Netbackup 10.5 FETB Licensing enforcement
Hi I have a couple of questions regarding NetBackup 10.5/11 licensing. We’re currently running NetBackup 10.2 and are considering an upgrade to 10.5.1/11. I understand that perpetual licenses are still offered on a per front-end terabyte basis. Could you anyone please clarify if Veritas (or Cohesity, if applicable) will continue to offer perpetual licenses? Additionally, I've heard from a reseller that in NetBackup 10.5 onwards, if you exceed your licensed capacity, new backup jobs may be halted, even though existing backups remain available. Given that backup selections in NetBackup are mostly dynamic and can change from day to day also there is a possibility to suddenly have alot more TBs of data, I'm particularly concerned about how this enforcement mechanism works. If this claim is accurate, is there a grace period before backup operations stop, and how much time is typically provided to acquire additional licenses? Your insights would be incredibly helpful as we plan our upgrade strategy. Best regards, Mehrdad
Local account vs Service account for DNAS protection
Hi, I was interested to hear from the community as to if people tend to use local accounts or service accounts when it comes to configuring snapshot style protection for DNAS backups? Previously when we used ndmp we obviously had to use local accounts that were local to the storage array but we want to test moving away from NDMP to DNAS and as such it seems you can give it either local or domain based user so long as it has sufficient rights on the storage array. So what do people tend to use and for what reasons? Thanks in advance for any opinions/info
Storage options for OS upgrade
Hello, we have a NetBackup 10.4 server that we need to upgrade the OS from rhel 7 to rhel 9. Currently the MSDP is on the same disk that the OS will target (/dev/sda) so I need to copy/relocate the backup images during the upgrade. I opened a case with support and they suggested mounting SAN storage. Is this the only option to duplicate the backup data, or can we use DAS/NFS for setting up a new AdvDisk? This particular host has no other drives in it to relocate the data to, so it will need to be off the host during upgrade. Thank you
NBU setup in Cloud to Backup On-prem workload
Hello Experts & Legends, Hope everyone doing excellent..!! Happy joining community : ) As a beginner, Seeking some valuble guidance and inputs from you to get started for settingup Netbackup 10.x setup in cloud to backup On-prem clients. Planning like below: Cloud:- Netbackup Workloads primary -1 RH9 & Media -2 RH9 On-Prem: - VMware workloads <=100 clients Link via Direct Connect. For above requirement: what will be your recommendations for 1.VM size,Number of disks and type 2.OS perspective configurations like filesystem type, number of partitions, LVM FS, Kernel tuning etc. Any other recommendations? Any challenges you may warn about? Thank you, Mr.Tux
Did a catalogue restore, but seem to have missing information.
So I did a catalogue restore (full one) which honestly I felt went sideways. It said it finished partially but the only errors I could find were IOC_CHFLAG_SET errors. I had my profiles, on the file system the DB was backup to it's 375GB range. So I assumed all the data was loaded. When I login to the JavaGUI, ALL my volume pools are gone ALL my tapes are in 1 pool now. Is this normal? Because on the old system We had volume pools for each job which had tapes in it (We don't backup daily, we archive data so it goes on tape once and that's it so I believe that's why they used volume pools when they set it up ages ago). Either way. It just feels to me like I'm missing Data, and I'm not sure what to do now. I've opened a ticket but I'm running out of hours I can say "it's good let's test" vs "we need to roll back" (Let's just say it's been a long week getting to this point).
NBU 10.4 Upgrade License XML Parsing Error
Running an upgrade from 9.1.0.1 to 10.4 on our master server running RHEL8 but the install script is stuck at the enter license file step due to the error: "State: Invalid ( Operation failed due to an XML parsing error. ) Key is direct from our support rep. Alternatively, can I cancel this step without restarting to add later as we've seen, it will be prompt at GUI's first launch once the upgrade completes. TIAVeritas Education Services NetBackup 10.0 administration training, now available
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