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TROE · 02-28-2011

I think I've managed to identify the peculiar situation that was causing multiple data stream backups to display strange behavior. I'm posting this in hopes someone else may have seen similar behavior and might be able to lend some insight. The scen...

TROE · 02-07-2011

I recently ran into the following "feature" when attempting to stagger the start times for my nightly backups so as to reduce the instantaneous load impact on my master server. Environment: Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 w/ SP2NetBackup Enterprise ...

TROE · 01-26-2011

I'm running into a very twitchy SQL Server Agent bug. I don't have the time to spend pinning it down perfectly, but here's my best guess as to the scenario under which it occurs and two proposed workarounds that appear to work. Scenario: You have ba...

TROE · 01-26-2011

I just had a situation where I accidentally ran bpnbaz -SetupClient masterservername when I meant to run bpnbaz -SetupClient clientname. Ooops. It failed, but it still caused me instant pain. I had to set USE_VXSS to PROHIBITED in the registry to ...

TROE · 09-04-2010

We are running NetBackup 7.0.1 on Windows Server 2008 x64. Yesterday I decided that I wanted to set up nightly performance monitor captures on my master server (which also serves as a media server) so that I could keep an eye on network and tape dri...

TROE · 03-01-2011

I had indeed changed X to 1 and then completely forgotten about it! It was pure chance that both Y = 12 hours and Frequency of Daily Schedule = 12 hours and thus I assumed the latter was responsible when really it was the former! I think I had assum...

TROE · 09-05-2010

Looks like the columns in the binary log format are not allowed to change within the file. So the first batch of data restricts what can be logged by subsequent data collector runs. So I ended up unchecking "Append" on the File tab in Data Collecto...

TROE · 09-04-2010

I'm going to try the following and see how things work tonight. On the "Stop Condition" tab for the Data Collector Set properties, I'm setting the following. Check "Overall duration" Overall duration: 4 Hours Check "When a limit is reached, restart ...

TROE · 09-03-2010

I haven't seen any changes, except for things like the Client Attributes page of the Master Server Properties dialog, where there is now a check box for "Offline Until" and timestamp boxes to enter values for how long the client should be offline (an...

TROE · 08-28-2010

Just skip the steps in Creating SRTs for adding the maintenance pack to the SRT if you're not running 7.0.1 yet (we were FA, so I've been running the bits for over a month. BMR of Server 2008 works great in 7.0.1, although you will probably have iss...

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Cancelling manual backup jobs has strange effect on policy scheduling

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Error occurred handling an SQL object name

How to fix accidentally running bpnbaz -SetupClient against master

NBU 7.0.1 - Performance Monitor on Windows issues

I had indeed changed X to 1

Not as clean as I'd hoped

Found better workaround, I think

7.0.1 looks pretty much like 7.0

No need for 7.0.1