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BMR Restore won't start "Failed to verify backup--rc(1002)
Hi,We are running NBU 8.0 (both clients, medias, master), and these days I'm trying to perform a BMR restore on a W2008r2 client using NBU 8.0. We're not encountering any errors with the backup operations, but when we start a BMR Restore (USB Key Boo...
NetBackup 10.4 Gives AWS Users MORE Security Options with STS Support!
Hi Friends, AWS provides AWS Security Token Service (STS) as a web service that enables customers to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for users to provide authentication in Cloud Object Protection for public and private cloud provider...
Resolved! High CPU load on primary server - java process
Hi All,The primary server is heavily loaded. CPU is utilized up to 70 percent by a java process. Both Java GUI and WebUI is unavailable.Stopping and starting NetBackup has not helped.The issue started 4 hours ago. We are not aware of any changes.NetB...
Resolved! S3 bucket deleting Access 3350
Hello, I've provided in the past a 25TB S3 bucket from a 3350 Access appliance, and it's no more needed. I'd like to remove it but I can't find any documentation about this procedure, anyone can help me? Am I missing anything?Thank you!
Setconfig path is not working
Hi, When I try to set the config path to a client from the Master/media server, the server got hung for a long time and does not result anything.Could anyone tell what is the problem behind it ?
NBU 10x tape 2 tape copy (inline copy) clarification.
Hi people:We have a 4 drive LTO9 library, Master/media server is Windows2022 and NBU 10.1.2. I have some policies that do a two tape copy of data to different pools. For example, mydata policy have two schedulesforeverfull schedule make a backup to M...
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...
