Topics with Label: Deduplication Option

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Resolved! Creating MSDP on RedHat 6

We are currently working on setting up some Media Storage servers in out new NetBackup environment. Currently, in 7.1.0.3, the MSDP pools can be up to 32tb in size. With 7.5, that grows to 64tb in size. When looking at setting up the storage for ou...

Resolved! SLP Duplicate Copy Info

Hi Guys, I am running a script to get the Full backup dates of the servers in my env by bpimagelist. I would like know is there a way to get info about the secondary copy which created by the duplication job. Means the retention and all. Is it true...

Resolved! bpduplicate very slow

Hi, I want to duplicate some images from one tape to another. The job runs with only 61 KB/min. How can I speed up my bpduplicate??? My environment: NBU 6.5.6 Master + Media-Server: Windows 2003 R2 EE x64 Drives: LTO4 - HP-ESL712E-Library TIA D...

OST Licenses needed for ExaGrid?

I have mixed information on this. Is OST licenses needed for ExaGrid? Source 1: OST licenses are not needed since ExaGrid is doing post dedupe. Therefore the basic disk licenses are sufficient if customer is not doing Storage Life Policy or having ...

Resolved! NetBackup 7 Deduplication PostgreSQL Startup

NetBackup 7.1.0.3 deduplication on SuSE: From which script is the PureDisk database started up? I have a problem that PostgreSQL doesn't automatically start when starting NetBackup using /etc/init.d/netbackup start Thanks

Netbackup deduplication over WAN

I know there is no real number answer for my question about deduplication but I am looking into deduplicating data from 8 well connected 10MB link sites to our head office that has 100MB. I am using client side deduplication and have completed my fir...

Resolved! Optimized Duplication - How to switch it off ?

Hi, can you help ? Using NBU 7.1.0.2 and OpenStorage we have a strange behavior : Backup done on Dedupe DiskPool : OK (verify and restore OK) Backup done on Tape : OK (verify and restore OK) Duplication from Tape to Dedupe Disk Pool : OK (verify a...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.1 Client-side Deduplication Fails Status 83

I'm testing client-side deduplication and am getting Status code 83 failures. I had an open case with Symantec open on this before and we did some troubleshooting, but never got it resolved and went back to media server deduplication. Most of the t...

Resolved! VM Snapshots using netbackup bpbackup flashbackup

I was looking at a client side intiated backup of a VM server hosted on vSphere 5. This would entail the use of a bpbackup command to intiate the backup by making a call to a Master Server Netbackup Policy which would undertake a snapshot of the VM u...

Resolved! NetBackup Master Server Upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 64-bit.

Thanks to Marianne van den Berg's email and the articles above she sent me, I successfully manage to migrate my master server from NetBackup 7.0 32-bit to NetBackup 7.0 64-bit from one Box to another [Blade Server]. Kudos to Marianne!! With the f...

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 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

New idea posted - de-dupe sream handler for NDMP for BlueArc Hitachi NAS

FYI - If there's anyone else who would like a NetBackup MSDP/PDDO/Appliance de-dupe NDMP stream handler for BlueArc (Hitachi NAS) - then please vote up the idea posted in the ideas section for NetBackup. :)

PHX User Group Meetings - What do YOU want to hear more about?

Hello fellow Phoenix Backup & Archiving group members, There are currently 4 Symantec Backup & Archiving User Group meetings each year in the Phoenix area, yet only a small group of members attend on a regular basis. We would like to improve attendan...

MSDP tune parameter

Hi all, I have to tune a parameter that controlls the disk space on the MSDP, following this technote: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH148008 My question is if could I tune the parameters of MSDP while a backup job is running to this storage unit? ...

Resolved! Question about MSDP and Automated Image Replication (AIR)

I am working with Netbackup 7.1 and researching AIR with MSDP. I have come across the statement "If you are using MSDP for A.I.R, only the deduplicated data gets replicated. If the target already had the segments, it is not send again.". I understa...

Resolved! "Awaiting resource **** No drives are available"

We have a two node NetBackup 7.0.1 cluster running on RedHat Linux Enterprise, two media servers on Windows 2008 R2 and a HP MSL8096 tape library. Recently we're facing an issue where during a daily vault duplication two out of three drives on our MS...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.0.1 with Data Domain OST plugin

We are using SLPs to replicate data backup images from one DD to another . While the duplication job is showing successful on the source and I can see space getting used up in the target , we are not able to see the source backup images in the target...

Resolved! Deduplication and Staging

Good Afternoon, I am begininning to implement deduplication in a single Master/Media environment running 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 SP2. The question I have is when it comes to Staging from the deduped Storage Unit (Near Term Storage) to Tape (long term)...

Question concerning upgrade/compatibility of NBU 7.1 (with msdp)

Hi all. we are planning to upgrade our servers (one master , two media with MSDP) , from 7.0.1 to 7.1 . We use the deduplication option at client side so we need to know if there is any issue concerning the use of 7.0 clients with 7.1 netbackup serv...

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