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Marianne by Level 6
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Resolved! How do I know what my backup retention really is?

Hello everyone, I have a question about backup retention of my Oracle database backups but first, let me give you some background:  I have Oracle 10gR2 DBs running on Sun (now Oracle) Solaris servers.  My NetBackup server is a Windows box running Net...

Resolved! media ID not unique in database (34)

Processing new media added to the robotic library by logically adding media with new media IDs as follows...  Media ID Slot  ======== ====   Update failed: could not add new media ID 'V410L3' into slot 2 Insert media failed: media ID not uniq...

Resolved! Bare Metal Restore Failed to import Config file

Hi everybody   I have an environment with a Master Server 7.1.0.2 in a HP-UX 11.31 and I'm trying to perform a Bare Metal Backup and keeping getting this error: BMRERR: Received BMR error: Failed to import Config File. (1) BMRERR: Received BMR error:...

Andre_Torres by Level 5
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Cannot expire a tape

I tried to expire a tape without success, Our environment is Netbackup 7.1 Master and media servers I rant the command below,  however it states that I had an invalid command paramter, I then ran a second command against that media, however nothing j...

Resolved! odmget not displaying smc0 scsi_id

Hello, i'm traying to create ovpass device file of IBM 3100 tape library. Atape.driver is installed and lsdev -C -s scsi shows smc0 as IBM Library mediume changer. Now to create ovpass i need scsi_id and lun_id, but when i execute the command odmget ...

Use of nbcatsync

Data Domain storage appliance allows to take a full copy of an OST storage space (= LSU). I wish to use this feature to duplicate one Disk Pool for test purpose. If I use this disk pool instead of the original one in my test environment, how can I up...

Gdd by Level 6
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Cannot restart one VM backup job

I have an automatic backup selection in a VSphere 4.1 environment (BLIB backup and Mapped Full VM Backup). Sometimes, one VM backup fails (VM stopped, Cannot take snapshot,...). If I try to restart only this backup, the backup fails with error 1001.....

Gdd by Level 6
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Download Unix/Linux client

Hi, Must I download over 2Gb just for a patch for Unix/Linux clients? I know that the download includes all possible platforms, I only need Suse! /Joe

vltopmenu issues with Windows 2008

I just moved my NBU 6.5.6 installation to new x64 hardware running Windows 2008 R2 standard. Since the move whenever I run VLTOPMENU for vaulting I am having problems. The menu will load and can I enter container names and tape IDs, but when I enter ...

Liveupdate - LU_Registration.exe

I understand the following... LiveUpdate server configuration is stored in a local file on each host that runs a LiveUpdate agent. <INSTALL_DRIVE>\Program Files\NetBackup\LiveUpdateHost.hst This file cannot be read or edited in a text editor. My ...

all4one by Level 3
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Resolved! Vmware clients using "Select automatically through query"

Hi all ! Using Netbackup 7.1.0.2 and trying ti implement the auto selection through query function. I have succeeded in creating some policys using criteria such as "DisplayName" or "DataStore" and "PowerState". To make my day smooth and keep ou...

Resolved! Clearing down disk storage before retention expires

Currently we back everything up to disk staging area's and then run duplication jobs to LTO tape which we take offsite. However, we have a new requirement for those duplication jobs to be sent to multiple targets - the LTO tapes and another disk stor...

SQL Backups running slow after upgrading to 7.1.0.2

Hi All, Facing issues while backing up SQL database. The backup throughput has degraded drastically from 15 Mbps to 1 mbps. Master/Media Server: Netbackup Enterprise Server - 7.1.0.2 (OS- Win 2008 R2 ,Enterprise Edition) Client Server: Windows Cluste...

Vino_J by Level 4
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Resolved! System Down, Errors 174 and 2074

Running a clustered 7.1.0.2, with two Windows-based Media Servers and active/passive PureDisk 6.6.1.2 EEB 20. Recently our backups are failing with error code 2074 when backing up to PureDisk. Backing up straight to tape is no problem. We've also Ima...

Somnia by Level 3
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Resolved! Restore failing with 2817 error code

Master server environment : NBU 7.1 Client: NetBackup Client Platform = PC, WindowsNT Version Name = 6.5 Version Number = 650000 Patch Level = 6.5.5   This is a Flashbackup windows restore and is failing with 13 and 2817. please help me to find a sol...

Iype by Level 4
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Resolved! Netbackup Pool won't use all the tapes in Media Pool

Greetings.  I've spend the better part of the last two days looking for this answer (And rabbit trailed on trying to get NOM working, ugh, that's another posting in itself).  I inherited this setup, and it was a mess.  I am no expert on Netbackup.; O...

Resolved! details on bpduplicate

Hi, Can someone share their knowledge about bpduplicate? I would like to know what method it uses to duplicate the data? Also, when duplicating, is it reading the image contents and copying, uncompressing the tar files or is it using some kind of cop...

NBU 7.x MSEO & KMS encryption

Cryptologists, My customer has an LTO3 based legacy environment with MSEO. The new envoronment on order is based on LTO5 drives which do not support MSEO. When the legacy (LTO3 based) environment is obsolete they will have to be able to read/restore ...

AV-IT by Level 3
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