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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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Auto expire images

Hi, Is there a way to automatically expire images based on policy name, copy number and date? I have issue with Vault, apparently Vault has some undocumented image selecting rules. I thought that Vault always duplicate Primary copy of image. Unfortun...

Can we Assign Medias to Multiple Media Servers

Hi, Netbackup Version 6.5.1OS: HP-UX 11.11 Previously, I had 6 media servers but it has grown to 12 now. However, the amount of data that we are backing up has increased marginally. So, we are using more tapes than previously. Is there any way I can ...

Resolved! Question Regarding nbpushdata

Hi, My master is 6.5.1 HP-UX 11.11I have 22 media servers(20 HP-UX & 2 Windows 2003). I had upgraded all media servers to 6.5.1 except the 2 Windows one which are still at 5.1 MP5. I was not able to upgrade these 2 with other media servers as I did n...

Resolved! What is your ideal OS for a master server on x86_64 hardware.

Currently my master server is an old Sun280R.  It's one of our last Sun SPARC servers and its replacement has arrived :( .  The replacement though is on x86_64 hardware.  Now from what I have heard Solaris x86 is not as solid as it's sparc counterpar...

MattS by • Level 6
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Backup Scheduling Methodology?

Recently we have been running into resource issues since upgrading to NBU 6.5.  This whole parent/child multi-stream job thing is terrible.  The parent job is eating a resource and causing more jobs to queue up. This has become a catalyst to finally ...

MPish44 by • Level 2
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6.5.3 patch install

Yesterday I downloaded and applied the 6.5.3 patch to fix an issue with backing up Public Folders in Exchange 2003.  For some reason last night half my policies didn't run as scheduled.  Nothing had changed with any policies or schedules and i don't ...

Creating a standby server for the master server

Dear All, Our master server is running veritas netbackup 5.1 on Red Hat Linux AS 4. We We would like to setup a second standby server for our Master server which will hold up to date catalogs (syncronise with master server). Has anyone done so? Any i...

Subha by • Level 3
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Resolved! Question bpcoverage

Any one who have used bpcoveraege command might have seen the policies covered in subjected client.My question is why only file system backup is covered and not any database policies?   

Tape not becoming primary copy.

All our backups are initially held on a disk staging unit, which then (using the schedule) get written to tape.  The problem I have is a number of jobs are attempting to restore from the Disk based storage unit and failing as the images have been wri...

Resolved! Linux(Suse) client install

Hi,I´m a little bit confused on client install Suse Linux.Have 6.5.3 on master windows.Have 6.5.2 on a client Suse Linux.Downloaded the NB_CLT_6.5.3, this file is almost 1GB, includes Linux client for all platforms, why isn´t there a download for a s...

Error 201

Hi, I am trying to run a restore but it's failing with the following message: handshaking failed with server backup restore manager (201) The server used to be in location A and was setup as a media server as it was a big data server. It was decommed...

Create a boot cd for aix 6

Hi, i have netbackup 6.5 Enterprise solution, I want to create a boot cd for aix 6 with bmr, how can i do it ? Best regards.

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Veritas Console doesn't Autorefresh!

Hi, We have some specific set of Master Servers(veritas 6.5) which do not auto-refresh inpsite of the auto-refresh feature being enabled. Therefore we need to keep logging out and relogin to these servers every 2-3 hrs. There are other servers which ...

Chitra by • Level 2
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Processor Utilization Netbackup 6.5.1 Windows 2003

Hi All, I have recently converted from a linux 6.5.1 server to windows and am noticing that my backups are taking a little bit longer than they use to.  I am using the tape device drivers from the 6.5 cd and have set all my settings on the windows bo...

Fischer by • Level 4
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Replaceing a DLT drive

I  have a surestore 2/60 with 2 DLT8000's in it. One drive is giving me problems so I'm sending it out for repair to calif from PA. I powered down the netbackup server [HP_UX], powered down the library, removed the drive, powered the library backup, ...

Netbackup with VCB - multiple virtual machine with identical DNS

Hi, We came across the following scenario for VCB backup with NetBackupAs shown in figure 1, there is one original virtual machine and clone machine, both of them have the identical DNS resolve name in VC. We noticed that there is only one machine li...

EricYCK by • Level 4
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