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Resolved! Tape Library / Robot Changed now tapes with backups are imported as new

Ok basically we got a month end backup of all of our servers on Monday this week. After checking the Jobs, I saw that only one of the two drives on our PX502 was working, so I restarted the tape library. Massive mistake, now both of the magizines dis...

Resolved! Sometimes JOBs fail with status 84 & 83

Hello all, Netbackup 7.1 2 clustered master servers 7 Media Servers Can anyone give direction to understand why SOME backups fail with status 84 and 83(less frequency) This happens on several media servers. These JOBs ran several times a day, but...

Best Practice for Bring on a new media server.

Environment: 1 NBU 6.5.6 Master 4 NBU 6.5.6. Media Servers OS WIN2003 Ent. w/SP2 I have a media server on a older box that's starting to give me lots of NBU issues. I have new hardware for my NBU 7.x upgrade, but that's not planned till Q2 of 2012. ...

Resolved! Status Code 26 (Netbackup 7.1\Exchange 2010 Policy)

I am receiving the above error on our Exchange 2010 policy. This policy has been running under its current configuration for the last two or three months. Right now the Database source is set to "Active copy only", the Preffered server list includes ...

Code 303 When Vaulting

Master = WIn03 ENT w/SP2, NBU 6.5.6 11/7/2011 12:39:23 PM - requesting resource ma-atl06.us.manh.com.NBVAULT.MAXJOBS 11/7/2011 12:39:23 PM - requesting resource ma-atl06.us.manh.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.OffSite_Vault 11/7/2011 12:39:23 PM - granted...

Resolved! Offsite Tape Rotation

Hi all, I'm after some adive with regards the above. Currently I maintain a fairly robust spreadsheet where I record all completed policies against the tape barcode & our offsite storage company's barcode. I also make a note of all tapes which have e...

Resolved! VMware backups for Lotus Domino Server VM's - What are the options?

Environment NBU 7.1 (master server SLES11)NBU 7.1 (vmware backup host Windows Server 2003)vSphere 4.1 U1Lotus Domino 8.5 on Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machines With this environment: Is the only option to 'efficiently' backup Lotus Domino servers (e...

NetBackup Documentation

Just looking for a couple of NetBackup pdfs, I found a very interesting link posted from one of the Gurus https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/handy-netbackup-links I just wanted to share it.

Resolved! Staging Schedule Setup

Hi, After I set the Staging Schedule's Start Window to 7 days, I've got more 129 errors. The staging feature seems disabled. Why? Does 7 days mean any time staging is allowed? What does the 'blue area' indicate? If I want staging being allowed any ti...

Resolved! Upgrade Path from NBU 6.5.5

Hi, I am currently running NBU 6.5.5 on RHEL 5.6 and am looking to move to NBU7.1 can this be done in one upgrade or do I have to go from 6.5.5 to 7.0 then to 7.1 ? Any advice would be welcomed.

SAN Client & PDDO

Hi to all. Is there any point (and is ot possible) to use a PDDO storage unit as a target for a SAN FT Client? I am trying to investigate a case with about 30-40TB data that the end user want's to send to a dedupe storage unit and then tape-out, and ...

Resolved! netbackup 129 error & storage unit's high water mark

Hi, I've got lots of 129 errors recently for many policies. I've checked the Storage Unit and found the 'High water mark' is set to 10% and the 'Low water mark' is set to 5%. Is this 10% 'High water mark' the problem cause? The default should be 98%,...

Resolved! best practice to back up file servers

Hi, our master and media servers are all NBU 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2. We have 10+ file servers (all are Windows 2003, NBU 7.1 client). We found the data sizes in these file servers grow very fast. Now the total sizes grow to 10+ TBs. Every time it tak...

Resolved! Code 69 when attempting to backup first storage group

Info given to Symantec Support: Master (ma-atl06) = WIN03 Ent. w/SP2, NBU 6.5.6 Client (clustered, ma-atl214 & ma-atl215) = WIN08 Ent. w/SP2, NBU 6.5.6 *What specifically is failing (such as backups/restores)?: Information Store Backup on Exchange 20...

Best practice Netbackup 7.1 and PDDO 6.6.1.2

We face all kinds of issues with integrating Netbackup with PDDO Has anybody experience integrating NBU + PDDO Cluster of 75 TB (200 TB Front end) I wish to share the experience

Where is the Vault GUI?

We just recently implemented Netbackup Enterprise 7.1 and I am starting to play around with the Vault module. However, I noticed that the only way to manage containers is to use the Vault Operator Menu (vltopmenu) or the vlcontainers command, both of...

Resolved! NBU Backup Selection Switches

Everyone, I'm looking for a TN that lists and describes available Backup Selection options (I.e. *, /, etc). Thanks, Tim

Advice needed on a strange new Backup Plan

Good morning, I would love some advice on the new setup we are implementing here. Please bare in mind that the hardware and the third party company are things beyond my control. We have 4 terrabytes of disk space available to use via the third party...

Resolved! VMWare Backup Host - Datastore zoning

REFERENCE: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-vmware-how-configure-datastores-where-backup-host-vm Hi, I have a similar question. My VMWare backup Host is one of my physical media servers. I've added zoning so this VMWare back...

Resolved! Windows Open File Backup best practice

I was browsing through my environment the other day (Windows 2003 Master, NBU 7.01) and noticed that about half of my clients now have the WOFB "feature" turned on. This is showing up for both Windows and Linux clients, which is really odd. Was there...

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