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  1. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    Thanks to everyone for all your help. We seem to be doing our backups fine now that I was able to expire some backups and get the tapes moved into the scratch pool. Thanks again and Happy Fourth. Now let's go drink beer and burn some meat. John
  2. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    the saga continues. About ten jobs failed, seemingly the same ones continue to fail. There are ten tapes in the scratch pool so my guess is that somehow I have to tell netbackup that it can span tapes for a given backup so it will start a new tape. I've no idea where this setting might be.
  3. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    it appears all the tapes (with a few exceptions) are in a group called netbackup. I'll take a look at this later tonight and may attach some images of the catalog so you can get a better idea. In any case, thanks again Bob for putting up with my dumb questions. (fwiw, I'm a dba so glad to...
  4. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    so now it seems to have plenty of volumes available but a manual backup for one of the failed jobs continues to fail. If I read the doc correctly it will only attempt to put the backup for host x on the same tape and if that tape's full and any unexpired backup exists it'll never be able to...
  5. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    Stumpr, I can't thank you enough. I did exactly that and now I have tons of space. Whew. Now I can do the backups before the boss figures out we don't have none. Much thanks.
  6. jdanilson

    netbackup newbie question.

    we have just laid off most of our sysadmin talent including the one person who managed our netbackup. I admit freely that I am an idiot with netbackup. Please excuse the question but... We run netbackup on windows to backup our linux (75%) and windows (25%) environments. We have exhausted...

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