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New forum discussion 01 Feb 2012

Dan Giberson posted: Date Exclusion script

I do not need a solution (just sharing information) Looked around here earlier for help on creating a script to exclude a certain date for all policies and didn't really find anything recent. After a bit of playing this is w

discussion comment 31 Oct 2011

Dan Giberson commented on: Windows Open File Backup best practice

Thanks Everyone.

discussion comment 31 Oct 2011

Dan Giberson commented on: Windows Open File Backup best practice

Thanks Everyone.... Marianne, I see it under my Client Attributes under Master Server Properties. So then I guess my question is, do new client installs automatically enable WOFB? Do you use it?

discussion comment 31 Oct 2011

Dan Giberson commented on: Windows Open File Backup best practice

Thanks Rajesh, Unfortunately it didn't really address my questions though. Do most people use WOFB, or turn it off? Does it matter that some of my Linux boxes have it turned on?

New forum discussion 30 Oct 2011

Dan Giberson posted: Windows Open File Backup best practice

I need a solution I was browsing through my environment the other day (Windows 2003 Master, NBU 7.01) and noticed that about half of my clients now have the WOFB "feature" turned on. This is showing up for both Windows

New forum discussion 06 Jul 2011

Dan Giberson posted: Linux client /tmp filling up during backups

I need a solution I am running an issue where one of our Linux clients (Redhat) is filling up it's /tmp folder during the backup process. My questions are: - why does NBU use /tmp prior to writing to tape? - ca

discussion comment 14 Jun 2011

Dan Giberson commented on: NBU 7 Volume Pools

Thanks for all the input here guys. I really appreciate it.

New forum discussion 03 Jun 2011

Dan Giberson posted: NBU7 and Volume Pools

I need a solution Just curious as to what msot people use with regards to managing retention periods. I've read a couple of posts from people who recommend using the Netbackup Volume pool then just defining the retention per

New forum discussion 03 Jun 2011

Dan Giberson posted: NBU 7 Volume Pools

New forum discussion 23 Mar 2011

Dan Giberson posted: Why would an Exchange 2010 backup just not run for 5 days?

I need a solution As you know...we have an Exchange 2010 environment that we are int he process of migrating too, but ran into a hiccup. Our backups for one of the dags just stopped running 4 days ago. No alerts, no failure notif

discussion comment 20 Mar 2011

Dan Giberson commented on: BPFIS process stuck (VM backup via VC)

I ran into something similar last week with BPFIS. Our Exchange 2010 backups were failing and BPFIS was hung open. Restarting the clients fixed it in my case. I did a bit of digging and found that the issue was with the VSS writer not ...

discussion comment 19 Mar 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: net backup interview questions

Really good thread everyone....i'm still a basic NBU user and could only answer a handful of the questions here. Half of the questions I would never have thought of. The one trend that I have noticed on this forum is that most people are ...

discussion comment 18 Mar 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: Report for total Tb backed up daily

Thanks Andy...the script wasn't playing well with Powershell, so for now I am using your second choice, but I will be working on a proper Powersheel script which I will post in the future.

New forum discussion 17 Mar 2011

Dan Giberson posted: Report for total Tb backed up daily

I need a solution Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can suggest a "quick and dirty" way to generate a report that tells me how much data I am backing up every day. Currently we are running NBU 7.01 with everything g

discussion comment 08 Feb 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: NBU 7 Upgrade failing (W2K3)

OK...got it....after a couple of reboots and several rounds of bpup and bpdown, it miraculously cleared itself.

discussion comment 08 Feb 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: NBU 7 Upgrade failing (W2K3)

PBX service is stopped as well, and we are currently using Procexp...but with out luck. The other option is to run tasklist /m dll_name...but even this doesn't see the dll that is supposed to be in use. Oh, I also tried the silent ...

New forum discussion 08 Feb 2011

Dan Giberson posted: NBU 7 Upgrade failing (W2K3)

I need a solution Because this is my luck....my update to NBU 7.0 from 6.5.5 is failing with the error that there are still process open. If I run bpps it tells me everything is down except bpcoverage which doesn't shut down

discussion comment 31 Jan 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: Training

Thanks Everyone....since we are a massive VMware shop already, I will follow Merv's suggestion.

New forum discussion 31 Jan 2011

Dan Giberson posted: Exchange GRT Restore send notification to user

I need a solution Looking for suggestions on how to turn off notifications on mailbox restores when using the Exchange GRT with a Netbackup 7 environment. While this feature is useful when the user requests a restore, it's n

discussion comment 26 Jan 2011

dgiberson@westjet.com commented on: Netbackup 7.01 and Exchange 2010

I've also opened a support case...I will post the results when we get this working. But I still welcome any other suggestions.

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