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Marianne by Level 6
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Missing Backup Images

I'm having a strange issue with a particular windows client while attempting to browse through backup images to restore.Windows 2003 sp1 standard master/media server.client is win2k sp4I don't see any recent backup images for a back client that I've ...

vm.conf question

here goes...if the followingSERVER = in not present in the VM.CONF file, will this disallow hostsw to view and manage devices on the local host?or will the presence of this entry only allow the designated host to view and manage devices on the local...

Increase MAX_MEMORY under nbj.conf

Hi guys,When we run Netbackup Administration Console recently, error message: "Memory usage exceeds 83% of the available memory, increase the value of MAX_MEMORY in nbj.conf file"I'm not sure to what value we should increase the memory and what is th...

Change volume pool

Hi,I want to move a bunch of tapes from one volume pool to another, how do I do that?All the tapes are assigned and the expired time is infinity, and they should stay so.I thought that I (using the GUI) could delete them from one pool and then add t...

Resolved! How to troubleshoot NetBackup 6.0MP3 Linux Client

Hello, i have a NetBackup Business server installation running on a Windows 2003 Server and backuping Windows PCs is working without a problem so far.But now, i am trying to use the Linux client license, but so far i have been unable to get it to wor...

I passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now on to DP-022W

Passed DP-021W on Friday!!! it was much tougher than I thought though. I was scheduled to take DP-022W today but rescheduled it for Friday... any studying tips? I know read the admin guide and the performance guide but is there anything else I can us...

LTO2 Performance Settings Survey

So we are implementing LTO2 (finally) and I know this topic has been addressed before, but I wanted to pose the questions a little bit differently. I have read the performance and sizing guides and in general have a good idea of what 'should' be done...

AKopel by Level 6
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Stand Alone Drive with tape loaded gives status 96

So I have a stand alone drive, with a tape loaded, that keeps giving me an error 96. It's a compaq sdlt 320 drive. There are no robotics or inventorying that needs to be done... So I'm a bit of a loss as to what is happening. It's a windows 2000 m...

Alternatives to NBAR and NOM

Recently there has been discussion about how to get more information out of Netbackup's reporting scheme as the current 'canned' offerings are somewhat limited. So does anyone know of any 3rd party programs that can produce custom reports from Netba...

CLI based commands for interegating s master server

I am looking for the command lines for checking the success and amount of data from a given backup, Ie A command line view for a weekly backup and how much data it backed up.I do have nbar but is there an easy way of pulling that data into a text for...

Read error of raw partition

Hey all, My first post to the forum, and of course like all noobs it's a problem. I'm hoping someone else has some experience with this strange error. Site background: NBU 6 MP2Solaris 9 sparc master/media serverLinux RHEL AS 64-bit media server to h...

Exchange Transaction Log Backup

Is it a good idea to backup Exchange Transaction Logs' a few times a day?We do a full Exchange Backup Every night.Running: NBU 6 MP3 w. MS Exchange Extension. Exchange 2003

Online Exchange Mail Restore

If I need to restore all messages from a users Inbox (for example) can I do this while Exchange is up and running, or should Exchange be offline?What is best practice?Running: NBU 6 MP3 w. MS Exchange Extension. Exchange 2003

Resolved! Where does Activity Monitor pull its info

What log(s) does Activity Monitor get its information from? I know that seems like a simple question, but is there a log that generates that information? What I am trying to accomplish is using an application like Argent to notify our NOC staff on ...

New Media Server not recognizing robot

Just installed a new Media Server into our environment. Both master and media are Windows 2003 server running NB 6.0MP1. When discovering devices on the media server it discovers the 4 drives within the robot but not the robot itself. I updated my ...

Finding a media ID for an expired image

Hello all,So I need to find a media ID for a backup that has expired. It was supposed to have an infinite retention, but had only 30 days. It was a month end backup. I can view a report in Advanced Reporter that shows me that the backup ran, but t...

Media Server and Disk Staging Unit

HiI have a Disk Staging Unit connected to a media server A.In order to regularly relocate the backup images on this Disk Staging Unit to a robot, Iwould like to use (robot) drives which are configured only to a media server B but not to the media ser...

How do I select which tape to use?

I do 2 copy's for my monthly backups, they go to different L700 robots.I want todo a restore using copy 2, how do I select which copy to use, NB takes the original backup normally? I just want to be sure that both copy's work./Joe