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Marianne by Level 6
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Moving STK L700e from one ACSLS server to another

Hi,I've been tasked with moving an STK L700e library from one ACSLS (v6.1) host to another ACSLS (v7.1) host. We are running Netbackup Datacenter 4.5fp8 on Solaris. What are the configuration changes that are needed to get Netbackup to recognize the...

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NetBackup AllLogEntires

I found a sympatic shareware program to analyze the AllLogEntries files. This tool generates a statistic with all the backups, restores, duplication etc that can be found in the in the log file. A graphical statistic shows the time usage of each driv...

bpgp

Has anyone discovered how to use bpgp on a UNIX master server to retrieve a file from a Windows media server?bpgp from W2K /C/Program Files/VERITAS/NetBackup/Logs/Bptm/040105.log /tmp/gotitI've tried single/double quotes, backslashes, changing "Prog...

Stumpr2 by Level 6
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Best practices for DR, keeping catalog backup offsite

I've set up NetBackup 5.1 to automatically do a catalog backup whenever a backup session completes. During this setup, I've dedicated two specific media and the catalog backups alternate between these two.I'd like to remove one tape at least once a m...

Renaming client to client.subdomain.domain.com

I'm doing a fairly new implementation of NetBackup. Initially, I added the first batch of clients with their short name "client". The backup server was also named "backuphost".The clients' and backup server's FQDN was hostname.subdomain.domain.comAft...

Tape usage

Hi,does anyone implemented a script that return an output with the % of usage of every single tape?I think that every tape it's used maybe at 70% (i'm talking about LTO2 or the IBM 3592)Best RegardsMarco

Linux RH 3.0 recognize only 7 tape drives

I have Linux RedHad 3.0 (update 4), with Emulex HBA.my machine connected to P3000 Library.the problem is that the machine recognize only 7 tape drives, (hence veritas can recognize only 7 tape drives).cat /proc/scsi/scsi show only 7 tape drives, but ...

Error 84

Hi all,OS : Solaris 8NetBackup 4.5FP_6: 2003.08.01Recently, we're getting a lot of error 84s during our daily backup. From " bperror" we manage to narrow down to :drive index 4, I/O errorThen NBU will DOWN'ed the drive 4We've tried replacing the tap...

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"unusable" LTO1 fiber drives

Good day,let me start by describing our environment.we have one Master/Media Server and 6 Media Servers, we backup 200+ servers/NT boxes nightly. We use an L700 Library with 20 fibre LTO1 drives. This is a shared storage environment.Here is my prob...

Configuration White Paper??

We will be installing a new NetBackup configuration - new master, media server, ATL, etc. Is there a white paper or guide that gives recommended hardware/software configurations?Thanks.

NBU 5.1 Oracle agent

On a fresh installation of NBU 5.1 (one HP-UX 11i server) with disk backup only I've installed Oracle DB agent but didn't managet to configure it. The NetBackup server works fine with file backups and restores. I've done installation according "NetBa...

Netbackup Certifications - Online vs. Class

So my company wants to get me certified. So I dug around and saw a class in Dallas, the 5 day course which I would prefer cause well, online courses to me are not as effective as having a real live instructor to answer questions and having the abilit...

Back across Firewall

I hv the master server & some server in the internal network & the backup of these servers are working fine. I also have 2 servers in Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The connectivity between these 2 networks is through a hardware Firewall (Nortel Alteon 56...

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Vault GUI...

I have just started playing with Vault. It seems that there are features available in the text based menu (vltopmenu) that are non-exisistent in the Netbackup GUI, moving media to containers etc). Is this correct? Is there any plans to create a gu...

Reformatting tapes / Changing retention levels on tapes

I have a question, I have been using Netbackup to backup a few servers in the office, but when I first set up the policy, I set the data retention to 6 months. If I had a glut of backup tapes to take advantage of this it would have been fine, but un...

Netbackup Reporting

Hi,we have netbackup5.1 on solaris /windows severs..am looking for a reporting tool which can give me details of jobs info, scheduled, running, cancelled, errors , drive statistics, into a text file or xl file or pdf..are there any better tools which...

Remote installation of server software

I am trying to remotely install additional NBU media server from the server with previously installed master server. But when I run installation program it's looks like there is no possibility to do remote installation from machine with previously lo...

Policy & Pool Advice?

I am driving myself absolutely crazy here. I think I've made things overcomplicated in my own head, so I'm hoping someone can come along and provide me with some pointers, suggested reading, examples, or a good old fashioned smack upside the head so ...

oprd process?

Has anyone documentations, links oder idea about this process?/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/oprd -sockfd 5 -verboseThanks in advanceB.regardsjerome m.