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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

23 Oct 2013 1 min 53 sec(s) 2466 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

6 Aug 2014 5 min(s) 44 sec(s) 3692 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

27 Sep 2012 48 sec(s) 3304 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

8 Sep 2012 2 min(s) 27 sec(s) 3837 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

8 Sep 2012 2 min(s) 31 sec(s) 2937 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

12 Jun 2012 3 min(s) 33 sec(s) 2946 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

12 Jun 2012 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) 2993 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

6 Mar 2012 1 min 24 sec(s) 3110 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

1 Jul 2011 4 min(s) 52 sec(s) 4166 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

23 Mar 2011 3 min(s) 52 sec(s) 3803 visits.

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