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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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Media server problem

Hi All, I'm having one Master server (LINUX) NBU Version -6.5 Now i've installed one Media server AIX 6. Added license of SAN Client, SSO, AND RMAN (database pack) After installing the Media server, it was not reflecting in Master Server > Host pr...

VMS Systems Engineer

running Netbackup Agent for Open VMS 8.3-1h1 on a BL870 blade.....us nbu backup 'device'.lis whne it fi9ishes try to test closing ststus with an If statement but it is ignored.............anyone seen this behavoir?

Restoring many small files takes to long

¡Hi!, I did a bere metal restore on a Solaris 10 client, everithing work fine. One thing I noticed on the restore was the restore time on the directory /var/spool/clientmqueue, this directory is the queue for send mail. I had 451485 files each file s...

error code 5 while restoring VM full restore (VMDK )

Hi i having problem to restore from VCBproxy netbackup client for VCB backup for the vmdk back to the esx server using the second options without using vmconventor Netbackup master 6.5.4 Netbackup media sevrer 6.5.4 running with VCB framework 1.50....

demo4119 by Level 6
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NBU BMR Restore error

Dear team, i want to do a Netbackup Baremetal restore on Windows system, but having an issue. --> NBU Master/Media/Emm Server 6.5.4 on SUN Ultra 25 running Solaris. -->Win BMR Server 6.5.4 running Windows Vista. -->SUN X4100 on which BMR is perf...

Resolved! NBU 7 NDMP Deduplication Question

Hello everyone .. I have recently upgraded to NBU 7 and implemented media server dedup .  I am very impressed overall with the functionality but the dedup rates for NDMP backups are beyond poor. Has anyone else experienced poor dedup rates on NDMP ...

jsucram by Level 2
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Consecutive backup job failed with EC 50

Hi, In Netbackup 6.5 consecutive backup job failed with EC-50 as we have verified connection.bpcd running fine between master,media and client but however backup process got aborted please suggests on this issue. THanks, Shekhar Deshingkar.

Shekhar_D by Level 4
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Failover Netbackup Server

Hi Netbackup 6.5.5 on RHEL5.2 . I have my primary netbackup server that does all our backups. I also have a failover backup server that will be used if the primary fails. Does anyone know of any decent documentation on how I should set up the fail...

NHL by Level 4
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Hypothetical stolen tapes

Hypothetically speaking if a NBU 4.5-6.5 tape was stolen what could be done to retrieve the data from it if it has no encryption? Can you simply place it in an appropriate drive, 'scan' it and then restore the contents? What would be the procedure? ...

NBU 7 - VMware Vsphere backup using hotadd method.

Hi guys, Looking at testing the hotadd transport method backing up Vmware I have a few question I would hope someone can help me with. Environment 1 x NBU 7 Master Server physical 1 X NBU 7 Media Server physical. This Media Server can see one ESX VM...

VMare restrore problems

Hi, I've been testing the new vstorage api in a test environment, Both lan and SAN backups. To get SAN backup to work I needed some help: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-7-can-not-backup-over-fibre Little side track there. ...

Error 42 on Window 2003 Oracle backups

Hi All, I have a windows 2003 NBU 6 mp7 client running Oracle Rman backups to a NBU 6 mp7 Solaris 10(sparc) Server. I have a intermittent Network read failure (error 42) which myself and Symantec up to this point have not been able to solve. We hav...

pylej by Level 4
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VMware VADP (VCB replacement) for VMware/ESX backups

Has anyone tried the new vspere VADP (vstorage API's for Data Protection) backup feature which is replacing the VCB with Netbackup. We are backing up VM's traditional way by using the agent on each host. Now have started looking into option of back...

Resolved! Pre-requisites for OpsCenter

Hi All, I am preparing the plan for installing Netbackup OpsCenter on the New Windows, I have searching for check list to install the Opscenter. I have the Administartion guide for Opscenter, but in that have not seen what is mininum RAM and Harddi...

Restore Jobs report

Hi Guru's Can anyone help me to produce a restore report with the following info: Jobid : Client : Start time : Active start : End time : Kilobytes Statut  during a specified period Much appreciated your  help Anth

Anth105 by Level 4
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nb7 new behavior of the exclude_list?!?!

Looks like netbackup 7 has a new behavior of the exclude list. Before 7 all the agents (SAP, Lotus) did not used the exclude list. I have a file named exclude_list (without policy) on my Unix host, which contains /oracle/*/sapdata so that the oracle...

Peter_Jakobs by Level 5
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Empty Staging Area

Hi, I noticed our 13Tb staging area was empty today, usually it has about 7 days of backups in there. I thought this was strange so I did a small backup which was successful. When the DSSU job ran 30 minutes later it moved it to tape. We have ...

automatic mssql restores from cli

hi. i'm trying to set up automatic weekly scheduled (via cron) restores of mssql databases from production to pre-production. on netbackup linux master server 6.5.4 i wrote a command like: bprestore -C prodsrv01 -D preprodsrv01 -t 15 -cm -md -S bck...

zeta by Level 3
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