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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.

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NetBackup causing Client Deadlock

For the last few weeks we've encountered an issue where a Windows 2003 server running SQL server 2000 reports a possible deadlock condition and totally hangs as a result. We think we've traced changes in our netbackup policies to this issue. This p...

MISSING_DRIVE?

Hello all! I've got a problem with one of my tape drives...Our backup server (Netbackup 6.0 MP3 - Windows 2K3) has a two tape drive autoloader. One of the tape drives appears to be down - On the graphical representation of the backup device, the driv...

unable to mount the catridge to tape library- Error 26C9

Hi , Plz help me out, while taking daily backup (veritas 5.1 netbackup) when the drive tries to mount a free catridge, it was not successful. I got this error on the screen of Quantum ATL M1500 tape library "Error 26C9". When I check the Device monit...

Media Server Hardware reqs

I am going to be building a new Media server for disk based backups. It is going to have 2 1GB NICs teamed on the public LAN, and routing all the backup traffic out 2 1GB NICs teamed on a private LAN. Both will be set up as Load Balanced.What would b...

NBU 6.0 MP4 migration from Solaris to Linux

I am planning to migrate my master server from Solaris to Linux. I have no plans to move any of the tapes or tape drives. I am going to a tape-less solution so all that I need to move are the disk images and the policies. Since I am not moving my tap...

VSS + System volume Information folder Cache file problem

I have noticed that on a number of clients running WIN2K3 SP1 that are being backed up using VSS, there are files being created in the hidden folder called 'system volume information' on the drive being backed up. These seem to be cache files and co...

Catalog Recovery Question

I hope this one is a quick question to answer. Here's my situation:I had a catalog on serverA. I moved it to serverB. ServerB has a different name than serverA. ServerA has media on it that was imported that was written by backup Exec. I would li...

Failing Hot Catalog Backup - NBU 6.0 MP4

Hello All,Just upgraded to 6.0 MP4 and I have configured a hot catalog backup but it is failing with error listed below:"client backup failed to read the file list(67)"I was looking through the bpbrm and here is a snapshot of the log before it fails:...

Possibly found a bug on NBU 6.0 mp4

All NBU systems are at NBU 6.0 mp4. One Master and 4 Media's, 2 Media's have tape drives, 2 Media's use only nearstores...While the catalog backup is running to tape I cannot get vmoprcmd to work:vmoprcmdinvalid host name (136)When the catalog backu...

Activity Monitor

My activity monitor is set for 5 days, how can I change it to hold 2 weeks worth of jobs so I can go back and look. we use 5.1.Thank you

Bug alert for HP-UX AIX and SGI media servers

FYI - To all of you who don't receive the Symantec Technical Advisory mails.http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/287287Description:A rare data loss condition exists for HP-UX, AIX and SGI media servers running NetBackup 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 where th...

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Restoring files from Windows to a LINUX box

Enviroment: NBU 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2K3 machine We have a fairly large VMware shop in house for all of Windows boxes. To back up these VM images, we end up taking tarballs of the VMDK files, and dropping them to a Windows boxs with several large attac...

Can the tape be reused

Netbackup Tech support,Greeting of the day.Just for drive test a test backup ran on the tape which was backed by using windows backup.This is a stand alone drive in which the tape was written and attached to a media serve r server.Can I reuse this ...

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Error No proxy found

Last night we our veritas just quit running and the only error message could find was in our sun logs which said "No proxy found" and that was only on the master server. Media servers that was last doing backups had a successful dismount in its log ...

Managing Disk storage units on NBU 6.0.........

I need to figure out a better way of managing disk space on disk storage units...Other than df -k....The kool thing about tapes... the systems tells you when they expire....Is there a way to do this for images on disk storage units?Thanks......Joe D...

Netbackup UNIX vs Windows NT Server

We have the opportunity to pick either UNIX or Windows NT for the master server. Most of the clients are a mixture of UNIX & Windows based, Oracle applications. Setting hardware aside and looking at the O/S for the master server. Who can tell me w...

Congratulations Bob!!

Congratulations to Bob Stump for hitting the Expert level!!Please allow 4-6 weeks for your Free Toaster to arrive in the mail.:)

Path for NB 5.1 to NB6.0 upgrade

I know I may be opening up a big can of worms here but I had a question about NB 6.0. We are running NB 5.1 MP6. I know that NB6.5 is due out later this year and we have a support contract to get that version when it is released (we already have th...

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