cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
NetBackup

Discussion Posts

Subscribe to NBU notifications

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
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified
  • 5133 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 17 kudos

Restoring/importing old images (3.1,3.4,4.5, 5.x) to 6.5

Hi, We're planning an upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5 and wondering about backwards compatibility. We have images stored on LTO1 and were wondering whether it is possible to restore or import images from older NetBackup releases (down to 3.1). Does it matter...

rzwood by Not applicable
Certified
  • 105 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Veritas Backup Reporter not conencting to NetBackup

Hi there,I've just installed Veritas Backup Reporter 6.5. But I could only find the admin and install guides for 6.0. I assume they are basically the same.For starters, I just want to get it configured and working with one NetBackup installation, but...

Jimsus by Level 2
  • 251 Views
  • 6 replies
  • 0 kudos

Licence Issues

Hello.Still quite new to netbackup :( and the licencing confuses me.We are currently running netbackup 6.5 Enterprise edition.  We have several media servers and a number of network clients (various OS's).  Attached to the media servers and master se...

NHSAl by Level 3
  • 148 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 kudos

- excludes on NDMP backups -

Hello, We need to define the following exclude : /vol/vfiler3a/data1/apps/SAS/SASWorks from one of our NDMP host backups. How can we do this? I have tried to insert this into our backup selection section: SET EXCLUDE = data1/apps/SAS/SASWorks/vol/vfi...

Am I using compression - how to verify

Hi All Just to give you a brief background for my question. In March this year, I changed from a Ultrium1 (MSL 5xxx) to Ultrium2 (MSL 6xxx) on my tape technology.Every month I do a duplication of the last week's full backups to store offsite.Before c...

Netbackup client 5.1 restore problems with NT client

Running Windows 2003 R2 on 3 servers 1 master 2 media. I'm having issues trying to restore a client running windows NT 4.0 server (5.1 Netbackup client). When I try to conduct a restore I get the following error:Netbackup Message:WARNING: server (mas...

copy text from administration console

i'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but i can't seem to find the post(s) in the forums.is there a way to copy text from the netbackup administration console?all the usual methods don't appear to work.

Status 190 & DSSU Warning

Some things to watch out for when implementing DSSU... I'm hoping this will save a few people some time. I actually don't have a question to post right now. You may see Status 190's if you're trying to duplicate to more copies than the Global setting...

l33tpfy by Level 3
  • 126 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 0 kudos

netbackup ldap users

Can anyone assist in configuring NetBackup 6 (UNIX) to allow LDAP (MS Active Directory) users to authenticate.  I was told that I need to configure VRTSat for this and have done so (tested using vssat authenticate with AD user), but still I am unable...

Default setting for the Backup, Archive, and Restore Window

By default, all backup images since (and including) the most recent full backup are selected in the NetBackup History pane. does anybody know if you can change this? I never restore from the latest backup. and I always have to 'wait' for the list to ...

Media is in use

I have a question regarding Oracle backup..When Oracle backup is starting with Automatic Full Schedule NB reserves tape for a while for this job, but this kind of schedule doesn't perform any backup because backup is done by Application Backup.When A...

doing a restore from a different master

Just trying to make sure I understand. prod env - I do a backup to tape. I send the tape to my DR site. I import the tape into my dir master I want to do a restore from the imported tape to a server at the DR site. is there anything on the tape (like...

Disk Staging Backup in queue state

Hi All,       I  have created a Storage unit "Disk_staging_test " with Storage Unit Type is Disk Staging & in policy also I have given the policy storage unit is "Disk_staging_test " . But when I fired the backup the backup is going in queue state.  ...

Problems with Netbackup 6.5 client and Windows XP

Our Windows XP clients won't start "Backup, Archive and Restore".  They just become unresponsive and "hang".  I have an open ticket on this but support does not have any answers.  Nothing is noted in any of the log files or the eventlog. This is occu...

wblundell by Not applicable
  • 47 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 0 kudos

Multiplexing & Performance

For the last couple of days I've been looking at different options to improve performance. Right now i'm trying to evaluate the media multiplexing setting in NB6.0MP6. 8 LTO3 drives in a StorageTekL700e. I've seen quite a bit of mixed opinions of Mul...

l33tpfy by Level 3
  • 623 Views
  • 8 replies
  • 0 kudos

6.5 client Linux

Hey All, I'm installing the client for a Red Hat server but am getting the error below when I ./install.[root@schrodinger NB_65_ICS_1.4.37.0_LinuxIA64]# ./install./installics: line 34: ./perl/bin/perl: cannot execute binary file./installics: line 35:...

Evan by Level 4
  • 142 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 kudos

Netbackup 6.0 upgrade/migration to 6.5

Hello, We are going to do an upgrade (or perhaps a migration) from versión 6.0MP4 to 6.5, but the little detail is that we are going to change the hardware for a new one (this apply only for the master server, media servers will remain in the same ha...

CAS90 by Not applicable
  • 126 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Duplicate will not run if it has been cancled.

My environment is 6.0 MP2 running on HP-UX 11.11. When running bpdupilcate to copy a image for vaulting if the duplicate job is cancled or fails when it is retried it shows that it is active but it never starts. The job details show requesting resour...