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NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available in the Download Center. https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD236988 Please install it *before* installing any other EEB/HotFix. If you install it af...

Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances Page

Please note the the following link: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100038989 This is the *only* page that will provide Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances. Every effort will be made to keep this ...

Netbackup Appliance Upgrade 2.7.x

Guys, Thank you for considering this. We are soon going to upgrade our NBU Appliance 5230 to version 2.7.3 (From 2.7.1). Master is already upgraded to 7.7.3 Ques: What are the precautionary steps i need to complete first before NBU Appliance ...

Resolved! AIR Duplication failed with error 227 on bptm logs

Hello Everybody, I am facing with a problem when duplicating an AIR replcated backup with this message on the bptm log. write_backup: cannot add fragment to image database, error = no entity was found The enviroment is as follow: there ...

Need difference in appliance

Hi All, Can anybody help me with appliance version difference in 5200, 5220, 5230 and 5330. As far as I know we can not use 5330 as master server but rest we can. Please help.

netbackup unable to resolve hostname, no hostname alias added to pem name manager.

Hi, I see the below error on my problems report: netbackup unable to resolve hostname <hostname>, no hostname alias added to pem name manager. Now there's abou...

Zoning Aix to Netbackup 5230

Hi guys, I just create a zone between AIX (LPAR), 5230 appliance and a storage like this As you can the AIX server has two FC adapter each one belongs to a zone,but sometimes I lose visibility from netbackup so I have to go to the client and ru...

How to zone Vmware Datastore LUN to Backup Host

Dear Experts Master Server : Windows Media Server ( acting as appliance 5230 as well) : Linux Storage : Hitachi HUS Array Vmware backup failing with status 23 ( policy set to use SAN transport mode). I have gone through few good articles , but I...

Resolved! upgradestatus message "stuck"?

Okay, true confessions time. I still have a 5200 in production at our DR site. Can't upgrade it to 2.7.x, but I thought I'd hit 2.6.1.2 so I could put the security hotfix on. Upgrade failed - no mystery - a space issue. Clearing out space, suppor...

Netbackup appliance Expansion unit not detected

We have just insatalled a 100 TB 5230 appliance and we are facing a severe issue. our appliacne is showing only the base unit storage . no expension unit storage is visisble we have 3 expansion unit our appliance version is 2.7.2 we have powe...

Resolved! REplication between Veritas appliance and HP

Hi guys, My enviroment in principal site is Master server: Windows 2012 and media server is 5230 appliance we are planning a disaster recovery site but I need to use a HP store once (as media server) my master server will be again windows 2012 so...

Is there a way to monitor the health of the 5230 appliance?

in NetBackup 52xx and 5330 Appliance SNMP Trap Reference Guide - 2.7.1 Appendix A "Note: Although the MIB file includes software traps, they are not used. NetBackup Appliance does not currently send any software traps." Since the 52xx appliances do...

Resolved! Cleanly remove appliance from NBU domain

Hello, I need help to cleanly remove 5230 appliance configured as a media server from NBU domain. Currently we have Windows based master server and 2 5230s as media servers. One of the appliances is being used for backups and the other one strictl...

Can we connect External Storage with NBU Appliance

Can we connect external storage with NBU Appliance(Media Server)

How and where to define data traffic will go through different IP

I am working on NBU appliance version 2.6.2 we have 2x1 Gig management IP and 2x10 Gig data IP. We have create bond of these.Currently data traffic is running through 1Gig connection. If I want that traffic will run through 10 Gig connection, do I h...

Resolved! Mass duplication of images from 1 pool of tapes to another

Hi. I'm running a 5230 appliance that's connected to a tape library. And I need to duplicate images from approximately 700 tapes to another set of tapes (in the same environment). I know this can be done via the NB gui in the catalog section, but is ...

How to check the Backup Throughput and Performace.

How to check the Backup Throughput and Performace. Master Server : OS - LINUX_RH_X86 NBU Version - 7.6.0.4 Media Server OS - Linux 2.6.32.59-0.7-default-fsl NBU Appliance 5230 NBU Appliance Version is 2.6.0.4. Current speed : 150 GB/Hour

Resolved! After 272 upgrade of Master Appliance cannot connect to Netbackup Service Layer

I have a site with two locations: Location A 1 x Windows Master, 2 x 5220 Media Appliances Location B 1 x 5220 Master Appliance, 1 x 5220 Media Appliance I have just upgraded Master and both Media Servers (appliances) at Location A from 7611/261...

Exchange backup takes too much time

Hi guys, I have a question... My DAG enviroment is composed by three servers every node is a virtual server (VMWARE), but disks where databases (29 databases = 800 GB) are on LUMs. Netbackup enviroment: Master server is Windows 2012 and media serv...

Resolved! Add external SAN Disk as an AdvDisk to the NB Appliance

Hi, Is it possible to add and external SAN disk and configure it as an AdvDisk in NB 5230? Thx.

Monitor tapes I/O in NB Appliance

Hi, Is there any way to get some I/O statistics of the FC tapes connected to a NB appliance. Networker can monitor the tapes I/O during the backups, but I could not find any solution in NB Appliance. It does not show any FC tapes in iostat etc...

Resolved! 5230 - Command line to scan for new fibrechannel devices

So I was informed today by one of my storage admins that they are almost continually adding new LUNs for VMware. And they are not always quick to pass along the information to the backup team. So I was wondering - does anyone currently simply autom...

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