Recent content by borchdp

Howdy, The issue seems to be to make sure you define the media type correctly. In the case of LTO4, you should define the media type as HCART (I know, HCART4 would be more intuitive, but this is the way Symantec has designed it.) So the correct cleaning tape would be "1/2 cleaning tape" . This...

Howdy, Quickest way should be to call the vendors Application support and see if they have a process established for backing up their product correctly. Symantec has a PDF flow-chart that may be useful in Troubleshooting the code 14 further...

Howdy, From the GUI (if all the images are expired) select Media and Device Management > Media > Volume Pool > volume_pool_tapes_are_in (Usually NetBackup). Hi-Lite each tape you want to change (just a few the first time to verify its working) right click > "Change..." under "Volume Pool" click...

Howdy, Linux appears to require xinetd in order to use NBU. If there is a question about security, xinetd can be locked down. Another possible way MAY be to configure bpcd as a service that is always LISTENING, but xinetd is the Linux standard listener. Thanks,

Howdy, NetBackup tracks the location and name of every file it backs up, and writes it to the Catalog. In a case when there are millions of files to backup this could slow the process. (TAR doesn't need to track any files other then the ones in the archive, so it runs faster.) As I'm sure you...