Hi All, This is one of the problem I had faced on NetBackup 6.5.3. Problem is mentioned below Problem - schedule jobs are not running automatically, manual is working fine Solution - This problem is due to scheduler file problem. We have to recre...
This story is of a customer in the telecom industry where I was part of the backup administrator group. The moment the Indian service provider got into business,. Technology was key for the organization to be able to compete in the market with other ...
“Symantec has a lot of neat stuff, bare metal restore, de-dupe, encryption. Now there's nothing they can't do. Point solutions from other vendors have been chinking Symantec's armour. But by integrating all these different technologies, it's creating...
Customer Environment: The is the information of the company that I worked which had a global business and IT consulting firm supporting more than 200+ active customers and technical employee base of more than 700+. It had customer base spread across...
Recently I stepped into my new career as VERITAS Netbackup administrator; I am remembering the days spend at Doors (My Previous Origination). That was a smaller setup with 20 Servers and 150 more desktops. Developers save their project related data’s...
The story is way back 2004, to give background customer a banking one which had 322 branches with 3 datacenter spread across India. There were 200+ servers spread across and one of the major tasks was to ensure the data is safeguard for all the bank...
This article is about “how Hosts file playing a main role in Netbackup Environment” Here is something about Hosts file from "Wikipedia" What is Host File? The hosts file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a comp...
To give the background, customer with 3000+ clients with close to 6000+ jobs running on backup window was a complex setup, with D2D implementation in place. Having said, that the management with no centralized management thus depend upon the client f...
In some cases, frontline technical support encounters an issue it just doesn’t have the resources to solve. In a recent case, a large, multinational electronics manufacturing customer called in with NetBackup problems. A number of its backup processe...
Symantec has added lot of features in Netbackup 6.5.3, which is really a boon for protecting Critical Application. I would like to rank top 5 features as per my experience: 5. Granular Restoration possible from Microsoft Exchange Backup This is real...
NOM has some great Alerts built into it. Just a little setup and you are ready to go. Then you learn a few things. When setting up the alerts you learn that some items can cover all the masters. Like ‘Frozen media'. I don’t care which server has a f...
If the NAS is on another machine in the network, you must use a UNC (uniform naming convention) path in the following format to connect to it: "\\computer_name\folder_name_in_drive\" You do not specify the drive name in the UNC path; instead, you me...
Problem/Symptoms The storage locations are filling up with blob files. None of the space is ever being reclaimed. - or - Blobs are not shrinking after computer accounts are being marked for deletion Environment NS 6.0.6074 SP3 RS 6.2.2106 RS 6.2...
I was working with a customer where he was just worried about his flashbackup Backup performance. Here is a quick tip to increase read and write buffer. How to adjust the FlashBackup read buffer for clients Create the following touch file on each cli...
Yesterday evening, I was just going through one of the customer problem. He was having a problem with Flashbackup backup job that was stalled. Most of the time, It was stalled during the time when NBU was mapping information of the file system or Jus...
Story of Low Disk Space: You have bought a new setup which is having 1 master and 100 more clients. All VERITAS and tape library configurations were done. With a big gulp of air you are initiating full backup for all clients and a green dressed runni...
Recently, a large provider of health insurance almost gave up on NetBackup as its disaster recovery solution-of-choice. But the vigilant support of Symantec technical specialists and engineers helped restore the company’s confidence in NetBackup disa...
Data growth rates of 30% to 50% per year are straining the network and storage capacities of organizations, a phenomenon that is compounded by the large amount of duplicate backup data routinely stored. This exacerbates the time and effort required t...
George Winter, our resident VMware guru, recently revised one of his best practices guides for backing up VMware with NetBackup. If you've got VMware, this is a highly recommended read that frames the argument in terms of good ways, better ways, best...
Don’t you worry. Be happy. I’ve been down this road before. You have inherited an old lab or an older production environment with NetBackup 4.5 installed and running. You would like to upgrade NetBackup but unfortunately the SunOS and NT clients are ...
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