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New forum discussion 09 Apr 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: MS-SQL backups automatic restart on status code 1

Hello, I have noticed some difference in behaviour between Oracle RMAN backups and MS-SQL backups when using the NetBackup agents. In an Oracle RMAN backup, if a stream from RMAN should fail (for example with status code 25) but all of the other streams complete with status code ...

New forum discussion 09 Apr 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: BUG REPORT 306925

I have NetBackup 6.0 MP7 and am using the Java interface on Windows. I tried to browse into a folder that had a & (ampersand) in its name and received the following error: Invalid character '<path>' detected (Status 1,001) The above bug report states that this ...

New forum discussion 02 Apr 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: Backing up Outlook PST personal folder files

Hello, A large number of our Outlook users have PST files which are stored on a network file server. I am well aware that Microsoft do not support the use of PST files on servers accessed over a LAN or WAN, but we have what we have. When NetBackup tries to backup the PST ...

New forum discussion 30 Mar 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: NOM reports available media as -45

Hello In NOM, I have configured an alert to send me an email when the number of available media falls to below 5. The problem that I am seeing is that the media report displayed in NOM is incorrect. It shows the total volumes as 1 and the available media as -45. In ...

discussion comment 09 Feb 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

I have spent some time troubleshooting this and in the process broken my NetBackup server! On the Master Server, I noticed the following: I noticed that when the command “/etc/init.d/netbackup stop” was issued, it did not shutdown the NBDB ...

discussion comment 04 Feb 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: NetBackup and Oracle agent

Yes, quite right. I had put the client name in bp.conf lower case, but had it upper case in the backup policy. I corrected bp.conf to be upper case and this now works OK. Thanks.

discussion comment 03 Feb 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: NOM database

OK, seen what the problem is, the user name and password you supplied worked great. Thanks

discussion comment 03 Feb 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: NOM database

Hello, Many thanks for your response. I went to try this, but I got another error:"Interactive SQL""Database server not found" Any ideas on what I should be looking for here? The VERITAS_NOM_hostname I put in the commnad ...

New forum discussion 03 Feb 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: NetBackup and Oracle agent

Hello, I am trying to backup an Oracle 11g database held on a RHEL 5 server using NetBackup 6.0 When the backup job runs, RMAN reports the following errors: channel ch00: starting piece 1 at 03-FEB-09RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch00 ...

discussion comment 30 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

Again, many thanks for your help. I added entries into the hosts files on both servers and into bp.conf on the master server - this produced the same result. I am going to leave this until Monday now - it isn't so important and backup jobs are ...

discussion comment 30 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

Hello, Thank you all for your help, but this has not resolved the problem. To recap:I have a single NetBackup Master server running NetBackup 6.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. This server is also the EMM server. I have a separate W2K3 server ...

discussion comment 30 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: NOM database

Hello, Thanks for your help. The command I am trying to execute is shown on page 69 of the NetBackup operations Manager Getting Started Guide dbisqlc -c "DBN=vxpmdb;ENG=VERITAS_NOM_<NOM ...

New forum discussion 29 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: NOM database

Hello, Does anyone know what the default login credentials are for the NOM database? I have a new installation and I am trying to set up the nightly backup schedule and dbisqlc asks for login credentials. I've tried the other defaults guestwith ...

discussion comment 29 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

Hello, Thanks for your help. The NetBackup Master Server and EMM server are the same box. I can ping all boxes from all boxes. On the Remote Administration Console server, I also have NOM installed and this works perfectly. Richard.

discussion comment 29 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

Hello, The Activity Monitor shows all demons running, but if I do a bpps -a, I can see nbemm but not anything like pbx_exchange. If I do a ps -ef | grep pbx it shows /opt/VRTSpbx/bin/pbx_exchange I did a tpconfig -d and this works OK showing me ...

New forum discussion 29 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: Unable to connect to the EMM server (77)

Hello, I have installed the Remote Administration Console on a W2K3 box. When I open the Activity Monitor in the Remote Administration Console, I receive the following error: Unable to obtain the device list from the Enterprise Media Manager server. Unable to ...

discussion comment 22 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: NetBackup will not run without /usr/openv/db/bin/NB_dbsrv running

Thanks, The EMM NBDB got corrupted and I unfortunately ended up having to restore it from backup. I didn't loose anything as the NBDB was backed up immediately before the problem started. Richard.

New forum discussion 22 Jan 2009

Richard Sendall 2 posted: NetBackup will not run without /usr/openv/db/bin/NB_dbsrv running

Hello, I am running NetBackup 6.0 MP5 on RHEL 4 i386. When I go to start NetBackup /etc/init.d/netbackup start I receive the error "NetBackup will not run without /usr/openv/db/bin/NB_dbsrv running" I checked the log file in ...

discussion comment 05 Nov 2008

Richard Sendall 2 commented on: Shrink MS-SQL logs after backup

I am running NetBackup 6.0 MP7. I have checked with our DBA and yes, this is a function of the DB engine so will need either a maintenance plan in the DB engine or a post backup bpend_notify.bat script.

New forum discussion 04 Nov 2008

Richard Sendall 2 posted: Shrink MS-SQL logs after backup

Hello, I have some MS-SQL databases that are backed up using the MS-SQL agent. Once the logs have been backed up and truncated, I would like to shrink the logs to remove the white space. Is there any command I can use with NetBackup to do this, or does it require a ...