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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 ...

Resolved! Netabckup Appliance 5200 not responding during upgrade

Hi all, I had a problem during upgrade, its been 18 Hours and it still stop on the same state of upgrade Veritas Optimzed Operating System 1 after do starting up vxconfigbackupd. Below was the pic of the proses upgrade. Thanks All for your help

Resolved! Clean up of /inst/client/.packages directory??

Doing a bit of housecleaning prior to upgrades... and I notice my master appliance (2.6.0.4) is probably a bit too full in the /inst filesystem to attempt an upgrade. I look into it and see quite a few old client directories: <master>:/inst/client/...

Resolved! GRT Duplication jobs fail with 191...client hostname could not be found

NetBackup 5230 Appliance Version: 2.6.0.2 NetBackup Version: 7.6.0.2 Netbackup 5203 Master/Media server backing up then replicating via SLP to a DR 5230. The backup and replication work just fine but the duplication to tape fails. The images are G...

Resolved! can't login NetBackup Appliance

Hello, We have Netbackup Appliance 5230 with username admin How can we reset/recovery admin user ?! Thank You

Resolved! Unable to restore a oracle control file in RHEL

Hi Guys, Its me again :( I´m trying to restore a oracle database according to this technote HOWTO63971 but when I run this command: run { allocate channel c1 type 'sbt_tape'; send 'NB_ORA_SERV=nbu_master, NB_ORA_CLIENT=ora_clnt'; restore ...

Resolved! Unable to remove an Ip address on my Appliance 5230

Hello, I've got an appliance 5230, which i initialized there are few days. I set an adress on eth1 interface and because we faced some issues, i unconfigured eth1 in order to set it again after. The unconfiguration with the "Unconfigure eth1" comma...

Resolved! User Access Management on Appliances

Hi all, Am I reading it right that User Access Management, because it's part of the NBAC, isn't available on the NetBackup Appliances? Does this mean either I can give users admin access or nothing at all? I am aware of the command line ability to ...

Resolved! Correct 5220 with shelves startup procedure

I have a 5220 appliance with 2 shelves. What is the correct way to shutdown and start up all components? Thanks

Issues connecting to an appliance

Recently, I recieved an external drive from one of my remote sites with 5TB of data on it. I plugged it into one of my media servers and backed it up in NBU using msdp to another media/appliance server we will call it server 20. Now, I want to run a ...

Paths to disks: Is it a limited resource???

Hi all, I have a question about using multipathing disks on a 5230 Our setup is that we have several 5230 appliances, which are zoned to our 3PAR storage arrays in order to access our VMware disks for making (accelerated) VM backups Currently, our...

Resolved! NEED SOLUTION FOR STORAGE ISSUE

Dear all, Can you please give the soution I want to take backup of edms on HP tape-Library(6480) around 6 TB from symantec netbackup applaince 7.6. How much time it takes to complete the backup.

Replication between appliances

Hi Tech Experts, we are having two netbackup 5230 appliances in production and DR site. The Monthly backup data will be replicated between appliances and due to slow wan link, there are lot of pending backup images backlogs. in order to clear the ba...

Resolved! Routing on Appliance 5230

Hi We are trying to add a route to our existing appliance 5230, running at 2.6.0.3. This is configured in media server role. Currently this server is getting used for backup of only one client which contains Netezza DB. Now we want to use this ap...

2.7.1 as vmware guest

Does anyone have any experience in running the 2.7.1 appliance build as a vmware guest. I would like to build a test environment using the 2.7.1 ISO image to test out some of the new features in 2.7.1. Many Thanks Dave

Resolved! Symantec Appliance 5230 master role

I have an inquiry about pros and cons of having a separate physical server as master server against making the 5230 appliance have the 2 roles "master,media" what i can think of is to take headache of scheduling from the appliance plus having secon...

Resolved! Advanced disk space

I´m running out space in my "advanced disk" but in my MSDP I have plenty of space. So I need to know if there is way to "take" some space from MSDP in order to add some TBs to advanced disk? If so, this process involves lose data from MSDP? For ful...

Unable to add client

I'm using a netbackup appliace 5230 with the latest software. When I open the Java console and try to add a microsoft exchange 2013 server into a policy I get an error Unable to connecct to netbackup host "exchange" please specify the hardware and ...

Resolved! 5230 Appliance hangs after the tape out process

Hi, Our of the customer has a 5230 appliance it has a serious performance problem. they are performing tape out operation for weekly full backups. and they perform that tape out process with a slp windows which is running 8 am to 5pm. their most...

Resolved! Can I import contents of 5230 appliance to another master?

Hi, Good day! Need your expertise on this one. We're running 2 master servers: Master1 runs on an AIX box with Netbackup 7.1 and a catalog size of 500GB, Master2 is a 5230 Appliance running on RHEL with Netbackup version 7.5 and catalog size of...

Resolved! Storage Reset Permission

We replaced a storage shelf with another one, then reconfigured the appliance from zero to set it up as a media server. When finishing the setup, the appliance doesn’t see the shelf and gives us the following message: - [Error] Failed to import the ...

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