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Netbackup is an enterprise-level, cross-platform backup product. It is currently owned and developed by Symantec, which acquired Veritas (the previous owner and developer) in 2005.

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Configure Symantec Netbackup to send mails about successful and failed backups

I have Symantec Netbackup 7.0 on windows 2008. I have configured backup jobs. I want it to send me notofications about successful and failed backups. I can receive notifications about failed backups not about successful ones. I have done the…
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Halt Netbackup from doing any Backups, but still allow Restore

My backup system is currently shut down do the library being broken. I am going to attempt to repair the library, but want to make sure none of the current data that is past the retention period gets over written. Is there a simple way that I can…
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NetBackup's bplist doesn't get user/group info for Windows files

I'm trying to get information about storage consumption from NetBackup's bplist output. I'm running NBU 6.0MP5 on a RHEL 3 server. The server is backing up several Solaris, Linux, and Windows machines. When I use bplist to get information about…
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How to display VM Hostname as hostname and not IP?

I had a problem while adding some VM into NetBackup. VM Hostname is shown as IP, but I need to display it as hostname. This problem appear while try to add linux machine, for Windows machines it works fine. PS. On linux machine I configure…
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netbackup vxlogview bptm

Does anybody knows how to get bptm logs with vxlogview? Is it possible?
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Symantec Netbackup: cannot send mail to root on client mydomain.com

Today I ran into a problem with Netbackup 7.6. When a backup job finishes I get this error message: cannot send mail to root on client mydomain.com I chose server sends mail and gave an email address in every client properties. Of course I chose the…
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How can I restore an Exchange 2010 mailbox to its original state after the mailbox has been deleted?

In our environment we are running Exchange 2010 with NetBackup 7 and Symantec eVault. We have global 25 year retention and no purging policies (insane, but that's what the boss wants). We use eVault to simplify and expedite any legal requests for…
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Test Restore of Exchange DBs with the MS-Exchange plugin of NetBackup 6

At my company The MS-Exchange plug-in is used to Backup our Exchange 2003 Information Store (Storage Group), and its Logs and Stores in the Information Store (Please do try to correct my terminology). This has never been tested, and we would like…
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problems importing tapes from netbackup 6.0 MP7

I'm trying to import tapes using bpimport bpimport -create_db_info -id 0019L3 i got through the Phase 1 import reading 10 tapes. I'm now running bpimport (Phase 2). the job is running but i don't see any activity that shows that anything is…
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What ports need open from netbackup server to client?

I need to know what ports should be open from netbackup server to the server, where netbackup client is installed and vise versa? So I need to know what network access should exist to backup and restore database to/from nb server. Thank you very…
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How to get write time of a job with netbackup

Does anyone know how to get the write time of a Netbackup job from the command line or a log? In the GUI, when I go to job details, it does tell me the write time. However, with bpdbjobs -all_columns the 'elapsed' column shows how long the job…
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Block-level raw partition backup for Linux?

I have RAW LVM volumes I've exported as a snapshot from a Falconstor/EMC Symmetrix virtual SAN appliance. Upon these logical volumes are Xen virtual guest servers which are present to a backup server (Linux box with netbackup client) when we mask…
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NetBackup exclude backup selection

I'm trying to exclude some folder from the Backup policy; what I've seen is that you can exclude some by adding a file in /usr/openv/netbackup in the client. Is there any way to excluding in the server? I don't want to the user to be handling this,…
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Where Can I Find Old Versions Of Veritas NetBackup?

I have a Veritas NetBackup 3.4.1 installation running on Solaris 2.6. I have a requirement to add some Windows 2000 Server systems to this backup system. Does anyone know where I might find the install media for a compatible Windows client? I do…
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StorageTek SL500 Serial Number from Netbackup

I have a Sun StorageTek SL500 tape library that I need to put in a service call, but don't have the serial number handy. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the serial number for the library from netbackup or the Linux host which the library…
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