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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 Moderator
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Netbackup 6 installation

Does any one know implications of installing netbackup 6 in /opt directory instead of /usr. This directory is mentioned as default in docs, even install scripts point to it.  

mmemn by Level 3
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NBU Disk Stage

Can someone direct me to the document that details the amount of space required on a disk stage.  I was told that there is a calculation of the amount of space and number of servers you are backing up to determine how much space a disk stage requires...

bumj1 by Level 5
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AVR mode

Hi, When ever i fire a backup the drive goes to AVR mode .Can any one help me on this.I am using 5.1 MP4 on windows 2003. ThanxNiranjana.R

How to throttle NBU Vault Bandwidth

Hello,Is there any way to throttle Bandwidth used for Netbackup Vault ? We have 54Mbps link between our sites used by couple of other servers, we have requirement to throttle amount of bandwidth used by netbackup vault. Duplication of images happens ...

Adding SP 2 in Windows 2003 SRT.

Hi All, I have NB 6.0 MP4 solaris Master Server, Windows 2003 SP 2 boot server, and trying to protect another client Windows 2003 with SP2. Full backup including ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System state succefully taken.After creating an SRT in win2003 boot...

KSG by Level 4
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Resolved! /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors

Can you explain me what does mean numbers in fourth column in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors ?                                             *01/16/07 17:07:19 DFY079 2 WRITE_ERROR HP.SDLT600.00201/17/07 00:02:32 DFY076 0 POSITION_ERROR HP.SDLT60...

DataStore pool ?????

Hi All, Netbackup has 3 default pools (Netbackup DataStore & None), anyone knows about DataStore ? Could Netbackup uses this pool ? Thanks.

T_N by Level 6
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Incremental Confusion

Which NBU backup schedule type purges/clears Exchange 2003 server transaction logs after a successful backup; differential incremental or cumulative incremental? This has been an interesting conversation between myself and our Exchange Administrator,...

VCS with non-failover media server

Pls give me some suggestions,thanks!I used Netbackup 6.0 software and SAN environment. I own one master server and two SAN media servers as nxnmsdb1 and nxnmsdb2. The two SAN media servers work with VCS which running Informix database.Now I have inst...

David_Zhang by Level 4
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New to NBU! - a few questions!

Hello!  I have been browsing around the forums most of the day, looking for answers, trying to get a grip on how things work. I have taken a look at all the docs that came with NBU.  I was basically handed the box of software and told "Here you go, m...

Vox by Level 3
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Resolved! How to extract 'age' of backup images in Netbackup media

Hi all, For any Netbackup media, is there a way to extract out the 'age' of the backup images in a particular Netbackup media? Preferably via CLI? I have a whole bunch of medias with a lot of backup images set for infinity protection, but I would lik...

NBU 6.0 MP4 - error 84

Hi all, Does anyone know what could be the possible causes for error 84? This is on a new SAN media server running on Solaris 8, using JNI card/driver version 5.3.1 The bptm error logs show:06:40:47.072 [4200] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 1...

NBU 5.1 MP5 Missed Backups

I've looked through posts going back quite some time, and while I admit I may have missed some, I didn't see this problem addressed. I have a NBU 5.1 MP5 master/media server on a Solaris 10 platform.  I have a bunch of policies with frequency-based i...

Netbackup, writing to 2 tapes

   I'm trying to get it so that our backup writes to two different tapes, instead of just one. We have Netbackup 6, anyone know how to set this up?Thanks-Evan

Evan by Level 4
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NBCC catalog consistecy_error Integ_6_4

Hello, I did try upgrade NBU 5.1 to NBU 6.0, but when I did execute NBCC for find inconsistency to database I had this message.          5.5  Processing Media DB, pass 1 (of 3), 3705 records to be processed  CONSISTENCY_ERROR Integ_6_4    ¿ How to re...

DGG_2 by Level 3
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Erase Catalog / Netbackup written tapes in NB 6.0 MP4

Hi,I have some old Catalog (Catalog Backup & other NetBackup) tapes that I would like to erase to use in scratch pool.I have tried using bplabel to wipe these and the erase tape function in the Admin Console to no avail.Can someone please send me a l...

Netbackup Vault Bandwidth Throttling

Hi, Is there any way to throttle Bandwidth used for Netbackup Vault ? We have 54Mbps link between our sites used by couple of other servers, we have requirement to throttle amount of bandwidth used by netbackup vault. found in Administration document...

How to restore LTO1 tapes with LTO2 drive with netbackup5.1

Hi,I want to upgrade some old LTO1 drives with LTO2, and i wonder how i can use those drives to restore old LTO1 tapes with netbackup5.1.LTO2 specifications show that LOT2 drives can read and write LTO1 tapes, but not sure if it is feasible in NBU5.1...