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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! tape drives not showing up for 2nd node of clustered master

hello, i have a clustered master server of 2 nodes. nbu 7.5. vcs 5.1. and rhel6. 4 other media servers on rhel6. the problem am facing is: i see in the docs, that for the failover thingie, i need to set drives on both nodes. as of now. 1 primary node...

16ris10 by Level 6
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Resolved! NetBackup file cleanup - client and media servers

This question is particularly for unix hosts!   When you install Netbackup, it loads files into the install directory. When you patch or update, it makes a tar file of the old files and installs new ones. Is there a process to remove/cleanup those ol...

Genericus by Moderator
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Resolved! one directory for a restore is corrupted in NB DB

Hi, Netbackup Enterprise 7.1.0.4 running on Solaris 10 I tried to restore a destroyed home directory, client just happens to be on the netbackup media server. Just using the restore tab in the admin GUI and browsing around in the dir tree everything...

rsm_gbg by Level 5
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Resolved! how to add master in clustered nbu 7.5

i have a new 2 node master that i did the installation for nbu 7.5. we have vcs 5.1 for clustering. and os is rhel6. and 4 other media server running the same os. cluster name is: nbu node1: master01 node2: master02 [root@master02]# cat bp.conf SERVE...

16ris10 by Level 6
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Resolved! "Capacity Managed" backup operation to MSDP?

Having a bit of trouble managing capacity on my dedupe pool. My thought is to create an SLP with a couple of operations - an initial backup to my MSDP and then a duplication of the image(s) to tape via a secondary operation. Notice that there is no "...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Please help. Restore VM to different cluster using Copy 2

Hi all,   We are using Data Domains for are backup to disk solution. We have copy1 in Chicago and copy2 in DC. We are trying to test DR and what we are trying to do is restore a Chicago VM to the DC cluster using Copy 2(which is on the LAN of DC) for...

Resolved! Slow duplication to tape from disk, help find the bottleneck?

Hi All,   We are running NBU 7.5.0.3 and I have noticed that recently my duplication rate from disk (ExaGrid) to tape (quantum tape library)  has been quite slow. Historically I would que up 4-6 images at a time to duplicate to tape and que 3 of thos...

Nate_D1 by Level 6
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Catalog backup failing with 87 using DD

Team Need solution on the below issue  Netbackup CATALOG_DRIVEN_BACKUP is failing with status 87 using datadomain but same time normal backups using same DD storage unit is completing successfully  Master server : Netbackup 7.1.0.4 on Windows 2003  M...

Resolved! Netbackup 6.5.6 to 7.5 new hardware

I've got a slight issue.  Current master/media (Windows 2003 32-bit) is running NB 6.5.6 and doesn't meet the miniumum hardware requirements to upgrade to 7.5.  Purchased a new server which is running Windows 2008 standard 64-bit.  I have performed a...

bpfis test of shadow copy components ?

Hello   I have found technote http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH47808 that descibes how to test snapshots, wondered if somebody knew how use this for shadow copy components:\   Have given the feedback on the technote, that description of how to for sh...

Problem while release drive

While release the drive it shows me following error on master and media server: vmdareq -h master.sldc.sbc.com -release -D A00_LI005_LS20_D14_L4 -H media-ebr.sldc.sbc.com -force invalid EMM argument (191)I am giving following command on master serve...

Shekhar_D by Level 4
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Resolved! Info required on Volume Pool

Hi All, I've a query which I wanted to raise here because I am sure lot of talent will help me in solving this small query of mine. Query: How to move all tapes from Volume Pool to another Volume pool, via command line. For eg. I've 20 Tapes in volum...

Resolved! All restores not working but backup's are

Hi guys, Since yesterday I have faced a very strange problem on my netbackup environment. I didn't made any change. The problem is: all my restores doesn't work. Actually it starts until the point  is asks for media needed 09:11:50 (78636.xxx) Restor...

ldias by Level 4
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Resolved! NetBackup 7.5.0.3 not detecting IBM TS3310 robot

OS           -        UNIX Solaris 10 on SUN SPARC 64 bit NBU         -       7.5.0.3 When attempting to create storage devices in NBU the robot is not detected. Robot fibre connected via switch. CFGADM shows drives but not robot. I looked at the com...

Willie_SA by Level 6
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Problem with backup Oracle DB

Need solution   After upgrade of netbackup media server version from 7.1 to 7.5.04, we have errors during oracle database and archivelog backups rman script output released channel: t2 RMAN-00571: ===========================...

Ilgiz by Level 3
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Resolved! Not able to insatll client binaries on Linux Red Hat Platform

I'm not able to install client binaries on client machine Its giving me errors : Unable to install binaries on incorrect platform  (Test policy Client : Linux IA-64 RedHat206 My Client OS version is Linux  2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 2 14:58:14 EDT...

Resolved! user initiated backup failed with server status 40

G'day,   I am trying to run a user initiated backup for a large amount of data, filelist is like: /data/vol1 /data/vol2 /data/vol3 ....   Each of the directory has around 1T data, when I run them in a single job, got error after run about 3 hours: --...

ynd by Level 3
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SAN client Throughput is very low ..25Mbps

Hi  we have couple of SAN clients which are large due to limited drives we have issue like they are not completing with in 24 hours before next schedule kicks off so today we noticed ( its there for long time :) ) the throughput most of sessions are ...

Raju_la by Level 5
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