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Exchange database recovery may have failed

31 May 2009 – 12:48

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)

30 May 2009 – 23:39

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

29 May 2009 – 15:22

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)

28 May 2009 – 22:36

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

15 May 2009 – 15:15

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

14 May 2009 – 00:15

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)

12 May 2009 – 14:22

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)

09 May 2009 – 13:48

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

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Howto use NEW_STREAM Directive

08 May 2009 – 17:02

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

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Howto Install a Media Server on Linux

02 May 2009 – 20:57

Prerequisites:

1. Make sure your system has the tape drivers(SCSI or F/O) installed and can be managed by the system.
2. You need to install netbackup software with “root” user.
3. You need a NetBackup license to install media server.

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