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Nova · 04-17-2011

I have to restore a full VM machine from a VCB backup taken in a legacy6.5.5 NBU environment. We are on NBU 7.01 now and backing up VMware guests (all are Windows) using VADP. The old NBU environment is just serving up the catalog, it has no access ...

Nova · 07-27-2010

Netbackup 6.5.6 Media Server Scalar i2000 with IBM Ultrium-TD3 drives I am aware that Symantec does not provide 64 bit drivers for tape device. I downloaded the 'IBMTape.x64_w08_6209_LTO2-5_3592_Tape_Drive_Cert' installer from IBM for the IBM LTO...

Nova · 06-08-2010

I am following http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/295342.htm. for W2K3 The newly built client is of the same client version as used for the backup. System patch level is the same, exact same hardware (being rebuilt in place). The full backup us...

Nova · 02-17-2009

I've looked pretty long and hard for possible reasons for my problem, but no success yet.I've been trying to fix this problem for days, and after many hours, I am not at all sure of what to even try next. I hope this message is not overly long, but I...

Nova · 10-17-2008

I'm just finished setting up the environment - Solaris 6.5.2a master | 2003 Server 6.5.2a Media/Proxy server | zoning all set up and am ready to test full VMware machine restore in our prod environment. I have two documents outlining configuration an...

Nova · 05-16-2011

This is a very good document to help people with setting up VADP (or VCB) backups on a SAN. I am deleting the rest of my post, as I am looking for help on VADP backing up VMware over NFS. Sorry for wasting anybody's time.

Nova · 05-08-2011

Hi Tim, Thank you for your response. You are indeed correct. One small change and I was back in business. I looked pretty hard for an anwer before posting here, without success. It's nice to have that production Windows 2000 machine restored ;) reg...

Nova · 04-18-2011

My searches did not yield any results, but Symantec support engineer did provide me with the answer. Page 53 of the Netbackup VMware Admin Guide as well as the following. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH63525 This s...

Nova · 06-11-2010

Restarting the client prior to reboot was missed I think first time around. Whether or not it was the difference maker, the restore worked fine. I did not want to deviate from using the w2koption.exe -restore -same_hardware 1, since it is the ex...

Nova · 06-09-2010

It appears that we are now dealing more with a Windows issue (the continuous reboot), than a Netbackup restore issue. The exit code status 5 is explained by the 3 files indicated in tar log. That was rather non-observant of me to not find the log ent...

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Imported VCB backup shows only file level. Full VM backup not found

IBM Ultrium TD-3 Device Driver for Windows 2008 R2 x64

Recovery of Windows System Drive always failing with status 5

Netbackup Enterpise Server 6.5.2a does not detect the changer

NBU 6.5.2a - Restoring Full VMware machine 'restore marked files' options??

This is a very good document

Hi Tim, Thank you for your

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