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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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Jobs are hanging but no errors are being posted

We are having issues with Netbackup 6 mp6.  Occasionally the jobs say that they are connecting or even mounting but then seem to freeze in that state until the backup server is rebooted.  We have tried resetting the drives but that doesn't work.  Are...

upgrading 6.5.1

Has anybody updated netbackup to 6.5? what is the feedback? I am plannig to upgrade my server from netbackup 6.0 to 6.5.1, any suggesstions and tips please? anybody have the upgrade manuals please? thanks,Periavilai 

transport errors during duplication

Hi I get the following error on one out of eight media servers and ONLY during duplication from a VTL to a tape in the bptm log.  10:27:49.584 [26241] <2> read_data: attempting read error recovery, err = 510:27:49.584 [26241] <2> tape_error_rec: erro...

Adding HBA Bandwidth

Hello backup experts. I need to increase the bandwidth on my HBA since I am pegging it during my backup window.I have a linux media master with a 2 GB dual port Qlogic HBA in it. Right now I am only using one port in the HBA.The one port goes out to ...

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Transaction log on SQL 2005

Hello every body, I have a 2 SQL 2005 Server.My Media /Backup Server its a windows 2003 R2 SP2 64 bits. Here is my quesition: How can I backup sql databases? on Bexec I only had to make a policy and run the backup, but with NBU, I created the bch fil...

Netbackup encryption option

Hi thereI currently run netbackup 6.0 MP4I have one master/media server with various policies. Recently I have been required to establish a new policy that backups up 6 Microsoft 2003 servers.However the special thing with this is that these backups ...

Ridha by • Level 3
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Timestamp issue with NetApp NDMP and netbackup restores?

Hi, I have been running into some issues with NDMP and timestamps on files created/restored. I'm finding that the timestamps aren't matching up with what was backed up, i.e. they are off by an hour or more. Is there something to set in the NBU policy...

msoucy by • Level 3
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Netbackup 6.5 client failing to install.

I am attempting to install Netbackup 6.5 client on a server with Windows 2003 SP2 Ent. Ed.with Microsoft SMS 2003 Server w/ SP2. The install is failing with a MSI error - 451. Symantec support indicated that this trouble is related to WMI enviroment ...

Resolved! BMR Incomplete Job Errors

Hiya, I'm new to BMR myself so bare with me if this is a common problem, just i couldn't find a solution from a brief look in the forums. I have recently installed BMR and Netbackup into our test environment. We are running NBU 6.5.1 with i am guessi...

Nick_Morris by • Level 6
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Vista Aero desktop and the Netbackup Admin Console

I was hoping that by installing MP6 for NB6.0 (which now officially supports Vista) they would have fixed the issue where the Aero desktop is disabled when the NB console is launched.Has anyone found any work around to get the aero desktop to work wi...

MattS by • Level 6
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backup is mounting the wrong tape

we have this newly configured server and when we initiated a backup, its mounting the wrong tape, i know that its wrong because the drive being requested is AA0049 but when you execute vmoprcmd, its showing AA0047. no other backup jobs running that u...

itgurl by • Level 2
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Backup-Classes

HI@ll, I want to define 3-4 backup-classes. We have two tape-libraries and one big disc-pool. I want to define the classes like this:gold - backup to disc - backups will stay on disk as long as possiblesilver - backup to disc - backups will stay on d...

Redirect Backup Job/Drive Issues

I have some drives that are giving me problems.  One says that it is busy and the other 2 keep going down. How can I update the drivers for the robots and drives? Do you think that will resolve the issue? Do I need to reboot the servers?

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Importing a Backup Exec Tape using Netbackup 6.5

Our company recently purchased a company which used Backup Exec (not sure what version) and I am trying to import a tape from this company into Netbackup 6.5. Can someone please provide me with information I need in order to read and import this tape...

Active Tapes with 0 images and 0 kb's written. Normal?

Guys, Im fairly new to netbackup. Im running NB6.5, Solaris 9. I noticed that we are running out of tapes often when full backups are done. It seems we put in a lot of scratch tapes from our picking list coming from offsite and we put in a bit of new...

Resolved! Policy List by Client

Hi all, I'm trying to extract my policy list from Netbackup and need to sort it by CLIENT and not POLICY NAME. I've looked at bppllist to see if there is anything I can do with that command, but I can't see anything. We have just taken over the admin...

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Scratch pool question

Hi,I am running NB6.0MP5 on Solaris 9/10.  I'm trying to figure out a way to have netbackup automatically perform a long erase on tapes as soon as they are put back into the Scratch pool.Does anyone have suggestions on how i might go about doing that...

MattS by • Level 6
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