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Not able to Duplicate
Hi Teami am new to this... here is my problemwhen i do a search for Images under reports i get the images details which are on that particular tape but when i try to do duplicate by clicking on catalogue and selecting duplicate action and select the ...
Resolved! how to create .f files via nbu command ?
Dear all,Is there any command that could create a backup content data (.f files) in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/localhost/XXX/xxx.f ?I need get .f files but I don't want to run a really backup job via NBU GUI.So how to create .f files via nbu comm...
Resolved! Can a Media Server be promoted to Master Server?
I would like to know if a Media Server can be promoted to be a Master Server, provided the case that the master server is down.Please advise and/or provide documentation in reference. Thank you in advance.
info about HTM installation logs
Hi all,In my experience happened that a client installation on server windows can fail by different reasons, when I try to indagate it in htm installation log often I can't use the htm interaction, I can't filter by Error or explde a particular line ...
Policy VmWare
Hi, i've a vm who fail always backup. On this lun other vm run backup well.Only difference between this vm is on vm didn' work backup is set memory reservation. When netbackup run on this machine policy fail and machine need disk consolidation.The pr...
Resolved! Netbackup Air clients configuraction
Hi, I hope someone can help me.Currently we have one Netbackup domain, 1 master server, 2 media servers. We are planning to implement AIR for DR and replicate everything to our secondary data center, to another domain with same configuration (1 maste...
configure blat for mail alert in netbackup
Hi,We have netbackup server 7.7.3. I need to configure email alert from netbackup server. for this i install blat in netbackup server as given in https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH74038 and https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/articl...
Impact of DataDomain Collection Replication on NetBackup (migrate data to new DD)
At one of our customers we need to migrate data from the aging DataDomain DD890 systems to new DD9300 models. One suggestion is to use the Collection Replication method to duplicate the existing DD890 data to the DD9300.Situation: NetBackup 8.0, DDbo...
Netbackup Upgrade
Hi ,I am planning for Netbcakup upgrade from 7.0 to 7.7.3We are using Data Domain configured as VTL as target storage.Also using DD boost on media server level.How to upgrade Media servers from 7.0 to 7.5 or 7.7 and do we need to do any configuriatio...
How to Back up Linux VMs on Hyper-V
Backing up VMs through Hyper-V is using either VSS or WMI, and neither is working for Linux VMs.So, it seems to turn out there is no way to back up Linux VMs over Hyper-V.However, on the NetBackup Hyper-V backup document, it talks about backing up Li...
info about VxMS
Hi all,I hope to post in the right place, I use VxMS log to troubleshooting some hyper-v jobs error and I would like to know someting more about the VxMS.I looked for documentation but I cant find nothing, only very old Symantec site that I cant open...
Resolved! Re: robtest commands mode sense failing
Hi Darren,I hope you are having a good day. I needed some help regarding the "mode_sense failed" error. Right now none of backups are working and status of drives in NBU gui is AVR where it should be TLD. Is there any technote availabel for this part...
problem de restore file server
Hello everyone,I have problem when restoring files from my file server to another destination server, it constantly shows me the error when trying to restore.I appreciate your help.
Best pratice to backup a NetBackup catalog
Hi Please advise is ti good if we can keep multilple copies of catalog backup.1.One is on basicdisk attached to Master server.2.Appliance Adv_disk acting as media server
Resolved! Catalog backup partially successful. error staging BMRDB backup
Catalog backup partially successful. error staging BMRDB backup.We are not using BMR in our environment. But BMRDB entry is available in \veritas\netbackupdb\conf\databases.confTried to start BMRDB as per below technote. But it's failed to start.htt...
netbackup 5.1 throughput issues/problems
I have a netbackup 5.1 solution running on hpux 11iAs you can see, its a very old solution that at some stage, the applications will be migrated but we are stuck with it for the foreseeable and unable to upgradeWe have an L180 ATL SCSI attached tape ...
Unable to restore catalog
Team,I am testing catalog recovery and it is failing with errors:-16:43:08.768 [9197] <4> dsmlibp_connect_dsm: Connecting to NBDSMFSM using orb 600000000020d60016:43:12.814 [9197] <32> dsmlibp_connect_dsm: CORBA exception: system exception, ID 'IDL:o...
Resolved! VM Backups over Transport Type = SAN is slow,better Transport Type = nbd
Hi guys please help me whether any problem from my configuration why backups vm with transport SAN is slow better transport ndb this the detail status backup :Over SAN May 12, 2017 5:00:53 PM - Info nbjm (pid=10184) starting backup job (jobid=25320)...
Catalog Backup partially sucessful
Team,I am getting following error while backing up the Catalog :05/12/2017 16:00:18 - Info bpdbm (pid=2620) staging relational database files for catalog backup05/12/2017 16:00:18 - Info bpdbm (pid=2620) staging NBAZDB backup to C:\Program Files\Veri...
Backup to Disk To Tape
Hi, we are running NetBackup 7.7.3. We are currently backing up specific servers to disk, so that the backup is faster, and then sending it to tape. But we are getting errors from time to time where we do not have enough space available on the disk. ...
