cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Veritas.com
Support
NetBackup

Discussion Posts

Start a discussion

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 • Level 6
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified
  • 5147 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 17 kudos

How does one compare two different NetBackup images?

I am running NetBackup 6.5.4.  I have a Solaris 9 (V880) server that I backup on a nightly basis (full backups).  Yesterday my main boot disk blew up and the mirrored disk was corrupt so I couldn't boot to a recent state.  I was able to finally boot ...

blooney by • Level 3
  • 427 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Information about vnetd

All, I have a request from one of our system administrators to see if we can suppress vnetd's reporting of connections to the "notice" file and other locations, such as syslog, in a solaris 10 environment.  I dont know if this is even possible, but I...

Port lockdown on Solaris 5.10 servers running Netbackup 6.5

We need to lock down all unnecessary ports on a Solaris 5.10 server running Netbackup 6.5.  I need to know if anyone can tell me which ports I need to keep open for Netbackup 6.5 on the backup server itself and also the clients that Netbackup backs u...

chris48 by • Level 4
Partner
  • 472 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Missing device (drive) ??

 Hi All I noticed a strange output response from " tpautoconf -report_disc "  command. It reports some missing devices , but they're working fine , backups are executed without problems, except for the last added drives.  One of the "dummy"  missi...

Resolved! upgrade from netbackup 6.5.4 to 7

I have netbackup server 6.5.4 and four media servers 6.5.4 all of them windows 2003 r2 enterprise x64 except one media server which is red hat linux 4. What is the best and safest way to upgrade to 7.0. will windows 2003 r2 x64 would be better or win...

Exchange CCR Backup methods :)

 Hi, I've currently configured my 2 Exchange 2007 CCR clusters backup to following. Backing up passive node using cluster recourse name and VSS snapshot, it work's fine but it is a bit slow. Is there any other way to backup the passive node using N...

Media usage reports in OpsCenter

Hi, I am able to get automatic daily emailed report out of NOM for the Tape media written to in the last 24 hours, for the guys changing the tapes. Now with OpsCenter that doesn't seem possible as it doesn't seem as flexible, the nearest thing that I...

bpimagelist

Hi Guys, I am using a Unix base system. I would like to create a list of just how many tape contain exactly the same file. We have quite a problem with backing up the same data every weekend with a full backup, and I want to show how many tapes we u...

pylej by • Level 4
  • 201 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! How to check contant of drive via UNIX CLI.

Hi, i am trying to find a command that i will be able to run via UNIX CLI and get an output that will let me know if there is a tape in the drive or not. if the robot is fine and all the drives are in TLD mode, i can get this output from "vmoprcmd" ...

Resolved! unable install NB Client 6.5 on Linux server!!!

Hello, I trying to install NB Client 6.5 on linux server, but it is not successfull and getting "Netbackup server software for the linux_x86 platform is not on this cdrom". Linux release is RedHat Enterprise Linus Server release 5.2 Linux version...

Resolved! Need help with VBR Config

It's me again. I need your help to operate NetBackup Reporter. Nobody in the BackupReporter answered me. I see the manual but the information about de configuration it isn't enought. Thanks for your help!

Resolved! Device Manager won't stay started.There are no entries in the drive database. The NetBackup Device Manager service only needs to run when devices are configured. The service will now exit.

This is a Windows 2003 server running 6.5.5.  Here are the highlights:  1. I first noticed the problem because the job stayed in "queue" status and never went active. 2. This is a SAN Media server. 3. NetBackup Device Manager was not started and if ...

rsamora by • Level 5
Certified
  • 2451 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Images on disk not expiring

I am running NBU 6.5.3 in Solaris 10. I am writing to basic disk on media servers then vaulting off to tape. My primary copy is disk 2nd copy goes on a onsite tape 3rd copy goes on a offsite tape Vault is set to pick up any images that are with in...

PDVS by • Not applicable
  • 762 Views
  • 8 replies
  • 0 kudos

Where download NBU 6.5.4 patches , i can only find those of NBU 6.5.5

Hi: I´m looking where download the 6.5.4 NBU patches, i´ve 24 master/media servers using 6.5.4 and having just one media server with 6.5.5 is really out of the question right now. Especilly i need tose for a RHEL AS x86_64 updade 4 (Nahant) Media s...

peter12 by • Level 4
Partner Accredited
  • 265 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Windows NetBackup 6.5.4 Master server convert to MSCS

Does anyone know if it is possible to install NetBackup 6.5.4 as a Master Server on each node of a MSCS using the silentmaster script provided on the CD. Then add the registry keys required by bpclusterutil and run this command with -c option? I am ...

g00ner by • Level 2
  • 345 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Java GUI issue - clearing out the "Host name" field upon login

All, I was reading through the following thread: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/nbu-java-console and it appeared that CRZ's solution was relevant to what I would like to do, which is clear out the "Host name" field in the java GUI l...

Lifecycle Policy error 191

Hello, The lifecycle police to Tape after successful deduped backups fails, as follows (NBU 7, windows 2008 x64bit) 08/Μαρ/2010 08:28:10 - begin Duplicate 08/Μαρ/2010 08:28:10 - requesting resource LCM_xxx-hcart-robot-tld-0 08/Μαρ/2010 08:28:10 - gr...

thanosk by • Level 2
  • 302 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 kudos

Archiving techniques 6.5.5

Hi All, I want to add a backup with a retention of 1 year to run once a month. Currently we have  a diff every week day and full every other weekend. Is there a way I can add a new full in to run only when the full every 2 weeks runs easily? Am I be...

Top Kudoed Authors
View all