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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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Resolved! Email notifications

I want to run email notifications. So I did everything as they said in manual: 1 Install and configure a mail client on the server as described in “Installing the email utility”. Then I test it (blat C:\testfile.txt -s test_subject -to my_email@comp...

piotr1 by Level 3
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how to delete backup by user

I (user, not admin) have backuped data thru netbackup client (java gui) ,  now i want to delete the unwanted data that from the tape. How can i selectively remove data from the tape. for example, delete particular dir, files,  or whole backup by ba...

Golem by Level 2
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Vaulting Moving Data on tapes from EMC Clarion

 Hey Everyone I have a EMC Clarion Storage and I have 2800gb of data on it and I am planning Implementing Vaulting on it , I mean moving the data on the tapes(Lto4) from the VTL . Can any one please help me with this , How to do ! I mean what are...

Socket errors

  Hi,      We built recently a windows media server  with NB 6.5.3 and we have solaris  master server with NB 6.5.3. We have added couple of windows 2003 clients configured to backup in policies.  Backup got initiated and run at low speed and few o...

Mathews by Level 4
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Rebuilding netbackup master server in MS Cluster

Hi, We are running netbackup 6.0MP4 in MS Cluster (mscs)  (active/passive) envoirenment. few days back we ran out of space on disk (v:) where actully emm db and image db were installed. to over come disk issue we added an new drive (W:) with more s...

Resolved! Status 5: the restore failed to recover the requested files

Hi All, Below are the contents of detailed status restore job. Netbackup version is 6.5.3.1 Please help in sorting.. thank you. 03/07/2009 12:19:20 - begin Restore 03/07/2009 12:19:21 - 1 images required 03/07/2009 12:19:21 - media 2082L3 requ...

Imran5 by Level 3
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Catalog Backup Retention Period

Hi All , I am new to Netbackup , I would like to know , What is the default retention period for Catalog Backup in Veritas Netbackup 5.1 version ? I could not see any retention value for this catalog backup in 5.1 .

Resolved! Details About PBX

Hi Friends,    I m working on NBU 5.1 & studying NBU 6.5 but i am not able to get information about PBX. plz Help me on this.

MAKAM by Level 3
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Re Using Tapes

I've read all the posts but still not resolved my problem, I've got two tapes (not catalog), that have a blank expiration date which i want to re-use but although their expiration date has passed they still show in a working volume pool instead of mo...

which user initiate backup process

Hi  All,  Is there utility to find which user (username, not client) initiate the certain process to backup data. Anything from standart NBU instruments? ( I can do that only by parsing log files . This method is not very comfortable for me) Any ...

Golem by Level 2
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Resolved! how to get rid of non-valid images manually

Hi All, I've discovered that some of my tapes consist of only a couple of small valid images, the rest are non-valid, yet the tape is marked by Netbackup as 'full'. Is there a way to manually delete the non-valid images, to free up more room? This...

kaush by Level 2
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Resolved! 6.5.4 Upgrade broke vmd/nbkms/ltid

I just upgraded a fresh install of Netbackup to 6.5.4 and after the upgrade vmd, nbkms, and ltid daemons refuse to start.  How can I debug this?  I've tried increasing the global logging on the Master Server to no success.

ruckc by Level 2
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RMAN backup speed is slow

Hi, I have two identical servers with Linux advance server 4 and oracle 10g. On one server, database size is around 200G and on the other server, database size is 10G. I have 6.5 netbackup client on both. So almost everything is identical except the ...

Resolved! Anyone know what does "bprd -dontfork -mpxmain" mean?

We're still running 5.1MP7. I saw the following process is running. But normally I don't see the process. Can someone please explain the process? #bpps -a | grep dont root 10589 1 0 17:38:57 ? 0:31 bprd -dontfork -mpxmain

Resolved! Netbackup 6.0 Appending to media

Folks, Is there a setting /  command / file to modify that allows a tape to be set to append so existing data on the tape is not over written? Thanks -D- 

dbeck by Level 5
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How to force FULL status on a tape

Using netbackup 6.5 I had a a tape that was FULL. I manually froze it using bpmedia -freeze. I manually unfroze it using bpmedia -unfreeze. Now the FULL status has disapeared and if i try to backup again on the tape I have a different  IO error an...

SQL Parent Job Hangs

Netbackup 6.5.3 Have an SQL Server that the Job hangs on the Activity Monitor until it gets terminated or timeout.  The only way to backup the databases is on the SQL Server itself using the SQL agent. But when the schedule policy starts, the jobs j...

Netbackup job issue with Standalone drive.

I recently deployed to a remote site Netbackup 6.5.3 with a standalone drive and I am having jobs fail with the following message. 7/1/2009 7:00:00 PM - awaiting resource Any A pending request has been generated for this resource request. Operator a...

Resolved! two media servers in different networks

Hi,   I'm going mad with this....   I have a 6.5.3 Master Server and two 6.5 Media Server   The Master Server has two IP (masterA;masterB) and each media server only can access the master with one of them.   how do I configure this?   bp.conf of Mas...