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Howto Configure Access Control on Windows (NetBackup 7.0)

Written on 12 April 2010 – 12:30 by savas

First of all, I wanted to share my first successfull Access Control configuration on NetBackup, so please feel free to share your knowledge if anything is wrong or missing.

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media manager found wrong tape in drive(93)

Written on 16 November 2009 – 18:30 by savas

When you want to label your tapes, you faced with the following error:

Reference: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/265914.htm

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incorrect media found in drive index 0

Written on 16 November 2009 – 18:26 by savas

You wanted to change your Media ID Generation rules after adding your Tape Cartridges, and after re-inventorying your tapes, you started facing an error like the following:

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Howto Backup SSIM

Written on 12 November 2009 – 00:41 by savasirez

1. SSIM supports installation of NetBackup Agent. Install NetBackup agent (Linux) on SSIM server

2. Enable and start xinetd on SSIM server (xinetd is not started automatically)

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ORA-27054: NFS file system where the file is created or resides is not mounted with correct options

Written on 04 November 2009 – 17:26 by savasirez

If you see the following error when trying to restore your Oracle backups (through RMAN):

ORA-27054: NFS file system where the file is created or resides is not mounted with correct options
Additional information: 2

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Having Missing Path Errors on Tape Drives (Windows)

Written on 14 October 2009 – 19:35 by savasirez

If you started having problems after upgrading your tape drivers or tape drive firmwares like this:

Missing Path” or “Unused element address

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Howto Restore Files or Directories to an Alternate Path Using bprestore

Written on 14 July 2009 – 14:56 by savasirez

Directory to restore:
Windows: C:\deneme
Unix: /deneme

Alternate path:
Windows: C:\deneme_yeni
Unix: /deneme_yeni

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EXIT STATUS 116: VxSS authentication failed

Written on 13 July 2009 – 16:51 by savasirez

bprestore failed with the following error after enabling VxSS authentication.

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276755.htm

Client for NFS fails to start

Written on 03 July 2009 – 15:03 by savasirez

After Installing “Microsoft Service for NFS” to your client,  you cant start “Client for NFS” service.

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ORA-28001: the password has expired

Written on 29 June 2009 – 11:48 by savas

If you are facing a problem in your RMAN backups:

ORA-28001: the password has expired

As stated, your rman user’s password has expired. You should either change the password, and of course change password in every RMAN script as well.

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Server name not found in the NetBackup configuration

Written on 09 June 2009 – 14:49 by savasirez

This is a tip list for the following error:

server name not found in the NetBackup configuration

1. You were trying to expire a media from emm database:

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Exchange database recovery may have failed

Written on 31 May 2009 – 12:48 by savasirez

If you are having an error like the following when trying to restore your exchange databases:

05/31/2009 11:24:48 – Warning bpbrm (pid=14316) from client exchangeServer: WRN – Exchange database recovery may have failed. Please check the event log for further details.
05/31/2009 11:27:02 – end reading; read time: 0:03:36
05/31/2009 11:27:03 – Warning bpbrm (pid=14316) from client exchangeServer: WRN – Exchange database recovery may have failed. Please check the event log for further details.
05/31/2009 11:27:04 – Error bpbrm (pid=14316) client restore EXIT STATUS 185: tar did not find all the files to be restored
05/31/2009 11:27:04 – restored from image exchange2_1243565471; restore time: 0:04:24
05/31/2009 11:27:15 – end Restore; elapsed time 0:21:45
the requested operation was partially successful (1)

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Howto Simple Client Encryption (Windows)

Written on 30 May 2009 – 23:39 by savasirez

1. Create a policy if you don’t have already and make sure that “Encryption” option in the Policy Attributes window is selected.

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Install was interrupted before it could be completed

Written on 29 May 2009 – 15:22 by savasirez

If you are having the following error, “Veritas NetBackup Master Server install was interrupted before it could be completed” when trying to update to 6.5.4:

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Howto Backup Active Directory for Granular Restore (Windows 2003 R2)

Written on 28 May 2009 – 22:36 by savasirez

This is a brand new subject, please feel to free to comment if you think something is missing or wrong…

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Portmap Service Not Running

Written on 15 May 2009 – 15:15 by savasirez

You want to have a granular mailbox backup from exchange. For this, you installed the “Microsoft Services for NFS” package from Windows Components, but it doesnt start Portmap service when you issue “net start portmap” and failes. What can be the reason?

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bpbkar: ERR – bpend_notify returned 2

Written on 14 May 2009 – 00:15 by savasirez

If you configured bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts and you can not have the working. Check “bpbkar” log directory.

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Howto Restore Files without Access Control Lists (Attributes, Windows)

Written on 12 May 2009 – 14:22 by savasirez

On “Backup, archive and restore” window, after clicking “Restore Now”, choose “Restore files without Access Control Attributes (Windows only)” checkbox to restore only files without their appropriate permissions.

Howto Inventory (Windows)

Written on 09 May 2009 – 13:48 by savasirez

1. Right-click on “Media and Device Management -> Media” and select “Inventory Robot

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Howto use NEW_STREAM Directive

Written on 08 May 2009 – 17:02 by savasirez

Everyday you may be wondering what that “NEW_STREAM” has to do in a “Backup Selection” list. Here is why:

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