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Newbie101's avatar
Newbie101
Level 3
9 years ago

Netbackup Newbie in need of help

1) Running Netbackup on a Win 2008 R2 server not sure how to perform client installs on Linux servers?

2) Want to discover what tape is holding data that was recently backed up how do I go about doing so? 

Thanks in advance

7.5
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    9 years ago

    Go to the catalog section of the admin console and search against the client involved for the last day (the default)

    If the results show disk (folder name or @aaaaa or similar) then change the search to Copy 2 (top right) and search again

    Now it should tell you which tape was used.

  • Genericus's avatar
    Genericus
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    simplest install:

    1. create a "dummy policy" called Add.A.Client

    2. add new client to that policy

    3. right click on client, select "Install UNIX client software"

     

    To find backup info, there are MANY ways 

    You can select, NetBackup Management, Catalog in the java console

    Select the client in the drop down list, and hit Search now

    You may need to update the dates, and you can select which copy if you make multiple ones.

     

     

  • Newbie101's avatar
    Newbie101
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Thanks, so to get this backup on a tape drive to I select "Initiate Import"?

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    9 years ago
    1) You cannot push install Linux clients from a Windows master. Download Unix Clients 2 software from Symantec FileConnect using the serial number on your license key certificate or from MyVeritas ( using email address of the person /group that the license keys are registered to). Follow steps in NBU Installation Guide to install client software on Unix Clients. 2) Not too sure what you are asking here - are you looking for media-id of tape that holds data for ClientX backed up on particular day? Then open Backup Archive and Restore (BAR) GUI, select ClientX as Source Client and Destination Client and Policy type used for backup, select backup date, browse for folders/files, then select Preview Media icon to see tape number. If you just want to see which tapes were used for backups on a particular day or period, go to the Reports section of the Admin Console, select Tapes Written report. Enter date or date range. Run the report. Please use the Handy NBU Links in my signature to locate and download manuals for your NBU version.
  • Newbie101's avatar
    Newbie101
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the response Marianne, but I tried the steps you suggested however I ran into a error when I selected Preview Media, "The Preview Media request failed; no entity was found" (227) I know this probably means images are on a disk correct? 

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    9 years ago
    Probably. Are you using Disk Staging or SLP to backup to disk and then duplicate to tape? Please explain what you mean with Q2? What exactly do you need/want to do? Can you see tapes in 'Tapes Written' report?
  • Newbie101's avatar
    Newbie101
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    The task is to backup particular directories to tape, remove the tape and ship it off. There is already a policy in order and the incr backups run everynight unsure of how to allocate the correct tape to remove.

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Go to the catalog section of the admin console and search against the client involved for the last day (the default)

    If the results show disk (folder name or @aaaaa or similar) then change the search to Copy 2 (top right) and search again

    Now it should tell you which tape was used.