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Subscribe to NBU notifications

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 Moderator
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Install 2nd NetBackup Server at DR site

Hi Everyone, We are running NetBackup 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 server.  We have only 1 NetBackup server at our main site and is is both the master server and the media server.  We purchased similar server hardware to have at our disaster recovery (DR...

DCraige by Level 3
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Netbackup catalog encryption options.

Hi. Ive been asked to look into options for enabling tape encryption at some of our remote sites, preferably using nbu. (or backup exec.. they are quite small deployments) These sites will use a standalone LTO4 drive and will use one tape a day. What...

Col_G by Level 4
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Unable to import 6.5.4 tapes into 7.0.1

Master/Media Server environment - VM's W2K8 / 7.0.1 Tape Media Server environment - Physical W2K3 / 7.0.1 I need to figure out why I cannot import my 6.5.4 backup tapes to my 7.0.1 environment.  When I created the 7.0.1 environment, I created it from...

Denda by Level 5
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Resolved! Add volume to exisiting Advanced Disk Pool

I have an Advanced Disk Pool with 6 volume assigned to it.  We just created a new volume (Drive K:) with an additional 4TB.  How do I go about assigning this new volume to this exisiting Disk Pool. We are running NBU 7.0.1. Thanks!

Resolved! Mounting ISO image

I don't know, maybe it should be separate discussion.. Anyway, does anyone use some sophisticated software to mount ISO images of NBU downloaded from Fileconnect? This is about installing the NBU directly from .iso on WS 2008 (64 bit).

UFO by Level 6
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Resolved! Tape duplication after full backup

Hello, I’m quite new to NetBackup and am in the process of setting up a backup strategy. We have an autoloader  with a bar code reader and we’re using NetBackup 6.5. I want to implment the following backup strategy: - All my databases full backup wil...

newww by Level 3
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Resolved! Hyper-V virtual machines that are powered off.

Hi I have just read through the "Symantec NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Guide" (for v7.0) which is fairly comprehensive but leaves me with a question:  Is it possible to backup virtual servers which are powered off?   Thanks in advance for your help.

robots integrity

Hi, I'm looking for command lines to verify my robots integrity (drives and robotic arm). Thanks

Using DLOCommandu to update agent, SQL Instance ?

I'm evaluating (test environment) the DLOCommandu option to update the agent for DLO. I've managed to get it to work from an installation point of view but it seems that if I use a remote sql server or rather not the DLO instance, that information do...

FreKac2 by Level 6
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Synthetic Full Backups miss after 4 weeks

Master/media servers are NBU Enterprise 6.5.4, on Dell PE2950 running Windows 2003 Server R2 X64. After several years of successful traditional Full/Cumulative backups, I have setup three policies with Synthetic Fulls.  They all start off OK, and the...

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Resolved! Multiplexing and Multistreaming Relation.

I need to know the relation between Multiplexing and Multistreaming setting for Netbackup.How can I determine the number of concurrent jobs for a given setting such as Multiplexing,Multistreaming,Jobs/ Policy and Jobs/Drive settings etc.Could you ple...

Tanmoy1 by Level 4
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Netbackup 6.0 with SAS tape drives Solaris 10/09

I'm trying to migrate the above environment (MP5) to SAS using LSI SAS 9200-8e HBA connecting to a Tandberg T40. Solaris can see the drives which it defines as /dev/rmt/44 & 45 with the correct WWNs.  I've tried sg.build all -mt 50 -ml 3 followed by ...

Resolved! NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager Service.....

NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager  service had an issue this morning on the Netbackup 6.5.4 Cluster. It was running but when starting up the GUI there were lots of error messages stating that it was unavailable. I can't see anything in the MS Window...

j083418 by Level 5
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Resolved! Configuring TS3500 to Windows Media

Has anyone worked on configuring a TS3500 Tape Library with TS1120 drives to Windows Media Environment (NB 6.5.3.1)?  We're decommissioning the TS7520 VTS and doing straight to tape drive backups.

krazy by Level 3
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Resolved! Oracle backup failures..

have a two Oracle DBs on the solaris local Zone. both  are iniciated backups from the Rman script to take the backups or Oracle DB and archive logs.. when Rman Fires the backups one DB is getting successfull and another DB is getting failues with EC ...

RamNagalla by Moderator
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SQL DB restore

i run NBU 7 on windows 2003 server. i need to do an alternate restore of a sql DB (600GB). using the sql scripts from the netbackup GUI, the database was restored, but the database status on the SQL server interface on the destination client was show...

ayodeji by Level 6
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I'm receiving Status 24's while Queued...then Jobs complete

I am migrating from and older 6.5.4 Linux Master environment over to a whole brand new Netbackup 7.1 with new servers. The master is now windows and I also have a windows media and a linux media server as well. These are all 64 bit and physical machi...

jmanini by Level 4
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Resolved! Tape Backup Ending in a 150 - term req'd by admin

NB 7.0.1 on W2K8 Client 7.0.1 on W2K3 All tape backups are ending in a 150 - term req'd by admin.  I know no admin is req'g termination since I am it!  here is the history... Had to restore from tape for another server from long ago and had to create...

Denda by Level 5
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Resolved! Tape rotation strategy in Netbackup

Hello, I’m quite new to NetBackup and am in the process of setting up a tape rotation strategy. We have a Quantum autoloader 3 with a bar code reader TS3310 tape library and we’re using NetBackup 6.5. Our media is barcoded. I already configured the G...

newww by Level 3
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