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Netbackup
Cheat
Sheet
Netbackup......................................................................................................................................................................1
Cheat..............................................................................................................................................................................1
Sheet...............................................................................................................................................................................1
Netbackup Services/Daemons/Processes...................................................................................................................2
NBU Communication Stuff ......................................................................................................................................2
Tape Stuff..................................................................................................................................................................2
Backup Stuff..............................................................................................................................................................3
Log Stuff....................................................................................................................................................................3
Drive and Device configuration Stuff........................................................................................................................4
Fixing Drives that are in a DOWN / PEND ACS state..........................................................................................4
Changing Retention period of a volume/tape/media/image.......................................................................................5
Commands to change the expiration of images on Tape and Disk........................................................................5
Netbackup Services/Daemons/Processes
Checking the status of Netbackup 5.x servers
# ./usr/openv/Netbackup/bin/bpps -a
The resulting values should be the same when the commands are run from the media to the client and
the client to the media (preferably BACKLAN addresses).
Tape Stuff
Determining the Server Host, Expiration and STATUS of a specific tape
# ./usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist –m {media_id}
Check to see how many tapes are available in the Scratch pool
# ./usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery –pn Scratch | grep –c "robot slot"
Backup Stuff
Check to see if server is being backed up and which policy(s) being used
# ./usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcoverage –c {client_name}
Command to set your path on the Unix systems to prevent having to type the full path (run in order)
#PATH=$PATH\:/usr/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd:/usr/openv/volm
gr/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies
# export PATH
Log Stuff
Checking the status of failed backup jobs over specified period of time
# ./usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -U -columns 300 -backstat -hoursago 2 | egrep -v "^[ ]
*0|^[ ]*1 "
Provides drive status with assigned hosts for SSO (Shared Storage Option – Shared Drives)
# ./usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmdareq –a
1. Provides a list of all images for a specific policy with expiry information