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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! Appliances and zoning up basic disk from a san.

I have 5230s fully populated with 64 TB of Dedupe. I have picky DBAs that do their own backup files of SQL. Obviously backup sql backup files to a dedup pool makes no sense. I have loads of san storage laying around. And the company wants NBU to...

Resolved! NBU appliance backup notification change sender email

Hello everyone, I have setup an appliance 5230 recently, with server send mail configured under universal settings. But the sender is root@linux.local, which I would like to change it to <hostname>@<domain>.com Can anyone advise how to do so? ...

Resolved! NBU appliance 5230 got 3 partitions

Need help on the appliance paritioning . I have managed to configure the box as netbackup master server via the IE gui . when i do a check on the disk partition , i found that the 4 TB storage has been divided to below. MSDP - 2.4 TB , ADv Disk - ...

Resolved! 5230 Appliance - Best Practice for iSCSI SAN backup

As the 52xx Appliances do not support iSCSI attach I am just wondering what is seen as best practice for securing VMware data when the datastores reside on an iSCSI attached SAN. I guess there are two options: 1. Create 1 or more VMware Proxy Backu...

Backup is Slow

Hi, How to imporve netbackup performance. it s getting too slow when Initiate full backup. i found change journals is enabled but not using change journals also and accelerator is enabled but not showing accelerator percentage. please advice how to ...

Resolved! AIR - image contains no files at remote domain

We are using NBU 5230 Appliances (NBU 7.5) at Primary site with AIR to replicate the Oracle database images to the remote NBU 5230 Appliances (another NBU domain) using SLP. The primary job completes successfully (shows 16GB size). The replication j...

Resolved! SLP Duplication to LTO -5 Tapes speed very slow

Hi I am using NEtbackup Appliance 5220 with 2.5.1. The configuration is 4 Fibre Connected LTO-5 Tape Drives with MSDP pool of 32 TB. I have created SLPs to first backup data to MSDP pool and then to Tapes. The first problem is i cant see the speed...

Resolved! Netbackup 5020 and 5030 appliances

I am simply looking for some information regarding these PDDO appliances. Are they being phased out as a result of the increased capacity of their MSDP counterparts (5220/5230)? I was in contact with one of our reps and they mentioned the 5030 was ...

Resolved! IPMI Port

Hi, we have 15 appliances working fine, but on two of them, we have never managed to get the IPMI interface working. We have power cycled and used know working network switch ports and cables but still no joy. We have been told to remove the power to...

Resolved! To configure the entire space for PureDisk appliance 5230 with netbackup 7.6.0.1

Hello Team, Can you provide me the steps and procedure in configuring the entire advanced disk space for puredisk Environment: Appliance OS is Linux Appliance Version: 2.6.0.1 NetBackup Version: 7.6.0.1 Build Date: 20131113 Server TypeUsed Cap...

Resolved! Can NetBackup Appliance 5230 backup via ethernet?

If there is no storage in the backup environment and we have to use the 5230 storage, also we have to connect the servers via ethernet. Can the backup process work?

Resolved! How to create usb image for appliance 5230?

I need to create usb image for appliance 4230? I need the instruction please!

Resolved! AIR replication between different NBU releases

Hello there, Can I perform AIR replication between 2 Netbackup release? I am going to be upgrading my both appliances soon but the upgrade will be spread out between 3-4 weeks. Can I have one appliance on 7.6.0.1 and other on 2.5.2 performing AIR r...

Resolved! MTBF NetBackup Appliances

Hi, I need a Reliability information about NetBackup Appliances product in order to realize a Safety analysis and, I didn’t find it in the datasheet. Please, do you know the MTBF value (Mean Time Between Failures) for a NetBackup Appliances p...

Resolved! SAN based tape drive on 5200

Wish to fibre-channel attach tape library (HP MSL 4048) to 5200 appliance, software level 2.5.3, NetBackup 7.5.0.6 Found this https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-configure-san-based-tape-drive-and-libr-5220-appliance for 5220, is it a...

Resolved! appliance 5220 as a master/media server configuration failed

hi, i am trying to configure the appliance i start its wizard via web UI. when i select the appliance as a master server it is failed. for your reference i attached the screenshot. in second screenshot when i click here wording it will move me agai...

Resolved! Netbackup machine name or FQDN

Netbackup has been setup with using FQDN Bp.conf displays machine name in server list and for emmserver entry nbemmcmd -listhost -verbose displays FQDN with machine name. When a client resolves masterserver name what should it use? What should DN...

SAN Client Cluster Name using LAN to backup

My Environment : Master Server Windows 2012 NetBackup Master 7.6.0.1 Media Server NetBackup Appliance 5230 NetBackup 2.6.1 Client AIX 6.1 TL8 NetBackup client 7.6.0.1 I just install 2 x client and enable SAN as transport. i create pol...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance support for VLAN Tagging?

Hi, Let me know if you have any information that support this statment. We are trying to create a BIG (10GbE) pipe (4 Interfaces) conecting the appliance to a cisco NEXUS in a customer data center, the customer has so many VLAN's an they were asking...

Resolved! Netbackup accelerator vs netbackup dedupe

folks, here is a scenario i m confused about. do not have valid answer to take it up with management. NBU master n media servers at 7.5 .I have 4 NBU appliances all NBU 5220(version 2.5.1,acting as media server). their total capacity is almost reac...

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