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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 Moderator
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Job Priority Handling

Hi, Just want to know, how does Netbackup handle the priority of jabs? My scheduled jobs has "99999" priority, wheres all the manual duplication will be done with "0" priority. Assume i have 1 manual duplication is running (0 priority), followed by...

Catalog backup on 5.1 MP2 fails with status 124

In trying to get to 6.5.x on new hw, I have migrated production 5.1MP2 (solaris 8 SPARC) to new hw (solaris 10) as a stepping stone. All backups and restores run as expected. The catalog will not backup sucessfully though. The paths I have listed ar...

afacey by Level 4
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NBU greater than 128 drives

Any ideas on the following message? "The currently licensed version allows up to 128 drives per server. You have configured 131 drives" 6.5.4 Enterprise. The master needs to see 358 drives. Each media server needs to see 183 drives. Some drives VT...

rwsjr by Level 2
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Resolved! NetBackup 6.5 master server install on VM

Would like direction with regard to installing NetBackup 6.5 on a virtualized master server.  Specifially: best practices regarding disk partitioning on the virtualized master server (ex. c:\ 20 GB, d:\?)CPURAM Links to pdfs would be welcomed and app...

FULL backup will not run - NetBackup 6.0MP4

We have a number of Policies that have a Differential backup scheduled to run Monday-Thursday and a Full backup on Friday. The were working fine until we had to change the time that tehy were scheduled to start and their backup window. The Differient...

storage lifecycle policies

Hi. Does anyone know whether storage lifecycle policies can be used to perform intermittent duplications? For example, a backup is required to be retained on tape for a period of 20 years, but as storage devices degrade over time, we would like to w...

Two factor authentication on Netbackup

This more of a generic question. Has anyone managed to apply two factor authentication on netbackup. Is there a particular software/hardware solution that can be used for accessing the netbackup Java gui using this method? Any hints tips would be m...

nbjbets by Level 3
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Resolved! Backup Issue

Hi all ,   When we are running Vmware backups , some of the client backups are failing with error code 156(snapshot creation failed )   Here i have given my bpfis log file . Please suggest me how to fix this issue..

What these NETBACKUP errors can be ?

What these errors can be ? 6/27/2009 12:38:08 PM veritas-netbkup clusterPC Critical 76477 Media Device sts_read_image failed: error 2060017 system call failed 6/27/2009 12:38:08 PM veritas-netbkup clusterPC Critical 76477 Media Device image read fa...

Zahid_Haseeb by Moderator
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Email alerts in netbackup 6.5

Hi Folks, Can you please help me out how to configure the email alerts in netbackup 6.5 environments..? Is there a way to configure the email alerts for the particular error status codes...?

Resolved! Can i copy the images from one Media to different Media

Can I copy a backup from tape cartridge(s) which have been already taken on SAN drive? Can I copy a backup on different location (SAN) drive which backup reside on tape cartridge? Thanks in Advance

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Files missing with differential incremental backups

Hi, i have net backup 6.5 server and i am using HP Unix as a client with version 6.5.  I have Oracle production database running and i have scheduled a policy for backing up a file system which contains archived redo logs of my Oracle database. For t...

VCB with Exchange/SQL or local database

I'm running NetBackup 6.5.3 on Windows Server 2003. My master server is in a virtual machine, along with many other applications I'd like to backup using Vmware's VCB 1.5, such as Exchange and SQL. VCB/Vmware tools is using Windows VSS writer for qu...

Resolved! can i down tape drive without killing running restore?

hey guys, not clear on this - if i manually DOWN a tape drive, will that let the current job (in this case, a restore) continue to run to completion? or will downing a tape drive also kill a job that is running on it? i want to take a particular ...

STATUS CODE 58: Can't connect to client

Dear All; I have master server 'Master' and Media server on DMZ 'DMZ_media' server  and client on dmz network 'oapsa1a' I run test connection command in Master and Media server and client they give same result as follow:- C:\Documents and Settings...

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Resolved! IP address change for Master server in NetBackup 6.5.3

I need to do a DR test that involves a replica of our master server at a remote location. We use Doubletake to keep the replica in sync with the production master. In order to test, we d/c the NIC on the production server and failover to the replica ...

dfinley by Level 3
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Resolved! NBU client configuration

I have a VMware based Windows client that stopped  communication with the master.  The servers passed all the usual comm. tests. I beleve I can resolve the problem by going to Client Settings\Universal Settings\Use Specified Network Interface.  Howev...