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Subscribe to NBU notifications

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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duplicate with yellow colour

While duplicating the tapes for off site i am getting this sort of errors. please advise....the backup complete with warning and is of yellow in colour in the activity monitor.Duplicate started Tue Jan 03 2006 20:39:22Activity monitor job id = 18237I...

Expired MPX Tapes

I have a lot of tapes that show a status of 'Expired MPX' or Full Expired MPX'. Why aren't they being marked as scratch? It is working for other tapes. How do I force them to scratch?Thanks.

Netbackup Server 6.0 Questions

Hello Experts,I am new to the Veritas Netbackup Server application and would appreciate any help in resolving (or explaining) the following problems:I have just installed Netbackup 6.0 on our Windows 2003 Server (current Windowspatches and Veritas M...

Job hangs

Whenever I'm backing up a server and something goes wrong with the server (server hangs, server reboot, etc) the backup job hangs (never finish) wich means that the tape remains in the drive until a human intervention cancel that job. This causes me ...

NetBackup software binary install in SAN shared disk

Hi,is it advisable to install the NetBackup software in the SAN shared disk ? or just store the catalog DB at SAN shared disk and leave the NetBackup software at the server/host ?what is the good practice ?Thank you.

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Migrating NB 5.1 to 6.0

I'm having a NB 5.1 and I would like to install NB 6.0 on a new server and then migrate my NB 5.1 Catalog to NB 6.0Is it possible? If so what is the procedure?Any help??RgdsShaji

*.nbu file extension

Does any component of Netbackup, possibly OTM or VSP, use files with a *.NBU file extension? I've found a 2GB file called C:\QQDNID72.NBU on a W2k client, and haven't identified what it is. NBU sounds like it might be Netbackup related, and it's su...

Robot Control: AVR

We just recently migrated to an ACS-based tape robot. For the first several months, the Control type in the Netbackup console always described each drive as "ACS". Recently, some drives have begun displaying "AVR" (Automatic Volume Recognition). Is t...

Backups not appending to tape used in previous job

Scenario:At 7PM, I do full exchange backups using our "Email" media pool with a retention of 6 weeks. The job is finished by 9PM and uses 1 tape and writes 280GB to the LTO2 media.At 1AM in the morning, I do incremental backups of KVS (backup type N...

creative license for "Keyword Phrase"

The normal verbage.......The Keyword Phrase policy attribute specifies a key phrase that NetBackup will associate with all backups or archives for this policy. Windows and UNIX clients can then optionally list or restore only the backups that have th...

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unable to lock media at offset

I have a problem with backup using standalone drive. Backup failed with status 84 - media write error. In bptm log I can find :21:48:50.216 <2> db_byid: search for media id A0000821:48:50.216 <2> db_byid: A00008 found at offset 221:48:50.232 <2> d...

Auth.conf

We have NB 5.1 MP4 running on a W2K server. We are trying to get informationon setting up the auth.conf file. We are unable to find the path "nbjava_install_path\java\". Is there a special version of Java that needs to be running?

.tmp file question

So, one of our servers ran out of space... Upon further inspection of that server, I saw a couple .TMP files:_vxfivspcachefile_2.tmp_vxfivspcachefile_1.tmpBoth files were a gig in size. I believe that the files were created during that systems' bac...

Windows Administration Console w/ firewall enabled.

Can anyone help me figure out why I can't connect to a master server using the NetBackup Administration Console from a Windows XP workstation with the Windows Firewall enabled? I've followed the intructions from document 273359, but was still unsucc...

Queues and Tracking logs in Windows 2003

Hi, has anyone ever backed up or tried to backup the EXCH 2003 Queues or Trackings logs online or as flatfiles using the agent or without the Exch agent. Is this possible?

Backup of Oracle-db fails

I have an oracle server with two databases, X and Y.I have created two scripts (with the template wizard), one for each database. When the policy for online backup of database X starts, everthing seems ok, and the job has the status of "successful"....

MS-Exchange intermittent 144 on W2K3 server

I am getting intermittent 144 errors on all of my W2K3 Enterprise SP1 exchange servers that are set up as NetBackup 5.1 MP2 media servers. Common to them all is the loginID and the exchange admins.The TS guide says to check the binaries and the comma...

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symantec forums + netbackup

Here is a link to yet another usergroup. The main focus is other symantec products but there is a forum for VERITAS NetBackup. Not anything there yet...http://www.boardfish.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=30

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Mail Box Restores

Hey guys,I hope you can answer this one.Is it possible to restore a mailbox for a user, if you don't do mailbox backups??? Currently, I'm not running mail box backups as they seem to take forever. However, I am backing up the Information Stores and...

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