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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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Resolved! Catalogue retention policy

Hi,   How do we determine whats the ideal retention policy for a catalog backup? Does it has to be similar to the longest retention that we have in one of the backup policies? Assuming I have a OS backup with 1 year retention, do I have to maintain t...

MohdAlim by • Level 5
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Wild cards in backup selection

Hi All, What wild cards can be used in windows file system backup policy suppose i have a folder which contains 500 files in following location c:\auto\ i want to backup set of files starting with a or from range of numbers 1 to 9 can following be us...

Audit Changes to Policies

Hi, I think recently someone accidentally remove a policy. Is there anyway to create audit traits. Thanks. 

Puffy by • Level 6
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Netbackup master server migration

We have an existing Netbackup master server ( Solaris ) with NB 6.5.3.1. We want to migrate it to a different solaris host and want to keep the existing conffigurations intact. Can you please suggest the steps to go ahead with the plan . Thanks

Rohit_new by • Level 4
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Netbackup master server migration

We have an existing Netbackup master server ( Solaris ) with NB 6.5.3.1. We want to migrate it to a different solaris host and want to keep the existing conffigurations intact. Can you please suggest the steps to go ahead with the plan . Thanks

Rohit_new by • Level 4
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6.0 and 6.5 Admin Clients

Hi All, I'm relatively new to NBU support, and I've been asked to acquire the 6.0 and 6.5 administrative clients.  I'm lost trying to find these two pieces of software out here on Symantec's site.  Would anyone be able to post links to those pieces o...

C_J_Hund by • Level 4
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bparchive to archive network files

Anyone know how to archive network files? I would like to execute this command from client1 to archive the files client2 one more thing is client2 does not have netbackup client software installed. Like below: bparchive.exe -S mserver -L C:\Archive_l...

VSS volume set prepare failed

Hello all,   While trying to backup a windows 2003 server, I received the following error in the bpbkar log: Inf – VSS volume set prepare failed In the server event viewer I can see the following error: Data ontp vss hardware provider failed ...

ronen by • Level 3
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Resolved! migrating from unix media server to windows

Hello,   We are using Netbackup 6.5.3. We are planning to move our Unix media server to windows media server. Please let me know if there are any planned steps required for the same. Please suggest. Thanks

Rohit_new by • Level 4
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(0) Invalid Status Code

0(zero) as we all know should be a sucessful backup status code. But what I have experienced is that on Job details, the status 0 is invalid Status code.. can i ask if someone has an idea bout this.. appreciate a lot. My NBU is 6.0MP7S01 running on s...

pjeia by • Level 3
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Privilege to launch Administration console

Hi Wanna know is it a must to have administrator privilege to launch the Administration console in Windows server 2003? I searched on the net but found no official statement on this, or I miss something in the administration guide? Thanks a lot Leo

Resolved! Daily backups to only one tape at a time

Hello,   Let me first tell you the intended goal of what we hope to obtain.  We would like all of our daily jobs to write to one drive.  With this, we hope to minimalize tape usage.  As it stands, we use 18 tapes per week for daily jobs (which are se...

Image Cleanup report

Hi, I work with Netbackup 6.5 Entreprise on Sun Solaris 10 and I scheduled the image cleanup every 60 minutes and the job works well. Do you know how to have report on the cleanup of images that are removed ? I have only the total result of the job. ...

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Install Netbackup Server on VM

Is it possible to install Netbackup Enterprise Server on a VM? For D2D backup only. Thank you in advance for your kind support. Best Regards, ACR

Resolved! Network Traffic flow overview

Netbackup was configured on my network with no documentation. I get a basic understanding of how it is supposed to work by analizing traffic flow but I'm not sure it is set up properly. I was under the impression that client nodes would communicate d...

colson by • Level 2
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