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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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Find backup policy for a queued SLP job

Hi, NetBackup 7.0.1 on Solaris 10 I have SLP policies to backup clients to VTL and duplicate from VTL to physical tapes. The duplication jobs have been backlogged so I need to find out which duplication jobs I can cancel. However, in Admin Console's ...

NB-OPS by Level 4
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Resolved! SQL Agent Transaction Log backups

What are people doing for transaction log backups? We have an environment with close to 1500 servers (mix of physical and virtual,) have jobs running 24x7, and have recently started using the SQL Agent instead of the dump and scoop method. Our DBA's ...

chack22 by Level 4
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Resolved! What determines disk image expiration

I just installed a new master server that has 40TB of disk space. I noticed that after the fulls ran this past weekend the previous fulls performed were removed. What determines what is left on disk? I assumed that the high/low watermark did, but it ...

EUAdmin by Level 3
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File read error (13)

I receive a file read error (13) and a backup fails on a Windows Server 2003 client with NBU 7.0.1.  The following excerp is taken from the bpbkar log on the client and repeats for each stream. 2:33:07.103 PM: [5524.5496] <8> backup_create: WRN - Una...

mike-b by Level 3
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Netbackup Exchange backups

I'm looking to switch from Backup Exec to Netbackup and have a question about backing up Public Folders in Exchange.  In Backup Exec I can not backup a Public Folder that is on a server in the DAG unless I install the Windows Agent on each server in ...

mike915 by Level 4
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Resolved! previously when we upgraded

previously when we upgraded from 7.5 to 7.5.0.5, the patch upgrade done on master server (redhat 6.x) rendered nbu unable to start. this patch, 7.5.0.6, has no mention of dependencies (or even of redhat 6.x) that might affect nbu on redhat 6.x after ...

manatee by Level 6
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CPU utilization is 100% in client during backup

Hi Friends, I am facing issues with SQL DB backups.One of the client servers CPU utilization is 100 % during SQL DB backup.SQL DBA team telling that there is no issues with SQL/ windows OS, issue with Netbackup only and they provided the logs. Please...

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup

Since NetBackup 7.5.0.6 does not support backing up SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, what are you folks doing? Are you doing native SQL Server backups to local disk on each node in the group, and then just making sure the local drives ar...

M_N by Level 2
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Resolved! Connect to Linux master server from Windows

We currently have a Linux (RHEL 5) server acting as NetBackup 7 master and media server.  Our Linux team currently administers our backups but we would like to transfer this responsibility to someone on the Windows team. Is there a way for someone us...

savona by Level 4
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Netbackup Liveupdate not working on AIX

I have a live update server setup. Updates work for Windows 7.1.0.3 and Linux 7.1.0.3. I am trying to update an AIX 7.1.0.3 server and it does not work. I keep getting 09/04/2013 08:05:57 - Info nbliveup (pid=19923152) Successful execution of /usr/op...

bombcan by Level 3
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restore to shared path failing

Hi all, I am restoring data to a mounted shared drive (cifs server) , all files and folders are created but the size is showing 0kb. Data backed from a media server and restore to a shared drive mapped on the same server. on the BAR status window i a...

Arun_VC by Level 4
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Resolved! Tape drive configuration issue

SAN team completed the zoning. we could see the drive from OS level.Drive is visible in device manager.But we could see nothing under scan -tape? Tape drive:IBM LTO5 Netbackup version:7.1   Also plz let me know how to check physical connection betwee...

sri_vani by Level 6
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Resolved! hard link or reparse point change detected

I just started recieving this error on a 2003 file server backup job that is only backing up 3 small directories. NOT using change journal data for <C:\Program Files\GFB>: hard link or reparse point change detected I've read thru the following post b...

Resolved! dedup to another server

NBU 7.5.0.5 we already have dedup from puredisk to tape. now i'm thinking for the sake of redundancy, can i configure another dedup pool such that this dedup pool is another server somewhere on my network? is it advisable? anyone doing the same? best...

manatee by Level 6
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list size of all images & media in the catalog

Hello, I'm novice on netbackup. A lot of scratch tape is used on our master server. I need to know how i can list all images in the catalog with their size & related media used. How can i do it? Thanks & Reguards 

error incorrect format or option in .utl file (-p)

We are in SAP ECC 6 EPH 4 solaris 10, oracle 11G. When we run backups on one of our systems, backups are in error. (Error incorrect format or option. Utl file (-p)). We compared with others and we do not know where the problem lies. example : 02:...

Resolved! Problem with deregistering boot server

I want to deregister the boot server of AIX 5.3.11.1 with netbackup 7.0. My master server in Windows 2008.   While I issuing the command "./bmrsetupboot -deregister"  on AIX boot server it shows the following error [Error] V-127-72 A boot server that...

Tauhid by Level 4
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