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Resolved! NBU Catalog destination is very big with low images retention (2weeks)

Good morning all, before to write this discussion, i've spent some time reading about the problem i'm facing. I found that NBU cat directory where i do a copy of catalog is growing so much even if i keep it only for 2 weeks. It use 68G of space on ...

Resolved! VM to Physical

Hi Team, Is it possible to restore the virtual machine backup to a physical machine. Thanks, Gopinath S

Resolved! Migrating Netbackup from Sun Hardware to HP DL360

Hi Techies, If we convert/move/migrate the backups from Sun Hardware to HP DL360, do we need to pay additionally or do we have cost associated with it?

Backup piece getting restored each time for datafile restore - RMAN

Hi , We are in process of restoring our database to a test server. As per the backup administrator, one channel got failed on Symantec net backup though we are not getting any errors in RMAN logfile. But one of channel was waiting indefinelty on "Ba...

Resolved! Windows client tool to connect to netbackup

Hi, We have netbackup 7.1 on linux. We use vncviewer to connect to it. But, now we are looking for any windows client tool to connect to netbackup. Is there anu such client by which we can connect from our desktop on Win XP ? Please let me know from ...

Modifying sender email address for vault reports

I know by default netbackup uses Linux "sendmail" for mailing the vault reports (picking list for robot etc). But it is using the default system email address i.e. <root>@hostname. I want to modify this default sender email address. Any idea how t...

Resolved! MySQL Backup

Hi Guys, Do we require any special license for taking the MySQL backup in netbackup?

Resolved! Robotic library is down on server, Media Server

Hello All, Currently we are using NBU 7.0.1 with 2008 as Master/Media server, and backup are not running fine in job details it was showing as "Robotic library is down on server, Media Server" and when i executed "vmoprcmd -d" the drive status are ...

Resolved! Queries regarding NDMP

Hi Guys, i have the queries regarding NDMP, Is NDMP backup related to Netapp? How can we do that? can we backup NetApp to Tapes using NDMP? Configuration details, do we need license, or anything? And this one is different, If we convert/move/migr...

Resolved! Possible to get SYMCquiesce RPM without a Windows server intall?

I'm just trying to get hold of a current SYMCquiesce utility RPM for installation on some Linux boxes... however, everything I see references a *WINDOWS* directory to get hold of the ISO. I don't have *any* Windows NetBackup server installs in my en...

Resolved! i need to resolve error with code 23

Please help with steps for below issue : i need to resolve error with code 23

Resolved! Decommissioning a site

Hi again folks, So I am coming up to a year learning Netbackup (was hired as a Junior Analyst with NO previous experience in NBU) and lets just say the process has been challenging but equally as interesting so forgive me if I cross wires. I though ...

Resolved! Ms-sql backup does not creating correct child job

Hello, I am facing issue with MS-SQL backup. I have created batch script as guided here . I have added the script in the policy. There is only two schedule in the policy one full and one application backup. Here is the policy. Policy Name: ...

Resolved! Need support for NDMP Configuration

Does anyone have confiugration steps for taking backups of NetApp filers using NDMP?

Resolved! NDMP

Back up jobs are failing with EC2009 as NDMP drives are down on media server. The NDMP drives are visible in tpconfig -d output but not in tpautoconf -t output.Enen after the drives were made up, they are not visible in tpautoconf -t. tpautoconf -pro...

Resolved! List Policies that have a specific schedule

NBU 7.5.6 Master Win2k8 R2 Hi all, Does anyone know a way of listing policies that have a specific schedule? It appears possible in the admin console - Policies - Summary of all Policies, adding Policy Name to the column layout, and indexing th...

Netbackup: Bedeutung von Zeichen im Restore Fenster

Hallo. Kann mir jemand sagen welche Bedeutung das Zeichen ( siehe Anhang ) im Restore Fenster hat? Sieht aus wie das deutsche "Eingeschränktes Haltverbot" Zeichen. Danke

Resolved! Automatic switch over storage unit in SLP if storage unit is down.

Hi Experts, Backups are getting failed to the Storage Appliance if it is gets down. So need to plan the alternate solution/automation of manual steps to avoid the manual change of storage unit in the policy. And delay in firing the Backups.

Resolved! vmdareq and vmoprcmd not matching

Dear Experts Just curious to know, vmdareq -display or vmdareq -driveinfo & vmoprocmd output not matching. The number of drives I see in vmoprcmd o/p , but I do not see few of the drives in the output of vmdareq -display or -driveinfo Can so...

Resolved! How to know what tape is written/used

We have a daily, weekly,monthly and yearly back up. I know the volume pools but how can i know what tape is written is there is lots of tapes indie the pool? On these snapshots how can I know?

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