There is no difference in doing an Incremental restore versus a Full.
Doing a restore does not suspend the scheduler, so I am unsure why that
message is coming up, but make sure nbpem is running. In my experience
(mostly prior to 7.0.1), nbpem can be down and you just won't see any jobs
queue
Try looking at the BPTM and BPDM logs (T for Tape, D for Disk). I don't
know if a VTL will go to TM or DM...I would assume TM since NBU thinks
it's a tape still.
Sounds fishy since it changes drastically after the second 'tape' is
mounted. Have you searched to see if there is a known issue?
Hey Bob, it's not FUD. VSP has been problematic since, I don't know, 4.5?
It would fail to release the lock on the file and therefore you would end
up with GB files filling up the filesystems which sometimes required a
reboot to be able to delete. It didn't happen consistently, but it was
Sounds to me like image cleanup doesn't like something with a particular
client's image. As you know, when /usr/openv fills up, nasty things can
happen, including corrupt/incomplete catalog entries. I couldn't find a
specific technote that addresses this in my quick search, but this one may
Try nbemmcmd -listhosts -verbose
I would expect that you would see an entry for NODE03 with an alias or
something for HOME1. You can add/change existing entries, so I believe all
you'll need to do is remove HOME1 from NODE03 and then you can add it as a
comletely new san media server. You may
First, don't bother using VSP. It has known issues and eventually goes
away in version 7.x.
In addtion to all the other suggestions, take a look at the Windows Event
Log for any VSS errors.
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I'll state first that we use a capacity based licensing model, so I've
been out of the loop for a few years on licenses and all that (thank
goodness!).
The VMware backup host can be a Client, Media Server, or even a Master.
All it has to have is access to the datastore(s) and configured in
Mikhail,
I'm not following what you're saying. NBU can restore granular files from
a CBT enabled backup. How does Avamar differ from that?
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Keeping
Not to be crass, but have you even tried looking at the Symantec NetBackup
support website, or even using google?
www.symantec.com
There's a Deduplication guide, there's a guide about PureDisk theres
probably some information in the Admin I and Admin II guides.
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Here's what we do for a UNIX (Solaris) server refresh.
-Install NBU and patch to the same level on the new server
-Make a final catalog and system backup of the old server
-Shut down NBU on old system
-Use tar and some other OS tricks to do a simultaneous tar and copy to the
remote machine
-Swap
Patrick,
It's ALWAYS someone else's fault. Haven't you learned that by now?
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If you do an import on a piece of media that is already recognized, you
will get an error saying it's already there and/or the images that it
found are already there. You won't get the error you are reporting, this
sounds more hardware/configuraiton related, to me. Try running the device
I've never liked REQUIRED_INTERFACE as it seems to be problematic. Perhaps
it's just me. Most of our NBU servers have at least 3 networks (backup
network, mgmt network and metadata/intra-nbu network). We use multiple
host file entries with the different interface names and corresponding
One of the later 6.5.x patches is what you're looking for. 6.5.5 or 6.5.6,
I'm not sure.
The info you are looking for can be found in the OS Compatibility Guide:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH52878key=15143
It's under Compatibility Lists almost at the bottom.
When we've encountered these issues and the logs were no help, we had to
narrow down the problem by creating multiple backups or streams. This
approach allowed us to narrow down the culprit by eventually closing in on
a bad file during the backup.
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I have one environment where I've tried NBD and it was just as fast (or
should I say slow?) as SAN based backups. They were running at about
50MB/s and I believe the bottleneck is the storage array where the VMDKs
are housed.
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I prefer to go the other way, migrate to new platform first, then upgrade
NBU. The migration is more problematic, IMO.
Either way you go, I suggest letting it cook for a period of time so you
can work out any kinks.
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SLP will guarantee that the subsequent copies get completed before
expiring the original backup image (copy 1). With normal duplication or
inline tape copies, you don't get this level of protection. Once the
initial backup is completed, the impact of duplication is on the media
server, not the
We use aggr without issues on most of our media servers.
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P Think before
I wouldn't recommend a VTL with NBU at all as NBU works extremely well
using Disk Pools/Disk Staging Storage Units. Making your disk look like a
bunch of tape drives just adds more management and complexity and defeats
the purpose of disk, IMO. On a side note, because SLPs and OST work
The question to ask is if you are seeing (or suspect) any degraded
performance due to high catalog activity? If you aren't, then I wouldn't
worry about the cost or complexity of splitting up your catalog.
Our catalog components are not split up, but we do dedicate a separate
RAID 10 (FC disk)
With this little bit of information it sounds like you might have a
configuration mismatch with what nbu thinks the drive path is and what it
really is on the OS. Check the OS's path for that drive and compare that
to what nbu has. If that's not it, you may have some hardware issue with
the
Hi James,
The colon and the backslashes in this path: can’t create file:
usr:\local\pathname\to\file (WIN32 3:The system cannot find the path
specified.) have me concerned. AFAIK, this is not a valid path in Linux
and I would expect to see something like /usr/local/pathname/to/file
instead.
Symantec supports the current and two major revisions back of the client.
So, in your case, 7.0.x will support 7.0 clients, 6.5 clients and 6.0
clients. This isn't to say this will not work, and even Symantec states
that though it's not supported, it still may work just fine. In fact, if
it's
That's the only thing I can think of, too (other than logs, but that would
be more of a gradual increase than all at once, I would think).
Keep in mind that catalog compression will keep the catalog compressed
until someone needs to search that data, such as for a restore or bplist.
The image
I try to only keep one previous patch revision in the pack directory.
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If you get low on space, EMM will shut down to save the database from
corruption. I believe the default is 1% free, but can't remember. There
will be a log entry in the emm log stating this was the case. This sounds
like what could have been happening here because you could access at least
the
It also sounds like a name resolution problem.
You could put an entry for Server-A pointing to the recovery server's IP
address in hosts. Probably would be easier to just fix the name resolution
issue as when you go to the next server you will most likely have the same
problem. Good luck!
Another thought:
If this is version 7.0.1, there is a hostname caching 'feature' now in
NetBackup (Which I do NOT like, Symantec!!!). It caches the IP for each
host configured in NBU and sometimes this can result in the incorrect IP
being tied to the hostname. The default TTL for this cached
You can keep the Java UI from trying to reach out to all hosts when you
hit Host PropertiesClients by changing or adding the following parameter
in the setconf.bat file:
SET FORCE_IPADDR_LOOKUP=0
I'm not sure what, if any, setting there is for the Win Admin Console.
Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP,
Same here. Works really well.
The only thing I am having concerns with are the speeds that we're seeing
so far. We are getting about 35MB/s from each VM. What speeds are others
seeing?
My only caution would be that you should be VERY careful when you present
the datastore LUNs to the VM
One step to make it a bit easier: Instead of upgrading the media server
and then migrating media to the master, why don't you migrate the media to
the master at version 5.1, decomm that media server and THEN upgrade to
6.5 and 7.0? Less upgrade work with the same result.
I have migrated to new
I have done this on two different NBU Domains and on each domain the
VMware backup host was a 2008 64bit Media Server. When presenting the
LUNs, Windows did not try to mount them or write signatures. They come up
as Healthy but showing as Offline, which is how you want them. I made no
changes
Hi all,
I've upgraded two sites from 6.5.6 to NBU 7.0.1 (Solaris 10 SPARC) and
have noticed that some settings are getting changed to the defaults. Some
of the settings that I think are being changed (because I don't have
proof):
Clean-up
Logging
Priorities
And I know for sure that
Hi all,
When using the NBU7 client dedupe feature, how is Activity Monitor /
bpdbjobs reporting the amount of data backed up? Is it how much was really
sent over the wire after deduping or is it what would have been backed up
if there were no dedupe (i.e. a traditional backup size)?
Thanks,
I have upgraded two sites over the past week and we did not upgrade our
licenses to 7.0 and everything appears to be working just fine. We are
utilizing Advanced Disk (DiskPools and SLP), Enterprise Clients, Exchange,
SQL, Oracle, NDMP, etc.
As Ed stated, you SHOULD try to get your new keys or
I would agree. Take note, for Solaris, you need to be at Solaris10 Update
4 or higher. I don't know if the install will fail if you try to upgrade,
but I went ahead and patched the OS before doing the upgrade. Not hard,
but it took 4-5 hours for each server and they are all T2000's.
Rusty
Is anyone utilizing NBU client based encryption with SAP backups? I can't
find anything that definitively states either way or how to configure it.
Thanks,
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Can anyone explain why when trying to setup a policy for 4 new VMs, all I
get in the client browse window (when trying to add the new clients to the
policy) are 4 gray icons with an empty space for the name? I select them
and get an error that they cannot be added with a blank hostname. They
If that's what you want to do, then Nic's suggestion is the best for you.
It's also probably the cheapest as SLP requires Advanced Disk and
associated licensing.
However, if you want to use SLP in that manner, then you will have to
utilize cron to disable and enable SLP for the times you want
I do the same thing: Create a policy with ALD and exclude everything
you've created separate policies/file selections for.
We actually do this more often than I'd like, but it does seem to work out
very well.
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I think your plan is good and will surprise you in its simplicity. IMO,
the more smaller LUNs will be more of a problem to manage on the server as
filesystems, unless you're going to wrap them up with VxVM or something
similar.
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It may be that you are dup'ing so many jobs at once (high number of write
drives) that vault grabs fresh tapes and isn't filling them up. It may
take you longer to fill them up because the tapes are in use elsewhere and
it would have to wait.
How much data are you actually duplicating and on
Ahh yes, good one Nic, I had forgot about that. Here is a blog entry with
more details:
http://netbackup.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/media-in-use-when-it-really-isnt/
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I don't have any personal experience on this, but have been told that SATA
will work fine for dedupe. Data Domain and the new NetBackup appliances,
and I'm sure all of the other dedupe hardware vendors, use SATA drives.
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The API that makes it happen is OST and the 'scheduler', if you will, is a
Storage Lifecycle Policy.
The high level configuration is to setup two storage servers, two disk
pools, and two storage units (one for each dedup device). You then
configure a Storage Lifecycle Policy to do the initial
You're probably running into disk IO issues with all of the other data.
Are you reading the data off the same EVA array that you are writing it
to?
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We have appx 1.2PB spread out across 9 NBU domains that we use just for a
backup target. The goal is to have 7-10 days of all backup images
available on disk at these larger sites. These arrays are all mid-range,
big vendor names, all SATA and can handle running 150 or so jobs
simultaneously.
Thanks, Wayne. I didn't mean to exclude any vendors.
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P Think before you
We have several D2D2T system currently, running Advanced Disk and SLPs. I
would never go back if I had the choice. There's nothing wrong with disk,
in fact it cures many of the ills of a tape system, like slow backups
which kill tape drives, speed to restore, etc. Even with dedupe, tape is
I'm having issues with Data Domain optimized duplication and wondered if
anyone here had seen any issues like this. I've got a case with both
Symantec and DataDomain but thought I'd check here too.
Environment:
NBU 7.0 on Linux RHEL5, Nine Windows 2008 R2 Media servers (Master and
Medias are
I would recommend moving away from the Virtual Tape Library and utilizing
Advanced Disk, Disk Pools and Storage LifeCycle Policies. Most VTLs
today can be utilized as a giant pool of disks, instead of a bunch of fake
tape drives, as well. But, at that point, you could remove the
complication
If you have all the tapes in the library, or at least all the tapes that
the images span, then yes, NBU will work it all out for you. If not you'll
have to get tapes in quickly. This is what Ed was alluding to with a lot
of groundwork.
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I would agree to try to patch as there were some issues with the early
releases and calendar based scheds. Calendar scheduling is the bane of
NetBackup engineering.
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Mark,
No, SLPs are only aware of the backups they make, so you can't do what
you're looking for unless it does the initial backup. I would find that
very handy as well, so I hope Symantec is listening.
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I don't have a script, but for those that might, it would be helpful to
know what platform you're on.
Unix can use iostat -xzn # (where # is the interval).
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Firewall? Try to telnet hostname vnetd from the client to the Master and
Media servers.
You can also try using this command:
bptestbpcd -client clientname -debug
Run this from Master and Media servers. Debug gives you the most output
and isn't documented, -verbose gives you a little less
I would agree, try bonding/teaming the NICs together to get more
bandwidth. Don't forget to investigate your network to make sure that you
don't have any other bottlenecks inline and that the clients are all set
to 100/full (assuming they are 100Mbit).
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It sounds like you have some jobs that are not destaging properly. I saw
this whith 5.1 jobs after I upgraded from 5.1 to 6.5 and had to manually
expire quite a few images from disk (after verifiying we had a copy on
tape, of course).
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I first did an ls -l and grabbed the image ID of the images I thought were
too old and should have been destaged and expired off of the DSSU.
I then took those images and ran them through bpimagelist to see if they
had a copy on tape (or if it should have been expired).
Those that had a copy on
I have a NBU 7.0 domain configured backing up about 60 VMs using VADP
going to Data Domain. It's been running for about 3 weeks now and I'm
seeing dedupe rates just over 25x (~95+%). We are currently running daily
incrementals (2wk retention) and weekly fulls (1month retention) which are
In the Windows BAR GUI the default view is the colored dots timeline. I've
noticed in this view sometimes that it does not show all the images. I
switch it to the 'listing' view by deselecting the timeline option under
ViewShow NBU History as a Timeline and I get everything I'm expecting.
DSSU is a relocation (copy, if you will), which is why you don't have
those advanced options. The bpduplicate command is what you want to use
outside of DSSU relocation or Vault (or SLP if you go that way). I would
recommend using Vault to do the additional copies and retention changes.
It's
You can use SAN if you wish. You can use it if the client is setup to use
FT, or if using VCB/VADP you can select the SAN Transfer Type option, or
it *should* automatically select it if available when All Types is
selected.
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After messing with it for awhile last week, it appears that it was two
things:
-Name resolution (VADP likes FQDNs)
-Botched client install
This particular VM was migrated from a 6.5.x environment and the
implementation team installed NBU 7 client on top of it and apparently it
did not take,
I can confirm the same command worked for me in a NBU 7.0 environment on
Solaris 10 Master. I also checked the same command on a Windows 7.0 media
server and it worked as well.
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Not a cooler way, but if you want to run multiple Java GUIs on the same
workstation, just do the base install into different directories. I
typically make them install path\Java\60, install path\Java\65, etc.
You woun't have any issues and the patches can find the appropriate
version and
Hello everyone,
I'm new to VMware and I'm setting up an environment that consists of
virtualized NBU 7 Master (Linux) and Media (Win2k8) servers that backup a
fully virtualized environment using the new vStorage APIs. There are
currently only about 20 VMs I'm backing up currently, but every
There is or was an 'issue' with NDMP where the dump levels for
incrementals rolled past 9 and went back to 0, causing a full and it would
stay at dump level 0 until the next scheduled full ran. I cannot find a
technote or any documentation on it, but I believe it was related to
cumulative incs
I've never heard of that switch. Anytime you try to connect to one other
the other, you get an error, therefore we had the other java version
installed as well for when we needed it.
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I've just upgraded to 6.5.6 and while everything said it was successful, I
can no longer log in with the Windows Java GUI. It sits at the login
screen with Login in progress in the status bar. I have re-applied the
patch (on top of 6.5.6), removed the 6.5.6 JAV patch (so it's at 6.5.5)
and it
If the devices are scsi attached, you can take the system down to the OK
prompt and run probe-scsi-all to verify that at the OS level, the drives
are being presented. This page tells you how to do it:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/114/troubleshoot-scsi-devices-with-probe-scsi-all/
We have a NetApp filer that has a few TB of data made up largely of
millions of small files (about 30 million or so) and we are using several
NDMP policies to back up this data. The two main problems are length of
time it takes to backup (we usually have 2-3 backups running all day every
day)
Heading off topic, but for the benefit of those who had a heart-attack
thinking they were out of support with 5.1 clients as they ARE supported
with NBU 6.x Master/Media servers. NBU has supported two major versions
back for as long as I can remember, perhaps that's the unspoken rule as I
In 6.x, all you should need is 13724 (vnetd), but have a look at the Port
Usage Guide for Windows and UNIX Platform :
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281623.htm.
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I'm trying to get NBU 7 installed on my test environment and am having
trouble getting the downloaded file(s) prepped. The install guide for Unix
claims A Readme file on FileConnect describes the following points:,
however I see no readme file. I've tried to uncompress and extract them,
but
Thanks, all, for the Windows document (Which I do see on FileConnect), but
I was looking for specific Unix instructions. I ended up getting it worked
out, but asked Symantec about the entry in the guide whice alludes to
another Readme for Unix:
The ESDimages forNetBackup 7.0 are available for
If you're on Windows, you can install Cygwin and then use grep/awk if you
want to go that route, but the scripts others have provided are probably
better. If this is something you need on a regular basis, you might
consider a third party reporting tool (Aptare, VBR, etc.).
NOM, which I think
If all you want is the listing of the clients, you just need the directory
structure for the clients on the Master, you don't actually have to
install all the client binaries if you don't want to.
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This is more of a limitation on the OS and the wildcards it supports than
NBU.
You can try *:\*\test and see if it works.
Alternatively, if the local drives and dir structure is static, you can
list the paths as such:
C:\*\test
E:\*\test
in the policy file list. Even though only one path is
You can run bptestbpcd from the master and media servers to verify
connectivity.
bptestbpcd -host hostname -debug
In place of -debug, you can use -verbose, or no option at all, but they
get gradually less detailed respectively.
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I just exclude the images directory as that's the bulk of the size. There
are also other configuration files and whatnot scattered all over that I'm
not sure are captured in the hot backup. The size of the rest of the data
is inconsequential to me.
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I believe most people on the list are using a backup reporting tool. I use
Aptare, but there are others and you can also script it to provide you
success rates.
Those who are watching their success rates are in the 90's. Those who are
not think their rate is better than what it really is.
You can import the LTO1 media (using the LTO3 drives, obviously) into the
new catalogs. Hopefully you know which tapes the data is on, otherwise you
have to import each tape until you find what you need. Before you insert
these tapes into the drive, make sure you write protect them, and have
Bart,
We have i2000s, SL8500s and SL3000s, all over 700 slots.
All are good libraries, but the SL libraries have capability of redundant
robots. The SL8500 is a huge beast of a library, but that's nothing new to
you with a Powerderhorn. The SL libraries can also be hooked up with ACS
(the
This is a good idea, I like it.
While not applicable to this request, I would also document all of the
images being expired so that in case you do mess up, you have the
bpimagelist output that you can use to go back and unexpire, import, or
have on hand to know which tapes need to be held out
The binaries for Exchange and MSSQL are also included in the Windows
client, but you have to license them before using, so this model is not
new. It would be nice if Symantec clarified what is and is not included,
though. It would be nice if they cleaned up the licensing model, too,
while they
Yep, 6.5 is very picky about this. So is the Java GUI. Adding the FQDN to
the hosts file has resolved a number of connection problems with the Java
GUI.
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I agree, Ed. The same rep did tell me that the Java GUI will eventually go
away. And since Ops Center will be/is web based, I would assume that would
make the Windows Admin Console go away as well. I was glad to hear that
the GUIs will be sticking around, as I had thought we were getting forced
I'm trying to get bplist to give me output on some images made for an SAP
backup. All I keep getting is EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found.
These backups run daily and I know I have images, I just want to know the
filelist for each one. I have used the following syntax:
bplist -C clientname
Disregard. I had to put the policy type in. I now see that the default is
Windows (13)...which makes sense, these aren't windows backups!
bplist -C clientname -t 17 -R 999 /
The above does work for me. I thought I had tried it, but apparently not.
Thanks to those who responded.
Rusty Major,
The PBX binaries are on both DVD1 and DVD2 of your install media (pick
one). I believe 6.5.4 patches PBX, but if you have an older version that
isn't compatible with the 6.5.4 patch, you need to upgrade it from the
install media.
To install or upgrade your existing PBX, go to the appropriate
I agree, lifecycle is better as it will guarantee what you have requested
to happen will happen before the images will expire. If you have a vault
process fail, you may not get the images duplicated if you don't rerun it
manually. All you'll have to do in Vault is setup the eject.
Rusty Major,
Did you update the Oracle server agents to the same major and minor level
as the master/media servers? You didn't say if you went to 6.5.0 or
applied any patches? I would at least patch to 6.5.3.1 or higher.
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Mark,
First, all I could think of was the opening to the Electric Company where
a lady yells HEY YOU GUYS
For those lost in the 80's like me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFYMijdQ_sA
Anyway, I have not tried this in a while, but on the BAR client side GUI,
select FileSpecifcy NetBackup
I understand that, Boris. My point was that OpsCenter will not have the
advanced reporting (I forget what Symantec is calling the additional
module) that you are used to today with Aptare. I do not know if the
freebie VBR license will allow you to utilize this module or not once 7.0
comes
Boris,
VBR will not be included in 7.0. There will be some reporting included in
Ops Center which may be new reports to the base NetBackup product, but
there will also be another option for additional, advanced, reporting -
this is probably the stuff most of us would want.
My XSP licensing
That's crazy. It sounds like they are digging for more info or trying to
get you to convert to VBR.
We are on this licensing model and the data we send them is via Aptare. I
don't understand why they are making you do that.
Sorry, that was of no help to you. We installed an older version of VBR
I don't think you would like the results of this solution. As you know, a
snapshot of the vm is copied to the backup proxy's holding tank and it
isn't released on the ESX server until this is completed. I'm pretty sure
you would end up with snapshots being released before the copy process is
I'm seeing the same issue at one site and I'm curious if your drive had a
stuck tape, or for some other reason couldn't move the tape from the drive
to the home cell?
The problem I see is the tape gets stuck in the drive, cannot be unloaded,
which causes NBU to constantly request another mount
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