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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Move a NetBackup image catalog to new location

In preparing to move the NetBackup image catalog from one location to another, it is recommended to perform a full catalog backup beforehand.

Deleting invalid entries in NBU job monitor

Because the bpjobd.act.db file contains active and queued jobs, deleting it will only remove the unwanted job, since no other jobs were running.

Veritas NetBackup cheat sheet

This a quick cheat sheet of the commands that can be used when using Veritas NetBackup

NetBackup Disaster Recovery

The procedures in this article explain how to recover your data if the system disk fails on a NetBackup master server.