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Vmware CBT restore?

Can NBU 7.x (any iteration) do a CBT restore? Meaning, when restoring a VM, that ONLY the CBT blocks are restored and not the entire VMDK file(s)? This is a feature on a competing product, and am wondering if NBU has this feature so I can compete. I...

VMWARE backup job getting rescheduled automatically.

Some VMWARE backup jobs are running automatically after the successful run. We need to find out what will be the cause. Sometime the next run backup getting successful and sometime it get failed with status code 196 even within the backup window.

VMWARE backups are getting failed in first attempt.

Some VMWARE backups are getting failed in first attempt with status code 6 / 11 / 13; what will be the cause and how to fix this. (6) the backup failed to back up the requested files (11) system call failed (13) file read failed

NetBackup 7.1 + ESX 4.x + VM Snapshots

We have recently implemented NetBackup 7.1x and configured our backup environment to back up VMDK's within our virtual infrastructure. The VMFS Datastore have been configured to have the NetBackup Media servers to see all of those LUN's. Because of t...

Resolved! Questions about VMware vStorage Backup

Hi All, Previously i was using VCB 1.5, esx 4.0 and NBU 6.5 to backup my VMs. I am planning to upgrade to nbu 7 and vStorage. I have a few questions regarding vstorage. Do i still need a big staging disk area on my off-host backup host to contain the...

Netbackup 7.1 VMWare 4.1 Incremental/Cumulative Larger than Full

We have just setup a new environment for 7.1 new install to backup our VMWare 4.1 Test Environment but i am having the above issue where any incremental or full is as big or bigger than the Full backup details below of steps taken in troubleshooting ...

Resolved! Unable to Validate VM Backup Policy for Windows Server 2009 R2 on NBU 6.5.3

Hi, I am trying to add a Snapshot backup policy for a Windows 2008 R2 machine to NetBackup 6.5.3. It does not validate and provides the following error when trying to add this host to the policy: Policy: Name of Policy - client name of client - ...

VMware & NBU 7.1 - My Experience So Far

Hello everyone, I've been playing around with VMware backups & NBU 7.1 and these are the issues I've found so far regarding VM backups: 1. Linux VM backups - Slow I've been getting around 100 MB/sec to 130 MB/sec of throughput (to our LTO4 tape-dr...

NetBackup for VMWare - BLIB and defrag?

Just started using the Netbackup for VMware and we're backing up VMs using block level incrementals (BLIB). If we have Diskeeper running with automatic defrag enabled, would the VDAP flag all MOVED blocks as changed and then NetBackup will include th...

NetBackup 7.0.1 backing up VMs on ESXi 4.1 on NFS

Hey guys, I am a newbie yet on NetBackup and have runto some issues with backup performance in our environment, and wonder what some of you are doing or seeing. I can't believe I am the only one trying to run flashbackup-windows of my VMs running on ...

Template Backup using Netbackup 7.01 and Vstorage API

Is it possible to backup the templates using Netbackup 7.01. We were able to backup it up using Netbackup 7.0. Since the upgrade we have lost the ability to backp up the templates. There doesn't appear to be any settings that I can change ...

Resolved! VMware machine backup fails with status 6

Hello, we have ESX 4.1, netbackup 7.0.1, Master/media server is windows 2003 64 bit. we're using "Mapped full VM backup" as backup type, our transfer type is NBD at the moment. We have approx. 33 clients we're backing up through this method, they'r...

Netbackup 7 upgrade - Backup/Restore of individual files of a Linux VM.

Quick question. Does anyone on this forum know when individual file level backup/restores will be supported for Linux VMs? I've heard that Symantec would be supporting this in a bit version upgrade of Netbackup 7 in the near future. Just trying to ...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.01 VMware Snapshots using SAN transfer type - still network traffic?

I'm trying to use Netbackup 7.01 to perform VMware snapshot backups using the vStorage API from a vSphere 4 environment. I've configured the off-host backups to a media server (not the master server) using the SAN transfer type. In spite of that, I...

vSpehere 4.1 & NB 7.01: Blocklevel incremental writing as much data as full backup

Hello, we have several servers doing backups with "Blocklevel incremental" using mapped full vm as backup method. All works fine, but one server has a problem since the last full backup last weekend. The last two incremental backups wrote exactly as ...

Resolved! NetBackup 7 vSphere 4.1 restoring vmdk issue

Running NetBackup 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 backing up VMs on vSphere 4.1 Backing up VMs go smooth although I'm testing out restoring a vm (to its original location) after I delete it from disk through vSphere. I kicked off the restore, vSphere d...

NBU7 backup VM guest's data route? advice needed

Advice needed. May I share a scenario with you regarding VMware VirtualCenter backup/data route. Site A, has NBU Master / Media and disk storage. (E.g. Malaysia). Site A, has ESX 4; DataStore; VM guest A. Site B, has VirtualCenter (Netherlands). ...

7.0.1 (+EEB ET2105102) / vSphere 4.1 / Pb backup nbd Win2k8R2 with "disk.enableUUID"

Hi, I have a problem to backup Windows 2008R2 VM on vSphere 4.1 with NBU 7.0.1 (with EEB ET2105102) (NBD and HOTADD transport). My environement (Its a POC) : - (Windows 2008 R2 x64) 1 Master NBU 7.0.1 ( EEB ET2105102) with MSDP (SAN HP-XP 200 G...

Resolved! NetBackup 7 vSphere 4.1 Single-threaded VM backups

Currently using NetBackup 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2, backing up vSphere 4.1 VMs with block level incremental backups to tape. We currently house a virtual infrastructure with about 50 VMs. I need a way to backup the VMDKs along with being able t...

Resolved! Netbackup 7 and VMWare backup of Windows 2008 x64 guests

Hi I have a number of VMWare virtual environment running a mixture of o/s's including Windows 2003 32 and 64 bit, Linux and Windows 2008 64bit. I also have a Netbackup 7 master server which is acting as a VMWare backup host. I have setup a VMWare pol...

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