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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! NDMP Drives detect

I am having some problems adding some physical tape drives to our master server for NDMP backups. I was having some problems with these drives so i wanted to delete them from NBU and then re-add them. When i went to re-add them I found that NBU could...

Jared_Swan by Level 3
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Netbackup output using bperror

Im trying to configure a script to mail out the mentioned report daily on a solaris master server . can i use bperror command to do the below mentioned layout ?   CLIENT NAME                 START_TIME                  END_TIME                       ...

demo4119 by Level 6
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Resolved! NetBackup Policy doing strange things

My config - Windows 2003 master and media server, running NBU 6.5.6 My problem - I have a Windows NT policy that performs a backup of 2 folders and sub-folders on a Windows 2003 x64 server. The policy was running daily without any issues, then for so...

Resolved! Downgrade NBU (windows client) 7.1 to 6.5.6

Hello.   I'm trying to downgrade NBU (windows client) 7.1 to 6.5.6 in order to solve a problem with the duplications of the backup of some domain controllers. I've uninstalled the 7.1 version, and installed the 6.5 version (so that it could be upgrad...

vilhena by Level 4
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How to calculate disk space for GRT purposes?

Hello all, I mean, currently I have 100GB Exchange Database  and if I activated GRT backups how much disk space I need. How much disk space Netbackup will consume to provide me keeping this activated? I'd just like to know for a single full backup of...

Weird problem with VTL tapes.

We have a VTL with tapes that show as in the scratch pool, but are never used. I went to the robot and thought maybe if I freeze and then unfreeze them, it would recognize them and use them. When I attempt to do anything like that, I get an error mes...

Netbackup High CPU Windows - 2008 R2 Guest VM

Hello, Netbackup 7.1 Windows We’ve just installed a few Windows 2008 R2 Guest VMs into our environment  (NBU 7.1). Currently these clients can’t be backed up using the VMware method, so we are doing it using the traditional way and have installed the...

AlGon by Level 6
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156 Snapshot error during VMWare backups: Jobs not restarted!

Hi, I have configured Netbackup 7.1.0.1 on Windows 2008 R2 x64 server to backup our VMWare environment... I have configured a policy to query our VCenter server to automatically select the VM's to be backed up. All in all the jobs run great: I get go...

granular active directory restore

Hi.  Media server = windows 2003-r2 x32 netbackup 6.5.4  Active directory server = windows 2008 x64  I have been following this guide    http://www.netbackuphowto.com/2009/05/28/howto-backup-active-directory-for-granular-restore-windows-2003-r2/ set...

pbmdk by Not applicable
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Resolved! Changing netbackup storage hardware

Hi all, I’m using Netbackup 6.5 with solaris10 and I’m planning of change server storage hardware. Indeed the /var/openv/Netbackup directory located in the old storage and I need to move catalog, all policies, and master and media information to the ...

Problem with Exchange DAG GRT Restore

Hello to all, 1 month ago the Backup and Restore of my Exchange DAG Configuration runs without problems. Now the Configuration has changed, an additional Mailbox-Server was append and Restores failed with "the restore failed to recover the requested ...

Chris70 by Level 2
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BPKAR32

Hi, I have a couple of  clients, windows server 2008 who seems to never finish their backups, when looking into the problem I can see that cpu is 100% and if I kill bpkar32,exe cpu is normal. BUT the problem is that I have version 7.1.0.1 installed, ...

How to eject catalog tape

Hi, my master server is NetBackup 7.0.1 on Windows 2008 R2. I have scheduled a catalog backup to run every monday. When this catalog backup job completes, I want to eject that catalog tape from the tape library for offsite store. I can right click th...

liuyang by Level 6
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Error when creating SRT

Somebody help me solve this problem, please!!!!! See trace of installation Select one of the following options:     1.  Create a new Shared Resource Tree.     2.  Create a new CD image based Shared Resource Tree.     3.  Copy an existing Shared ...

NetBackup Deduplication pool hardware migration

Hi guys I really need of your help to decide what to do next... We have the following environment set up     NetBackup 7.1 on Solaris 10 over a SPARC M3000 server (Master and  Media server)     Sun ZFS Storage 7120 ( Media Server Deduplicati...

mmeeggaann by Level 5
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Resolved! Unable to take backup of subfolders

Hi All,   We are using Media server dedupe with NBU 7.0.1 to protect Windows XP and Windows 7. These endpoints are at remote locations and we have WAN link of 45 mbps at HO 20mbps for remote and there are few locations with 512kbps but have 2-3 endpo...

V4 by Level 6
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Snapshot encounter error 156

Hi All, I 'm now face the problem on the NBU 7.1 client. I would like to someone can help to fix it. 1. I used for the NBU 7.1 on the Win2K3 server,  The backup job failed with error code 156 snapshot encounter with refer client G driver. I checked o...

QA1 by Level 2
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command line list of skipped files?

NBU 6.5.6 on Win 2003 Right now, to keep our SOX Auditors happy, I'm dumping and retaining a daily list of the backup status using: BPDBJOBS -M %MASTER% -all_columns Now our Auditors are concerned about the "partialy sucessful" reports so they want a...

D_Flood by Level 6
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