07-26-2017 07:49 AM
07-26-2017 01:29 PM
07-26-2017 01:48 PM
Hi,
Is important you mention the NBU and NAS versions...It depends on your version there is somethings that you should verify before starts the setup policy.
For example
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000095049 - If, set type=tar, is used by an NDMP backup policy protecting an EMC networked storage device, incremental backups do not include data for directory nodes that have not been modified since the last backup
How to back up CIFS shares on Windows with NetBackup - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH198175
(Applied for NBU 6, 6.5, 7, 7.1 and 7.5)
Regards,
Thiago
07-27-2017 07:35 AM
Thanks for your reply Marianne! Unfortunately, we are having 6.5.6 NetBackup version. As i said in my earlier threads too that we got some challenges for upgrading our environment to the latest.
In the mean time we got another challenge to continue the way we are are backing up the stuff. With windows 2003 client/media server the CIFS backups works fine but not with Windows 2008.
It’s a Windows 2008 Media Server running NBU 6.5.6. We are running backups from a Windows 2003 NBU Client and it works fine. This is the way we’ve always done it and never had issues. Our particular problem now is policy related as our Security Team insists that we get rid of every instance of Windows 2003 in the organization.
07-27-2017 07:44 AM
Your Security Team wants to get rid of W2003 because it is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Tell them they should apply the same rule to NBU 6.5.6. Support ran out in 2012.
Tell them if you cannot use a supported way to backup the share, then they need to accept responsibility for the fact that backups will not be possible.