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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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migrating old data from decommisioned server

I'm trying to migrate some old data from 3590 tapes to newer tape. I'm running into the problem that we decommissioned a server several years ago, and I'm trying to migrate images from it. I'm using 5.1mp5. I can't import the media because the ma...

Changing Default Volume Pool

I could not find a clear answer on how to change the default pool that new tapes are placed in. When I insert a new tape, it is automatically placed in NetBackup and I would like it to go to the scratch pool.ThanksMessage was edited by: Jerem...

Reusing Backup Exec tapes for Netbackup5.0

Hi all!. I have been searching for many hours on this problem. I am new to Netbackup 5.0. I have hundreds of tapes that were previously used for Backup Exec. I need to reusue these for our new backup solution Netbackup 5.0. I have searched and ...

VSP? VSS?

I'm having a little difficulty understanding the VS's. First question, if I want to use VSP on a volume that contains 700GB of data, I have to have some place to put the cache file of EQUAL size, correct? If set the maximum cache size to 100GB, the...

Req: How to deactivate policies from command line.

I'm looking for away to deactivate multiple policies (or all of them) from the command line without stopping netbackup.Every once in a while I have two libraries that will go into AVR mode and in order to fix it I have to temporarily suspend/stop all...

Media server data mover & nbu_snap

Hello,does somebody use media server method of offhost backup with nbu_snap snapshots? Documentation says that:"The disk must be visible to both the NetBackup client and to the NetBackup media server. The disk must be connected through a fibre channe...

question about media and retention

in NBU 6, default options say that retention levels cant be mxed on media, fair enoughhowever, if for instance u have daily backups mon-thu, backing up 100GB every day, and 200GB capacity on your media, u back up 100GB on mondayu back up 100GB on teu...

Restoring IIS 6.0

Hi,I am trying to disaster recovery a Windows 2003 system with a simpleMicrosoft Internet Information Server (IIS) Version 6.0 and I fail. Althoughthe restore ends with status 0 and the operating system starts up successfully, the IIS service does n...

Upgrade from Netbackup 5 to version 6 on HPUX platform

hello,am facing some problem while upgrading netbackup ver 5 to ver6.we have netbackup 5 with MP1 installed on HPUX 9000 platform.with Oracle unix backup agent & one linux and windows backup agent installedin other servers.Currently we are trying to...

LT01 to LT02 tape duplication

Hello all,I have a task here to locate and duplicate all images written to LTO1 tape with a 7 seven year retention and duplicate these images onto LTO2, then ejecting the LTO1 tapes for disposal.(There are hundreds of these tapes)Identifying the tape...

NB 6 Resource Broker

I have recently setup a NB6 media server and it has the NB resource Broker set to manual and it is unable to start with an error code of 1068. Can anyone tell me what the Resource Broker is and whether I need to worry about it not running on a media...

Disk Staging

I am running into an issue with NB6 MP2 and disk staging. Under NB 5.1 is was able to append disk stage images onto the media run after run. Under NB6 I receive an error 96 (unable to allocate new media) wanting new media. I have checked the avail...

Virtual Hostname as NetBackup Client

Hi,We have two MySQL database servers in a cluster configuration, one being a primary server (db1) and the other a secondary (db2). Applications see it as a single virtual hostname (db) - i.e. the "active" server.For initiating a database backup, we ...

Backing up NFS

Hi all,I have a little question, i have a server wich i back up that have an NFS, so some actual files are in another server and i use them following the NFS... The NFS is mounted in a fle system on the server i back up with veritas.The policy is con...

Exchange 2003, MSCS across data centres. How to schedule backup?

We are using 5.1 MP4 with Exchange agents on two independent Netbackup Enterprise Servers at two different data centres. Exchange 2003 is clustered (live-live) with one node in each centre, the storage is EMC DMX with Geo-Cluster/SRDF connectivity t...

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help with bp -r needed

Hello All,I need a small help with bp -rWe have a production server A on which we backup a few mount points to tape every night.The backup script i am not familair with but tags it with full_1m_on keyword and the name of the Database being backed up....

NBU 6.0 Bare Metal Restore

Can someone please provide me the link where I can download installation and administration guide for NBU 6.0 Bare Metal Restore?Thank you in advance

Replicating NBU Catalog to DR Node/Environment

Anyone out there have any tips on how to replicate the NBU Catalog to a different host for DR purposes? Yes we do catalog tape backups using a Vault policy, however, I would like to automate the catalog to be copied to a different host at our DR sit...

Can a media become a client?

An off the wall question for Friday. We have two separate NetBackup installations in separate buildings (both are NB5.1 MP4). One of the buildings is having major problems with its hardware. The other building is running nominally. The connection ...

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