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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! backups failing with error code 48

Hi All, i am having an unusual problem from a specific media server which hosts disks. 1. the server I am trying to backup, the host name is not pinging, but IP is 2. while doing nslookup, both forward and reverse lookups are successful 3. while runn...

Resolved! Upgrade 5220 in factory installed state

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade an appliance 5220, in 2.5.1 release, to 2.5.3. During process, checks fails with Netbackup test. Obviously, upgrade process stop. So, I've checked software status and my appliance is "Factory Installed State". It's new appli...

Resolved! 2.5.3 Upgrade on 5220's

Hi, We've upgraded quiet afew 5220's to 2.5.3 in the last week and have noticed an issue with the BBU status. All upgrades completed fine and appliances have been re-started several times, backup are working, however when running Monitor>Hardware Ad...

Standalone drive on a 5220 appliance, media not being autodetected

I am trying to get a Tandberg LTO-4 Standalone SAS drive to work on my NetBackup 5220 appliance. The system sees the drive, but I cannot seem to access the media when I put the tape in. I am running a separate Windows server as my master. When I conn...

Max Concurrent Job setting

I'm trying to find the optimal setting for my 5220's Max Concurrent Job setting for my diskpool, which is 2 shelf units with 72GB of space. Is there a way to monitor the box while making changes to this setting so I can tell if it is being over utili...

Resolved! Licences on NBU appliance

hi. What's the meaning of "Transferrable software licensing" in the appliance. What can i tranfer? regards!

Resolved! Command Line Administration of netbackup appliance

Hi All, I am new to netbackup appliances, and face issue while day to day monitoring, like if want to run any command eg : bpimagelist etc.... i am not sure where to go and run them. the command line is totally different. I search some appliance ...

Resolved! not getting throuhput while running a client backup through local appliance

Hello all, I do have a window 2003 R2 server with service pack 2. earlier we were taking its backup through WAN and were getting superb throughput. but when we install a local appliance to the server and tried to take its backup it started with 30 KB...

Resolved! Backup host for VMware and NDMP backups

I just upgraded my 5220 master/media server appliance to 2.5.3. I need to begin backing up some VMware hosts. I also need to configure a host to do NDMP backups. Can I use one server to do both? And what kind of hardware requirements would I need...

There is many errors when i update the Netbackup Appliance 5220 from 2.5 to 2.5.3 version.

There is many errors when i update the Netbackup Appliance 5220 from 2.5 to 2.5.3 version. After it has Rollback,there is many error again. Maintenance <!-- Maintenance Mode --!> Error in tempfile() using /tmp/errfile_XXXXXX: Could not create temp ...

There is an error when i backup the files using san client.

2013-7-18 20:27:29 - Info nbjm (pid=10869) starting backup job (jobid=14448) for client ocrdb.localdomain, policy ocr_img, schedule Full_Backup 2013-7-18 20:27:29 - Info nbjm (pid=10869) requesting STANDARD_RESOURCE resources from RB for backup job ...

Resolved! AIR Replication Jobs are getting queued.

We are experiencing a huge AIR replication job queue over the last two weeks and also many active jobs are running very slow. Also observed few of the oldest replications are failing with error code 227.My questions are ... 1.Is there any way we ...

Resolved! 5200 upgrade broke netbackup !! getting all condition code 25's

So, i upgraded my 5200 to 2.5.3 today, and now all my backups can't connect with condition code 25. The upgrade APPEARED to go well. my master is on windows 2008 R2, NetBackup 7.5.0.6 Support has been unable to find an issue, and while waiting for a...

Resolved! Cannot select "Use Accelerator" with NBU Admin Console, but Java Console works

I've noticed some annoyingly odd behavior in that when the policy attribute window is open in NetBackup Admin Console, it will not let me have the "Use Acclerator" option checked and gives the following error: "To use the accelerator, select storag...

Patch 2.5.3 installation keeps failing

I have an appliance and tried applying the 2.5.3 (7.5.0.6 equivalent) patch and it keeps failing because the Disk Pool name isn't what is expected. Why hardcode a name for the disk pool in the patch and not force that name to be used when the appli...

How to reimaging the Netbackup Appliance 5220 with the Storage Shelf attached?

I want to reimaging the nbu5220 with a 36TB storage shelf attached,it is the master server both the media server role,i don't want to loss any backup data,how should i do?

Netbackup functionality queries

Does Netbackup do following functions........... (Appliance would be the latest. now a days its 5230) a. Netbackup do Integrity Check ? b. SNMP Support ? c. Event Base backups ?

DARS DATABASE UPDATE Fails

I need to perform an oracle cloned restore from OPSCENTER. I added the ORACLE_METADATA=YES entry in the bp.conf of the oracle user;s home directory. Now when I run a backup the backup successds but the DARS DATABASE UPDATE fails with the following: E...

Resolved! Accelerator not activated on 5220 appliances

Hello, I am having an issue using Accelerator on all of our backup policies in our NetBackup environment. We are running 7.5.0.4 on Windows Server 2008 with 1 master server, 1 media server, and 3 NetBackup 5220 disk appliances. I receive a few differ...

There is an error when i boot the Netbackup Appliance: UX:vxfs mount.vxfs: ERROR: V-3-21268

Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.16.60-0.101.1-smp-wan_2.1.1 Loaded 24107 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.16.60-0.101.1-smp-wan_2.1.1. Symbols match kernel version 2.6.16. No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. klogd 1.4.1, log s...

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