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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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Policy Problem

Hi, We have weekly backup,Policy is defind (Odd and Even)Last week suppost to run odd policy but saterday started both policy (odd and even) What could be the problem   With Regards, Kumar

Testing BMR

Hello All,   I am testing BMR restore for a linux client. My Master server is Linux as well Redhat ES 4. I have already performed a full backup using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE. I have created the SRT and created a Bootable CD image from it.  I go ahead and pre...

skarve by Level 4
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bpgp with 6.5.1

What happend to the bpgp command? I don't have it anymore now that I upgraded to 6.5.1.Is there another command now that does the same thing? Peter

Peter_Jakobs by Level 5
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Quantum i500 Drive Cutover

Hi.We have 2 Master/Media Servers connected to their own overland libraries we bought new Quantum i500 with 4 drives fiber connections. Can we connect these 2 Master/Media servers to this new one Library and assign 2 drives to 1 Master/Media Servers ...

smscguru by Not applicable
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Netbackup 6.5.1 and VMWare

I have created a policy to backup our virtual servers (running on VMware ESX server v3). I have followed the document "how to configure and use NetBackup 6.5.1 for VMware". At the end it runs a validation on the new policy which fails with the follow...

Catalog Backups Empty (0 kilobytes written)

Netbackup 5.1 MP4 Master/Media Server all on one box.  Catalog server paths follow C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Netbackup\dbC:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\databaseC:\Program Files\VERITAS\Netbackup\var I've verified that those paths are there on the box...

MikeEK by Not applicable
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Tar file write error (10054)

Hi All, I am using  version 5.1. version of master server.on windows 2000 client .(Version 5.1 MP6)while taking backup we are getting error as "tar file write error (10054)."Pls suggest. Regards.Pravin Shinde.

Drive identification

Hi,    We have ACS lib and Drives  configured on SSO.  Yesterday i found one of the drive got failed to take backup, because tape got stuck inside the drive. While i am trying the below through robtest. dm   986289 d5 fDismount failed: STATUS_LIBRARY...

full tape sizes for different tapes are different...why?

I'm using bpmedialist to check the size of a full tape and confused about the max amount of data the tape can hold before Netbackup marks it full..example: id     rl  images   allocated        last updated      density  kbytes restores           vima...

Any idea's?

I'm performing a OS backup of DB data on a Master that's a Sun [nbu 5.1]... Client is a L3000 hp.... I'm backing up u01 -> u15.. While monitoring backups on the master with iostat... I see the backups going down to a crawl for 5 mins to 20 mins.... T...

erase data on tape when a backup expires

Hi,In order to backup our database Oracle 10g (Solaris), we're using:-veritas netbackup 6.0Mp4;-oracle agent;-tape library SL500;Due to some security policies, we need to erase data on tape, when a backup expires, so that noone can get it back.How ca...

SGAN by Level 2
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Tape bottle necks & archive bit

Interesting observations when doing some stress testing on a new setupOS - Windows SP2 x64NBU - 6.5.1LTO3 tape drives & tapesDisks - external disk arrays - HP's of some sortBottleneckAny ideas about the tape bottleneck ?All test data source is SAN co...

Jim-m by Level 5
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MS Server 2008 Support

Does anyone know if NBU 6.0 or 6.5 is compatible with MS Server 2008?  The latest OS compatibility list doesn't even list it?  Anyone even try to backup 2008?Thanks.

Status_Code_0 by Level 4
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Driver Netbackup

We used Netbackup 5.1 MP6.You now about someone VSP.SYS | Symantec Corporation | 1.8:16.0 | Nov 08 2005 | Volume Snapshot Driver Provider?Give it as a newer, and who or which?Thanks

Tom_Egger by Level 4
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Schedule summary

My goal is to create a web page that shows both the backup window for each of my polices and the time it took the last time the policy ran to complete the backup.  I want to be able to post this info so when customers want to squeeze in an extra back...

Spud_2 by Level 3
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Backup Disaster Recovery

I m nw to Netbackup.I hv a question, if our netbackup server crashed and we have recent catalog backup ( duplicate (off-site)).What's simply and fast procedure to import the catalog after fresh netbackup installation.

Policy Naming Conventions

I'm currently backing up 100 clients using 52 policies, which are spread over server type e.g. SQL databases, Exchange databases, local drives etc - but I want to reduce the amount of policies that I have. My other objective is to backup more importa...