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

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

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

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

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

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

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