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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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is it tough

is this area i.e netbackup is tough to start of as carrier ...

Image selection for Vault that only Ejects

Good day,I'm hoping to clarify the functionality of a Vault session.The case in question is for a Vault session that is only used to Eject certain volumes (volumes from an 'offsite' pool that were written during an inline copy backup session).I would...

Backup Schedule Priority Question

Hello people,Alright, I have a question: When you have one policy with two schedules; one schedule with a retention of 1 month and then the other with a retention of infinite and they both run at the same time. Which one will fire off? I know I ca...

NBAR Modifications

Hi all,Here is the deal, i really don't like the NBAR, i mean i don't like how it reports on information and as far as i have read on this forum, NBAR is in "end of live"... So i have decided to build up my own NBAR based on the actual system used by...

Queries on multiplexing

Hi all,I plan to implement multiplexing on some of my backup schedule. Currently we have only 3 tape drives, large number of backup jobs is configured during weekends. Could I have 2 different policies (same volume pool) on the same client with mulip...

NetBackup 5.0 for windows exam preparation

I am plan to take the both dp-021w and dp-022w exam.So,i would like to know that how to prepare for those exam. Which manual or document are recommend for the exam preparation.Thanks for any suggestion.B.rgds,Tong

Restore SQL Database failing

I am trying to restore a SQL2000 database from a sucessful backup using a MS-SQL-Server policy with a Full backup although it is failing with the error messages below.To do a test restore we have deleted some of the tables. I am running the restore f...

Strange performance problem

HiI am having performance issues backing up one particular Windows 2000 server, using NBU6.0 MP3 (although this was also seen under NBU 5.1 MP3).When I backup the client using the old Backup Exec 9.1 installation to LTO-2 drives, I manage to get 36MB...

Retention Level on Schedules

Example: We backup to tape every Monday night and the tapes are stored off-site until the following Monday when they are to be overwritten.If I set the Retention to 1 week will this cause issues if our backup schedule is set to run at the same time e...

Understanding NFS and Cross Mount Points Policy Attributes

Hey guys,I have a fairly rudementary question regarding the NFS and Cross Mount Point policy attributes for Linux/Unix systems in Netbackup. Do I need to 'check' the cross mount points attribute to backup all local file systems and files for specifi...

db_lock_media: unable to lock media at offset ??

Hi All,I found a error message in bptm log : " 10:50:42.466 <2> db_lock_media: unable to lock media at offset 13 (614807) "I know in Global Netbackup Attributes ver 4.5 , it has "Enforce media mount timeout after" option but in Netbackup ver 5.1 MP5...

T_N by Level 6
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Running Netbackup under a different user context

I suspect this is a softball for you netbackup pros, and I'll be so kind to hand out points to the right answer.We just rolled out netbackup 6MP3 on a Windows 2003 64 bit Enterprise edition server, and a few of my servers aren't getting backed up. M...

nomadmin -consistency

Hi,Nom documentation http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/875-3770-10.pdf (page 67) states that "nomadmin -consistency" schould be used to check NOM database consistency. But when I run this command NOMAdmin returns only its para...

Netbackup restores very slow

Hi,Environment: Master/Media server and client - Windows 2003 Netbackup 5.1 MP5. Backups are to disk staging units, staged to tape. Current restore is running from disk to disk on the same SAN fabric.We do use multiplexing (set to 5) and I understand...

Remote NDMP

We want to install remote NDMP, but when I try to add our master/media server I receive the following error:Unable to validate the filer wide credentials. NDMP failed to verify host (58)Has someone an idea how to solve this....I'm using NetBackup 6M...

Netbackup 5.1 for Oracle

Hi guys,I recently upgraded my netbackup server from mp2 to mp5, how do i check if the upgadre was perfomed correctly and check the version of the netbackup server? My server is running on a Solaris 9 OS.Well, to the real question for this thread... ...

How to backup only a certain file (including subfolders)

Hello,I am trying to create a backup policy that will backup all PST files on the server.For my selection list I tried the following with the listed results.d:\*.pst = Only backs up the PST files at the root of the drive, does not traverse subfolders...

AKopel by Level 6
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