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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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Restore of differential incremental backup

Please excuse my maybe a bit stupid / basic questions, but I'm just getting started with NetBackup and didn't find an answer to this in the documentation. I'm doing a full backup of a volume first, then I modify some files (create new files, rename ...

JanS by Level 3
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Help With update_clients

I would like to know if anyone has ever put windows client binaries on a UNIX (solaris) master and used the update_clients to update the windows clients. Is this even possible? Very hard to find documentation on this script and it's possible uses ou...

TM0731 by Level 2
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Netbackup Master Server password change

  Hi Guys we have a Windows Netbackup Master Server which I changed the password on yesterday all looked well until today that is. We have now noticed one of our VCB media backup servers could not communicate with the tape robot any more.  As soon ...

Backup Reporter and Puredisk 6.5.1

Can anyone help with this problem. We have VBR 6.5 reporting very well on two puredisk nodes. All the jobs are reported and reports are being emailed to our support desk. We have a series of replication jobs between the two nodes and I would like t...

mcphersond by Level 2
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Drive down - Alert

Is there any way to configure for an email alert, when drive goes to down state in Netbackup 6.5? Thanks Jaggi

Jaggi by Level 4
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View Mailboxes in a Mailstore Before Restoring

Hi. I've been trying to restore a mailbox to our exchange 2003 server using netbackup. However i am unable to view the mailboxes within the mailstores so i'm not 100% on what mailstore to resotre. Is there any way to view the mailboxes within a ma...

AWDIT by Not applicable
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NBU 6.0 catalog questions

Hi All, We are using NBU 6.0 MP2 and since a few month we had size problems with our catalogs. Our catalog policy is configured as follow : Full catalog backup every Sunday from 8PM to midnight. Multiples copies. 1 to disc (folder d:\catalog) and ...

Backup job fails with error code 6

Hi, I have an SAP type backup policy for backing up my Oracle database serving as backend to my SAP application. Manually running of full database backup policy runs fine but when i schedule it, it randomly fails with error code 6 6 sapsvr04-back S...

Resolved! Need to free tape space

I recently ran out of space on my tapes. I use NetBackup 6.5 on Windows in an NDMP test environment. Once a test is finished, I'd like to immediately delete the backup data from tape so that the space can be reused. What I'm doing right now is that...

JanS by Level 3
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Netbackup 6.0 pre and post client commands

I would like to perform a simple task. Before a backup run a command on the remote client, then, after the backup, run another command. It's a simple batch file that recycles some services and performs other tasks. I have been going back and forth ...

Informix IDS whole database backup

Hi. NBU version : 6.5.2 Platform : HPUX11.11 PA_RISC Database : Informix IDS (using db agent) Tape Device : LTO2 We are backing up the Informix IDS using NBU. The total size of dbspace is about 300GB(used) except temporary dbspaces. All dbspaces ...

Resolved! /usr/openv/logs on Media server 6.5

Hi,   I run with Netbackup entreprise 6.5 on Sun Unix box and I have 2 other Sun Unix with 6.5 for media server and everything work well. But, I have a problem with the directory /usr/openv/logs of my 2 media server. I always keep my logs and does no...

RPicard by Level 2
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Netbackup V6.5.2A - Netbackup History missing

We would like to restore data from backup that was created in May 2007 but those dates don't show in the Netbackup History.  How do I recover the data from that May 2007 backup?  I have the tapes loaded in the drive and inventoried.  Thanks,

Resolved! Problems with Media owner in scrath pool

I I have a problem with my netbackup 6.5.1 I have 2 Pools wich are backin up on Tape, and a scratsch with tapes tahat can be used. PROBLEM: Alle my tapes in the scratch pool, has no media owner, and therefore cant be used in the other 2 pools. I c...