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setting for synology backup symantec

Please find how to perform backups with Synology Storage in the attached documents.

Announcing the 3.10 Version of SORT - Now With NetBackup 7.6 Support

The Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) team is pleased to announce that the new SORT 3.10 release includes support for the upcoming NetBackup 7.6 release. The list below highlights the NetBackup-specific updates to SORT for this release: Gen...

Accelerator backup of Windows Cluster systems

So you have a Windows clustered file server, and want to use Accelerator.....but what about Windows Change Journals and NetBackup Track files? Windows Change Journals follow the file system, so what happens when it’s moved to the new node?NetBackup T...

"Media In Use" when running a restore

Assumptions: NetBackup 7+, Unix master server Intro: If you are restoring a file recently written to tape, there's a fair chance that the tape will still be in use. If the restore job is time-sensitive (and, really aren't they all?) here is...

Netbackup 7.5 - VMware Options short explained

Here is a short information about the Option available in Netbackup for VMware. VMware Credentials in Netbackup: Click Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers.Click Actions > New > New Virtual Machine Server.On the Add Vir...

Troubleshoot NetBackup Status Code: 99

Permanent link Problem: How to troubleshoot NetBackup for NDMP Backup failures when status code: 99 (NDMP backup failure) is reported. Includes logging instructions. Error: STATUS CODE: 99 Cause: Status 99 in NDMP backups ...

Using LiveUpdate to Upgrade Netbackup client from 7.1.0.4 to 7.5

When LiveUpdate is used to Upgrade the Netbackup client version, you might be seeing issues that LiveUpdate is failing with the message: "20.06.2013, 12:25:58 GMT -> HttpSendRequest (status 304): Request succeeded - File up to date so download is not...

Backup Exec Partner Toolkit, Documentation & Resources

Here you can download the Backup Exec Partner Toolkit along with supporting documentation. If you experience any trouble downloading any of the content below, please contact the Backup Exec Partner Toolkit team at: DL-SYMC-BRTools@Symantec.com. Than...

Steps to change Tape drive density name in Netbackup 7

Steps to change Tape drive density name in Netbackup 7 The below steps by step information on how to change a tape drive density name from HCART to HCART2/HCART3 Note: It is advisable that you stop all the ongoing backup?restoration before proceeding...

How ZFS Cache Impacts NBU Performance

Problem: Solaris 10 ZFS ARC Cache configured as default can gradually impact NetBackup performance at Memory level, forcing NBU to use a lot of Swap memory even when there are several Gig's of RAM "Available", in the following Solaris 10 server we i...

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...

How to Auto Expire the Tape Images

One of our customer wants to expire the tape images automatically , so we took Live Technical support from symantec and opened the case ,and Technical Engineer of Symantec Solved this with following steps as mentioned below.then he emailed me the ste...

HOWTO: ACTIVE DIRECTORY Backup/Restore with NETBACKUP

Dear All I would like to provide you a simple HOWTO for backing up and restoring Active Directory with Symantec NetBackup My Environment: Master / Media Server = Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit Active Directory = Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit Symantec NetBackup Vers...

How to perform redirect restore in Symantec Netbackup

In this article I will show you how to restore your backed up files to alternate server. Redirect restore is very usefull in case your source machine is unavailable and you have very less RTO. Environment: Symantec Netbackup 7.5 on Windows ServerSour...

BE 2012 und MS Windows 2012

Hallo! Wir sind gerade dabei einen Windows Server 2012 Std. in Betrieb zu nehmen. Bisher haben wir eine ältere Version von BE zur Sicherung im Einsatz und wollten nun auf die Version 2012 wechseln. Dabei mussten wir feststellen, das scheinbar keine U...

Superseding jobs in BE 2012

Often when setting up a backup schedule, you do not want a backup to run when another is running. For example, if you have a weekly and a daily backup, you do not want the daily backup to run on the day when the weekly backup is running. For BE 2012...

Netbackup Bare Metal Recovery 7.5 for Windows

Netbackup Bare Metal Configurartion and Recovery Steps In this article I will show you how to configure Netbackup BMR option and how to perform restore activity on windows based server. Environment: Symantec Netbackup 7.5 on Windows Server Symantec N...

How to Import Expired Netbackup Images

How to Import Expired Netbackup Images In this article I will explain you 'how to import expire images in Symantec Netbackup'. Importing expire images in Netbackup is a two steps process. I have performed this steps in my LAB to show you the process ...

How to perform Netbackup catalog Backup and Restore operations - Part2

Netbackup Catalog Recovery In this document I will explain you ‘how to recover your Netbackup server using Catalog data’. Following are the steps to recover the Netbackup Catalogs data on new machine. 1. Reinstall the operating system and configure t...

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...

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