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Marianne by Level 6
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Would this DR plan work..

We are preparing for a DR test next week. Our current set-up consists of a Master/Media Server, additional Media server, STK Library & 4 clients.At the DR site we are going to run the system using a standalone system as follows:1x Master/Media Server...

NIS required?

Does NIS have to be set up on a master server in order for NetBackup to work correctly? I ask because when I ran the following command:bpclntcmd -selfI got the following message:yp_get_default_domain failed: (6) internal NIS server or client errorNI...

Setting up Catalog Backups Paths.

When setting up the catalog backup it mentions that all "media" servers should include the following path "C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\database" why doesn't it pick up the media servers automatically anyway! So should I also include the below for...

DB Consistency Check - To ensure all is good.

Anyone know of any commands/ways to check the Databases between the Media and the Master/Media to ensure no corruption and the link between them is sound. Were going into Production soon and I wanted to check all was GOOD before going to this phase. ...

Dual Backing up BKexec / Netbackups

I've been asked to run a dual backup configuration using the existing backup infrastructure BKExec and the new Netbackup system in tandeem for a week. Paranoia I guess. Will the archive bits be overwritten by each backup system. Therefore resulting i...

Resolved! scan devices at Solaris server

to scan devices using Solaris server, without booting the system, I use devfsadm -C.but then Veritas can not recognize any tape drive, only the file system and I need to boot the server.I can I force verits to recognize tape drives without booting th...

Backup Log Availability

What happens if the subdirectories under \log are not created? Does that mean there will be no logging at all anywhere of the backups that occurred?IF there is a backup log generated, can I parse out the information for what directories and/or files ...

What is on unknown tapes?

I was told there are some 4000 tapes and they don't know what's on them. I don't know what version they are on, but there is a good chance they used NetBackup.Is there a Log File or Database that says what directories and/or files were back up to wh...

failed sending request to vmd (69)

I recently installed NetBackupBusinesServer 4.5 on our Unix server running HP-UX 11.11. Originally I attempted to use jnbSA, the Java Administration Console, to configure it, but it did not work as expected - none of the nodes in the tree were avail...

Client refuses connection

Hi All,We have a couple of W2K3 clients which will refuse connection on port xyz. Other W2K3 clients (which were installed the same way) will accept the connections, e.g. when you browse for which disks/directories to include/exclude.All the clients ...

import catalog media

Is there a procedure for import a catolog media?I have create a new media catalog in my master server (GUI mode) and I would import this media in another master server.thank's Jonh

Mark_M by Level 4
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missing restore history

I'm having a problem of seeing restore history on backup restore & archive windows.the list for 2 weeks went missing suddenly.this happened only on one server, (which is 1 of 3 servers in one backup policy, and the 2 other servers has the history li...

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restoring from each tape

We have a backup that is spanned over three DLT's. For testing purposes, I would like to make sure that I do a restore from each of the three tapes. How do I know what files are on what tape?Thank you.

Data size in the tape media

Hi All, I have a LTO 2 tape. When I do a bpmedialist -m media_id. The report show the tape is FULL. However, the data size in the tape is only 138444288KB. This is much lower then what I expected (LTO2 200/400GB). Anyone know what does the capa...

Another "Expired Media" question

Heya's,Apologies for the newbie question, but through trial and error we've had this working ok for a while, and its just fallen over again. We're using Veritas Netbackup DataCentre 4.5FP_3GA, and have a master and 4 media servers running to an LTO s...

Scheduler for NBU Disk Stagging

To get disk backup/restore benefits and save library slots, disk schedule must be planned. But the existing disk staging NBU 5.1 can not be scheduled and even the watermark in Ver 6 would not satisfied customers request.Q1 - Do you know of tested sc...

0 File Backup after sucessfull backup job run in NB 5.0

We are facing problem when we created a policy for anew server, this client is a Linux 2.4 server and thefolders we are trying to backup are on NAS device.The policy, Client, backup locations created ok, butwhen tried the backup its not taking backup...

What Directives to use??

Hi all, I'm new to NetBackup. I inherited a two Netbackup 5.1 systems. Each is backing up 18 Windows 2K boxes and 2 Sun Boxes and an Oracle database. The person who set up the policies had all 20 systems being backed up using all directives available...

nothings gone to plan its got worse

I removed everything, the drives the robot etc from media manager now I can't connect to the robot and do an inventory, yet if you use the wizard to do a search it finds the drives and configures them as standalone which is no good.Get the following ...

StorageTek Robot should it be TLD or ACS?

Whats the difference? Its currently configured with ACS. StorageTek L180. Also someones configured the ACSLS host area in the change robot section as "ctl" shouldn't this be the master or media server name?Thanks.