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Nickyxx9 · 03-18-2010

Netbackup 6.5.5, Puredisk 6.6 (using Puredisk Virtual Appliance) Attempting DR testing in a virtual environment which reflects live setup. Site 1: Netbackup Master Server (Windows 2003) with PDDO installed Windows 2003 Domain controller/D...

Nickyxx9 · 05-26-2009

Hi, Our primary backups are stored in Puredisk on their local datacentre. We have a scheduled bpduplicate job that runs each night to create an offsite Copy 2 for each backup image in a Puredisk storage pool at an alternate datacentre. Retention on...

Nickyxx9 · 03-22-2010

Support have got back to me - as I suspected, the only way to restore from an offsite Puredisk storage pool if the original master server is unavailable is to build a new master with a different name and import the Puredisk images into this new serve...

Nickyxx9 · 03-22-2010

Have now succeeded in restoring a file to the client from the offsite Puredisk storage. However to achieve this I had to build a master server with a different name from the original master, install the PDDO and set up communications with the offsi...

Nickyxx9 · 03-18-2010

Thanks for posting this 14ALL - I didn't have the license key issue but did have the same initial problems as you with NIC incompatibility. The PDVA ships with an E1000 NIC in the VM, but the operating system type is incorrectly set to "Suse Linux E...

Nickyxx9 · 09-22-2009

We're using Puredisk 6.5.1 with Netbackup PDDO and it generally works well BUT I agree with the original poster that you should allocate a lot more storage than you think you're going to need. Adding a new content router is a reasonably well-documen...

Nickyxx9 · 05-27-2009

Hi Twinkle and thanks for the suggestion - the -cn switch didn't work as you thought it might though. Running the command that way seemed to look for a copy 2 to duplicate - it gave the output: 02:00:06 INF - Skipping copy 1 of backup id r0107g_1243...

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Using bpduplicate to create copy 2 with shorter retention time than primary copy

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Thanks for posting this 14ALL

Agree that it's a good idea to allocate storage up front

Worked around it