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To use VTL or not to use VTL - That is the question
We have a customer who has a very large environment, and the big question now is that as part of the migration to NBU 6.5, should we use VTL or Disk Stores? The choice will be almost purely based on raw performance (MB/s) in both backup as well as re...
setting policy attributes via linux cmd line
Hello All, I was wondering about the ability to set policy attributes via the command line in Linux. I realize that some of these are kicking around in the docs but I've not found a definitive guide or even a cheat sheet about the CLI options availa...
Resolved! Error occurred during initialization. Could not read logging configuration file.
I found this error in the problems report for two of our three media servers. Any idea what causes the error and how to get rid of it? I'm not sure how long they've been tossing these errors. Attempting to determine. Both run Solaris 9 and Netbac...
Resolved! Restoring Netbackup NDMP tapes on Windows Server - Gurus needed
Hello Netbackup Gurus, I've been tasked with restoring several Netbackup tapes of Netapp data that were backed up using NDMP. The tape drives we are using are LTO-4. The original server is not available any longer, so getting any catalog tapes or...
Missing Oracle instance during template creation
I am not seeing an Oracle instance when I click on the "Backup" tab when using the Veritas client GUI. How does Vertias discover Oracle instances? Is there a Veritas configuration file that needs to be editted? Does some sort of daemon need to be res...
NB 6 MP6 - DELL ML6000 library - "Inventory Failed: media ID not unique in database (34)
Hello, We have an ML6000 tape library with 274 licesnsed slots, and are running NetBackup 6 MP6. When we are importing tapes, or performing an inventory NB prompts with the error "Inventory failed: media ID not unique in database (34)." I've narro...
Procedure to Migrate Netbackup 6.5 Windows to Solaris
Hi all, I would like to know if there is a documented procedure to migrate Netbackup 6.5 Windows to NetBackup 6.5 for Solaris. I know there is one on 5.1 version, but I can not apply to 6.5 version. Many thanks, Silvio Reis
When NetBackup 6.5.4 will be available?
I was wondering when NBU 6.5.4 will be available?
Resolved! how to enable synthetic backups
Hello All, This may seem like a pretty simple question but here it goes. Running Linux master and media servers. We want to start testing synthetic backups in our environment. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to enable them. There is...
Lan Free backup or San Client
Hi, I would to know if there is an option , which would allow a remote server transfer data straight from a SAN-connected disk to a SAN-connected medium (tape or disk) without the data going thru the media server. I will also appreciate if anyone...
Resolved! Windows NOM server unable to connect to AIX NBU
Hi All, I am having trouble with getting our NOM server to connect to our AIX NBU Master Server, it always says offline. I have confirmed the following: Both servers can lookup the name/ip/reverse hostname for each other bp.conf on the nbu server...
Error Code Logs
Hi, 1)Whats the procedure for creating or enabling the individual required logs for the corresponding error codes? 2)If any error code occurs do we need to verify the Client or Media or Server side. 3)Frequently I experience the 13,14,24,54,71 error...
Veritas Netbackup 5.1 -> All drives going to AVR State
Hi all, I am using Netbackup 5.1 application and using Quantum M2500 tape library with 4 drives (SDLT). all drives were down and rebooted the server and tape library. when the backup starts the all drives going into AVR state none of backup are ha...
Resolved! How to tell if nbpem is suspended?
I have fallen into the trap of sometimes using 'nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling' and yup forgot to resume scheduling. I use this to perform some maintenance or create a quiet period of no interaction. But from the bpps -a output you still see nbpem pro...
Cannot connect on socket
Hello all! I have one problem. After the upgrade from version 6.0 to version 6.5 does not pass the process of restoring. In Active Monitor writes next: 06.05.2009 12:25:52 - begin Restore 06.05.2009 12:26:02 - number of images required: 1 06.05.20...
Exchange Information Store Restore to RSG
Hi All, (Netbackup 6 MP5, exchange 2003 active/passive cluster) I'm trying to perform a restore of the information store backup to a Recovery Storage Group and the restore job keeps failing about half way through. The restore itself seems to keep p...
Resolved! Restore to a different client
Hi all, I have read the Admin Guide I, page 667-680 but I don't understand to much. How can I do a restore to another client. I have a did backup for a client and now I want to restor to another cleint. Which is the simplest way to redirect a resto...
Resolved! Install a linux client - step by step
I need help to install a linux client. I am not familiar with Unix/Linux "Language". Can anybody help me with a step by step guide? The Master NBU is a Windows 2003 and I have 3 Linux (suse 32/64bit)) clients and I must to install the NBU client. ...
Medias are freezing
Hi , We are using Netbackup 5.1 MP4 , Where in some of the servers we are finding medias are not mounting and after some time those media are getting freezed. Could anyone please help me in fixing this issue.
Windows Netbackup clients reporting as UNIX clients
got a stange problem Windows 2003 x64 edition, downloaded and installed the x64 version of the 5.1 client (up to MP4) the windows servers are reporting int he netbackup console as UNIX clients tho...... im not sure if this is an x64 issue, or wether...
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