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

Latest posts

Changing GUID of Imported Media in NetBackup

This will change the GUID of the media in the NetBackup media database, once complete you will be able to perform operations with this media.

Running NetBackup Reports from Command line

This post provides the command line equivalents for running the NetBackup reports available in the NetBackup user interface

Upgrading NetBackup 5.x to 6.0

This article provides simplistic overview steps of performing an upgrade of your NetBackup environment from 5.x to release 6.0

NetBackup Recovery without Import

Veritas NetBackup now supports a method of recovering image information without having to import from a tape.