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Marianne by Level 6
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Unable to cancil job

Hi everybody, Ours is NetBackup 5.1 with MP4. Jobs in our active monitor will stay for 3 days, but a job is in queue since  Nov 5th 2007 and is not getting suspended through GUI and CLI as well. Can any one sugest me the solution for this and tell...

duplication issue

Hi, Suddenly one of my media servers stopped duplicating images to tape library. I tried to re-discover tape drives in NB, it didn't help. I tried to re-discover tape library and tape drives in Windows, hardware was found w/o issues. Tape library is ...

Resolved! Unix Client Error after install

Hey guys has anyone ever seen this before? I assume its due to a missing package, does anyone happen to know what package is missing? telnet localhost bpcdTrying 127.0.0.1...Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).Escape character is '^]'.bpcd...

NetBackup 6.5 Freezing tapes, is there a patch ?

I'm seeing NetBackup 6.5 freezing tapes on some of my VTL customers.And in some posts here in the discussion group. Are you seeing this more than normal in 6.5 also ? Is there a patch for it yet ? Thanks,Brent

certified install?

Can someone confirm for me is there really a requirement from Symantec when purchasing Netbackup that it requires a certified install? Can you also confirm that Symantec will not provide you with support if the install has not been certified?

Importing Backup Images

Hello Stumpr,I have a question about importing backup images.I have 12 backup tapes that have images that were backed up using Netbackup 4.6 and I believe MP4. These tapes have expired. They were used back in May and June of 2005. I am trying to impo...

Can't restore images older than one year after catalog restore

We restored our catalog from hot catalog backup files to a DR server that has NB 6.5 installed.  The original server is also 6.5.   After the restore I can see all the backups that are on the original server, and I can restore any backed up file that...

TerryD2 by Level 3
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HP MSL6030 Library - One drive keeps going down

I am having an issue with one of my two LTO3 960 drives in our HP library.  We are running Netbackup 6.0 MP3 on a Solaris platform.Our jobs are still running on Drive 1 (or 0, according to HP), but when a job is submitted to Drive 2, it tries to load...

Strange Oracle backups

 Hello,In our NetBackup environment we intensively use RMAN scripts to backup Oracle instances. Currently we backupup over 70 Oracle instances. We have suddenly noticed a strange and puzzling. thing. If Full or Incremental backupjob that backs up Ora...

SOLARIS: Error nbjm(pid=2624) NBU status: 800

I have one windows2003 server runs as master server, one windows2000 runs as a test client server and two solaris 5.7 running db application as clients. After replacing a tape drive in the HP MSL6030, I tried to make tests through windows2000 client ...

Netbackup Encryption

Hi,Is there anyway we can check a specific media or probably the image is encrypted? Netbackup 6.0 in windows 2003. Thanks in advance.

Ryan_2 by Level 3
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CatBackup and CatRestores

Can someone tell me why the EMM_DATA.db is always locked?  When migrating 4.5, 5.0 or 5.1 to new hardware, I just set all services to manual, restarted master server, copied "Netbackup\db", "Netbackup\var", and "Volmgr\Database" to the new server.  N...

Back up a NAS device via Windows mapped drive?

I'm trying to back up data on a NAS device which is mapped on a Windows 2003 server.  When I run the backup, I get status 71 (none of the files in the list exist).  I currently back up data on a STK D280 frame just fine this way....any suggestions?  ...

question for advance client for exchange server

Hi All, I have a request to utilize flash backup for exchange server 2003. I am using netbackup v5.1mp5 and I checked out netbackup for exchange server doc and found below limitations & notes: ---------------------------------------------------------...

redfox by Level 3
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Mac OS X backup - strange Error

Hey guys, I backup a mumber of Mac's and one of them errors out with this error:Repeat this alot12/19/2007 1:26:09 AM - Warning bpbrm(pid=22669) from client templar: WRN - Cannot read message from stdin. Errno = 34: Result too large12/19/2007 1:26:09...

moving the master server and EMM to a new hardware server

Hello, I have a Netbackup 6.0 MP5 environment with 4 media servers which one is my master server.  I want to build a new server that will take the role of the master server and move the EMM to that server as well.  I am hoping this will take the load...

COLD Oracle backups (bpstart_notify etc...)

I need to do Oracle COLD backups,  After much research (and not really getting anywhere) this is what I've got... I have:Oracle on UNIXNetbackup 6.0 Win2003 the UNIX client has the standard Netbackup client installed , but NOT the Oracle for Netbacku...

Dr_Cat by Level 3
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Deciphering Tape status codes

Hello all,I’m trying to put together a script that reports on FULL tapes in a library and then recommends available tapes from the same pool to replace them. I believe a combination of bpmedialist and available_media should give me the info I need, b...

Gareth1 by Level 2
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Resolved! bpdbjobs command usage

HI, I would like to know bpdbjobs command usage to generate the report error code wise. eg: If i want to generate the report with error code 41 how would i use  Appreciate any help Thanks! P.Rajeswari

Removing/deleting files/emails from backups

In my environment sometimes we have security issues with files being put on networks that they shouldn't be.  With this in mind I've been asked to look at ways of removing/deleting files/emails from our backups during these instances.  Is there a way...