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Subscribe to NBU notifications

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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SQL Restore to remote host

Hi, I have issues with SQL remote restore. I follow SQL restore instructions profided my Veritas and I received folowing errors: In restore status window:INF - Created VDI object for SQL Server instance <server name>. Connection timeout is <300> seco...

gethostbyname failed -- no data of the r (0)

Hello I am curious if anyone may tell me what this error I see in my NB 5.1 bpcd log means?  i don't believe I have come across it before.>bpcd valid_server: comparing server1 and server206:43:57.514 [5104.4080] <2> hosts_equal: gethostbyname failed ...

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new Linux client - 25 cannot connect on socket

hi,we have win. 2000 master server in which we want to add a linux RHEL 4 client. am not tech-say in linux env. but the linux people installed NB6.0 in the client box. but we are not able to connect the linux box from the master server. added the hos...

Ryan_2 by • Level 3
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NDMP + Catalog Size?

Hello All, Thx in advance for any help.SITE SPECS:HP-UX 11.iNetbackup 5.1 (no MP's)1 master/media + 5 media servers - all HP-UXNAS = EMC Cellera - NDMPMaster server is NDMP Host using 1 LTO1 and 1 LTO3THE QUESTION:How does NB record the NDMP backup m...

dukbtr by • Level 4
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Checkpoints question

I recently began using checkpoints for a couple of our larger, more troublesome backup policies.  One in particular is about 2TB of data total.  We do a full backup on the weekends and cumulative incrementals during the week.  Last weekend, the backu...

No MBR when restoring to same machine

I am doing a BMR test restore. I installed windows 2003 Standard edition on a dell 2950 server, then installed veritas netbackup 6.0 mp4. The backup completed fine. I then tried a BMR to the same server following steps as listed in the documentation,...

A socket could not be opened

I am using Netbackup Ver. 6.0 MP4.I have a Master and Media server both on Windows and a client on SUSE 9.3.The SUSE client was backing up successfully untill I migrated the VM that it runs under.At that point the backups failed with a Status code 21...

Backup status report.

Hello All,  Can someone help me with following? I run# bperror -backstat -Uand I get fields like client name, policy name truncated. How can I increase column width? Then I tried using# bperror -backstat -lIt gives me everything I need but time is in...

Writing multiple policy's backups to the same drive

We have 5 backups that take place each night, which are staggered to start at 3 different times (need to wait for the RMAN to complete, so if there was a way to do this on one policy i would be even happier!).  These jobs are writing to an robot with...

Download!

Not sure if everyone has seen this or not, but skip searching for your MP, etc downloads and get them here:ftp://ftp.entsupport.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/

NBU 4.5 MP6 upgrade to NBU 6.0

Hi, IHAC on NBU 4.5 MP6 and planning for an upgrade to NBU 6.0. I believe this requires a hop at V 5.0 or V 5.1.Can someone please confirm this and also is there a TN describing step by step guide to this process. Cheers.

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Backup_Exit_Notify.CMD and Status 1 errors

I've played with backup_exit_notify and it is now telling when I get a status 1 error.  I was curious if anyone had a way for it to include what files were skipped when it gives a status 1 error.  we have worded it into our Sarb-Ox documents that we ...

Migrating proprietary backups to netbackup

Hi everybody, My company is about to migrate a very large amount of data, on several sites, which was backed-up with an in-house application to netbackup. The naive migration solution would be to use our application to restore the data and then to ba...

NBU6.0MP4 - Schedule Backup Attempts BUG - not working!

Hi guys,Since we upgraded from NBU6.0MP3 to MP4, the schedule backup attempts parameters (Host ppties > Master Server > Global attributes...) are just NOT WORKING anymore!Jobs are retrying up to 80 times!It does not respect the # of tries, nor the # ...

FYI, full support for NBU v5.x extended to 31st March 2008...

...and partial support afterwards until 1st December 2008 when all support will end.http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/290017.htm   P.S. The 30 day digests of all tech notes, and software updates (at the bottom of the pages), can be found here: ......

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NB6.0 MP4 -RHEL AS4 Client

Hi,Just a quick confirmation of MP4 download in Nb6.0 for linux client - http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285937.htm Can anyone pls. confirm me

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Vault Multiple Copies...

I wish  I could explain this better but I am still learning the product (MBU 6.4 on W2K3).  We currently start backups at 9:00PM and a vault process at 3:00AM.  Midday there are stajon policies that run that write images on disk to an internal volume...

NetBackup 4.5 - Catalog Compression

Hello,Within NetBackup GUI we have configured NetBackup to compress all catalog items older than 120 days old.We have not run a backup (those happen at night) since making this configuration change.  If I understand the manual correctly, the compress...

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