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Col_G · 05-17-2011

Hi. Ive been asked to look into options for enabling tape encryption at some of our remote sites, preferably using nbu. (or backup exec.. they are quite small deployments) These sites will use a standalone LTO4 drive and will use one tape a day. What...

Col_G · 02-23-2011

Hi. Im in the process of building a new NBU 7 environment to replace our aged nbu6 setup.. Ive been doing some basic testing when ive been able to get time to use our tape library (i500) and have noticed that backing up to the library over FC is qui...

Col_G · 08-16-2010

Hi.. Im after a bit of clarification on Netbackup's Reccuring weekdays scheduling option as we have been having issues this month. We have weekly jobs that run on a sunday with 5 different schedules to direct the backups to the right media pool...

Col_G · 04-07-2010

I have just removed a couple of legacy vaults and the vaultstore that contained them from ev8 sp2... they are showing as being marked for deleteion in the admin console. and in the OM console the number of incomplete delete operations for that vaults...

Col_G · 04-07-2010

Im just planning an upgrade to our EV infrastructure which will involve adding an second server to ease the load of the FSA archiving that we will be implementing.. Currently the first server is running 32bit W2k3... Would i have any issues creating...

Col_G · 02-24-2011

Hi Thanks for your reply. The server (win2k8 64 8-core 32gb ram) has a single 4g connection into the fc "blade" on the back of the library which acts as the control path and switch for the three LTO4 drives.. i cant see ever needing to drive all thre...

Col_G · 11-22-2010

We use FSA with EV8 and now 9 on Netapp filers. Theres not really any specific considerations.. It works well.. we added a separate EV server to handle FSA as the agent runs on this server and is quite intensive. Only (minor) thing we have run into i...

Col_G · 08-16-2010

I believe what happened last week (from what i was told anyway) was the ops guys put in the wrong weeks tapes causing error 96.. Ive done a nbpemreq -predict for next sunday and it is showing that it *should* use sunday4.. If it doesnt work right a...

Col_G · 08-16-2010

Just checked, that option is not enabled for any of the affected jobs (from the windows gui) Is there a commandline i can use to check?

Col_G · 04-09-2010

Ok. Based on the above, for now i will play it safe and build it as a 2k3-32 box.. i shall stick the 2k8 upgrade on the agenda for EV9 (we will be implementing exch2010 later this year) Cheers

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Netbackup catalog encryption options.

FC slower than SCSI?

Netbackup 6MP7 "Recurring week day" schedules wrong.

Time required to delete vaults/vaultstore

Mixing EV server OS's

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