drives instead creating 2 seperate policies?. If I just use one policy and have 2 streams going to one tape drive thats bad news for wear and tear on the tape drive correct? Is there a way to have a policy where their are multiple streams going to 2 different tape drives. Hopefully Im saying this correctly. BCbc14103 days agoLevel 627Views0likes3CommentsCorrupted images
Hello, This is the third time I have corrupted images for the same server. I had a corrupted X server image a few weeks ago, I expired the corrupted image and reran the backup which completed successfully and was duplicated successfully, I had a second the same thing again after a few weeks, and there, again the same corruption. An msdp check has already been done but it only brought up the corrupted image (which I already know). I need to know the cause of the corruption of the image of this server knowing that the other backups are successful. There is a possibility of doing a metadata analysis but the media will remain unavailable for the duration of the analysis since it takes 1 hour for each Tera of data, and I have 120TB so 120 hours of unavailability. This is my client, so I do not have access to the client server, however, I have control over the master and the media. Note that this is a VMware type backup which has a datastore and a shared vcenter, so the other backups are successful Master Linux RHEL 8.9, and Netbackup 10.0.0.1 Media Linux RHEL 8.9, and Netbackup 10.0.0.1 Client server Windows 2016, and Netbackup 10.0.0.1Solved68Views0likes7CommentsNBU client System requirements
Hello, I want to configure a FS backup in a windows client with a mount point configured. This mount point contains thousand of files and I want to use a client-side-deduplication. Does someone know where could I check the system requirements (CPU, RAM, disk) to have a good performance in the client? Thanks.Sandra4Bck4 days agoLevel 330Views0likes2CommentsBackup Host SSL issue in Flex Appliance
Hi Folks, We got a Flex Appliance in which we set up 1 Primary and 1 Media, as want to back up some Nutanix VMs through the Cluster. We decided to go with the MediaServer instance as our backup host. The issue is when trying to add the Nutanix Cluster through the NBU Web UI, below the displayed error : "Credential validation failed. Provide correct AHV credentials, ensure that the backup host has Linux/Windows OS, verify that the backup host can access the AHV cluster, or the external CA is configured correctly." After some troubleshooting, we found the "nb_nutanix-ahv.conf" in the Media instance with the parameter "enable_ssl_validations" which is enabled by default. When disabling it, the Cluster is added successfully. Enabling it back, the integration of the Cluster failed again. So, we confirmed that the issue is related to SSL certificate. We tried to set the SSL communication following the NBU documentation, but it did not work, maybe we missed something (Below doc link) : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/150073865-163074231-0/v147708883-163074231 Any idea how to fix this SSL issue with Nutanix ? Flex v 5.0 and NBU v 10.5. Regards.216Views0likes3Commentsbackup path different letters windows
I have several policies with the same folder on different windows paths (letter). example: D:\backup E:\backup F:\backup Is there a special character or way to put all these paths in one policy? example: *\backup Thanksmarconimis7 days agoLevel 375Views0likes3CommentsWORM Instance in Flex Appliance
Hi guys, We are about to deploy a Flex Appliance WORM instance, and we have some concerns regarding its usage : Do we still need a MediaServer instance when using the WORM instance? Is the WORM instance considered as WORM storage that still requires a MediaServer instance to write to it, or is it an all-in-one instance (MediaServer + WORM storage)? In summary, when creating the WORM instance, does NBU recognize it as a MediaServer or not? When working with WORM, is deduplication still utilized? Typically, we create MSDP volumes within MediaServer instances. Wondering if WORM uses also Dedup. Does enabling WORM impact the appliance's capacity consumption? Some other vendors claim that enabling WORM can double or even triple capacity usage when using Dedup with WORM, which raises concerns about its practicality in our case, because the capacity of our Flex system is already low, and if that's the case, we'll have to avoid using WORM. Thanks in advance for any feedback given. Regards.Solved116Views0likes5CommentsNBU v10 retention
Hi folks, What is the right way to set the retention in NBU 10 ? Policy Schedules or SLPs ? It is a bit confusing, what's the point of having both two ? If I set a specific retention in a Policy Schedule and then assign the ''Policy storage'' to my SLP. Which one is taken into consideration ? Kind regards.Solved70Views0likes4Comments