Hello guys,

there is one old setup DD890 integrated with NBU7.5, DD890 has almost reached max capacity and no more expansions can be added, So customer baught new DD7200 with double the previous capacity.

DD was configured as VTL and integrated with NBU.

Plan is to replave DD890 with DD7200, after replacing the environment should be running same as before

we have started collection replication from DD890 to DD7200, it will replicate all datas, VTL configurations to DD7200, Once its done our new DD will look same like old DD with different name and different IP 

we will configure zone the backup server and new DD and configure initators, once its done VTL devices should be visible on Netbackup backup server.

on the NBU side, if we delete the old devices , configure New VTL and do tape inventory  , will that be enough for netbackup to detedt all tapes and old data..!!

can you please let me know if am missing something.

Hi,

I want to do BMR full/incr-diff backup of my client which are KVM created on top of redhatlinux6.5 (host).

Can I only install NetBackup client software on the host, then do backup/restore all of the VMs?

Besides, there are oracle db files in one VM, how can I backup oracledb in that case? Need to install NetBackup client software on that VM?

NetBackup master/media/BMR master/boot server 7.6.1.2  OS:redhatlinux65  ( one physical machine )

SRT redhatlinux66

six redhatlinux6.6 KVM on top of redhatlinux6.5 (host) ;

one redhatlinux59 KVM on top of redhatlinux6.5 ( host );

Regards,

Lacey

Hi,

My NBU master server is Redhatlinux65.

I installed NetBackup - Java Version 7.6.1 on my laptop which is Windows 7.

There is firewall which forbids me to ping my laptop ip from NBU master server.

Can anyone tell me which port and protocol is used in such case?

Regards,

Lacey

Hi All,

I am working on a hardware refresh for one of our NBU domain. I would like to know the pros and cons of Catalog Migarion over Catalog Merge.

I would like to have a discussion thread which lists the the timeline, risks, overall implementation tasks etc...

Thanks

Jaffer

activity monitor failed because of connection to bpjobd daemon on the  master server failed . Master server is running on Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10x_u10wos_17b X86 , Netbackup version is 7.6.0.4

Hi,

Our SLPs for weekly and monthly backups are staged first to local Data Domain, then remote Data Domain then finally to tape. As we only have two active tape drives at the busiest times we have a backlog of writes to tape of several days. 

One backup from Mon night has not written to tape and the command nbstlutil stlilist -image_incomplete -U to view queued SLPs doesn't show it. I can manually duplicate it from the catalog. But I'm baffled as to why it has never run or even tried to run. 

On Tues I modified the SLPs it used, as the Monday night job was a custom emergency backup and I've changed the SLPs since, taking the tape write off the "Daily_Full" application schedule. Could changing the SLP after the job originally ran prevent the desired write to tape from running? 

Thanks

Hello experts

NBU master os win2008, nbu version 7.6.0.1, vmware backups goes to NBU appliance 5220. around 40 vm machines are backedup from a policy. its details are: policy type flashbackup-windows, clients selected manually from vcenter, backup selection all local drives, perform offhost backup is ON (media server). Only 1 vm server  failed on past various attempts. 

GUI logs: 

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - Info nbjm (pid=3184) starting backup job (jobid=87915) for client TOYFIN, policy VMWAREPOLICY, schedule Full

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - Info nbjm (pid=3184) requesting STANDARD_RESOURCE resources from RB for backup job (jobid=87915, request id:{721BEA25-7184-46DF-A972-86FC0B0FC5E5})

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - requesting resource STUNBUAPP

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - requesting resource MASTERSERVER.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.TOYFIN

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - requesting resource MASTERSERVER.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWAREPOLICY

06/03/2015 20:19:41 - Info nbrb (pid=2796) Limit has been reached for the logical resource MASTERSERVER.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWAREPOLICY

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - granted resource  MASTERSERVER.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.TOYFIN

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - granted resource  MASTERSERVER.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWAREPOLICY

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - granted resource  MediaID=@aaaah;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=DISK_NBUAPP;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=NBUAPP;MediaServer=NBUAPP

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - granted resource  STUNBUAPP

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - estimated 66933276 kbytes needed

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - begin Parent Job

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Start Notify Script

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - Info RUNCMD (pid=10760) started

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - Info RUNCMD (pid=10760) exiting with status: 0

Operation Status: 0

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - end Flash Backup Windows: Start Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:00

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Step By Condition

Operation Status: 0

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - end Flash Backup Windows: Step By Condition; elapsed time 0:00:00

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Read File List

Operation Status: 0

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - end Flash Backup Windows: Read File List; elapsed time 0:00:00

06/03/2015 20:27:24 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Create Snapshot

06/03/2015 20:27:26 - started process bpbrm (pid=3321)

06/03/2015 20:27:29 - Info bpbrm (pid=3321) TOYFIN is the host to backup data from

06/03/2015 20:27:29 - Info bpbrm (pid=3321) reading file list for client

06/03/2015 20:27:29 - Info bpbrm (pid=3321) start bpfis on client

06/03/2015 20:27:29 - Info bpbrm (pid=3321) Starting create snapshot processing

06/03/2015 20:27:41 - Info bpfis (pid=16960) Backup started

06/03/2015 20:27:41 - snapshot backup of client TOYFIN using method VMware

06/03/2015 20:33:45 - Critical bpbrm (pid=3321) from client TOYFIN: FTL - VMware snapshot failed: SYM_VMC_TASK_REACHED_ERROR_STATE

06/03/2015 20:33:45 - Critical bpbrm (pid=3321) from client TOYFIN: FTL - VMware error received: An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details.

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - Critical bpbrm (pid=3321) from client TOYFIN: FTL - snapshot processing failed, status 156

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - Critical bpbrm (pid=3321) from client TOYFIN: FTL - snapshot creation failed, status 156

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - Warning bpbrm (pid=3321) from client TOYFIN: WRN - ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is not frozen

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - Info bpfis (pid=16960) done. status: 156

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - end Flash Backup Windows: Create Snapshot; elapsed time 0:06:26

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - Info bpfis (pid=16960) done. status: 156: snapshot error encountered

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - end writing

Operation Status: 156

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - end Parent Job; elapsed time 0:06:26

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Stop On Error

Operation Status: 0

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - end Flash Backup Windows: Stop On Error; elapsed time 0:00:00

06/03/2015 20:33:50 - begin Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot

06/03/2015 20:33:52 - started process bpbrm (pid=4079)

06/03/2015 20:33:55 - Info bpbrm (pid=4079) Starting delete snapshot processing

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - Info bpfis (pid=12592) Backup started

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - Critical bpbrm (pid=4079) from client TOYFIN: FTL - cannot open C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\online_util\fi_cntl\bpfis.fim.TOYFIN_1433356044.1.0

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - Info bpfis (pid=12592) done. status: 1542

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - end Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot; elapsed time 0:00:16

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - Info bpfis (pid=12592) done. status: 1542: An existing snapshot is no longer valid and cannot be mounted for subsequent operations

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - end writing

Operation Status: 1542

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - begin Flash Backup Windows: End Notify Script

06/03/2015 20:34:06 - Info RUNCMD (pid=10416) started

06/03/2015 20:34:07 - Info RUNCMD (pid=10416) exiting with status: 0

Operation Status: 0

06/03/2015 20:34:07 - end Flash Backup Windows: End Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:01

Operation Status: 156

snapshot error encountered  (156)

checked bpfis logs on offhost server:

20:34:06.654 [12592.17416] <32> fis_rebuild_from_db: FTL - cannot open C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\online_util\fi_cntl\bpfis.fim.TOYFIN_1433356044.1.0

20:34:06.654 [12592.17416] <4> bpfis main: Overriding original online_util() status <12> with <1542>.

20:34:06.670 [12592.17416] <2> bpfis Exit: Failed to delete snapreplicapair file [C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\online_util\fi_cntl\bpfis.fim.TOYFIN_1433356044.1.0.snapreplicapair] return value[-1]                                                                             error [2] [No such file or directory]

20:34:06.670 [12592.17416] <4> keep_alive_and_snap_control: Starting keep alive thread.

Hello ,

When I am trying to telnet from master server to client I am able to connect only on bpcd port .

Not able to connect on vnetd and pbx ports. Still backup is getting is successfull. Can you please explain how ?

[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]# telnet pidesces01fn-bkup.fnfis.com 13782
Trying 10.84.177.20...
Connected to pidesces01fn-bkup.fnfis.com (10.84.177.20).
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]# telnet pidesces01fn-bkup.fnfis.com 13724
Trying 10.84.177.20...
telnet: connect to address 10.84.177.20: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]# telnet pidesces01fn-bkup.fnfis.com 1556
Trying 10.84.177.20...
telnet: connect to address 10.84.177.20: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]#

Also client is not able to connect on any of the ports.

[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]# ./bptestbpcd -client pidesces01fn-bkup.fnfis.com
0 1 2
10.84.183.224:739 -> 10.84.177.20:13782
10.84.183.224:13724 <- 10.84.177.20:744
10.84.183.224:13724 <- 10.84.177.20:872
[root@phxfislnbuma01 admincmd]#

Master Server Netbackup Version 7.1

Client Version 6.5

I have a backup scenario with a master server and 2 media servers with several client servers being backed up with different policies writing to disk on these 2 media servers. Here's my problem I have 2 different policies backing up different file selections from the same file server, store3, with one policy backing up to media server1 and the other to media server2. I need to pull some files back from the second policy but when I go into BAR on the file server that the 2 policies are backing up I only see selections for the data backed up with the first policy even though the second policy completes with no errors and I can see the netbackup img files in the correct storage unit on disk. What do I need to do to restore the data from the second policy?

This is Netbackup 7.6.1.

Does Symantec have any major product updates in the works re: the NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server?

We are comparing the product to backup solutions from database-specific vendors like RedGate and Idera.  Looking for better capabilities in a centralized management console.  The dedicated products also seem to have a more intuitive GUI for one-off backup/restores.

Want to give NetBackup for SQL a fair shake, though.

I found the bpnbat command through this thread:

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

It looks like my cert has expired...

(Linux)root@kronos:/usr/openv/var/vxss/credentials> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpnbat -WhoAmI -cf /usr/openv/var/vxss/credentials/kronos
Name: kronos
Domain: NBU_Machines@kronos.fnc.net.local
Issued by: /CN=broker/OU=root@kronos.fnc.net.local/O=vx
Expiry Date: Jun  3 20:07:35 2015 GMT
Authentication method: Symantec Private Domain

I've never worked on this cert before. How do I go about getting this updated? I wasn't able to find anything in the admin guides...

Hello,

I've installed Netbackup server software and wanted to know is there one command to UNINSTALL the server software, instead of doing each individual package?

Thank You In Advance!

we have Netbackup 7.6.0.4 implemeneted in our enviroment and our currently looking at centralizing our  data and simplify infrastructure management while delivering Global File Sharing with central File Locking to the branch office workforce . We are looking at a product called Talon RemoteFAST .

However Talon specifcally uses the D: volume  which could be a subfolder of the existing volume, As we do not want the software to be contending with our live data we have decided to change the drive letter of the current live data on D: volume if possible

Just wondering the impact on Netbackup ?

I would have thought as we backup our data from the D volume to a MSDP pool changing the drive letter should not impact the backup times ?

Just donot want to have experience that first long backup again where Netbackup builds a track log as we have some pretty large volumes  .

Any ideas or comments

Thanks guys

Hi,

We have several clients, each of them has several folders on logical volumes to be backed up. Every folder is assigned to a different stream so that many streams run at the same time. For the client I am looking at now - 13 streams. Every day 2-3 streams fail with error 69. I was told by Symantec support that it happens because VSS is busy with writing snapshot for another folder of the same drive. When NetBackup is requesting for a snapshot to backup - it fails as no snapshot has been done yet. Here is part of the log:

---------------------------

10:33:07.314 AM: [3668.10092] <2> tar_backup_tfi::setupFileDirectives: TAR - backup filename = Shadow Copy Components:\User Data\Distributed File System Replication\DfsrReplicatedFolders\ROBU - E
10:33:33.038 AM: [3668.10092] <2> ov_log::V_GlobalLog: INF - Using VSS to generate a new SnapshotSetID
10:33:33.053 AM: [3668.10092] <2> ov_log::V_GlobalLog: INF - VssSnapshotVolume- a previous VSS snap is in progress. Entering retry/timeout waiting for snap to complete. Timeout period: 0x7d0
.
. < 33 minute timeout waiting on VSS snapshot>
.
11:07:03.992 AM: [3668.10092] <2> ov_log::V_GlobalLog: INF - StartSnapshotSet failed with error: [0x80042316][VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS]
11:07:03.992 AM: [3668.10092] <2> ov_log::V_GlobalLog: INF -  EXIT VssSnapshotVolume::Initialize() return=[0x80042316 VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS]!
11:07:04.164 AM: [3668.10092] <2> tar_base::V_vTarMsgW: INF - EXIT STATUS 69: invalid filelist specification

---------------------------

My question is whether it is possible to extend this 33 min timeout of waiting for the snapshot.

Temporary solution I test atm is to limit number of multiple streams to 3 at the same time, but it does not always work without error 69. To get rid of it with this implementation I will have to reorder streams carefully to avoid placing folders from the same drive one after another. That might work, but I am not sure that backup will go within 24 hours. In addition, this is a very fragile set up and might break any time data raises or folders added or whatever.

Thank you

Hi,

Anyone knows how to change client configuration for BMR Point in Time Recovery? Because mine is greyed. Also tried to change the configuration component such Volumes that not greyed out, but not showing any windows.

We are using netbackup 7.6.1 on a windows 2008 master server. Backups run fine except on two windows 2012 R2 physical servers. The speed we are getting is about 500 kb/sec.

Any idea what to look for? These are relatively small servers (less than 500 MB).

Thnaks

Paul

Hi All, 

I have NBU environment with NBU7.1.0.4.

Many of Solaris clients are having ZFS filesystem on solaris.

Many of the ZFS filesystems are getting backed up but some are getting missed.

Anyone faced this issue , please share some solutions.

dda01 => dda02 ( Being replicated via Data Domain replication option for long)

Both DD690 ,  OS -  5.2.3.0-380917, OST - 2.5.1.0-326737, Servers - Winodws 2008 R2 SP1

All hostname and IP's are mentioned in the host setting on the DD

Updated the Flag OptimizedImage recently on both dda01 and dda02 volume presented to NetBackup. Also changed the ddboost user password recently & updated the same on media servers

NBU Logs in Breif:

While performing duplication NetBackup says - Initiating optimized duplication from @aaagd to @aaah4 ; but it ends up - image open failed: error 2060046: plugin error; and optimized duplication failed, media open error (83)

Error Log from  dda02
TIME.492 (tid 0x2aaaaae1cc90): ostcreate: error 13
TIME.501 (tid 0x2aaaaae178e0): ddboost-<172.25.18.254-56538>: ddboost_api ERROR: ddp_open_file() failed for File: dda02vol/client_1433257201_C2_F1_R5:1433257201:Test-Backup:4:1::, Err: 5034-nfs create failed (nfs: Permission denied)
TIME.502 (tid 0x257cfc0): NOTICE: ddboost-<172.25.18.254-56538>: plugin ERROR: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\\ost-plugins\libstspiDataDomain.dll:stspi_create_image_do STS_EPLUGIN [DDErrNo = 5034 (the user has insufficient privilege)] pathname =dda02vol/client_1433257201_C2_F1_R5:1433257201:Test-Backup:4:1::
 

I started a backup job in off time data backup over the network and due to some reason it is not completed in my off time now I want backup job is suspend at specific time and again resume job from where it suspend. Please guide me how can I configure backup to do this.

Hi All,

I have backup requirement for a dev system which i need to keep only 2 days as retention. Is there any option which we can override default retentions in netbackup 7.5

Master Server: Windows2008r2

Cleint: Windows 2008r2

Regards,

Kiran