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In case you are not aware - you can subscribe to NBU notifications over here: https://sort.veritas.com/spec_doc Hopefully NBU 9 will be added to the list soon.

Marianne by Moderator
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Resolved! Agent vs Agentless

Hi, I am in the process of writing a business where I will be connecting my backup environment to the production SAN. We all know what the benefits are but this needs to be put in writing to senior management with some white papers if possible. Does ...

VADP Restore - Cannot find backup recovery host

NBU 7.5.0.4 Windows (Master & VM Backup Host) VCenter 5.0 ESX Hosts: 4.1.0 When trying to do a VM restore, a NetBackup Recovery Host cannot be found (times out after 5 minutes). A couple of times it has come back with a socket error 23. We do seem to...

old_mate by Level 4
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Resolved! Getting Media Write Error (84) attempting to write to DataDomain

I am using Netbackup 7.1.0.3 and was successful backing snapshots to the DataDomain (DD) until recently.  The space was at 100 percent and would not clear any space over a couple of weeks (was getting 84 errors then.  I then began to expire some data...

MelB by Level 4
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Resolved! Netbackup and 3PAR

I'm looking to use NBU 7.5 to handle our VM backups in our infrastructure which uses 3PAR F400 for storage. I've checked the compat lists and it looks like some elements are compatible but some are not. Can anyone offer advice on this if they are eit...

Cannot connect to VMware vCenter

Hi all, I try to connect to the VMware vCenter,  but get the following error ---------------------------------------------------- 11:19:33.180 [3968.1220] <2> logparams: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpVMutil.exe 512 _NONE_ 10.20.17.155 11:...

sirin_zarin by Level 4
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Resolved! Backup consuming more time.

Hi,     i have a Master server running on Solaris10 and Netbackup version is 7.0.1 at my Data centre. The master is also the media server . We have six drives configured for the server. All being  HP.ULTRIUM3-SCSI drives. I have backup policy running...

vSphere 5.1 Support Update

Symantec and VMware are unwaveringly dedicated to quality in our jointly developed solutions. During our testing with the VMware vStorage 5.1 API Symantec discovered issues* that introduce data recovery risks. We raised these concerns with our friend...

Turls by Level 6
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Netbackup for VMWare

Hi,   I have netbackup 7.5.0.4 and I am backing up VMware environment, the problem is when I run many jobs together (3 or 4), I noticed that the size on the datastore (VM storage) become full, i checked and found that the snapshot take the same size ...

Resolved! NB/VMWare Error: snapshot error encountered(156)

I'm getting the following error when trying to backup this vmware client. Anyone seen this before? Master: 7.1.0.3 Client 7.1 11/15/2012 10:07:26 AM - Info nbjm(pid=4260) starting backup job (jobid=1329820) for client 7600rnetdbs01, policy 07600-VMWa...

Netbackup using SAN / Filer snapshot to backup VMWare VM

Hello, I'm trying to find a way to use my Filer (NetApp) snapshots to do VMWare VM backup instead of VMWare snaps. The idea is to use netbackup default features (like VRay) to do a regular granular VM backup, but instead of using VMWare default Copy-...

Incremental restore of a VM

Hi,  I have problems restoring an incremental backup of a VM whereas restoring from a full VM backup works properly. My configuration : Physical Server with FC LUN (datastores) attached1TB for storage disk to backup VMDKVCenter 4.1Host VM Server conf...

VMware Resource Limit Best Practices

I was wondering what the suggested best practice limits are for VMware resources in 7.1.0.3. Currently I have set the resources very conservatively and am concerned that I may impact the feasibility of the backup windows with them. These are my setti...

Resolved! VMWare image backup with Block Level Incremental

All, I tried configure BLIB with NetBackup 7.5.0.3, vSphere 5, vmware hardware version 8 (vmx-08) with VMFS 5. Technically BLIB should backup less data in Incremental backup but its reverse in this case. I did configure total of 20 Servers in two dif...

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Resolved! Use Virtual Machine as boot server

Hi Folks, Is it possible to use a Linux Virtual machine as a boot server and use this boot server to perform BMR's on a real Linux machine?

Resolved! NetBackup - VMware virtual machines

Hi,    I was wondering if it is possible to restore a VM with a new UUID and a different  display name, to the same location?   Let me explain... there are  6 VMs  (2 PROD, 2 DEV and 2 QA) running on  3-ESX servers configured as a cluster. I would li...

mmeeggaann by Level 5
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No of clients per policy

All, Just want to know how many clients we can add to one individual policy. We will have DD990 by this month end with 540 write streams. We will have approximate 700 VMs and 200 physical servers in the environment. VMs will be backed up using VADP a...

tarangdce by Level 4
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Resolved! VMware Hot-Add Backup host also a SAN client?

  Hi all, My customer has NetBackup configuration v7.5.0.3 in a VMware 4.1 environment. We cannot do VMware backups using the standard Backup-host solution. I would like to know if anyone has tested a "Hot-Add" backup solution in a SAN client? In oth...

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