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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! Create Oracle Policy Using Script

Hi,I'm done creating RMAN scripts for L0 and L1 backups. When I'm creating a new policy, there was an option to select backup type:Full BackupDifferential Incremental BackupCumulative Incremental BackupWhat backup type should I select? Considering my...

Resolved! VxUpdate bulk client upgrade on CLI from master

We have hundreds of Netbackup clients to upgrade to 8.1.2 and would like to kick off a bulk job. Manually using the GUI to build a policy and manually picking all the clients will take forever. So I'd like to use this process as explained in the "Com...

Chris_W by • Level 4
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tar received an invalid archive when performing restore

Hi, I hope you can help me, I'm having a problem with Veritas 6.5.6 x64, the master server and the media server is the same and runs Windows 10 64bit,Clients run 64bit Windows 2008r2, since they function as storage.When I try to restore LTO3 tapes to...

mmarano by • Level 2
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How to use "silentuninstall.cmd" properly ?

Hi all,With SCCM I deploy NBU on some client PCs, using the "silentclient.cmd", and this works very well.Unfortunately, for some types of clients I have to go back and uninstall NBU ...So I created a new Deployment that should allow me to uninstall t...

Resolved! Why netbackup show images with 5120000 kilobytes ?

Hello Everyone,As many of you know, when you run a report on Image on disks, you have all images that are stored on disks, with additonal informations, like size, policy, policy type and much more.But the problem here, as you can read in the title, i...

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Unable to install NetBackup 8.1.2 with System Account

Unable to install Any NetBackup apps with System Account.  Using psexec in system context to duplicate SCCM installation I am unable to launch any NB installation (browser.exe, setup.exe, or the .msi).No log file is generated.  BUT if I execute the ....

Resolved! Status and Future of /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/host.xlate file

I wanted to check some insights on the Status and Future of /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/host.xlate fileWe have been using this file for quite a while now to quicken name resolutions since our environment has more than 5000 clients and 10,000+ po...

Unable to start vmd on master server

Hello, I have recently upgrade NBU to 8.1.1 in VCS environment. After a couple of days, we realized that vmd was not running on master server (all devices are configured in media servers). When we try to start vmd starting ltid we receive the followi...

Split NBU master and media servers

Hello experts,I have 3 NBU physical master servers running on Solaris OS. Each of them also acting as media server connected to a Data Domain appliance and tape library. NBU version is 7.7.3.I want to virtualize the master server and move the media s...

SAN Client - GUI State "Not Active"

Hi,we have an issue on SAN Client. It's state on gui is "Not Active". I've checked on this:- Zone OK- TAN Visibility OK- I can see the PHYTON devices- Restarted NBU services- Rebooted host.The nbftclnt service don't start, and on log from nbftclnt di...

VMWare Admins user research

The Customer Experience (CX) team at Veritas - The Leader in Enterprise Data Protection, is conducting userexperience research sessions which include short interviews and usability studies.For that purpose, we are looking for participants who manage ...

Resolved! NetBackup 8.1.1 don't detect IBM TS4300 robot

Hi,I just installed a brand new IBM TS4300 tape library and connected it to my windows 2012R2 media server. Tape drives automatically shows on device manager. So I startet device configuration wizard that finds the drives, but are not seeing the libr...

NetBackup Java console views

I'm aware that we can restrict users to different components of NetBackup Java console. But is there also a way for a particular user to restrict backup policies. Meaning user should be able to view/manage only the backup policies that are explicity ...

DPO by • Level 6
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Netbackup master/media server on virtual machine

**** Moved to new discussion from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Configure-Netbackup-master-media-server-on-virtual-machine/m-p/742171    ***   Hi Nicolai, When we install netbackup master and media on VM machines, do we reuire to put any addit...

full backup failed with error code 26

Hi allThanks in advance for reading this post. any tips\ideas\advices are highly appreciatedenvironment setting- NBU 7.7.2 on Windows 2012 R2- 1x master server which also act as media server- all clients are VMware, communicated via Virtual Center, s...

aidil_1 by • Level 3
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Re: Reassign density to media

Hi Marianna,What will happen if we change the media type of existing media. For some reasons, we have a mixture of LTO5 and LT06 tapes in our environment.we have upgraded our tape drives from LTO-5 to LTO-6In order to be able to read those LTO5 tapes...

DPO by • Level 6
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