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http://www.symantec.com/connect/netbackup-puredisk/forums/feed en http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/i-need-urgently-pdva-license-key-if-somebodycan-give-it-me-or-link-license-ket <p>I need urgently a PDVA license key, if somebodycan give it to me or the link for the license ket.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/i-need-urgently-pdva-license-key-if-somebodycan-give-it-me-or-link-license-ket#comments NetBackup PureDisk Licensing Virtualization Backup and Archiving Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:15:52 +0000 Amin123 1250841 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/where-can-i-download-netbackup-puredisk-65-or-last-version-dwonload <p>where can i download NetBackup PureDisk 6.5 or last version to dwonload,</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Amin Abu-Dosh</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/where-can-i-download-netbackup-puredisk-65-or-last-version-dwonload#comments NetBackup PureDisk Downloads Tip/How to Backup and Archiving Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:12:49 +0000 Amin123 1250781 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/pddo-disaster-recovery <p> Netbackup 6.5.5, Puredisk 6.6 (using Puredisk Virtual Appliance)</p> <div> Attempting DR testing in a virtual environment which reflects live setup.<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div> Site 1:&nbsp;<br /> Netbackup Master Server (Windows 2003) with PDDO installed<br /> Windows 2003 Domain controller/DNS server, also with netbackup client installed<br /> PDVA 6.6.0.2<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div> Site 2:<br /> PDVA 6.0.0.2<br /> &quot;Warm standby&quot; DR master server<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div> Successfully configured the environment so that the Netbackup client backed up to a storage lifecycle policy which stored primary data on the Site 1 PDVA and replicated to the Site 2 PDVA.&nbsp; Also performed Netbackup catalog backup.</div> <div> Then simulated a disaster by switching off all servers at site 1 except DC/DNS server.</div> <div> Successfully completed a full catalog restore onto the warm standby server and all appears well.&nbsp; (Installed the PDDO agent on the warm standby server after installing Netbackup but before restoring the catalog.)</div> <div> From the catalog I can&nbsp;view the &quot;copy 2&quot; files stored on the site 2 Puredisk server, and have set them to be the primary copy.</div> <div> However, cannot perform a restore of these files to the client:&nbsp; job fails almost immediately with error code 10 and detailed log shows error 800.</div> <div> Can&#39;t find any documentation on how to configure a restored master server to restore from a Puredisk storage pool so aware I might be missing a piece of configuration.&nbsp; Have tried rerunning pddocfg.exe on the restored master server.&nbsp; If I run pddocfg in &quot;update&quot; mode it succeeds but still can&#39;t restore.&nbsp; If I run it in &quot;new&quot; mode it fails (unsurprisingly since the restored master already knows about the storage pool). <p> I have raised a support call about this but thought I&#39;d see if anyone on the forums has any advice - thanks in advance!</p></div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/pddo-disaster-recovery#comments NetBackup PureDisk Best Practice Restore Backup and Archiving Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:00:43 +0000 Nickyxx9 1248471 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/deduplication-pool-replication <p>what is replication of deduplication pool ?</p> <p></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/deduplication-pool-replication#comments NetBackup PureDisk Backup and Archiving Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:48:04 +0000 Zahid.Haseeb 1248041 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-inplace-upgrade-puredisk-651-puredisk-66 <p>Hi guys</p> <p>any document for upgrading PD 6.5.1 to PD 6.6?</p> <p>THX</p> <p>Regards<br /> John </p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-inplace-upgrade-puredisk-651-puredisk-66#comments NetBackup PureDisk Designing Backup and Archiving Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:31:50 +0000 demo4119 1243461 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/optimized-duplication-between-puredisk-spa-not-working-after-upgrade <p>Site A<br /> NetBackup 6.5.3 master/media server with&nbsp;PDDO&nbsp;(NBU01)<br /> PureDisk 6.5.1 SPA (PD01)</p> <p>Site B<br /> NetBackup 6.5.3 media server with PDDO (NBU02)<br /> PureDisk 6.5.1&nbsp;SPA (PD02)</p> <p>one NBU&nbsp;domain,<br /> SLP&nbsp;is defined as following:&nbsp;<br /> 1. Backup to&nbsp;PD01<br /> 2. Duplication to PD02</p> <p>optimized duplication could be indicated <br /> a)&nbsp;in job details (starting optimized duplication...)<br /> b)&nbsp;on both PD&nbsp;SPA&nbsp;as there was running a replication job on both sides</p> <p>So, optimized duplication was running well...</p> <p>.. until upgrading NBU&nbsp;6.5.3 to 6.5.4 and PD6.5.1 to PD6.6</p> <p>SLP&nbsp;keeps unchanged.</p> <p>Problem now:&nbsp;<br /> Duplication jobs now running as a simple duplication job (not as an optimized duplication job)<br /> Only on the target SPA&nbsp;I&nbsp;see a job - this is a PDDO&nbsp;backup job. On the source PD&nbsp;SPA&nbsp;there is nothing to see.<br /> All (the whole)&nbsp;data are transfered between the two PD&nbsp;SPAs <br /> There is no error message.</p> <p>Any ideas, why optimized duplication is not working?</p> <p>Thanks in advance,<br /> Matthias</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/optimized-duplication-between-puredisk-spa-not-working-after-upgrade#comments NetBackup PureDisk Backup and Archiving Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:47:26 +0000 taso_stock 1243391 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-do-i-can-create-replication-between-pure-disk-pool <p>i have NBU 7 on a 64bit machine and the OS is win2003 64 bit</p> <p>I have configured &quot;&quot;Media Server Deduplication Pool&quot;&quot; successfully. How can i establish the replication from my this NBU server to the NBU server which is at my DR site</p> <p>Any help will be apppriciated</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-do-i-can-create-replication-between-pure-disk-pool#comments NetBackup PureDisk Backup and Archiving Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:40:08 +0000 Zahid.Haseeb 1241521 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/move-mbe-and-spa-new-server <p>Has anyone gone through the process of moving their MBE or SPA to a new physical (or virtual) server?</p> <p>I originally built an All-in-One PD Server, with 1 TB of internal storage.&nbsp; My environment has grown past the intial server, and I now want to move the SPA and MBE to different p or v machines.&nbsp; The long term goal is to re-purpose the original PD server.</p> <p>Thanks in advance for any insight.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/move-mbe-and-spa-new-server#comments NetBackup PureDisk Designing Linux Installing Managing Backup Devices Performance Upgrade Virtualization Backup and Archiving Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:48:45 +0000 Kevin Good 1240011 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/pure-disk-pool <p>I have installed Veritas Netbackup 7. Pure Disk is included in the NBU7. I am trying to create a pure disk pool but i am not able to do it. </p> <p>is that must that i have to install pure disk agent on the server on which we want to keep pure disk pool ? (i am not able to see the volume for Disk Pool)</p> <p><img width="882" height="656" src="/connect/imagebrowser/view/image/1231321/_original" alt="Pg.JPG" class="ibimage" /></p> <div class="field field-type-number-integer field-field-forum-solved-comment-id"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> 3705781 </div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/pure-disk-pool#comments NetBackup PureDisk Backup and Archiving Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:33:07 +0000 Zahid.Haseeb 1231271 at http://www.symantec.com/connect http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/nb-7-puredisk-architecture-question <p>Hopefully someone can help me with this, we purchased NB 6.5 four months ago and then got side tracked on installing everything so I can't remember how it had all been planned out with the sales rep at the time.&nbsp; I just got an upgrade to 7 notification so I figure might as well use that since we haven't even installed it yet.&nbsp; So, what we had originally envisioned was running one beefy server connected to a large storage array and a large tape library, backups come from the clients to disk, de-dupe happens on the server, what's left is written to tape for archival purposes or for restores from dates beyond what is kept on disk.&nbsp; We don't want cpu activity on the clients related to de-duplication as our servers are compute-bound.</p> <p>We have a box with dual quad-core cpu's and 32 GB&nbsp;of memory, it's got 5 TB&nbsp;of disk and a tape library.&nbsp; Can we do all in one or would that be asking for trouble?&nbsp; Currently we have an older netbackup install that's doing straight to tape backups for about 350 servers with a concurrency of 12 going to two LTO3 drives and it's working fine, obviously its not doing backup to disk or de-dupe.</p> <p>What we've got purchased is described as:<br /> SYMC NETBACKUP DEDUPLICATION OPTION 7.0 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TBYTE STD LIC<br /> VRTS NETBACKUP PUREDISK 6.5 XPLAT 1 TBYTE FRONT END CAPACITY STD LIC</p> <p>I'm honestly not sure what the difference is between puredisk and &quot;deduplication option&quot;&nbsp;in the 7.0 license or if it's just the two merged together now.&nbsp; First question is can the combination of what we've bought accomplish what we want irrespective of hardware; i.e. can we back all the clients up to disk, de-duplicate that data on disk, then write it to tape?&nbsp; I don't care if we can only restore from tape but would prefer to restore from disk if it's present, otherwise hit the tape.</p> <p>Assuming the question of whether we can do what we want is yes, can we do it all with one server?&nbsp; We don't have a lot of data to back up, at least initially, and it will probably take a long time before we'd reach 1&nbsp;TB to back up with this server.&nbsp; If the answer is no, what do we need, and what is optimal, obviously both would be considered.</p> <p>Thanks in advance,</p> <p>David</p> <table width="682" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" str=""> <tbody> <tr height="17"> <td height="17" width="682">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/nb-7-puredisk-architecture-question#comments NetBackup PureDisk Backing Up Configuring Installing Backup and Archiving Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:29:44 +0000 Hostasaurus 1227461 at http://www.symantec.com/connect