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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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NetBackup 5.1.5 - failing to mount media.

I created a new policy using a existing volume pool, but everytime I try to run this new policy it tels me that it fails to mount media as it is in a down drive or moved.The tape is there, no drives are down, and I have already deleted and re-envento...

Dedicated drives

Hi,We are planning to assigned three drives to four Server without creating storage unit/ Media Server.Can you please guide me through this?thanks

New media servers before 6.0 upgrade

I'm about to implement a new master and 2 new media servers before I upgrade to 6.0. I have had a support call with Veritas about this upgrade and think I'm ready with the new master but I have a few questions about my media's. The 2 new media server...

NDMP Exclude behavior ...

Hi folks,We're getting ready to turn they key for NDMP for a huge portion of our data set.Just wondering what the best route is for excluding dirs/files.I've seen the SET command being used in the Backup Selection list in the docs ... but this method...

job through put lower than expected

It seems we can only get 16mb/sec on any of our jobs. I have check all our fiber connections and it seems to be a netbackup bottleneck.We are running NBU 6.0 MP3Windows master serverUnix Media ServerUnix ClientsAre there any settings In NBU that I sh...

What is "bprsh" utility for?

Hello,I came across this tool and want to know how to use it.I suppose it is some kind of undocumented tool since I can't find it's description in NetBackup Command reference.Thank you very much in advance.

Error in Robtest

Hi ,While moving a media from Slot to drive using robtest(TLD lib) utility it is giving this error,move_medium failedsense key = 0x4, asc = 0x53, ascq = 0x0, MEDIA LOAD OR EJECT FAILEDInitially drive is un DOWN mode, i made it up and moved the media....

Mathews by Level 4
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Need your help - a rather unusual duplication process?

Guys, I am new to this thread and I would be appreciative on any input I can get.What we are trying to do is move a number of media/tape to another media server (02) and do the duplication there. The understanding here was that we need to lessen the ...

How to push MP5 to Windows clients in unattended way

Hello,We have over 200 Windows clients running NB 5.1 MP 4 and would like to upgrade them to MP5. I suppose there should be some utility to porform that or it can be accomplished via group policy. How can we do it in an unattended way?Thank you ver...

Additional Data Protection Options

NetBackup is just another run of the mill additional data protection option?Ever notice that VERITAS Software was in all uppercaseand that symantec is all lowercase?Message was edited by: Bob Stump

Stumpr2 by Level 6
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Vmglob -listall bug in Netbackup 6.0...

I need someone that has a similar configuration as us to run a command for testing something. I am tracing down an issue with Symantec Engineering pertaining to the 'vmglob -listall' command failing with 'unexpected data received (40)'. I think our i...

Help with Verbose

I'm having problems with an exchange server and I'm trying to look at the bpbkar log file. I was told to increase the verbose to 5. However I'm not sure if I did it right. The only way I know to increase verbose is to go into master server's host ...

How do I save the restore task progress info to a file

This question relates to NB 5.1 MP4. Once a restore job has completed, is there any way to save the task progress information to a text file? I would like to have the full contents of the restore job including all images that were needed and all file...

VSP help!

While taking backup on Windows 2003 Enterprise server edition using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 4.5, the backup process get hang while accessing *.VSP files which are created in the Windows node. I am not able to backup the node. My backup went smoo...

NOM server commands, documentation, clearing logs

Any documentation on the NOM Server other than the Getting Started guide. I am looking for a way to clear the alerts. I have cleared the alerts, acknowleded them, but I want to get rid of them from the database.

Baird_C by Level 3
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Large Master Server Migration

Good Day All,I am hoping someone can help me out here. Over the next several months i have to migrate 17 master servers to new hardware. Unfortunately for me, all of the hostname's are changing and I can not keep the same host name. So the golden que...