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 ? andhow 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: Nov25,202312:58:26PM-Infonbjm(pid=6644)startingbackupjob(jobid=32857)forclientvcs,policyvcs,schedulevcs_full Nov25,202312:58:26PM-Infonbjm(pid=6644)requestingSTANDARD_RESOURCEresourcesfromRBforbackupjob(jobid=32857,requestid:{12AA4538-D7B1-4091-A24C-7CCEBB5B9ABC}) Nov25,202312:58:26PM-requestingresourcecifs1-stu Nov25,202312:58:26PM-requestingresourcesrv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov25,202312:58:26PM-requestingresourcesrv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov25,202312:58:26PM-grantedresourcesrv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov25,202312:58:26PM-grantedresourcesrv-nbu01i.msa.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.vcs Nov25,202312:58:26PM-grantedresourceMediaID=@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 Nov25,202312:58:26PM-grantedresourcecifs1-stu Nov25,202312:58:26PM-estimated0kbytesneeded Nov25,202312:58:26PM-beginParentJob Nov25,202312:58:26PM-beginVMware:StartNotifyScript Nov25,202312:58:27PM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=32432)started Nov25,202312:58:27PM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=32432)exitingwithstatus:0 OperationStatus:0 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-endVMware:StartNotifyScript;elapsedtime0:00:01 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-beginVMware:StepByCondition OperationStatus:0 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-endVMware:StepByCondition;elapsedtime0:00:00 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-beginVMware:ReadFileList OperationStatus:0 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-endVMware:ReadFileList;elapsedtime0:00:00 Nov25,202312:58:27PM-beginVMware:CreateSnapshot Nov25,202312:58:27PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)vcsisthehosttobackupdatafrom Nov25,202312:58:27PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)readingfilelistforclient Nov25,202312:58:27PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)startbpfisonclient Nov25,202312:58:27PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)Startingcreatesnapshotprocessing Nov25,202312:58:27PM-startedprocessbpbrm(pid=35140) Nov25,202312:58:28PM-Infobpfis(pid=40904)Backupstarted Nov25,202312:58:28PM-snapshotbackupofclientvcsusingmethodVMware_v2 Nov25,202312:58:29PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)INF-vmwareLogger:CreatingsnapshotforvCenterserversrv-vcenter02.dmzmsa.com,ESXhostesx51.dmzmsa.com,BIOSUUID4209005c-4ec2-29a8-b85b-64661575584b,InstanceUUID5009b489-ff24-bdce-eca6-95a8003f543a,DisplayNamevcs,Hostnametrueconf.dmzmsa.com Nov25,202312:58:29PM-Infobpbrm(pid=35140)INF-vmwareLogger:Connectionstateofvirtualmachine:connected. Nov25,202312:58:51PM-endVMware:CreateSnapshot;elapsedtime0:00:24 Nov25,202312:58:51PM-Infobpfis(pid=40904)done.status:0 Nov25,202312:58:51PM-Infobpfis(pid=40904)done.status:0:therequestedoperationwassuccessfullycompleted Nov25,202312:58:51PM-endwriting OperationStatus:0 Nov25,202312:58:51PM-endParentJob;elapsedtime0:00:25 Nov25,202312:58:51PM-Infonbjm(pid=6644)snapshotid=vcs_1700906306 Nov25,202312:58:51PM-beginVMware:PolicyExecutionManagerPreprocessed OperationStatus:6 Nov25,20231:25:15PM-endVMware:PolicyExecutionManagerPreprocessed;elapsedtime0:26:24 Nov25,20231:25:15PM-beginVMware:StopOnError OperationStatus:0 Nov25,20231:25:15PM-endVMware:StopOnError;elapsedtime0:00:00 Nov25,20231:25:15PM-beginVMware:DeleteSnapshot Nov25,20231:25:15PM-startedprocessbpbrm(pid=40192) Nov25,20231:25:16PM-Infobpbrm(pid=40192)Startingdeletesnapshotprocessing Nov25,20231:25:16PM-Infobpfis(pid=40116)Backupstarted Nov25,20231:25:24PM-Infobpfis(pid=40116)done.status:0 Nov25,20231:25:24PM-endVMware:DeleteSnapshot;elapsedtime0:00:09 Nov25,20231:25:24PM-Infobpfis(pid=40116)done.status:0:therequestedoperationwassuccessfullycompleted Nov25,20231:25:24PM-endwriting OperationStatus:0 Nov25,20231:25:24PM-beginVMware:EndNotifyScript Nov25,20231:25:24PM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=40884)started Nov25,20231:25:24PM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=40884)exitingwithstatus:0 OperationStatus:0 Nov25,20231:25:24PM-endVMware:EndNotifyScript;elapsedtime0:00:00 OperationStatus:6 thebackupfailedtobackuptherequestedfiles (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?
Backup Exec 20, taking longer to backup randomly.
Backing up 1.5 TB of files to a tape drive. Backup takes 5 hours, including verification. It works just fine for days but on other days (random, not the same physical tapes or days of week) it times out after 10 hours. Changed thejob's maximum configured run time to 15 hours from 10 to remedy this. What could be causing this difference? Is it change or altered state of files being backed up? And if so, how do I fix this? I would appreciate all the help I can get on this.
