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IanB · 09-16-2013

Can somebody help, please? Our set-up: NetBackup 6.5.6 master/media servers, 150-odd clients/policies, D2D2T, images on fibre-connected SAN duplicate to a pair of tape libraries - one local, one remote. The DSSUs are swept every hour. Scenario: Our...

IanB · 06-15-2012

We have NBu Enterprise 6.5.6 - SAN storage for DSSUs (basic disk), and 2 tape libraries (each 2 LTO4 drives). Backup to disk and duplication to DSSUs - all works great. Indeed for Exchange mailservers (a few big databases), the speed is so good that...

IanB · 05-17-2011

Master/media servers are NBU Enterprise 6.5.4, on Dell PE2950 running Windows 2003 Server R2 X64. After several years of successful traditional Full/Cumulative backups, I have setup three policies with Synthetic Fulls. They all start off OK, and the...

IanB · 11-12-2009

Our SAN is a Dell/EMC CX40-3 with a mixture of FC & SATA disks. NetBackup Master/Media servers are Dell NX1950 x64, lots of cores & RAM, WUDS 64-bit etc, fibre everywhere, so shouldn't have a performance problem. Our weekly backup of the SAN (>5TB)...

IanB · 06-30-2009

Hi, Netbackup Enterprise 6.5.4FA on Win2003S X64 I am analysing bptm logs to tell me what backup & duplication jobs have run each day. I use batch-file processing to compare it with a list of jobs that _should_ have run (it's hard to get duplicati...

IanB · 09-17-2013

Many thanks, Mark. The reminder about checkpoints is useful, and we should investigate this again - I don't know why we ignored it when we first started with NetBackup 10 years ago. We do have several long backups now (12hrs+, 2TB data, millions of ...

IanB · 09-17-2013

Thanks for your reply. We're using disk staging, with a 24x7 window, checking each DSSU every hour. No SLPs or Vault. Suspend option for running & queued jobs in Admin Console is greyed out - presumably because we don't use Checkpoints. The "take ...

IanB · 05-17-2011

Thanks very much Riaan. I think I'd better upgrade to the latest release of 6.5. I just wonder why my Googling didn't find this before (perhaps it's not public). Maybe I'll be able to go back to Change Journal too. Kind regards, Ian

IanB · 05-17-2011

Thanks Marianne - very interesting. My clients were set to use Change Journal (timestamp), in order to speed up incrementals. I have changed these three back to Archive Bit and I'll let you know in another 5 weeks. I suspect the Incrementals will ...

IanB · 05-17-2011

1. W_CS_FS Schedule: Full Type: FULL (0) Frequency: 1 day(s) (86400 seconds) Retention Level: 3 (1 month) u-wind/o/d: 0 0 Incr Type: DELTA (0) Alt Read Host: (none defined) Max Frag Size: ...

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User Statistics

User Activity

Catch-up with failed duplications

Failover from tape to DSSU?

Synthetic Full Backups miss after 4 weeks

Configuration Manager affecting NetBackup??

bptm logs dropping entries at start of day

Many thanks, Mark. The

Thanks for your reply. We're

Thanks Riaan

Mmmm . . . possibly so.

Schedules again - Better with -L option