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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 Moderator
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Resolved! media id generation

Does setting new media id rule and running inventory set the media id to new as well as old tape added. And also does setting media id to old tape remove the content in it ??

Arun_VC by Level 4
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Resolved! Unable to retrieve version of the server

Need some help.  Cannot connect to Master Server.  Unable to retrieve version of the server gordsnbmaster. Check Registry.  Al  servers are listed. Checked Ops Center. -  Says Master Server is partially connected Can ping and do nslookups just ...

Resolved! Setting up Netbackup lab

Hi every one, any one who has been able to set up netbackup lab ? probably using vmware.. I would like to know how, requirement and how it was set up... Thank you

Dollypee by Moderator
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Netbackup Design

Hi Experts, We all know that with increased of backup policy jobs operations and with the passage of time, it becomes difficult to arrange and improve performance of the bug enviroment. Also, it will be come very diffecult to debug and troupleshoot. ...

Resolved! Reclaiming the space taken by a failed backup job

HI,   Can anyone tell me how I will be able to reclaim the space taken by a failed job. Sometimes backup writes up-to 1TB data and still fails. How will I be able to clear it. One way is to expire the image, but its not feasible because its hard to t...

Storage Unit failover

Hello, Our NetBackup infrastructure is as follows: 1 Master server running NBU 7.5.0.5 on Windows 2008 R2 2 Media Servers (PureDisk) running NBU 7.5.0.5 on Windows 2008 R2, hosting a single storage unit each on two different sites. All backup jobs u...

tzuinam by Level 0
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Resolved! Solaris 10 VM backup

Hi, Got another stupidly easy question to which i am getting nowhere rapidly with reading manuals, forum posts and asking people who are meant to be working at the same company as me. I have to back up 2 newly created virtual machines and after addin...

Resolved! How Netbackup Command works

Dear experts,   I have a query & concern regarding the COMMAND we use in NETBACKUP. I wonder & doubt as from where and how these COMMANDS get the output,  Lets take an eg,   Command, ./bppllist ( will give list of policy ).  How it get the list, f...

Vickie by Level 6
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Resolved! Solaris 7.5 client install issue

Hello, I am getting the error below while trying to install the solaris 7.5 client on a solaris client server Saving client binaries for Solaris/Solaris10. Installing PBX... Please wait while installation is in progress... Installation completed Succ...

Resolved! Change of ownership of the medias

Hi, For a restore purpose, I asked the required medias to be loaded in TLD2 as the same series of medias are in the same TLD. But the DCO loaded in TLD0 with a comment that they can't load the required medias in the asked TLD as it requires a high le...

Resolved! command or script

Hi ALL, We have manually offline around 200 clients in NBU using GUI. Some of my junior employees have made some clients online and now it is vey tough for me to check which are offline clients and date.   Can anybody please provide me the command/sc...

Arun_K by Level 6
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Resolved! BMR Restore to a different server, similar hardare

HI there, I would like to perform a BMR restore of a client to a host with the same hardware platform but will have different MAC address. Is there a way to do this? Can I manually edit the MAC addresses in the Bare Metal Client List?  Thanks!

Resolved! VMware Backup - 156 Error after moving VM's between vCenter's

I have a customer who has just migrated a number of VM's from one vCenter environment to another, and following this all of the said VM's are failing the backups with a 156 error.  After investigation I notice that Netbackup is still communicating wi...

SYMAJ by Level 6
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Is there a way to remove and add media servers to client config on windows and unix without logging onto all the clients.

Hi guys, We are moving our media servers and renaming them in the process.  We have quite a few unix/linux/windows servers that will require the old media servers to be removed from the client config and the new server names added in. Has anyone done...

user022013 by Level 4
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Resolved! Client Connection refused Status 57

Hi All,   I am facing error 57 for one of my media server when i click on the media server TAB in GUI conole and click on this server the connection failed with error 57, Ping is fine /etc/hosts also fine Checked /etc/services file as well, have also...

Resolved! Netbackup for VMware requirement

To implement netbackup for vmware, it seems needing a Windows server as a backup server (proxy) which will need to able to access the VMware datastore. Can this server be a VM, or vCenter itself? Thanks

Resolved! Master/Media server patches

Hi All, Iam installing fresh master/media server netbackup 7.5 in RedHat Ent Linux 6.0 64 bit. Please suggest patches list, what are the important patches need to apply after installation? Thanks, iaw  

iaw by Level 5
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