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Marianne by Level 6
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Tape Audit

Is there a way to run a report that tells every image that is on a group of tapes.  And by group I mean 1200!  We are having an audit done that is requesting a report on every image that is currently being held offsite on tape.  Is there anyway to pu...

Raw Backups for Linux Box.

I am tryinig to configure Raw backups for Linux Client. I found that Flash backups doesnot support for Linux. Suggest me how can i go for Raw backups for a Linux client. Regards,Praveen ChollangiVeritas Certified Specialist.

Issues after 6.5.1 installation

Last week, I applied the 6.5.1 update to all of my servers and clients.  Since then, I have had 2 problems.  The first is that my offline catalog backups never run unless I kick them off manually.  I checked, and they are set to run after each sessio...

catalog information

hi,I have a master server currently which has netbackup 5.1 installed on it.we plan to move all the activities to a new server.but on the new server we have netbackup 6.0MP4 already installed.I need to move all the catalog information from the first ...

BMRERR Error when trying to backup 64bit Client

Hi,i have an issue here with Netbackup BMR backup. My master server is running on the latest 6.5 on a windows 32bit windows 2003 R2 machine.I am trying to backup a media server running the same netbackup 6.5 but it is a windows 2003 R2 64bit machine....

corona by Level 3
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Synthetic Backups

I am trying to test with Synthetic backups in combination with DSSU.  When I go into a policy to select the Synthetic Backup block it is grayed out.  Any ideas? 

paynet by Level 3
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tape copy with a single available drive

Greetings,If only a single tape drive is available in a library, can a tape 'x' be still duplicated to tape 'y', maybe by some sort of caching the data on tape 'x' to disk first and then writing the data back to tape 'y' ? Or is it essential that two...

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unfreeze tapes

Hi How do i unfreeze a set of tapes on a media server i presently use bpmedia -unfreeze -m mediaID -h (media_servers) i am doing unfrezzing tapes individually i have the following media id : tn0001,tn0002 on same media server . How to unfreeze both t...

Ashz_Tomz by Level 5
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6.5 media creation question

I have recently setup BMR on my 6.5 server, and an trying to create a boot media CD for my solaris system.  I am running into a question that isnt clearly defined in the instructions in how to complete this.  For reference, i have copied the info bel...

Restoring Data

I want to restore a lot of data from various UNIX servers.There is a windows server which holds enough space to perform the restore.  Will nebackup allow me to restore all the UNIX data to this windows server, or does it only restore to other Unix se...

LTO4 encryption key management in netbackup?

There are a number of options out there for encryption key management these days (specifically for the hardware LTO4 encryption).  Does anyone know if/when Veritas/netbackup is planning to offer built in key management?  It seems like a logical thing...

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RAW Restore on different server doesn't work?!?

Hi All, I have made a RAW backup of a Drive on SERVER A using: Windown NT Policy type, backup selection \\.\z: (Which works fine) Now I need to urgently restore this RAW backup to a different server (SERVER B).  For this I start the BACKUP, ARCHIVE A...

Microsoft Office sharepoint portal server

We are running Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (11.0.8126.0), originally when we were running Netbackup 6.0, we were told we could back this up, obviously we couldn't.  We were then told this was definately the case with v6.5, so we upgraded, we are no...

how to list medias that are write protect notch in netbackup

Helo Techies ,Does any one know clearly how to list medias that are write protect notch in netbackup , I am a Enduser and i dont have access to library physcially  . I can only try from the Netbackup softwarePresently i am checking logs in >>VERITAS\...

Ashz_Tomz by Level 5
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Netbackup Freezing new tapes

Hello, I have a 6.5 server that is freezing around 20 new tapes, these tapes have never been written to but always end up frozen. They are LTO III media, any ideas? I have unfrozen them then erased them but they still keep going inot frozen...they ar...