We currently have a MS exchange server 2013 running in a virtual host being backed up by the VMware backup option for Exchange. As far as I'm aware this is working successfully.

However to make life difficult we will be moving to having two exchange servers running as a DAG. And to make life doubly interesting the acive mailbox databases will be spread between the 2 hosts.

So my question is, would I need to set up the same policy for the new exchange server as the existing one, or is there some other configuration required.

My other question is, would I still be able to truncate the transaction logs as before, or are there other considerations to be aware of in a DAG

Hello All,

I have a HPUX box running on IA64 machine with V3 OS. I have to configure it to perform BMR for the clients being connected to it.

Kindly send me any document which would be handy in doing so.

Tried searching for BMR guide 7.5.0.4 but couldn't my hands on any.

Thanx in advance!

Regards,

Harmanpreet Singh

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 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.

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.

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.

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.