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Cleaning frequency

Hi guys,One questions. How many times could I use my cleaning tape?. When I have mounted cleaning tape, I have selected 30 hours. Is it correct?Can I increase this value?I have net backup 5.0 mp5 with win 2000 server sp4Thank's a lotAndrew

SDLT320 V87

2 weeks ago the SDLT320 drives in my L700 are upgraded to version 87.Since then Veritas (5.1MP4 - master tru64unix - media W2k and Solaris) is downing drives. Sometimes the library reports an "0x3e24 DRV Wait for rewind failed" and i see that the tap...

Scheduled Backups not running

We are running NBU 5.1 MP4. All of my scheduled daily backups are running as scheduled. However, my Full backups are not running properly. I have 52 clients that are backed up and only about 10 full backups actually run as scheduled. When I run B...

Command Line util that sets exclude dates for all policies

Hey all!So I'm curious if there is a command line script that can be ran that will tell Netbackup to set a 'global' exclude date for all policies. I looked in the command reference and wasn't sure which one to use. From what I've read, it appears t...

Netbackup 3.4GA, Unix

I have an issue with Netbackup 3.4GA - I understand that I may be on the wrong forum, but I can't seem to find a forum dedicated to my software version. Apologies if I'm in the wrong place.I have a Solaris 8 machine running the server, and have insta...

Expire media ID with images dispersed

All, I have a policy that backup 7 directories, 3 directories was backuped on Media ID A and 4 directories was backuped on Media ID B. I need change the expiration date for theses 2 Medias(A and B) to not expirate within 5 years, I ran the bpexpdate ...

win2k/win2k3 hangs during boot.

We are having a problem when a win2k or 2k3 server is booted when a lto2 drive is down in netbackup. The only way to get the server to come up is to disable the fibre port where the drive is connected to. The library is a STK L700 and the server hb...

Tapes Used List

I run daily bpimagelist with a -media switch and dates and times to get a list of tapes used for last nights backups. The problem is that this command does not list what tapes were used for duplications from DSSU's. Is there a command to show me w...

bmr on linux (nb 6)

Did someone do successful restore of linux machine using bmr from nb6 ??I have a problem.. filesystems are created but bprestore can't restore anything..what can cause a problem ??

Error with BPList

Hello all, I am having an annoying issue. Whenever I use BPLIST on my unix machine to get a list of backups on a windows client I am getting the 227 error. I have tried setting the t parameter to 13 (and 9), I have also tried the -unix_files and -n...

Setup Exclude List file on Windows Client

Good day people,I know the exclude lists for Windows can be set up at Host Properties / Clients / Windows Client / Exclude Lists. But it will be a hard work if there are lots of NetBackup Client, such as more than 600 NetBackup Clients. Anybody knows...

Error Staging ( 205,202 and 58 )

Hello, When I implement many jobs for Staging using Netbackup 5,1 it presents many errors related to bpbrm, followed of errors 58,202.... already had this problem?

NetBackup Clustered Master Server

I have heard it is possible to setup clustering for the master server. Is this possible with Linux, or only Solaris? Does it require 6.0? Has anyone setup any type of clustering with a master server in any type of backup environment? Is there clu...

Cleaning tapes

Hey,Can I exchange the cleaning tapes by just putting the old cleaning labels on new tapes...will Netbackup/robot see them as new tapes and reset the cleaning count automatically, or do I have to do anything else?Best regardsJessica

Backup exit notify

Hi. I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I want to use backup_exit_notify.cmd to only notify me of jobs other than 0, 1, or 150 in status. I'm on a Windows 2000 server and don't use BLAT. I went to...