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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! What is the different between image clean and deassignempty

Hi expert We usually use "bpimage -cleanup -allclients" to cleanup the images, use "bpexpdate -deassignempty" deassign the expired medias. I want to know what is  the two commands actual doing on the background?  how to set the image clean and deassi...

Resolved! bpclient "HOST INFO" parse

bpclient output from Linux running NBU 7.5.0.4 My problem: I have thousands of clients spread across 5 NBU environments that have been installed by numerous people over several years. My problem is that I need to ensure that the bpclient database inf...

Stumpr2 by Level 6
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Resolved! Tape usage extremely high

We just upgraded our entire Netbackup system to 7.5.0.4 and we feel we are using far too many tapes.  We have four dedupe appliances and they are all duplicating to one LTO5 tape library with twelve drives.  We have each of the appliances set to use ...

Synthetic Backups block grayed out.

Hi,     We have NetBackup 7.5 version installed on Solaris system. We want to take a Synthetic Backup for Unix system, When I go into a policy to select the Synthetic Backup block it is grayed out. We have selected 'collect true image restoration inf...

Resolved! Introduction of new processes and services

I have an environment which is currently running in NB 6.5.6. I just want to know What are the different processes running in NB 6.5 and NB 7.0 or what are the new services or processes been introduced in NetBackup 7.0 specifically ?   Thanks,   Subh...

Missing install package on master server 7.1.0.4 for SuSE2.6.16

Hello, I have tried to remotly upgrade Linux server (SuSE2.6.16) with kernel version 2.6.16 to 7.1.0.4 but unfortunately I found out that install package is missing on master server exatly for kernel version 2.6.16. Other packages are there. I am not...

FriZY by Level 3
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NDMP backup hangs

Master and Media Server: HARDWARE LINUX_RH_X86 VERSION NetBackup 7.5.0.5   NDMP backup hangs until NDMP timeout vaule and fails with 99. Backup hangs for only one volume (tried backup at qtree level) and runs fine for other volumes from the same fi...

Netbackup with Deduplication Option

HI All, I am getting a Media Write error on my NBU MSDP running on 7.5.0.4. It has happen many time already and Symantec support is not able to tell me the issue is. Apparently from the storage.log it was showing "disk space issue" however the MSDP u...

NDMP backups error: with file read failed (13)

hi, my backup environment: NBU master: NBU7.5.0.3 running on linux(CentOS release 5.7 (Final)) we backup a CIFS share from EMC VNX storage and write the data to EMC datadomain. backup policy name:lasvnx_regonline_PCI   but the backup always ends with...

Virtual names and RAC catalog maintenance

Greetings, We have a 7.5.0.5 master on HP-UX IA64, and a two-node RAC cluster on linux with 7.5.0.5 agents.  Backups have been configured based on "Failover VIP exists and backup is load balanced" in oracle admin guide.  Each node has a bp.conf in th...

SLP status 84 after upgrading to NBU 7.5

*** Moved to new discussion from https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/pddo-661-agent ***   i have this error during duplication using SLP after upgrading to netbackup 7.5   5/15/2013 7:44:30 PM - Info Duplicate(pid=3053) Initiating optimize...

demo4119 by Level 6
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Resolved! Unable to discover/backup VM - NB 7.5.0.1

Hello,  we tried to add one of new VM to backup schedules but we unable to discover/see that through " browse and select the virtual machine " interface so i added that manually then its failing with 156-snapshot error encountered  but in realality i...

Raju_la by Level 5
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Resolved! Symantec enterprise vault and NBU

we are planning to buy Enterprise Vault solution for our Email Archiving. we are currently using Enterprise netbackup for our enterprise data protection. Need your some help about to make them both working for us together smoothly. 1. As my understan...

Resolved! Error code 84 when duplication from Puredisk Diskpool a to b

I receiving this error code after i have upgrade NBU master from 6.5.6 to NBU 7.5 with Puredisk 6.6.1 x 2 . Before the upgrade of netbackup master , the duplication from diskpool a to b is working fine using SLP policy. please advise.   5/15/2013 7:4...

demo4119 by Level 6
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Resolved! Uninstall NBU

When trying to uninstall NDU 7.0 using add/remove programs I get the following error and uninstall fails.   05-16-2013,09:40:29 : ERROR: Internal Error 2738. 05-16-2013,09:40:34 : Action ended 9:40:34: setRegistryValues.B2D5B6C9_4698_42F7_AC9D_95578...

snawaz3 by Level 6
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Can Netbackup stop/start VM's before and after a backup?

All, I have been trying to find this information and I'm hoping someone here can help.  I was told that Netbackup does not allow administrators to run scripts either before or after a backup.  The problem we are running into is our Netbackup connects...