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This is regarding NBU Image Cleanup job that no longer running on activity monitor. In my case, this problem occurred since customer tried to change the date and time on server but wrong syntax; the year move ahead to 2023. The worst, he didn’t stop the NBU services, so suddenly a few backup policy are [...]

When you upgrade from NetBackup 6.x to 7.0, Symantec recommends the following order of tasks: – Back up the current 6.x NetBackup databases – Upgrade NetBackup Access Control (if installed) on all master servers to be upgraded to 7.0 – Upgrade master servers – Upgrade media servers – Upgrade NetBackup Remote Administration Consoles – Upgrade [...]

Did you know what is NBSU or NetBackup Support Utility? this is a great tools to gather diagnostic information in where Netbackup is installed and running. Its replaced what is known as “nbsupport” in previous versions. “The NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU) is a Symantec utility used to gather diagnostic information about the system on which [...]

If you have a lot of tape drives connected to your host/server, sometimes its not easy to know the tape drives order between tape library and drive order on host. Lets say, all tape drive order on tape library and host are starting from 0 (zero).You try to mount cartridge to tape drive number 6 [...]

Learn the reasons why you should Deduplicate everywhere to get the most out of your IT. Symantec’s latest release of NetBackup 7 comes with Deduplication software already installed, making one of the things you need most right where you want it. Joe Pfeiffer (Product Manager with NetBackup) will take you through all you need to [...]

Still waiting for Symantec NetBackup 7 release announcement. It has not been released yet,  but actually since Dec 2009, Symantec has been offered what they call as Symantec NetBackup 7.0 First Availability (FA) program. What’s New In Symantec NetBackup 7 Just a little bit overview of new features in the latest NetBackup 7.0 release: Integrated [...]

Document ID: 284146 http://support.veritas.com/docs/284146 Top 10 Recommended Veritas NetBackup ™ TechNotes Details: TechNote ID Description 183702 NET_BUFFER_SZ, SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS – how they work and how to configure them 276739 STATUS CODE: 156 “snapshot error encountered” occurs when utilizing VSP or VSS for open file backups. 290185 Welcome to the Veritas NetBackup ™ 6.5 Upgrade [...]

If you got failed or error with Netbackup, sometimes it’s not easy to troubleshoot. The common error that always faced with my customer is ‘status code 196 : client backup was not attempted because backup window closed‘, or the worst is the got ‘status code 96 : unable to allocate new media for backup, storage [...]

This is just my own notes on Veritas Netbackup Command Line Guide, feel free to copy-paste;-): ————————————————————————————- /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/jnbSA >>run NBU GUI /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpadm >>NBU Menu Interface /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -deassignbyid QOSFEB 1 0 >>deassign media /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate -m QOSFEB -d 0 -force >>Expired /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpclient -client aziz -L > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpclient -client aziz -add -max_jobs 99 >>set max jobs to 99 [...]

6.5.x Release Updates The 6.5.x Release Updates provide documentation updates for the additional features provided in each release. The links to the documentation updates for each version is as follows: -6.5.4 Release Update: http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/326269 -6.5.3 Release Update: http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/305408





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