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naughty_bits · 03-18-2010

I know this is probably a dumb question, but as the saying goes, "There are no dumb questions, just dumb people (aka me)". When looking at a job in the "Detailed Status" tab and in the "Media server: " field it has a listing like media server -> a...

naughty_bits · 10-14-2009

Hi all, Getting some MSSQL backup errors (SQL server 2005 running on Windows Server 2007, NBU v6.5.4) and I'm not sure how to interpret the error log. The logs say that the DB has never had a full backup, but if I look at the bplist output it appea...

naughty_bits · 01-29-2009

Howdy NBU gurus!I was recently was looking into a catalog/vault issue and noticed something in the output of the nbrbutil -dump command and was curious as to what it meant. The vault job duplication had the following:ndex=16 (Allocation: id={98C28410...

naughty_bits · 08-05-2008

Hi all,I'm looking for a way to have (6.0 and 6.5) master server(s) configured so that all the commands, log files, etc, can be run/accessed by an account other than root. Is this possible (perhaps by a series of chown/chgrp commands) and/or documen...

naughty_bits · 03-29-2010

I looks like you either havent had a successful fullbackup of that SOL DB or its set to simple in the recovery. Double check those things. Good luck!

naughty_bits · 03-19-2010

Again ... just an opinion ... wait until you manage multiple VTL's robotic control and DirectCopy (NDMP) to dupe ... then you will feel the pain of sgscan (oh and never have the GUI restart the media managers services unless you need to take a 30minu...

naughty_bits · 03-19-2010

I'm a Unix guru and I would warn you that if you are the least bit squimish about Unix, you better stay away from Solaris. I would only recommend a Linux implementation if you're a newbie. I've run NBU on all of the major platforms and here are so...

naughty_bits · 03-19-2010

>You can always enable and assign an alternate media server under the Duplicate job of the SLP and prevent this, but be sure you have enough drives that can read and write medias on this alternate box. Hmm ... I'm not sure how that (pointing the dup...

naughty_bits · 03-18-2010

Good point ... I didn't set this up, but it looks like the STUG that is used for backups is set to use the "Media Server Load Balancing" option and the STUG that is used for the duplication uses the "Round Robin" option (basically the SLP uses these ...

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MSSQL - Transaction log backup failures - "BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup."

Understanding nbrbutil -dump output

Nonroot administration of NBU on Unix command line

Maybe this is your issue?

Again ... just an opinion ...

I'm a Unix guru and I would

>You can always enable and

Good point ... I didn't set