Hello
I want to upgrade my Appliance 5220 to lastet version (2.6.0.1) but I got a problem with \install path.
I opened CIFS share by the step Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Share Open and can map //<Appliance hostname>/installpath with my PC but when I placed my patch files from local into its, it has an error like in the picture.
Hi guys,
title pretty much sums it up. Is there a command to easily check from the clinetside what includes are configured? I am looking for an analog of the bpcoverage command from the master.
Story behind this is that our server admins (Linux, AIX, HP-UX, etc) want to check if they forgot to include any important filesystems into the backup. (We are usually not working with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES so there is a real danger of someone forgetting a new filesystem) Since the guys want to implement an automation I am looking for something that wont blow up my masters. (One of them is a tad old and with ~3,000 clients)
As we are currently still mostly running on NetBackup 7.1.0.3 any solution offered should work from that client level.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Chris
HI,
Netbackup Env: Windows Server 2008 R2 + 4 media servers,
Master + Media NB version 7.5.0.7
I followed the process as HERE but:
My target machine si same architecture, 64bit but with different harware(disimilar restore).
For a disimilar restore, when I create Prepare to Discover task, the job in taks panel is in queued all time, more likely stuck, same for Prepare to Restore.
If I Prepare to Discover a server already backed-up with BMR option enable in policy, same thing, Prepare to Discover Job in Task pannel is stuck in queued mode. (please see the picture). (the server here is 100% connected, backup job 100% successful).
Aswell if I workarround and get BRM start on the target machine:
that means I mount the srtCD-boot in the target, I start a Generic BMR Restore and I discover the target from itself, then I can see the discovery of target machine.
after this, next step is when the restore is on going but only C:\ drive restore itself, the System State doesnt.
I checked in the Activity Monitor and only one job here. The restore on the target fails ofcourse and no other retore job occur for System State.
This is a bug? Why this happens, what do you think I should test/do.
Hi,
A SAP backup (RHEL 2.6) has started failing:
3/04/2014 16:14:06 - Info bphdb (pid=2197) Waiting for the child status
03/04/2014 16:51:47 - Error bpbrm (pid=15127) from client xxxx: ERR - Script exited with status = 5 <the restore failed to recover the requested files>
03/04/2014 16:51:47 - Error bpbrm (pid=15127) from client xxxx: ERR - bphdb exit status = 6: the backup failed to back up the requested files
03/04/2014 16:51:48 - Info bphdb (pid=2197) done. status: 6: the backup failed to back up the requested files
03/04/2014 16:51:48 - end writing
the backup failed to back up the requested files (6)
This failure is on the Automatic-Full-Backup type only, the 'data' backups from the Application Backup types work successfully.
My question is basically will I still be able to restore the SAP data even though the controlling (Full-Control) backup has failed..??..
Thanks in advance.
Hi We are actually upgrading our servers from Vsphere 4.1 to 5.1 First step was to upgrade Vcenter Server. We created a new one with same name and same IP Address. It worked like a charm form VMware part, and we are able to manager our 4.1 hosts. But in Backup Exec, backups do not work well anymore. At first, they were failing because VMs were not selected anymore in backup jobs. I selected VMs again for each backup job and backup do start again. It create snapshot, backup Vm and suppress snapshot correctly. But job fail with this kind of error. VMTools were not upgraded in Vms and VMware Hosts still are in 4.1. Only Vcenter was upgraded right now. Agents are in VM BackupExec server is 2012 SP3. Agents are not all SP3, but it is failing too for all jobs even if Agent version is the last one Backup-
BackupV-79-57344-38260 - Unable to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine may be too busy to quiesce to take the snapshot.
Verify- SRV-BACKUP02Unable to attach to VMVCB::\\srv-vcenter01.feuillatte.com\VCGuestVm\(DC)CVCNF(DC)\vm\SRV-SPACEMAN.
V-79-57344-33899 - The resource could not be backed up because an error occurred while connecting to the Agent for Windows. The correct version of the Agent for Windows must be running on the target computer.
A selection on device VMVCB::\\srv-vcenter01.feuillatte.com\VCGuestVm\(DC)CVCNF(DC)\vm\Machine virtuelle détectée\SRV-SPACEMAN was skipped because of previous errors with the job.
Hi,
We have a new appliance 5230 installed as media server. But when we try to use the expension unit, we cannot add it to the storage to use it.
Here is the result of the command in the appliance to show storage :
Any idea with this ?
Hi,
I don't know what's happening. I am trying to add a scheduled backup job to hard disk and then replicated to a tape drive in Backup Exec 2010. I have some six other jobs working with duplicate to tape setup without any problems. This particular job is just refusing to run. As soon as I schedule it, it will give you a summary of what the job is going to do. Below is part of the backup summary.
General
| Policy name: | MYSERVER Policy |
| Policy description: | MYSERVER Policy |
Policy Templates
Template Rules
I need the Source Lines of Code (SLOC) counts for Backup Exec 2010 and/or 2010 R3. I also need the SLOC counts for Remote Agent for Linux Servers and Windows Servers. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Approximate counts would be helpful as well. Thanks.
Does Backup Exec 2012 SP3 support (SDR / BMR) simplified disaster recovery for Windows 2012 R2 ?
Hi,
Our catalog backup is about 98GB in size and runs for about 3 hours. We are looking at ways of speeding this up and have gone down the compression route. (Netbackup 6.5.0.6 - Windows 2003 R2 Master)
I have appled catalog compression using the recommended "staggered approach" and we have now compressed all images older than 32 days and we have seen the db/images folder reduce in terms of the size on disk from 92GB to 56GB. The problem is that the Catalog backup itself is stil at 98GB and has actually gone up in duration to 3 and half hours. (I know the increase could be dependant on how busy the environment is but sure we should at leaset have seen the backup reduce in size since the compression)
I know its not a complicated process but just want to make sure I havent missed something :
>> Ensure catalog backup isnt running
>> Set catalog compress interval
>> run bpimage -cleanup -allclients
>> Check the db/images folder on completetion and can see a reduction of size on disk and image files in blue to indicate compression.
I cant understand why the catalog backup is still 98GB. Maybe I need to restart Netbackup ? I dont want to suggest this unless I am pretty confident it will resolve the problem as we have to force a window and puts us a behind a little with Vaulting.
Has anyone had something similar and can you advise?
Thanks
Nick
Hi All,
I recently checked AIR feature for replicating de-duplicated data to DR site, however today i spoke with Symantec support. I suggested about catalog replication and do a tape less DR catalog recovery rather than building Catalog through DR Image file
What are everyone's views on this?
Hello,
My environment is quickly moving forward wiith Linux kernel updates and BE2012 is not following soon enough!
The current SCL shows compatibility up to Oracle Linux 6.1. Oracle is already relesing OL6.5. I have tested with the higher kernel and BE2012 will not work.
I am running BE2012 SP3 on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
Does anyone at Symantec have a clue as to when the compatibility will be updated.
My planned production environment will be Oracle Linux 6.3 with the kernel level - 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64
Thanks
Michele
Hi there,
I'm experiencing a strange issue, but I don't think it has anything to do with Netbackup. However, I'd like to put this out there to see if any of you have a solution.
We have two VM's. Both are SAP and both run Oracle 11g.Both DB's are roughly the same size. Approx: 640GB
Both VM's are in the same SAP backup policy.
VM1 has 2 vCPU's and 16 GB of RAM
VM2 has 4 vCPU's and 16 GB of RAM
VM1's backup is is 3 hours.
VM2's backup is 11 hours.
Both are running Windows 2008 Datacentre and are both backing up to the same storage unit. VM1 runs at about 60 MB / sec, and VM2 is about 15 MB/sec.
Each VM is running on a different ESX host, however, vmotion does not solve the problem.
Both VM's storage is on the same SAN (XIV)
Therefore, is there any oracle parameters (outside of Netbackup) that could affect backups? Could Oracle be causing this issue?
We have this very same issue on a few other VM's. Some backup very fast, some slow (That's in our TSM environment)
If anybody can help, it would be appreciated.
We are running Netbackup 7.6 on Windows 2008 R2. We have one media / master server.
Hi guys,
We currently run back-up Exec 2012 to run a full tape back-up of a couple of our servers each night. The problem we have at present however is that the job takes around 12 hours am some times is still running when users arrive the next day.
Iv'e considered changing the back-ups to incremental/ differential, however I believe a full back-up each night is still the best approach for our business.
Quite abit of our data has not been accessed for some time, so one idea I have had is to decrease the time a full back-up takes, by only backing-up data accessed within a certain time period, but my question is - is there a better way of decreasing the time a full back-up takes? If not, what's the best way to archive off old data from a file server?
Kind regards 
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/server-grou...
Hi Folks,
I am creating server group for this media sharing.When I am creating the group,I am getting 3 option in server gp type.
1.Media sharing
2.NOM
3.Alternate restore
What is this NOM and alternate restore for? still for future use??
I previously asked this question.I know Media sharing is for WRITING purpose.
What this NOM and Aletrnate restore group is for.?
I have read one of the MARK post(link below) stating to create a Alternate Restore Group.
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/net...
nbu masre/media/client 7.5.0.6 os windows 2008r2
I have started getting a error 58 can't connect to client error on one of my servers. I have run the following cmds from the master and the client, bpclntcmd -hn, bpclntcmd -ip, bpclntcmd -pn succesfully. see attached docs. But i cannot ping from either machine to each other. I can ping and also rdp to both machines from my workstation. Can anybody help me futher trouble shoot?
Hello,
I am quite new to using backup exec 2012 with the idea of DLM and need some questions answered (i.e. my setup confirmed)
Some history:
Currently, we are using another backup solution that pushes backups via FTP to two stores that leap frog each other. The people here have become very used to being able to delete a file and that file being available to them in the future on account of our incremental backups never cleaning up backup sets (our storage is much larger than usage, the company is not very data heavy.) With DLM, I believe files like these in the backup sets will be removed after the retention period of the backup has been reached, as the backup sets themselves are deleted to regain storage. In this case, I believe I have read people would set up a duplicate backup to archive media such as tape so recovery of files that might have been deleted months or years ago will be available. Our company gets audited frequently, and we could be asked to produce data that might have been deleted for years off our production servers. We would like to use offsite tape storage sets to comply with data retention standards we have to comply to.
The setup I would think of for us is:
One full backup per week, with daily incremental backups all to our deduplication storage on our media server, with data retention set to a level our media set could handle (currently eight weeks.) Then, we could have a weekly Backup to deduplication then duplicate to tape action for archiving purposes that backs up to scratch media.
1. Weekly Full backup to deduplication (eight week retention) with duplication to tape (no retention, tapes are archived off site)
2. Daily incremental backup to deduplication (eight week retention)
Would this setup would give us eight weeks of backup data available to restore on our live media server and unlimited restore potential from archive tapes? We would not be re-using our tapes in this scenario.
Sorry if this question is too simple for the forum.
Hallo,
ich möchte wissen, welche Dateien sich auf einem Band befinden.
Es handelt sich um eine Sicherung einer VM. Wenn ich auf Restore gehe, sehe ich das Band unter "View by media" hier werden aber nur die VMDK-Dateien angezeigt für den passenden Tag angezeigt. Unter "View by Resource" sehe ich keine Sicherung, die zu diesem Band/Datum gehört.
Unter Media, habe ich das Band online gefunden und einen "create catalogue" gestartet. Es werden mir unter "View by Resource" jedoch nach wie vor keine einzelnen Ordner bzw. Dateien angezeigt, die ich zurücksichern könnte.
Systemumgebung:
Windows Server 2008R2
Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3
Tape Library: Tandberg / Exabyte
Vielen Dank vorab für Euer Feedback
Hi
Customer has requested that I backup some Netapp Snapmirror snapshots. I have taken a look. The customer has snapmirror no snapvault in this instance. I'm no expert with Netapp, does the the customer require snapvault to backup the snapshots or can I backup straight from snapmirror? Any implications and pro and cons would be really appricated. Currently I have installed the Netapp plugin for Netbackup.
Regards
Naveed.
We are using Oncommand protection manager for snapvaul/snapmirror for Netapp volumes/qtrees. It's having all the functionality like policy,schedule.
Can I assume Netbackup replication director just as another product to protect Netapp volumes/filer. Is there any addtional features with Netbackup replication director that can't be achieved through protection manager.