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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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Does VBR do this ?

I know NOM  doesn't do this   ....  Can VBR report on NBU failures by :Listing client failed because of this stream(s) failed and giving the details of stream.  Details being filesystem, wintel drive letter or as defined in the include section of the...

Jim-m by Level 5
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Netbackup 6.0 master server upgrade to 6.5 problem

Hello, Currently i've got a netbackup master server running NBU 6.0 MP4, and have tried upgrading this to NBU 6.5 but have errors with NBEMM. The environment I have is;host_a (netbackup master server 6.0 MP4 running on Solaris 9)host_b (netbackup mas...

D-C by Not applicable
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Problem with upgrading to 6.5.2a

Hi All,we have updated from 6.5 to 6.5.2a.Of course we started with upgrading our master server (is also media server) and proceeded with the clients.After updating the first client to NetBackup 6.5.2a, we found out that the client had promoted itsel...

Resolved! Client/Server issue...

I have one Master/Media Server running on Win2k3 Server SP2 with a robot/library combo unit.  I have 2 client Novell servers.  All running 6.5.1.  This is our third configuration.  We also have similar configurations running at two satellite offices ...

A_Goode by Level 3
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ALTPATH file clarification

May I use an ALTPATH.txt file to redirect the entire images directory (eg. .../netbackup/db/images/altpath.txt) , or must it be done per client subdirectory?

Steven_Moran by Level 4
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Wonderful licensing problem!

I am waiting for a product exchange from Symantec, so in the meantime they set me up with a demo key which was then extended with another key.  Well, my extended key ran out and now I have users lined up who can't get to their archived files... of co...

StoutAT by Level 3
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All drives in library lost scsi id.

I have an L180 with 10 sdlt drives. The library was moved and when it was re-installed, all the drive scsi id's were blank. How can I determine what Netbackup thought they were? I'd rather change the id's on each drive to match what Netbackup thinks ...

Resolved! Itanium HPUX and 5.1?

Does anyone know if 5.1 will work on a Itanium HPUX server 11i v3?

zippy by Level 6
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NT Backup from Veritas 10D

I have a problem with an ntbackup restore from a tape. The ntbackup contains exchange file storage. logs:  Error category    : Security ErrorsError             : e0008488 - Access is denied.For additional information regarding this error refer to lin...

"Mark Selected Files" marks only the last selected file

I'm having a problem selected multiple files for restore in NBU 6.5. I'm highlighting my files (click, shift+click), then right-clicking the highlighted files and clicking "Mark Selected Files". It only marks the last selected file. I don't fancy ind...

Oracle Backup Troubles with error attached

My DBA is reporting "slowness" as he has coined in his oracle backups. The client in question is AIX 5, the media server is HP-UX 11.11 and the master server is HP-UX 11.11. He is seeing this error..  [code]channel t1 disabled, job failed on it will ...

Parent job status

Hi,    HP-UX Master running 6.5.1. We are seeing parent jobs show a failed status where a stream has failed, but an automatic retry completes. ie stream gets a 41, but retries and completes okay. Parent job keeps a 41. As we script most of our backup...

unable to start SQL Client GUI

Hi All, Ive just built a Windows 2003 media server running 5.1 MP6.All normal backups run fine, when i try and start the SQL GUI i get the following error and the GUI fails to start error in <RegOpenKeyEx>,QUERYING <software\veritas\netbackup\current...

deamon by Level 4
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Resolved! Exchange Backup - "unable to successfully enumerate folder"

I am setting up a new NBU 6.5 server backing up (amongst other things) a couple of MS Exchange 2003 servers. Everything works nicely apart from the odd mailbox which terminates with; 1: (1) the requested operation was partially successful Whilst I kn...

Resolved! "socket read failed" connecting to client through firewall

We are have an isse connecting to clients through a firewall getting  "socket read failed" when we are tring to retrieve the properties from the client. I have opened port 13724, 1556 and still same issue. Can anymore give me some advice. We are usin...

rbkguy by Level 4
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Shadow Copy Component and Bandwidth Limits

I am a new user of Netbackup 6.5.2A, and am currently progressing the rollout to 120 Windows 2003 Servers.I recently came across this document http://support.veritas.com/docs/305931 "About the Bandwidth Properties", which explains that "Netbackup doe...

unassisted tape ejections - vmchange command

Hi guys, I have a bit of a tricky problem here and was wondering if anyone can help me out? I have an official call with Symantec for this case but don’t seem to be getting anywhere with it...  I am on have recently moved to netbackup 6.5 from 4.5 (v...

dave456 by Level 2
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Lotus Notes Domino Debian/Ubuntu

We are going to run Domino server on Ubuntu and I need to check if Netbackup will be able to backup the Domino server.I have seen earlier posts about debian clients but the procut page lists red hat, sles and red flag as the only supported Linux OS's...

hardhaus by Not applicable
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cannot connect to vmd(70)

Hello, We have to perform a move of our servers... and we would like to remove a switch which is seems to be not necessary. The second network card of the servers are connected on it with a specific IP adress.   But this night backups didn't start. A...

krono by Level 3
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NDMP: multistreaming & parallel running policies

Hi NDMP backups to an external server will not multistream as per expections. But what happense when you run two polices at the same netapp filer at the same time?  Does one of the job queue or both run at the same time? Assume same netapp filer the ...

Jim-m by Level 5
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