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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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user directed backup & nbu_snap

Hello, colleagues. Can anybody help?We are planning to use nbu_snap to Oracle DB cold backup.For many reasons we don't using automated backup for DB backups.Is it possible to use user-directed backups with nbu_snap snapshots? And how to initiate snap...

Backup Selection List & multistreaming

Hello colleagues,may be somebody have a hint to a our load balancing problem.We have some directories to backup with a number of big files (~32GB).Contents of directories and their size significantly changes from backup to backup.Total size of backup...

Netbackup 6 and Microsoft SUS or (WUS)

Hi,Has anyone got any tips about how to backup/restore Microsoft SUS (or WUS)? I've searched for anything to do with this and found almost nothing. The ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES will cover all files (or will it?) but I think there's a db to backup as well (I ...

Lost FC Connectivity to Tape Library

HiI have a Sun Server with Solaris 8 and VERITAS NetBackup version 5.1MP2 installed.The Sun Server has been configured to connect Quantum M1500 Tape Library and EMC CX500 storage via FC switch.There are 2 FC-HBA being used (QLogic QLA2300).The config...

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Encryption Module?

I was just wondering what the general feedback was on the Encryption Module for NetBackup. Are there any common issue's associated with the product? I've seen that it might increase the backup time if used over a network, but currently we're thinki...

Help bpexpdate

Here's the log:07:53:35.525 <2> get_stunit_primary_hname: gethostbyname failed for oldhost: HOST_NOT_FOUND (1)07:53:44.726 <2> bperror: INITIATING: version NetBackup 5.1 created: 200508140207:53:44.726 <2> logparams: -l -problems -X -d 1147873953 ...

Poor write performance on LTO3 drives

Netbackup 6.0MP2Master server : Sun V240 with 1cpu and 1GB memoryTape library : Sun StorEdge L500 with 2 LTO3 drivesTest : backup of one 5GB file which resides on the internal disksThroughput : 12MB/secThis is pretty low. Any ideas ? Should adapt /et...

importing volumes

has anyone had much experience with the 'import volumes' commands in Netbackup ?is it reliable? is it just a case of popping in your BE tape, and reading catalog and backup info off it? any caveats?

Virtual Name for Media servers

Hi, I have a two nodes Windows cluster with a cluster service configured with a virtual IP and virtual hostname tied to it. These two servers are also NB media servers. I want to configure a Storage Unit that tie to this Virtual name rather then th...

NetBackup v6 MP2 Catalog Backup Problem (Status Code 1)

Does anyone have any problems backing up the Catalog using the Hot Catalog Backup function in v6?I get a status code of 1. The file that is missed is Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\var\global\joblogfile.txt. This file is currently 11Mb in size.The a...

Moving Netbackup Master Server to new box with new name

Hello,Can anybody help?We have to centralise all of our servers into a new domain. This means that we have to rebuild and rename them and I am concerned about our Netbackup Master Server. We use Netbackup 5.0 MP6 and I would like to rebuild the serve...

Media belongs to two media server

Hi, I've a media that belongs to two media server, that is, when I perform bpmedialist on both master and media server (e.g. "bpmedialist -m xx" and "bpmedialist -m xx -h xx"), both respond with the ouput of different expiry date. Someone must have s...

Shadow Copy Components

We have recently started getting errors on several of our W2K3 servers when trying to back up "Shadow Copy Components", we receive a "network connection timeout". The servers in question were upgraded inplace from W2K. Everything else on the server...

bpexpdate to extend the expiry date?

Dear All,I have some images that have retention period of 1 year, can I usebpexpdate -backupid -d to extend the expiry date of the images to 5 years retention?Thanks for helping

Problem with old media on a Netbackup 4.5 server

I administer a NetBackup 4.5 server and am having problems with commands like bpmedialist and available_media hanging. From what I can tell, the problem is that it is trying to get information about media from an old media server that no longer exis...

Resolved! Alternative for bpxpdate -deassignempty ??

Anybody know an alternative method for moving expired media back into the scratch pool other than using bpexpdate ? I am getting status 13 errors in my log file.. I know how to fix it (with bpdbm -consistency) however this takes me a while to run be...

bpcoverage bus error

Hi All...When trying to do a bpcoverage of any client we are getting a bus error... Any ideas ??? We are running NetBackup Enterprise V5.1 MP4 RegardsJon

Shadow Copy Component backup problems

has anyone seen the following error during Backup of Shadow Copy Components on Windows 2003?Warning bpbrm(pid=4772) from client clientname: WRN - can't open object: Shadow Copy Components:\System Service\Event Logs\Event Logs (BEDS 0xE000FEDD: A fail...

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