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kenrblan · 12-29-2011

I've run into an annoying problem with Netbackup Vault Duplication. I have a vault job scheduled to run each day that duplicates our disk backup images to LTO4 tape. I have the Maximum Partially Full tapes setting on my Vault Destination Volume Pool ...

kenrblan · 03-08-2011

Netbackup 7.0.1 - Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise on media servers, Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 I have one MSDP that is reporting 4.421TB of used capacity (3.80TB space used within containers) out of a raw size of 7.2752TB. By correlating Disk Image Repor...

kenrblan · 03-01-2011

My environment is Netbackup 7.0.1 on Windows 2008 R2. I have a master server plus three media servers. Two of those media servers have Deduplication Disk Pools on them. One of those is in our production site and is where backups are initially done. I...

kenrblan · 12-02-2010

Is there any way to change the layout on a PDF exported report in OpsCenter 7.0.1 to landscape? Many of the reports I run would benefit greatly by that change. My OpsCenter instance is the free version included with NBU 7 and is not licensed for OpsC...

kenrblan · 10-05-2010

I have Netbackup 6.5.6 Master/Media Server running on Windows 2003. In the last few days, I have started getting the error "Error connecting to Media Manager on ops078-m17: network protocol error(39)." when clicking to expand Media in the GUI. When I...

kenrblan · 04-29-2011

If you had rather use the GUI rather than command line, use the "Images on Media Report" or the "Images on Tape" report that appears in the Tape Reports tree. Select the client name if you have that. It will give a complete listing of disk or tape lo...

kenrblan · 03-14-2011

1. GPT partitions work. As long as the OS can use the disk and present a folder for the Deduplication pool to use, you should be fine. 2. I believe you can set the DB and Translogs to use another volume which needs to be at least 10% of the dedupe di...

kenrblan · 03-03-2011

I unchecked the DR media server from the Credentials->Storage Servers Puredisk media servers properties for the primary site storage server. That fixed the slow duplication to tape problem, but it broke optimized duplication from production to DR. I ...

kenrblan · 03-02-2011

In this instance, the primary image (original backup copy) resides on the production (OPS) media server which is also the media server that hosts the tape library that is performing the Vault duplication. I don't have any original backup copies on th...

kenrblan · 02-02-2011

You also need to make sure that your catalog backup is going to a Volume Pool that is specified in your vault policy ejection settings as an off-site volume pool. For example, I write my Vault Catalog Backups to a volume pool called VltCat-Offsite. ...

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OpsCenter Export to PDF layout

Problem with Media and Device Management in 6.5.6

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Changed Storage Servers Credentials Settings

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