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NBU Licensing doubt
Hi there,The principal site administrator with NBU 8.1 send us tape drives periodically and I need to restore those backups in a remote office with a differente console.These backup contain snapshots of VMware, SQL and Oracle.What is the minimum lice...
A replication question
Hello,Here is our plan open for discussion: We are looking at moving guests to the filer and we would like to have some added protection in the case of filer issues. Can we get NetBackup to store to one drive and perform block level replication to an...
Resolved! Unable to do Point in Time Recovery in DB2
We need to restore and recover the DB2 environment to a specific time. We used VENDOR Archive method to backup transaction logs.As we tried to do point in time recovery(using GUI & Command line); log file restoration did not stopped at the specified ...
Resolved! Error while configuring MSDP on Media Server
Hi all,According to this installation guide https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/25074086-127355784-0/v24332600-127355784, I am stuck at step 8, with this error (see attached jpg) :"Configuring media server deduplication pool srv-xxxx-systeme ca...
Windows script for long running jobs
**** Moved to new post from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Long-running-or-Hung-jobs-script/m-p/289306 **** Hi @Jacob, can you please share the same script for windows please, actually we have windows server fro master and media( only 1 maste...
The working mechanism about tldd/tldcd
1) Is the number of child tldcds determined by the job sessions, and it can exceed the current number of robots？2) Why the tldd/tldcds cannot work as their own multi-threads, but as their corresponding child processes running？For examples:root@jcbak:...
Solaris zone backup terminates status (41) after 100% complete
Hi,A Solaris 10 Non-global zone... after the backup reaches 100% complete the backup fails with a 41 error as below,11/05/2018 15:20:48 - Error bpbrm (pid=15515) db_FLISTsend failed: network connection timed out (41)11/05/2018 15:20:50 - Error bptm (...
Supported scenario?
We have a couple of NetBackup 5230 Appliances running 2.7.3 which replicate between each other across a 1Gb link. One appliance is in Site A and the other in Site B and these work as expected. We now plan to install a 5240 into Site A as a new NetBac...
Upgrading from 7.5 to 8.1.2 – token question
We are upgrading from 7.5 to 8.1.2. We have a mix of *nix and Windows clients. When I do a manual upgrade on one of the Windows clients I am asked to verify the master fingerprint and to enter a token.I’m still a little confused on this part of the i...
Resolved! Netbackup primary secondary master server configuration
Hello all,We have a Netbackup 8.0 running on Master - media server configuration. Netbackup runs on master server that is a virtual machine.we had a crash on the operating system which was running netbackup 8.0 on the master server.since we did not h...
Resolved! how do you make a second duplicate?
NBU 7.7.3we have a monthly backup policy that goes to the monthly pool. the policy would delete the hd image one day after the duplication to tape is done. now management requires us to make a second duplicate so that we would have 2 tape media for t...
vaulting questions from a visual learner
NBU 7.7.3i have browsed the vaulting admin guide and for the life of me, i can't seem to comprehend what it is saying. fyi, i learn by doing and books really are not my forte. my problem is this "Choose Backups" tab. i want my monthly backups to be ...
Standard policy restore was partially successful (tar recieved an invalid archive)
Hi dear all.I got standard backup from 100 tar file. Now I need to restore 10 of these files. but my restore was partially successful. source and destination both are linux with netbackup 77211/04/2018 09:45:02 - Info tar (pid=17501) done. status: 0 ...
Resolved! How to set maximum jobs per client by command line?
Hi,I want to set two parameters using a linux script:1. On Master: maximum jobs per client2. For a media server : scalable storage/ Maximum concurrent jobsHow?Thanks
Resolved! Creating a new storage server with a media server shows the master instead
I am creating a new storage server and want to use not the master, but the media server:My master is testnb2, and my media server is testnb1.I am issuing these commands on the master testnb2:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevconfig -creatests -s...
AMS 1.2 on virtual NetBackup Appliance
Hello,I am trying to configure AMS on a virtual Appliance Master (runing fw 3.1.2)So the vNBA and the AMS is available from VEMS or from the trial URL.But ..First I cannot set AMS role on vNBA nor I can install the AMS package :( Is there any tips ? ...
Troubleshooting about certificates
Hi all,Last week, we have received an alert about certificate validate which will be expired. We have resolvec this error by executing"nbcertcmd -getcrl" on media and client in 8.0 or superior.Today, all's backups fails with 2106 status. Obviously, m...
Resolved! Can we automate a Retrigger Backup for Specific Error in Netbackup? i.e Error 27
Can we automate a Retrigger Backup for Specific Error in Netbackup? i.e Error 27
upgrade 6.5.6 to 8.1.1
...don't laugh !It looks like the shortest possible supported upgrade path is: 6.5.6 --> 7.7.1 --> 8.1.1Does that fit with poeples' experience ?Anyone actually done a 6.5.6 to 7.7.1 upgrade on Solaris SPARC ?.My main concern is that even thoug...
Resolved! netbackup 8.1.2 upgrade
Hello;My nbu system is running on Linux redhat and has current version 7.7.3. I want to upgrade to 8.1.2. Can I upgrade from 7.7.3 to 8.1 then 8.1.2 or should I upgrade from 7.7.3 to 8.0 then to 8.1 then 8.1.2 ? Thank you. Tom
