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In case you are not aware - you can subscribe to NBU notifications over here: https://sort.veritas.com/spec_doc Hopefully NBU 9 will be added to the list soon.

Prevent backups to start every month

Hi, I'm using Netbackup 6.5 on 300+ servers. Everything works fine. But I have a little problem : I'm doing a full backup every Month (1st), a full backup every week end (with a lower retention period) and a diff backup every evening. Most of ...

Resolved! copy images from tape to tape

Hi all, I have to copy images from a old tape to a new tape with bpduplicate I have tried with "bpduplicate -id <media ID> -dp <destination pool>" Netbackup start and exit the job with EX 144 -> invalid command usage. What is the appropriate bpduplic...

Netbackup DLO

I am going on on-site to review a Clients DLO implementation; I will need to perform a Mini-health check with a specific focus: 1. Evaluate their storage capacity for DLO; Make Recommendations 2. Evaluate their load balancing for DLO; Make Recommen...

Resolved! Can two media servers control one robotic of a two-drive tape library

We have two media servers, one for normal backups and one for database backups, one media server owns the robot. Is it possible to assign one drive to each of the media server even without the SSO license?

DLO issue

Hello I am having a problem with DLO for one of my customer. When I was going to open the DLO console from start>all programs, it was showing "Symantec Netbackup" there but when I open the console there it was showing "Symantec backup exec 10d". My q...

NetBackup Tape Overwritten

Hi, Maybe I’m asking a known question but I tried to read over and couldn’t find exactly what I need. I’m using VERITAS Net Backup 4.5 for UNIX but I do have a GUI interface either. I missed the backup yearly policy on last year due to an error in th...

NetBackup 6.5.3.1 - Not retrying

I recently upgraded from NBU5.1 to 6.5. I currently have "Scheduled backup attempts" set to 2 in 12 hours. I use a wrapper script to launch bpbackup -i -w 0 and trap the errors from there. In 5.1, a job would requeue with an error, return the erro...

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