cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
NetBackup

Discussion Posts

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
  • 5140 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 17 kudos

Resolved! Restore imported data NBU 6.0 server

Hello, I was given 7 LTO-3 tapes containing several hundred  1GB to 2GB files. The tapes were created using NBU  Server 6.5.3 Host was Solaris 10.  I have imported (both steps) the tapes into NBU Server 6.0 MP6, Solaris 9.   I have no idea what the f...

Client encryption impact?

For those of you encrypting on the client side, what kind of impact are you seeign? We ran some test in our lab and got minimal impact. However, when we moved to the production environment throughput degraded seriously. Our environment consists of a ...

ROFPR by Level 4
  • 91 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Having issues with keywords field in policies

When we create a policy, we enter keywords into the keywords field.  We are finding that sometimes these keywords disappear.  On any given day, there are 2 or 3 people logged into the NBU admin console.  I'm wondering if this is why?  Can someone p...

NBU 6.5.3.1 Hot Catalog Backup

Hi, We are running a Hot Catalog Backup for NBU , using the Catalog-BAckup Policy. We are not using BMR , altough there is a BMR database present under /netbackup/db/.. I renamed the BMRDB file o BRDB old and we still get this error while running th...

Shaik by Level 2
  • 349 Views
  • 7 replies
  • 0 kudos

Shutting down services prior to backup on client server

Hey all, I have a general question: I want to backup a server with a ctree database. They suggest shutting down the services on the client server then restarting them after the backup has finished. Is there a way to execute a script via netbackup bef...

Evan by Level 4
  • 348 Views
  • 6 replies
  • 0 kudos

Promoting the media server to act as master

Hi, I am trying to come up with a DR plan for my Netbackup domain. Has anybody had any experience of "prompting a media server to be a master server" in the event of a master server outage? I want to have 2 media servers and a master server at my ...

Moley by Level 3
  • 459 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! bpexdate

By running the command bpexpdate -m (tape number) -d (date / time) Does it move all images on the tape to the new expiry date? What if the image on the tape is part of multiple tapes? Any gotchas running this command? Also what's the easiest way ...

Cant use WORM Tapes in Netbackup 6.5

Hi i should make a yearly backup from our filesystem on worm tapes, but netbackup dont take the worm tapes. Can anyone helps me?? greets

mex1984 by Not applicable
  • 159 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Problems Conecting with Remote Administrator Console

Hello Guys I have some problem with Remote Administrator Console on my workstations. Past Week its everything working perfect but this week, all time was I try to connect to my R.A.C. I receive this message (See the attachment) I add the users and ma...

HEMANPR by Level 6
  • 488 Views
  • 11 replies
  • 0 kudos

6.5.4 Restore Uses Wrong Media Server

I'm running a HP-UX master/media server running NBU 6.5.4. As part of a migration process I want to have a separate media server, this is a W2K3 box also running NBU 6.5.4. I have a number of virtual libraries/drives on a VTL and also a physical libr...

Change LiveUpdate Server

Hi, Is it possible to change the LiveUpdate server on the backup clients with bpsetconfig is it need to log on to everything windows to server to change it? BR. Jacob

Jacob by Level 4
  • 216 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 kudos

Netbackup restore issue and beginner questions

hi , i am a netbackup newbie and i have soem problem with a restore and a couple of questions. I am running Netbackup 6.5.3.1 on Win2k3 ENT R2. 1st question: I am trying to do a restore ( 1 single file) and i cannot do it due to "the restore failed ...

Daniel_G by Not applicable
  • 326 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! install Netbackup 6.5.4 in Linux

Dear All; I want to install new NetBackup 6.5.4 release on my server to upgrade NetBackup version from 6.5 to 6.5.4 so that please can you provide me the release source(to download) and also provide me steps how I can install release in Linux standa...

Ialahmad by Level 5
Partner
  • 256 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! Recovering a Windows Media Server

Is it this simple in 6.5.4 and Windows Server 2003? 1. Install Windows, same version and patch level. 2. Make tape drives available. 3. Install NetBackup Server. Is everything else located on the Master server now?  Will that server be ready to sta...

rsamora by Level 5
Certified
  • 139 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Can't install NBU 6.5 on Mac 10.5

When I try to run the "install" I getteh following error ? QA-20T-M1:65_DVD1_20070723 root# ./install dirname: illegal option -- e usage: dirname path -e ERROR:  gunzip is required to install this package and was not found in ${PATH}.  ${PATH} is c...

jdel80 by Level 2
  • 533 Views
  • 9 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! NetBackup Windows admin console very slow

Hi all, We have NetBackup 6.5.4 Enterprise on a SPARC/Solaris 10 server here.  Personally I use the Java client (jnbSA) to admin the server from my Linux workstation but some of our guys use the native Windows admin gui (i.e. not Java gui) from thei...

Resolved! Oracle Arch/Log status 6

Hello, I 'm trying to run an Archive log Oracle backup, I got status 6. RMAN log (executing from the client) <html><ol> <li>INF - Begin progress logging for process: (4316) <li>INF - Starting Oracle Recovery Manager. <li>INF - Using: /opt/oracle/...

Resolved! Newdie Question: Scratch Pool

I created a scratch pool in one of our environments. Is there anything else I need to do to have Netbackup start to use this pool. I expected it to put new tapes that I put in, into this pool, but they are still being put into the Netbackup pool. sm...