The company I work for registered me for the 5-day Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for Windows: Administration course. I took the course and scehduled the exam for two weeks after taking the course. I've been with the company for four months. Before this job, I'd never used NetBackup or any enterprise-level backup software like it. The enviroment I work in uses a small fraction of what the product is capable of. Everything in our environment is backed up to tape using one robot with two drives. We have maybe 15 policies. Of those, we have a catalog backup, one HPUX server, 5 NDMP file systems, a couple Windows servers, and the rest are VMware virtual Windows servers. 

Ever since my first exam attempt two weeks ago, I've spent every night during the week and every weekend, day and night, studying my notes from the lectures and the material Symantec provided and I still failed. What surprised me most was the number of questions not covered in the material or lectures. 

Have any of you taken this exam and succeeded? What did you do to prepare? How long did you prepare? How long had you been using NBU before taking the exam? Did you take the 5-day course? 

Thanks in advance. 

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Hello guys,

Do you know if Backup Exec 2012 SP4 support the GRT option for Exchange 2013?

I have tried a restore but i don't see the single items.

Thank you for your answers.

Hi,

We have one Master and Media Server both running on Winows 2008 and Netbackup Version is 6.5.6

EMM Databse resides on Media Server, now Master Server is down due to a SAN issue and currently we are recovering SAN.

In case if we lose data on Master Server we may need to restore catalog but currently I do not know which Catalog tapes are used as mail notification was not working.

I need help, How can I get Catalog Tape information from Media Server which is running now and also any way I can browse images from Media Server?

And in case if I need to install Netbackup where can I get Netbackup 6.5.6 binaries for windows2008?

Please help how can I get information from Media Server when Master is down, any temp files from where I can get catalog tape information?

Thanks,

Abu Hamzah

Hello,
I'm updating Java on our Solaris 10, RHEL 5 and SLES 11 servers. I'm using NetBackup 7.5. The current version of the java the NetBackup is using is 1.7.0_25. The current version of Java is 1.7.0_55. The client versions are located here; /usr/openv/java/jre/bin/sparcv9/java and /usr/openv/java/jre/bin/java.

I used to use this document from this site - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH148257  This article is for an older client, which uses Java 6. Also this doesn't work on the media and master servers.

So my question is how do we upgrade Java on the clients. None of my servers have Java 7 installed, meaning a non-embedded system version. So I can't use the .nbjconf file to direct the client to the system Java.

Can anyone give me a link to download the NBU 7.6, Thank you!

Hi All,

Can some one tell us, how to flag/mark backed up tapes in catalog as a special tapes.

Hi All,

We have a windows client that gets 156 errors, the Netbackup client is  on 7.6.0.1

I have attached the bpcd, bpbkar and bpfis logs.

VSS  open file backups are activated

C:\>vssadmin list providers

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'

   Provider type: System

   Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}

   Version: 1.0.0.7

C:\>vssadmin list writers

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'

   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}

   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'

   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}

   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'

   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}

   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'

   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}

   Writer Instance Id: {bd2e4514-0efa-48fc-9bb3-1ca77e956641}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'

   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}

   Writer Instance Id: {50f27659-1973-4535-89c5-1ba55af3ba0a}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'

   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}

   Writer Instance Id: {674b1230-d858-4179-9e98-5ff475bca218}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'

   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}

   Writer Instance Id: {7d424843-6740-458b-9b2d-c7e721038c4b}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}

   Writer Instance Id: {5fd4ce8d-8e6b-40f4-b401-4dd83028bebb}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}

   Writer Instance Id: {db42c221-ebd2-4ee5-a3f4-b6ee95295b03}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}

   Writer Instance Id: {0dd71c68-187c-4420-aabb-286897273c17}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'

   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}

   Writer Instance Id: {398d0460-e3ab-4e20-9dc3-0f32373ffce9}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'

   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}

   Writer Instance Id: {f1c76bc1-37b2-497c-825f-06306d865ea5}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

# bptestbpcd -client -pohansay14.mycompany.com -verbose -debug

11:35:55.305 [72842] <2> bptestbpcd: VERBOSE = 0

11:35:55.305 [72842] <2> ConnectionCache::connectAndCache: Acquiring new connect

ion for host nbusec1, query type 223

11:35:55.306 [72842] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

11:35:55.306 [72842] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.61564 T

O 472.41.91.40.1556 fd = 3

11:35:55.306 [72842] <8> vnet_get_user_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1471] statu

s 35 0x23

11:35:55.306 [72842] <8> vnet_get_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1098] vnet_get_u

ser_credential_path failed 35 0x23

11:35:55.306 [72842] <8> vnet_get_oc: [vnet_vxss_helper.c:3167] Invalid Argument

: vxss_coninfo

11:35:55.308 [72842] <2> db_CLIENTsend: reset client protocol version from 0 to

8

11:35:55.356 [72842] <2> db_getCLIENT: db_CLIENTreceive: no entity was found 227

11:35:55.357 [72842] <8> vnet_cached_getaddrinfo_and_update: [vnet_addrinfo.c:16

02] in failed file cache ERR=-2 NAME=-pohansay14.mycompany.com SVC=NULL

11:35:55.357 [72842] <8> vnet_cached_getaddrinfo: [vnet_addrinfo.c:1271] vnet_ca

ched_getaddrinfo_and_update() failed 6 0x6

11:35:55.357 [72842] <8> init_connect_recs: [vnet_connect.c:738] vnet_cached_get

addrinfo() failed STAT=6 RV=-2 HOST=-pohansay14.mycompany.com

11:35:55.357 [72842] <8> connect_to_service: [vnet_connect.c:562] init_connect_r

ecs() failed 6 0x6

11:35:55.357 [72842] <8> vnet_connect_to_bpcd: [vnet_connect.c:297] connect_to_s

ervice() failed 6 0x6

11:35:55.357 [72842] <2> local_bpcr_connect: Can't connect to client -cohansey20

.sa.state.nj.us

11:35:55.357 [72842] <2> ConnectToBPCD: bpcd_connect_and_verify(-cohansey20.sa.s

tate.nj.us, -pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed:

48

11:35:55.357 [72842] <16> bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-cohansey20.sa

.state.nj.us) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

11:35:55.362 [72842] <16> bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

<2>bptestbpcd: client hostname could not be found

11:35:55.362 [72842] <2> bptestbpcd: client hostname could not be found

<2>bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 48

11:35:55.362 [72842] <2> bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 48

client hostname could not be found

[root@nbusec1 bin]# bptestbpcd -client -pohansay14.mycompany.com -verbose

<16>bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

client hostname could not be found

[root@nbusec1 bin]# bptestbpcd -client -pohansay14.mycompany.com -verbose

<16>bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

client hostname could not be found

[root@nbusec1 bin]# bptestbpcd -client -pohansay14.mycompany.com -verbose -debug

13:07:44.494 [1367] <2> bptestbpcd: VERBOSE = 0

13:07:44.494 [1367] <2> ConnectionCache::connectAndCache: Acquiring new connection for host nbusec1, query type 223

13:07:44.496 [1367] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

13:07:44.496 [1367] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.7468 TO 472.41.91.40.1556 fd = 3

13:07:44.496 [1367] <8> vnet_get_user_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1471] status 35 0x23

13:07:44.496 [1367] <8> vnet_get_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1098] vnet_get_user_credential_path failed 35 0x23

13:07:44.496 [1367] <8> vnet_get_oc: [vnet_vxss_helper.c:3167] Invalid Argument: vxss_coninfo

13:07:44.498 [1367] <2> db_CLIENTsend: reset client protocol version from 0 to 8

13:07:44.547 [1367] <2> db_getCLIENT: db_CLIENTreceive: no entity was found 227

13:07:44.547 [1367] <8> vnet_cached_getaddrinfo_and_update: [vnet_addrinfo.c:1602] in failed file cache ERR=-2 NAME=-pohansay14.mycompany.com SVC=NULL

13:07:44.547 [1367] <8> vnet_cached_getaddrinfo: [vnet_addrinfo.c:1271] vnet_cached_getaddrinfo_and_update() failed 6 0x6

13:07:44.547 [1367] <8> init_connect_recs: [vnet_connect.c:738] vnet_cached_getaddrinfo() failed STAT=6 RV=-2 HOST=-pohansay14.mycompany.com

13:07:44.547 [1367] <8> connect_to_service: [vnet_connect.c:562] init_connect_recs() failed 6 0x6

13:07:44.548 [1367] <8> vnet_connect_to_bpcd: [vnet_connect.c:297] connect_to_service() failed 6 0x6

13:07:44.548 [1367] <2> local_bpcr_connect: Can't connect to client -pohansay14.mycompany.com

13:07:44.548 [1367] <2> ConnectToBPCD: bpcd_connect_and_verify(-pohansay14.mycompany.com, -pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

13:07:44.548 [1367] <16> bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(-pohansay14.mycompany.com) failed: 48

<16>bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

13:07:44.553 [1367] <16> bptestbpcd main: client hostname could not be found

<2>bptestbpcd: client hostname could not be found

13:07:44.553 [1367] <2> bptestbpcd: client hostname could not be found

<2>bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 48

13:07:44.553 [1367] <2> bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 48

client hostname could not be found

[root@nbusec1 bin]# bptestbpcd -client pohansay14.mycompany.com -verbose -debug

13:08:19.992 [1446] <2> bptestbpcd: VERBOSE = 0

13:08:19.992 [1446] <2> ConnectionCache::connectAndCache: Acquiring new connection for host nbusec1, query type 223

13:08:19.993 [1446] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

13:08:19.994 [1446] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.45706 TO 472.41.91.40.1556 fd = 3

13:08:19.994 [1446] <8> vnet_get_user_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1471] status 35 0x23

13:08:19.994 [1446] <8> vnet_get_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1098] vnet_get_user_credential_path failed 35 0x23

13:08:19.994 [1446] <8> vnet_get_oc: [vnet_vxss_helper.c:3167] Invalid Argument: vxss_coninfo

13:08:19.996 [1446] <2> db_CLIENTsend: reset client protocol version from 0 to 8

13:08:20.039 [1446] <2> db_end: Need to collect reply

13:08:20.045 [1446] <2> db_freeEXDB_INFO: ?

13:08:20.058 [1446] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

13:08:20.058 [1446] <2> logconnections: BPCD CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.28085 TO 472.41.80.90.1556 fd = 3

13:08:20.061 [1446] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

13:08:20.116 [1446] <8> do_pbx_service: [vnet_connect.c:2152] via PBX VNETD CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.62486 TO 472.41.80.90.1556 fd = 4

13:08:20.116 [1446] <8> vnet_vnetd_connect_forward_socket_begin: [vnet_vnetd.c:443] VN_REQUEST_CONNECT_FORWARD_SOCKET 10 0xa

13:08:20.330 [1446] <8> vnet_vnetd_connect_forward_socket_begin: [vnet_vnetd.c:460] ipc_string 54142

13:08:20.668 [1446] <8> vnet_get_user_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1471] status 35 0x23

13:08:20.668 [1446] <8> vnet_get_credential_path: [vnet_vxss.c:1098] vnet_get_user_credential_path failed 35 0x23

13:08:20.695 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_version_rqst: bpcd version: 07600000

1 1 1

472.41.91.40:28085 -> 472.41.80.90:1556

472.41.91.40:62486 -> 472.41.80.90:1556

13:08:20.696 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_peername_rqst: Server peername length = 22

13:08:20.697 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_hostname_rqst: Server hostname length = 25

13:08:20.698 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_clientname_rqst: Server clientname length = 25

13:08:20.698 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_version_rqst: bpcd version: 07600000

13:08:20.698 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_platform_rqst: Server platform length = 7

13:08:20.714 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_version_rqst: bpcd version: 07600000

13:08:20.756 [1446] <2> bpcr_patch_version_rqst: theRest == > <

13:08:20.756 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_version_rqst: bpcd version: 07600000

13:08:20.815 [1446] <2> bpcr_patch_version_rqst: theRest == > <

13:08:20.815 [1446] <2> bpcr_get_version_rqst: bpcd version: 07600000

PEER_NAME = nbusoc4.mycompany.com

HOST_NAME = pohansay14.mycompany.com

CLIENT_NAME = pohansay14.mycompany.com

VERSION = 0x07600000

PLATFORM = win_x64

PATCH_VERSION = 7.6.0.1

SERVER_PATCH_VERSION = 7.6.0.1

MASTER_SERVER = nbusoc4.mycompany.com

EMM_SERVER = nbusoc4.mycompany.com

NB_MACHINE_TYPE = CLIENT

13:08:20.849 [1446] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded

13:08:20.885 [1446] <8> do_pbx_service: [vnet_connect.c:2152] via PBX VNETD CONNECT FROM 472.41.91.40.57376 TO 472.41.80.90.1556 fd = 5

13:08:20.885 [1446] <8> vnet_vnetd_connect_forward_socket_begin: [vnet_vnetd.c:443] VN_REQUEST_CONNECT_FORWARD_SOCKET 10 0xa

13:08:21.082 [1446] <8> vnet_vnetd_connect_forward_socket_begin: [vnet_vnetd.c:460] ipc_string 54145

472.41.91.40:57376 -> 472.41.80.90:1556

<2>bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 0

13:08:21.158 [1446] <2> bptestbpcd: EXIT status = 0

more information

windows 2008 64 bit  netbackup client 7.6.0.1

Master server  netbackup 7.6.0.1

Thanks for any help in advance!

To truly backup the backup exec. server that is on a 2012 server do I have to do what is in the article below or is a fix in SP4 that I see is ready and waiting.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH208015

When it try's to backup the server I get the can't backup a 2012 server unless you assign a drive letter to recovery partition like mentioned in the article.

Mike

Recently started getting backup failures per above on one of my three mailbox databases. 

At around the same time started moving some mailboxes off the 570GB DB to the second one to slim down the size. Some moves ended with warnings but the mailboxes moved. Other mailboxes moved without warning.

Also have been messing with circular logging to keep the log files down since the backups are not clearing them out. 

Have rebooted both the Ex 2010 mailbox servers and the backup server. I see SP4 is applicable so installing that now. 

Every 3 min am getting event 2137 log truncation failed for that database on the 2nd DAG member. 

Thanks for comments. 

TB

I'm slowly learning NBU (previous CommVault user) and I'm finding a few things that are just surprising to me.

Is there really no built in way to send notifications from NBU, without installing a third party open source SMTP daemon?   Can I not even use the IIS7 SMTP service that comes with Windows Server 2012 Standard, to set up notifications?

I have a single slot LTO5 drive (3TB tape size).

If I am backing up a data set that's larger than 3TB, will NBU prompt me to insert the next tape in the Media Resource Pool, when the current tape fills?   My concern is how will I know when the data set job is ready to span multiple tapes.

I am going to be getting a tape robot in future (or move to disk-to-disk backups) but for now I need to know what my interim approach should be?

I have today lost all hope of recovering the C: drive of my Win2008 R2 server which is the master server for my NetBackup domain. The NetBackup software and database are on the D: drive. I am going to have to format the C: drive and then install Windows and reinstall Netbackup somehow. What's the best way of doing this and pointing the Master server back at the copy of database etc that's still there? If I choose D: when I install NetBackup, will it overwrite the database that's there? Do I need to map a different volume to D:, install then map the old drive back to D:? Is there a guide I can read to work out my best option? I know whe NB database is OK, because the Windows server shutdown cleanly, but just never came back. I can see all the data is still on the D: drive too.

Thanks for any help.

While a job is active this is displayed, but after completion or failure the information disappears and you have to look at the job details.  This would be helpful to determine which child jobs need to be rerun without examining the job details for each one.

Hello everybody, fisrt of all I want to thank you for helping me to solve my issues.

This time i need to setup a netbackup server global cluster distributed in 2 sites. Each site has its ip addres segment so when the service group is running in the first site clients must resolve the ip address assined in that site.

When the service group change to the second site clients must resolve the ip address for the second site.

the cluster is running and we can do the switchover from primary site to secondary and viceversa. At the dns level we have to dns records pointning to both primary and secondary sites ip addresses

The issue we are facing is we can ping to master on the site that runs the service group but not from the other, if we switch over is the same.

this is the result of nslookup and the ping does not response

the service group run in the 172.20.50.161

bash-3.00# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
e1000g0: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 172.21.31.90 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.21.31.255
        ether 0:c:29:5b:c5:90
e1000g1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
        inet 172.21.31.91 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.21.31.255
        ether 0:c:29:5b:c5:9a

bash-3.00# nslookup master
Server:         172.21.31.10
Address:        172.21.31.10#53

Name:   master.dominio.local
Address: 172.21.31.90
Name:   master.dominio.local
Address: 172.20.50.161

bash-3.00# ping master     (No responce)
^C

I have a catalog backup that will fail with code 160, retry, and the complete.  This doesn't happen every day, it's more like every other day.  The job does run everyday.  

I have split the services up between 2 different service accounts to make sure it wasn't a windows single sign on error.  I also have the DR file being stored in a different volume than the main catalog file.  Both volumes have the everyone permission applied to them.  At this point I'm at a loss as to why it fails every other day.  

I'm running Backup Exec 2012 on a Win2k8 R2 server. Today we had an issue in which 2 of the Information Store databases on one of our Exchange 2007 servers would not mount. We back up the Info Stores directly to tape using the BE Exchange Agent, monthly full backups and daily incrementals.

So, I began a restore of those two databases from Backup Exec. I first enabled the option in Exchange Management for those 2 databases that allows them to be overwritten by a restore. The size of the restore (according to BE) is around 73GB. After about 90 minutes, the job activity claimed the job was 100% complete but the job was still active. 2 hours after that and the job is still active, and the bytes processed hasn't changed since that 90-minute mark. Does a restore like this usually take that long? If not, what might be the problem? See below for a screen shot of the job activity.

What is a Customer Safari?

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i would like to see if anyone has successfully created a BPLIST Script that can show files backed up from the previous night.  Basically i am trying to view backups between 8pm and 8:10pm every night.  I can view the output using the following command:  bplist -B -C psaphanaecp01.loves.com -t 17 -s 04/29/2014 20:00:00 -e 04/29/2014 20:10:00 -l -R / ,  but i am unable to pass the date minus 1 day to the command through powershell.  If anyone has any advice i would be thankful. 

Backup Exec 2012 shows no information about the location of a backup set other than "Disk" or "Tape" in Backup and Restore > Servers. This is extremely frustrating when I am trying to figure out if I have sufficient backup sets of a particular server or if a backup set can be safely deleted. I duplicate backup sets to to removable drives for offsite protection and it is very time consuming to tell if a server has a recent backup set offsite. When I go into a server and select Backup Sets, I need it to show the following information for each backup set:

Type of storage - Disk, Dedupe folder or Tape

Name of the disk storage volume/dedupe folder it is in.

The media label if it is on tape.