Manually copying .bkf files
We are backing up our files every night with Backupexec to a dedicated backup hard drive in the same server. We feel pretty good about being protected from a hard drive failure. However we are not protected from a fire that destroys the whole server. I would like to copy the .bkf files to an offsite storage medium. Is this gonna work? Doing some research, I saw suggestions that this is not going to work, that Backup Exec needs to write the .bkf files to the backup medium directly or it will throw an error when you try to restore a 2nd generation copy of a .bkf. This seems a little strange to me.... let's say if you have a complete disk failure of the C: drive and the whole server OS (including Backup Exec installation) is gone, and you have to do a bare metal restore. So it looks like you can't just diieinstall a fresh OS and then a fresh copy of Backup Exec and then do a restore of the .bkf files because the fresh Backup Exec software won't know what to do with my existing .bkf files? P.S. we do not use encryption because our files are only valuable to us... no one else would find it useful or valuableTape consume extra space then actual upload size
We were taking Tape backup (LTO) from Windows server folder. After backup was completed, when we compared the size on the Tape was different from the actual size on the windows folder. We could not able to find where the extra space consumed on the tape. Windows Folder size: 58 GB After Tape Back, size on tape is: 90 GB We could not able to identify this extra 32 GB How and where on tape drive we can identify extra utilized space/files/waste ? and how we can remove it ? Thanks&Regards Sachin
Netbackup error code 1. Any issue in restoring any files due to the errors?
At times, getting error code 1 for some backup and a rerun manually is successful. On some other days, it was able to completed successfully. No errors were seen. Any way to turn on more details logging to assist with troubleshooting?
MSL2024 Robotic Partition reconfiguration
Hi, I have a Query at a company running Backup Exec version 21.4 using an HP LTO tape library with two drives and 24 tape slots. The previous IT guy is gone but left the partition with 14 partitions. The first 1 -11 is a single partition and the rest of each has one slot, I need to change this configuration but I'm wondering what effect the changes would have on existing data that use the current partitions. will they update automatically? I don't want to make changes with existing 12 to 24 individual partitions if reconfiguring the partitions and changing from 14 to 24 individual could cause problems or data loss. 1-11 don't have drives
the backup failed to back up the requested files(6)
Hi, Our enviroment we have master server version 8.1.1 in Windows Server 2012 R2 . Last week we are getting a error code 6 form NBU for one snapshot/backup operation with the following error: Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - Info nbjm (pid=6644) starting backup job (jobid=32857) for client vcs, policy vcs, schedule vcs_full Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - Info nbjm (pid=6644) requesting STANDARD_RESOURCE resources from RB for backup job (jobid=32857, request id:{12AA4538-D7B1-4091-A24C-7CCEBB5B9ABC}) Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - requesting resource cifs1-stu Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - requesting resource srv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - requesting resource srv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - granted resource srv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - granted resource srv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - granted resource MediaID=@aaaah;DiskVolume=\\192.168.140.169\cifs1;DiskPool=cifs1;Path=\\192.168.140.169\cifs1;StorageServer=srv-nbu01i.msa.com;MediaServer=srv-nbu01i.msa.com Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - granted resource cifs1-stu Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - estimated 0 kbytes needed Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - begin Parent Job Nov 25, 2023 12:58:26 PM - begin VMware: Start Notify Script Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info RUNCMD (pid=32432) started Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info RUNCMD (pid=32432) exiting with status: 0 Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - end VMware: Start Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:01 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - begin VMware: Step By Condition Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - end VMware: Step By Condition; elapsed time 0:00:00 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - begin VMware: Read File List Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - end VMware: Read File List; elapsed time 0:00:00 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - begin VMware: Create Snapshot Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) vcs is the host to backup data from Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) reading file list for client Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) start bpfis on client Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) Starting create snapshot processing Nov 25, 2023 12:58:27 PM - started process bpbrm (pid=35140) Nov 25, 2023 12:58:28 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40904) Backup started Nov 25, 2023 12:58:28 PM - snapshot backup of client vcs using method VMware_v2 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:29 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) INF - vmwareLogger: Creating snapshot for vCenter server srv-vcenter02.dmzmsa.com, ESX host esx51.dmzmsa.com, BIOS UUID 4209005c-4ec2-29a8-b85b-64661575584b, Instance UUID 5009b489-ff24-bdce-eca6-95a8003f543a, Display Name vcs, Hostname trueconf.dmzmsa.com Nov 25, 2023 12:58:29 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=35140) INF - vmwareLogger: Connection state of virtual machine: connected. Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - end VMware: Create Snapshot; elapsed time 0:00:24 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40904) done. status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40904) done. status: 0: the requested operation was successfully completed Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - end writing Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - end Parent Job; elapsed time 0:00:25 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - Info nbjm (pid=6644) snapshotid=vcs_1700906306 Nov 25, 2023 12:58:51 PM - begin VMware: Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed Operation Status: 6 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:15 PM - end VMware: Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed; elapsed time 0:26:24 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:15 PM - begin VMware: Stop On Error Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:15 PM - end VMware: Stop On Error; elapsed time 0:00:00 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:15 PM - begin VMware: Delete Snapshot Nov 25, 2023 1:25:15 PM - started process bpbrm (pid=40192) Nov 25, 2023 1:25:16 PM - Info bpbrm (pid=40192) Starting delete snapshot processing Nov 25, 2023 1:25:16 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40116) Backup started Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40116) done. status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - end VMware: Delete Snapshot; elapsed time 0:00:09 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - Info bpfis (pid=40116) done. status: 0: the requested operation was successfully completed Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - end writing Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - begin VMware: End Notify Script Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - Info RUNCMD (pid=40884) started Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - Info RUNCMD (pid=40884) exiting with status: 0 Operation Status: 0 Nov 25, 2023 1:25:24 PM - end VMware: End Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:00 Operation Status: 6 the backup failed to back up the requested files (6) Could you please help me to resolve this? and the error occurs for many time. Thank you, Mike Androsov
Backup exec backup job failure
I directly ran a full backup, but the backup was always queued, and there was no rate. The rate was 0. After trying to restart all backup services, I ran the backup task again but there was still no rate. Moreover, I found that the backup service would automatically stop, causing the backup to hang inexplicably. The backup task cannot be continued. How to solve this situation?
