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Restore VM from last full up to date
Hi everyone, i am restoring a vm. On the restore selection i have a full date 7 days ago and 6 incremental up to today. If a want to restore a full backup of tha vm up to the last incremental what should i select ? i ask the question because a sel...
Resolved! Replace a drive
Hello Geeks,I have an env running with 7.7.X and i would be replacing a drive in it.I am refering to this below article to replace the drive as do not want to run the device wizard post replacement.https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH34...
Resolved! Exclude one client from backup policy
Hello,I have a policy with few clients getting backed up. I want to exclude backup for one client for few days. How do you exclude one client from backup policy.Thanks and appreciate your help.Hyder
rman restore issue
Hi,we are having a problem to restore data using rman. First we tried to restore the backup from one server to another but it failed. Then we tried to restore on the same server, but failed also. I guess it is a problem with name resolution but DNS w...
Resolved! Net Backup License
I am thinking of using NBU in my environment. I am good with everything. The only question I have I will be backing up to a NAS device. It DOES NOT support NDMP protocol.In this case I dont think I need any special license for backing up to NAS devic...
Netbackup Encryption using KMS
How to check KMS is enabled or not in my master server ?? I got below error ./nbkmsutil -listkgsFailed to fetch Key Group detailsEXIT error: cannot connect on socketEXIT status = 25
Can NBU and BEX work together
All,We have a BEX master server and a NBU master server on same site. We have to take one folders backup which is on BEX through NBU and for this i have to install NBU client agent on this BEX server. Now my question is can these 2 paly together? Wud...
Upgrading Netbackup from 7.0 (Windows 2003) to 7.7 (Windows 2008)
Hi,I am planning for a upgrade from Netbackup 7.0 (Windows 2003) to 7.7 (Windows 2008 or Windows 2012).All media Servers and Clients are also running on Netbackup 7.0 Please let me know the procedure for upgradation and below queries.I am aware of sa...
Resolved! Netbackup license features
Hello, i need help understanding the following netbackup license:Product: NetBackup Enterprise Server Feature: Replication Director (Active) Feature: SAN Client (Active) Feature: PureDisk MS Exchange Agent (Active) Feature...
Resolved! how to configure a SAN client?
NBU 7.7.3on step 1a of this TN i tried it on my master/media server and gave me the error:kernel is unknown or not supported, exiting.do i need to recompile the kernel or is there a certain list of linux kernels this SAN configuration supports?
working with SAN client question
NBU 7.7.3just found out we have a license for SAN Client. as per my readings on what this is about, seems it will provide further speed improvement to my database backups by allowing the clients (the SAN clients) to write directly to storage (by pass...
Resolved! Exchange 2013 Restore- Need help
Hello All,I need help for restoration of exchange 2013 database backup (one user mailbox) on recovery database created on the one of the mailbox server. I am not able to find the exact guide link on google.Master Server : Windows 2012NBu Version : 7....
Getting 191 error for duplication
Master server/Media and Client version : NBU 7.6.1.2Master/media and Client: LinuxI am getting same error for multiple duplication jobs every day with different drives. Checked media is not Frozen and its fine...Duplication job is getting success in...
Error Open Policies - Can not to remote service:[DARSManagment-NBMASTER] (Status 25)
When I try to open the policies though they open at the bottom send me the following error:******************************************************************************************************Backup Policy Managementcannot connect on socket (25)Can ...
snapshot error encountered (156) Hyper-V backups
Newly P2V machines are failing with netbackup error snapshot error encountered (156). Newly built VM's do not fail backups. Both are using the same policy.Master and media servers are Server 2012 R2 running NBU 8.0. Policy is Hyper-V policy with ...
Resolved! restore speed question
NBU 7.7.3two scenarios, when an RMAN restore was done directly from a disk partition, it took under 4 hours to restore a db of size around 1.6TB. unable to find out the transfer rate though.when an RMAN restore was done from NBU, the transfer rate is...
Backup of a single disk of a server seems to hang
I have a single windows server (out of 1500) that shows an odd behavior.I start the backup and have all 4 streams opening up (Shadow Copy Components:\, E:\, D:\ and C:\). All streams except the C:\ one complete. When i check that specific stream i se...
Why am i getting error 159? licensed use has been exceeded
Hello,Today, i am seeing an error which i face for the first time in Netbackup Activity Monitor. The error code is 159, which says :licensed use has been exceeded(159)and in Detailed status, it says :13/04/2017 05:17:31 - Error bpbrm(pid=5520) The li...
Resolved! Do We Need to Replace Old License Keys after NetBackup Major Version Upgrade?
I have just upgraded my NetBackup Appliance 5230 Version 2.7.3 (NetBackup 7.7.3) to Version 3.0 (NetBackup 8.0).My question is if we need to download new license keys from my Veritas customer portal, and add to my system?-- if yes, why does my system...
NetBackup unable to detect Tape drive
Hi guys,After replacing a failed tape drive, we are unable to detect the new tape drive.Env : Solaris10 Netbackup 7.5.0.4Please find some outputs bellow : bash-3.2# tpconfig -dId DriveName Type Residence Drive Path ...
