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NOM reports available media as -45
Hello In NOM, I have configured an alert to send me an email when the number of available media falls to below 5. The problem that I am seeing is that the media report displayed in NOM is incorrect. It shows the total volumes as 1 and the availabl...
Holding jobs within a policy...
Hi, Is there a way to stop certain jobs from running but without stopping all clients' next scheduled jobs? Basically, I have a policy with around 20 clients in. We ran our month end backups over the weekend but needed to re-reun 3 clients' jobs. No...
Resolved! Netbackup Disk stage and Tape Retensions and clearing images
HI, I have netbackup where my server stages all the backups to my san and the during the day it sends the backups over to tape. Currently it leaves the images on the server that have been moved to tape for two weeks but i want it so that it goes to...
Additional license required for Exchange Granular Restore on NBU6.5.3
Hello, Other than the standard client and the database/application pack does anyone know if there are any additional licensing requirements to using Exchange granular restore option? Thanks
Clearing down disk staging unit
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew how Netbackup decides which images to clear down from a disk storage unit when the high watermark is reached? We look after a number of NetBackup installations and have noticed that the clear down does not sim...
Backup to disk compression - SQL
Hi Guys, I was wondering if anyone was using compression when running to a disk staging area? I have an issue where I have alot of large SQL backups and not enough tape drives to run them to. As far as I am aware SQL backups are not able/recommende...
Different retention levels not showing on bpimagelist
I have created a policy to backup 2 copies with different rententions: i) 2 weeks retention (level 1) - used Media A ii) 14 days retention (level 2) - uses Media B Both the backups are chanelled to 2 separate tapes. However, when I run the bpimagel...
Change of Install directory on Media server.
Hello All, I have a simple 1 Master and 1 Media server installed on Windows. The master Netbackup sofwtare is installed on E: and the media server netbackup is on C: . Now the customer is in the process of rebuilding the environment. They want to...
Checkpoints Restart doesnt seems to work
Hi all, I am running NBU 6.0 MP4 and having cases where Checkpoints do not seem to work at all (they "check" right back to the beginning) after a Media Write error (84). Any idea ? Many thanks
Resolved! BpDbjobs out put is not working .
Hello everyone , This is my first discussion. I am unable to get bpdbjobs out put in netbackup 5.1 environment. I am regulary using this command to find out the failures and run the scripts as well. Suddenly bpdbjobs out put is not comming while...
Resolved! Libattach 1.4.2 install error
Hi, Anyone seen the the problem installling libattach on a Win2003 server? When installing I get a error Under install : Error 1920.Service SunRPC Portmapper ( SunRPC PortMapper ) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privliges to start...
NetBackup upgrade from 6.5 to 6.5.3
Anyone have good upgrade instructions going from NetBackup 6.5 to 6.5.3? Seems like every document I look at on Symantec support site deals with the client upgrade, not the Master and Media Server piece. Any help would be appreciated. thank you in...
Restore on MS cluster failing with 'invalid server (37)'
Hi, I read about same issues with MS Exchange cluster and I think I might have the same problem, can anyone confirm? Netbackup 6.5.3 MS cluster windows 2003 I can access the backup listing from the cluster node console (sdcnat0-000013) from which ...
Netbackup & QFS -- error 13
Netbackup 6.5.3 Master Server - HP-UX Netbackup 6.5.3 Client - Solaris 10 (Both QFS Server and QFS Client) QFS Version - 4.6.5 When I attempt to backup my QFS file systems (QFS only -- NOT SAMFS-QFS) on the QFS Server, the backups fail with an error...
Netbackup 6 - changing IP address
We are planning a change of IP on NBU 6.0 MP4 Mixed clients, mostly Wintel & AIX, some RedHat I have a few things so far that I know I need to think about... *Client agents uses DNS reverse lookup, so if the DNS cache entry of the clients hasn't ex...
Netbackup 6 Bug? Multiplexing resets to 1 in summary
Is this a bug / feature ? When I change any policy schedule property through the summary of all policies window, the media multiplexing, which is greyed out, get set back to 1. This is either selecting 1 policy at a time, or multiple. This is not a...
DB2 and scripting
Hi, I'm new to the DB2 agent in Netbackup. I have a couple of questions. 1. Can I use bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts when running a DB2 agent policy? 2. Is it possible to change the db2 agent backup scripts to do something else, for exa...
multiple streams backups
Hi all, I wonder if someone can assist me with the folllowing: I would like to multistream a single directory ( Window) that contain millions of small fies. PS: The idea solution is to use Flashbakup to achieve it Many thanks in advance Anth ...
Mismatched MTU sizes between Media Server & Clients
Backups from our Solaris 10 NBU media server are slower than we expect (10MB/sec to LTO3 drives, with nothing else running). The Solaris media server is set up for an MTU of 8000, and all of the clients (Windows & Solaris) are set to an MTU of 1500....
Device Configuration takes quite much time...
Hi Guru's Our environment consists of 165 media servers and as per the process implemented at the site, we run device configuration whenever a new media server is added. This scanning consumes a lot of time around 2 hrs + Is there a way to reduce t...
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