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drive discrepency

i found many drives and robot in discrepency when i run ./tpautoconf -report_disc i check the /dev/rmt path also found positive output of mt -f /dev/rmt/ <>cbn status also check the assigned luns and target in sg.conf and also found in sgscan i a...

Resolved! WRN - disk full at byte: 0

Running NBU 7.0.1 on W2K3 Master server. Trying to do a restore to a CIFS share which fails. I saw a similar thread in April about this but there wasn't a resolution on it, so I thought I would re-open it. I am able to map a drive to the share using ...

Resolved! VM Backup Policy ignoring Exclude Data Disk selection

HI, I have recently started to use Netbackup 7.5.0.1 to backup our VM estate, as we already have policies in place to cover the user data which is held on seperate drives (D, E & F) I have set the VMWare policy to excluse the data disks, this has wor...

Resolved! error on the Browse of source or destination client

Hi, i have a problem while i want to restore " that in Backup ,Archive, and restore menu in the left pane then when i select Restore Files tab (the Browse Client List didnot include any of clients in this list so i write the client name that i want ...

Resolved! Import MSDP images

Need help ..... Scenario: NBU 7.5 (unpatched) RHEL Master/Media server with Media Server Dedupe in Lab environment. Colleague backed up his laptop before wiping it for OS re-install. A day or so later when he tried to access the backup, he got socke...

Resolved! Backup selection (Unix)

Hi All, I have one quick question. does "/" means ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES for Unix client backup selection. Thanks, Abdulloh

Resolved! Creating new Robot for new library

Hi, i want all steps in details to create a new robot to control the new ibm vtl assigned to NB 7.0.1 in unix with updates related to the post https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/new-system-storage Now we have this new ibm device con...

Resolved! Migration NBU

Good afternoon, I would need to confirm if I can perform the following migration, and hardware catalog, with the following characteristics: Current platform: Sparc V440, Solaris 9, NBU 5.1 (master / media) STK L180 robotic library with IB...

Migracion NBU

Buenas, necesitaria me confirmen si puedo realizar la sieguiente migracion, catalogo y hardware con las siguientes caracteristias: Platafora actual: V440 Sparc, Solaris 9, NBU 5.1 (master/media) Libreria robotica STK L180 con drives IBM LTO2 FC Plata...

Taking advantage of EMC Celerra NAS dedupe in NetBackup

How do I ensure that I'm getting the advantages of my Celerra deduplication passed along to NetBackup? I did a quick test on a filesystem which is deduplicated on the Celerra and is ~150GB (deduped size). With the "SET TYPE=TAR" directive the full ...

Resolved! Removing a single volume from a multi-volume AdvancedDisk disk pool, without expiring any backups

Hi all, https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/moving-images-between-disks-advanceddisk https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/has-anyone-successfully-removed-volume-advanced-disk-pool I found the above two related posts, but c...

Resolved! Changing retentions for previous backups.

We have a scenario where we would like to be able to Duplicate previous/past backup jobs/images so that we can apply new retentions to these duplications. For example: say we've been running a backup job (no duplication) for the past year with a re...

exclude list confusion

HI client linux 2..6 NBU 6.5.6, master ,media win 2008 NBU 7.1 currently is backedup under policy which hav selection list as ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE. client hav close to around 4TB of data. df -h output reveals: / /boot /dev /u01 /docdata 3.2TB i dec...

Resolved! NetBackup 7.1 Deduplication with Encryption

Hi all, I was going through the NetBackup documentation on deduplication for 7.1 (Netbackup_Dedupe_Guide.pdf) and I'm looking for the behavior of encrypted data going from the deduplication pool to tape. According to the documentation: The follo...

Resolved! NBU 7.0.1 and Vault, any How-To's?

I am trying to gather some information about using NetBackup Vault, unfortunately I haven't found any usefull documentation yet. I'm pretty new to "Vaulting" so let's pretend I need a "beginners" guide of sorts. Can someone point me in the right dir...

How to find the drive associated to the media server

Hi Troops, Please help me on the below. Actually i want to know which drive is connecetd to which mediaserver. For example, From the acs server i can see the drive by q dr all then it will show all the drives likw below. 1,0,0,1 1,0,1,2 1,1,1,1 i ...

Resolved! Why is local restore tying up the WAN?

Master - Windows 2k8 running 7.1.0.4 at main site Media Server - Appliance running 2.0.2 at remote site (I'm not sure this is totally Appliance related so I'm asking in the general forum) Restore target - W2k8 box located at the same remote site Ba...

DataStore policy & Server update

Hi, everyone Can someone give me a little details about NBU datastore policy? Such as what is being used on client, any API/SDK needed on NBU? And how it works? Where can we check the API/SDK information? Any NBU doc talks about datastore? Backup fai...

Resolved! Backup a mapped drive to a NetApp?

NBU = Win2008 Enter. R2 x64 with SP1, NBU 7.1.0.3 I'm sure this has been asked a few times, but is it possible to map a network drive (on Master server) to a location on a NetApp filer and back that directory up? It would only be capturing .bak file...

Resolved! NetBackup command for activity monitor output

Hi All, I need your help as usual. Is it possible to get same output as activity monitor from command line. I know it is possible with bpdbjobs -report, but columns which i need are not appering in the report (output). Columns which I need are: JobID...

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