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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! Using NetBackup AIR (Automatic Image Replication) With Encryption

Hi, My question is: I do some backup MSDP and SLP. - Appliances 5230, Suse 2.5.2, NetBackup Enterprise 7.5.0.5 - My backups are encrypted using NetBackup AIR. How do I decrypt these images on another site? TKS!

Resolved! Vmware snapshot

We currently use NetBackup to backup our VMware servers. During the backup process NetBackup initiates a VMware level snapshot, I know these snapshots are quiesce enabled but was wondering if you knew if they were configured to snap shot the virtual ...

Resolved! Fibre Transport on Appliance 5230

Hi All, I have a 5230 appliance that has a QLogic 2532 8Gb HBA in slot 4. I am trying to configure FT but when I try I get a failure message. I can see the storage from the Clariion but the ports are firmly locked in initiator mode rather than target...

Resolved! one to many auto image replication

hi all, I have 3 master servers. All NBU appliances. 1 at primary site and 2 at secondary site. say for eg: svr1-primary site, svr2-secondary site, svr3-secondary site. now the AIR is configured between svr1 and svr2. i want to configure svr3 in such...

Resolved! Symantec 5230 Appliance - Disk Space Warning Message

I am receiveing an email alert (Warning) each morning relating to disk space utilisation on the de-dup pool in my 5230 Appliance (which is at 80%) and wish to raise the threshold for the warning to 85%. The appliance is sitting steady at 80% so I am...

Resolved! Java Console Download?

Hi All, Is there anyway that I would be able to download the Java Console 7.6 without requiring my serial number on fileconnect? We have put a PO through for 7.6 media and our licenses but this may take a while to come through. Kind Regards

Resolved! Direct san backups

I have 5230 and 5220 backup appliances as well as IBM DS3512 san Storage. I was wondering if there was a way to do direct from san snapshots of a lun. I have an 8 TB lun with over 20million tiny files on it that I need to backup. The server connec...

Resolved! 5320 Appliance SAN HBA Multipathing and Clariion Failover Mode?

Hi All, We have a new 5230 appliance which we are going to use to back up VMDKs based on a Clariion CX480. We have connected and zoned the appliance to Cisco fabric switches and presented the Clariion storage to the 5230. How do we set up the HBA ...

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance send mail command line syntax

Hi all Does anyone know a command line to send an email directly from a NetBackup Appliance (5230 running 2.5.4)? If this works at all I guess it will involve going into maintenance and elevating to SU. I've configured opscentre and set up the SMTP s...

Resolved! AIR documentation?

hello guys! Where can I find the Netbackup AIR documentation for 7.1 appliances? Thank you!

Resolved! How to improve puredisk's daemons performance for the appliances

Hello, We were checking the 5230's process usage using the top command . We saw the spoold at the number one process of resource consumption. Is there a way to dedicate more process and memory for the processes in charge of deduplication? Re...

Resolved! pure disk

WE have pure disk PDDO(Not MSDP). How to do the restore ?From NBU GUI?

Resolved! What is the best way to use NetBackup Appliance to backup large NAS system

We are in the middle of a project to replace our current BackupExec 2012 with Data Domain 565 backup architecture with one of 3 possible solutions: 1. NetBackup 5230 Appliances (1x5230 with 76TB at primary DC and 2x5230 with 76TB each at secondary ...

Email notification coming from my 5220

I have an odd issue, and I cannot figure out where a certain email notification is coming from. I have a 5220 appliance, and a Master Server running on Windows Server 2008. Email notifications are set up and working from the master server just fine. ...

Resolved! 2.6.0.1 Upgrade keeps rolling back?

Im in the process of trying to upgrade two 5200 appliances from 2.5.3 to 2.6.0.1 and they keep rolling back about an hour into it. One is set as a media server only and one is master/media and they both are rolling back at the same spot with the sam...

Resolved! Appliances + FCoE

A year ago I started the following discussion: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/fcoe I would like to know if there´s any news related to it. I mean, is there any chance oh having CNAs in 5200, 5220 or 5230.? Thanks in advance.

Resolved! Storage Unit Groups and SLP

I am designing an enviroment that consists of (2) Netbackup 5230 appliances running version 2.6.0.1 and a VMware Master server Running Netbackup 7.6.0.1. I have created two deduplication pools, one on each appliance. the current plan is to backup to...

Resolved! Is it safe to delete all files from the /tmp folder of a Netbackup Appliance.

Hi everyone, One of our Netbackup Appliances has too many files (total of 1261936) in the /tmp folder. Some are over 1 GB in size. I have trouble transferring the DataCollect output file when requested to post it. Is it safe to delete all files f...

Resolved! Hyper-V backups - Agent based Accelerated Vs Snapshot based backups

Hello Experts, Kindly spare some time to compare both. Netbackup master 7.5.0.6 Appliances 5230 with 2.5.3 with 2 10G ports. Hyper-v Server is 2012

Resolved! SAN client backup

Hi, my master and media servers are all NBU 7.5.0.7. Recently we deployed a NBU 5230 appliance (version 2.5.4 which is equivalent to NBU 7.5.0.7). We configured one Windows client (Windows Server 2012, NBU 7.5.0.7) as SAN client, which will be backed...

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