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Chris_W · 05-29-2019

We have hundreds of Netbackup clients to upgrade to 8.1.2 and would like to kick off a bulk job. Manually using the GUI to build a policy and manually picking all the clients will take forever. So I'd like to use this process as explained in the "Com...

Chris_W · 08-31-2018

After upgrading Netbackup Appliance 5230 from 3.1 to 3.1.1 (Netbackup 8.1.1) we have had frequent unexpected reboots.The OS reboots and there is nothing in the Netbackup logs explaining what went wrong. Also there are no core dumps created. The only ...

Chris_W · 12-05-2016

I just need to vent with how disappointed I am. The new VMware compatibility guide is out and there is STILL no ETA for File Recovery support on VMware backups with XFS.http://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000006177This has been an issue on ...

Chris_W · 07-13-2016

# bmrsrtadm Select one of the following options: 1. Create a new Shared Resource Tree. 2. Create a new CD image based Shared Resource Tree. 3. Copy an existing Shared Resource Tree to a new location. 4. Import a Shared Resource ...

Chris_W · 03-29-2016

We have a Netbackup master server cluster, the catalog/DB is sitting on a vxfs volume. There is a case open currently with Veritas and they have found massive delays (40 seconds!) at backup peak time on the Sybase database and have recommended we d...

Chris_W · 05-30-2019

Backline got back to me today. They have informed me that VxUpdate from the CLI cannot do multiple clients in one execution unless you are using the utility to reference an existing policy with clients defined in it - which in my estimation is utterl...

Chris_W · 05-30-2019

Thanks, yes I found that you can do this way yesterday and I've now done some this way, but the issue is that NBU queues them one at a time, can't do jobs in parallel.It still doesn't make life all that much easier for us. We have 3600 clients and se...

Chris_W · 05-29-2019

I've used both -hosts and -host_filelist but they aren't working for me. -hosts just outright fails like below:# nbinstallcmd -operation_type install -package 8.1.2 -media_server mediaservername -hosts /tmp/vxupdate.list USAGE: nbinstallcmd -policy [...

Chris_W · 02-26-2018

Netbackup 8.1.1 has now been released and I don't see XFS anywhere. Our contact at Veritas says that it's in testing and should be released midyear 2018. Fingers crossed...

Chris_W · 03-29-2016

# vxstat -g $Diskgroup and it is also graphed on Veritas Infoscale

VOX

User Statistics

User Activity

VxUpdate bulk client upgrade on CLI from master

Netbackup Appliance 3.1.1 (8.1.1.) crashing

VMware XFS support

Alternate method to remove SRT in LOCKED_WRITE state

Calculate vxfs millisecond delay

Re: VxUpdate bulk cliet upgrade on CLI from master

Re: VxUpdate bulk cliet upgrade on CLI from master

Re: VxUpdate bulk cliet upgrade on CLI from master

Re: VMware XFS support

Re: Calculate vxfs millisecond delay