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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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Netbackup 6.0 upgrade and LTO-1 to LTO-2 upgrade

We are upgrading to Netbackup 6.0 and upgrading our LTO-1 drives to LTO-2's.  We are doing this in 2 phases to minimize pact and reduce back out times in case of a problem. The first phase is upgrading our LTO-1 drives to LTO-2 drives.  We have two e...

ctate by • Level 4
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Override Media Owner (Hot Backup Policy)

 what does 'override media owner' checkbox do within the hot backup policy (used for catalog backups) NBU 6.5 And the consequences of unchecking it? Admin guide does not provide any detail.   

netbackup through a firewall

I'm trying to understand how to configure a firewall so that it should allow a backup done via Netbackup.  Do you know of any guide for this? Any success stories with some configuration that it actually worked for you? Thanks! 

sigquit by • Level 2
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NetBackup, VSS and DFS-R integration

Hello, Would anyone know the answer to these questions:If I have a volume that has VSS enabled on it such that previous versions of files are kept as VSS copies, does DFS-R replicate these copies such that they are available on the DFS-R server shoul...

Retention periods for vaulting

The engineering group at my location has data spread out on multiple servers.  They came to me recently letting me know that the current data retention periods were not meeting their customers contractual agreement.   Which states that they should be...

driver for ADIC Scalar i500

Hi therehave a new backup server with an adic scalar i500 library. the same drivers which i used for our Dell library from veritas will not work. i tryied this drivers too:SymantecDeviceDriversforWindowsServers20070215_287850.exeBut the tape devices ...

ruffy by • Level 4
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Help!! NDMP backup failed status 99!

Hi, Were having problem to backup the NetApp Fas270c with DOT 7.0. Am using NBU 6.0 MP4. Backup's are configure to used the Media Manager Storage Unit. set_ndmp_verify works with out problem..But during backup, we always get the status 99. Also read ...

Report listing on scheduled jobs

I can't remember if the command I use to use on the UNIX platform to list all the job that will run that night was bpschedule or not.    I am now supporting a windows backup server environment and the bpschedule command appears to be a command to cha...

PBX install

In the last week I created 6 new media servers all running 6.0MP4.  These media servers are AIX 5.3.  The install of the PBX ICS software was smooth and the install of NB didn't have any problems.  Now I am working on migrating a current media server...

NZ DayLight Savings

Did anyone from New Zealand using NBU v5.1 MP5 under W2K3 have any odd experiences post the Microsoft Daylight saving patch and changes over the weekend or on the Monday nights scheduled backups ? I experienced zero scheduled jobs running on Monday n...

Restoring files from offsite backup

I have a tape that contains files from an offsite backup.  I brought the tape into HQ and ran the report, "Images on Media." Netbackup reports there are four images (one of which I think I need a file from).  So I went back to Catalog and tried to im...

NBU 6.5 DSU problems

Has anyone else had problems with Staging after moving to 6.5 from 5.1?  I have units that seem to not want to expire the old images, or stage off.   So far I haven't found any problems with restores, just lots of disk full problems.   My solution is...

errors after moving to MP5

I am running netbackup 6.0 MP5, and on 2 of my windows 2003 R2 media servers after the upgrade they lost their tape drives.  Windows sees the tape devices fine, but Netbackup will not recognize them..  It sees the library, just not drives.  Nothing I...

Change retention in all tapes in a policy

HelloI have a policy with name Users. I now want to change retention to all tapes in this policy from 2, to 1 year. (I have a custom retention for 2 years as retention level 6)I used the command:bpexpdate -policy Users -recalculate -ret 8Then I get a...

EMM ERROR

Hi guys, on a VCB media server we have an emm error (334 Emm Interface initialization failed) on the Volume Manager Device Daemon... I have search on forum and find some technote, the conclusion are not ok, I have tested :http://seer.support.veritas....

How to erase the data from tapes written with infinite option

Hi All I have written data into tapes with infinite option. now that data no longer required. i need to re use the tapes for other backups, but iam not able to erase from tapes. Please give me any suggessions. Version NBU 5.1 MP 4 with windows 2003 S...

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Help with SQL Database IMAGE ID

This might be a dumb question but we use Veritas Vault to Duplicate SQL images to another Data Center for DR.Struggling with Netbackup IMAGE NAME and the actual SQL Db name you would see in bplist or a .bch file. Anotherwords, bplist -C LITHIADB -t 1...

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