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Enterprise Data Services Community Blog
Enterprise Data Services Community Blog is the perfect place to share short, timely insights including product tips, news and other information relevant to the community.

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To dream the impossible dream for NetBackup

From "Man of La Mancha" lyrics by Joe Darion To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go. Have you ever had a dream t...

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Policy DB and upgrade

Tha policy DB will not get upgraded with the Netbackup patch update.Say you are using Netbackup 6.5 and if you upgrade to 6.5.3 the policy entries will not get updated automatically. e.g The storage u...

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Virtualisation is Causing Re-Evaluation of Backup Plans

Symantec recently carried out its annual IT Disaster Recovery survey of 1,000 or so IT managers across 15 countries. Now, there are a bunch of really interesting facts and it’s well worth a read, but ...

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Connect Update #2

Hi all - a few days ago I wrote about several changes we made in response to feedback this community provided. Today, we're making several additional changes that I want to make you aware of. One of t...

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An update on Connect

In the spirit of openness that a community site like this is built on I want to take a minute to address a few things related to the launch of Connect. Specifically, I want to talk about two things: S...

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LTO Web Gui Status Codes

This document is not listed on the IBM web site so i have attached it here (hope the mods will let it stay) It details the LTO drive status codes and there true meaning. We all have seen the Media err...

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Bug Reports 6.5.3.1

Today i had to place a call with symantec for Netbackup 6.5.3.1 i guess the special character bug was not fixed when the new version came out which was a real bummer. The support guy i spoke with howe...

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Things I Can Live Without

AutoPlay It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Automatically launch a program that’s been discovered by the computer. You don’t have to waste a bunch of mouse clicks to get your music CD o...

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