About errors during policy creation and validation
When you create or save a policy, you may encounter certain errors if you do not provide correct and valid inputs.
Table: NetBackup policy creation and validation scenarios discusses these scenarios briefly.
Table: NetBackup policy creation and validation scenarios
Problem | Recommended action |
|---|---|
The policy validation or the backup job fails when you have provided invalid or empty value in the backup selection. | Enter the following parameters in backup selections:
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The backup job fails when the backup selection does not contain the Backup_Host parameter. | Add the Backup_Host parameter to the backup selections as follows: Backup_Host=Fully Qualified Domain Name |
The backup job fails when you provide an invalid or empty value when you specify clients or virtual machines to be backed up. | Enter the name of the virtual machines that you want to backup. In addition, verify that the virtual machine name is correct and meets the character restrictions. See NetBackup character restrictions for virtual machine names . |
The backup host is not reachable. | Verify the backup host name. The backup host name is the FQDN of the backup host. |
Backup fails when the NetBackup client version on the backup host is older than 8.1. | The NetBackup client version on the backup host must be 8.1 or later. |
The policy is unable to determine version of backup host. | Verify that the NetBackup client version on the backup host is older than 8.1. The NetBackup client version on the backup host must be 8.1 or later. |
The backup job may fail when the operating system of the backup host is not Linux. | The operating system of the backup host must be Linux. |
The backup job fails when credentials are invalid or not configured for the Application_Server parameter. | Verify that you have provided correct credentials. Ensure that the value that you have provided for the Application_Server parameters matched the one that you provided while specifying Nutanix Acropolis Cluster credentials. See Adding the Nutanix Acropolis Cluster credentials for NetBackup. |