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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 Level 6
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Assign priority for backup clients

We are using NBU 6.0MP4 as Master/Media Server. Within a policy, say if there are ten clients, how can we assign priority for each of these clients. So that the critical clients are backed up and avoid 'client backup was not attempted as backup windo...

s11 by Level 4
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Vaulting broken after upgrading to 6.5.1

Hi guysa collegue recently upgraded our netbackup installation frrom 6.0 to 6.5.1 . Since that time tapes valuting back in are broken..What happened was that after the upgrade all the offsite tapes had a vault return date of the upgrade date.and we s...

NetBackup Master Server on Windows, Unix client problem

Hello everyone,I have Veritas NetBackup installed on a Windows 2003 Server that works fine with several Windows clients.  However, I now need to backup 2 Solaris 10 servers with SAP installed on them.  We have purchased the Unix client and also the S...

Setting the calendar run and exclusion dates

Hi all,i have multiple policies that i need to configure exclusion dates and run dates etc. If i was to configure one policy correctly ,is there a way i can copy the calander exclusion info etc and paste to all other existing policies ?

Policy will not run

Hi all,I have a policy that will not run. It was working fine but stopped recently.I am releatively new to NB and im not sure what i should be checking apart from the schedules.The daily portion of the policy is set to frequency and the monthy set to...

SharePoint 2003 sp2 and netbackup 6.5.1

i ma trying to perform document level backups of my shrepoint environment.  i created the storage group to backup to disk, and i am using the local drive of the master server.  inside the policy i checked enable document restore.. the backup slection...

Persistent Snapshot Error (156)

I am trying to get a certain folder backed up (to an NBU 6.0 MP4 server) from a 2K3 server that contains a series of SQL database backup .bak files.  Some are abou 2gb, some can be as big as 50GB.  I keep getting the following errors... 2/6/2008 11:2...

ChemIT by Level 2
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Unix Mail Notification to windows Mail server

Dear Experts,i have Netbackup 6.0 MP5 installed on solaris 8 i need to setup email notification to send me emails when the backup is finish .  my email is at windows Exchange server joined our domain but the unix machines are not . i can put my email...

Strange problems with Mailbox backups in NBU 6.5.1

After Changing backup software to NBU 6.5.1 at the weekend, though a policy to do individual mailbox backups would be good, but have not been able to get it to work. Have followed the instructions but have had limited results.I am running 6.5.1a on W...

Mcgauze by Level 2
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Report on client MP levels?

Does anyone know of an easy way to find out what maintenance pack level my Windows clients are at?  It only shows the version in Activity Monitor host properties/clients, and the only way I know of is to log into each individual client to see the MP ...

BPSTART & BPEND for use with Enterprise Vault Backups

I am new to these scripts, so be nice...  I need to use the BPSTART to change the Enterprise Vault environment to Read only so I can back it and the SQL server up.  The BPEND changes it back to Readwrite.  Where would these scripts go?  On the EV cli...

paynet by Level 3
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catalog backup

the setup that we have at work is pretty old, old meaning it has been going on for over 10yrs now,once all the backups are kicked in, and have completed, a catalog backup is fired in automatically.I need to understand how is this backup schedule setu...

Phantom disk stageing unit error

Hi Guyswere running NBU 6.5.1 (recently upgraded) on solairswe used to have a disk stageing unit  which was on a filesystem /u1the disk stageing unit was reconfigued to  a new filesystem /u3we are getting an error  reported by one client in a policy ...

locating file within the catalog

Hi,I would like to know (in case someone will ask if one particular file is backed-up and when... ) if there is already a script out there that does this:- Locate a file on the catalog- when was the last successful backup of that file (on which clien...

How can I stop Veritas from importing media I started

I ran an import Phase I on 2 separate tapes. I noticed that these were not the media that I needed, so I attempted to stop the jobs via the console.  I checked the catalog console and the import log and I see that that importing is still running.  I ...

NBU Encryption Question. . .

    All:I am just starting to try NBU Encryption in 6.0 MP5, and I have a question.  The documentation on encryption is fairly sparse, and I am not sure about keys. When I run the command to create a key on the Master, is it going to use that key hen...

Hantra by Level 2
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EV Offhost Snapshot Backups with NBU

Hello Everyone:We are in the process of implementing NetBackup Offhost Snapshot backups of our clustered (SFWHA 5.0) EV (v7.0 SP1) environment using the Flashsnap backup method and have a question for anybody who's done the same.Right now, we are usi...