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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! Missed files after the backup - file system ext4

Hello,   I noticied some files are not being backed up for an ext4's file system.   when I list the directory and match with the bplist command it shows me a difference up to 15-20 files.   I found something interesting related to virtual boxes...

Resolved! NDMP host not listed when creating tape device in Netbackup

Hi, I am setting up a backup using NDMP devices and I have successfully used the tpconfig -add command to set up the NDMP host and it is listed in Netbackup NDMP credentials (netbackup 7.5) . I can also use the tpautoconf to verify that the connectio...

markarkphire by Not applicable
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Resolved! Windows server 2012 backup.

All: We are about to do a POC for Windows Server 2012 and our master servers and media servers (All linux) are at NetBackup version 7.5.0.4. The following are the lines from nbu_7x_scl.  Microsoft Windows Server 2012 - NetBackup Client OS CPU Arc...

nairaj by Level 3
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Resolved! Start a VMWare backup from the guest system / client / vm

Hello. I can start a backup with "bpbackup" froim the Master Server, but how can i start a normal Fullbackup from the guest? The following will work from the Master or Media Server. bpbackup -i -p <VMWare_Policy> -h <Name_of_the_guest> -s Full -S ...

SAP backup failing

HI all ,   SAP online backup of one of the server running Windows 2008 R2 has failed with status cade 6.   Error found on activity monitor is as below 5/5/2014 6:33:51 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=5756) from client 10.9.142.53: ERR - Script <"C:\Program...

Kushaal by Level 4
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Resolved! VM primary identifier

Hi, i'm new with netbackup (we are testing with) and i have two question. I manage a medium sized vmware environment with about 1.500 vm's. We offer a private cloud for some adimnistrators with special applications. The vm administrator can create, ...

Resolved! netbackup push using silentclient.cmd

Hi All,   I am pushing NBU windows client software on 50 clients in the network. I am using this silentclient.cmd script 1...i have to run this script on master server or on a client where NBU is not installed     2.... in this SET CLIENT = .....

Resolved! NetBackup AIR for old Backup images

I have implemented AIR in my existing NBU environments and it is working correctly as designed for any new backup is performed. Is there a way to get one of the old backup image (The backup which was performed to Tape prior to implementing AIR) dupli...

Dip by Level 4
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Resolved! File level recovery from VM backups

Right now I have my VM backups configured for "enable file recovery from backup". The backup goes to my msdp first then tape via slp. My question is....when the image exires from disk, will I still be able to do file level recovery from the copy on t...

Bmitche by Level 5
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Still looking for AIR Cloud providers...

So I started a discussion back in July 2013 regarding cloud providers which might provide AIR.  Now I understand that there is no "integrated" option within NetBackup to do this, so I'm wondering if there are any service providers which "host" NetBac...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Resolved! Synthetic backups

I currently backup to a datadomain 860 with OS: 5.4.1.1-411752 and firmware 2.6.23. Assumeing I've enabled synthetic fulls on the datadomain, what must be done from Netbackup to begin running synthetic full backups ?

Resolved! Oracle Database backup - system error occurred (130). Stumped!

Master and media servers Windows 2008r2 standard Netbackup 7.5.0.4     Hello all. I have run into an issue that randomly started, and of course, no one know of any changes made, including myself. I've dug into this as far as I can, including con...

Off-Host Backups VMware

I'm looking for some clarification on doing off-host backups for VMware using Netbackup 7.5. I have read the 7.5 VMware Admin guide.I currently have a Linux Master/Media/client as my only system. The guide says two things about the backup host: 1. I...

NetBackup Tools - keep it handy :)

Some of the NetBackup tools that you would like to keep it handy while performing any troubleshooting related task :-   1) Log Upload Utility: Symantec NetBackup nbcplogs simplifies the tedious, time consuming, and error prone task of copying the ...

Resolved! error 21 / 25 by a RMAN Online Backup

Hi. I have a problem with some RMAN Online Backups. In the Netbackup Activity Monitor i get some errors "socket open failed  (21)" and  "cannot connect on socket  (25)", but i can restore the database! What is the reason? The network between my ba...

Reducing size of client install software

Simple enough requirement: I'm a bit tight on space, so could do to lose the fat on client install. Specifically the solaris client. Ideally after the event, ie anything I can rm? Otherwise is the way to go to run update_clients from the cmdline b...