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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! Raw backup is in hung status

Hi All, Raw backup of file system is in hung status below are the details & observation that i found but not reached to any specific conclusion please assist Master server - NBU 7.5.0.4 Solaris 10 SAN client - NBU AIX 7.5.0.4 below raw backup is ha...

Raaavan by Level 5
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Auto Image Replication - expire after copy?

Running NetBackup 7.5.0.6 on a Solaris master server.  3 media server 5220 appliances (v. 2.5.3) at source domain.  Using AIR to replicate images to target domain (5220 master/media running 2.5.3).  Currently I'm importing the images at the target an...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Schedule Backup Attempts

We have the "schedule backup attempts" set to 2 tries per 12 hours.  We have a few large NDMP backup policies with dozens of file systems.  If one file system in the group fails, the entire policy restarts for all file systems. I was considering sett...

Netbackup DB issue, not able to view anything on the GUI

Hi My server has netbackup version 6.0 running on it and all was going fine but since the last few days I am not longer able to view anything on the GUI except the BAR option.  my db was down and nbdb ping was not returning the correct result, so i r...

anash7 by Level 4
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Resolved! Determining which servers are part of my app_cluster?

Hi,   I've inherited a NBU envirnonment and I'm trying to determine whether media server clustering is setup correctly. Running an nbemmcmd -listhosts shows me two app_cluster entries with the windows cluster name (all good). How can I determine that...

Resolved! SLP Duplication Issue.

Hello Symantec forums!   I currently am trying to troubleshoot an issue in my enviornment. We have a SLP setup to dedupe within our policies from 1 DD to another. I have suspended the SLP under Storage > Storage Lifecycle Polcies in hopes that this w...

DG-2005 by Level 5
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Resolved! DAG preferred node not working as it used to...

DAG has 2 passive nodes for backup. node1 is a media server, node 2 isnt. Hence preferred list is node1,node2. Historically if the backup had issues with a db on node1 it would revert to node 2. When node 1 was healthy, one had to remove node2 from t...

Resolved! Deleted clients from Policy

Hi guys. I have accidentally deleted a lot of clients from a policy and would like to add them back. The problem is I can't remember all of them which belonged to that policy. Is there a way to see this in a log somewhere?    thanks.

Sparxxx by Level 2
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Resolved! contradiction NBU..

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/backup-process-2 It depends on whether the backup is kicked off manually or automatically by the scheduler. All manual requests are sent to bprd first. From there to nbpem. Automatically scheduled jobs a...

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7.5 MP6 upgrade, unified logging auto set to 6

Hi All, Upgraded from MP5 to MP6 on windows 2008 r2, came in this morning to see all debug and diagnostic levels were set to 6. The nblog file was update at the time of upgrade. This has happened to all the servers we upgrade. Anyone else seen this, ...

Resolved! Solaris 10 Media Server cannot longer see the tape drives

  Hi All,   We have an HP ESL322e  TapeLibrary with several media servers connected to it. Recently HP update the TL with the new firmware, somehow one media server cannot recognized the tapedrive anymore. This server is running Solaris 10 (BTW all m...

Resolved! How to reboot the tape library

Hi can any one help me how to reboot the tape library we lost the communication on be half.so need to reboot the libraray.the tape library is NEO 4000.

madhuri by Level 4
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Script to Add the Exclude List in Windows Platform

Friends, We are using Netbackup 7.1.0.4 and we are managing multipule Master & Media servers. Currently we are facing diffeculties with adding the exclude list for the clinet. We are having around 1500 clients machines (all Windows Platform)., manual...

Resolved! Monitoring Progress of Push client upgrade

Hi All,   I have upgraded a Unix client from Master server using push method. Command I used:  /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_client -ClientList /tmp/clientlist   I know it will create a temporary folder in "/tmp" file system with name as "updating_...

Vickie by Level 6
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Oracle DB backups using excess media

Hi, Whenever Oracle RMAN backup runs, its child jobs uses media and when its parent job fails, we have to restart the backup as that backup is corrupted (I think, because its parent job failed) So when ever RMAN parent job fails, we are restarting th...

Resolved! can't detect cleaning tapes in the None volume pools

HI, I have a problem when i inventory the 'None' volume pools, i don't see my cleaning tapes. Below the result of vmrule ; # vmrule -listall =================================================================== rule number:  0 barcode tag:  CLN med...

mouna by Level 4
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Resolved! NetBackup 7.5 install question

Hi , I had installed NetBackup 7.5 eval copy and I wanted to patch it to the latest version 7.5.0.6, however I was told that that is not available for eval copy. I was wondering if anyone have the documents, screen shots or way to upgrade from 7.5 to...

mnazli by Level 2
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