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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! Limitations for NetBackup Master in a VMware 5.x Guest

We have several customers with NetBackup Master Servers in a VMware guest.  Most of these environments are less than 20 FETB and have catalogs less than 100GB.  We have a site at 40FETB with a catalog of over 300GB.  I fully understand limitation for...

CKWallace by Level 2
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Resolved! NetBackup SSO - issues writing to tape library across the domain

I am having some issues in writing to a shared (SSO) library from across the AD domain. We have capacity based licensing model using NetBackup version 7.1.0.4 There are 2 x AD domains A.local & B.com: There is a firewall between the two AD domains. H...

Itegral by Level 6
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Resolved! Question regarding Netbackup Network Infrastructure

Hi all, this is my first time post after a lot of reading at this forum. I´ve got a big question regarding Netbackup recommendations in terms of backup elements connections. Our company is designing a future network environment, and our backup server...

NBdmecha by Level 4
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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! Backup to Disk, then duplicate/move to tape when expired

I'm hoping I'm missing something, but I haven't been able to find a way to do this. The plan is to retain 3 months of backups on Disk, and any copies outside of that live on tape. In practice this means our "weekly" (1 month retention) and "monthly" ...

Resolved! Deduplication Bandwidth limiting

Hey everyone! I am looking for some info on how to limit the bandwidth\traffic coming into my deduplication media server. My current setup is: Windows 2008 R2 Master running 7.5.0.4 Windows 2008 R2 Media running 7.5.0.4 (5) regional offices with 4 se...

rbkguy 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...

Resolved! better user management and control

  hi,  please help me out:   I modified the auth.conf to specify access to certain users. I used the following parameters below to limit a user to do restore and monitoring only.   root ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL * ADMIN=JBP JBP=ENDUSER+BU+ARC restore ADMIN=A...

Resolved! problem in doing backup in exchange 2010

hi, i need a help. I have netbackup server version 7.5, my client is a windows server 2008 R2. Am running client agent version 6.5 on that machine. Ms exchange 2010 has been configure on that and i want to backup all mailboxes from that server. My cl...

Resolved! User Backup scripts not working for Windows 2003

Hi All, I need your help for below issue which we are facing on windows system. We have created the user backup policies and scripts. After executing the scripts , policy not executed in activity monitor but on the server scripts are in running state...

Resolved! Netbackup 7.1.03 NBAC - Launching nbconsole as Domain User

Hi, Currently, I have a setup of NBU 7.1.03 with NBAC on a Windows 2008 R2 server. In Administration Console, under Host Properties -> Master Servers -> Properties of "master_hostname" -> Access Control -> Netbackup Product Authentication & Authoriza...

Compress some but not all copies of a backup

ENVIRONMENT: Netbackup 7.1.04 (going to 7.5 soon). All windows environment. 1 Master server and 3 media servers (Server 2003 and 2008). STORAGE: 40 tape library and 3 LTO3 drives.  Recently added an Exagrid Open Storage appliance (Ex7000). PROBLEM: P...

Resolved! Command to show Volume Group for one or all MediaIDs

Hello everyone, I need a command that shows the volume group for one or all MediaIDs (tapes).  I tried bpmedialist but that doesn't show me the volumne group as shown here: bpmedialist -m APA164 -U Server Host = inf-srv17 id rl images allo...

NBU 7.5 - What happens to archive bit when you cancel a diff?

Hi all- To be more specific, I'm curious about how the archiving bit works in this scenario. If you cancel a diff, it doesn't appear that the partial backup is usable for restore purposes. I was also under the assumption NBU would clear the archive b...

Resolved! bpflist returns "no entity was found" for existing backup id

Background: I have an Oracle 10gR2 database that runs on a Solaris 10 server.  Backups go through NetBackup 7.1 which runs on a Windows server. When I run the bpimmedia command for my production Oracle database, I see information like this: bpimmedia...

Netbackup Accelerator supported for NetApp CIFS share ??

Hi everyone, I have an environment with Netbackup 7.5.0.3 on Windows 2008 that currently makes backup of several NetApp NAS to VTL using the NDMP protocol. We are looking to make improvements in the backup/restore performance of those. I made a test ...

Amer_Vilagran by Level 3
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Resolved! Identify exact tape for offsite vault when doing yearly backup

Hi, We're using NetBackup 7.1 Enterprise to do our backup. As per our policy, we need to keep offsite backup of our yearly tape backup. We're using tape library and we've setup a yearly volume pool of tapes, but have no idea which exact tape that we ...

faulty by Level 3
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Resolved! Create(or move to) tape backup from existing disk backup

Hi, We're using NetBackup 7.1 Enterprise and would like to move existing disk based backup to tapes on an ad-hoc basis. We saw a similar question here https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/disk-and-tape-copies-netbackup-7 , but not sure how ...

faulty by Level 3
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