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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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Create a "virtual" robot in Netbackup for vault

Hi, we have recently retired our tape library and are now doing all our backups to DataDomain appliances using OST prior to removing the tape library from our config I was able to configure a vault profile that was able to duplicate images between to...

Guidance for Netbackup Master and Media servers trading subnets

I need to move our Master and Media servers to each others subnets.  (both are Solaris 10, sparc, running NetBackup 7.1) They will be keeping current names and roles, but changing IP addresses.  Do I need to do more than change IP addresses and confi...

PWW by Level 3
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Locked system or exe files in Windows 2008 R2

We have noticed that with Windows 2008 R2 backups, NBU won't backup any of the active system files or applicaiton files (example .exe or .dll) in the normal file view. The only way to restore these locked or active files is restore the entire System ...

Virtual RDMs not backing up anymore

Hi All, We are running NBU 7.0.1 to backup a variety of machines. We have several VMware virtual machines being backed up, many with mapped RDMs. Most are physical mapped but some are in virtual mode. The VMs with virtual mode disks are not getting t...

Server-side Exception: Null when scanning for devices

Please help.  We just added a new Solaris 10 media server to our environment.  We're running NetBackup 7.1.  Our NBU Master is 7.1. When I try to add a device with the "Device Configuration Wizard," I get an error that states "Server-side Exception: ...

AlanTLR by Level 5
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Creating Storage Lifecycle Policies to use OST

Good morning all,   So I am currently on Netbackup 7.01 and we have all backup's go to our exagrid unit now and replicates to another exagrid unit offsite. We have been using Exagrid with CIFS shares and recently just added the abilty to use OST (Sym...

Netbackup 7.1.0.2 BMR backups fail

Hello Everyone, I am trying to get BMR setup in our data center so I have built a test environment to do a POC, but I am having some problems with the backup and I am looking for some help. The environment is as follows Netbackup 7.1.0.2 running on  ...

Need help to restore data from one setup to another

Hello, We use veritas Netbackup 6.5.2 ,solaris 10, L700 tape library and LTO3 tapes. I have to take backup from DC side on tapes and carry it on LTO3 tapes to DR side and restore it there. Please suggest how will i be able to this .  

About basic disk staging using SAN storage

Windows 2008 R2 Netbackup 7.1.0.2 Hi all, We have a media server setup to backup its E: drive (5TB) to its F: drive (10TB, Nbu basic disk staging). Backups will then be relocated to the Tape Library from the F: drive, according to a staging schedule...

RLeon by Moderator
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Network connection time out 24

I configure the NBU linux agent and run the backup but it failed with error code 24, The client agent is new one for backup policy,I try to run the bptestbpcd on the server side and bplntcmd on the client side. I also create the bpcd , vnetd and bpkt...

QA1 by Level 2
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PDDO Puredisk - Maximimum I/O Configuration

Hi Everyone, I am attempting to design as optimum of a data path I can with some constraints put into place. Here is the following information that I can provide you today: PDDO configuration only. No puredisk clients. version 6.6.1.2. optimized dupl...

Resolved! Backup Schedule Priority

Hi, Just a quick question regarding the running of scheduled backups, I have a policy that contains the following Schedules: FULL_WEEKLY (runs Fri Evening) DAILY_INC (runs Daily) MANUAL If I ran the Manual policy from the GUI (this does a full backup...

Resolved! Assigned media in downed library

I'm wondering if anyone can quickly assist me... We currently have one of our libraries down due to a hardware fault. The issue we're now having is that a restore request has come in and the tape containing the data is in the downed library.   I have...

Netbackup 6.5.4 + Exchange 2003 SP2 restore

I have Veritas Netbackup 6.5.4 and Exchange 2003 SP2. I need to restore a specific mailbox from a storage group. I have created the RSG in Exchange. When I select the required backup and click on restore, I get the following options. Please let me kn...

chvgms by Level 5
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Resolved! Protect LUN's from modification?

I am working on backing up VM's in VMware with Netbackup 7.1, and one of the requirements is that the LUN's containing the VMware Datastores must be presented to the Media server designated for the VMware backups.I am a bit leery of presenting LUN's ...

trueg50 by Not applicable
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Resolved! NetBackup 7 - How to display data expiration on a disk image

Hello,   On tape media, I use the following command to change the expiration date on the volume:     bpexpdate -m  TPS135  -d  12/31/2015 18:00:00 Then I am able to display the info changed by using the following command     nbemmcmd  -listmedia  -me...

Kwinter by Level 5
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