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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! EMC Celerra NS480 support for NBU 7.5

Hi Can anyone confirm support for the Celerra NS480 with NetBackup 7.5 for direct NDMP backups? I can see that EMC 'celerra series' is in the latest HCL which can only be a good thing but as the NS480 is quite old now and most people running with NS4...

KeirL by Level 6
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Resolved! backup with LTO3 and LTO6

Hi, In my robot, i have 4 LTO6 drives and 4 LTO3 drives. The drive type of LTO3 and LTO6 is HCART3 in my master/media server. I have 2 storage units, one for LTO3 and the other for LTO6. the 2 storage units have "hcart3" density and the media type fo...

mouna by Level 4
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Resolved! Kill bpbkar after 4 hours

Hi experts.   I need to terminate the backup if it does not finished in 4 hours so that our script can start the database. When we cancel manually via the console the coldbackup script continues and starts the database, but I need to create another s...

Throughput data calculation

Hi, How to calculate the complete netback up data verse throughput, is there any formula for that can you please help on this, I am using LTO-6. With Regards Subrat

Resolved! Backup Time calculation

Hi, I am using netbackup 7.6 version with Tape Libraries as TS3500. Can some one help me to get details of Speed/TB at the time of backup.    With Regards  

Resolved! Storage Expiry Deletions for NetBackup Migrated Archive Data

Thought I'd throw this one out to the forum before I raise a call. This is an environment with EV 7.0.1 configured only for FSA and NBU 6.0 MP5 (and yes I'm fully aware how old both of those versions are). This is a question brought up in relation to...

EdLacey by Level 5
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Drive going down frequently

Hi ,  I have an issue of drives going down frequently , and freezing the tapes.I checked bptm logs and made and added an entry of media server alias by nbemmcmd, as it was showing missing entry, still the issue is same, please help me to uderstand wh...

User_V by Level 3
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7.6 BMR Windows restore

I'm testing BMR restores on NB 7.6 on Windows 64bit and 32bit machines and restore ends with message "The restore has stopped due to the following  error:<?>" when BMR wants to create partitions on disks. I opened a case in Symantec. Maybe you've got...

Resolved! cluster switch nbu 7.5

Hi ALL, We have an activity on master server lonunx01.It is in cluster. We want to move to another node lonunx02. I dont want any scheduled and manual backups to run during the manual switch over. running nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling  and bprdreq -te...

Arun_K by Level 6
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netbackup client installation

i need to find a solution to proceed this step while installaing netbackup 7.5 client :   Checking LiveUpdate registration for the following products: CLT This may take a few minutes.   Product CLT is installed and will be registered.   Updating Live...

License requirement

Hi, I want Netbackup License for My Datacenter, Please help me is there any Datacenter license which will help me to take backup for my All different database, application , ERP and development activity. Kindly Help me. With Regards Subrat Biswal

Resolved! Question in regards to upgrade to 7.5.0.6 on Linux media server

Hi,   I am planning an upgrade to netbackup 7.5.0.6 on a media server (all other servers run Windows and on NB 7.5.0.5), When I went to download the update package for linux, it says that there is a dependency for this as follows: ============ DE...

maxsven by Level 4
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Veritas Netback Upgrade

Hi Experts, In Master Upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 i have a doubt. If We take catalog backup of 6.5 and upgrade master from 6.5 to 7.0. In Solatis first 6.5 is removed and then 7.0 is installed as per the upgradation procedure So my question is if we inst...

belse by Level 5
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Resolved! Netbackup issue

Hello , I'm newbie in Symantec Netbackup , i will be grateful if you could help me . * How to define  a specific no of media to volume pool ex 3 tapes ? and how make the netbackup take the first media in the volume pool and when  become full , it use...

Deyaa by Level 4
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Advanced Disk Pool Redundacy Question

Scenario: Advanced Disk Pool with three volumes spread across three media servers. One of the media servers goes offline. Will backups continue to write to the available volumes in the diskpool? Or will backups fail with a disk volume down error? T...

bpdown by Level 4
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Editing SLP Destinations in 7.x

I began examining SLP backlog on a Netbackup 7.1 domain this week, and I suspect that there has been a history of editing SLP destinations.  The old 6.5 best practices document strictly warned, "Do not edit a Storage Lifecycle Policy while it has ima...

Can XML files be compressed safely?

We have 114748 .xml files under /usr/openv/netbackup/db/snapshot/vm that haven’t been touched in over 90 days.  Can they be gzipped to gain some space?

Netbackup can't see robot erorr 202

Hello, I'm trying to add a 2nd tape libary, a Oracle SL150. I doing this on to two different networks. The GUI can see Robotic Path but not the Robot Control Host. The Robet also shows up as not enabled. I'm guessing that I'm missing a setting somewh...