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NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available in the Download Center. https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD236988 Please install it *before* installing any other EEB/HotFix. If you install it af...

Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances Page

Please note the the following link: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100038989 This is the *only* page that will provide Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances. Every effort will be made to keep this ...

Resolved! Cleanly remove appliance from NBU domain

Hello, I need help to cleanly remove 5230 appliance configured as a media server from NBU domain. Currently we have Windows based master server and 2 5230s as media servers. One of the appliances is being used for backups and the other one strictl...

Can we connect External Storage with NBU Appliance

Can we connect external storage with NBU Appliance(Media Server)

How and where to define data traffic will go through different IP

I am working on NBU appliance version 2.6.2 we have 2x1 Gig management IP and 2x10 Gig data IP. We have create bond of these.Currently data traffic is running through 1Gig connection. If I want that traffic will run through 10 Gig connection, do I h...

Resolved! Mass duplication of images from 1 pool of tapes to another

Hi. I'm running a 5230 appliance that's connected to a tape library. And I need to duplicate images from approximately 700 tapes to another set of tapes (in the same environment). I know this can be done via the NB gui in the catalog section, but is ...

How to check the Backup Throughput and Performace.

How to check the Backup Throughput and Performace. Master Server : OS - LINUX_RH_X86 NBU Version - 7.6.0.4 Media Server OS - Linux 2.6.32.59-0.7-default-fsl NBU Appliance 5230 NBU Appliance Version is 2.6.0.4. Current speed : 150 GB/Hour

Resolved! After 272 upgrade of Master Appliance cannot connect to Netbackup Service Layer

I have a site with two locations: Location A 1 x Windows Master, 2 x 5220 Media Appliances Location B 1 x 5220 Master Appliance, 1 x 5220 Media Appliance I have just upgraded Master and both Media Servers (appliances) at Location A from 7611/261...

Exchange backup takes too much time

Hi guys, I have a question... My DAG enviroment is composed by three servers every node is a virtual server (VMWARE), but disks where databases (29 databases = 800 GB) are on LUMs. Netbackup enviroment: Master server is Windows 2012 and media serv...

Resolved! Add external SAN Disk as an AdvDisk to the NB Appliance

Hi, Is it possible to add and external SAN disk and configure it as an AdvDisk in NB 5230? Thx.

Monitor tapes I/O in NB Appliance

Hi, Is there any way to get some I/O statistics of the FC tapes connected to a NB appliance. Networker can monitor the tapes I/O during the backups, but I could not find any solution in NB Appliance. It does not show any FC tapes in iostat etc...

Resolved! 5230 - Command line to scan for new fibrechannel devices

So I was informed today by one of my storage admins that they are almost continually adding new LUNs for VMware. And they are not always quick to pass along the information to the backup team. So I was wondering - does anyone currently simply autom...

Netbackup appliance hardware monitoring

Hello, Can we monitor Appliance hardware (ex- CPU, RAM, Disk Space) utilization monitoring through ops center ?

Please assist clear some space

Hi Please assist clear some space on below paths. /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/2pdvol 3.9T 3.6T 313G 93% /msdp/data/dp1/2pdvol /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/1pdvol 20T 18T 1.6T 93% /msdp/data/dp1/1pdvol

Resolved! FT Client Local drives backups are running with 80mbps on 10GB interface.

I confirmed client is running on 10GB interfaces but backups to Netbackup appliance via fiber client running on 80mbps. client version is 7.6.12

Spurious Alerts following Appliance Upgrade to 2.7.2

I have recently upgraded a number of 5230 Appliances to 2.7.2, and whilst all appear to be functioning as expected we are getting numerous alerts relating to disk failures which are 'false'. I am wondering whether there is a BIOS issue here (mismatc...

Veritas 5230 Appliance, Jumbo Frames, and 10Gb LACP/bond

Does anyone have this configuration running in their environment? I've been told that the previous NBU admin tried to get their 5230s set up with LACP on the 10Gb interfaces and that it did not work (jumbo frames configured). Details are vague, but...

Resolved! Power8 - netbackup integration

Hi Guys, Im taking oracle backups but jobs are taking too long, these oracle instances are on AIX 7.1 and are running on IBM Power 8. I need to know if there is a way to zone this hardware with 5230 appliance in orden to take SAN backups, because P...

upgrade nbu5230 2.5.4 to 2.6.1 but spoold and spad service is down

please help me

Resolved! Appliance 5230(7.7.1) with Master server(suse linux 11-sp2) compatibility

Hi, Anyone can please advise on below. We are trying to add Applinace 5230(7.7.1) as media server to our existing SUSE enterprise linux 11-SP2 based Master server (7.6.1). Above setup will run for few months before we upgrade our Master server to ...

Replication from second copy

Hi guys, My enviroment has 6 5230 appliance, appliance 1 and appliance 2 are working for backups, appliance 3 and appliance 4 are woriking for replications only, and appliance 5 and appliance 6 are replications targets. I create a SLP like this,...

Intial replication from prodcution NBU domain to newly setup NBU domain at primary site

Hello Soon I will be setting up brand new NBU domain made out of NBU 5230 appliances. Inital setup will be made on ours primary site, so I will be forced to use the IP from the range used on ours production site. Of course the hostname used in new d...

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