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Jeff_Talamini's avatar
16 years ago

NetBackup & Open File option?

We had a server (serverA) with Windows 2003 server running BackupExec 10.1 with a local tape drive and the open file agent. After the tape drive failed on that server I moved the backup to our NetBack...
  • Jacob's avatar
    16 years ago
    It is quite a common error.

    Have the backup client in question been rebooted since you installed NetBackup? You will need to reboot to enable VSP (Open file manager).

    As it is a win2003 client you might want to use VSS instead or VSP during backup (properties on master server, client attributes, select the client and look in the open files tab).

    If the file still can't be backup'ed you might want to figure out if it an important file if you need to restore at some point.