BUE 21.4 & GRT with Exchange 2016 on Server 2019
New server with Windows 2019 Standard install, clean install of BUE 21.4 (will attempt using the Veritas BUE Migration Assistant to bring over catalogs, etc.) and questions regarding restoring GRT-enabled Exchange 2016 mailboxes/emails. I guess the biggest question is what are the requirements for the above scenario? Is Exchange Management Tools still required for GRT mailbox restores like it was for Exchange 2010? The system requirements pages I've found make no mention of Exchange Management Tools so I'm not sure. I do remember in the past when we were running BUE 16, and Exchange 2010 that I had to do some special configuration for GRT restores to work, and it has continued to work after we migrated to Exchange 2016 and updated BUE to our current 21.4.
BE15 Restore Wizard Doesn't Display Exchange Mailboxes Using GRT
I am running BE15 on Windows Server 2016 backing up an Exchange 2016 CU17 mailbox server. When attempting to perform a restore (Microsoft Exchange mailbox items), when I expand the backup instance and database, no mailboxes are shown. Anyone help/ideas would be appreciated!
NetBackup 8.3 - Active Directory GRT is Broken
Hi All, Just found another bug in NetBackup 8.3 related to AD GRT jobs. Apparently the image duplication phase where the real mapping should happen between the Backup Image and AD is failing miserably. I noticed couple of things while I was observing the entire process. For the moment I'm not sure if the issue is with the NBU client only but I will make few more tests including a client downgrade to rule out possibilities. 1. When the initial "System State" backup is being taken from a Domain Controller, the jobs sometimes fail with the following message: error encountered while attempting to get additional files for system state:\ Obviously there is also an indication that initial GRT information assesment was unsuccessful. Unfortunately this behavior doesn't seem to be very consistent over the jobs so the failure seems to appear randomly. This have happened on 4 different DC's some of which are RODC. Once I managed to get a healthy image from the DC's I moved on to the duplication part. 2. During the duplication phase I noticed that the "nblbc.exe" binary is constantly consuming an entire CPU core for a while but it is not yet clear what happens in the background. The binary runs like that for about 20-30 minutes non-stop then it terminates with the following message within the "ncflbc" log folder: 0,51216,158,351,52,1596142489535,6192,1152,0:,53:SpsRestoreCurrentVer:False (../ResourceChild.cpp:719),28:ResourceChildBEDS::_attach(),1 0,51216,159,351,1,1596144159553,6192,1152,0:,89:write() failed, wrote 0 of 276, error 232 (Unknown error) (../TransporterConsole.cpp:219),27:TransporterConsole::write(),1 0,51216,159,351,2,1596144159568,6192,1152,0:,256: An Exception of type [FileWriteException] has occured at: Module: ../TransporterConsole.cpp, Function: TransporterConsole::write(), Line: 225 File:*Console* OS Error: 22 (The device does not recognize the command. ) (../TransporterConsole.cpp:225),27:TransporterConsole::write(),1 0,51216,311,351,1,1596144159568,6192,1152,0:,69:exception in m_transport->write() (../BRMObserverDepreciated.cpp:407),29:BRMObserverDepreciated::write,1 0,51216,159,351,3,1596144159568,6192,1152,0:,50:Terminate Signal called . (../TfiExitEvent.cpp:43),22:TfiExitEvent::signal(),1 2,51216,309,351,128,1596144159568,6192,1152,0:,0:,0:,2,(37|) 2,51216,309,351,129,1596144159615,6192,1152,0:,0:,0:,2,(37|) 1,51216,309,351,130,1596144159615,6192,1152,0:,0:,38:ConfigDataIterator::metadataIdCallback,3,(35|A21:3:Error_Messages_Max;|A2:10|) 1,51216,309,351,131,1596144159615,6192,1152,0:,0:,38:ConfigDataIterator::metadataIdCallback,3,(35|A25:3:CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT;|A3:300|) After about another 15 minutes the duplication job times out in NBU console with status code 191 and the following error: Jul30,202011:37:44PM-Errorbpduplicate(pid=11388)db_IMAGE()failed:databasesystemerror(220) Jul30,202011:37:44PM-Errorbpduplicate(pid=11388)Status=noimagesweresuccessfullyprocessed. Jul30,202011:37:44PM-Errorbpduplicate(pid=11388)Duplicateofbackupidsns01dcvm04.skynet.local_1596138967failed,databasesystemerror(220). Jul30,202011:37:44PM-Errorbpduplicate(pid=11388)Status=noimagesweresuccessfullyprocessed. Jul30,202011:37:44PM-endDuplicate;elapsedtime0:43:17 3. When I try to view the content of the images throuhg "BAR" client, I have partial success. Although I'm able to open the "System State" and "Active Directory" folders any subsequent tries further through the OU's are making the client to get stuck with "Communicating with server" messages. Those folders that I managed to open were indicated throuh respective restore jobs in NBU console but no further jobs have been generated. Once the timeout has been reached approximately 5 minutes later. another "ERROR: file read failed" message appeared on the screen. I haven't yet turned on debugging for "bpbkar" or "ncflbc" logs but I will collect those in case NBU client 8.2 wouldn't solve these issues. Also I noticed that it doesn't matter between which type of storage pools I would engage the deduplication. I tried Adv. Disk to Adv. Disk and also Adv. Disk to MSDP but the result is all the same. As it seems the process is stuck somewhere on the client side. My GRT AD implementation used to work perfectly with NBU 8.2 and except for the recent upgrade to NBU 8.3 nothing else has changed in the environment. Any suggestions on the debug logs or other aspects are highly welcomed. Cheers.
need help to configures hyper-v server backups
A little background infomation: I am in the process of upgrading our BackUp Exec server and backups. We were on version 2012. We are upgrading to BackUp Exec 16. I built a new Windows Server, OS 2012r2 and installed the Backup Exec 16 software without an issues. I have a few physical servers that aren't VM host. I comfigure them. All are backing up without issue. As for the VM Host and virtial machines, I'm wanting to use the new features so I can use file/folder-level Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). I'm just not sure how ro back up the VM's so I can do this and use Simple Disadter Recovery too. In otherwords, I want to be able to recover the whole VM and/or a file from that VM. What is the correct way to do this? As so, when I configure the backup, when do I need to capture the Host Components? I have included a screenshot of what I'm trying to do. Just not sure if I need to have 2 backups, one for SDR and one for GRT. Any advice or instruction on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Regards, ABBEadmin
Backup Exec 2014 VRAY - Granular Restore Problem via Disk Based Backup
Hi there, I've read lots of posts on this forum and cannot find a solution to the exact problem I'm having, so I'm hoping someone here can help. I'm not a Backup Expert (clearly:smileyhappy:) and I've just run out of ideas. I'm using Backup Exec 2014 VRAY with all updates, service packs, hotfixes installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine (VMWare 5.5).We run 2 backups on our site - a Tape Based backup where the tape gets taken off site (requirement of management), and a disk based backup. I regularly have to restore individual files from one of our file servers (virtual machine) from the disk based backup. I would like to be able to restore the individual files from the disk based backup, rather than having to stage the entire virtual machine somewhere first. As I have understood from what I have read, you should be able to restore at granular level with disk based backups, but not from a tape based backup for obvious reasons. I have the following options enabled on the backup that are related to GRT. I have tried two ways of restoring : 1. Right click on the server in the server view > Restore > Files, Folders or Volumes > File and Folder backups from a backup set > Enter the date range and find the file I want to restore > This wants to stage the VM before restore 2. Click on the VMware Cluster > Right-click on the server in question > Restore GRT-Enabled data for the selected virtual machine > Files, Folders or Volumes > File and folder backups from a backup set > Enter the date range and find the file I want to restore Whichever way I try, seems to want to stage the VM first, which takes a huge amount of time. Apologies if I have not supplied enough information, I am happy to post anything else that is needed to help diagnose this issue. Thanks for taking the time to read Best regards James
