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Is Domain Administrator account required to restore files or folders VMware Guests?
In order to have a Backup Admin to be able to restore all files with any permission from any VMware guests, does he have to have the same privilege's ad Domain Admin and essentially he has to know the password for Domain Admin?Thanks for your inputs ...
migrate On-Premise Solution to Hybrid Environment
hello everyone, I am currently working on a migration project of a NetBackup solution (software/hardware) that has 95% of the hardware obsolete and without support and licensing by capacity, is studying the option of migrating to a hybrid solution th...
Media Server fragment size
My question is about otimizationOur Pure Disk type storage disks are configured with a fragment size of 51.2 GB. Our storage units that send to HCP(Hitachi) and those that send to AWS are configured with a fragment size of 524.288 GB.What I would lik...
Migrating NetBackup Media Server on Linux to Master Server on Windows and Decommissioning Media Ser
Hello NetBackup Experts,I need your expert advise on the below:Currently we have 1 x NetBackup 8.3 Master Server running on Windows 2012 R2 and 4 x NetBackup Media Server on Windows as well 4 x Media Server on Linux. We want to consolidate all Media ...
Resolved! Use different network interfaces for different jobs/policies
Hi,Netbackup 9.1 (or 10) installed on windows server 2019 which is both the master and the media (local disks). Please assume the following simple scenario:Server has two NIC's :NIC 1 : 10.1.1.100 / NIC 1 : 10.1.1.101ESXi-1 : 10.1.1.200 (VM1 on it) ...
Resolved! Backup Image detailed file/folder size report
Hello!I have a physical windows client with daily differentials of 22GB in size. I'm trying to determine a way to output a detailed backup job report that includes files/folders, including the size backed up. This would help me establish a possible g...
New NetBackup Veritas Certified Specialist (VCS) exams now available!
Veritas Education Services is in the process of updating all the Veritas Certified Specialist (VCS) high-stakes certification exams. I’m very excited to announce that the first two exams available for registration are the VCS-282: Veritas NetBackup 9...
NetBackup Catalog Recover
Hello, I am trying to recover a NetBacukp catalog from an old server on a new one with another OS but same name and different IP address.I get the following error, when I chose the NetBackup Catalog Recovery Wizard right after successful installation...
incomplete restore 2850
netbackup 7.6.0.4 on RHEL 6.10Hi,I want to restore a backup from a decommissioned server (/home/user1/.ssh) to master server's /tmpbut it always failed with "1: (2850) Failed to get status code information"Detailed status:08/22/2022 07:38:49 - begin ...
In-Cloud Data Recovery with Veritas Alta™ Recovery Vault
Hi Friends, I've got some great news! My latest paper, "In-Cloud Data Recovery with Veritas Alta™ Recovery Vault" is now published! This is a super cool paper, if I do say so myself. Why is it so cool? It shows you how to use your new Veritas Alt...
which process uses these directories y how to control its size?
Hi people:I'm hunting down the responsible process that are using 52 GB on /usr/openv/logs/nbrntd and 220 GB on /usr/openv/var/global/telemetry:/usr/openv/logs# du -sh *20K bmrd1K bmrs1K bmrsetup4.8M nbars4.3M nbatd404K nbaudit923M nbdisco250M nbem...
Setup of malware scanning in Netbackup 10
For quite some times now, I am trying to setup the new malware scanning using Veritas own Alvira Scanner on a Linux host.So far, absolutely no chance to be successful. There's simply not enough information in the documentation on how it should be don...
Resolved! How to list slow and long backup jobs
Hi all,Is there any option how to in Netbackup find and list backup jobs, that are very slow or take a long time? Is it possible to check this somehow using cmd line or is there any built in graphical tool? I think, it is just common concern to know ...
NetBackup and Pure Storage Faster//Better
Today, most business-critical applications run on high-performance all-flash storage arrays. The same forces that drive business to demand high performance from their applications apply to data protection operations. In fact, the stakes are even hi...
Resolved! Is there a way to get the "backup selection" based on the backupid?
HelloWe have a storage system where we do a NDMP backup of multiple volumes. So the backupid will always be for example storage1_1234567 (only the number changes) and the backup policy is also the same. Is there a way to get the backup selection (pat...
Resolved! Unable to modify a previous version of SLP on Netbackup 8.0
When trying to modify a previous version of SLP to change the duplication residence, it fails at the command line. The previous Storage Unit definition was very long and doesn't fully show up in the listing. The full name is "grs-nbus2-hcart2-robot-t...
Resolved! netbackup chaining job
Hello,Is there a way to chain two job in netbackup?for example: first job launches the script to create files,second job starts after first one finished and backups these files to master server.Thanks.
List Scratch Tapes from Standalone and send a report
Dear Experts,I am planning to automate Scratch request of Standalone tapes to be recalled from DR.I use the below query to fetch the Scratch from Standalone.vmquery -pn Scratch -b | grep "NONE"The Output lists Media Id but We need Barcode of all thes...
monitoring with Zabbix
Hello, I am looking for monitoring plugins for Netbackup and then I need to find something for ZABBIX. Anybody has something like this or know where I can find these?
Backup timestamp not getting updated in SQL Studio for VMware SQL aware backups
Hello,We are taking a SQL aware VMware snapshot backup for a SQL VM and the backups/restores are all runnign fine. But the timestamp for the backup date in the SQL studio is not getting updated. It is still reflecting an old date when it was backed u...
