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Resolved! Tape Expiry Confusion

Hi all, Just noticed with NBU BAR that a backup image (where the policy has a 1 year retention set) states that the image will expire in 1 month. However, when I run a 'images on tape' report the expiration is correct and is 1 year from now. Anyone s...

Resolved! How to restore from tapes with Storage Lifecycle policy?

Hi, NetBackup 7.0.1 on solaris 10 I have a storage lifecycle policy that backs up first to VTL and then do duplication to the tape library. Now I need to test a SOX restore which requires to restore from tapes. However, since the VTL still has the ba...

Resolved! NBU / OS Not controlling Robotics since library upgrade

We upgraded our library from ADIC i2k to Quantum i6k and associated LTO3 to LTO5 drives. All looks good excpet the robotics are no longer controllable and the cfgadm command produces a failing message. We're running on Solaris 10 sparc and NBU 7.1.0...

Resolved! verbose

  There are two ways this can be done : To increase the verbose level of all logs (except vault) Add the entry VERBOSE = <level> into /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf.  <level> is a value between 0 and 5, with 5 being the highest. To increase the verbos...

Resolved! How can I get a report of tapes used by Backup Policies?

Is there a wait to get this report from the Java GUI? or, OpsCenter?     thanks.

Resolved! how to stop netbackup log creation

I open a case with Symantec netbackup on 10/18/12 to troubleshoot renaming medias.  The tech enabled logging not sure where.  Now there is a daily 4 files of 51,200KB under \Veritas\netbackup\logs folder.  Can you tell me where to disable this loggin...

Resolved! DataDomain Randomly filling - Not sure if NetBackup or DataDomain issue

Recently, I've noticed that my DataDomain seems to randomly start filling up, approaching 90%. It has historically been hovering between 73% and 79% full depending on recent cleaning and will hover in that range for weeks. But, from time to time, cle...

Resolved! Problem sending emails about unsuccessfull backups

Hello, NB 7.5.0.4 Linux RedHat 5.8. I put the admin address on the Global Attributes, checked "Server sends email" on Universal Settings, and left the "Client's administrator email" blank. No luck. If I run mailx manually, it works. When backups fail...

Resolved! BMR setting up and restore

  Dear all,    I wan to settup BMR for DDR and have seen the videos from Link 1:  http://www.symantec.com/connect/videos/netbackup-bmr-701-release-windows-2008-client-physical-machine-virtual-machine-restore-part1  and Link 2:  http://www.symantec.co...

Resolved! Exclude list

Hi All   we have master server at NBU 7.1 and solaris 10 and a Linux client with following configuration.  cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version NetBackup-RedHat2.6 6.5.6 I have to exclude a FS from standard backup, I have created a exclude list, but...

Resolved! Is there any way to rememer error codes of netbackup easily ?

Resolved! Linux file selection

Hi, what´s the right way to backup a whole linux-server? File selection a) / b) All_local_drives   I thought it is "/" as it is with Unix-Policies, but I read "All_local-drives" several times.   I have NBU 7.1.0.4.   TIA Dirk

Resolved! when does it take effect if I change some option of the policy.

  I change a backup selection item in the backup policy, and apply the change. But the backup job still backup the previous 'backup selection item'.  It seems the change does not take effect.   If I restart the NetBackup service, it works for the new...