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Marianne by Level 6
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Resolved! NetBackup Upgrade from 7.1 to 7.5

We plan on upgrading to Netbackup version 7.5.  We're currently on version 7.1.  We have many media and client servers that will need to be upgraded after the master and we won't be able to get to all of them in one day.  Will the media and clients s...

Resolved! Ejecting Media from Different Volume Groups

We have a Robot accessing both LTO2 and LTO3 media and drives. I have sepperated the LTO2 and LTO3 media into different Media Types(HCART2 and HCART3). I am wondering if there is a way to eject media from different groups within the same robot in one...

Resolved! How can we identify the data written on the tapes.

Hi. We have 2 magazines, left magazine with  8 tapes and empty right magazine. I would like to know how can we identify the data written on the which tapes. Can I segregate tapes according to the policies created, Like , we have 8 servers to be backe...

Resolved! Restore job using different Media server

Team we have one Master server 7.5.0.3 which has 3 media servers running on same version as master in window 2008 R2  Now issue is 1 out of 3 is dedecated SAN Media server and other other two are normal media servers which has connected to DD But whi...

How to backup a Oracle Database on a Oralce VM server

How to backup a Oracle Database on a Oracle VM server? My netbackup 7.5 has the Oracle licence, but when I take the Oracle Policy Type and I'm trying to take a backup of the BD's, I've got an error... The backup failed to back up the requested files(...

Resolved! Touch file to keep a media server always up

Hello, I remember there is a touch file that is used to prevent the monitoring of the server itself. It is used to keep the media server always up. Just I don't find around the name and the location of this file. Have a nice day.

ddm2 by Level 5
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Resolved! NetBack Versions

Hi,   Quick query about running different versions of netbackup between client and media server. We are running 7.1 across the board. We have an issue on Exchange 2010 mailbox servers which is apparently fixed in 7.1.0.3, so we were going to upgrade ...

ricp by Level 4
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brbackup with snapshot backup

Hello!   We need to migrate from TSM a SAP backup that used "online_mirror/offline_mirror" option with splitint and a IBM Flashcopy software.   Now I use a SAP Policy with the IBM_DiskStorage_Flashcopy Snapshot method. As described in the documentati...

cimo by Level 4
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Resolved! Enterprise Vault Backup

Hi, need some clarity on configuring EV backup. Let me explain the setup. Setup is in hyper-v, i have VM-1 for EV and VM-2 for sql, when i configure policy to backup EV , is it mandatory to create separate polciy for SQL and EV. or ev policy type ...

Marc_Jo by Level 4
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Resolved! Status 183 - Tar received an invalid archive

Hi, I am getting status 183 error during restoration. I checked the destination folder, It is having full perrmissions and Space also 07/09/2012 00:41:31 - begin Restore 07/09/2012 00:41:44 - number of images required: 1 07/09/2012 00:41:44 - media...

Resolved! upgrade NBU clients for exchange 2010 from revision 7.0 to 7.5

Hi, I am going to upgrade my NBU environment (including microsoft exchange server 2010 - GRT) from NBU 7.0 to 7.5, my question is: should I create new service account and a new mailbox to be associated with the Netbackup client service or I can leav...

grigori by Level 5
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Resolved! Netbackup 7.1 Snapshot error 156

Hi, For a long time I have had no issues with our VMWare snapshot backups but two days ago they started failing with the Snapshot error 156.  The error in the bpfis log is talking about VCB path errors which does not make sense to me as I am using "M...

Resolved! NetBackup 7.5.0.3 and Xming

I recently upgraded from NetBackup Enterprise 6.5.2a to 7.5.0.3.  Using Xming on my windows desktop I am able to launch the admin console successfully.  However, entries in the left pane are not fully functional.  For example, left click to select an...

yhbg by Level 4
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Resolved! Symantec netbackup with Dell PowerVault 124T

Hi friends. For our project, we are using Dell PowerVault 124T Tape Drive with Symantec Netbackup 7.0 on Redhat Linux 5. Recently due to some hardware issues, we had to replace our Dell powervault 124T with a new unit. Now, when I am trying to take b...

Resolved! Exchange bakcups particulat SG is getting partially Completed.

Hi, While taking Diff or Full backup, One Particulare SG is getting partially completed. No error details in Application event log from client side.   Below is the error message: 7/6/2012 12:45:47 PM - estimated 8 Kbytes needed 7/6/2012 12:45:49 PM ...

Resolved! Synthetic Full backup - client job

hi,  we are at 7.5.01 master and media. after upgrade we changed one of policy full backup to to synthetic full backup  to test. full ( synthtic full backup ) schedule is on sunday so today i check the acitivty monitor i seen the client is still job ...

Raju_la by Level 5
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Enquiry if NBU Standard Client can be applied to VMware environment

Hi, We have 2 esx hosts and need to purchase the appropriate NBU licenses. Our vm are based on windows/redhat linux. Can 2 x NBU standard client address my current environment or do I need to get NBU enterprise client instead. Here's a table which I'...

johnfan by Level 2
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Resolved! Need insight of NBU

Needed more insight of NBU. Was searching around for files with different extention that existed under NBU directory. Do we have any article or sort of thing which can explain them What does each directory hold. During backup what kind of files are c...

V4 by Level 6
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