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In case you are not aware - you can subscribe to NBU notifications over here: https://sort.veritas.com/spec_doc Hopefully NBU 9 will be added to the list soon.

Marianne by Level 6
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Best Practices for Scheduling

We are running Netbackup 6.5.3.1.  We have one Master (Unix), four media servers (Unix) and three HP EML tape libraries.  We backup 312 clients in 223 policies.  The schedules vary and most are running fulls on a daily basis.  However, some run weekl...

Resolved! Windows 2003 complete client restore

Hi All, I am restoring complete windows 2003 client(vm) on another virtual machine. -backup taken as standard client  -restore is also standard not vmdk file restore -hostname is same -OS installed on new machine is also same -nbu client is 6.5.6 as ...

Pinku by Level 5
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BMR Backup & Recovery of System State with Windows XP

Hi In the following environment, i'am facing a qestion/problem with BMR and Windows XP : Netbackup 7.0.1.0 Enterpise on Sparc 64 as Master/Media-Server Windows XP SP3 as BMR-Boot-Server for Windows The Hard-Disk of the Windows XP has had failed after...

Resolved! Preview error when attempting a restore

We have just upgraded to 7.5 and, sometimes, we are seeing the following error when running a preview prior to a restore. "Null for the fileData arg. The exception was thrown from (SR-2)writeFile (vrts.common.server.ServerRequest)." The solution is :...

Netbackup 6.5.3 duplication problems

I've been running into an issue lately that has been very random. Each day at 6am my duplications take images from the SAN and move them to our tape library robot that has 2 tape drives. Somedays the duplications split evenly between the tape drives ...

Advance Disk Storage Pool Capacity

Hello Folks, Anyone have an idea about the maximum capacity size of advance disk storage pool ? i am using netbackup 7.1 on windows 2008 server BR. Usman  

Usman_Ali1 by Level 3
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cannot update the BAR history to perform restores

Hi Using netbackup 7.5.0.1, on win2008 sp1 x86, both test and live On initial install performed a recovery of the images from catalog, dated around weekend of 9th june Since then we normally copy image files via mem stick from production to test and ...

Resolved! Netbackup/Tape Robot Issues

Hi, We've been having some issues with our robot/tape drive and I've exhausted all ideas as to how to resolve it. All our backups are failing because the jobs stall due to having to wait for the drive to be ready ("Drives are in use in storage unit")...

Seonix by Level 3
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Resolved! hte services needed for NBAC

Hi All, When iam trying to configure NBAC  iam facing this problem that the netbackup authorization service stopped i cant start again. any Advice Appreciate your responce in advanced

Rami_Nasser1 by Level 6
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Resolved! Netbackup Migration

Hello Everybody. We have implemented NBU 7.1 for backups. We have 1 master server(standard) and 12 clients(standard). We are going to upgarde the master server to Enterprise and one of the clients to Enterprise. Once this is completed, we have to mig...

Resolved! Backup is failing with 59

Team we have one of the WIndows Client backup is failing with 59  same server able to communicate from Master server but it is failing while connecting with media server  it is able to communicate bptestbpcd from Master server but while trying to do ...

Resolved! VMware restore - EXIT code 183 tar received an invalid archive

Hi guys! I'm trying to restore individual files from VMware virtual machine backup, the job failed with status code 5  the restore failed to recover the requested files and EXIT code 183  tar received an invalid archive, tar log says: TAR stream can ...

mmeeggaann by Level 5
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Resolved! bpstart_notify

what does bpstart_notify script and bpend_notify.bat   - This script is called when bpbkar is started for a client backup. - This script receives six parameters: %1 = CLIENT_NAME %2 = POLICY_NAME %3 = SCHEDULE_NAME %4 = SCHEDULE_TYPE, one of the ...

Resolved! Netbackup taking down one tape drive

Netbackup 7.1.0.2 / Windows 2008 server x64 / Dell ML6020 with 6 LTO3 drives. For the last couple of weeks Netbackup has been down'ing one of my tape drives pretty much every night. But it's not happening every single night. When the error occurs I s...

Commulative backups do not run automaticly after failed full

I have checked, that in case of failure of automatic full backup, cumulative backup do not run and even not quied. I thought that next commutative backup, should start from the last successful full, but this not happens, cause i have successful full ...

Alex_Zn by Level 6
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Restoring Tables, Functions and views in SQL Server

Hi, I dont know if it is possible. I have one environment with three SQL Server 2005 and my backups are working fine. I already restored the entire database to the same server and different server and worked fine too. My doubt is the following. Can I...

Anderson_R__Gom by Level 5
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Resolved! Netbackup 6.5.6 Image Import

Hi, I'm trying to import an old tape; I don't have the Catalog for this tape. I tried the following steps: 1. The tape is LTO3 (we are using now LTO5 tapes) so I changed the configuration on Netbackup to the right one (Device_Drives_HCART2) 2. Invent...

sdlsuper by Level 3
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Resolved! Dedup Issues Netbackup 7.5.0.1

Friends, I have created brand new Netbackup 7.5.0.1 enviornment (1xMaster 2xMedia 7.5.0.1 - all virtual). I have seeded 6TB worth of data shipped across to data center on a USB from different remote sites and back it up using a local client (Seed123)...

Spartacus81 by Level 6
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