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Clayton_Walter · 10-17-2007

I was hoping that someone would be able to help me out with an issue I have been having with NetBackup 6.0 running the wrong schedules. We have full backups scheduled to run every Friday night at 6PM with the following schedules/retention policies: ...

Clayton_Walter · 06-12-2007

Hey guys, I've been having some issues with a couple of my NetBackup servers that we ended up figuring out was related to the HP drivers. I installed the latest Veritas device drivers on one of the servers without a problem and my issues were resolv...

Clayton_Walter · 04-17-2007

STN, I've got a couple of clients on one of our NetBackup systems that are not following the exclude lists during backups. I've explicity added numerous directories to the exclude list for these clients yet whent he jobs run they still attempt to ba...

Clayton_Walter · 03-08-2007

I am trying to figure out the best way to change the expiration date on groups of tapes. For example, I would like to be able to change a group of tapes that are part of a monthly retention pool to a yearly retention pool. bpexpdate has three optio...

Clayton_Walter · 03-31-2008

That is correct - the Friday that you are checking is just the day that the job is allowed to get queued up. The job can run as long as you want until it's completed. The start window that you set is amount of time the job can sit in the queued sta...

Clayton_Walter · 08-27-2007

Another easy way of accomplishing this is to use host files. On the backup server you would add an entry in the host file with the client server name and the IP for the backup LAN. The client server needs an entry for the backup server and IP in it...

Clayton_Walter · 08-07-2007

The preview function that I mentioned IS available under Windows Server 2003 with NB6.0 MP4.

Clayton_Walter · 08-07-2007

Another really easy way to check the tapes required for a restore if you are using the NetBackup Administration Console is to use the "Preview Media Required for Restore" function in the Backup, Archive, and Restore console. It's on the left hand to...

Clayton_Walter · 06-13-2007

Well chaulk one up for Veritas support! Got a call back within 15 minutes and we determined pretty quickly that the "Use Plug and Play drivers" needed to be checked during the Symantec driver installation. I ran the install with that checked and it...

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NetBackup 6.0 Scheduling Issues

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Backup jobs ignoring exclude lists.

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