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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.

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Windows 2003

Hi, Is the "Shadow Copy Components:\ directive" in NB's Window 2003 OS the same as "System State" in WIndow2000 ?WP

catalog backup fails with error 164

Hello, tpconfig -d shows drives up- vmdoprcmd shows a PEND-TLD for drives 2 and 3. I am running NB 5.1 MP2 unix master w/ windows/unix media servers (shared storage) for a ML6000 library robot control is master server. I am very new to NB and I under...

Linux Oracle RMAN network tape backup

Is there a Veritas product that one can deploy on one OR more Linux servers running Oracle 9 & 10 databases (and IAS) with SAN storage, which, using RMAN (configured either at the command line or thru OEM), one can backup to a networked backup tape d...

Backup Exec Reader

Hi, Has anybody successfully imported backup exec (8.5) images into netbackup (5.1 MP2).I have a stand-alone DLT drive to do the import but am getting the following error when running vmphyinv."Unknown or corrupt media detected in the drive"Tape a...

Media unavailable, but it is in the scratch pool

Hi All,We're running NB 5.1MP3 and on most of our tapes we're getting a message like:media id 000891 is unavailable (in a DOWN drive, misplaced, or not available for another reason), attempting retry with different media idThis happens when a duplica...

Global Database entries

Does anyone know how to remove entries such as below from the globDB on NetBackup 4.5. Have tried everything but cannot get rid of them. Do not want to re-create the globDB due to the large number of servers connected to the master server. Just want ...

Win 2003 x64 Server support

Which NetBackup release will support Windows 2003 x64 edition (64-bit) for both Client + Server?When will this be available?Thanks,Andre.

Media access port is unavailable

Media access port is unavailable (251) while i am ejecting from NBU server it is throughing this error what does mean it.(i am using ACSLS software and STK 180L)

Netbackup 4.5 client gives connection time out

Hi all,In our configuration we try to add linux and Windows2000 server clients. Starting the backup or retrieving the host properties from the master server says the network connection times out, as well as in the defined policies for the client. Wha...

SDLT compression types

Hi,How does NetBackup identify the different SDLT Compressions, including:SDLTSDLT1SDLT2?Thanks.AmbicaMessage was edited by: Ambica S

BMR - No boot block error at end of BMR restore

I have configured BMR to restore a host which does have Live Upgrade enabled and at the end of the restore I get the following error message...No boot block install target device is specified Type exit to exit shell and reboot host I am not sure what...

SSO Scan Host

How do I force a server to be the scan host for SSO drives? A consultant recommended we put "SSO_SCAN_HOST = 0" in vm.conf on all non-host servers but I can't find any hits in the knowledge base on SSO_SCAN_HOST.

ALL_SAN_DRIVE

hi all,Do we anything called all_san_drive backup selection of a policy.I know of all_local_drive.I have 6 window media server and many clients connected through SAN. I want to create a policy to backup all SAN DRIVES and exlude the c:\ drive.How do ...

Question regarding deassigning the old volume

HiI want to deassign two volumes and give it a new volume name and assign each volume to seperate pool. I used the vmquery -deassign mediaid volpool status command. I deleted the volume using the vmdelete command. I created a new volume group, volume...

Tape Eject Script

We just recently upgraded to NBU 5.1 from 4.5 after the upgrade we noticed that our eject script that was working is no longer working properly. It will eject 4 tapes and then quit. In the past we were able to kick it off manually but now were forc...

'HOW MANY MICROSOFT SQL SERVER STRIPES'?

I'am Trying to restore a database backup (make in enviroment production, master server with robotic library and 2 drivers) to restore-test production (master server without robotic library and 1 only drivers).In 'HOW MANY MICROSOFT SQL SERVER STRIPES...

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Documentation - Upgrade to NetBackup 5.1

Hi, Sorry for the common question, it has been long time that I am looking for info about the upgrade process to 5.1 ( I currently have 4.5).I search this forum and Google – with no success.Even basic knowledgebase will help me; just now I have no w...

Netbackup Licensing

running NB 5.1 with SAP agent on sun environment, planning to migrate to AIX - question thus is can i use the same license key or do we need to apply for a new one

bpexpdate question, did it take?

I had a tape I wanted to change the retention level. I have many butthis is my first attempt. Here is the info about the image from bpmedialistmedia id = 001314, allocated 08/20/2005 00:10, retention level = 9File number 1 Backup id = hostname_11245...