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BE 2012 - After migration, storage pools but no storage devices
Migrated our BE 2012 server using the steps in the article below. We moved from a Win2K8 R2 Enterprise OS to Win2K8 R2Standard OS for licensing reasons. Everything seemed to migrate successfully except for the storage devices which are simply network drives/shares. In the BE console on the new BE server, the storage pools, that were on the old BE server, are there and the properties of the storage pools show the related storage devices. The problem is that the storage devices do not show up as individual devices on the storage tab of the BE console, so I cannot edit the properties or even use them with the migrated backup jobs. I tried renaming the old BE server and taking it offline, then renaming the new BE server to the old BE server name, but I could not log into BE using the old or new name after that. I put the new name back into place so now I'm back at square one again. I thought about just configuring new storage devices with new names but I'm concerned about how that will affect my ability to restore existing backed up data that is on these drives. Ideally, I would like to get some help on how I can get this migrated BE server to recognize the storage devices again. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH129826.html Thank You, RA
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The job failed with the following error
We have updated BackupExec from 2012 to 2014 and all job are running fine but on a few backup jobs i am receiving following error. In one job i am receiving following error.. Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe000942a - Backup Exec did not find any resources to include in the backup. Check the backup selections for this job to make sure it includes resources that are available for backup. Final error category: System Errors For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-37930 and another job is failing with following error: Completed status: Failed Final error: 0x2000fe07 - FS_NO_MORE Final error category: For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-8192-65031 Please help me out in this...
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j_jon
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Netbackup Deduplication Engine takes lot of time to load into memory
Hello, I just wanted to know why Netbackup Deduplication Service(spoold) takes time to load into memory.(To start completely) I have seen sometimes it took more than 4 hours to start, when checking in Windows Task Manager the memory for spoold.exe is increasing gradually. Thanks & Regards Sujit
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Disk backups - automatic removal of expired files
I have a large disk storage that I do my backup to disk on then from there, backup to tape. I have an expiration date of 5 days. Question, what program does this cleanup and why does it work sometime and not other times?? Also, is there a place that you can set this program to run (specific date)? Thanks much Cathy
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Backup exec does not delete old jobs
Hi, I have this problem from time to time in about every version of backup exec I can think of over the years. From time to time, backup exec sends an alert saying to free space on the disk where it is backing up. So I have to manually delete the old .bkf files, even though the job is configured like this; Backup to a NAS, in the last case I had this problem,this NAS receives 1 backup per week, full, 2 servers backed up, 3 jobs in total (sql, exchange, data) Job is configured to keep for 2 days I would delete all the content of the directory where the backup is made, leaving only the 2 .cfg files. Then I would have a full wich will work, then next week when the second full would start, after a while, the job would still run until there is no free space (as I remember). So I manually delete the files of the first backup, go in alerts, respond to it, and the backup would countinue. This kind of problem happens from time to time, in about every type of configuration (we have multiple clients), to clients randomly. It seems that most of the time, it would delete old backups by itself, sometimes it does not, I have to do it manually. the only thing I could think of is when a problem appears during the backup and it does not complete, those .bkf files will not be deleted and over time, with other errors, these grow and take more and more space and are not deleted by backup exec automatically. We always use removable storage. Maybe there is a setting I did not see somewhere or something I must do to make sure that backup exec will delete old job as needed to free space. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks
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NetBackup 7.5.0.6 (NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 6) is now available!
(This is a crosspost from the Netting Out NetBackup blog) I'm very pleased to announce that the next Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available! NetBackup 7.5.0.6 is the sixth maintenance release for NetBackup 7.5. It is a cumulative release containing fixes and content from 7.5.0.1 through 7.5.0.5. In addition, this release contains almost 600 additional fixes (bringing the total fixes in 7.5.0.6 to over 1700!) including the most commonly downloaded EEBs, several customer escalations, and internal engineering defects. NetBackup 7.5.0.6 includes the following proliferations and enhancements: YES, Windows Server 2012/8 is now supported! db2 10.1 (snapshot support; streaming support was added in 7.5.0.5) Exchange 2013 Hyper-V 2012 SharePoint 2013 SAP HANA client support - see this blog post for more information To download 7.5.0.5, please visit the following page: NetBackup 7.5.0.6 Download Links http://symantec.com/docs/TECH204644 (link is fixed - sorry about that!) This is a MAINTENANCE Release for NetBackup (as opposed to a Release Update) - it can ONLY be applied on top of NetBackup 7.5. (If you are currently running 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, or 7.1.0.x, you will need to upgrade to 7.5 before you can apply 7.5.0.6.) Please note that maintenance releases are CUMULATIVE - that means that 7.5.0.6 contains all product fixes included in 7.5.0.1, 7.5.0.2, 7.5.0.3, 7.5.0.4 AND 7.5.0.5. If you are currently running NetBackup 7.5, you may apply the 7.5.0.6 maintenanace release without installing 7.5.0.1, 7.5.0.3, 7.5.0.4 or 7.5.0.5. In fact, if you are still running NetBackup 7.5, we would HIGHLY encourage applying 7.5.0.6! To check to see if your particular Etrack is resolved in NetBackup 7.5.0.6, please refer to these Release Notes: NetBackup 7.5.0.6 Release Notes http://symantec.com/docs/DOC6396 The NetBackup 7.5 Late Breaking News has also been updated to reflect newly released fixes in 7.5.0.6 for some of our highest visibility issues: NetBackup 7.5 Late Breaking News http://symantec.com/docs/TECH178334 --
CRZ
3 years ago Place NetBackup
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Tell The TME's What YOU Want Us to Create!
Hi Friends, I've got some exciting news to bring you! Have you always wanted a certain NetBackup guide, but no one has ever made it? How about a deployment that you'd like to see more detail on, likeIn-Cloud Data Recovery with NetBackup Recovery Vault (Image Sharing)? Well, here's your chance to tell the Technical Marketing Engineers(TMEs) what YOU'D like to see us create. Want more videos? Best practices, deployment steps? Head over to this survey and let us know your thoughts. https://www.research.net/r/Veritas-Technical-Collateral-Survey-CEP-17979 Best, Neil
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3 years ago Place NetBackup
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Firewall woes: Definitive TCP Port list for Netbackup
Hi, I keep running into problems connecting to clients/servers that have firewalls running. Does anyone have a COMPLETE portlist of TCP/UDP ports that should be open, so that I can do ALL possible Netbackup actions imaginable? We are using Netbackup 6.5.6 and 7.1 in a full Windows environment. I would like to put a generic firewall ruleset that is the sameon all clients, so that Netbackup will never everbe bothered by the firewalls again... Hope someone has this information available! Thanks! Fred
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vmware backup failure error code 156
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 vmserver 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.
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Backup Exec job design duplicate jobs
Hi everyone, In the last 10 years I used different Backup Exec Version up to BE 2010 R3. Now I am in a new Backup Project with Backup Exec 15 and I'm a bit shocked about the changes of the version form 2010R3 to 15... What I need to do is simple: I want to backup 20 virtual machines (virtual-based backup) to disk and then duplicate to tape with 3 different media sets (weekly, monthly, yearly). Do I really need to design 3 Backup Definitions for that? Because it seams that I can't define different duplicate jobs in one stage of the same Backup definition... The most stupid thing is, if I really need to define 3 backup definitions for that, I need to re-select the 20machines manually 3 times because it does not keep the vm selections if I select the option "Create a New Backup Using Settings from existing Backup". How are you guys doing this? Thanks for your advices! Best regards,
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