NetBackup Appliance

Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

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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 hardware monitoring

Hello, Can we monitor Appliance hardware (ex- CPU, RAM, Disk Space) utilization monitoring through ops center ?

Please assist clear some space

Hi Please assist clear some space on below paths. /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/2pdvol 3.9T 3.6T 313G 93% /msdp/data/dp1/2pdvol /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/1pdvol 20T 18T 1.6T 93% /msdp/data/dp1/1pdvol

Resolved! FT Client Local drives backups are running with 80mbps on 10GB interface.

I confirmed client is running on 10GB interfaces but backups to Netbackup appliance via fiber client running on 80mbps. client version is 7.6.12

Spurious Alerts following Appliance Upgrade to 2.7.2

I have recently upgraded a number of 5230 Appliances to 2.7.2, and whilst all appear to be functioning as expected we are getting numerous alerts relating to disk failures which are 'false'. I am wondering whether there is a BIOS issue here (mismatc...

Veritas 5230 Appliance, Jumbo Frames, and 10Gb LACP/bond

Does anyone have this configuration running in their environment? I've been told that the previous NBU admin tried to get their 5230s set up with LACP on the 10Gb interfaces and that it did not work (jumbo frames configured). Details are vague, but...

Resolved! Power8 - netbackup integration

Hi Guys, Im taking oracle backups but jobs are taking too long, these oracle instances are on AIX 7.1 and are running on IBM Power 8. I need to know if there is a way to zone this hardware with 5230 appliance in orden to take SAN backups, because P...

upgrade nbu5230 2.5.4 to 2.6.1 but spoold and spad service is down

please help me

Resolved! Appliance 5230(7.7.1) with Master server(suse linux 11-sp2) compatibility

Hi, Anyone can please advise on below. We are trying to add Applinace 5230(7.7.1) as media server to our existing SUSE enterprise linux 11-SP2 based Master server (7.6.1). Above setup will run for few months before we upgrade our Master server to ...

Replication from second copy

Hi guys, My enviroment has 6 5230 appliance, appliance 1 and appliance 2 are working for backups, appliance 3 and appliance 4 are woriking for replications only, and appliance 5 and appliance 6 are replications targets. I create a SLP like this,...

Intial replication from prodcution NBU domain to newly setup NBU domain at primary site

Hello Soon I will be setting up brand new NBU domain made out of NBU 5230 appliances. Inital setup will be made on ours primary site, so I will be forced to use the IP from the range used on ours production site. Of course the hostname used in new d...

Resolved! 5230 - Cannot Start NBFSD following 2.7.2 upgrade

I have a number of 5230 appliances, each configured as Master / Media servers accross a number of sites. I have just upgraded each of the appliances to 2.7.2, and all appears well excepting the Exchange GRT backups. I haven't upgraded any clients a...

Netbackup 5230 CIFS Share Permissions issue

We recently have had issues copying any software updates to the software share. I open the share via the CLISH - Manage>Software>Share Open. Then map a drive to \\nbappliance\incoming_patches using the appliance admin credentials. However, when tryin...

Migrating appliance to another appliance

Hello, Is it possible to migrate an appliance to a new appliance ? Thanks, vitomatic

protect backups from ransomware

i work for a hospital and there are quite a few hospitals that have been attacked by ransomware. In some of these attacks , they encrypted the live data as well as the backups. I am wondering how protected is our backups that reside on the MSDP pool...

Wipe clean appliance?

Hello, anyone knowns if there is a way to completely wipe clean an appliance, I mean totallly. Not like FactoryReset or ReImage, thats doesn't clean it.

Housekeeping track logs from Accelerator NDMP backups

I have been building a new NetBackup implementation to backup an NetApp Filer which uses a 5230 appliance as the Master Server and two large Windows based Media Servers. The appliance was shipped in Dec 2015 and I have upgraded it to v2.7.1 specifica...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance Password reset

Hi, We need to reset default Appliance 5230 "admin" account password. Both for CLISH & WEBGui. Current password : p@ssw0rd (we would like to reset this) Hope someone can suggest.

After upgrade nbu5220 to 2.7.2, windows Java console can not login

Hi all, I had upgraded netbackup appliance 5220 from version 2.6.1.2 to 2.7.2, then I found netbackup java console 7.7.2 can not connect to nbu5220(master server). error: CertificateAuthenticationException encountered, NetBackup could not ini...

IBM AIX PowerVM and Appliance

We are considering replacing our tape library with an Appliance, 5230. We have multiple IBM Power servers (P770, E870) with 100+ AIX clients. Each currently has a media server which is SAN attached to the tape library. The AIX clients on the same...

Resolved! Migrate existing setup to new appliance

Hello , we are considering the appliance solution and have the following two question ; Currently we have a NetBackup 7.1 running on a server how can we migrate it to the appliance ?How can I have an HA , can we implement a HA like having a clust...

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