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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 ...

Is the correct about the "fanTrap", "powerTrap" etc are object_type in the Appliance 5200 2.0.3?

There is the customer who suspect the mib info on Appliance 2.0.3 is incorrect since almost all the trpas are the object_type and the customer think those traps should be the notification_type by comparing with the showmib output in Appliance 2.5. 1...

Resolved! 5220 - Schedule additional queue processing

Just wondering if its possible to schedule additional MSDP queue processing on a 5220 in a similar way that on a windows host you could just create a job in the task scheduler. I find the two auto runs just don't keep the queue in check and its irrit...

You’re invited – NetBackup usability feedback sessions coming up!

We would love to invite you for the upcoming usability sessions where you will share your feedback and inputs with the product team. Your comments will be very important for the projects since you have a better understanding of the real scenarios we ...

Resolved! is it possible to move a storage shelf from one 5220 to another?

We have an old 5220 with 36 TB serving as media server+msdp. We have bought now a new 5220 with two storage shelvs (72 TB). we need to expand the old media server and use the new 5220 as an integrated backup but with only 36TB. In order to save all t...

Finding the PCI Slots information of an 5220 appliance

How can I find the current configuration of my 5220 appliance. What NIC ,FC cards are physicall installed, with their slot details ?

Free VMware ESX 4.0

Hi, I am using NetBackup Appliance 5220 and trying to take a backup of free VMware ESX 4.0. But i am unable to take backup. Kindly let me know can we take free VMware backup from NetBackup ? Because what i think is this VM backup is not working due...

NetBackup Exchange BMR

Hi, I am using NetBackup appliance 5220 and taking backup of Exchange server with BMR option. Backup is successful when i restore the this BMR backup then only OS is restored, whereas as per my understanding it should restore Exchange DB as well wi...

Resolved! in netabackup appliance 5220 unable to add esxi server

in netabackup appliance 5220 unable to add esxi server, i followed the below steps. 1. entry of esxi in /etc/hosts. 2. add backup host entry. host properties>master server>properties> 3. fail to add esxi server media and device management> credent...

Resolved! backup replication

I am trying to setup backup replication between to NB appliance media servers. can anyone tell me the high level steps for how to setup and where the backup replication job log lives? Thanks

Resolved! Enabling Native Tape Drive Compression on LTO5 and LTO6 Drives

Does anyone have a walk through on enabling tape drive compression(NOT software compression)? I've been doing some research and it appears commands such as: sdparm - <device>, and sginfo -a displays the following information: Data compression (SSC) ...

Running DataCollect.sh fails with MegaRAID

Acting on instructions from support, I'm attempting to run /opt/NBUAppliance/scripts/DataCollect.sh This fails with the following error: ================================ERROR============================================= MegaRAID_CLI Symlink doe...

Need understand inbuilt relational sybase database (NBDB)

Dear all , 　 Need understand inbuilt relational sybase database so i can perform below operation -can i go on sybase prompt query prompt with databse credentials ? - if i want to change retention of 1000 policys at a time , can i perform "update " ...

Resolved! Log Share asking for password

Does anyone know how to get around the logs share asking for a password when trying to access it from windows. In the past i would just keep opening and closing the share and the system would eventually let me in but it appears that isnt working any...

Resolved! NB Appliance 5220 ./jnbSA& not running

hi, i can't access the netbackup GUI via ./jnbSA& tnb-appliance:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin # ./jnbSA & [1] 8287 tnb-appliance:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin # Starting administration console version 7.5. The log file for this execution instance...

Using SEP or other AV program on a Netbackup 5220 appliance

I am working in an environment where all systems, workstations and servers alike, must run some sort of antivirus program. We have recently deployed a 5220 running the latest version of Netbackup and need to either install something like SEP for Uni...

Resolved! NetBackup support for Windows 2012 server

Windows 2012 Server has been out (GA) almost 8 months to the day - when is NetBackup going to support it? I have many plans for utilizing Server 2012 and this is really putting a strain on these. I thought normally Symantec releases support within ...

Resolved! NBU 5220 Performance

We recently deployed a 5220 appliance into our environment as it was to be the savior in our battle against a backup window we were no longer able to meet. When we finally got it online and into our NBU environment the initial performance was great....

Resolved! Anyone hosting LiveUpdate on a 5220 ?

We're starting to deploy some appliance-only environments and are very interested in hosting LiveUpdate files on an appliance. It's been pointed out that there is an existing Samba configuration section in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file that seems tail...

NB 5220 appliance partition question

NB 5220 appliance partition question I run 'FactoryReset' on a 5220 appliance (running v2.5), after reset, I noticed that from 'Storage > show all' output, there is 1GB catalog under Base Unit Storage, is this normal and comes from default? myapplian...

Resolved! NB 5220 appliance partition question

I am trying to configure the 5220 appliance to a media server, for some how my first attempt was incorrectly configured as master instead of media. so I run the FactoryReset. After the factoryReset, from Storage > Show, I can see under 'Base Unit Sto...

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