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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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Resolved! Question VMware backup (failing Error 23)

In order to backup VMware virtual machines, is it  necessary to set up  the FQDN of the ESX server? I have a ESX 4 standalone server (no administered by a vCenter), but is not added to the DNS. So Im able to added to NBU by Ip address only even when ...

mmeeggaann by • Level 5
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Resolved! Cleaning Tape “Media Type” does not change in NetBackup

  I followed this instruction: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH37409 I have ran the following commands to label two cleaning tapes. After the running the inventory of tape library the Media type does not change fro...

Volume Group Media Type

I am running NBU 6.5.6 on Windows 2003 and I am about to upgrade to 7.1 in the next week or so. I have 4 volume groups (2 onsite / 2 offsite) and recently I discovered that the media type for one of these has changed to "HC2_CLN" and previously was H...

Importing BackupExec tapes

Hi, If I import Backupexec 10.1d tapes, into a netbackup 7.1 system, should I then be able to report on those images in the Images On Tape report ? I've done phase 1 and phase 2 imports, but that report shows nothing for those tapes.  imports all app...

Resolved! restoring - "tapemark or blank tape encountered"

Hi there, Encountering this error message when attempting to restore from a few tapes (on a Quantum i6000). Both master and media server are on version 7.0.1, running windows 2k3. Trying a 'bpmedialist -mcontents -m 15832S -L' returns the following i...

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Restoring Copy 2 image data to the Catalog

Hi All, I'm setting up and testing an offsite duplicate and restore. I've used an SLP to duplicate the original data, to eg, tape UBI017 and UBI009 I then verified that the Copy 2 images were on UBI017 and UBI009 using the Images On Tape report. I th...

LTO technology upgrade

Bit off topic but does anyone have any experiences of migrating from LTO3 to 4 or 5 technologies, do you literally get double the storage each jump along with speed? I'll take speed with a pinch of salt based on what you can throw at it I'm obviousl...

Netbackup Lifecycle & BasicDisk (CIFS) STU

Hi, have some question regarding the job duplication with Netbackup Lifecycle. My goal is to backup the servers & Applications to the DataDomain VTL and once a month duplicate the backups to physical tapes. I've created a VTL STU but also a basicDisk...

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Netbackup Exchange 2010 Best Practise

Master Server OS: Redhat 5.5 64bit Media Server OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2 32bit Exchange Server: Windows Server 2008 64bit with Cluster Environment. Netbackup Version: 7.0   The Goal: I can restore exchange database for disaster recovery.   I creat...

Resolved! Restore with Netbackup 7.0.1 and ESXi 4.1 failed (VStorage)

Hi My Problem is, that a Test-Server will not restore any files from a backup. The Backup was made with the practice of Vstorage and finished with no failures. Policy-Type : Flash-Backup-Windows   Data movement : Instant Recovery Disk & Tape Client N...

Symantec NBU 7.0.1 Exchange backup Problem

Hi,  Here in our company, we have encountered some problem about the backup for exchange2003. When we setup the policy to perform the incremental and full backup Strange thing happen: All the incr and full backup are success, but exchange2003 transac...

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Resolved! best column layout for troubleshooting in activity monitor

Hello Experts, I am a beginner, prevoiusly i was working in different backup tool. I get confused when i troubleshoot failures in activity monitor. I am not sure what is the best view( like sort via end time or sort via policy etc)  to be selected wh...

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Resolved! error code 2001

Hi backups for client are failing, which itself is acting as media server. when we check the output of vmoprcmd -d , tpconfig -d , it shows drives in upstate and when we do vmoprcmd -hostdevmon -h hostname , it shows drives in down state. and backups...

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Resolved! Backup getting failed with 23 for linux server.....

Hi, we are having master (6.5.4 / aix) master server and also with same version of media server with LINUX OS. My concern is the bakup is failing with 23 for client (Linux). we have done the following : 1) Checked the host table and bp.conf f...

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Resolved! Magic within Netbackup for SQL backups

Hi All Recently during my visit at one of Netbackup customer i came to know a strange query. They have heterogenous environment protecting Windows and AIX with Messaging and Collaboration suites as well. One of their application was using SQL as back...

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