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NetBackup Encryption to tape and Multi-Domain tape recovery
One of our customers as a requirement to encrypt backups to tape in three NetBackup Domains, each one with a physical standalone Master/Media Server and a NetBackup Media Server Appliance 5240, the issue is that they need send encrypted backup tapes ...
NetBackup status code 69 and 90 C:\ and Shadow Copy Components
Hi,I´ve got an issue basically throughout a customer's environment. I see alot of MS-Windows jobs that failed with status 69 and 90 on C:\ and Shadow CopyExcluelist include:C:\Shadow Copy Componets:\System State:\Backup selection:All_Local_DrivesEDIT...
error in duplication
Hi!We've more than 80 virtual servers on VMWare 6.5 platform. Daily backups of VM run fine. We duplicate the data every weekend to a DR site via SLP process. Only 2 windows servers fail to duplicate.the activity log show:17:37:19 08/06/2018 - request...
Resolved! BARE METAL COMPATIBILITY QUERY
Hi.I have 8 CentOS Linux 7 x64 that need bare metal backupsI read the compatibility list for Netbackup 7.7.3, and I found Netbackup only does BMR restore for CentOS 6 version. But maybe I missed something. Could you help me confirming it?Thanks a lot
How to properly use CLEANUP_MEDIA_SERVER_MAP option
Greetings!My you be so kind to explain how to properly use the option described in this technote:https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100002609Here is the purpose and description of this entry or option taken from this article:Issue: When m...
Windows Exclude Lists
Windows 2012R2 Master / 5240 Appliance Media / Windows 2012R2 Client - NBU 8.1.1I have a Windows client with a D drive containing a directory appdir. This directory contains many files with 'log' in the name, these are distributed throughout many su...
Resolved! BAckup fails with status 24
We have a windows 2012 server. However, we are unable to backup. Connection is established between the backup server and client server however, the data transfer does not take place and after about 2 hours, the backup fails with status 24.bptetsbpcd ...
Resolved! Problem with VSS on a physical Windows Server
Hi,I am adding a physical Windows Server 2016machine as a first client in a new Windows Policy (This is a new NetBackup installation, version 8.1.1). The backups fail with status 69, the log says (some host names edited throughout):[...]07.06.2018 12...
Resolved! Restore Destination greyed out on client BAR gui...and differs from depending on user.
Experience a strange issue...Environment is NBU 7.7.3, RedHat master/media servers.I have a Windows cluster I'm backing up. So I have a policy for the "shared" drive with clustername as the backup client, and a policy for the 2 nodes in the cluster (...
Resolved! NetBackup FE TB License
Which NBU products or options are not included in the NBU FE TB license?
Resolved! Find the reason why Tape Drives are becoming down
Hi Everybody, As you can see below, two drives became down, this time just drive 1 and 3. if I want to tell the exact history in last three month, I have to say it is not just drive 1 and 3 that become down, sometimes drive 2 or 4, or any other co...
Maximum job count has been reached for the storage unit
We have VM backups write to a storage.Since very long time we configured the storage unit to have 42 jobs running at the same time. and other jobs will be queued.now since two weeks, 42 threads will start, and the remaining will fail on snapshot with...
Fibre Transport Media Server HBAs > QLogic - Support with UNIX
Fibre Transport Media Server HBAs > QLogic - Support with UNIX > QLE2500 series > Solaris 10 on SPARC My question now 8 Gb FC PCIe, Qlogic, Dual Port (QLE2500 series) end of sales, i propose Fujitsu M10-1 Part Sun Storage 16Gb Fibre Channel PCIe Univ...
Resolved! VMware policy restore error(2820)
Restoring a file from VMware image backup failes with "VMware policy restore error(2820)".6/4/2018 12:02:35 PM - begin Restore6/4/2018 12:02:37 PM - restoring image xxxxxxx_15278258166/4/2018 12:02:38 PM - requesting resource @aaaad6/4/2018 12:02:38 ...
Resolved! Troubleshooting MSDP with Disk Pool regularly going down
Master is the Storage Server: NetBackup 8.0 with Windows 2008 R2 SP1Disk used for MSDP disk pool: External storage connected to the Windows server through a dedicated HBA. Uses a SAN switch and Microsoft MPIO.Our Puredisk Disk Pool is going down a co...
Netbackup 7.5 maintenance releases
We have a legacy Netbackup environment running 7.5.0.4. We have identified an issue that was bug fixed in maintenance release 7.5.0.5.As maintenance releases contain fixes for known issues identified in release updates and do not contain any new fea...
variables in backup selection
On our oracle servers my policies are set to backup the entire hard drive toTAPE.I would like to set a second backup to backup certain files to DISK. I don't have enough disk (yet) to backup everything. I would like to set the backup selection to s...
Resolved! Status code 156 or 4258 for Hyper-V
Greetings!I woukd like to backup Hyper pass-through disk. I configured appropriate policy, backup was not succesfully. If i perform off-host backup in Hyper-V tab of that policy i get 156 error code, in another case 4258 error code. It fail to create...
backup is failing with error 50
backup is failing with error 50 everyday even netbakcup services are working fine on master and media server 06/04/2018 16:00:01 - Info nbjm (pid=16426) starting backup job (jobid=8612733) for client indbp02f.backup.internal.vf.net.nz, policy FS_FTC_...
Resolved! Netbackup commad to check robot status
I am writting a script to get daily health check report for Netbackup infra. I want to get the robot status (UP/DOWN/Degraded etc). vmoprcmd/tpconfig will give the tape drives are up or down status. Is there any command to know if the robot is UP/DOW...
