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Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

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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 ...

Dedupe factor with Oracle Data Guard shipped transaction logs

Hi All, I learned that the Data guard has a capability of shipping transaction logs in such a way that it does not replace a whole log file but just the changes at the block level. I am just curious if this will allow us to backup those files with g...

Resolved! Remote AIR restore from tape

Hi All, I have AIR setup and working between two appliances and have successfully restored a backup using the Vcenter plug-in from the remote master. We keep the images on the remote master for around 3 months. However, at the remote server e...

Appliance Checkpoint Automation

Hi All, Is there a way of automating checkpoint creation on an appliance? Or is it purely a manual process? Kind Regards, Leo.

Resolved! Decommission of NBU 5000s

I need to decommission 2 NBU 5000s and can't find clear information on doing that. I pointed all policies to other storage and allowed everything on the appliances to expire. Is there a tech note or other documentation on removing them?

Resolved! Migrating Master server from appliance to a Windows/Linux server

Hi All, Kindly help me in understanding if this is possible. I have a 5230 configured as Master and media server(2.6.0.1). I want to take out the Master component from it and migrate/move it to another server either with Linux or windows OS. Kindl...

Are Appliances affected by recent BASHBug?

Will NBU appliances be at risk on bashbug?..... What could be preventive actions to be taken to protect it. Although appliances have been hardened by SCSP and has restricted privileges, are there chances it might get affected? http://www.syma...

Resolved! 5220 Appliance / 2.6.0.3 - Shellshock vulnerability

Looking for some official word on whether or not the NBU 5220 Appliance running 2.6.0.3 is subject to the Shellshock vulnerability?

Resolved! VMware backup over SAN: Appliance to ESX zoning

Guys, I have a Solaris based Master server and 5 x 5220 Appliances (media). I am interested to configure VMware backup over SAN. I need confirmation on whether zoning between Appliance (media server) to ESX is required? If yes, then Appliace is Ini...

Resolved! Appliance 5230 HBA ports using initiater or target mode!!!

Hi All , I have the current case and need to clarify how right is the configuration: I have an 5230 appliance as media server D model ,and initially all HBA port coming with initiator mode to be used as tape out and vmwre host. I will configure so...

Resolved! AIR does not work after NBU appliance upgrade

Hi, recently we helped a customer to upgrade two NBU 5230 appliance from 2.5.4 to 2.6.0.3. Before the upgrade, the AIR between the two appliance (one in prod site and one in DR site) is working fine. However, after upgrade, we can see AIR job run in ...

Resolved! IPMI does not work

Hi, we are helping a customer to configure a NetApp 5230 appliance which is upgraded from 2.5.4 to 2.6.0.3. Previously we did not configure IPMI. After the upgrade, we decide to configure IPMI. However, I followed the guidelines in NetBackup doc but ...

Resolved! Connecting additional Storage to Netbackup Appliance 5220.

I have a NBU appliance 5220 with two storage shelves with 35 TB each. The version is 2.6.0.3 I am using 64 TB for MSDP and 11 TB as Advanced Disk. With 2.6.0.3, the MSDP capacity has been increased to 144 TB. instead of buying additional stora...

Resolved! Can Netbackup Appliance (NBU5220) be used to backup app_cluster with virtual_name?

We have a 2-node vcs cluster, both installed as NBU san media sever. db1 (NBU 6.5.4) db2 (NBU 6.5.4) NBU_master (7.6.0.3 nbu5220 (2.6.0.3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used nbemmcmd...

Change of management port after NBU appliance upgrade

Hi, recently I helped a customer to upgrade their NBU 5230 appliance to 2.6.0.3 (previously it is 2.5.4). The appliance was setup as master server. The onboard network port eth0 is the management port. After upgrade, we found that the management port...

Resolved! HBA configuration is not saved after appliance reboot

Hi Support, Please I need a solution on how I can make my hba cards configuration persistant upon appliance reboot. I notice each time I reboot the appliance, all the hba cards return to the default mode, which is "initiator", whereas some were con...

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance configuring AIR in a single NBU Domain, is this possible?

Hi All, Please I need an advise on the above title. I have a large netbackup domain with dr remote location. I currently purchase some set of netbackup appliances and want to configure the auto-image replication between the production and dr site. ...

Backup fail with error code 150

Hi , i am getting problem in backup after security patching with erro code 150 . os:window 2008 r2 client version :7.5.0.4 full backup for ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

Resolved! NetBackup Appliance MSDP Dedupe ports not opened

Hi Support, I recently configure client-side deduplication on netbackup appliance 5230 running appliance v2.6.0.3. However, the client-side deduplication fails with error code 83 "Clients direct plugin not available" I got a technote that seems to ...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliances MSDP pool Capacity

Hi All, I need to know how do we calculate the required disk space for customers that how much cpacity of MSDP pool they needed to manage their backup environment. Actually I am facing difficulties with few customers, where MSDP pool is getting...

Resolved! limitation of streams

NetBackup 5220/5230 Appliance is preconfigured with 8 streams in total for the appliance. In many cases this is not a limiting factor with the notable exception of Oracle backup where the number of streams can be very high. I know that many facto...

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