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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 Level 6
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Netbackup and Amazon EC2 as an image store

I'm interested in DR and keeping images offsite. Some image backup sofware, like TakeTwo, has integration with Amazon's EC2 as a backup target. Has anyone used Netbackup with a cloud service like EC2 as a target, for both image storage and CDP ? Tha...

Restore data from an NDMP backup to a different NAS device

I am basically looking to see if this is possible or not. We used to have a EMC Celerra and I am trying to restore a file from that platform to our new NAS device (Isilon). Our Celerra no longer exists and all data on it was migrated to our Isilon cl...

spasq by Level 3
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Resolved! NBU JAva console

Hi all, I need to know how to remove servers from the server list in the NBU Java console. I searched the registry by I can't find anything.  I remember on previous version there was a registry entry with the list of servers but I can't find it anymo...

Resolved! Running NetBackup as non-root for selective tasks

Hi I've been reading and trying this for a few days now. I'm still looking around, but I thought while I do that, might be good to drop a post here in the hope someone might provide some leads and answer some queries I have. The situation is this -...

Resolved! Advanced disk need same OS ?

I have 3 media server (2 HP-UX and 1 Solaris). Now I want to enable Advanced disk on these server, have question below: 1. Could HP-UX and Solaris share SAN storage? (My storage is EVA 4400,and all host connected on one SAN switch) 2. Since Advanced...

edxi by Level 2
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Resolved! SUNWcry64 needed on solaris for netbackup

On sun side, I find only SUNWcry package for solaris 10 and SUNWcry64 for solaris9 is it a doc typo that SUNWcry64 is needed on solaris10 for netbackup 7 ? 

Regarding media expire issue

Hi , I am unable to expire the media while trying to expire the media its giving me error that media couldn't be found in the database. But media can be found through the vmquery command and seeing from the netbackup console having assign date. But ...

Resolved! NDMP license

Does anyone know what license is needed to do NDMP backups?  Thanks.

heyash by Level 3
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Tape Drives

Hi, How can i get an stadistic about usage of tape drive?

Resolved! Update VM Server list from command line in Netbackup 7.0

 Hi, I am trying to automate the backup process by creating the backup policy for VMware VMs from command line. So far, I have been able to create the policy and all its properties, but when I run it I get the following error: "snapshot error encoun...

NetBackup Reporter 6.5

Does somebody have a new serial for the trial of NetBackup Reporter 6.5.x  fron Windows

speed up backup of mail archive (millions of small files)

Hi everyone, Our email archiving solution (homegrown) stores each message as a single file, right now we have about 605 GB made up of just under 10 million files. We use Netbackup 6.5.3 as our master server (a physical server running Windows 2003 s...

bgibson by Level 4
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Resolved! Cannot Expire Media (invalid command parameter)

Hello, I've got 3 pieces of media that I can't expire, no matter what I do.  This media has a status of "active".  It's not frozen, and it exists in the database to the best of my knowledge.  Adding it to the database has no effect on expiring it.  ...

Policy Issue

Hi, I have some issue on policy..... i earlier had Retention level of 4 weeks. someone has changed it to 2 weeks...... (1) Is there any way to check the date of this change.....  (2) the id of the person who changed it... If possible please provide...

Resolved! Exchange 2007 CCR backup issue

Hi, Then it was over to problem number two.. I've trying to backup a Exchange 2007 CCR cluster on windows 2008 Netbackup 6.5.5 Unix master on Solaris 10 Netbackup client installed on exchange nodes 1 and 2 - 6.5.5 On each node, under backup - restor...

Resolved! How does Netbackup work with .mdb files which are open?

Hi all, Recently I was asked to perform a restore of a mdb (microsoft access) file. According to the client, the file is updated regularly (daily) but when I looked for it in order to start the restore, I couldn't find the file. To be more specifi...

ingaramm by Level 2
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DLO database for NBU on a clustered SQL instance

Can DLO database for NBU be staged on a clustered SQL instance. The following technote's information is very ambiguous.. http://support.veritas.com/docs/338469 Is NetBackup Desktop Laptop Option supported in a Clus...

Lucky_Bala by Level 2
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