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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 ...

AIR not happening for a client

Hello all NBU 5200 Appliance Version: 2.5.1, Appliance Version: 2.5.1 2 appliances at same version. scenario: i added a windows server CLIENT1(uppercase) to a test policy backup ran for 20 mins then I had to cancel it due to some other activity. ...

NetBackup Appliance v2.5.4 re-image failed

Hi Team, Kindly assist, I recently re-image my NetBackup Appliance 5230 running v2.5.4. However, the re-imaging did not complete successfully. I got this two errors below while the re-imaging is still booting: vxfs mount: vxfs: ERROR:V-321268: /dev...

Upgrade from 2.5.04 to 2.6.0.2 - MSDP Conversion

I recently performed an upgrade to a 5230 appliance from 2.5.0.4 to 2.6.0.2. The appliance has a newly configured MSDP pool with nothing on it. Will a conversion actually run on that new pool? Or since it is new will it be skipped? Thanks!

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance upgrade 2.6.0.3 did not take effect

Hello Support Team, I recently upgraded my appliance version from 2.6.0.1 to version 2.6.0.3. However, the upgrade did not work. Before the upgrade I copied the image SYMC_NBAPP_update-2.6.0.3-1.x86_64.rpm into the appliance /inst/patch/incoming dir...

Resolved! NBU appliance upgrade and catalog

Hi, my customer has one NBU 5230 appliance which is currently running on 2.5.3 and it is configured as a master server. There are some clients which are backed up to this appliance's dedup pool. All clients are Windows clients (NBU 7.5.0.6 client). R...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance Slow Rehydration to tape and bad backup performance

Help! Netbackup Appliances 5230 2.6.0.2. One of our appliances houses ms-standard windows all local drives backups and vmware snapshot backups. Backups run at good speeds however as soon as we start our slps to copy the data from the msdp to tape t...

Could someone show the output from a working linkaggregation show...

Hi Peeps - hoping that someone with a v7.6.0.2 (NB52x0) appliance, for which they are sure that 1 Gb NIC bonding is working, would be willing to show the output of 'linkaggregation show' - please? Got some appliances and whilst bonding looks to have...

Resolved! Can a Linux NetBackup Appliance Media Server write to Windows Event Log?

My current monitoring software scrapes the windows Event Viewer, problem is all netbackup jobs are recorded on a Linux Media Server. Is there a way to send stats of the backups from the Linux Server to a Windows server to be viewed in event viewer? ...

NetBackup failures to write to Windows Event Log

Ok so the gist of it is we have a NetBackup Appliance that is Linux and most if not all servers being backed up are Windows. We want to be able to use the Application log in Windows Event Viewer to determine if a backup has failed with our monitoring...

Decommission of media server and adding NBU 5230 appliance in place

Hello, we are planning to decom existing Linux media servers and adding 2 new 5230 appliance in place. Can someone please list out step by step process need to be followed during this refresh? Master: Linux -NBU 7.5.0.6 Existing media servers: Lin...

Resolved! "Orphaned" bpbkar processes on 5220 appliance?

Has anyone else run into this issue? Over time, more and more bpbkar processes become "orphaned" on my appliance. They are ALL VMware backup processes (I can tell by the hostnames in the bpbkar commands). It seems to correspond to a "Status 13" - ...

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance Call Home Feature

Hello, We are running Netbackup Master Server with version 7.6.0.3 on Windows Server 2008 sp1 r2 and our Netbackup media servers are Ntebackup Appliances 5230. Recently, I read about the Call Home feature that supported by the Netbackup Applia...

Backup SAN VMware Slow

Hello I have a very big doubt with respect to my VMware backups of my Netbackup Appliance 5220 he is doing. Efetuei a recent update to version v2.6.0.3 and realized that there was a significant delay in my backups. Looking better in Master Server...

Resolved! Backup Appliance 5230 for Scale out Storage

Hi everyone, I am going to work on the design of backup solution for scale out storage (700TB) with Backup Applince 5230. The solution is based on NFS scan through the snapshot thus I am going to mount to daily snapshot and run the backup process th...

Resolved! Backup multiple storage groups on EMC VNX 5300 via NBU 5230?

Hello. I have a problem I need resolved and hoping someone out there has a EMC VNX series SAN who has successfully figured this out. We recently purchased a 40TB Netbackup 5230 solution and will be backing up our VMware clusters which their data is...

Resolved! Appliance Self Test fails during upgrade from 2.6.0.1 to 2.6.0.3

While trying to upgrade Netbackup 5230 appliance from 2.6.0.1 to 2.6.0.3, the self test fails with the following: Checking test backup and restore operations ... [FAIL] I checked activity monitor, and I see that the self ...

Resolved! Disable all Jobs while patching

We're about to upgrade our 5230 appliances to 2.6.0.3 and I want to be sure our scheduled jobs don't start during the patch. What's the easiest way? All jobs are configured through SLP's. Thanks

bptestbpcd fails for client name but works for ip.

I have a host name that I have in dns and in /etc/hosts. I ping it, and get the right ip, I nslookup on it and get the right ip. I bptestbpcd to the name and it fails 25, if I do to the ip address and it works great. I've cleared the host ca...

Resolved! Merging of two or more domains

Hello, I would like to merge one Netbackup domain into another and have found that the following information. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH31385&profileURL=https%3A%2F%2Fsymaccount-profile.symantec.com%2FSSO%2F...

10 gig connectivity option on Appliance 5230

Hi,, I am installing Symantec 5230 installation with media server role. Master on window VM. Appliance configuration consist, 4 x 1Gig, & 4 x 10Gig. I need to know if I can Bond all 4 x 10Gig into one bond. I saw that it gives us an option to bo...

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