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Marianne by Moderator
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Duplicate catalog

Hi, I was wondering whether bpduplicate can be used to copy the catalog ? Thanks!

Puffy by Level 6
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cannot retrieve NDMP credentials

When I have attempted to do a restore from our system I get the above message cannot retrieve NDMP credentials.  The backups have been successfully run but I cannot do a restore.  Any suggestions would be welcome.  I am running NetBackup 6.0MP5 on a ...

whansel by Not applicable
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local backups vs network backups

Hi all, i have a netbackup infraestructure installed in one solaris connected to a tape robot.i am testing manual backups to see how mutch time they take, to tune the backup window issue.Strangely, backing up for example 15GB from a windows client co...

Multistreams pegging out CPU

I currently have a server that I am trying to backup using multistream due to the fact the server contains over 17 million little files and this cuts the backup time from over 50 hours to around 15. Anyways at times the CPU will be pegged at 100% and...

kmills by Level 3
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Resolved! SAN Media Server in Solaris global zone with Client in non-global zone

I am in the middle of an installation and have run up against a hardwall. I have a number a Sun M4000 server running with Solaris 10 Zones and Containers. The Global Zone has been configured and licensed as a SAN Media Server and the four Solaris non...

pdksh by Not applicable
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vnetd: what does it do, do I use it and why do I have errors !

Whilst collecting logs for another problem, I notice that I have a consistent set of errors in the vnetd log.  I am not familair with vnet, so my questions are:  what is it ? do I use it (!) ? and should I care about the following error sequence, whi...

Paul_T by Level 4
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Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange. Problems with NB6.

We have been using Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange for many years with our NB 3.4/4.5 environments.  We have now moved to NB6 MP4 and Quest v4.1.1 and the two refuse to talk, despite the versions being listed as compatable in the documentation.  ...

Paul_T by Level 4
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NetBackup - pass through NB server to get to media server

Currently I have a BEWS12 media server with locally attached fibre tape library - this works well!If possible, I'd like to have a second server in a different domain use this library.The idea would be for the second server to control the backups for ...

Restore catalog from tape

Hi, I need to restore a database. However after some troubleshooting we found that the weekly backup has overwritten the monthly catalog record. Hence although we have the monthly tapes with us currently but we can't restore the database as the datab...

Puffy by Level 6
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External event caused rewind during write

Hello All,   I have a HP MSL 2024 autolader which is giving me issues. This is a new setup of Netbackup 6.5.1 on RHEL 4. The backups run  fine till the tape fills up and then I get 84(media write error). I have checked that the bptm logs have the fol...

skarve by Level 4
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Are Cold Catalog Backups still necessary? (NBU 6.0 MP6)

It seems that people vary on this answer. I am having problems with my cold catalog backups (hot ones running fine), and am wondering if these are still necessary?  I heard that symantec was going to eventually phase these out. Thanks!!-Laurie

Surfah by Not applicable
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Disk staging using NetApp 3020

I'm running NetBackup 6.5 on 1 Master server and 2 Media server (Windows 2003 R2).  All four devices are connected via Brocade fiber switch 4100.  I will like to setup disk staging so that all the clients will dump the data to the NAS unit and upon r...

Duplication job error message

I'm getting the following error in some of my duplication(disk to tape) jobs. However the job finishes successfully: 4/7/2008 10:11:09 AM - Error bpduplicate(pid=28933) Error terminating bpdbm for locking: a protocol error has occurred  Have any of y...

trying to find 6.5 MP1 to download

anybody help with finding the download for 6.5 MP1.  or MP1a, I just need the MP1 but I am having issues finding it.  everything I look at on the license portal for download is just 6.5

VBR Reports stopped working

Running Veritas Backup Reporter 6.0.  Report updates stopped working on Friday. I checked the services and all were running, but I restarted them anyway.  Nothing in the logs that threw any errors.  The only thing I can contemplate as being a possibl...

Libarary error

Hi all experts, I took a volume and put the new volume inside. I am getting the following message after doing the inventory robot. Please help. ------------------------------------------------------------------04/07/2008 08:32:23Robot: TLD(0) on netb...

Upgrading Master Server to New Box

Hi We are using the following env. NetBackup 5.1 MP4 Win 2003 platform Adic Scalar 1000 ( LTO-2) We have purchased New Adic Liabrary i500(LTO-3) I want to migrate the master server to new server ( new liabrary is attached to this).I have install the ...