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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 ...

Is the front face plate on your 5000/5020/5200 falling off?

So wanted to share a bit of information on something that I've noticed a lot of our customers having a hard time with. When you use the standard mounting screws on the front of the 5000/5020/5200 appliances, you will have a hard time (darn near impo...

Resolved! 5220 Appliance - Re-configuring eth0 port to change address

When configuring a 5220 (2.0.2 code level) today I came accross a couple of issues when configuring the network. By default, I plugged the laptop into eth0, attached via browser to 192.168.1.1, and started the initial configuration. My aim was to ac...

How do I change the IP address on a 5020 appliance?

I have a 5020 appliance that is a member of a storage pool. It is not the SPA. I need to change the IP address on eth3 to enable 10GB connectivity but there is no sysadmin account on a pool member. Does anyone know how to either: 1) run the sysadmin ...

Resolved! Error code 50 Client process aborted during duplication from appliance

Below is the error code 50 when i running SLP ( backup to appliance and alternate read from appliance and duplicated to LTO3 library attached to the appliance via FC connection). I do faced this issue after i have cut over to the appliance MSDP bac...

Resolved! ipmi on 5000

Hi Somebody knows if it's possible to use the remote console throught ipmi on the netbackup 5000 appliance? IPMI is working, altough only with the -I lan parameter. this indicates ipmi version 1.5. If I use the -I lanplus I cannot get a connections...

Resolved! 5220 Appliance - unable to create storage server and disk pools

Hi all, Having huge difficulties configuring 5220 appliances in our environment (Master = NBU 7.1, AIX 5.3). Having successully configured four, I have hit brick wall with subsequent installations. All are failing with the below error. Host and ap...

Reimaging NBU5220 with 2.0.2

Hey Guys, I stumbled upon the following issue while re-imaging to 2.0.2. The appliance had the external extension shelf connected and 2xFC cables connected to FC ports in slot 3 (tape-out). During the re-image process, just after the operating ...

CALLHOME status: Not able to upload callhome data

Hello, I'm receiving this error message again, but it slightly different than before. The last time we received these messages was when Symantec's CALLHOME server was down. I believe we are having the same issue, but with additional error messages. I...

Resolved! Cancel retrying (AIR) Import job on 5200 master

I have configured one of my 5200's as a master server and put it in our dr site. Im am using AIR and import SLP's to replicate the data to the DR appliance. Since I upgraded my datacenters netbackup to 7.5 imports for my cataloge backups are failing...

Optimized duplication between MSDP and Appliance 5220

Hi, is it possible to duplicate backups from MSDP (Windows 2008, Netbackup 7.1.0.4) to Netbackup Appliance 5220 (Version 2.0.1). I have status 50 (client process abort). Thanks

Resolved! 5220 Appliance and VMware Backup (V-Ray)

I have a site where I will shortly be installing 2 x 5220 Appliances as a 'green-field' Netbackup installation. The site has a mix of various Unix platforms, Windows physical servers and a VMware environment hosting Windows and Linux clients. The ONL...

Resolved! 5220 Appliance Topology - Help

Hi. Need help with appliance configuration. 1 NBU Domain, 1 NBU Master 7.1 (Datacentre 1) Datacentre 1 1 x physical Master 3 x 32Tb 5220 Load balanced MSDP of all appliances. Duplication target for Datacentre 2 and remote sites. Manag...

Running seedutil when only PureDisk/De-Dup disks are 5220's

I've got a 7.1.0.4 NetBackup Master (Win2k8 x64) that controls two 5220's, one of which is at a remote location with a very thin pipe. The remote 5220 is the primary backup location (for the remote office) and the the 5220 that is local to the Maste...

Resolved! Appliance 5220 software fresh installation

i have tried to fresh installing a new 5220 software version from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. Strange is that during the installation of the version 2.0.2 the progress wasnt shown on the monitor output. But after the upgrade the server unable to bootup to operat...

Resolved! Tape encryption on NetBackup 5200 appliances

Hello We are configuring a pair of NetBackup 5200 appliances as a Master Server / Media Server pair. They share an LTO5 tape library. In the Appliance documentation (page 73) it mentions that the NetBackup appliance supports LTO drives which are capa...

Maximum tape tape throughput of NBU 5220 appliance

Does anyone have test info on the maximum recommended number of tape drives that can be SAN connected to a NBU 5220? Max throughput to one drive or all drives that can be expected? Any recommendations on how many HBAs would be needed to maximize thro...

Resolved! NB 5020 Rail Install

So I just got a couple of 5020 appliances and was getting ready to rack them when I opened the boxes for the rails. While I am no expert in rail installs this isn't my first one either. I can't find any directions or pictures of the rails installed...

Appliances

I have a customer who has about 500 TB of data (300 TB and one site and 200 TB at the other) across two data centers about 500 miles apart. They are using TSM so this would be a complete new NBU install (which they want to do). They only want to use ...

NBU Appliances

Hello, I am working with a customer who has 33 remote locations that all have under 2 TB of data. They want to get rid of remote management and remote tapes and completely automate the backups to a centeral site. Connects are mostly T1's and SLA is a...

Resolved! 5200 and accelerator feature

Does anyone know if the 5200 appliance is qualified to use the new 7.5 accelerator feature? appliance is at version 2.0.2

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