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stuck in SIP credentials
NBU 7.7.3i'm following this link to setup my very first SIP https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.v102136402_v118374120i'm adding instances to a policy and have started going to Applications/Microsoft SQL Server/All Instances. i gave it a nam...
Making sense of checkpoint limitations NDMP / EMC /
We are having some issues with netbackup when backing up via NDMP on our EMC storage.The issue seems to revolve around creating snapsure snapshots (a Netbackup recommendation).The filesystems we are taking NDMP backups of are also covered by EMCs che...
finally on 7.7.3
NBU 7.7.3 at last! i was forced to bite the bullet as the post yesterday EOSL is this Wednesday. but i'm glad i did!view hierarchySIPAlways On for AGbut the last two can't be together still :(anyway, converting my SQL backups to SIP.note: you haven't...
Resolved! Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
If netbackup is using this policy to perform oracle database backup, what type of backup should I expect? From the GUI of the netbackup(NetBackup Management > Policies > "DB Policy" > "Backup Selections" tab) it shows "WHOLE_DATABASE". While on the "...
Migrate from Tapes to Cloud
Is there a recommended way to move backups from LTO tape to Cloud Storage (ie. S3)?
unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available(96)
Hi All,I have a problem Schedule cannot backups two days ago (28/1/17 - 29/1/17). I've checked setting schedule Full Daily attachments "Full Daily" and log error "log error". But I did not set schedule Full Yearly is running, schedule Yearly still wo...
Resolved! ImpMgrComm_AddOSTImageToImportQueue: addOSTFragmentsToImportQueue failed with status 1524
Netbackup 7.7.2, SLP Targeted AIR / StoreOnce CatalystHas anyone seen the following repetitive messages that are being seen in the bptm logsWould anyone know of any information relating to either of the following: ImpMgrComm_AddOSTImageToImportQueuea...
Resolved! why does SQL transaction log taking too long after enabling the backup policy?
NBU 7.6.0.3we did upgrade of SQL Server over the weekend and during that time i have to disable the backup policies for SQL. included in that backup policies are the policies for transaction logs that occurs every 15 minutes.when the upgrade of SQL s...
Netbackup Client Privileges
Hi Guys, I am looking for a relevant technote which mentions, client installation on windows client needs administrator privileges. For e.g. in order to restart netbackup services would require Admin privileges, in order to edit registry entry on ne...
what is Multiple_Lifecycle SLP?
only recently i noticed this. in my duplication jobs, there is this SLP named "Multiple_Lifecyle" yet i don't have that defined in my SLP policies. i noticed inside it where duplication jobs from different SQL servers.where does it come from?
Backup writing more size than actual file system size
Hi,I am wondering my file system total used space is 139GB and Status showing current written kilobytes are 937200000 that is more than 900GB. Is status showing wrongly? But this back up running 14 hours window still not completed.Below is the Job de...
How can i check the deduplication percentage of last full backup?
I run full backup one week ago and now I can not see it in activity monitor. I want to see what was the deduplication % of my last full backup. So how can i check it that what was the deduplication % of last full backup taken from the netbackup serve...
Policy Changes Alert
Hi Techiz, I am looking for a way to audit policy changes, I can get an opscenter alert whenever there is change in policy, However it lacks the userid which performed the change. is there a way we can achieve it? May be by reviewing Admin logs and ...
Status 129
*** Moved to new discussion from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Backup-failing-with-error-code-129-Very-often/m-p/562399 Dear Marrianne Please share how to enable logging level and something related to logs in Netbackup Thanks Regards Z...
Resolved! Failed to get status code information (2850)
I had to try restoring oracle db this is detailed status of restore01/26/2017 10:47:46 - begin Restore01/26/2017 10:47:46 - number of images required: 101/26/2017 10:47:46 - media needed: P025L601/26/2017 10:47:47 - restoring from image xldb1_1483837...
bpstart_notify
*** Moved to new discussion from https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Wait-for-bpstart-notify-bat-before-backup-job-starts/m-p/327571 How do I send a 'continue' message from the script ? I have tried following options but none of them seem to work. e...
Resolved! NetBackup Targeted AIR - OS support
Does NetBackup 7.7.x support Targeted AIR with AIX and Solaris operating systems?
Resolved! Phase 2 import failed - status 40
Hi all, I'm triyng to import an backup data created on a different backup server than the one that i'm trying to import the data. But I geting this error:1/26/2017 10:15:39 AM - Error bpbrm(pid=29640) could not write BPBRM_READ_FILENAME message to st...
Status 87 (media close error 2060018)
Hello,We are suddenly receiving errors when backing up a particular VM. 01/26/2017 07:43:19 - Critical bptm (pid=67223) Storage Server Error: (Storage server: PureDisk:backup_appliance) _pdvfs_fcache_flushfile_write_do: Failed to write to spoold on ...
Resolved! Unix BMR - Trying to update SRT w/ Kernel file
Hi all,I'm currently testing BMR for unix servers (knowledge of non windows systems is pretty much non existent!) - i've created an SRT on the unix boot server and tried a recovery but got the error message attached.I've then tried to update the SRT ...
