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In case you are not aware - you can subscribe to NBU notifications over here: https://sort.veritas.com/spec_doc Hopefully NBU 9 will be added to the list soon.

Marianne by Level 6
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Resolved! How i can correctly decommision a media server?

How i can correctly decommision a media server & assign those media's with a new media owner?   I gone through some docs but they seems to be old   One of the link is : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000034618   I would like to ...

Not able to add a new DXi to my enviroment

To start off I am new at this backup world so I am sure that I am doing something incorrect but I am at the end of the rope so thanks everyone for your help already.   I have a new Quantum DXi 4700 that I  need to set up in my enviroment I have trie...

jmms by Level 2
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Resolved! Installing netbackup client on linux

There must be at least a dozen threads about this subject but I failed to find my answer. I understood that installing the client is as simple as extracting it to the server and executing the install script. but which tar file do I use? (there is on...

gkman by Level 5
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Resolved! NBvwcPlugin Install

Hi,   Can anyone shed light on the process to install the VMware Web Plugin as described here https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000095689   I don't get the step 4 (shown below). Where exactly should it be copied to, a server has many ...

RiaanBadenhorst by Level 6
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Resolved! how do you read "bp.conf" file?

i'm troubleshooting a problem with "bpclntcmd -pn" in a different thread and i came across a troubleshooting article to check "bp.conf" file. when i checked, what i saw doesn't seem right. SERVER = <master/media server> SERVER = PC x SERVER = PC y...

manatee by Level 6
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Resolved! Drives are in restart mode

Hi All,   If we see this then we need to restart ltid service to resolve this issue. Can anyone suggest which logs we need to read to find out the root cause or when incident happened. I checked /usr/openv/volmgr/debug, /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/...

nbemm logs are taking high space every week

logs detail 0,51216,143,111,1,1462169480661,2089,1145919808,12:jobid=565711,11:INITIATING:,13:allocateMedia,1 0,51216,143,111,2,1462169480661,2089,1145919808,12:jobid=565711,109:masterServer = nbvirtual, client = , jobType = 10, capabilityFlags = 0...

fawad55 by Level 3
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Resolved! NBU has to use "hosts" file?

NBU 7.6.0.3 so i was configuring all my Solaris machines to use my Active Directory DNS server because of ntp client configuration requirements. ntp work done and working fine. name lookups via Active Directory DNS also working fine without me havin...

manatee by Level 6
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Replace Media Netbackup 7.6.0.2 for the Firstime

We are running the media tapes for almost a year now and we want to replace some other tapes for archiving purposes.  I am newbee to this and I would like to ask for an assistance regarding the proper procedure or steps in replacing tape media. We a...

Policies are not picking up desired media server

Hi, I have configured one policy in which I have added one strorage unit which has one media server only. But now, when the job is running I can see that job has not picked up the storage unit which is mentioned in the policy but another storage uni...

Resolved! Licensing

/Is there a difference for Licensing for Backup Exec and Netbackup regarding VMWARE and HYPERV?   Example below: Backup Exec: 1 Hyper V Host 10 Guest OS (2 of the 10 Guest are MS SQL 2008 Server) My Question is what is the needed license for th...

Resolved! solaris 11 client supported?

Oracle Solaris 11.2 SPARC NBU 7.6.0.3 server/clients   i'm adding a new NBU client, the solaris 11, but when the NBU is detecting the OS installed or when i try to select the OS, i only get up to Solaris 10. does this matter or should i patch up f...

manatee by Level 6
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how do you stop a running script?

NBU 7.6.3 i have this script that i've been troubleshooting for taking so long to finish the backup. this script also includes a monthly backup. so it happened that due to the sluggish performance, the daily script overlapped the monthly script affe...

manatee by Level 6
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Resolved! master server Failed due to Hyper-V snapshot backup

HI I am using netbackup 7.7.1 in windows server 2012 r2 I have one master and two media servers in which master server is a Hyper-V machine. I have Configured Hyper-V Snapshot backup for all Hyper-V machines in a Physical machine, My master server ...

Resolved! Intelligent Oracle Policies - Status 58

I have a weird issue where half of the streams on an intelligent Oracle policy fail with status 58 but half will complete successfully. If I set 12 streams 6 will run, 6 will fail. If I set 6 streams 3 will run 3 will fail. Anyone seen this kind of ...

Resolved! NetBackup 7.7.2 - is there a way to backup AWS EC2 snapshots

Does anyone know if there is a way to backup AWS EC2 snapshots with NetBackup? I would like to take a snapshot and then use NetBackup to back it up and then delete the snapshot all within a backup policy (sort of like a VM or NDMP backup which create...

Herb_P by Level 3
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NDMP / Accelerator / Retention

G'day experts, As I'm not a B&R specialist, please allow me to ask some questions here.  We're starting to implement Accelerator for NDMP with our NBU 5220 Appliance. The goal is to speed up weekly/monthly full backups. Let's assume the following s...

Tormi by Level 2
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