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Marianne by Level 6
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Resolved! Restore Image from tape

Netbackup 7.1.0.4. I need to restore an image from tape. The image was cerated Oct 25. When I go to Backup, Archive and Restore GUI, I only see images from Jan 04. The expiration date of the images are Nov 02 2013.(I got this information by doing a T...

snawaz3 by Level 6
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Resolved! Stop running duplication jobs with CLI / script

Hi! I need to write a script that stops running duplication jobs in Netbackup 7.5.0.4. I have used bpdbjobs several times to cancel specific jobs, but the duplication jobs tends not to get cancelled (backup jobs do). All our duplication jobs are to t...

kybeer by Level 5
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How to exclude RECYLER/$RECYCLE.BIN and SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION

Friends, Quick one i need to setup the global exclusion list with the following on all windows 2003/2008 clients.. what is the best possible way to appraoch this. No of Windows 2003 clients 90 No of windows 2008 clients 103 Exclusion list: %RECYCLER%...

Spartacus81 by Level 6
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Resolved! DRIVE LOAD balance

Hi, Product NetBackup Enterprise Server, 7.1 System Solaris 10 library VTL: Fujitsu Eternus cs800 System solaris 10 , has two pathes to drive,   32  hcart2036            hcart2 TLD(0)  DRIVE=33       /dev/rmt/55cbn                                   ...

samar by Level 3
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Resolved! VMWare LAN FREE Backup

Environment Details: We have 4 ESX Server and 1 Vcenter. All 4 ESX Server is connected to FC Switch.  Two Drive tape library is connected to FC Switch Backup server is also connected to FC Switch   Requirement: We wanted to take LAN FREE BACKUP of al...

Resolved! bpimmedia strage date format error

Hi all, I need to run a command something like this: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimmedia -policy M1SAP01_AD_TRANS_1YR -d 02/01/13 -e 02/28/13 -U (sudo needed because the user who run it, not root, the entry in sudoers already c...

Resolved! /var/log/kernel filling up while backup running

Hello, When a backup of one of our linux client runs, the /var/log/kernel file on the client is growing up with entries like this one : Feb 4 18:08:13 tu-bdcout-q01 kernel: : # NetBakup # IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:92:00:fb:00:23:04:fb:50:80:08:00 SRC...

BMR settup

Hello everyone!!     I have settup BMR on Netbackup 7.0. first Enable Baremetal on Master server which is running on solaris.  Then I have register the Boot server on Windows and setting up the Bare Metal Policy with the following parameters:   Polic...

Rman Multistreamed backup

Netbackup 7.5.0.4 Oracle 10g   I have taken rman backup with 4 channels. During the restoration also I have allocated 4 channels. 4 restore jobs got started but only one is reading the data from tape and others are showing "media in use"   As per me,...

Resolved! Hung Exchange backups

I've got 4 DAG backups that are showing as Active for about 18 hours now.  The stats in the details have not changed, 0 percent, no throughput etc.  I tried canceling them so they aren't still running when the backups start again this afternoon.  Did...

Resolved! MSDP storage unit full - duplication question

Hello. This is a basic question, and wanted to be sure of the official process - I had some issues with a tape drive, so over the last week and a half, all backups are writing directly to disk (msdp pool). Now that my tape drive is back and working, ...

Resolved! AIX client ignoring exclude_list

My Netbackup master is 7.0.1. Client is AIX 6.1 running Netbackup 6.5.5 client software. Unfortunately client upgrade requires approval from Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny due to very strict change controls, so an upgrade is not likely any time soo...

Resolved! NetBackup 6.5.x unexpected full backup of multistream policy

Hello All, I have NetBackup 6.5.6 on a Solaris 10 Master and Media server and a Windows 2008 client. The policies for this client allow multistream backups. No other client is included in these policies. All schedules are frequency-based. Not very lo...

Glo by Level 4
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Resolved! unable to log into Netbackup GUI (Status 526)

Hi all i'm having trobule with a box running redhat 5 and netbackup 7.1, i cant connect to the GUI, i get unbale to log in, status 526 From the log, i get the below - Connecting to vnetd service over PBX port = 1556 ServerInterface:Logon:Exception e...

matt077 by Level 5
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Resolved! Retention Levels and Retention mappings for Vault and Policy

What is the difference between the retention levels and retention mappings for profiles and policy? Which overrides which? I want to control image expiration through vault. I have set all my policy retention levels to  Daily - Infinity -  Level 10, W...

snawaz3 by Level 6
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MSDP Storage unit is down during queue processing 2074

I am getting 2074 - MSDP storage unit down - during RMAN backups when scheduled queue processing kicks off. It's happened twice now and it correpsonds with scheduled queue processing. Kicks off at 6:30 PM on Friday and all of the jobs that sta...

RMAN Proxy Copy for better dedupe?

Our RMAN dedupe rates are pretty pitiful. We are seeing rates of 57% on full backups of databases that only append small amounts of data relative to their size - the DB is 1TB, but we are only adding 5 GB to the size each week. I have seen that the p...