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Dear all, Im in a strange situation right now and would sincerely appreciate any suggestions on the issue. We are using Veritas Netbackup for backing up our 5 servers but prior to veritas we used to use ArcServeIT ver 6.61. Now, i was wondering if we could use arcserveit 6.61 to backup client...

Dear all, We used to take backup of just 4 of our servers till now but now there is a need to add client machines too. Now, when im adding a client (irrespective of the policy), its giving me this error- "Client couldnot be added to the client list. Status:255 would exceed the limit of 4 remote...

Hi all, I want to give a retention level of 18months to few of my backups but the only options (NB 4.5 MP6)available are 1 yr or infinite. Does this mean that i'll have to give a retention period of infinite and then manually expire all images after 18 months. I need a suggestion too. I want...

Hi all, i've a small doubt on how NB manages the media ids. We have NB data center 4.5 and our robot doesn't have a barcode reader. When images on a tape has expired then what happens to the media id which was associated with that. I took that tape out of the library and when i imported that...

Hi all, I ould succesfully install netbackup 4.5 on our Windows XP SP2 clients and after the installation when I checked the server logs I got this error-- get_string failed -premature end of file encountered(5) couldnot process request from client'shostname The server is not able to perform...

Hi all, INFO: We have netbackup MP4.5 on solaris 8! And have about 20 clients (Win XP SP2)which get their IP addresses from a windows server. And i need to configure those clients for netbackup. DONE: Installed netbackup client s/w on 2 of our test machines and given them unique netbackup...

Hey all, We are facing this weird prob for quite some time and we are on the verge of reinstalling the server but before doing that...im asking for better options. Our NT server freezes at night and every morning we have to do something (which could be anything,just do something on the server)to...

Hey all, We have valid images from our last successful backup on a tape but somehow we had to reinstall the whole OS and thus the Netbackup 4.5 . Now when Im trying to locate some files from that tape the s/w is showin that its an empty tape ( which is understandable because the database is even...

Hi all, Can't I use the same tape for two schedules under the same policy e.g full backup and cumulative incrementals.. Im just testing the s/w before actually upgrading my old backup system to veritas netbackup. Im gettin error 96 when Im tryin to use same tape for cum. incremental while I can...

Hi all, Another prob...im really sorry to bother u all so much!! The backup tape unloads on its own from the slot after some backup operations..And this behavior is somewhat weird because the drive unloads the tape sometimes on its own and sometimes not!! I don't want the tape to be unloaded...

I am having trouble with reusing a tape.. I don't see any option in the GUI by which we can reformat the tape so as to erase everything on that and reuse it!! Thanks in advance! -Jyoti

Hi all, thanks a bunch for maintaing such an helpful forum..Many of my problems were solved even before asking. One problem on which I couldn't find anything is the net backup configuration on DHCP enabled Windows XP clients. Clients in our network donot have static IPs ( for security concerns)...