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Marianne by Level 6
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Backup & Recovery over the internet- Some help please?

Hi... We are in the process of rolling out a cloud based backup solution, we are using netbackup 7.5. I have tested LAN backups and it works great... I need some advice or best methods to connect our clients that will be coming in over the internet.....

Resolved! Media Server / SLP Duplication Question

I'm curious about how NetBackup decides which media servers should be used for SLP duplications.   We have 2 Data Domains which we back up to, with a total of 4 media servers; these servers are then grouped in load balanced pairs. Generally our polic...

Resolved! Client List in Registry

NBU 7.5.0.3, Windows: On my Master server, in the "Clients" key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config, I expected to see all 980 clients listed but I only see 9 clients.  I was trying to troubleshoot a connection p...

rsamora by Level 5
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Windows File Server errors with Status 13

Windows 2008 server with client 7.1.0.4.  Master Server (REHL 6.2) and Media Servers (Windows 2008) are 7.1.0.4. The above client has been problematic for weeks.  I seldom get a successful backup though I have from time to time.  Frequently I get Det...

trs06 by Level 5
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Netbackup buffer tuning question

Hi, If I don't have the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS & NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS files does that mean I am using the default values? If so, what are they? I am experiancing slow duplication from disk to tape, and I am trying to troubleshoot. See snippet below, I don'...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.5.0.4 and Exchange 2010 backup ( GRT )

Good Morning,   I'm trying to backup an Exchange server with GRT "option". I follwed the istruction that i found here :http://www.symantec.com/connect/videos/exchange-2010-sp2-grt-netbackup-75 On Media server i stopped and disable the Server and Clie...

Restore from Exchange 2010 DAG

When I launch a restore of one message, sometimes is correct and sometimes I have the network error "1: (23) socket read failed" and after 15 minutes, another job appears with this error "1: (42) network read failed". This last job has a client that ...

Netbackup and DD670 Disaster Recovery

Production has Netbackup 7.1 running on 1 master and 3 media with an OST plugins and VTL on DD670.  Data is replicated from Production to another DD670 at the DR site. I have a DR test and would isolate Production from DR.  Current DD670 at DR has no...

Failover storage unit group

We have a seem to be having a problem with a failover storage unit group.As I understand it,it should only failover if there is a problem. Assoon as this storage unit reaches its configured number of jobs,the following will not queue but go the confi...

What's the industry standard for large enterprise backup success rate?

Hello, Does anyone know what is the industry standard for large enterprise backup success rate? Anyone know where I can find such info? I understand that it's not easy to achieve 100% success rate all the time and I was wondering if there is any stan...

perojr by Level 2
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WIN32 5: Access is denied Netbackup 7.0 restore

Hi Guys, I am kinda stuck in a situtaion and need some help, I have installed a new Windows 2008 R2 server which will replace my old Windows 2003 file server after the data migration is done. I have backed up all the data from my current (W2K3) file ...

NetBackup For Vmware licenses

Dears,            I have requested a licensces for symantec NetBackup that  support the following enviroment 1000 VMs (VMware workstation windows 7/8  )  are hosted on  14  ESX servers 11 ESX servers 4 CPUs Per servers 8 core per CPU 3  ESX serve...

mghany by Level 3
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Resolved! Data centre migration - NetBackup BMR for Solaris clients

Need some advise on migration strategy to migrate Solaris based physical clients from one DC to another. The target DC is a different NetBackup domain. The client data is hosted on EMC and NetApp storage. There is no network connectivity between sour...

Itegral by Level 6
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Resolved! Deleting drives from media servers that have already been retired

We migrated off some old media servers awhile ago, but the drive configuration was not removed before the media servers were retired.  What is the correct method of removing drives for which the "owning" media server is no longer around? Thanks! -Mik...

elanmbx by Level 6
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Resolved! Tape is not vaulting

I have a vault job that runs for my monthy tapes to move them to a new volume group and then allow for a defferred eject.  3 tapes where used in my monthly job and 1 of them will not show up in the eject screen.  I have ran the vault job several time...

Resolved! Product compariso. Netbackup/Backup Exec/System Recovery

Can someone shed a little light on the following. Nowadays I’m trying to compare three different independent products provided by Symantec company (NetBackup, Backup Exec, System Recovery), and willing to know major differences among them. I’m partic...

Resolved! Limitations for NetBackup Master in a VMware 5.x Guest

We have several customers with NetBackup Master Servers in a VMware guest.  Most of these environments are less than 20 FETB and have catalogs less than 100GB.  We have a site at 40FETB with a catalog of over 300GB.  I fully understand limitation for...

CKWallace by Level 2
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Resolved! Very bad behaviour and week behaviour with windows clients

Dear All ,      I have something that makes me very very stock at  I've a netbackup 7.5.0.4  and windows clients with nb client 6.5.5 which I'll upgrade soon but not now due to some limitation policies from the customer side , the problem is that the...

VMCLIENT ERROR

Hi,, Below is the error while backup of VM in netbackup 7.5   Other clients are working only 3 clients getting the same error   1/19/2013 10:06:43 PM - Info nbjm(pid=4472) starting backup job (jobid=8752) for client MESSAGINTEAM-RHEL4-IND, policy Arc...

Sivasba by Level 2
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