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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! media server dedup pools?

Im trying to add in a new 5230 appliance as a media server to my 7.6.0.3 environment and im stuck at figuring out what type of storage pool to choose. i already have a 5200 in place that i have been using for almost 5 years and it setup as puredisk ...

Resolved! NBU Appliance 5220, 2.6.0.3. How to get the nbdeployutil report

I am currently trying to get an up to date report on the capacity usage, I may have to initiate a purchase of additional licenses. I figured out that I can use the nbdeployutil tool to generate the report. I have created an NetBackup CLI user and gen...

Resolved! Netbackup appliance setup

Hello Team, How Netbackup appliance setup is done mainly in terms of stgunit , can some body can define it and once defined what is the best practise in routing data in diff stg unit Regards Adivya Singh

Resolved! Master Server cold stand-by on NetBackup Appliance

I need some advise please on the follow requirement guys; We bought two 5220 appliances from Symantec last year with an intention to use as active/stand-by Master servers by avoiding single point of failure for the NBU Master server. We call them Ap...

Resolved! Cleanup of image fragments - NBU5230

Hello, I was in the process of duplicating a large image from one NBU5230 to another, when the duplication job was interrupted before completion. The NBU versions are both 2.6.0.2. Is there a way to look for or cleanup incomplete images on an appli...

NetBackup Appliances 2.6.0.4 is now available!

(crossposted from the Netting Out NetBackup blog) I’m extremely happy to announce that NetBackup Appliances 2.6.0.4 is now Generally Available! NetBackup 2.6.0.4 is the latest update for NetBackup 52xx Appliances and the equivalent Appliance patch ...

Resolved! Replication of GRT backup images

I have an NBU configuration at 7602 with 5220 appliances at 2602. The environment consists of 2 NBU domains with AIR beimg used for replication. When backing up Exchange with GRT enabled and subsequently DUPLICATING these images to tape there is an...

Exchange 2010 DAG Backup Experience / Recommendataions

Hi, We've just implemented an Exchange 2010 DAG using 3 nodes, there are 2 nodes at our primary site and the 3rd at our DR location, there are 6 databases of approx 100GB each. Each primary node has 3 active and 3 passive databases and the DR node h...

Resolved! Migrating From Data Domain To NBU Appliances

Hi, One of our customers is currently using NBU 7.5 for two infrastrucutres (Unix and Windows). Recently they decided to move to NBU Appliances (5230, 3 of them). what is the easiest way to migrate the existing data from the DD appliance to the...

Resolved! VMware backup over SAN: Appliance to ESX zoning

Guys, I have a Solaris based Master server and 5 x 5220 Appliances (media). I am interested to configure VMware backup over SAN. I need confirmation on whether zoning between Appliance (media server) to ESX is required? If yes, then Appliace is Ini...

Resolved! HBA configuration is not saved after appliance reboot

Hi Support, Please I need a solution on how I can make my hba cards configuration persistant upon appliance reboot. I notice each time I reboot the appliance, all the hba cards return to the default mode, which is "initiator", whereas some were con...

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance configuring AIR in a single NBU Domain, is this possible?

Hi All, Please I need an advise on the above title. I have a large netbackup domain with dr remote location. I currently purchase some set of netbackup appliances and want to configure the auto-image replication between the production and dr site. ...

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance MSDP Dedupe ports not opened

Hi Support, I recently configure client-side deduplication on netbackup appliance 5230 running appliance v2.6.0.3. However, the client-side deduplication fails with error code 83 "Clients direct plugin not available" I got a technote that seems to ...

NetBackup Appliance v2.5.4 re-image failed

Hi Team, Kindly assist, I recently re-image my NetBackup Appliance 5230 running v2.5.4. However, the re-imaging did not complete successfully. I got this two errors below while the re-imaging is still booting: vxfs mount: vxfs: ERROR:V-321268: /dev...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance Slow Rehydration to tape and bad backup performance

Help! Netbackup Appliances 5230 2.6.0.2. One of our appliances houses ms-standard windows all local drives backups and vmware snapshot backups. Backups run at good speeds however as soon as we start our slps to copy the data from the msdp to tape t...

Backup SAN VMware Slow

Hello I have a very big doubt with respect to my VMware backups of my Netbackup Appliance 5220 he is doing. Efetuei a recent update to version v2.6.0.3 and realized that there was a significant delay in my backups. Looking better in Master Server...

Resolved! Backup Appliance 5230 for Scale out Storage

Hi everyone, I am going to work on the design of backup solution for scale out storage (700TB) with Backup Applince 5230. The solution is based on NFS scan through the snapshot thus I am going to mount to daily snapshot and run the backup process th...

Resolved! Disable all Jobs while patching

We're about to upgrade our 5230 appliances to 2.6.0.3 and I want to be sure our scheduled jobs don't start during the patch. What's the easiest way? All jobs are configured through SLP's. Thanks

NetBackup Appliances 2.6.0.3 is now available!

(crossposted from the Netting out NetBackup blog) I’m extremely happy to announce that NetBackup Appliances 2.6.0.3 is now Generally Available! NetBackup 2.6.0.3 is the latest update for NetBackup 52xx Appliances and the equivalent Appliance pa...

Resolved! Replication AIR Limitation

Hello I have a Netbackup Appliance 5220 and recently configured the AIR to transfer from my master to another, which is located in my office. I have several backup jobs Oracle, VMware and File Server, the window is well programmed and configured ...

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