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Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

Please check out this living document. Welcome all feedback. https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100049781

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available in the Download Center. https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD236988 Please install it *before* installing any other EEB/HotFix. If you install it af...

Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances Page

Please note the the following link: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100038989 This is the *only* page that will provide Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances. Every effort will be made to keep this ...

Netbackup Appliance support for VPC (Virtual Port Channel

Hi, We have new Network infratructure being implemented where the traditional method of stacking switches to allow us to LACP across multiple switches, has been replaced with a new NEXUS 9000 setup which now uses something call VPC (Virtual Port Cha...

Resolved! Deduplication when using SQL Server backup compression

A quick question about using NetBackup with compressed SQL Server backups. Our backups infrastructure consists of NetBackup v7.6 and NetBackup 5230 appliances. Our SQL server estate is a mixture of SQL Server versions 2005-2012 on Windows 2003-2012....

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance - CLI configuration, escape characters?

I'm trying to configure LDAP on a NetBackup Appliance via the commandline. I go to Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory > Configure, but the username I'm using has special characters in it (the "dash" or "minus" symbol). So for ex...

Symantec 5230 - AIR - Network Traffic

I have a question regarding data flow in the following environment: 3 sites, each a seperate NBU domain with a 5230 appliance and multiple windows servers (2K8R2 & 2K12R2) I use AIR to replicate backups between the sites 1 scenario is as follow...

Resolved! Backup all Hyper-V guest machines on a host

We have NetBackup 7.6.1.1 Appliance based infrastructure. I would like to add all Hyper-V VMs to NBU policy so that we don’t have to select the guests indovidually. For example, If a guest is added on Hyper-V which is already being backed-up thought...

Netbackup Appliance 2.6.1.1 Mail Issues FIXED

The Mail Issues that everyone is having with netbackup appliance is fixed in 2.6.1.1, but 2.6.1.2 breaks the email fix. Has anyone else experience this Has stated in their release notes SMTP server settings for appliance notifications Starting...

Resolved! Audit - Who changed what policies and when

We are running NBU Appliance based environment ver 2.6.1.1 and NBU ver. 7.6.1.1. We are required to enable auditing to capture who changed what policies and when. We also have OpsCenter Analytics that I am sure can possible be useful. Appreciate yo...

Netbackup Appliance Administration

This is a pretty baasci question, I just want to make sure I am doing this right. I am new to Netbackup appliances. I have a Netbackup 5230 appliance that is setup as the master server, and another one that will be at a different site, also server as...

Resolved! Upgrade operating system for Symantec Appliance 5220

Our Information Security team, as per the annual audit, scanned the hosts for vulnerability and found that the OS on these appliance is very old - scan output message says, "Unsupported Unix Operating System". Lack of support implies that no new sec...

Resolved! Failed upgrade to 2.6.1.1 from 2.6.0.3 on 5230

Just attempted upgrading our 5230 appliance from 2.6.0.3 to 2.6.1.1 and after running for about 2 hrs or so, it failed with the following email: Command install_NB_rpm failed to execute. An UpgradeStatus command shows the following: The softw...

Resolved! When registering an appliance...

N5230 v2.6.0.3 Settings > Alerts > Callhome Registration... ...is it best to specify: a) The address of the 'owner' of the hardware. ...or: b) The address of the 'physical location' of the the hardware. Thanks.

Resolved! Root SSH access to NBU Appliance

Hi All, I have admin access to my NBU appliance but not the root access , Could anybody help me with how to enable ROOT SSH access ? I have tried searching WEB for it but i found no proper procedure to do . Thanks, Nayab

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance 5230 has flashing green LED but Web console shows no problem

Hi all! I have multiple NetBackup 5230 Appliances and I just added new trays, NICs and HBAs. All the rest are working fine, however 1 of my NBU 5230 appliance is showing the flashing green LED (degraded performance). I accessed it via the web conso...

Resolved! Netbackup 50xx appliance: Connect to multiple media servers?

Can we connect Netbackup 5000 series appliance to multiple media servers? Can I create multiple disk pools on a single appliance? While creating disk pools in Netbackup admin console, there is an option to "use the media servers mentioned below" wh...

Resolved! nbostpxy.exe multiple threads on Windows 2008 R2 server

We have NetBackup 7.6.0.4 running on Appliance 5220 ver. 2.6.0.4. Recently some resource issues forced us review the processes on one of the SQL cluster node and found the (see attached) nbostpxy.exe, each eating up 6% CPU utilization. I stopped th...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance commands

Hello All, How to check Ping, Telnet, Bptestbpcd commands in Netbackup appliances commandline. Thanks

Resolved! Symantec Appliance Call Home - Network Interface

Which Network interface will the 5230 appliance attempt to use when performing the call-home function ? For example, if I have a 5230 configured with IPMI port attached to my management network, 2 x 10GbE interfaces attached in a failover mode to my...

NetBackup 7.6.1 / 2.6.1 - MSDP Conversion

After going through the 'pain' of MSDP conversion when moving appliances from 2.5.x to 2.6.0.x, whereby I saw conversion taking anywhere from 4hrs to 27hrs, I was surprised to see the conversion is required AGAIN when moving from NBU 7.6.0.3 to 7.6.1...

Resolved! Disk expansion on NBU appliance 5220

Hello All I have an NBU appliance 5220. We need to add new 24 TB disk expansion unit on it. madapp.Storage> Show ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Device | Total | Unallocated ...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance Migration Tool

Ha anybody used this before and can shed some light . We have a WAN policy backup up remote server to media server one . We however just installed a second media server netabckup applinace and want to move Some of the client from the policy to the ne...

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