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Marianne by Moderator
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Resolved! Suspended jobs restart automatically?

Simple, stupid question just to keep you on your toes: Any reason why a job suspended thru' the Activity Monitor should then literally fail after an undetermined period of time (with Status 157) & restart? Job initially just sits there as expected in...

Unlocking libraries through Netbackup

Hi Guys This may be quite a silly question. I have recently upgraded to Netbackup 6.5 and have encountered that when changing the tapes the the tape libraries complain that the host is preventing access to the magazines. Now previously under backupex...

Ridha by Level 3
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Netbackup 5.1 on Windows

When I restore the backup on the same server, which was Windows server 2003 through Netbackup 5.1 for Windows, it is getting restored but file permissions, local users and share folders are not getting. Any options, settings to be selected. Please ad...

Force Expired Media to a different Volume Pool ?

Hello,Can anyone please advise of a simple way of ensuring a particular range of barcoded tapes will always go back to a specific Volume Pool when they expire under NetBackup 6.5 ?The reason for this is that we have a series of tapes used for Catalog...

Sharepoint database backup - what NetBackup agents are required?

HiI'm installing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 with Microsoft SQL 2007 Standard and am not too sure if I need to purchase both the "Veritas NetBackup for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server" agent AND the "Veritas NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server" agent...

ksho001 by Not applicable
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Is there a way to prune the catalog

Hi, I am preparing for a DR exercise. Previously it took us 4 hours to restore the catalog. But the data restoration only took 1 hour. Hence we are wondering whether it is possible to selectively only restore the server. In addition wondering whether...

Puffy by Level 6
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bpcd simply will not start on Windows 2003 SP1 Server clients

In the last 2 weeks, 2 of our clients have done something I haven't seen before. They both run client version 6.0 MP5, and everything worked fine until lately.Although Netbackup Client Service is running, bpcd will not come up, neither will bpjava-ms...

Failed first use of new media - DLT S4

Just a heads up.  This will be a little long, forgive me.  Not seen this ever before with NBU (using it since 3.2), and nothing came up in my web searching. I've been having fits with my DLT S4 drives (Quantum, in a Quantum jukebox, RedHat 4 server, ...

How do you estimate how many tapes will be needed?

We have one library with a mix of LTO2 and LTO3 tapes.  Our policies are set up so that the tapes that stay here are all LTO2.  The tapes that go to Iron Mountain are all LTO3's.  Is there a formula or a way to make an educated guess, other than past...

MariaB by Level 2
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Netbackup Pro 3.51.30.0 Transfer Client

We are using Netbackup Pro v3.51.30 to backup various workstations.  We are installing a new server and are attempting to transfer some clients for testing.  I right click on the client and use the Transfer Client wizard.  It registers the client in ...

Recover catalog to different master server

Can anyone shed some light on how I would be able to restore the catalog (either entire catalog or images only) to another NBU master server at our DR site? Since the master server at our DR site has a different name I would think I'd only want to im...

Resolved! A little help please.

I have been given a list of client and specific dates to find out if these clients had successful backups on those dates. I have been looking at the windows commands for NetBackup 6.0 MP6, and have not been able to find one that gives me a simple suc...

Criss_R by Level 4
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Search restore files

I'm trying to search for a file in a backup set. I've used wild cards and could not find it. I know it exists, to test if I was doing the search correctly I searched for a file that indeed did exist in one of the directories. I get the same error eac...

Resolved! Exchange 2007 db restore with NBU 6.5

Hello all.  I'm trying to restore an exchange 2007 db using nbu 6.5.  I've created the exchange recovery storage group, and verified that it is not mounted, and it can be overwritten.  however, when I initiate the restore, I get the following error: ...

duucfho by Level 3
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best practice firewalls

I know that symantrec does not officially support backing up servers through a firewall but unfortunitly that is not a option here for me. I would like to find out the best practice including all of the settings needed on the client and master server...

opalin by Level 2
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Resolved! Redhat Linux 64bit client software (6.0 MP4)

Where and how do I put a 64bit RedHat Linux client on a server?  I downloaded and install the 6.0 mp4 update that was labeled as 64bit, but when checking the binaries that are running on the box it still says 32 bit. Is there a maintenance pack that ...

dukbtr by Level 4
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Configuring the FT media server

Hi! Does anybody work with FT server and SAN client? I have troubles with bringing system to "nbhba mode" to put qlc card in target mode.prtdiag shows qlc card - it should be compatibleSUNW,qlc-pci1077,2300.1077.106.1+  but after/usr/openv/netbackup/...

ako by Level 4
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