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miali's avatar
miali
Level 3
6 years ago

Unable to access backup files older than 3 months after master server migration

Hi, We are currently in the legacy netbackup version 7.5.0.6. we migrated our netbackup master to a new server yesterday using catalog backup and recovery (keeping the same hostname, installation pa...
7.5
Linux
  • miali's avatar
    miali
    6 years ago

    This is resolved now. 

    NetBackup 7.5 Catalog Compression utilizes the compress and uncompress commands installed on most UNIX operating systems. However this package has been depracated on linux 5 and above. We were on Linux 6.6. the issue got resolved after I installed ncompress on the tape master server.

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Lowell_Palecek
Level 6

Are you specifying the start date (-d option) on your bpflist command? Some of the commands have default start dates going back a fixed time from the present.

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miali
Level 3
6 years ago
Yes, I am specifying both start and end dates.