Netbackup for SAP BACKUP USING RMAN
Hi All, I am here to share SAP Backup process using Netbackup, with some of detailed SAP level changes required. My environment for SAP is listed below; O/S: SUSE Linux 11 SP1 for SAP DB: Oracle 11g SA...
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CUSTOMIZATION OF USERS ACCESS IN SYMANTEC NETBACKUP
NetBackup administrators can protect a NetBackup configuration by defining who may access NetBackup and what functions a user group can perform.Non-root users can be authorized for a subset of the NetBackup - Java administrator applications. To aut...
Backup Admins daily tasks to manage Symantec Netbackup Server
Daily tasks of Backup Admins In this article I would like to share what Symantec consulting recommends that Netbackup Administrator perform the following tasks to ensure a properly funtioning Netbackup domain. This information has been taken from fro...
How to configure backups of Lotus Notes running on RHEL 32 bit with Symantec Netbackup 7.5
According to Netbackup compatibility matrix RHEL 32 bit version is no more supported with latest version of Netbackup Server. In this article I would like to explain how to configure your Lotus backups running on 32 bit machine. Netbackup older clien...
Backup/Restore of Oracle Database Part 2 of 3- Creating Backup Policy and taking Full Backup
How to create backup policy for Oracle database and taking online Full backup Environment: Netbackup Server 7.1 on Windows Server 2003Oracle on Windows Server 2003 This document is second part of (Backup/Restore of Oracle Database).In this article ...
Backup/Restore of Oracle Database Part 1 - Creating Backup Template
How to Create Oracle Backup Template Environment: Netbackup Server 7.1 on Windows Server 2003Oracle Server 10 on Windows Server 2003 In this article I will explain how to configure and perform successful backup and restore Oracle Database. In this ...
Successful decommissioning of an MSDP - addendum to TECH150431
Working as a consultant I have recently come across quite a few cases where my customers have tried to decommission an MSDP for one reason or another (usually because of serious disk failures). Sometimes the MSDP disks and services are still availab...
Understanding Disk Staging
Staging Backup— This is a process in which first data is copied on a Storage Unit then copied to another Storage unit. Images expire after copying data to secondary unit. Benefits— 1- This allows faster backup on disk first. Then copied the same...
Network services configurations on NetBackup BMR Boot Server
Network services configurations on NetBackup BMR Boot Server For Network boot based recovery, NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) leverages OS specific NW boot protocols to boot client over BMR Boot Server and start recovery process. Different NW serv...
NetBackup Scripting Sheet
I created a spreadsheet that can generating commands to create and modify NetBackup policy configuration. Now(Mar 24 2013), this sheet is based on NetBackup 7.5, but you can disable each attribute options to fit the commands to your version. I hope ...
Tapes and Deduplication - Storage Lifecycle Policies
I wanted to share a data collection I did today, while working with IT Solutions, deciding the best approach on how we were going to continue sending our backups Offsite. We're running about 12000 jobs per weekend, 3000 of those going offsite on Tape...
Installation of VERITAS Net backup
Client installation on Windows 1. Insert the Server software CD (for Windows Operating System) in the Master server or copy the binaries onto to local disk, then launch the Browser.exe to open the below console. 2. Click on “Run” and open the belo...
20 Steps to Analyze , Correct and Troubleshoot Device issues in Windows
The following 20 steps will help analyze, correct and troubleshoot many different device issues in Window Enviorments. Just a few Examples (but not limited to ) : - Status codes : 84 , 96 , 2009 - Drives keep going down or randomly go down. - No dri...
How to Upgrade NBU to 7.5.0.x
I often get asked by customer/clients how to upgrade NBU to 7.5 after hearing all the scary things about database migrations in 7.5. I also often that nobody wants to read the entire upgrade guide and are most of the times happy to do the "Next, Next...
Symantec OpsCenter Deployment Analysis for NetBackup
Hi All Many of my customer`s and new Forum members have been playing around for NetBackup license tool Have put it all toghther for Capacity model For traditional moded only username and password to NBU master server is to be configured along with ot...
Which Logs need to be created NetBackup
Hi All Whenever we execute mklogdir.bat under /NetBackup/Logs/. List of several directories are created automatically, We often wonder what other directories do actually mean, or now which one is to be removed which are of no use for now, if not remo...
Bare Matel Restoration Process
Netbackup Administrative Console à Bare Metal Restore Management à Hosts à Bare Metal Restore Clients à Server Name à Current. Right Click and Prepare to Restore. Choose the appropriate options on this dialog to perform any specific operations...
Netbackup 7.0 Windows Event Logs Restoration
Dear All This document is very helpful to all those users who are new to Netbackup 7.0 and have never performed restoration on Netbackup server.Restoration is not a very big task but for those who did not perform it ever, this document will provide a...
Netbackup SLP Backlog Report and Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot an SLP Backlog first we need to define what a backlog is: Mainly is data that it hasn’t been duplicated to a second or N-Destinations configured under the SLP. i.e.: SLP Name: SLP_C1-1week-MedA-disk1-...
NetBackup Frequency Based Scheduling
Introduction The question is often asked if there is still a use for the Frequency Based Scheduler. Why not simply use the Calendar based scheduler for ‘everything’? Problems often experienced: Backups being skipped‘schedule creeping’ – backups kicki...
