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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! Duplication MSDP images between appliances with versoin 2.5 and 2.6

Hi All, Is it possible to duplicate MSDP images from a 2.5.3 appliance to 2.6.0.3 appliance and vice versa. I am not sure as both have different catalog format. Kindly help.

Resolved! NBU 5230 Appliance SSL certificate error

We have this weird appliance issue - wondering if anyone else has experienced this recently (maybe due to https://symappmon.com not working?) The 5230 Appliance is on 2.5.4 - the status is perfectly green. this happens when i try to verify the pr...

Exchange 2010 DAG Backup Experience / Recommendataions

Hi, We've just implemented an Exchange 2010 DAG using 3 nodes, there are 2 nodes at our primary site and the 3rd at our DR location, there are 6 databases of approx 100GB each. Each primary node has 3 active and 3 passive databases and the DR node h...

Resolved! SCSP log folder space filling up with 11 MB files

Hi, NB5230 v2.6.0.2 We have six appliances. Two are exhibiting a problem where the '/log/scsplog' folder is filling up rapidly with files such as: 11M -rw-rw-r-- 1 root sisips 11M Sep 23 15:45 _SISIDSEvents54448.csv 11M -rw-rw-r-- 1 root ...

Resolved! Moving an appliance expansion to another appliance

Hello, We have a two 5220 Appliances in DR each with 64TB disk expansion. I intend to decommission one of these expansions and add it to another Appliance in production (Prod). The target appliance has already got one 32TB expansion attached to it. ...

Resolved! Configure new 5030 appliances and add to Netbackup

Hi Team, Need to Configure new 5030 appliances and add to Netbackup, i tried to find out in google but no luck:( Please help on this

Resolved! Queries re OPTDUP_ENCRYPTION...

Hi, I'm intending to implement two NetBackup domains, each of one RHEL master server plus three x NB5230 v2.6.0.2 (three media server appliances at each site), split across two sites - the only NetBackup traffic between sites is expected to be AIR, ...

NBU Appliance running 7.6.0.3 how to config SNMP Traps on Solarwinds

HI All, I'm struggling to get SNMP V2c configured on my Solarwinds box for both of my NBU 2.6.0.3.. appliances. I've configured a Community String & added the SNMP server details on both devices, but when I try to add them as nodes, Solarwinds is...

NBU Appliance Admin access via putty ssh is denied

I've been loggin in remotely to NBU appliance via putty ssh until I configured SRM (IPMI) and practically click Console Redirection button. After that I cannot log in anymore to appliance via putty (access denied), though login directly to appliance ...

Netbackup Appliance FT Server Poor Performance

Any one knows what is the best performance average to backup AIX Lpar trough SAN Client, i been applied buffers and number buffers for ft, but the performance is about a 200 MB/sec. Netbackup Appliance and AIX lpar are connected by brocade switch wi...

Resolved! Cannot run garbage collection anymore. crcollect is missing...

I have a NetBackup 5220 appliance, which was upgraded to version 2.6 several months ago. I was trying to run a manual garbage collection today, following the usual instructions. Problem is, when I get to step 5, and try to run crcollect, is says th...

Appliance to Appliance replication taking more time than expected.

Appliance to Appliance replication taking more time than expected. Both servers Appliance model is 5220. Master version is 7.6.0.2 Appliance version is 2.6.0.2 It seems some replication jobs take 47 to 50 hours to complete. Please provide a solu...

Resolved! Did anyone worked on AIR required_interface setting ?

I need to route my Network Traffic in an already configured AIR Environment to an alternate unconfigure interface. This would be to eth0 on the appliance which is unconfigured. Can someone share with me the steps that needs to be followed here ? ...

NBU Appliance IPMI KVM Disabled

I have a 5230 Appliance, I have managed to get the IPMI configured by using IPMITools. When I try to use the KVM portion (Click on the Remote Control tab) I get a pop-up saying "This feature has been disabled by an administrator" I followed the inst...

Resolved! Migrating From Data Domain To NBU Appliances

Hi, One of our customers is currently using NBU 7.5 for two infrastrucutres (Unix and Windows). Recently they decided to move to NBU Appliances (5230, 3 of them). what is the easiest way to migrate the existing data from the DD appliance to the...

Dedupe factor with Oracle Data Guard shipped transaction logs

Hi All, I learned that the Data guard has a capability of shipping transaction logs in such a way that it does not replace a whole log file but just the changes at the block level. I am just curious if this will allow us to backup those files with g...

Resolved! Remote AIR restore from tape

Hi All, I have AIR setup and working between two appliances and have successfully restored a backup using the Vcenter plug-in from the remote master. We keep the images on the remote master for around 3 months. However, at the remote server e...

Appliance Checkpoint Automation

Hi All, Is there a way of automating checkpoint creation on an appliance? Or is it purely a manual process? Kind Regards, Leo.

Resolved! Decommission of NBU 5000s

I need to decommission 2 NBU 5000s and can't find clear information on doing that. I pointed all policies to other storage and allowed everything on the appliances to expire. Is there a tech note or other documentation on removing them?

Resolved! Migrating Master server from appliance to a Windows/Linux server

Hi All, Kindly help me in understanding if this is possible. I have a 5230 configured as Master and media server(2.6.0.1). I want to take out the Master component from it and migrate/move it to another server either with Linux or windows OS. Kindl...

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