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A copy of a full backup can be made by either using vault or a Storage Lifecycle Policy. If you want to perform it manually, or script the copy to tape, it can be done with the command bpduplicate. See the command reference guide for appropriate switches.

Doing a Google of "NetBackup Recovery without Import" yielded the following link: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/recovery-without-import-fails Looks like the forum link was done with NBU 6.5.4, so I'd lean toward the process outlined on the forum's page. Not sure if this works with...

First and foremost let me say I know the preferred way to Decommission a Media Server, but two SAN Media Servers were shut down while I was out of the office. Now for a little background. The two SAN Media Servers were running HP-UX 11.11, in a NetBackup Storage Domain which has a Solaris 10...

Ditto, to OzzMosiz' reply. Might be interesting to verify if the Admin Console was run locally on the Master Server (terminal server session or physically at the console). We very seldom run the Admin Console on the Master Server via the Windows GUI, rather via a remote admin console installed...

There is a Technical Document to decomission a Media Server. Take a look at "How to correctly decommission a NetBackup Media Server and remove it from the NetBackup environment". It may give you answers to your questions. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/230047.htm

I'm not claiming to have the answer either. I would try to access a Policy and Schedule via a different interface. Have your tried accessing the Policy & Schedules via the Java interface, character cell interface, or perhaps via the command line interface? Have you tried accessing the Master...

We have experienced the same issue with both Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL. What seems to be the common issue we had was space albeit tablespace or physical disk space within the fielsystem. I am by no means a DBA, I am merely relaying what I have been told in the past.

This can also happen if your media definitions do not match. I had this happen to me when the media was imported it imported it as a different media type then whet the storage unit or tape drive was expecting.The Media Type, in the Media View, has to match the Drive Type (Media & Device...

A catalog contains the backup information for all backups made prior to the catalog backup. Therefore if by making a vaulted catalog as the last activity before sending tapes offsite, you will have information about every backup and vault (backup duplication).

Vault has the ability to perform a catalog backup as part of the profile. What we do is have a vault profile which performs a catalog backup (which is written to a volume pool - NBDB_Duplicate), and then exports the duplicated tapes and catalog tape created as part of the vault profile. Hope...

Ditto to Bob's comment. We have a vault job which is manually executed when all scheduled vaults have completed, and any missed jobs have been vaulted. The manual vault job, makes a catalog and ejects all media from the prior vault jobs.

You could try looking directly at the ftp location.... ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server

I never wrote a custom report to appear in NBAR, however I did write some data extracts against the MySQL DB so the data could be reformatted into a custom report created by Crytal Report, or MS Access.

Note sure if this is what you are looking for or not... but you can do a recovery without import in the following manner (the document has been taken down from the Veritas site). FWIW, I have used this procedure successfully with NBU 5.1 Document ID: 266673...

What version of NetBackup are you using? MP? Are there other servers in the same Policy? Do they exhibit the same behavior? One suggestion you might try is perform a multi-stream backup. It would be interesting to see if the behavior is the same for multi-stream as it is for a single stream...