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DFS servers backup
Hello,I'd like to ask you if it's totally enough to back-up several DFS servers via one Policy, using just 'ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES' option in its Backup Selection?I'm curious about the recovery operations if such congifuration is sufficient (so far I haven...
How Do I Backup and Restore My AI Database? A Look Into ChromaDB and AI/LLM Databases
Hi Friends,With the rising popularity of AI databases you KNOW that one is going to end up in your datacenter and you KNOW that one is going to become production before you have a backup and restore plan. How do I know this? I was a System Administ...
Resolved! Oracle to Netbackup Copilot
Hello,I'm trying to implement Copilot for Oracle. I've set up the SLPs and registered the test instance, but NBU is unable to perform a backup with the error:Unable to perform a manual backup with policy "test". The policy does not have a list of fil...
Resolved! Duplicating tapes fails: INF - Cannot obtain resources for this job : error [167]
Netbackup 9.1.0.1 on Linux master server. There are no other media servers in the environment.We are replacing our old LTO5 tape library with a new LTO8 library.Most of our backups for this account are short term so we will just let them age out. B...
Attention DBAs! New with NetBackup 10.4, PostgreSQL Recovery to PIT in Hours/Minutes/Seconds!!
Hi Friends, Veritas realizes that as a Database Administrator Point In Time (PIT) recoveries to the second are required when vital data needs to be restored. Manual recovery can introduce errors and adds times to critical business applications. New...
MS SQL VADP Application State Capture (ASC) Backups are Fully Recoverable in NetBackup 10.4
Starting with NetBackup 10.4, VMware VADP Microsoft SQL full backups can be configured for complete application restoration. Before this release, users had just copy-only full backups combined with differential and incremental transaction log backups...
Disk storage unit is full, but it's not full (netbackup 10.1.1)
Hello,I have failed backups due to disk storage unit is full, but the problem is that there is enough space in diskpool and disk volume.Diskpool is full at 80%, high water mark is set to 96%, in other FS there is enough space.Netbackup services has b...
Netbackup PIPE_ORPHANED
Hi,by few days i looked for all FT SAN client connection orphaned and backups stuck in order to switch in Lan, on primary server./usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbrbutil -listOrphanedPipesPipe ID Pipe State Media Server=============================...
Image Duplication Backlog
Hello everyone!I've only recently started working with NetBackup and I've been dealing with it a few weeks now. Now, onto my question regarding duplication and its backlog.Over the weekend, many duplications piled up due to errors or due to the closi...
New Critical MSDP Security Functions Get Multi-Person Authorization (MPA) in NetBackup 10.4 API
Let’s face it, you’re far more likely to be hacked through an OS shell than a GUI, so NetBackup 10.4 safeguards MSDP shell WORM functions with MPA. This is part of our continual hardening of NetBackup as the nightmare of malware and ransomware contin...
NetBackup 10.4 Adds K8s Malware Scanning Support and New Malware Scanning Features
Previous versions of NetBackup offered great backup data malware scanning options. But version 10.4 adds a litany of great new malware scanning features you’ll want to have. Just upgrade and they’re yours today: Scanning of K8s unstructured namespace...
the specified policy does not exist in the configuration database
Hello Experts,Oracle policy has been deleted and oracle client server has been decommissioned but still Net backup throwing error "the specified policy does not exist in the configuration database" with job policy "NULL" and Job schedule "NULL".Can y...
NetBackup Snapshot Manager Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint Support for AWS in 10.4!!
Hi Friends, When creating backup copies with Veritas NetBackup Snapshot Manger in AWS a VPC endpoint can now be created to move backups from one region to another without traversing the public Internet. Configuration In AWS navigate to Virtual Privat...
Enable quiescing on Oracle LinuxVM with Oracle BD?
Hello,Please your comments about this issue, we have a VM with Oracle Linux 7.9 and BD Oracle 12c R2.We execute de quiesced backup and the BD is affected in its transaccionality.What is the best practice in this case? We have vmtools installedWith qu...
NetBackup 10.4 MPA and MFA Enhancements --- Modern Security for Modern Times
NetBackup 10.4 has been enhanced with key new multi-factor and multi-person authorization (MFA/MPA) features. These features help users keep up with the ever-evolving security threats to data recovery systems. Hackers have made it clear they’re comi...
NetBackup 10.4 Standardizes Security Event Pushes to Common External Platforms Using the OCSF Schema
Standardizing on one digital disc format (the Phillips standard) for audio and then video was the key to building the great leap forward for the audio-video industry back in the 1980’s. It saved all the audio vendors an ongoing battle between disc f...
Sooooo…How Are You Getting Your AI Back After a Disaster?
The life of the modern data protection administrator After decades of being in IT and data protection, I can tell you the moment I dread most in such meetings. It’s a moment coming to your IT meeting rooms very shortly. You know that moment where a s...
Attention DBAs! Now with NetBackup 10.4! Protect MSSQL Availability Group Secondary Replicas
Hi Friends, Veritas now provides MSSQL DBAs the ability to protect MSSQL Availability Group secondary replicas that have been configured as non-readable. Setup and Configuration Setup and configuration is simple and requires the Veritas NetBackup ...
Backup from Snapshot vs normal VM snapshot with CBT
HelloI have the following question to the community:What is the best way to bring the VM data to a msdp pool if the VMs reside on a storage array and it is connected to the ESX servers using nfs?I have 2 options:1. Do a snapshot on the primary storag...
DFSR backup takes a long time to start data transfer
Hello,Please help with this behavior. We have an environment with two DFSR fileservers between two sites, with compression and deduplication enabled on all partitions.We have implemented backups through Shadow Copy Components (as indicated in the doc...
