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New Install - Teething Problems
We have just installed the following system and have a few teething problems. Can anyone suggest where the cause of the problem lies or what to look for. My Problem is that one drive on one of the tape libraries(same one each time) tries to mount a t...
Deassign the drives, Showing ACTIVE, but no tapes loaded or showing writing
Hello Experts, I have come across a situation where my jobs are queued, on investigating i found that the drives are not showing loaded with tapes but showing ACTIVE and assigned to one of the media servers.Can you help me with this as to how to deas...
Catalog Backup - command line version?
Hi guys,In NBU 5.0 if I want to change the schedule for my Catalog Backups from the NBU Admin Console I would... * expand Netbackup Management* select Catalog* select Actions > Configure Netbackup Catalog Backup* then select what option I require e.g...
System Volume Information filling up - NBU 6.0MP4
I've found an older bit of information from BackupExec in regards to large system files in the system volume infomration folder, that it creates files with a GUID for the name and part of the name is {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}. Is this al...
Does anyone actualy use NOM in anger?
I am starting to use it seriously and am customising my own reports for it.Has anyone else done this.Does NOM deliver what you want of it.If there is anything else you would like it to do what would that be?or have you given up with NOM?CheersAl
Email Notification
I specify Administrators email address on Global Attributes tab for Master Server.My nbmail.cmd:Code:@IF "%~4"=="" ( blat.exe %3 -subject %2 -t %1 -i smit@test.com -server smtp.server.lan -q ) ELSE ( blat.exe %3 -subject %2 -t %1 -i smit@test....
Veritas 6.0 MP4 Activity Screen Customisation
Hi All,Occasional reader - first post.I am using NetBackup 6.0 MP4 after a recent clean install following years of use of 4.5 MP6.I am well aware of how to customise the activity screen to include KB/sec and active time etc, but for the life of me do...
\\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images sub folders are expanding at a phenomenal rate.
Since upgrading to NBU 6 the client folders \\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images are expanding at a phenomenal rate and our master media servers are close to running out of space.Has anyone seen this?Is there any setting in particular that might cause this?...
Oracle backup failed using Rman with status code 6
Hi, Oracle on windows 2003 server. backup failing using RMAN with status code 6. help me to solve the issue. rgds
bpend_notify scripting
Hey Guys, We are going to start using this script to send emails to our mobile phone sms gateway when backups fail.But...We need to filter out which ones get reported. Im not a script guy, but I see that the script gets param's called POLICYNAME an...
bpstart / bpend for Restore process
Has anyone either run across or developed a mechanism when a restore is initiated that it will either check to make sure certain applications or programs aren't running on a client before initiating otherwise the job will fail.I'm trying to prevent r...
LTO2 and LTO3 tape barcodes mixed
I am replacing serveral backup masters that have standalone LTO2 drives with new servers and LTO2 libraries. The existing catalog will have old information on the old tapes, with old barcode labels (123456L2, for instance). The new tapes will have ...
How can I exclude Shadow Copy Components on a Win 2003 Client?
I have added it to the exclude list in the client properties but it still tries to it up and give me an error 71 because it is not there...Any help with this?Thanks in advance.
bprd dies and no backups run
Hi, We have Netbackup 5.0 running on Solaris 8 with One Master & 4 Media Servers. All are SAN Media servers. We are facing a problem, intermittenly none of the schduled backups kicks off, no backups run. When checked, we found that bprd daemon was st...
Restore problem on NDMP for Celera
Hi All,I have problem to restore NDMP on Celera, I get error message : " No files matched in the given date range", I can see the file. Anyone know about it, please let me know, thanks. Tom
disk staging to multiple volume pool
Hi I have NB 6.0 MP4. Our media servers currently have a couple of Tb of disk storage in one large chunk attached that we use for staging our differential backups before copying them to tape. Currently we only use our disks to stage backups that are ...
Swapping out Robotic Tape Library
We are upgrading to a new robotic tape library (RTL). We are currently using netbackup 6.0/mp3 How do you move the tape from one RTL to another, and then delete the old RTL. Thank you for any input.
Re-Activate VSP
Back in the days when I couldn't figure out why my VSP cache files were not getting deleted, I went into my Master Server properties under Client Attributes, listed all of my clients, and unchecked the "Enable Windows Open File Backups for this clien...
drives going offline post library repair
Hello using a 4 drive MSL5000 library, wiht netbackup 6 MP4 on Win2k3, we recently had some mechanical problems with the library. Part of the engineers troubleshooting involved swopping two drives around in the library, since this, Netbackup seems to...
SQL status while running netbackup
I am running Netbackup 6mp1 Enterprise server, and I notice that the SQL service at the bottom of the screen is showing "Not Connected -\\". When I try to start the service localy it continues to tell me that I am not connected. My questions:1) Does...
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