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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 ...
Deduplication pool catalog backup for appliace 5230
Good day Please advise is it necessary to do "Deduplication pool catalog backup" appliance where its connected as media server to windows master server.Deduplication pool catalog backup - must not be on same appliance , can we use tape library or ano...
the backup failed to back up the requested files (6)
Hi Team,My SQL Backup getting failed with error code : the backup failed to back up the requested files (6), some child backup getting success but some getting failed with above error.Master Server Name:- pbad-netbackup.pbad.sbg.com.saNetbackup Versi...
Resolved! Is it possible: NetBackup master and media server has 2 connection (not routable to each other)
Hi All,Is it the below configuration possible?Master server has network 10.44 we (call it production network) and 10.59 (the last one we call it a backup network)The media server has 10.44 and 10.59 Some NetBackup clients only using 10.59, some NetBa...
LTO MEDIA FREEZING FREQUENTLY WHILE WRITING BACKUP
LTO Medias getiing freeze, we have done media cleaning and We have also reset the tape library, but still facing this issue.
Is there any way to limit the Netbackup backup jobs in a certain time Window?
Hi guys,We have 5*LTO7 tape drives reserved for an important application backups during 23:00 to 10:00. I am just wondering if there is any way we can use these resources on the open windows during 10:00am to 23:00pm for other backups. Before 23:00, ...
Resolved! Diskpool showing status as unknown
Hi,master Server: Windows 2012 R2Media server: Windows 2008 R2Netbackup: 8 Enterprise2 of our disk pool showing as down on master server.When I try to UP the disk pool from CMD or Admin consol I get this errorCould not up the following Disk Pool DEDU...
Resolved! automation of host adds/removes in NBU policies
Wondering if other NBU shops have successfully tackled the issue of how to automate the addition/removal of hosts to/from NBU policies (Windows, Linux, NDMP, etc.) I can come up with numerous examples using bpplclient, but if someone has integrated ...
NBU Exchange GRT restore to alternate folder
Need help working on a restore; ticket open to support but hoping to get some help in the meantime...I have read the Exchange Admin Guide, namely around p. 179, regarding restoring to alternate location. Also have read various pages online, etc. Gett...
Resolved! User initiated jobs complete per NBU Master but client BAR still shows job as 'in progress
I have run into an odd situation on one of my NetBackup 7.5.0.7 client servers. Whenever a User initiated backup from the client, whether by the BAR tool or a PowerShell script, it launches successfully and according to the Veritas NBU Master Server...
Very slow VMware Backup with VM with 2+TB vmdks
Hello everyone,Has anyone come across a tremedously slow vmware backup when a VM has 2+TB vmdks attached? I am having this issue with two VMs. The backups are going through the SAN in a NetBackup 7230 3.0 version. Another info, sometimes the backups ...
