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Marianne by Level 6
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Resolved! Failing backups - status 156

Hi, my customer's backups are not running, they are failing is error 156. it begins writting the after a while stops. The backups on the C-drive are running perfectly so the D-drive is the only problem and i have picked up that screen shot that was s...

Dinew by Not applicable
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Resolved! The backup size on the tapes

I use LTO-5, 3.0TB (1.5Tb native). The size of some backups exceeds 2 Tb and they are written sequentially on tapes. My backup size on the tapes usually 1-1.2 Tb instead of 1.5 Tb. Why?  

Resolved! Need 2 catalog backup copies

I have a similar requirement as this one: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/need-set-catalog-backup-write-two-sets-tapes I've got a smaller installation - single site, single tape jukebox, one server for master and media. running 7.5.0....

Resolved! Netbackup Catalog Creation

Just taken over an Old 5.1 NB server, and I have a problem with catalogue, everytime i try to use bpsyncinfo -dobackup it downs the drive, i have an engineer going to look at that... But what I would like to do is write the catalogues to disk, and I...

SBurt by Not applicable
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Resolved! Policy Alert

Hi Experts, We have a master server in 2008 server with Netbackup 7.6. We need to configure email alert for every policy that is successfull/failure/partial  Pls let me know how can we configure policy email alerts in policy wise. We tried to searc...

Major VMware CBT bug that affects all backup softwares

I try to search forum to see if someone else had already post it, but I did not find it.   VMware post this technote regarding a CBT problem that affects all backup software and all VM versions. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.d...

StefanosM by Level 6
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Netbackup 7.6.0.3 not excluding folders

We have recenltly upgarded to Netbackup 7.6.0.3 . I have a client running windows 2003 with the netbackup agent also upgraded to version  7.6.0.3 However the backup jobs seems to be backing up all drives and not excluding the folders specified in th...

yobole by Level 6
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Resolved! Disk Expiration Method

Hello Team, Due to a project requirement ,need the below information to proceed further for configuration  Master Server : RedHat Linux , NB 7.5.0.6v 1) Need to configure backups in such a way that data gets copied to the Disk 1st & then to the ta...

reachah by Level 4
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Resolved! Netbackup Catalog Migration from Redhat to Solaris 10

We are getting ready to do a DR test. Our Production Netbackup Master Server is running 7.5.0.6 on Linux Redhat. The catalog and all data tapes will be shipped to our DR site and we will be recovering the catalog to a Solaris 10 machine that has Netb...

jreilly37 by Level 2
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Resolved! VMhostname/displayname not matching up, errors backing up

Hi All, I searched around for this and couldnt find anything that led me to resolution. I have 6 VMs that have a 'client name' in the policy view window (not 'new client' selection window) and in the activity monitor window, that is NOT the same as ...

Nate_D1 by Level 6
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Backup of Windows 2012 NTFS deduped volumes

I'm wondering why in the NetBackup 7.x SCL is stated the following: "Regarding the Microsoft Windows 2012 NTFS data deduplication feature: - NTFS deduplication volumes may be backed up to BasicDisk storage units only." Did anyone tried to use a de...

Stefano_Lomba2 by Level 3
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Resolved! Backup best practice for an Oracle Exalogic

I'm running Netbackup 7.6.0.3 Enterprise on RHEL 6. My organization has an Oracle Exalogic with many virtual servers running on it. Does Symantec have a best practice for how to back these appliances up? Is it something that Netbackup can have creden...

Resolved! Exchange GRT and Mailbox Directive Confusion

Hi there,   I'm currently going through the exchange documentation and am having issues understanding the difference between using GRT vs the Mailbox directive. Do I use both at the same time? We have 3 exchange servers: EX1, EX2 and EX3. I would...

Seth_E by Level 6
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Resolved! Exchange DB backups failing with snapshot 1542 error

Hello Guys, i configured Exchange DB Backups to run on a server in our environment and each time a backup is initiated, it flags error 1542, detailed status is highlighted below: 11/05/2014 18:32:51 - Info nbjm (pid=3664) starting backup job (jobid...