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Backing up through a firewall

I have 8 servers that I back up through a Firewall on 2 seperate subnets. We are using IPSEC for the servers to Authenticate through the Firewall. The problem I am having is that the backup/restores speeds are extremely erratic, one time I will get ...

windows 2000 server sp2 and veritas netbackup 6

Halloi have changed my backup system to veritas 6.i have a problem that i have a lot of windows 2000 server with sp2. and on these server the veritas 6 software does not funktion ok. with windows 2000 sp4 it works.have you any idea how i can get the ...

Flashbackup/Snapshotting

hellowere currently testing netbackup 6 in the lab, attempting to create some flashbackup snapshots, cannot get it working though, each time i try and configure the policy, receive the following error message'Snapshot could not be created with auto m...

Catalog Backup failed on NB6

Hi,ive a NB6 Server running on Windows 2003 Server. I backup about 10 Servers to Disk, then duplication to a DELL LTO2 Library.Generally works fine. But few days ago the Backup of the Netbackup Catalog failed. Its configured to backup to disk.13.02.2...

Reuse of Tapes

Hi,I have only one pool which is used for multiple backups and if a certian tape is FULL with some backup sessions with the expiry in this week and some with the expiry after an year. But if the tape once FULL it remain full and the sessions remain t...

disk staging

is it possible to commit to tape as soon as disk staging has been completed? or can it only be scheduled to run at a particular time?Netbackup 6, on Windows2k3

NBU6 with VSP

Hi, I got one client machine win2k with NBU 6. When I do incremental backup with VSP, always got the following error:ERR - Snapshot Error while enumerating:Volume{fae68de6-4592-4765-b76f-240332974ca6}\Accident\2/2/2006 8:15:07 AM - Critical bpbrm(p...

Rman Restore failed.....I am stucked :-(

One of our rman restore failed with the following media I/O error. We tried the same restore 3 times but all time we have the same error and our restore failed. The rman and the /var/adm/messages are here. Kindly look into it on periority basis. This...

ACS w/ SAN media server

I'm having a problem with a new SAN media server and ACS library with mixed media install. When I try a backup it selects the correct media type but the job fails with code 96 after looking at all off the media of that type. Another issue I'm having ...

Windows 2003 tape driver

I'd like to know which tape drive driver for windows 2003 are most installations using and why. I'd like to also know why when a drive is replaced and server rebooted, the server doesn't appear to know which driver to use. Can this behavior be cont...

windows 2003 media server hangs on boot up.

We are having a problem on our windows 2003 media servers. When a tape drive goes down, the server has to be rebooted and when the server comes back up, the tape drive has to be disconnected from the SAN or it's port disabled in order to get the serv...

Shadow Copy Drive

Can you backup the Microsoft Shadow Copy Drive and get a restore from there? Here is what I have on our environment. Everything is on SAN the actual data is on for instance drive D: and the whole D:\Data is shadow copies to Drive F:\ (SATA Drive in S...

BMR Boot Servers

In my prep to migrate our Backup Environment from NBU 5.1 to NBU 6.0, I'm working on BMR for both Windows and Linux. NB - I've not taken the BMR class as of yet.The "NetBackup Bare Metal Restore System Administrator's Guide" says the following:"Linu...

Shadow Copy Components with NB5.1

I have a number of servers that are running Windows 2003 SP1, the backups of the Shadow Copy Components (defined as System_State in the policy) hang and then eventually fail with a timeout error 41. The other drives being backed up on the servers wor...

Client and Master

I have a client that was pointing to a Master Server in different domain now I want that client to point to a new master server. All I did is changed the client property with the new master server name and added this client in new Master server clien...

Failed SAN media server

We had a SAN media server die and had to reload it. My catalog backups are offsite and I'm curious as to what the disadvantage is to not recovering the media servers db?If I do decide to recover it, do I need to manually load a tape into the library...

Large SSO environment fails to add 65th server

All,We have a large shared environment currently with 64media servers. When we attempt to add the 65th mediaserver into the san configuration, we notice that previously configured media servers startto lose drives. When we do an sgscan, that is whe...

Converting Backup to Archive

We have an application that executes a backup of a set of files, then after processing the results, changes the backup to an archive so that it doesn't show up in normal backup searches. This is done by simple massaging of the image files (renaming ...