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Net backup 7.0 advantages over IBM TSM 6.2?

Hi, I need to get some of the advantages of net backup 7.0 over ibm tsm 6.2. Can anybody help me in finding out with some points as per experience or documentation on this if any? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Randeep Singh

Resolved! NetBackup 7.0 VMWare backup

It appears that vcb is still used by netbackup to restore individual files on windows servers. vranger uses vstorage and accomplishes the same task. we have the vm’s organized into groups called resource pools. With vranger, the backup job is dir...

Netbackup 7 - BMR for Solaris X64 Problem (SRT Creation ERROR)

Hi All, My Netbackup master server: Solaris 10 Update 8, x64 + Netbackup 7 I tried to use Solaris 10 Update 5,6,7,8 to create the SRT for Solaris BMR but all fails. Below is the log. Does anyone has idea about it? I already logged the ...

vSphere fault tolerance how to backup virtual machine?

I,m using NetBackup 6.5.4 for backup my VM. Using policy type FlashBackup-Windows(with using nb-proxy), to make VM`s snaps and copy to library. When i,m set fault tolerance on any VM, backup failed, cause vcb could not get snap from this VM. How to b...

ESX virtual machine error 156

Hi all, i was trying to configure a NBU for taking ESX Virtual Machine Backups. i was reading all technotes and specially 318357. now reached a point where need help :) my environment is: -->NBU Master/media/emm Server 6.5.4 (Solaris 5.10) -->NBU...

Delete _VCB-BACKUP_ from Virtual Machines

Hello People I have some Virtuals Machines in my Vritual Machines Backup Policy with errors 156. Commonly this error happen when the Virtual Machine have a VCB Snapshot created on the Snapshot Manager. I found a Power Shell command for delete the ...

Can NBU 6.5.2 supports vmware ?

Currently i have Netbackup 6.5.2. We are planning to upgrade it on 7. But b4 that i m planning to take entire 6.5 backup on vm(virtual machine). i mean wnt to make vm of 6.5. so that if any problem presists while upgrading to 7 i can restore 6.5 from...

Netbackup 7 + MS Virtual Server 2005

Hi, Can anybody please tell me if Netbackup 7 can backup VM's within a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 HyperVisor. The objective will be to restore a complete VM as another instance within the same HyperVisor. Also, can BackupExec 2010 do this? Th...

Resolved! "Browse for Virtual Machines" fails with status 5

Hi guys, Was hoping to throw an issue we're seeing by you. Any suggestions warmly welcomed! Environment: Netbackup 7, media server windows 2008, master Redhat AS5, using vstorage API not VCB for vmware backups. Issue: When we do a browse for clie...

Script to expire images using bpexpdate in a Windows Environment

Hi I am looking for help in scripting; that I can use to manually expire some images on my tapes. My NetBackup environment is all Windows. Thanks

Resolved! NBU Proxy server

i have a Netbackup 6.5.4 Master/Media/Emm installed on SUN ultra 25, Solaris 5.10 having 6.5.4 BMR Master Server for LINUX and WINDOWS. Now i want to do backup of virtual machines running ESX 3.5. i was reading a doucment that i should have a Prox...

VMWare and 7.0

We are looking at implementing the VMWare backup solution and currently our data store is on NFS. According to the documentation it appears to only be supported on FC or iSCSI. Can anyone confirm if this is true? Thanks.

VM Incremental issue NBU7

We have 11 VMware virtual file servers that used to have the agents installed on them. After the upgrade to NBU7 we saw an increased performance while testing with flashbackup-windows so we switched them to use flashbackup-windows instead of Windows...

VMware VADP (VCB replacement) for VMware/ESX backups

Has anyone tried the new vspere VADP (vstorage API's for Data Protection) backup feature which is replacing the VCB with Netbackup. We are backing up VM's traditional way by using the agent on each host. Now have started looking into option of back...

Has anyone installed NBU7 master or media server (D2D backup only) inside an ESX VM in a production env?

Has anyone installed NBU master or media server in a VM in a production env? Reasons for putting the master & media server inside a VM are: HA is simplified; esp. when combined with NBAC With NBU7's media server dedup feature, the protection a...

There has got to be a way to do this!

Hey guys, I have a little bit of an off-the-wall question: I have an NDMP backup policy that is supposed to be grabbing images created by Snap Manager for VI and writing them to tape. Trouble with these images is, I can’t use wildcards since NBU s...

VCB and storage estimator

Hi, We are currently running Netbackup 6.5.5 and VMware ESX 4.0 in test and looking to move into production. We are using VCB to backup the VMs and the Netbackup client for the vms with RDM luns. Does anyone know an estimator or a formula to use to...

Resolved! Netbackup virtual setup

Hi All, Can you plz tell me know that is there any application exist, like VMware exist for Netbackup, through which i can setup a Virtual Netbackup Environment. Thanks & Regards Ravinder Singh

Resolved! VCB Full VM restore fail with status code 5

Hi All, I am running netbackup 6.5.5, VCB 1.5, vmconverter 4, ESX 4 and win 2k3 sp2. When i attempt to do a full VM restore to the ESX server, it fails with code 5. In the bpvmutil log, i see the error 'ESX credentials not found.' How do I go abou...

Netbackup VCB

Dear All, in a scenario, i have to install NBU Master Server and have to take backup of ESX virtual machines. will someone help me out step by step, how should i move. from where can i donwload VCB? what is this VCB and from where can i download...

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