Master Server : Solaris 10, Cluster, NBU 7.6.0.3
Client: Windows 2008 R2, NBU 7.5.0.4
If WOFB is enabled for this client, then on windows client where can I locate the VSS cache files created by NBU.
Does NBU store any type of files in C:/System volume information ? if yes, then is there anyway to check if that file belongs to NBU?
Windows Server 2008 R2, Backup Exec 2010 R3. System has been running without incident for literally years, with the occasional reboot just to keep things tidy. About a week ago I did such a reboot, but now BE no longer runs. When I launch it I get a "Connect to Media Server" dialog with the message "Backup Exec Services on BACKUP Stopped."
If I click SERVICES and then START ALL SERVICES I get this:
Start services on server: BACKUP
Starting Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows Systems on BACKUP.
The service Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows Systems is already running on BACKUP.
Starting Backup Exec Device & Media Service on BACKUP.
The service Backup Exec Device & Media Service is already running on BACKUP.
Starting Backup Exec Server on BACKUP.
Error starting the service Backup Exec Server on BACKUP. Error code returned:
Starting Backup Exec Job Engine on BACKUP.
Error starting the service Backup Exec Job Engine on BACKUP.
The dependency service or group failed to start.
Starting Backup Exec Agent Browser on BACKUP.
Error starting the service Backup Exec Agent Browser on BACKUP.
The dependency service or group failed to start.
Start services on server BACKUP completed.
Processing services completed!
When I do the "beserver.exe -console" command (as per instructions I've found in similar threads) this is what I get (note my annotation about halfway down):
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>beserver.exe -console
[5248] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Performance counter initialization failed: 5
[5248] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Starting beserver console application
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Starting Service: BackupExecRPCService
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Entered RpcXfaceServiceMain.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Sending start status to scm. (hint 300000)..
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 SetServiceStatus: state: SERVICE_START_PENDING check
point: 1 wait hint: 300000
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking service rights and pending reboots.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for pending install reboot.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Pending install reboot not detected.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking to see if start up checks have been disable
d.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 No start up checks have been disabled.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Opening process token.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Getting token SID.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Got current SID: 'S-1-5-21-1604658663-1246052835-122
1738049-2501'.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for local system account.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Got local system SID: 'S-1-5-18'.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Not running as local system account.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for admin privileges.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: Current user does not have admin privileg
es.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for specific required rights.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for 'Backup Files and Directories' priv
ilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 LookupPrivilegeValue( ) found privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: AdjustTokenPrivileges( ) could no
t enable privilege ( 0x514 ).
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for 'Restore Files and Directories' pri
vilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 LookupPrivilegeValue( ) found privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: AdjustTokenPrivileges( ) could no
t enable privilege ( 0x514 ).
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for 'Create a Token Object' privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 LookupPrivilegeValue( ) found privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: AdjustTokenPrivileges( ) could no
t enable privilege ( 0x514 ).
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for 'Manage Auditing and Security Log'
privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 LookupPrivilegeValue( ) found privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: AdjustTokenPrivileges( ) could no
t enable privilege ( 0x514 ).
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Checking for 'Take ownership of files and other
objects' privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 LookupPrivilegeValue( ) found privilege.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 ERROR: AdjustTokenPrivileges( ) could no
t enable privilege ( 0x514 ).
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Not checking for 'Act as part of the operating s
ystem' privilege as it is not needed for this environment.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Initializing ACE...
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: started.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: complete.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown Ready: started.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:40 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown ready: complete.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Initializing work queue...
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Read from Registry: DBTimeoutInSec=30 ServerInternal
=0x0
Error. HR:0x80004005.
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Persistent Store initialization failed:-1
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Server Connection String =
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Initializing Persistent Store (, , Backup Exec Serve
r, 30 seconds)...
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Attemp to GetMyPartition ComputerName=BACKUP Part
itionID=0 PartitionGUID=9aa0d1cb-e747-4fb9-9341-d498c519d63c
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 InitializePartition() Data partition ID from registr
y=0
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 InitializePartition() DB_Exception caught! native=0x
10d9
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 InitializePartition() returning 0x10d9
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Unable to obtain partition data, error 0x10d9
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 Business object initialization failed: 4313
[2720] 07/28/15 09:44:41 -1 RpcXfaceServiceMain: InitializeBOs() failed, BO:-1,
nRet:4313
(Here it hangs indefinitely; I've let it run overnight with no progress, so I'm quitting it here.)
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Quitting!
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 SetServiceStatus: state: SERVICE_STOP_PENDING check
point: 1 wait hint: 150000
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Entered RpcXfaceStopService.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Sent shutdown alert.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Sending stop pending status to SCM...
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 SetServiceStatus: state: SERVICE_STOP_PENDING check
point: 2 wait hint: 150000
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Initializing ACE...
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: started.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: complete.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown: closing thread pool...
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core::WorkerThreadPool::close( )
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 *** WorkerThreadPool BEGIN ***
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core State: 1; Thread Count: 12; Messaging Type:
3; CPU Count: 4
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Pool Contents:
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 *** WorkerThreadPool END ***
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core::WorkerThreadPool::close, timer queue done.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 *** WorkerThreadPool BEGIN ***
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core State: 1; Thread Count: 12; Messaging Type:
3; CPU Count: 4
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Pool Contents:
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 *** WorkerThreadPool END ***
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core::WorkerThreadPool::close, threads terminated.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Core::WorkerThreadPool::close( )
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown Ready: started.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown ready: complete.
[1888] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 0 contexts allocated during process lifetime
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Uninitializing ACE...
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 ACE instance count at: 1.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 BEServer shutdown completed.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: started.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, shutdown Immenient: complete.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown Ready: started.
[5248] 07/28/15 09:46:31 -1 Cblmanger, check shutdown ready: complete.
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>I am trying to build one SDR boot disk that can accomodate our requirements. And then make several copies of the master.
Our environment is simple comparitively.
We have 1 media server hosting Backup Executive 2012. This media server has directly attached storage via SAS/HBA into a Dell TL-2000 tape library.
Long term goal is to make a Full backup of all out servers onto tape. And then, if a server needs to be reloaded or rebuilt bare metal, the SDR will have what it needs to kick off the process.
I have downloaded the generic SDR .ISO and have burned to DVD.
A. If I want to recover the media server (Server M), what OEM drivers do I need to add? 1. SAS/HBA card, 2. TL-2000 Dell device driver. 3. NIC of server M, 4. other?
B. If I want to restore a different member server (Server X) via SDR, what drivers need to be on the SDR? 1. NIC of media Server M
2. NIC of Server X, 3. Other?
C. Anything else I am overlooking?
Thanks!
Hello,
I had a tape drive fail in my robotic library. There are (were) two drives. I am getting a replacement, but in the meanwhile, BE will not backup.
All drives stay at queued, and inventory fails showing "Incorrect function" on 24 of the 48 slots.
What I've done:
Attempted to delete any occurrence of the failed device.
In addition to reboots, etc.
I'm not sure what else to try at this point. I do not have any bad or missing devices.
We are running two MS 2012 Standard Servers. The main server is hosting Backup Exec as well as two Virtual Servers. The second server is a dedicated SQL 2014 server.
We can backup the main server including the virtual servers with no issue at all but when we try to back up the SQL server using the Agent it crashed/locks the network up. We cannot ping either server from the workstations allthough the servers appear to be operating. To get the servers running again all we have to do is unplug the servers network cables and plug them back in.
The servers appear to be running excellent with very good speed. The only time we experience any problem is when we run the backup. It has failed 100% of the time.
We did a test backup today and it got to about 508GB before it crashed.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Tim
We have some old (from 2010) backups created with Backup Exec 12.5 that I want to duplicate to newer tape format, plus I need to restore a handful of files from them. We're currently running Backup Exec 2014, fully patched. Unfortunately it's not working.
If I try to duplicate the backup sets from tape to disk, the Backup Exec Job Engine service crashes:
Faulting application name: bengine.exe, version: 14.1.1786.1103, time stamp: 0x54d50683
Faulting module name: bengine.exe, version: 14.1.1786.1103, time stamp: 0x54d50683
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000005ac4c2
Faulting process id: 0xe58
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0c9534b90914b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\bengine.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\bengine.exe
Report Id: 0aac456d-354a-11e5-9fab-90b11c00b15c
If I try to restore files, it restores 0 files even though I've selected some to restore. It can read the catalog OK, but the backup is completely useless. I'm trying to duplicate & restore files and directories backed up from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008R2. The irony of this is that I can duplicate and restore a SQL Server backup set on this same tape without issues. It's roundabout since I need to duplicate it to disk then use an old version of Backup Exec to restore to an old version of SQL Server, but it works. So why don't the files restore?
Will upgrading to Backup Exec 2015 make anything better? Was thinking about doing that anyway...
Hi All,
Sorry, If this question been here, kindly share the link.
I have 1 master + 3 media servers with 24 drives in 1 Library.
What are the benefits with and without SSO?
What things I should consider to have SSO?
Thanks,
Ifan
Please conform compatibility of Symantec backup exec 2014, Ver 14.1 Rev. 1786 with vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 version that we are planning to upgrade from current 5.1, share the update ASAP.
I got a request to configure weekly backup and monthly backups for one client.
Where Weekly should be - Every Saturday 6:00PM & Monthly last Saturday of the month 6:00PM. And the Weekly backup shouldnt run on last saturday as monthly schedule.
So I created
For Weekly
New Scheulde --> Calender --> Calender Schedule --> Recurring Week Days & selected 1st,2nd & 3rd Saturday.
For Monthly
New Scheulde --> Calender --> Calender Schedule --> Recurring Week Days & selected Last Saturday.
Here the problem is some month has 5 saturdays, In that month if I schedule like above 4th Saturday Backup is missing. Considering that point and if I add 4th Saturday in weekly schedule for the month which as 4 saturday's on the 4th saturday both Weekly and monthly is running. How to over come from this?
I am just curious about this. I am running backup exec 12 on a 2003 server. We had some issues with are old lto4 backup using a quantum superloader 3. We have purchased the same superloader 3 but with a lto 6 drive in it. At first the nightly backups were great and only taking about 3 hours to back up about 80 gb across all servers. The other night the backup ran but took about 12 hours to complete. Last nights backup was 6 1/2 hours, this spans over 13 servers and only grabs data that has been modified that day. I noticed though there was a time lapse of 3 1/2 hours between 2 of the servers and their jobs. The one that took 12 hours to complete had multiple spans of inactive time between servers.
This is nothing for me to be to concerned with since the backups are running with in a time frame that nothing is being changed on the network. I am curious to see if anyone has ever seen anything like this before though.
Thank you in advance,
Adam
So I have inherited a BE environment with very little BE knowledge, and I have a BE 2014 server with low disk alerts for it's storage pool. There's a huge amount of stuff in there, and I have no idea what to clear out and how to clear it.
Hi all,
During the past couple of weeks I have been importing and duplicating tapes that were used to backup systems such as Sharepoint and Exchange.
These were initially being backed up to many LTO2 tapes, and I have now successfully completed duplicating and appending these backups to 3 LTO6 tapes.
Due to my lack of experience with Netbackup, and never having restored data before. I'd like to know how I can identify the various tape sessions that were created for the numerous environments that existed. Ultimately, I need to identify how I can rebuild an environment such as Sharepoint using the data I have to hand.
I'm using NB v6.0 on Server 2003.
Thanks,
Steve
Hello Experts,
I have certain experience with NDMP backup and restores. But they are painfully slow. I have worked in different data centers with backup taken on various disk based (dedupe) devices like data domain DD890, falconstor, symantec appliance 5320 and tape libraries IBM 4500, overland neo series and storagetek. filer backup from netapp series and EMX celerra etc. Backup will run at a very good speed at about 140 MB/sec. Backups run from different volumes on various filers at good speed of approx size 2TB to around 45 GB. When restore request comes for complete volume restore like 200 GB etc, restore runs at fairly high speed and completes in 5-7 hrs approx but restore will always be painfully slow for a single file of 10MB etc.
i have faced this problem several occasions while doing restore from disk and tape. problem is not destination filer or destination volume neither network or backup LAN speed. There is no such detail related to this problem in symantec guide. So please spare sometime and explain this slow restore which takes place on filer side.
Question about the Analyzer Tool. Is there a way to run it for a shorter period>?
I can run:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdeployutil --gather
then run
nbdeployutil --report --traditional “<gather_directory>”
nbdeployutil --report --capacity “<gather_directory>”
Can I do this for a shorter period? Like a week?
1. Our exchange servers are hosted on a VM; Currently we do backup of the passive exchange DBs from the DAG using “MS-Exchange server” policy type. We have been asked to enable GRT level backup for this backups, so that we can restore individual emails instead of restoring the entire DB. So we are looking into best options to backup this Exchange DBs with GRT. What is the best recommended way to backup this DBs with GRT?
2. As this are hosted on VMs, we were thinking to enable VMware backups for this; so that, it can provide below mentioned advantages.
1. Single shot backup – 4 level recovery
1. VMDK – image level recovery
2. File level recovery
3. EDB file recovery
4. GRT level recovery
2. If configured, this data backups can be taken over a SAN mode which will reduce the backup window
3. If configured, accelerator can speed up the backups
4. If configured, it can truncate logs as well
Considering all this points, we are thinking, going with VMware level backup is the best option to backup this Exchange. Are we on a right track?
Hello all,
I am running backup exec 14.1 on a 2008r2 server. it is taking backups of mainly vmware servers being moniotored on vcenter server 6 or 5.1. i noticed every so often that when editing the backup it tells me that most of the VM in the backups cannot be found and if i want to remove them from the job. if i click no and continue to click on edit and to observe what VM is having problems. when looking into the vcenter folders , backup exec finds them within the nested folders and adds them to the job after i click on ok to save the changes, all seems fine until about 24 hours later the problem occurs again and i need to re-add the vm back into the specific backup job.
i couldnt fix this issue that i am having and was wondering if other people are having this issue when backing up VM in vcenter server 5.1 or 6.0 and if there is a solution?
Hello Experts,
Is there any way we can know the scratch count currently only in library. I dont want the count that is in offsite (or not in library).
is it possible from Opscenter free tool (Not analytics).
Thanks,
Suresh.
I started a Very Large Tape Backup Job Last Week (~19 TB). At the time I slected to Backup followed by a Backup Verification. The Backup portion completed a few hours ago. I know that it is better to complete the verification, but I need to pull the tapes this afternoon.
How do I properly Stop the Backup Verification? The Options that I see when I right click on the Job are Cancel and Hold. If I select Cancel will the Backed-Up Data be Preserved (Only the Verify Step lost.)?
Also, where do I look to see exactly which Tapes were used so that I know which Tapes to remove? The Dell TL2000 has more Tapes than needed for this Backup Job.
Thanks in Advanced.
Hi one of my client have Backup Exec Not for resale Licenses, Do we need to purchase maintenance license?
We have just upgraded to NBU 7.6.1.1 and noticed the hierarchy display in the activity monitor, very cool. We like to keep a few days worth of the jobs completed in the display. We have noticed that if there is an error on one of the children and after a successful rerun, we like to clean up our activity monitor, but when we delete a paren job, it also deletes all of the children, successful or not. Is there a way to configure this so we can keep successful jobs in the activity monitor, but delete the errored parent?