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Chrisb2k · 02-24-2016

Hi all, Just been looking at NetBackup appliances for a customer and a question comes to mind that wasn't so much of a consideration when I last had to do think about it (i.e. before Exchange and SQL were virtualised to any great extent). Do ...

Chrisb2k · 04-17-2013

Hi all I'm seeing a lot of folk buying appliances and finding out that they can't use both of the HBAs with VMware vStorage API because multipathing is not supported on the appliance. Whilst "this may be supported in a future release", I'm wondering ...

Chrisb2k · 03-05-2013

Hi I have a situation where we are backing up using accelerator and using change journal in a clustered environment. In testing I've enabled "Use change journal" on each node of the cluster and run backups from a client virtual hostname from the seco...

Chrisb2k · 02-19-2013

Hi! We have configured Replication Director on NBU 7.5.0.4 as per Replication Director solution guide and various NetApp guides. Snapshots appear to be running without an issue, but when a snapmirror replication is attempted it fails with 84: 19/...

Chrisb2k · 06-16-2010

Hi community ! In an attempt to free space and remove disk volumes from a disk pool some images were moved from 5 of the drives and placed in the remaining 3 drives in a diskpool. The disk volumes themselves are now empty and I have downed the v...

Chrisb2k · 03-03-2016

Great, thanks for the reply! C.

Chrisb2k · 08-15-2013

Guessing it means between old an new appliances. The below marketing blurb explains a little about transferring license between appliance hardware. https://www4.symantec.com/mktginfo/whitepaper/GA_WP_NBU-AppliancesKeyFactorsinModernizingBackupandReco...

Chrisb2k · 08-15-2013

Hi I have used sar and sargraph before now to determine what is happening at the OS level. I'm not sure if external links are allowed so won't post it, but just google sargraph - it comes as a java jar file that you can run with any decent revision J...

Chrisb2k · 08-15-2013

Hi You need to have the appliance configured in a role before you can upgrade (i.e. master or media). Part of the install process requries a self-test which creates a policy and does a test backup, neither of which are possible until the appliance is...

Chrisb2k · 05-29-2013

Not sure how to get the mib, though possibly the best route would be through the monitoring software vendor. Being that the OS is linux, it may be possible to use standard Linux OS mibs, though not sure whether this is supported. Alternatively, creat...

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Deduplication question

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Re: Deduplication question

Guessing it means between old

Hi I have used sar and

Hi You need to have the

Not sure how to get the mib,