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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

Published 23 Oct 2013 Read time 1 min 53 sec(s) (2391 visits).

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

Updated 6 Aug 2014 Read time 5 min(s) 44 sec(s) (3553 visits).

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

Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) troubleshooting flowchart

Published 27 Sep 2012 Read time 48 sec(s) (3202 visits).

The information presented in this Process Flow is specific to troubleshooting situations where EMM is reported as being down.

Configure KMS encryption on a windows NetBackup server

Published 8 Sep 2012 Read time 2 min(s) 27 sec(s) (3713 visits).

This article provides the necessary actions needed to install and configure Key Management Service encryption on a windows NetBackup master server.

Configure KMS encryption on a UNIX NetBackup server

Updated 8 Sep 2012 Read time 2 min(s) 31 sec(s) (2851 visits).

This article provides the necessary actions needed to install and configure Key Management Service (KMS) encryption on a UNIX NetBackup master server.

NetBackup 6.0 Restore Process Flow

Published 12 Jun 2012 Read time 3 min(s) 33 sec(s) (2833 visits).

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

Published 12 Jun 2012 Read time 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2916 visits).

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

Published 6 Mar 2012 Read time 1 min 24 sec(s) (3044 visits).

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

Verify which NetBackup 7.0 daemons/services are running

Published 1 Jul 2011 Read time 4 min(s) 52 sec(s) (4016 visits).

How to verify the required Veritas NetBackup 7.0 daemons and services are up and running on a master or media server.

How to analyze NetBackup unified logs

Published 23 Mar 2011 Read time 3 min(s) 52 sec(s) (3648 visits).

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