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Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

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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 ...

Resolved! After upgrading appliance to 2.6.0.2 , backups fail intermittantly with error 24 and 14

Hi All, We recently upgraded on of our appliance from 2.5.3 to 2.6.0.2. It was a direct upgrade to 2.6.0.2 version. Since the upgrade backups are failing with error 24 and 14 mainly socket errors and we can see winsock error 10060 in bpbkar. The in...

Resolved! AIR - image contains no files at remote domain

We are using NBU 5230 Appliances (NBU 7.5) at Primary site with AIR to replicate the Oracle database images to the remote NBU 5230 Appliances (another NBU domain) using SLP. The primary job completes successfully (shows 16GB size). The replication j...

Resolved! AIR replication between different NBU releases

Hello there, Can I perform AIR replication between 2 Netbackup release? I am going to be upgrading my both appliances soon but the upgrade will be spread out between 3-4 weeks. Can I have one appliance on 7.6.0.1 and other on 2.5.2 performing AIR r...

Resolved! Netbackup accelerator vs netbackup dedupe

folks, here is a scenario i m confused about. do not have valid answer to take it up with management. NBU master n media servers at 7.5 .I have 4 NBU appliances all NBU 5220(version 2.5.1,acting as media server). their total capacity is almost reac...

Resolved! unallocated disk space

Hi experts I have 2 NBU appliance 5220 , version 2.5.1 I could see 12.4GB unallocated disk on expansion unit storage. is this fairly normal??? if not how can I allocate 12.4GB to Expansion Unit Storage (unit_2) . please tell me complete process....

Resolved! NBU 5230 tech specs

Hello Is there anyone who is using the NBU 5230 appliance? I am looking after same information as included in this link for NBU 5230 SYMC NETBACKUP BNDL 5230 APPLIANCE 28TB WITH 4 1GB ETHERNET - 2 10GB ETHERNET - 2 8GB FIBRE CHANNEL with SKU 21268476...

Resolved! How to check Puredisk version

How do I check the PureDisk version on a 5220 appliance?

Resolved! SAS Tape Drive to NBU Appliance

Hi, I would like to check if we can connect a SAS tape drive to NBU5230 Appliance? Thanks!

Resolved! Auto Image Replication issue

Hi, i have an issue when i am trying to configure AIR, i have 2 appliances configured as media servers both master servers are windows, whenever i am trying to configure storage lifecycle policy on Source domain (picture No : 2 in the attache...

Resolved! NIC Bonding

Hello, Having a little trouble getting 802.3ad nic teaming working on two 5230 appliances. I've configured teaming before on Windows 2008 servers and it seems to work fine. The network team configures LACP on the switch side, and on the server side...

Resolved! Upgrade Symantec Appliance from 5230 B to 5230 D?

All, What would be the process of upgrading Symantec NetBackup Appliance from 5230 B to 5230 D? I am using NetBackup 7.5 on Windows... with existing backup images on the appliances, so images need to be maintained on the appliances as well. Thanks, A...

Resolved! Appliance 5230 Deduplication and storage unit

Hi experts, we have 2 * 5230 appliance 28 TB (base unit +Shilf), i am confided depend on what i need to decide then create the backup partition and deduplication ? do i need to create 2 partition one for backup and other for deduplication ? if ye...

IPV6 failed DNS lookups??

One of our admins was running some traces againts DNS and brought to my attention that the 5200 appliance that is in our DR facility is attempting to do IPV6 dns lookups. IPV6 is not configured or used on anything in our environment so this confuses...

Resolved! New Reporting with 2.5.3?

Has anyone that upgraded to 2.5.3 started seeing some new monitoring reports on hardware? Ive started getting this report every 12 hours and Im not sure if this is something that is actually working or has been working all along and something happene...

NBU 5220 IO messages

I have a 5220 running 2.5.2 and have the EEB installed for the constant messages for high IO. However, I do occasionally still get an alert and want to make sure that things are OK. In searching, I found this command, iostat -kx 300 2, and with it...

Editing Host file on Netbackup 5520 appliance

I could do with some help on what options are available to add entries to the host file on the 5520 appliance. I am familiar with using the CLISH and navigating to >>Network from the main menu and the using the following command: hosts add 10.0.0.1 n...

Resolved! NBU 5220 Performance

We recently deployed a 5220 appliance into our environment as it was to be the savior in our battle against a backup window we were no longer able to meet. When we finally got it online and into our NBU environment the initial performance was great....

NetBackup Appliances: Best Practices, Known Issues, Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting tips, Documentation and Downloads

Don't Miss This!!! This article gives you a single point of access for help with NetBackup Appliance known issues, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for common Appliance problems such installation and configuration. The Symantec Technical Su...

Resolved! Configure off-host SAN based VM backups using 5220

Hello folks, I understand how to configure a VMware Policy using vStorage API and making 5220 as a backup host and putting in VCENTER credentials. My question is about zoning the datastores to the appliance. In order to do san based backups, my datas...

Resolved! SNMP configuration for 5020-DeDupe appliance & 5220-MSDP

Is there any way to add a query to MIB list to recive an alert in trap reciever(SNMP server) from DeDupe appliance & 5220-MSDP, whenever entire pool goes down(Situation when backup fails with status 2074). How can I change the priority for MIB ...

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