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Auto Eject after Job Finishes
I am looking at auto-ejecting our full backups once complete to store in another location. We do not use 3rd parties for storage of media, so vault looks to be overkill.In digging through the forums, I ran across this thread: Thread: How to eject a ...
NBU 6 Installation Guide - Major Upgrade Documenation Typo?
In the NBU 6 Installation Guide, on page 32 is instructs as one of the steps to performing an upgrade to run the command:install_path\Volmgr\bin\vmoprcmd -deactivate_host -h device_hostThe above command syntax is invalid as the "deactivate_host" swit...
multiple copies - file count unequal
I've begun experimenting with the Multiple Copies option in the Schedules in my NB5.1mp3 environment as an alternative to Vaulting. I write two copies of a job to two different tapes in two different Volume Pools. The Activity Monitor show the pair...
nbu 6.0 / rhel4 / oracle10.2 - rman error
Hello,We're running RedHat ES4, NBU 6.0 MP1, Oracle 10.2.When attempting RMAN backups, we are getting the following errors in the rman logs:22:19:07.011 <2> bprd_connect: vnet_check_vxss_client_magic(server83) failed: 3222:19:07.011 <2> bprd_get_fe...
BPCOVERAGE Help
I am trying to run bpcoverage and must be doing something wrong. I am a Windows shop. 5.1 MP4. My syntax is bpcoverage -c clientname -v -coverage >c:\cover.txtI am getting a empty text file. I seem to recall running it this way in years past. Wha...
upgrade to 5.5 or 5.6
We are putting in about 10 - 20 new servers in order to support moving from IBM platform to Oracle. The system administators and dba has informed us, they are installing Solaris 10. We are currently running version 5.0. We are debating if we shoul...
multiple media servers and one library
We are running one master server, one media server(unix) and one library (L700 - storagtech) We are looking into adding another media server (unix) within the next few months. Can both media servers use the same library and the drives? If so, how...
Windows Event Viewer Logging Option
Greetings. Do you know if the install_path\NetBackup\db\config\eventlog works in NBU5.1 MP4? I have not used it since the 4.5 days. I am unsure if it's a valid configuration on the 5.1 platform. I am needing more granularity on my event log write...
how to licence Netbackup for Oracle RAC
Hi all,I have two servers: IBM p5 510 with AIX 5.3 64bits, Oracle RAC is running on both servers. I would like to know how many licenses I need for this configuration. 2 Unix Clients and 2 Oracle for Unix? is that correct? is it possible to backup th...
cleaning error msg with status 5
Jan 4 18:05:17 cenbs avrd: Unable to retrieve drive's cleaning media type. status = 5I have such errors in the dmesg of my box.Although I have successfully cleaned all the tape drives in the libaray.Thanks,atif
make_scsi_dev hangs
hii have a strange problem,make_scsi_dev just hangs wenn it is executed. It does nothing and does not give back to the calling script so the complette init startup hangs. I am able to set the needed symlinks manualy and i replaced the the Var with th...
Disk staging schedule behaviour
Hi All,Got a question about the Disk Staging Schedule. I've set it up for our Disk Staging STU with the final destination to an LTO library with one LTO2 drive. I've done the setup through the GUI.What I see is that mostly three jobs get started and ...
Expiring media from an old Media Server
We have media that is still assigned in a volume pool from a previous Media Server. Does anyone have any ideas on how to de-assign them so we can delete the media?
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.
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...
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