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Marianne by Moderator
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Images missing in catalog recovery

Hi All, I have recently upgraded from Netbackup 7.0.1 to 7.5.0.6 on Windows server 2008 R2, I can see all the images after upgrade. Then i took a catalog backup from 7.5.0.6 server which completed successfully with 0 status, however there was a warni...

SYM_UFO by Level 3
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Resolved! Listing of primary images that are copy 2

Hey all, We have a situation where an admin at another site expired a number of tapes, which contained primary copies of multi-copy archives. This has forced a number of secondary (copy 2, offsite) images to become the primary copy. I need to recover...

Resolved! Two full backup schedules, in same Policy with Accelerator

Hi! Is it possible to have two full backup schedules in one policy, that have Accelerator enabled? The two full backups will go to different MSDP pools on different Media servers. One of the full bacukps is indended to run one a week at the "main sit...

kybeer by Level 5
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156 snapshot errors on Windows 2003 client

Hello we are getting 156 errors on a windows 2003 VSS open file backups is activated Here is the Bpcd log 00:11:24.304 [5384.5268] <2> setup_debug_log: switched debug log file for bpcd 00:11:24.304 [5384.5268] <2> bpcd main: VERBOSE = 0 00:11:24.304 ...

Resolved! 219 error

NBU 7.5 WINDOWS OS 2008   Hi ALL, Backup jobs are failing with error 219(no storage unit available). We have set any available in the policy storage and st unit has 3 media manager  st units with on demand unckecked.   Please let me what else to chec...

Resolved! Replicate full backups to remote site

Hi! I have a NBU 7.5 server at my main site running Accelerator and MSDP - doing Full and incr backups. I'd also like to replicate the full backups (2-3 times a months for example) to a remote site. What is the best solution for this? As far as I kno...

kybeer by Level 5
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Error 200 - Netbackup VMWare

The backups on VMWARE backup polcies (which has no clients to display) are failing with error 200 which is actually not an error. We have VMWAre backup policies configured as per the VMWare cluster and if a cluster does not have any VM's to backup , ...

Resolved! Can all backup types be sent exclusively to tape?

Question: A client wants to set up NetBackup 7.5 using only tape as storage. I was wondering if there are any backups that cannot use tape storage exclusively. In both my experience with VMDK backups, the backup must go to disk first if GRT is used d...

Catch-up with failed duplications

Can somebody help, please? Our set-up:  NetBackup 6.5.6 master/media servers, 150-odd clients/policies, D2D2T, images on fibre-connected SAN duplicate to a pair of tape libraries - one local, one remote.  The DSSUs are swept every hour. Scenario: Our...

IanB by Level 4
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SharePoint Backup for low-RPO environments

I have a SharePoint environment where we need a low RPO (3H minimum), and I am strugling a bit with the "right" solution, and since I don´t have any SharePoint experts handy and the SharePoint documentation is so "sparse", I am hoping someone here ca...

Resolved! EC 13 - Vmware Backup policy

Hi All Master server: Solaris 10, NBU 7.5.0.5 Media Server : Solaris 10, NBU 7.5.0.5 Backup Proxy host : WIN 2008 SP2,  NBU 7.1.0.4, Also a VM Backup Policy Type: VMWARE. Client : VM, Windows   I have created another policy to backup the same vm Clie...

NBU35 by Level 6
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Resolved! Catalog Backup

Hi All, Could somebody pls explain below  1:- is it possilble to restore 6.5 version catalog backup to 7.0 version master server and vice versa? 2:- What does happen when we dont have DR file available to restore catalog? All the steps pls. 3: What i...

belse by Level 5
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Windows 2008 VM with Volume Shadow Copy Disk

Am starting a new project where they using Volume shadow copy disk for all shared folders. VMs are used to provide file services. I have not been able to find anything about what would happened to Volume shadow copy snapshots when I do backups of the...

vksingh by Level 4
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Resolved! Deduplication on a Master Server - MSDP or Puredisk

Hi!   Generelly speaking, is Puredisk the best/the only solution for deduplicaion on a Master Server, in a Netbackup 7.5.x environment? I have read here that MSDP is not recommended to run on a Master Server - only on dedicated Media servers. http://...

kybeer by Level 5
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Transport mode in activity monitor for VADP

Is there a quick method we can use to see what transport mode a VADP backup is using without opening the job details? Like maybe a column in the activity monitor? We have done the zoning so that the VADP jobs use san but also added nbd to the seconda...

Chris_W by Level 4
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