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Netbackup Exam queries

Hi,      Seems DP-023X is going to get expired this year. I thought to do this exam, now i dropped that idea. Next year  new exam for Netbackup 6.5 Version going to implement . Can anyone tell me what documents needs to refer to write  the new exam? ...

Solaris 10 Compatibtility issue?

I have installed Veritas Netbackup 5.0 client agent on a Solaris 10 container. The system implementor informed that the IPF is not enabled on the container itself. The problem is when a connection is started from the Veritas master server via the sof...

multiple copies causing backups to fail.

Hi, we have netbackup 6.0 setup with vtl tape libarary and 2 physical tape library. i have selected mutiple copies to be created during the backup. i understand that mutiple cipoes use 2 drives instead of one.so i was under the impression that if i s...

Configuring the time to expire on a image at a certain time

Does anyone know how to adjust the time that a image expires on a tape without adjusting the retention?My dilemma is that company policy requires that the retention be set to 2 weeks, I cant change this. My Full backups are set to kick off at 12:00 A...

Unable to connect to EMM server(77)

Only user backups failing with 52.

Hi All, Only the user backups are failing with status code 52. Scheduled incremental and full backups are running fine. The user backups are either  hung for more then 5hr stating mounting media, and it fails with 52, "timed out waiting for media man...

How to determine my jobs ran?

I have 2 Netbackup 6.0 Windows environments.  I want to verify that the backups I have scheduled actually run.  I know I can run nbpemreq -predict -date 12/04/2007 to determine jobs to run today for example.  I was thinking I could run a bpdbjobs com...

Restore Question

Hi All, I have a question I can't seem to get around my mind..... using NB5.1. Say I run a Full on Sunday the 1st, and a cumulative incremental each on Mon. 2nd and Tues.  3rd.No changes were made on Monday, and some were made on Tuesday.  If I run a...

NetBackup Vault - test vmware environment on local machine

Anyone know of a software package or any other way to create a VTL or library in VMWare so I can simulate a Vault environment? I have a NB Master, Media and NOM server setup on my laptop VMWARE environment.  But I can't get Vault setup unless I can s...

SNMP activation for Netbackup on RedHat

Hello List,Did anyone activate snmp for Netbackup on Linux?There are some posts on Netbackup <--> snmp, but I couldn't figure out the  answer. I donwloaded the VRTSene package from the ftp site mfgftp.veritas.com as described in the Veritas SNMP Exte...

6.5 MP1

    Hi.. I'm looking for information when MP1 for NB 6.5 will be released.. I've found on post on this forum with information that MP1 is scheduled on November.. but now we have December..marekk

SQL restore

Hello, I have few big (60-100gb) SQL databases in my environment. Few months ago I implemented new feature: stripes! I decided to have 4 stripes per database. Backup procedure worked great for those months. Few days ago I had to restore few old datab...

Media Access Port

I was inputting tapes and for some reason when it pulled the tapes from the access port, it didn't put the correct barcodes, it put generic codes. When I went to eject these tapes, it gives me the following error:There is media in the media access po...

SharePoint 2007/Netbackup Strategy

Does anyone have any documentation or insight on backup up SP 2007 with Netbackup.  I'm just getting ready to upgrade to Netbackup 6.5 so that we can support Exchange 2007 but have not been able to find anything about the recommended SP backup.  Than...

Catalog Backups 5.1 MP6 failing

We are running NBU Enterprise 5.1 MP6. We have just changed our master server. When I ported things over I did a catalog restore which worked fine. All of our policies, devices, and licenses look okay. However when we run a catalog backup on the new ...

6.5 faster or slower than 5.1 on Solaris?

We just upgraded our MP5.1 to MP6.5 on Thursday and I had a few backups come back with 196 errors over the weekend.  We hammer the drives Friday and Saturday, so I occasionally get that if a backup runs long anyway.  Does anyone have any tuning adjus...

Backing up Oracle RMAN databases.

We are currently backing up all our 12 Oracle databases on 1 Unix server with 1 policy which calls a script to backup the validly flagged databases.  The problem with this is that all databases are backing up one at a time. There is one policy for a ...

NOM 6.0 MP5

I installed NOM and was able to login to it and even add my nb server. Then I applied MP5 for it, and now I receive error 404 whenever I browse to the console. I removed mp5 but still I receive the same error message.Any thoughts?

Doubt about Catalog Backup "file path specified is not absolute".

Hello,I changed the location where Catalog Backup is done, then it's failing now. Appears a dialog box "Backup of NetBackup Catalog" with the contents:"The following error occurred while attempting to backup the NetBackup catalog:file path specified ...

mass restores

what would be the most effective way to do a mass restore?  We have some development going on that requires snapshots/backups taken at specific points of the whole environment, then they want to roll back to previous copies of the data across all sys...