Topics with Label: Managing Backup Devices

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 ...

Zoning Aix to Netbackup 5230

Hi guys, I just create a zone between AIX (LPAR), 5230 appliance and a storage like this As you can the AIX server has two FC adapter each one belongs to a zone,but sometimes I lose visibility from netbackup so I have to go to the client and ru...

Resolved! User Access Management on Appliances

Hi all, Am I reading it right that User Access Management, because it's part of the NBAC, isn't available on the NetBackup Appliances? Does this mean either I can give users admin access or nothing at all? I am aware of the command line ability to ...

Resolved! Advanced disk space

I´m running out space in my "advanced disk" but in my MSDP I have plenty of space. So I need to know if there is way to "take" some space from MSDP in order to add some TBs to advanced disk? If so, this process involves lose data from MSDP? For ful...

Resolved! Netbackup appliance 5230 & Fibre Channel Autonegotiation

HI, I have deployed a 5230 appliance with 2.6.1.2 release. During the configuration of FibreTransport media server, I had several issues with the link between SAN Switch (Brocade 16Gb FABOS 7.3.0c ) and the target ports on the appliance (port 1 on ...

Resolved! How to migrate backups between MSDP's

Hello people. I have a domain with two MSDP but a MSDP this with 89% in use and another 35% in use and I have backups with one-year retention. In this case, I wonder what is the best practice to migrate a backup between MSDP? I need to reduce a us...

Resolved! netbackup appliance connection with tape library

dear ali i have netbackup appliance 5220 connected with fibra channel and lan ports need to connect the tape library IBM TS3200 Tape Library with it how to proceed with it ,is there SAS port available on nbu appliance please advice ...

Resolved! MSDP Images dependence

How to discover images dependence in MSDP ? I want to delete a large image but I dont know if my MSDP will reclaim a space enough. It would be interesting if there was a tool to inform the dependencies of an image.

Resolved! Data storage(PureDisk) usage 0% after RAID battery replaced in 5220

RAID battery was replaced by NCR techs, and recalibartion finished, battery looks good: from: /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpbbucmd -getbbustatus -a0 >> BBU status for Adapter: 0 BatteryType: iBBU Voltage: 4058 mV Current: 0 mA Temperatu...

Disk Pool used Capacity sizes are different between two devices that replicates to one another

In my environment we have to netbackup appliances in to different locations where on replicates to the other. The issue is that all the other metrics match between the two appliances pure disk and Advanced Disk but pure disk disk pool used capacity d...

Resolved! Netbackup appliance 5220 Fan failure error

Hi All, Can someone please guide on the below alert i have received today not sure If I need to escalate Symantec support to check it. +-------+ | Enclosure 1 Fan Information | |+-----+| ||ID | Status | Speed | LowWaterMark | State | Ackn...

Resolved! Mitigating IPMI vulnerability...

N5230 v2.6.1.2. Q1: I have been infiormed that the IPMI on our appliances are vulberable to a supposedly easily exploitable 'cipher zero IPMI attack'. Is it possible to disable the IPMI features and just run it as an https port so that we can still...

Resolved! SAN Client with Oracle Intelligent Policy

Hi, one of my customers is considering use of SAN Client. Is it possible to use SAN Client and Oracle Intelligent Policy together? I believe it should be possible, because SAN Clent is about transport, OIP is about backup configuration, but since I'...

MSDP has no images yet 94% full

I encountered a situation where the NBU 5220 I was replicating to via AIR was 94% full, even though I had expired all of the images from it. For expediency, I just blew away the disk pool and re-created it to get the desired results. My question is...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance LUN verification

Hi, Our company just bought Netbackup Appliance and currently in the midst of setting the appliance. Now there is 2 HBA card used with 4 port already zone in SAN switch. Storage we used Netapp and all the WWN already insert in initiator group and ...

Resolved! Symantec appliance 5230: BOMC

Hello I have tow doubts about 5230 appliance (ver. 6.5): 1) To activate de BOMC option is not neccesary a license, is it? 2) Turn on the "BOMC option" cause some kind of interruption in the appliance (Stop de active polici...

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! deduplication cache disable message

Hi, am getting below message in the deduplication job from one 5220 to another 5220 in the SLP job log. Info APPLIANCE1(pid=10527) StorageServer=PureDisk:APPLIANCE2; Report=PDDO Stats for (APPLIANCE2): scanned: 5944290 KB, CR sent: 1089216 KB, ...

Resolved! Moving tape libraries to new media server

I just added in a new 5230 media server to replace an old 5200 and im having trouble figuring out how to migrate the two tape libraries over to it. Does any one know of a way to change the ownership of the robots so that the 5230 has control? Im no...

Resolved! NBU Appliance 5220, Tape out, VMware integration, SAN transport mode, read-only LUNs, port usage

I am currently integrating a NetBackup Appliance 5220, and I am now detailing the SAN configuration. The intended use is to zone the the NBU appliance to the same LUNs as the ESX hosts and thus leveraging the SAN transport mode to pull the backups ov...

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...

VOX

Discussion Posts