Introduction NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) was introduced with Veritas NetBackup 6.0. It is a core component of the product providing advanced operational monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting. Designed to support NetBackup admini...
1.0 Introduction The data protection system must be regarded as a ‘mission critical’ element of any modern data center. The design of any data protection system must, as far as possible, eliminate single points of failure so that data can be recover...
Abstract Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are intended to simplify the way in which backed-up data is organized. This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery s...
Executive overview VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a “megatrend,” VMware software is making its way i...
1. Goal of this Paper This paper sets out to be informative and educational in describing a number of solutions for protecting and recovering Microsoft Exchange installations. The challenges associated with protecting an Exchange environment, as wel...
Multi-national support An international financial organization failed to restore critical files at its London facility using NetBackup 6.0 and called Symantec U.K. frontline support for help. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to restore the da...
The challenge was this: Some organizations were requiring as many as four or five attempts to upgrade to NetBackup 6.0 successfully. Why? Dan, a NetBackup tech support specialist at Symantec, pondered that question as he worked with one of them, a l...
If you speak German, you can call Symantec Enterprise Support Services and within minutes, you'll hear "Was ist los?" ("What’s the problem?") Finding a German-speaking storage system—that’s a little harder. Backup jobs were crashing—but no one knew w...
A communications company was using Veritas NetBackup to protect a large and vital database. However, the database failed in production, so the company's IT administrator needed to restore it. Since there wasn't enough space to restore the database to...
One to two failures a week A telecommunications company was using Veritas NetBackup Storage Migrator to automatically save files to tape and then remove them from disk, minimizing disk space usage. Because the data backed up to tape included telephon...
After upgrading to NetBackup 6.5, a customer began to notice that his backup disk was filling up too quickly and backup jobs were failing. The customer contacted Symantec tech support because he thought the problem was a result of the upgrade. After...
This is about a federal agency—one of the biggest—that faced big IT problems. A 12-million-dollar product implementation ground to a halt and 22 problem reports were opened within two weeks. Then within those same two weeks, all 22 problems were solv...
Easier than you think A manufacturer’s data center administrator was having trouble configuring a restore CD for Veritas Netbackup, and he called Symantec tech support for help. The company had upgraded to NetBackup 6.0 and he’d decided to test its B...
One of the questions NetBackup customers ask is how to back up VMware environments using NetBackup. There are two ways to do this: 1) Install a NetBackup or PureDisk Client inside each virtual machine or on the ESX Service Console. You might want...
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