Hi, i recently started at a company and had to take over the Netbackup role. Never used this product before but well they wanted me to take over so im trying my best here.

The issue is that our robot decided to get the error 297 and i understood by reading that the solution is quite simple, remove the disc and readd it.

The issue is i followed some instuction that said i should go to
NetBackup Administration Console > Media and Device managment > Devices > Drives and remove it from there and readd it

The issue is that in Media and Device management the robot doesnt find the Device anymore and i have no clue how to readd it

Any tips?

If you need certain information give me a poke and i will look if i can find the correct information

Version 7.5 on Netbackup

Server 2003

Regards Niklas

Hi,

I need to delete some image on a diskpool (who will be deleted after) so i list image contains with this command :

bpimmedia -L -stype DiskPool -dp "mydispoolname"

From here i have a complete list of image on this pool (example below) :

Backup-ID          Policy                 On Hold Indexing    ScheduleType
Copy  Frag  Expires                   DiskType             DiskPoolName              DiskVolume                StorageServerName    On Hold
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mutdag001.hebergemen CFI-EXCH-MBX         0       0           FULL
1     1     1432918241                DiskPool             DCRCVXNAS003POL002        O:\                       dcrcvxsrpbck003.shd. 0      
1     2     1432918241                DiskPool             DCRCVXNAS003POL002        O:\                       dcrcvxsrpbck003.shd. 0      
1     3     1432918241                DiskPool             DCRCVXNAS003POL002        O:\                       dcrcvxsrpbck003.shd. 0      
1     4     1432918241                DiskPool             DCRCVXNAS003POL002        O:\                       dcrcvxsrpbck003.shd. 0     

But when i try to delete those image (command below), the command returns this :

bpexpdate -M dcrsrvbck001 -notimmediate -force -d 0 -copy 1 -backupid ‘mutdag001.hebergemen’

an invalid entry was encountered

I tried with the full backupid (whos my client name) same result.

Any help would be appreciate.

Hi

I have quantum DXi 6702 drvice which is shared and accessable to two Netbackup master servers through OST plugin.

I have to restore one client data from Master server A to Y client from Master server B.

Please suggest which is the best solution and what all other possbiliites.

Moved from : https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ora-19511-non-rman-media-manager-or-vendor-specific-failure-error-text-failed-process-backup-

Controlfile restoration issue has been resolved after adding No.restricstions file, but still i am facing the problem while restoring database!

Below is the logfile,

abcbkp02:> rman target / catalog rman/xxxx@rman12
 
Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on Thu May 28 05:47:23 2015
 
Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
 
connected to target database: DSTGEDV (not mounted)
connected to recovery catalog database
 
RMAN> run
{
set until time "to_date('2015/05/25 20:30:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS')";
allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' parms="ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=AIR_ABCDB12_DB_DSTGEDV_ONLINE, NB_ORA_SERV=abcbkp02, NB_ORA_CLIENT=abcdb12)";
restore controlfile;
}
2> 3> 4> 5> 6>
executing command: SET until clause
 
allocated channel: ch1
channel ch1: SID=122 device type=SBT_TAPE
channel ch1: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 7.6 (2015021210)
 
Starting restore at 28-MAY-15
 
new media label is "@aaaah" for piece "c-2057956423-20150525-2a"
channel ch1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch1: restoring control file
channel ch1: reading from backup piece c-2057956423-20150525-2a
channel ch1: piece handle=c-2057956423-20150525-2a tag=TAG20150525T200244
channel ch1: restored backup piece 1
channel ch1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:01:05
output file name=/u03/dstgedv/data01/control01.ctl
output file name=/u03/dstgedv/redo01/control02.ctl
output file name=/u03/dstgedv/redo02/control03.ctl
Finished restore at 28-MAY-15
released channel: ch1
 
RMAN> alter database mount;
 
Statement processed
 
RMAN> run
2> {
set until time "to_date('2015/05/25 20:30:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS')";
3> 4> allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' parms="ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=AIR_ABCDB12_DB_DSTGEDV_ARCH, NB_ORA_SERV=abcbkp02, NB_ORA_CLIENT=abcdb12)";
5> allocate channel ch2 type 'sbt_tape' parms="ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=AIR_ABCDB12_DB_DSTGEDV_ARCH, NB_ORA_SERV=abcbkp02, NB_ORA_CLIENT=abcdb12)";
6> allocate channel ch3 type 'sbt_tape' parms="ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=AIR_ABCDB12_DB_DSTGEDV_ARCH, NB_ORA_SERV=abcbkp02, NB_ORA_CLIENT=abcdb12)";
7> restore  database;}
 
executing command: SET until clause
 
allocated channel: ch1
channel ch1: SID=122 device type=SBT_TAPE
channel ch1: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 7.6 (2015021210)
 
allocated channel: ch2
channel ch2: SID=178 device type=SBT_TAPE
channel ch2: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 7.6 (2015021210)
 
allocated channel: ch3
channel ch3: SID=241 device type=SBT_TAPE
channel ch3: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 7.6 (2015021210)
 
Starting restore at 28-MAY-15
 
channel ch1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00001 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/system01.dbf
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00006 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/users01.dbf
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00009 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/DSODBSPACE.dbf
channel ch1: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10307_1
channel ch2: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch2: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00002 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/iaspace.dbf
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00007 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/xmetasrsp.dbf
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00008 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/dseodb01.dbf
channel ch2: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10306_1
channel ch3: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch3: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00003 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/sysaux01.dbf
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00004 to /u03/dstgedv/undo01/undotbs01.dbf
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00005 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/xmetaspace.dbf
channel ch3: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10305_1
channel ch1: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10307_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879778653_10307_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879778653_10307_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
channel ch2: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10306_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879778653_10306_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879778653_10306_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
channel ch3: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879778653_10305_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879778653_10305_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879778653_10305_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
failover to previous backup
 
channel ch1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00001 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/system01.dbf
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00006 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/users01.dbf
channel ch1: restoring datafile 00009 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/DSODBSPACE.dbf
channel ch1: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10210_1
channel ch2: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch2: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00002 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/iaspace.dbf
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00007 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/xmetasrsp.dbf
channel ch2: restoring datafile 00008 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/dseodb01.dbf
channel ch2: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10209_1
channel ch3: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ch3: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00003 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/sysaux01.dbf
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00004 to /u03/dstgedv/undo01/undotbs01.dbf
channel ch3: restoring datafile 00005 to /u03/dstgedv/data01/xmetaspace.dbf
channel ch3: reading from backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10208_1
channel ch1: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10210_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879696472_10210_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879696472_10210_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
channel ch2: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10209_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879696472_10209_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879696472_10209_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
channel ch3: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece DSTGEDV_879696472_10208_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="DSTGEDV_879696472_10208_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:
   Backup file <DSTGEDV_879696472_10208_1> not found in NetBackup catalog
 
failover to previous backup
 
released channel: ch1
released channel: ch2
released channel: ch3
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 05/28/2015 05:50:37
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 6 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 3 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore

Please suggest what can be done to get out of this error.

NBU 7.6.0.4 running on Linux.  Different hostnames, only need the image data for possible restore in the future, not full catalog recovery.

bprecover –wizard fails with error 254 and Status 2818.  Found this older thread looks to be the same issue

  https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/cat...

DR file is it not mentioned in Recovery without Import, much less the need to modify it.  Seems like some steps are missing from the White Paper?

Hi team,

do we have any step by step document of Virtual machine(Netbackup client) restore .
-restore to original VM
- restore to another datastore

Client OS type is windows and linux

Or any suggested method of VM restore

The backup is using VMware policy method.
Nbu version 7.6.0.3
Master server is windows 2012

Hi

Current environment:

Master server running on Redhat Linux 6 with NBU version 7.6.0.3

ACS robot.

While ejecting the vaulting tapes, the job fails with an error (278: Unable to collect pre eject information from the API).

I have searched through Symantec forums, and tried as suggested in various forum threads, but i am unable to get it to work.

From Admin GUI, when i choose deffered eject to eject the tapes, i clearly see that there is 2 session there, one which is the correct one with all the tapes that needs to be ejected, while there is another session there most probably a stuck job from previous eject: see attachment.

Anyhow, what i have tried so far, is to look for a Eject*.txt file in the following location on my Linux master server: /usr/openv/volmgr/misc

I do not have any eject files there at all. Files i have the are as follows:

bpdbm_upgrade.lock
DqDriveState
lmfcd.lock
ltitables
README
robotic_db
tl8cd.lock  ----> already tried renaming them to resolve the issues, without any luck
tldcd.lock ----> already tried renaming them to resolve the issues, without any luck
tlhcd.lock ----> already tried renaming them to resolve the issues, without any luck
vmd.lock

and alot of acssel.lock files followed by the mediaservername and som sort of number. 13751.

Another issue i have is that, once i try to amment something and give it a go, i have to wait for 2 hours before the job cancels. I have tried the command line as well as GUI to cancel the job, but it just wont do anything, and i end up waiting for approx 2 hours before Netbackup stops the job. Any other way of cancelling it faster?

Hello Forum,

Solaris 11 MASTER/MEDIA.

NBU - 7.6.0.1

Backup Type  :  BCV SAN based. ( FS mounted on Media Server and taken on tape).

No. Of Drives per Media server : 8

STU Multiplexing : 3

Media Multiplexing : 3

Media server Memory : 393216 MB

Media Server Swap :

swapfile             dev    swaplo   blocks     free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 285,2        8K     4.0G     4.0G
 

NUMBER DATA BUFFER : 1048576
SIZE DATA BUFFER : 64

Try to achieve a throughput of 1 GB per stream, unable to get through.

Pls. suggest config changes/settings/parameters to be set to achieve the same.

Thanks in Advance

Hello Guys,

I am facing issue with Netbackup Txn backup policy, which has schedule to run after every half an hour. Backups is not running on schedule automatically however while running add-hoc backup its completed sucessfully in 2 minutes.

Policy also contains other servers which are running perfectly.

Server Windows 2008 R2

Netbackup 7.1.0.4

Kindly let me know what need to check from our side.

Regards

Gurminder Singh

Hi

I am unable to veiw active monitor. I restarted the server still i am unable to view. Find attahchment and help me out from this.

Hi,

I am trying to understand the consequences of certain failure scenarios.

(1) I have to back up 3 volumes (vol1, vol2, vol3 in that order) via NDMP within the same policy which has weekly full on Saturday and daily incremental. Let's say during a weekly full backup, it failed in the middle of backing up vol2 and it's out of the full backup window.

 - Is the backup of the vol1 portion still good, ie, can it be used for future recovery?

 - If I re-run the backup policy manually by selecting weekly full schedule, will it do a full backup on vol1 again?

 - If I don't re-run the backup policy manually and wait for the next backup window which is a daily incremental backup, will it back up vol2 and vol3 in full?

(2) I have backups going to VTL which then get dupliated to physical tape library. If the tapes run out, duplication will fail. Will netbackup continue from where it left off? For example, if a duplication job is duplicating image x from VTL and it fails in the middle of it because there is no more tape to write to. After I put in more tapes, will it continue to write the data next in image x on the new tape? Or it will rewrite to the new tape from the beginning of image x?

Thanks,

Dear Forum,

1. I have an ms windows policy with C and D drive + system state backup selected (the two drives are local not network drives)
2. I also have an other ms windows policy with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive selected
Is there any difference in terms of backup and restoration?

I read the manual and it says that all local drives directive contains system state as well and backup the local drives.
If I restore 1. numbered backup or 2. numbered backup are they work the same way?

ps: I set the 1. the C and D with streaming to backup concurently. I only see that this is the only difference.

I am looking for you answers

thank you in advance

regards

Karoly

I have NetBackup env as below:

Master Server: NBU 7.6.1

OS: RHEL 6.6

Media Server: NBU 7.6.1.1

OS Suse/NBU 5230 Appliance

And the below Enterprise vault environment:

Front End:

Cluster

EV: 11.0.1.3527

OS: Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise

Back End:

Cluster

MSSQL: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

OS: Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise

We are in the process of migrating all the Physical servers to Virtual.

So I want to take a full backup of the front End enterprise vault servers (Physical) which i already have  and restore everything (only EV application) to the virtual server. Please note the SQL database has already been moved successfully.

Can anyone advice on how to plan it?

Thanks.

We are receiveing any failure alerts and by suspecting the service NBNOS isnot running in master server. It would be great thankful if i got a solution.

I would like to perform a restoration test for flar files and databases. What should I need to know and prepare to restoration test? We have production servers. Shoudl i need to prerpare test servers? We have MS SQL Server 2008 and Oracle databases. We are using NBU 7.6.0.4 under Windows Server 2012 R2

Good morning,

This isn't a question about multiple streams, etc...

I swear there is a global-type setting somewhere in NBU, that sets how many tape drives can be use at one time... i.e. I have ten tape drives in a library, and I know at one point that I set it so only 8 would be in use for backups at any one time (so I would have two free if I needed to do a restore)...

Bonus points--what is the command line way to view/change that setting?

Thanks in advance!

(crossposted from the Netting Out NetBackup blog)

I’m extremely happy to announce that NetBackup 7.6.1.2 is now Generally Available!

NetBackup 7.6.1.2 is our second maintenance release for the NetBackup 7.6.1 release update. This release contains fixes to over 550 issues including resolutions for most commonly downloaded EEBs, customer escalations, and critical internally found defects. 7.6.1.1 also provides several critical security fixes and many high-demand proliferations to our customers. The significant content of this release is:

• Over 100 customer-related defect fixes, including four 7.6.1.1 issues highlighted in the 7.6.1 Late Breaking News
• Proliferations and Features:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7- Oracle 11g R2 & 12c R2
  • BMR - Windows Server 2012 R2 Client/Boot Server
  • Exchange 2013 CU7
  • SharePoint 2013 support for SQL 2014
  • Windows 2012 R2 Update 3
  • Exchange 2007 SP3 RU16
  • Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Client)
  • CentOS 7 (Client)
  • OEL 6.6 (Client)
  • OEL 7 (Client)
  • SUSE 12 (Media Server, MSDP, Cloud)
  • SAP HANA SPS 09 SUSE 11 SP3
  • SAP HANA SPS 09 RHEL 6.5
  • Ubuntu 14.10
  • Domino SLES 12 (Domino 9.0.1 FP3 IF1)

To download 7.6.1.2, please visit the following page:

NetBackup 7.6.1.2 Download Links
 http://symantec.com/docs/TECH230565

This is a MAINTENANCE Release for NetBackup (as opposed to a Release Update) - it can ONLY be applied on top of NetBackup 7.6.1 or 7.6.1.1. (If you are currently running 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x OR 7.6.0.x, you will need to upgrade to 7.6.1 GA before you can apply 7.6.1.2.)

This is a CUMULATIVE release - it contains all 7.6.1.1 fixes and will do not need to apply 7.6.1.1 if you intend to apply 7.6.1.2.

To check to see if your particular Etrack is resolved in NetBackup 7.6.1.2, please refer to these Release Notes and our updated EEB guide:

NetBackup 7.6.1.2 Release Notes
 http://symantec.com/docs/DOC8198

Symantec NetBackup 7.6 Emergency Engineering Binary Guide
 http://symantec.com/docs/DOC6085

The NetBackup 7.6 and 7.6.1 Late Breaking News has also been updated to reflect newly released fixes in 7.6.1.2 for some of our highest visibility issues:

NetBackup 7.6.1 Late Breaking News
 http://symantec.com/docs/TECH227580
 Short link: http://bit.ly/761LBN

NetBackup 7.6 Late Breaking News
 http://symantec.com/docs/TECH199999
 Short link: http://bit.ly/76LBN

Bookmark the NetBackup Product Landing Page to have these links and many more useful links handy:

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Im really newby on this.

I just updated the credentials of Virtual machine servers on Netbackup. after this i receive a message stating that daemons and processes should be restarted on netbackup server and Media servers involved. its possible to do this without rebooting the server ? how can i do this? can i "suspend" and "resume" running jobs during the restart process not affecting the running backups?

My netbackup server is running on a Linux machine and the media server is a Windows server .

regards

Hello All,

I need to create a list of the clients being backed up via Tape Drive and Disks in netbackup. Can you please tell me how can i do that?

Thanks,

.My netbackup version is 7.0.1

Master, Media and ops center server at windows 2008

I install the opscenter through the  guidline found from

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/opscenter-installation-and...

I make a separate server for opscenter server and add master server. 

But I am facing some problem while gathering data from master server.

It fetches some data. some others are failed. Here is a snapshot

at monitoring window, many information are not shown

How I can proceed