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Marianne by Moderator
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Resolved! is it advisable to recycle tapes?

i'm trying to weigh the pros and cons of recycling tapes against buying 100s of them every two months. is it advisable to recycle tapes? if so, up to how many recycles can they be used?  

manatee by Level 6
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Resolved! Symantec NetBackup Cloud & EMC Atmos Cloud Storage

Hello, I am testing "Backup to the Cloud" in our company. We have Symantec NetBackup 7.6.0.2 on Solaris 10 and EMC/Atmos Storage v 2.1.6 ... Question 1: Is NetBackup 100% compatible with the EMC/Atmos Storage interface using the Amazon S3 or AT&T ...

Resolved! Daily backup report automation

Hi All, I want to automate my daily backup status report to my mailbox. Please share any scripts available.  MAster server: Windows 2008R2 NetBackup version: 7.5.0.4  

ram619 by Level 5
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Resolved! can i contain tape usage in a pool?

NBU 7.5.05 i learned something new today. tape pools. if i create a tape pool and assign, let's say, 2 tape cartridges to it, can i control my backup policy to use only those tapes in that pool? if yes, should the pool run out of availables tape ca...

manatee by Level 6
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Resolved! Disaster Recovery steps for Netbackup

Hello Guys, I was prepraing the steps to disastery recovery for Netbackup, Can anyone check and suggest if any addition is required.    disaster recovery steps install the os with the same bit as we had earlier on same hardware install the netba...

Resolved! Duplication speed with staging / parallel process

Hi all I've a question regarding duplication speed between media servers. Our setup is as follows: Clients do backup to different media server, storage is basic disk. This usually happens during night time. At each storage unit there is a staging ...

Resolved! how to know De-dup & MSDP can be used by Existing Licence

Hi All, We recently upgraded NBU Master/Media (same server) 7.0 to 7.6 running w2k8 and now backup are running fine still server is using 6GB RAM as its a test server my client says how come its working(AS per SYM RAM increased from 4 to 8 GB) and i...

john10 by Level 6
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Resolved! pool creation - on retention period

NBU 7.5.05 first time creating a pool. i came across the question of "retention period". if i select "infinity", would that mean: once data has been deduplicated to one of the media in the pool, said media cannot be use to append more data ORdata c...

manatee by Level 6
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Resolved! NBU 7.6 Activity Monitor column display format change

Recently upgraded master server from 7.5.0.4 to 7.6.0.2.  Noticed the format change for the "Kilobytes" column now includes commas in the numeric display.  But, now the column values are left-justified instead of right-justified making them more diff...

SAN Client backup is failing with error code 83,82 and 10

Hi All, I am backing up a exchange server DAG consisting more than 6 databases of size around 5 TB as a SAN client When i backup 3 databases at one time backup over SAN it completed successfully for around 500 GB of data after that it got failed wi...

Resolved! Recovering a windows client via a Unix Master

I have been asked to recover windows 2003 clients via an HP Unix master. However, the problem is that these clients origianlly belonged to a windows based master. Can I still do a phase1/2 import of these tapes to my Unix master or must I build a wi...

wojo by Level 3
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Resolved! NetBackup 7.6 with NBAC - can't create cron user

I'm trying to get my login to were it's allowed to run commands from cron/bp_start_notify run scripts, but the command to use is giving me an error for which I cannot find any solution for.  In fact I'm having a hard time finding any real documentati...

Resolved! nbdecommission command question.

Hi, Can I use nbdecommission command (-oldserver, -newserver attributes) in order to change the active network hostname of a netbackup 6.5.6. netbackup media server installation on a media server connected to two networks (public, backup)? For examp...

bearvg by Level 3
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