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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! policy throttling

Is there a way in Netbackup 7.5.0.5 to policy throttling?   I have to duplicate some info backup up on a NAS that is offsite.   I need to duplicate the data to tape for a couple of reason and I am trying to figure out the best way to so this.   I was...

Resolved! EMM Status: No drives are available

Hello,   We used to have an Lto4 drive. It broke, so we replaced it with an Lto5 drive. My understanding was that Lto5 should be able to read/write to lto4 tapes. I tried to do a restore from an Lto4 tape, but the I got this error: status: 800, EMM s...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.5 and RHEV

Hi all, According the documents NBU 7.5 can be use in RHEV, but the question is: Can be NBU take snapshots of the guests machines? The documentation talk about the snapshots to the LUN, but nothing about the VMs. Regards, Carlos Espinoza

donk2000cl by Level 4
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Resolved! About expired backup images after changing the retention period

Hello administrator, can I ask a question about retention period, to help you understanding what I mean, I present an example here :) In May 1st, I created the policy for backup the Oracle database, in Shedule, I setted the retention period to 1 mont...

Activity monitor shows service Down icon

Hi, I'm currently facing some strange behavior on my Netbackup Env. On the 7.5.0.4 Master Server (Windows 2008R2 Virtual Machine), there is permanently a Red Arrow Down icon. But everything is working, no issue, so job failed, no service down... From...

FiJova by Level 3
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Resolved! Duplicate job running on wrong media server

We have a new installation of Netbackup 7.5 with a master server at one site (site A) and a media server at another site (site B). We had a backup from site B that was on disk and wanted to duplicate this to tape. The duplicate job is using the maste...

LouiseD by Level 4
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Resolved! VADP backup queries

Hi  I have some queries relating to VADP backup: 1) Can virtual machine restore works if the vmware backup host is not available? 2) If I import the tapes to another backup domain, can the virtual machines be restored to another group of vcenter and ...

MohdAlim by Level 5
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Resolved! Merging NBU 7.1 Multi plateform Binaries

HI Team ,   While merging the NBU 7.1 Unix Multi plateform binaries I am getting this below error , its a AIX 6.1 machine on which I am getting this error .     $ cat "NetBackup_7.1_CLIENTS_tar-gz.1of2" "NetBackup_7.1_CLIENTS_tar-gz.2of2" > "NetBacku...

RohitNayal by Level 5
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SAN FT Media Server on Solaris 11

Hi ! I was trying to configure a FT Media Server on a Oracle-SUN X3-2 server running Solaris 11 x86/64, and when i executed the command /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbftsrv_config  -nbhba, the OS answers "no such file or directory".  Is possible...

Mr_XRT by Level 2
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"Status 99" on NDMP jobs instead of queueing

NetBackup v. 7.5.0.5 I have a number of NDMP policies configured to backup NAS filesystems on an EMC Celerra.  The policies are configured with jobs/policy set to 4.  And 4 jobs *will* start when the policy is kicked off... but the other backup selec...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Is "nbstlutil -wait active" broken??

This continues to give me fits.  It seems doing an "nbstlutil -wait inactive -lifecycle <SLP>" works fairly reliably.  The activation command "nbstlutil -wait active -lifecycle <SLP>", however, does NOT.  It will sometimes come back with "cannot conn...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Resolved! Tape Management

Hi, I have backup policy below: Weekly Full with 1 mounth retention, seperate pool. Daily Increment with 15 days retention, separate pool. I would like to Copy "Last full backup" on each following month to different pool, change retention to 5 years...

iaw by Level 5
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bpsetconfig: worked with Unix master but not Windows master?

Hi all,   In the past I was in a mostly *nix environment and had no problems pushing out exclude list updates to Windows clients from Unix masters.  When I try the same thing with a Windows master, the command does not fail but it doesn't update the ...

Creating SRT for linux 5.7 64 bit

I installed NETbackup client on linux server 5.7 and tried to create SRT but its not creating and umounting the CD any suggestions and process for creating SRT in linux???

Duplicating the images of a suspended volume

There is a requirement to duplicate the images from a suspended tape to a new tape and make the images as primary. Unable to identify the images using "Catalog" option in GUI. Let me know how to resolve this.

DPO by Level 6
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Resolved! Query about image fragments...

Can anyone please help to understand the concept of image fragments. For a perticuler backups id I have got the folloing from the Image on Media report... Please see the attached image. Can anyone please explain the same. I am wondering about the Fra...

Tanmoy1 by Level 4
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Resolved! xfs filesystem in vmware virtual machine

Hi Team I am using Netbackup 7.5.0.3 and Esxi 5.1 . I have a virtual  machine which is running Suse 11 Sp2 and mount point configured in  xfs filesystem ( separate virtual disk and it is not a indipendent disk). When I am going to restore the virtual...