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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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Master thinks there is no more media available

Hi all! Small / medium recurrent problem. My libraries (2x ESL 9326D) indicates that there is 20 medias available, but my Windows 2003 Netbackup 6.5 server indicates that there are no medias available so my back-ups fails. I ran the discovery script,...

Duplication backup Failure

Hello.  (Still new to netbackup  :( ) We run a full backup duplication\vault job at the end if each week\month which basically duplicates images from our VTL to physical tape on a ML6000 tape library.   Our monthly backup failed with the following er...

NHSAl by Level 3
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Virtual to Physical (V2P) BMR

Hi I am having a Win2K3 Virtual Machine on Win2K8-Hyper-V. Is it possible to do a BMR of this Virtual Server to a physical server (HP BL/460C). I tried the same. But when BMR reaches the finalization steps after the file restore, it hangs on "Modifyi...

Shanavas by Not applicable
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Backup Exec Upgrade

New to Netbackup. Upgraded my Backup Exec 10D config to Netbackup.  Can someone point me to best practices for this?  Thanks.

can Netback backup something at removable device???

can Netback backups something at removable device such as DVD or CD?I want to backup such things like Active Directory or files and folders at CD or DVD with its catalog and ship it to a different location then i want at the destination location then...

Zahid_Haseeb by Moderator
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Will this work? Upgrade Question

I just discovered our Overland tape library is EOL and will not work with NBU 6.5.x. We are currently running 6.0MP4 and want to upgrade to 6.5.x. My question is this: Can I run a master server on 6.5.x and a media server on 6.0 (with tape library no...

todis by Level 4
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Resolved! mount point for cbrm/ndmp

I've created an NDMP policy to backup our EMC Centera.  We've already got a CBRM server (Win 2003) set up and I've verified that the NDMP server (my master server - also Win 2003) can successfully talk to it.  I'm running NBU 6.5.1 on the master and ...

Tape Utilization

I have an EML tape library with 4 LTO2 Tape Drives all assigned to a single media server. I am trying to get NetBackup to use old tapes so that I can fill them up to the rim instead of leaving most of them with a lot of space. I am able to get a back...

AQasir by Level 4
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Resolved! 6.5.3 release update First Availability Invitation posted

If you didn't see it last week when it was posted on the NetBackup blog, Symantec is inviting NetBackup users to get the upcoming NetBackup 6.5.3 release update a little earlier than the General Availability date.  More info can be found at: http://s...

CRZ by Level 6
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How to release tape from failed job ?

We have a problem with netbackup server and many of our job failed for a week. Now that it is stable how do I find out what tape has bad image and how do I release it back to production?  

cgg by Level 3
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SQL Restore

I am running SQL 2K on Windows 2K3 and using Netbackup 6.0 MP5. When I go to do a restore using the Netbackup SQL Agent GUI there are no backup images. When I select the Restore SQL Objects it asks for the host and the client. When I select the host,...

NDHLP by Level 2
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upgrade

we  have netbackup server 6.o MP4 installed.i would like to upgrade this to most recent upgrade patch .. is there any upgrade license i need to purchase ? which maintainence packs are needed ?   

Ashz_Tomz by Level 5
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Media Sharing vs Not Media Sharing

Hi, Does anyone know how NBU 6.5 selects tape cartridges if media sharing is not activiated ? From the information I have found it seems as if NBU will select the cartridge to use, excluding volume pool considerations, depending on the number of moun...

SharePoint Backup

I am having trouble backing up SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Version 2.0 using Netbackup 6.5.1.  I create a policy and select the policy type MS-SharePoint, Directive Set: MS_SharePoint_Portal_Server then Directive MS SharePoint Resources:\ Then acce...

Resolved! Catalog back up

Hi, I've got an issue with tape retention for the catalogue back up. basically we don't want to keep the tape we have the catalog backup on in our robot whilst it fills up. We would like to have it back up the catalog for a week then request another ...

How does VSS function with netbackup?

Could somebody explain how the VSS works with netbackup? Something like a veritas article would be useful.  We use unix master servers to back up win 2003 servers.Mixture of version 5 and 6 on the master servers, anything from 4.5GA to 6 mp4 on clien...

Mowat by Not applicable
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