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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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netbakup upgrade

hi friends ..  does any one guide me with how to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 for windows/ I am aware that this is a free upgrade .. i could find any documents for converting 6.0 to 6.5 .. Could yoy please let me know how   

Ashz_Tomz by Level 5
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Need Help With SAN Media Server Configuration

Helloz, I have a project to configure SAN Media server on Netbackup 5.1(both Windows & Unix).I'm looking for some help with it. 1.Is the San Media Server Intallation files different from the usual netbackup ones? I mean do i need a diff setup or will...

Kisad by Level 5
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Prepare to restore client error - BMR

Hi, I have taken a successful backup of a test client(windows 2003).But in the Bare Metal restore Clients tab,when I select the test client for "prepare to restore",I get the following error....   The requested operation could not be completed.The se...

netbackup newbie needs help

Just joined this company a couple of days ago.  Found out that severla backup jobs have been failing even before I joined this place.  A lot of jobs are getting the status 58 can not connect error. I have looked at all the troubleshooting guides, pag...

Netbackup tape rotation log

Hi Experts, I am wondering how to look into the netbackup logs for the Rotated tapes. We use to swap the tapes on weekly basis and i just want to monitor all the tapes which i use for month( the tapes which i rotated every week). Whewre i can find th...

Resolved! Disk Staging Duplications.

Have configured Disk Staging to duplicate data from disk to final destination of tape, however some images from the disk do not duplicate and return error below: 11/14/2008 12:02:14 AM - begin Duplicate11/14/2008 12:02:25 AM - requesting resource dcn...

Downed drives - netbackup 5.1

My netbackup server keeps downing drives.  The drives pass all mechanical diags and the library reports no errors.  I have replaced one of the drives 4 times to no avail.  I have done "vmglob -delete" and "vmglob -set_gdbhost {master host} -h {master...

sbecker by Level 2
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bpimport hundreds of tapes

Hi all,   I need to import hundreds of tapes from a 5.1 server to my new 6.5 cluster server.   Each tape have a lot of images in, and each image several fragments.   When I import a tape into the new catalog I can't send back to the old library, so I...

Backup size bigger than data size

Hi Netbackup newbie here ... Netbackup 6.5 on RHEL 5.2. Single host backing up 3 directories with compressed files in each.Total data to backup:  535GB.Backup started at 03:00, it's now 10:00 and it's still running, so far it's somehow managed to bac...

NHL by Level 4
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how to use -f filelist on bprestore

Hi All, Anyone knows how to use -f filelist of bprestore ?  What's format of it? here: bprestore -B -w -L /tmp/dpi01.tom.log -R /usr/openv/netbackup/scripts/changtofil -C cb-flor-bm13.noceast.dws.disney.com -D cb-flor-bm13.noceast.dws.disney.com t 0 ...

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NOM invalid paths still showing

I have resolved some invalid drive configurations and vmoprcmd shows everything fine.  But in NOM it still shows missing path?   How do you remove the invalid paths in NOM.

Baird_C by Level 3
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Problems VSS and Netbackup 6.5.2

Hi folks, I have a problem with 3 W2K3 servers with very long lasting jobs. In an actual case I have an INC. job with a small volume of 885 MB which is running at the moment for several hours. Usually the server does a FULL backup with over 100 GB in...

NetBackup 6.5.2 or Backup Exec 12.5?

Hi For a Windows environment and MSSQL, Oracle and Lotus on these Windows Servers, which one has more performance: data transfer between clients and server, throughput of tape drives, processor overhead, etc. ? I think I should you NetBackup (if you ...

Resolved! disable offline catalog backups

I have a customer who upgraded from NBU 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP5 on a Windows 2003 server.  Afterward they created a policy for online catalog backups using the wizard.  The policy exists and the jobs run successfully.  However they still hae offline catal...

Android by Level 6
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Image Cleanup

How do i conifgure image cleanup? Everytime it runs there is some failures due to a non existant disk storage locations that are no longer used. Thanks

Hang creating SRT on BMR 6.5.2A

I'm having trouble successfully creating a new Windows SRT with the Boot Server Assistant GUI in Windows. I get to the point of "Adding Fast Restore Windows files to the SRT. Extracting files into Shared Resource Tree", it copies a whole bunch of stu...

Ian_C by Not applicable
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