A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Symantec NetBackup product suite in all its variants.

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How to configure robots for NDMP devices

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The NetBackup NDMP extension with a tape device attached to the NAS device allows a NetBackup Master Server to backup/restore files from a NAS device.

Troubleshooting NetBackup frozen media issues

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Frozen media is the media that NetBackup does not use for backups. NetBackup stops directing the backups and the archives to frozen media.

NetBackup 6.0 Restore Process Flow

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The steps correspond to the information shown in Figure 1 (below). Please refer to Figure 1 while reviewing the steps outlined.

NetBackup 6.0 Backup Process Flow

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The steps correspond to the information shown in Figure 1 (below). Please refer to Figure 1 while reviewing the steps outlined.

Symantec NetBackup 7.5 New Features

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Symantec released NetBackup 7.5 on the 03/05/2012 which includes some new features and changes for physical and virtual environments.

How to analyze NetBackup unified logs

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For legacy NetBackup logs which is located under /usr/openv/netbackup/logs , below numbers can indicate to you the severity when troubleshooting.