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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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Which tape drive?

Is there a Tape Drive market leader out there for NetBackup?Does Veritas recommend a specific brand of tape drive for NetBackup?I hear Quantum is the way to go. What do you think?

help with a policy

I have the need for a policy that will back up a directory/somedir/$hostnameEach $hostname directory is unique to the host. The /somedir is common to all.What is the best way to set up this policy. I'm afraid that using /somedir willnot give me the ...

Upgrtading to Netbackup Ver. 6

I currently running Netbackup ver 4.5. I have a new server which I'm installing Netbackup ver. 6. Is there any way I can import the catalog's without going through the upgrade process?

Exchange transaction logs truncated?

Hi,How could I find out which exchange transaction logs have been truncated after a successful exchange information store backup? Would I look at the event log of that server?Thanks,Enoch

bpstart_notify.bat

I have a windows client running NP 5.1 MP4 that needs to have some pre and post processing done for backups. I moved the default templates $INSTALL_DIR\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\goodies\bpstart_notify.bat$INSTALL_DIR\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\goodies\bpend_n...

Stumpr2 by Level 6
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Activity Monitor not displaying active drive activity

I recently installed NB6 MP3 on a new Windows 2003 server. I have a scalar 100 library with 5 LTO2 drives. With backups running and all five drives active the activity monitor sometimes only displays one drive in use i.e only one drive has the yellow...

Across firewall to backup

Does anybody have a good documentation how to do backup across firewall? Netbackup version is 6.0. Thanks

Max_Pei by Not applicable
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Netbackup Enterprise Server v6 catalogues

I wish to uncompress the catalogues as I have heard this can slow down the performance of the master server. Is the correct method to set the global attributes on the master server "compress catalogue interval" to 0 Days, then run "bpimage -decompre...

Backuped files are not shown in Netbackup console

Hallo,I use Netbackup 3.60.4.0 on Windows-Server and a Netbackup-Client on many notebooks. So far so good. But with only one Notebook I have a problem.Netbackup-Client on Notebook is starting, procedure of backing up files is running (I see the count...

Recovering data from a different domain

I have two independent NBU 6.0 domains at 2 locations with WAN connectivity.The backups for each domain are first staged across the WAN to a disk storageunit physically located at the other site.My question is: in terms of DR, if one of the sites goe...

Netbackup installation in SAN fabric

Hello, I'm currently planning a new installation of a master and 2 media servers in a SAN env. using an Storetek L700 with 8 fiber LTO2 drives. As were NOT using the Shared Storage Option i need to figure out how to connect the drives to the san fabr...

Netbackup Client Backup over the Web

I have completed installation of a Netbackup Server 6 on Windows 2003 Server service Pack1. It works fine when I attempt to perform backup of workstations inside the network. I can't figure out how to configure it to perform client backups over the ...

Cleaning LTO2 Tape Drives

Hello,Last night, all of our backups failed with a media open error stating that the device needs to be cleaned.I have created a rule as follows: vmrule -add CLN dlt2_clean None 25 "Cleaning tape"Then added a CLN DLT cleaning tape to the library. It...

Netbackup Logging

I just upgraded to Netbackup 6. I'm running the master and media server on a linux box.I'm incredibly discouraged at the fact that reporting still seems to be a joke in Netbackup. First, absolutely none of my netware clients send me emails when the...