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Subscribe to NBU notifications

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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Listing Netbackup 6.5 database clients

Hello, We are preparing for the 6.x to 7.x upgrade. Is there a command, or series of commands, that can be run from the Master server command line to identify which of the the NBU clients are being backed by a NBU Database extension product ?   Prefe...

Resolved! what this means:cannot connect on socket

  11:27:54.294 [31432] <16> bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(rocky23) failed: 25 <2>bptestbpcd: cannot connect on socket 11:27:54.294 [31432] <2> bptestbpcd: cannot connect on socket <2>bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 25

Resolved! NBU License Utility Error Message

Hi,   Has anyone tried to use NBU License Utility (Traditional/Capacity Base)? NBU ver. is 6.5.6 runiing on Windows Server 2008 64bit. After running the .exe file for 64bit environment it was searching for this "nbdeployutil.exe" which was missing wh...

Resolved! system state backup failure

Hi all we are getting system state backup failure on window client since quite a long time tried various things but failed. client windows OS 2003 sp2, nbu version 7.1 volume shadow copy and microsoft software shadow copy provider are in automatic an...

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Resolved! Is BMR possible without a boot server

Hello I'm trying to figure out the BMR product, I have Windows NB7.1 server  with BMR license and I'd like to enable BMR to some Linux clients. Can I do this without creating a boot server as I already have a boot server on the network for pxe / kick...

Resolved! Requirement to evaluate coverage of NDMP device.

Hello All Ive got a problem in that for my NAS/NDMP device, it cant chat with my master server when it comes to coverage checking. The NAS is clientless. Hence if I miss something off my NAS backup then I'm likely not going to know about it. So my pr...

NBU 7.1

Does anyone know a way to export\import policies including the current server list or just export/import policies.   tks ed

Resolved! NBU window client properties

Hi all     above is we get in NBU window client properties. I understand what is verbose level. can anybody explain me wats general, TCP, flush, Databse.????

rookie11 by Moderator
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client specific logs

Hi experts we all know bptm , bpbrm, bpdm logs are created on media server if directory is present. there are about 500 clients backup running in about 128 policies. they start around 7pm to 9:30 pm. Question : Is there a method to have client specif...

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Resolved! Backing up vSphere virtual machines with 2 vCenters

Hi I have a query with regards to backing up virtual machines in an environment with 2 vCenter leveraging on Netbackup 7.1.0.3 1) Previously our environment consists of only 1 vCenter server version 4.1. We have a proxy server running Netbackup 6.5.4...

MohdAlim by Level 5
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Resolved! requested media id was not found in the EMM database

Hi,   i'm getting an error while executing bpmedialist on several tapes, when i use vmquery -m Z282L3, there is no error: [root@tapemaster sbin]# bpmedialist -m Z282L3 requested media id was not found in the EMM database   i have this on a lot of t...

Resolved! Backup of Windows 2003 Certification Authority

Hello people, can someone explain how to backup a W2003 Certification Authority server using NetBackup? I didn't find docs or technotes around. Thanks in advance.

ddm2 by Level 5
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Resolved! Netbackup 7.1 Email notifications

Hello folks,   I have taken over the administration of NBU7.1 at my new job, I am new to the platform and the guy that was here before me had an e-mail notification setup to tell him what tapes were written.  I have seen the articles about how to tel...

Resolved! Symantec Endpoint Protection - NetBackup 7.1.03

Hello I was wondering if there is any definitive documents/url which outline what exclusions should be put in place when it comes to both the NetBackup Server (which also serves as a Storage Server with MSDF) and Virtual Backup Host. What interesting...

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Netbackup 7.1 Replication of old images to a remote master

We are using NBU 5200 Appliances in 2 Data Centers (different NBU) and replicate backups with AIR (auto image replication) and SLP. this works fine for new backups.   We have some existent backup images (currently not replicated)  which we would like...

Resolved! Catalog backup doesnt pick active media...sometimes

Hello All I've got a set of tapes in a pool I write catalog backups to, I want these to be a constant set of tapes. The catalog b/up fires off and picks the media from the pool to do BMRDB + etc backup to. Then rather annoyingly and not all the time,...

Disk staging schedule

Hi, my master and master servers are NBU 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. I have a question regarding disk staging: My requirements are: client backup to disk daily, then we will duplicate the backup images to tapes. We have mutliple volume pools, e.g, Mo...

liuyang by Level 6
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Disconnecting shared memory

Hi I found in the /var/log/messages Mar 15 04:42:25 Masterserver SQLAnywhere(nb_Masterserver): Disconnecting shared memory client, process id not found Mar 15 04:42:25 Masterserver SQLAnywhere(nb_Masterserver): Disconnected SharedMemory client's App...

Tom_Egger by Level 4
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