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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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Which log to see scheduled jobs start?

I know that nbpem builds a work list of due jobs on the master server.  It builds the list of scheduled jobs from data provided by bpdbm.  When a job is due nbpem sends a job try for each due job to the nbjm process.  nbjm notifies bpjobd to add th...

NETBACKUP 6.5.5 using 2 drives simultaneously

Hello, I need to know if it is possible to backup a client (which is also a media server, windows 2003 with NBU6.5.5, and that have 2 LTO4 drives attached directly to it) using both drives at the same time for a single policy. I have 50 Tb to backup ...

NBU 7 multiple backups within backup window

Hey Guys, I noticed this issue since i upgraded from 6.5.4 to 7.0: It seems that my backups are running multiple times throughout the night. I dont have multiple copies set or anything, but i see some policies fire off 3-5 times in one backup windo...

Evan by Level 4
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Resolved! could not initilize configuration, error code 1

NBU BMR WINDOWS having problem  (Policy is Windows-NT) "Could not initilize Configuration, Error Code=1 " i am pasting the log file from /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bmrrst . i have gone to the path in Windows BMR Server but the path in WINDOWS BMR SE...

Synthetic backup, vault duplication question

Netbackup 6.5.3.1 Enterprise - Windows 2003 Standard Edition Im thinking of using the synthetic backup method to backup a few of our file servers that contain a large amount of unchanged data. The schedule would be to do my one time traditional ful...

AlGon by Level 6
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NBU Windows JAVA Admin Console - local install only

When I run setup of the NBU Window x86 Java, it will not allow me to install locally cause it is grayed out and set only to remote. How do I change it to allow me to install locally and not remotely.

gzs553 by Not applicable
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what is data domain

what are differences between data domain server and disk based netbackup server????

rookie11 by Moderator
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long erase n quick erase

how can i long  erase and quick erase media in netbackup 4.5 GUI option not present tell me CLI option

rookie11 by Moderator
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Resolved! Netbackup service layer daemon problem

I am getting the below error while  trying to connect volume pools unble to connect netbackup service layer service (netbackup service layer Daemon) and host failed to respond (195) Can u help me resolve this.  

Resolved! Strange issue with 6.5 running rman

Hi, we have just installed a new master/media server on Linux with Netbackup 6.5. While migrating the policies to the new server, our hp-ux and linux are working fine for both os and oracle rman backups. Today I added the windows server clients. On ...

Resolved! netbackup client services

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew if netbackup provided a script for starting and stoping its own client smf services. atrcx730(root) #: svcs -a | egrep "bpcd|vnetd|vopied|bpjava-msvc" online         17:34:19 svc:/network/bpcd/tcp:default online   ...

Resolved! netbackup 7 java admin console

I recently upgraded to from 6.5.4 to 7.0 , but when i try and open the java admin console, it is take a minute to bring up the console  and then load. Is there a way to increase the response time, is this expected behaviour?

VMWare and 7.0

We are looking at implementing the VMWare backup solution and currently our data store is on NFS. According to the documentation it appears to only be supported on FC or iSCSI. Can anyone confirm if this is true? Thanks.

NYY4ever by Not applicable
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Resolved! RHEL 4 cannot see more than 8 tape drives per HBA

I have an issue where our RHEL4 media server cannot see more than 8 tape drives per HBA.  The only limits can find in regards to RHEL is something like 256 max scsi targets.  The tape library is a NetApp VTL.  All the virtual devices are configured...

MattS by Level 6
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Resolved! netbackup restore to different server/user

Hello all, I've recently logged a call with the Symantec help desk regards netbackup and restoring backups to a different server/user. They've told me that the user on target client must be in the same unix group as the user that did the backup. Th...

jmkn04 by Level 2
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Resolved! ORACLE media needed - based on RMAN bk value

I know I can run a command to see what media I need to restore an oracle backup, using commands like this: bpimagelist -media -U -d 04/10/2010 -e 04/12/2010 -policy "RMAN.POLICY.NAME" | sort -k1n My oracle DBA want to find which media are needed ...

Linux BMR error "SCSI module Load Order problem"

Dear All, i was doing Linux BMR Restore but stuck in some point. NBU Master Server 6.5.4 Solaris 5.10 (SUN ultra 25) NBU BMR Server 6.5.4 Linux (Red hat Linux 5) i386 (Lenovo machine) NBU Linux Client 6.5.4 Linux(Rad hat Linux 5) i 386 (SUN X4100)...