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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 • Level 6
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Fibre transport or Ethernet

Hi all,We are running NetBackup 8.1 and have a Data Domain as target.The Data Domain is now connected to Ethernet (2x10Gb). We like to connect it to FC as well.Do we need to configure something on the Media server to accomplish this?Can the type of t...

Resolved! Incremental forever Backup - is there in Netbackup like TSM ??

Hi,Situation1. New directory is generated daily (according to date “today” – example directory/YYYY/MM/DD).2. each DD has sub-folders in it. Every sub-folder  has zip files on it (100 over zip files). 1 day size per folder can be 10GB.3. the files is...

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MSDP Linux server, increase pool limit

HI !sorry for my english, i'm french speaking.We will in few weeks, install a new Linux MSDP server.Actually, all our MSDP server are Windows, some have the limit of 64TB for the pool, others with x TB.  When we have a pool with low space, we just ad...

Find Media ID from a DR file

Hi All,     IHAC who is looking to restore some really old data from 2015  and the problem is that all the data is expired , however the good thing is that he thinks that they use to save the catalog media physically with IM , we also have found the ...

Virtual MSDP mounted on a NFS datastore

I know that MSDP is not supported on a NFS disk and needs "exclusive use of the disk resources".But what id the Media Server is a virtual machine and the disk that will be used for MSDP is actually a NFS datastore, presented directly through VMware? ...

Alexis_Jeldrez by • Level 6
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Resolved! Newbie to netbackup needs help: server name not found

Hello there, I'm a newbie to netbackup. Actually we have inherited a netbackup appliance after an acquisition that my company did. We have a netbackup appliance 5420 and a VM which has the console of administration. The VM is under version 7.7.3 and ...

Resolved! Migration Media Server with Advance disk configuration

Hi all,I have plan on our customer  to migrate media server advance disk configuration (with active image on the disk) from linux SUSE to RHEL, what should be prepared?Please help and share step by step on netbackup media server..Thanks a lot.. 

eryk_sun by • Level 3
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Netbackup Tape writing behaviour

Hello All,I have a question about tape retention. The question may be stupid and /i think i know the answer, but I am not sure.In a situation where netbackup is writing a frontend(client to tape)  or SLP driven deduplication backup (disk to tape).. a...

optimized deduplication

Dear All,I am having netbackup setup in gco clustera. We are having two datadomain box one on the main site and other on the dr site. what ever the data goes from the main site datadomain is send to dr site datadomain via optimized deduplication and ...

t_jadliwala by • Level 4
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NetBackup SAN Client slow scanning /dev/sg devices

Hi folksIs there any way to tune the SAN client, specifically its initial scanning of /dev/sg devices? Can we specifiy what devices to scan, or types of devices to ignore? Our initial scan takes ~2.5hrs (~1100 /dev/sg devices, 99% of which it retries...

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Resolved! Useless incremental backups?

*** Moved to new post from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/backup-retention-with-incrementals/m-p/396768  *** Is it true that we always keep some useless differential incremental or cumulative-incremental backups since full is expired? And NBU d...

bptestbpcd successful with name but not ip in NBU 8.1

Hi Everyone, Has anything changed from NBU 8.1 with bptestbpcd, Actually it is getting successful with hostname resolving its ip from hostname, However when i try it with ip it fails with an error status 7648/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bptestbp...

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Master server hardware refresh 8.1.1 - Certs question

I'm planning on refreshing the hardware for our master and media servers (all running NetBackup 8.1.1). The Security and Encryption guide has specifics on which data to save for reinstall on non-master servers (for host based ID-certificates). Howeve...

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8.1 Trail Key

Hi There ,Can any one could you please share the trail key to explore the feature of netbackup 8.1.2. I have downloaded 8.1.2 Linux but while installing it is asking key where I am new to NBU and not the partner to get trail key. Is there any way to ...

Recommendation on VM Backups

HiNeed your help to recommend the best approach to backup files on a VM machine.The files is in a datastore (NetApp), not a NFS.What is have in mind is to treat VM as a physical machine and select the files/folders in the Backup Selection.But i am th...

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Oracle deduplication rate is very slow

Hello guys,My name is Germano, andI work for Consulting Veritas in Brazil. (luis.germano@veritas.com).I have deduplication performance problem in backup of an Oracle 12c database, on NetBackup 8.1.1 (about 18%)I am using a 5240 Appliance as a Media S...

Germano by • Level 3
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