I'm running Netbackup 7.6.0.3 Enterprise on RHEL 6. My organization has an Oracle Exalogic with many virtual servers running on it. Does Symantec have a best practice for how to back these appliances up? Is it something that Netbackup can have creden...
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit, Netbackup 7.5.0.6 master server for my virtual datacenter. I run vmware query based policies with overlapping full and differential backup schedules. I have 150 policies for about 2,000 virtual servers that sta...
Has anyone ever experienced two backup jobs trying to use the same PID bpbrm process on a media server. It hangs both jobs resulting in failures. Aren't backup jobs supposed to have their own bpbrm process on the media server? Is this a problem relat...
For all versions (master/media/client) of Netbackup 7.5x is xinetd a requirement on Linux installations? I'm not able to find anything in the manuals specifying this. Thanks!
I'm running Netbackup 7.5.0.6 and using SLP's to backup my primary copy 1 and duplicate copy 2 for offsite. Copy 1 has a retention of 1 year and Copy 2 has a retention of 2 months. When I look in BAR or bpimagelist the retention date is displayed fro...
For simplicity sake just stick with the date as the cutoff period. Since auditors are usually from an accounting background they'll agree most readily with this approach as this is what they do with financial systems and data as well.
It's likely Netbackup is waiting for a signal terminate and they aren't getting through.How heavy is the CPU load/how many jobs are you running at a time?What are your TCP stack settings on the server? See best practices tuning manual...Are all the b...
It sort of sounds like a crontab entry that executes a script or references both policies would be able to start them at the same time. Just make sure you give it a really high priority and maybe find a way to dedicate media server and tape drive res...