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sdo · 02-08-2022

Does anyone know if Veritas will continue to support v3.3.0.1 appliance instances even if the 5230 hardware underneath has gone EOL ?

sdo · 06-26-2020

a post last year: https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Duplicate-Host-ID/m-p/870226 ...discusses re-creating a certificate for a cloned client. However, I want to go a step further and (re)generate a new Host ID on a cloned client, in order to avoid ...

sdo · 05-12-2020

FYI - just in case anyone else wants or needs to know if this works, and proven that it does... NetBackup Master Server v8.1.1 on Windows Server 2016 NetBackup Media Server v3.1.1 on Appliance 5340 - MSDP storage hosting hypervisor: Windows Hyper-V...

sdo · 09-18-2019

I'm ever so sorry :\ but I couldn't stop myself :p...if you want to run it, then :1) save the code somewhere as "watch-vox.ps1"2) run it using :powershell -file watch-vox.ps1...anyway, here's the script :#######################################...

sdo · 08-14-2019

FYI - just a bit of fun... for anyone else who wants to keep an eye on Vox.To run it :1) save the script somewhere as : watch-vox.sh2) start a Terminal or PuTTY or ssh session3) cd to the folder where you saved the script4) then run it using: ./w...

sdo · 02-09-2022

I have had it confirmed from the vendor then when an appliance is listed as EOL then this means that the whole appliance is EOL, and not just the hardware layer alone, and so therefore a separated layer of software support cannot be acquired.

sdo · 04-06-2021

So saddened to hear of Marianne’s untimely passing.Marianne was such an inspiration and one of the finest examples of all that was the best about working in IT.My thoughts are with her family and friends and colleagues, several of whom are and were o...

sdo · 10-02-2020

The most typical use of Appliances is MSDP dedupe. You need to double check whether your appliances contain a dedupe pool (with or without a separate Advanced Disk pool too - highly likely), or whether they contain only an Advanced Disk pool (unlike...

sdo · 07-10-2020

In Veritas Downloads, although the file "NetBackup_8.0_Win.zip" is described as "NetBackup 8.0 Windows Server package", if you download it, and unzip it, then within the extracted/expanded folder structures you will find a sub-folder named "...\PC_Cl...

sdo · 07-10-2020

Another thing to watch out for is the difference between language based keyboards verus ISO keyboards. e.g.if you have " and/or @ in your password then you may want to try alternating, or, simply as a test avoid using as much punctuation as possible...

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3.3.0.1 still supported on 5230 hardware

generate new Host ID on client

BMR via Hyper-V NVGRE works

watch-vox - in powershell...

watch-vox script - a vox monitor

Re: 3.3.0.1 still supported on 5230 hardware

Re: Marianne

Re: Upgrade to 8.3

Re: Netbackup 8.0 Windows 32-bit client

Re: admin account lost ssh access to appliance