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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 Moderator
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block read is not a NetBackup or Backup Exec media header

I have retrieved a couple of tapes from our datacentre off-site storage and have attempted to read them in to a temporary Disaster Recovery media server. I have two issues; firstly the catalogue tape says it isn't a catalogue tape and secondly if I t...

Unable to view Client properties

Very new to Netbackup.The problem I have is that when I try and display the host properties of some of my clients using the netbackup Administration console it fails to display the details and just displays the screen "Loading data for selected hosts...

AlGon by Level 6
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Restore from Tape

We are using Netback 6.0 MP4 ,Windows 2003, I am unable to restore from Tape.Its not showing me the job int the job monitor .Unless antill the job is not showing the Job Monitor i can not restore from the Tape. Please anyone advise. 

Send failure emails only

I have read the multitude of threads on how do make this happen.  I have still not been able to get this to work.  I want to know how to modify the NetBackup scripts (on a windows master server) to only send failure e-mails.  If you have made this wo...

NDMP Verification TPAutoconf

Ok, I have 2 filers I can not connect run a tpautoconf -verify on.  When I do I get the following message.  Anyone have any thoughts on where the error lies? X:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin>tpautoconf -verify filer2Connecting to host "filer2" as ...

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NetBackup Agent running on NT4

Hey folks.Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.I'm pretty familar with Veritas Backup Exec but at my new job we're using NetBackup. Seems to work well and I have no issues so far. But we just discovered an NT4 server that is not...

Darktan by Level 3
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Vault - volume group names

Hi guys,Windows 2003 Server Std (sp2), NBU 6.0 MP4 Enterprise server with Vault for offsite tape management. 2 x Dell tape libraries/robots - one attached to each media server that I have. I upgraded to 6.0 MP4 from 5.0 MP4 last November without any ...

Catalog Questions

Hi, I am trying to reconfigure the catalog backups in my current setup.Currently 2 tapes are used in sequence. I am trying to move out the catalog to off-stie for safe keeping. One question that I have is that whether the catalog data is being rewrit...

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Exchange Restore - Status 5

Hi all,I'm trying to restore to an Exchange recovery storage group that has been created and defined, but am getting a Status 5.  Environment = Windows, Netbackup 6.0MP5, Exchange 2003.  Below is the exact error from client's tar log:TAR - Microsoft ...

Netbackup tape errors when reading in Backup Exec

I get the following error when trying to read a tape backed up on Netbackup 4.5 in Backup Exec 9.1 Catalog 0001 -- The job failed with the following error: The DC2000 cartridge has was formatted with an unrecognized format.Does anyone know If there i...

CScott by Level 2
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NBU + Exchange - automate information store mount/dismount?

Hi, I have been searching for information on mounting and dismounting the exchange information stores (mailboxes and public folders) to allow automation of exchange testing. So far I  have found nothing with regards to this. There has to be some way ...

msoucy by Level 3
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Tape Drives restricted to two

Bear with me on this one.  We had a 2 drive library on our netbackup server. My boss, who did the original installation, said he had edited a file to restrict netbackup to 2 drives.  He can't remember what file it was.  Does this sound familiar to an...