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Marianne by Level 6
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Change Volume Group media type

Short version of the story, I need to change the media type associated with some of my volume groups after a drive upgrade to LTO3 (media type went from hcart3 to hcart).  I swear I have looked everywhere and either it's not possible and I have to cr...

System Call Failed

When running a report and clicking earliest available I get the message "system call failed", but if I put in a specific date (even months earlier) the report runs, however it only goes back to the beginning of today.Environment:NBU 6.5.1 Windoze.Has...

Netbackup Certification

Hi Friends,I am planning to take the DP-024W exam ..Any advice or tips from anyone.. ThanksAnitha

Anitha by Level 2
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Netbackup 6.0 No email notifications for db backups

 Hi, Our customer has HP-UX based media server, where we've configured RMAN with Netbackup. This is a media server. Master server is a windows based machine.They're facing a problem where they can't receive the email notifications for db backups only...

Dr_MAQ by Level 3
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Netbackup 6.5 SP 1 Socket error 24

Hello We really need some help with our backup situation. Backup serverServer HP Proliant G3 360OS Windows 2003 R2 SP 2NIC's are teamed Our problem only occurs with "Notes Mail. All other jobs are just going smooth. But when we trie to backup our Not...

Library Issue

Hello Friends, We are having issues with the library and below is th error code for the same. Kindly suggest, what meight be an issue. # ./tldtest -r /dev/sg/c3t0l0 -d1 /dev/rmt/0cbn -d2 /dev/rmt/1cbn -d3 /dev/rmt/2cbn -d4 /dev/rmt/3cbnread_element_s...

Offline catalog backups failing with status code 141

Hello Friends, My offline catalog backup is failing with status code 141 but at the sametime online catalog backup is getting sucessfull. I verified an absolute path, but everything seems to be fine.. Kindly suggest... 4/7/2008 1:52:42 PM - begin Cat...

NetBackup Script to Import Tapes from Offsite Containers

We are using NB 6.0mp4.  We are using Vault to pull tapes once a week and put in containers for offsite storage.  Our problem is...  when the containers of tapes come back onsite two weeks later.  Veritas tech support informed me that the way the sof...

Info on Netbackup bptm log entry

Can someone tell me what the -7 is defined as below for the backup_status function below: write_backup: write_data() returned, exit_status = 0, CINDEX = 1, TWIN_INDEX = 0, backup_status = -7 Thanks - Mike

Append period missing....

Netbackup 6.0 MP5  Windows 2003 Server In Backup Exec, you can set a retention period and an append period.  In netbackup, I know how to set the retention period, but I can't find an append period anywhere..... I want to be able to append for say 24 ...

Status 1

One of my exchange and MS SQL database has status 1 after the job is done. I did some checks and found that for the SQL case, some databases were not backup. Is there any clients logs that I can check ? In addition, what are the common reasons for st...

Puffy by Level 6
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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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