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Resolved! which takes precedence: expiry date or retention period?
nbu 7.6.0.3i've been extending the expiry of some backup images that are already on tape. i managed to do that when i noticed, in the "Images on Media" report, there is a "Retention Period" column. it says one month. however, i've extended my backup ...
Issues backing up/restoring VMware VMs
Hi all,First of all, I'm ready the NBU for VMware admins guide but it's 300 pages. Asking here too in case I missed somethingSo, I use NBU with standar client licences, and we only backup windows machines. We are trialing the advanced client, which a...
Resolved! Netbackup / Backup Exec Tape Reader
I have a customer who currently has Netbackup Appliances (V2.6.1.2) installed and will shortly be upgrading to V2.7.3. They also have a legacy Backup Exec environment (V12) and we are looking to maintain access to the historical Backup Exec produced...
MaxDB backup type.
Dear all,Could you help please, what policy type is useful for Max Db database (used with SAp Content Sever) ?Netbackup 7.5 MaxDb 7.9
authentication failed(160) RDSM has encountered an STS error: getStorageServerConfig
Hi,I am not able to configure new disk pools in my environment. It returns error below.Also, when viewing storage server properties, it gives error below.Somehow I think its related.Any suggestions?
Resolved! VM Backups failing with 156 error code
Hi Everyone,I would like to share the issue that i had faced today.Since 2 days we have been encountering backup failures in our environment, which is a small envirnoment with limited of 600 clients (mostly vmbackup).All the backups were faling with...
Resolved! Client count difference in netbackup
Hi All,Could anyone please tell me the difference, i see the total number clients as 578 (unique) in summary of policies and in the host properties of the client is just 137 clients.In the master server properties i see only few clients, should i hav...
Resolved! How to restore files with specific pattern in their names
Dear All.I need your support to find a way to restore fills with specific pattern using command line on UNIX server, noting that I'm full aware of this post and I'm using it with files I have their exact names :https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/a...
AIR (automatic image replication) using NAT-ed IPs
Dears,I need your support on this:We are configuring AIR (automatic image replication) between Main and DR site, so no client backup will be done between site.Kindly advise if we can configure AIR between sites using NAT-ed IPs, if just master server...
Bckup error 811, 37 after uograde to 7.7.2
After upgrading clustered master/media server or servers with multiple interfaces to Netbackup 7.7.2, one can beging to experience error 811 and 37 which are related to connectivity. Running ./bptestbpcd -verbose -debug -client completes with status ...
Resolved! Backups not triggered.
Hi,I took a full backup of three clients manually yesteray at 05:30 PM. The policy is set to run daily incremental.I am observing that the cumulative incremental backups of today which were scheduled to run - Monday, 12:30 AM have not been triggered ...
Resolved! bmr for master/media server
NBU 7.6.0.3i have prepared a hyper-v vm for doing my test upgrade of my master/media server from 7.6.0.3 to 7.7.xthe master/media server is running on Oracle Linux Server 6.3i will have the install ISO for the linux but i'm also looking at if i can d...
how can i get failed job backup selection info
Hi TeamWe have unix client backup daily. In that multiple backup streams running. some times backups failed with 84 on data domain due to high load on DD's. Need get those stream and created new policy and taking backup on tape. how can i get command...
Resolved! Large restore challenge
I've been asked to complete a restore of multiple user drives, across multiple servers, over multiple years....I know...sounds like fun, right? Here are my challenges...1. Generate a list of files to be restored. I have the user list, but they could ...
Resolved! NDMP ClusterAwareBackup to Tape Netapp cdot
Hello , so we searching after upgrading to 7.7.3 a Solution we has open Tickets against support but now for more than 1 Month and nothing helps ... The Setup InventoryNetbackup 7.7.3 on Redhat Linux 6.Netapp 4 Node Cluster.svm on the cluster for cif...
Resolved! Costing of GRT backup & restore
For snapshot backup of DB (DAG, etc.) of Exchange we require license i.e. costing.Is GRT included in the same license or different costing is involved?
Does Netbackup need a vcenter admin account in order to backup rhel vm's?
We have 17 RHEL 7 virtual machines running on 2 HP servers with ESXi. In order for Netbackup to successfully backup these virtual machines, is it true that a vCenter administrative account is needed? Or can it be done sans access to vCenter?
Resolved! Too many 196 errors, but the windows has just opened
The schedulles that start 02h or 03h AM are stopping with 196 erros.The same schedulles start after one hour and finihish ok.Any reason?Thanks
How to prevent netbackup services from starting up automatically during server reboot ?
Hello,Currently our netbackup catalogue is residing in a SAN disk. We need to physically move our master server from one location to another location. I will need to know how to temporary disable the netbackup services from temporary start-up when se...
Resolved! Netbackup 7.6.1.2 not reading schedule exclude lists using follow NFS option
Hi All, This looks like a bug to me but thought I would ask. I am running 7.6.1.2 on a Windows 2012 R2 server for a client (RHEL5.5) 7.6.1.2 which has a database backup mount on a ZFS storage array using NFS. I have a specific policy that contains "F...
