Selwyn,

  I like this one.

7.  Notifying admin when backups are taking an excessive amount of time
to complete.

I have experienced jobs that have mounted a tape and then nothing is
written to them and for some reason there is no timeout as there isn't a
mount issue. Canceling the job gets the tape unmounted but as usual
Netbackup wants to use the same tape so I have to freeze it before
restarting the job. Usually I have to manually eject these tapes.

Is there a better way to be notified than manually monitoring the backup
jobs??

Regards

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This is my list of issues that come up frequently:

1.  How do you tell what files were not backed up when a job ends with a
status of 1?
2.  What can be done to insure that no images are missed when a vault is
run for offsite storage.
3.  Catalog recovery
4.  Recovering data from an expired tape.
5.  Sending notifications when a backup job fails.
6.  Linking Netbackup with Oracle rman.
7.  Notifying admin when backups are taking an excessive amount of time
to complete.
8.  Using virtual server names for clients.

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