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Netbackup and CA PAM access
Hello Forum Folks,Currrently we have NBU 7.6.0.3 installed on a Linux RedHat 2.6 Master and Media servers. The administrators and tech who complete restores access the Java GUI using their Unix accounts with the /usr/openv/java/auth.conf looking simi...
Query regarding retention and SLP
Hello,I have configured a filesystem policy with type full backup. Created an SLP and attached it to the backup type as below,Full backup - "Backup/Fixed/2 Weeks/Data Domain" and "Duplication/Tape/60 days"My query is the following,Does SLP stores the...
Can we import NetBackup 6.5.6 tapes into NBU 7.6
Guys, We are planning to upgrade to NetBackup 7.6 from 6.5.6. Can we able to import NetBackup 6.5.6 tapes into NetBackup 7.6?Is there any tech note or data sheet in this regard showing what tapes can be imported to which next higher versions of NetBa...
CLI: Exchange Granular Restore Syntax for Command Line
I'm using NBU 8 appliances.I'm using Exchange GRT, granular backups.I can granularly restore email items from the GUI, so I know it works.I want to restore in-place, but not replace existing emails.I can use both a start date and end date; but if pos...
Resolved! Backup backup server 2016 Core with VMs
Hi,I'm creating new Hyper-V policy for our Server 2016 Core host with a automatically query base VM backup but it keep failing with error when i run the query.Please see the policy details.
File setuid and setgid not persistent through restoration
The original/backed up file has a persmission of 6774-rwsrwsr--the restored file ends up with permission 0774-rwxrwxr-- Is there a way to make setuid and setgid persistent?Thank you
Installing Linux NBU agent
Hello All - I would need your advice in indentfying the NBU client package.I am trying to install a NBU client agent 773 in Suse linux mahcine.In the suse Linux package , agter explring into multiple sub-folder as shown below i see the installables.N...
Standalone to cluster setup migration - DB & files migration for Netbackup
Hello , we are planning to change the setup to have a cluster setup instead . currently the DB and images located under C:/ we need to move them to the SAN volume under D:/ . Checked online KBs but the mentioned workaround on 000007808 isn’t applicab...
Resolved! Netbackup 7.7 and Isilon
I am looking for documentation on backing up Isilon with Netbackup 7.7
Robot library is not defined in EMM
I have problem on the NBU , after replace the autoloader an run the device wizard to reconigse the new library with new firmware version, then I run the test backup, it works. After schedule the backup , all job failed in error 96 or 800 on the poli...
How can I prevent the first two tapes from writes?
I have NetBackup 7.7.3. We are running SLP duplication weekly. Due to long leave i have inserted two weeks tape. We have 4 tapes currently inserted in two volume pools. 2 tapes are in weekly-BKP volume pool. After 15 Oct I will move other two tapes i...
what happened to my SLP
this started with my pending backup images suddenly disappearing after 3 days of being in the queue. please note that they haven't been processed yet for duplication. why? because there is this undocumented "feature" that deletes backup images after ...
Netbackup Catalog Archive
HI All,We have archived Old Catalog to tape, and now we lost the tape. We have a request from client to restore some old data unfortunately we lost cartarc tape.My doubt is there any way that we can restore the archived data by importing those specif...
Poor performance on NFS backup.
Master server (nbu1):Gen9 HP, 2x 10G ethernet, 2x 8GB HBA.Media server (nbu2)Gen9 HP, 2x 10G ethernet, 2x 8GB hbaStorage server:R730, 256GB RAM, 2x 10GB ethernet, only client reading data (or writing to is netbackup.Doing iperf tests, I can get 9Gbit...
Netbackup 7.7 and Windows 2003 Compatibility
Moved to new post from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Netbackup-7-7-and-Windows-2003-Support/m-p/754626It seems from your responses that nobody really knows the answer (to Relboy's question either). It's better just to say those three little w...
Survey Participants Needed: Long Term Retention Storage Appliance
The purpose of this survey is to gather feedback on future appliance concepts. We'll be asking questions about storage use cases for long term retention. SURVEY LINKWe look forward to your participation and feedback on this topic!
SLP duplication failing with error 12
NBU 7.7.3so i have this several SLP in queue for days now (2nd tape drive went south), and today i find those were in error 12. upon checking the details i get this error:10/11/2017 13:18:11 - Error bpduplicate (pid=4241) cannot open /usr/openv/var/g...
Resolved! network read failed(42)
Hello,I'm currently experieincing problems trying to backup a physical Windows 2008 server (all local drives and system state) using Netbackup 7.6, the job backs up a random amount (usually about 8 -10 gb or so) then errors with the following.11/10/2...
VSS to WMI policy and differential backups same size as full
Hello,I am using NBU version 8 on a Windows platform and recently I switched a couple clients from using VSS Hyper-V policy to WMI Hyper-V policy as a test an what I am finding is that now the differential backups are of similar backup size as the fu...
How to extract only backup id's of a job to a file
Hi,We are using same policies (9) for a couple of backup's(say x,y,z). Now my requirement is to extend the retention of the 'x' backup without affecting y & z.Using 'bpexpdate -recalculate -policy' will affect our y & z jobs as well. However, i know ...
