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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! VMware CBT supported to tapes or not

I’m running a NetBackup 5220 Appliance (media and master server), which we’re using to backup our VMware based file servers using the NetBackup VMware policy type. These backups used to run to disk but we’re having to go to tape and when doing so g...

Resolved! Any known issues to be aware of before upgrading a 5200 2.0.1 media server to 2.5.4

Hi Team, I'd like to know if you have experienced any known issues upgrading old 5200 2.0.1 Appliance media server to 2.5.4. While I do not expect any major problems groing from 2.5 to 2.5.4, I am not too sure from 2.0.1 to 2.5. What are you thoughts...

Resolved! AIR Import JOB NOT STARTED

Hello, I'm using AIR to duplicate to my DR site for the first time. My environment is 7.1.0.3 version and I'm using two Netbackup 5220 Appliances with MSDP/PureDisk. In the PDC my customer executed without problems the backup and the duplication jobs...

Resolved! NetBackup_7_Deduplication_Sizing Tool-Basic-3.2.xlsx

I have found a link to this excel on two posts in this forum. As this excel refers to some external data or calculation, I cannot use it In addition, it is not adjuted to 2.6 (7.6.0.1) Who owns the source? Can I get it? Regards

2.6.0.1 upgrade breaks CLISH if you have altered ssh port

If your company is like ours and has as a security model adopted using ssh on a different port than the default 22 then when you upgrade the CLISH is broken for various commands. I have not investigated all the commands but a couple of prominent ones...

Resolved! Client backup to 5220 for file servers

Just looking for any other experiences on these types of backup? I have a physical windows 2003 file server (OS due to be upgraded at some point in the future) which has a 5TB LUN of SAN attached storage. I've had a backup attempt on a number of oc...

Resolved! How to enable Encryption on Netbackup Appliance 5220 ?

Hi experts can anyone give me a hints on How to enable Encryption on Netbackup Appliance 5220 ? Thanks a lot Eric

Resolved! SAS card for Tape library connectivity and netbackup windows server catalog migrate to Netbackup linux server

hi, i have two queries listed below; 1. is PCI slot SAS card supported for IBM tape library 2. currently in my environment NetBackup server is configured on tradition pattren OS windows 2008 server. now i want to purchase a Netbackup appliance 5230, ...

Resolved! Buffer Settings for Duplication to LTO 5 Tape

We're using a Netbackup 5230 Appliance connected via 8Gb fibre to an HP MSL 8096 LTO 5 tape library with 4 drives. I've read many posts recommending leaving the buffer size as default: SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS : 262144 (Defa...

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...

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