Backup jobs stay in a Queue state for a long time.
Hi all We have a problem to execute the backup jobs from a BE appliance console.All jobs stay in an "Active:Queued" for a long time and don't transfer any data. The jobs are send to deduplication disk storage. We can review the TN: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100007231 but not "po_list_2" are present on theDeduplication Storage Folder Path\databases\catalog. Also review the TN: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100010408 but no "*.lck" files are present. Thanks in advance for your help.
Veritas Appliances Inspire at Microsoft Partner Event
Just recently back from Las Vegas and an inspiring week meeting with numerous Microsoft and Veritas partners and forging new business partnership relationships for Veritas' data protection and Long-Term Data Retention Appliances. Some of the conversations I had here started with question on how Veritas hardware-based solutions align with Microsoft’s offerings, particularly Azure, and as an MS partner, how does it benefit my customers’? Interestingly enough, Microsoft has apparently started their own hardware division. I’d speculate it’s a consolidation of resources to develop hardware to power their Azure services. Back to the question at hand on Veritas Appliances. The answer is really pretty simple the Veritas family of data protection and LTR solutions all seamlessly integrate with Azure, protecting an organizations most critical assets on premises and in the cloud. Rather than spilling more ink on the value of Veritas Appliances here in the VOXosphere, you can watch my Wikibon TheCubeinterview on this topic and more. Thenand come back to VOX to continue the conversation.Welcome to the Veritas Flex Appliance
The Veritas Flex Appliance is a new concept in delivering enterprise data protection services. It utilizes a modern, containerized architecture to deliver a range of on-demand services including data protection and tiering to public and private clouds. Flex simplifies IT by replacing multiple, dedicated departmental servers with a single, microservices based data protection appliance. With Flex, multiple NetBackup and NetBackup CloudCatalyst microservices are configured and deployed in less than 5 minutes, and on-demand. And, Multiple NetBackup deployments (domains) can be consolidated on a single Flex appliance substantially reducing data center cost and complexity. The Flex Appliance represents a paradigm shift in high availability and SW updates. It’s not only a fully redundant hardware appliance, it’s also H/A in its and containers/services. With Flex, new versions of services are deployed in independent containers making SW patches and updates a thing of the past. Interested in learning more about Flex? Join our Veritas Appliances community and interact with the Engineering and Product Management team that developed this new architecture. Helpful Resources: Flex Appliance Webpage Flex Appliance Data Sheet Flex Appliance Solution Brief
Tape Elimination with Veritas Access
A significant number of my NetBackup customers are currently looking to eliminate tape within their environments. For a long time people have been saying that tape is dead but until recently I never believed it because of the amount of data you could store on an LTO tape and the performance of the drives, made it cheaper than an average disk array. With the introduction of deduplication technology, tape elimination started to become a reality but the cost to keep the data beyond a few months on deduplication pools was not cost effective and meant that tape still had a place within the environment for long-term retention. With Veritas Access this is about to change as customers are now able to send their long term backups via S3 to a cost effective scale-out NAS solution. This effectively creates a two-tiered storage platform for the backup environment, with primary backups sent to high performance storage while leveraging advanced features such as client-side deduplication and Accelerator synthetic backups to reduce backup windows. Any backups that need to be kept for long-term retention would be automatically duplicated to Veritas Access via S3. This approach reduces the amount of primary storage required, eliminates tape, including all the operational costs associated with it and if using NetBackup Appliances or custom built Media Server Deduplication Pools (MSDP), provides a single vendor backup solution. With this new approach to backups, tape elimination may become a reality after all.BackupExec deduplication manager service failed to start
Hi all I have a backupexec appliance 3600 R4 wint BE15. This appliance is EOX, I know it, but our client maintains this old infraestructure and now I have a problem. This appliance had 2 disks failed and the the RAID was offline. Our client bought the 2 disks and we replace that on the appliance. The rebuilding RAID process was apparently successful and now on the appliance web UI show us all disks online an also the RAID. But now, when I try to start the BackupExec services I have this error for BackupExec deduplication manager: I can see this detailed status on Windows EventViewer: But when I try to verify the D:\Appliance_Dedupe\etc\pdregistry.cfg file I can't access to the folder (D:\Appliance_Dedupe is the appliance's deduplication folder): Anyone can help me with this? Thanks in advance. Regards Toño
backup exec 16 - 3rd party virtual appliances, 4th party utilities (freeSSHd)
The short question is: Will FreeSSHd interfere with Backup Exec if the former isinstalled on the media server? It used to be easy to back up the database create by a 3rd party vendor's software, beause it ran on a Windows OS. Then they switched to a virtual appliance. It doesn't make sense to back up the appliance, but I would like to back up the database. Unfortunately, that means setting up a separate SSH FTP to receive the backups. The appliance won't even do the backups if the server isn't configured. IIS, of course, can't do SSH FTP; you need yet another vendor's SSH FTP solution. The appliance vendor recommends FreeSSHd. Usually I spin up a new OSE for a special workflow but it really seems like extreme overkill in this instance (and defeats the purpose of using the appliance). Since this SSH FTP is solely used forbackup, the logical place to install it might be the Backup Exec media server. But that has risks of its own; I wouldn't like to break existing backups. Does anyone have an experience of FreeSSHd breaking Backup Exec, or at least some advice that would indicate installing it on the media server is a Bad Idea?
Appliance Upgrade Readiness Analyzer (AURA) and System Load
Please disregard. I posted this in the wrong forum by mistake. I have reposted in the NetBackup Appliance forum. Thanks, Jason Can you run the AURA while the system is performing backups and replications? In checking my schedules, I don't seem to have a time when one or more of each aren't running. Thanks all. Jason
