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- Joe: What needs to be installed on the Media Server if it is Linux? Anything need to be installed on the Master Server?
- Steup: Matthew is somewhat right as extracting the archive containing NB_650_ICS on windows will break all the symbolic links, and render the full ICS install useless... Just use unix, for all you needs.
- cbull: I run a Netbackup Windows environment and get the "missing path" a lot. It's usually caused by ghost devices and here's how to fix it. Delete the "missing path" devices from the Device -> Drives portion of the NBU GUI. Then go to the media server the drives are connected to and open up a CMD.EXE prompt. Type in "set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1" (notice underscores) then type "start devmgmt.msc". The device management snapin should appear. Under the View menu, select "show hidden devices". Drill down to your tapes drives. If you see any tape drive devices that are grayed out, delete them. While you're there, verify that all the tape drives have Symantec drivers and not the built in Windows driver. Reboot the media server. When it comes back up use the same procedure to verify that the correct number of devices are showing in device manager and that there are no ghost devices. Then go to your NBU GUI and run the device discovery wizard for that media server. The correct tape devices should now show up in the GUI and without the "missing path". Hope it helps! cbull
- savas: Hi, On windows: to stop all netbackup services from command line: NetBackup_Installation_PATH\bin\bpdown.exe to start all netbackup services from command line: NetBackup_Installation_PATH\bin\bpup.exe Typically: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpdown.exe C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpup.exe On Un*x: to stop all netbackup services from command line: NetBackup_Installation_PATH/bin/bpdown or /etc/init.d/netbackup stop to start all netbackup services from command line: NetBackup_Installation_PATH/bin/bpup or /etc/init.d/netbackup start Typically: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdown /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpup
- AA: How to reboot NBU master server on commandLine
- Tom: Also please remember to choose "Enable Granular Recovery" restore option when creating the backup policy on NetBackup
- Anonymous: If your master server is not Windows based, then you need to install an "enterprise client for windows" license.
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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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“Application connection failed for servername” error on Windows 2008 MS-Sql Client

Written on 29 December 2008 – 15:31 by savasirez

If you are getting an error like this on a windows 2008 system while trying to connect through netbackup ms-sql client…

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All compatible drive paths are down, but media is available

Written on 16 December 2008 – 17:26 by savasirez

If you are getting the following error while trying to backup

“All compatible drive paths are down, but media is available”

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Duplicate Barcodes

Written on 05 December 2008 – 22:57 by savasirez

If you insert a tape with barcode and this barcode is already used in the tape library, you will end up with “barcode mismatch” error and you tape will not be inserted to the emm database, and not media id will be assigned.

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Cleaning Tips

Written on 01 December 2008 – 00:51 by savasirez

Number of cleanings left on a cleaning tape?

vmquery -m <cleaning tape #>

C:\>vmquery -m CLN007
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media ID: CLN007
media type: 1/2″ cleaning tape 3 (25)
barcode: CLN107L3
media description: —
volume pool: None (0)
robot type: TLD – Tape Library DLT (8)
robot number: 0
robot slot: 4
robot control host: Netbackup
volume group: 00_000_TLD
vault name: —
vault sent date: —
vault return date: —
vault slot: —
vault session id: —
vault container id: -
created: 7/11/2008 6:29:48 PM
assigned: —
last mounted: 8/11/2008 8:20:22 AM
first mount: 7/11/2008 7:17:04 PM
expiration date: —
cleanings left: 27
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