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Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

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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! restore gives NBU status of 830 and NBJM error of 2001

I'm trying to restore an older tape for a SOX audit...I can read the tape using the "tape contents" report but everything else throws errors. I can't even bpexpdate -d 0 it (planning to then re-import it) without an error. I've checked the tape dr...

What tier is needed for a media server on a 5220 de-dupe device

Can someone please tell me what tier of enterprise license for a media server for a 5220 appliance is needed

AIR between two 5220's results in totaly symmetrical network usage?

NetBackup 7.1.0.4 Windows 2k8 R2 x64 Masters 5220's running 2.0.1 configured as Media Servers Firewalls at both ends configured to route any traffic from one 5220 going to the other 5220 via a 100 Meg circuit rather than the slower "WAN" link between...

Resolved! Connecting NB5220 and NB5020 via HBA

Hello, I have a NB5220 (sw 2.5) used as a Media Server and a NB5020 (sw 1.4.2). Both have Fibre Channel cards. I would like to use the NB 5020 as storage for the NB 5220 Media Server connecting them each other via HBAs (instead of using the NICs). I...

Appliance Firmware Upgrade (Etrack 2778194)

Thought I would take a moment and post a positive. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH192604 I reached out to support after reviewing the technote above, and indeed I had three appliances with a potentially impacted...

Account Description

I am conducting research on Netbackup 5200, and I was interested in knowing the descriptions of the admin account and maintenance account. Can someone provide me with a general overview and please identify the difference in functions of these account...

Resolved! Appliances / VTL etc

Hi, With the impending end of life for the HP VLS family I am now looking at alternatives for our Backup Environment, HP have given us the pitch on their B6200 StoreOnce systems which can be set ups as VTL / NAS or StoreOnce Catlyst (Disk), does anyo...

NDMP Backup Failures with Netbackup 5220

Hi All, I have recently set up two remote netbackup 5220's at offshore sites 1 and 2. They are in the same NBU domain as our onshore master server but geographically separate. In total we have 4 offshore IBM N-series nas heads, 2 at site 1 (nas1 and ...

Resolved! 5220 replication speed throttling

Hi, I have a problem with two 5220 replication data over WAN link. When replication kicks in it consumes all WAN link speed and this causes problem related to other traffic on the link. Appliance's uses 2.5 software. I've tryed thees setting without ...

Appliance 5220 NDMP backup extremely slow

Hi, I have problem with NDMP backup. I'm using a 5220 with 2.5 software on it to backup a EMC configured as a V-Block using NDMP. Speed I see is average of 5MB/s??? I have ha a few backup to run about 50MB/s but this is til very slow for a NDMP back...

Resolved! How to disable telemetry feature on the 5020 appliance

Hello folk, I want to disable telemetry feature on the NB 5020 appliance. How do it?

5220 Appliance - Unable to disable Call Home

We have several 5220 appliances on an isolated network with no outside access. I tried to uncheck the box in the appliance setup to disable Call Home, but it keeps re-enabling it. How does one get that to stick? Appliance is on 2.5.x code release.

Resolved! NBU 5220 Appliance & OpsCenter

I just brought up my first NBU 5220 appliance and I am trying to figure out how to access OpsCenter that is included. I cannot figure it out - I am sure it is something simple, but cannot find anything in the documentation. To access it in my old e...

Resolved! IPMI port setup on 5020 w/1.4.1.1

Hello, I have searched the documentation, knowledgebase, and the forums, and I cannot find detailed information on how to configure and use the IPMI port on a NetBackup Appliance 5020 running v1.4.1.1. I did find steps to configure the port in the De...

Newly build media server doesn't show in existing disk storage units

Hi guys, I am unable to find a reason that why my 2 new media servers doesn't show up on existing disk type storage units to select them. I have the same OST plugins from data domain as the old media servers. However when I create a new disk pool a...

NBU 5020 - Linux Media Server - Status Codes 83 and 84

Greetings, Recently we deployed a set of NBU 5020 appliances and on the Suse Linux Media Server we are consistenly getting status 83s. We have another AIX Media Server on which we are not seeing any errors. Wondering if any one experienced the simila...

restore old data from the appliance in DR

Hi All, how to restore old data from the appliance in DR like emails that were expired in the appliance in the production appliance? kindly advice

5220 Appliance takes a long time to reboot then hungs

I have a 5220 Appliance as a media server. It takes a long time reboot and then hungs. Have to go the daacenter to reboot the appliance manually. Any idea?

Script to Make the Drive Up in backup Environment

Hi Friends, Drive in one of backup Domain is Frequently Going Down Everytime i need to make the drive Up by right click "Up Drive" Option.Please some once let me know is there any specfic script avaiable to make the drive up With out Doing manually...

VLAN support on NB 5220 appliance

Hello, the customer has a number of Windows Media Servers with 1 10Gb NIC. On top of this NIC they are three Vitual NICs configured on three different VLANs. VLANs are configured using the HP utility for NC522SFP; on this way the server NIC generates...

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