Netbackup Tips Glossary: CLI Command Line Interface GUI Graphical User Interface Media Server Master Server

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CLI Command Line Interface
GUI Graphical User Interface
Media Server
Master Server
Starting and Stopping Netbackup
Stopping Netbackup
 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/K77netbackup --> graceful shutdown

 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps -a --> check for any remaining processes
 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/bp.kill_all ---> kills all remaining
netbackup processes, not necessarily graceful
 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps -a --> check for any remaining processes
 kill -9 <pid> for any remaining. NOTE: unkillable processes may require a
reboot
Starting Netbackup
 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/S77netbackup --> after bp.kill_all, to restart
Common Tasks
Starting the Administration GUI
 java from the windows client

 x-windows from the server - /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xnb &
Checking Backup Status
 Activity Monitor or
 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs -report
Cleaning a tape manually
 Identify the drive name to be cleaned

o tpclean -L
 Manually clean the drive:
o tpclean -C <drive name>
Determining what tapes were used for a backup
 GUI
o Backup and Restore --> Find the file system --> Preview Media Button
 CLI
o Find the correct backup images
 bpimagelist -U -client <CLIENT> -d <STARTDATE> -e
<ENDDATE>
o Find the media used for those images
 bpimagelist -U -client <CLIENT> -d <STARTDATE> -e
<ENDDATE> -media
Listing the files in a backup
Find the tape(s) used (above procedure using bpimagelist)

cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/done
Run the following script and redirect it's output to a text file:
for file in `grep MOUNTING *|grep <MEDIA_ID>|awk '{print $1}'|sed 's/:MOUNTING//'`
do
echo $file
grep PATH_WRITTEN $file|awk '{print $3}'
echo " "
echo "==========================================End of
Image======================================"
echo " "
done
This process works for NBU V3.4:
 cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<CLIENT>
 ls -ltr --> this will identify the directory with the proper date
 verify directory with "bpdbm -ctime <Unixtime>
 cd <Unixtime>
 ls -ltr --> lists all of the backups for this client on this date
 cat <POLICY>_<Unixtime>_<BU Type>.f | awk '{print $10}' --> this prints
out the files in the backup
For NBU > V3.4
 bpflist --help --> undocumented netbackup command to list files from a

binary .f file
Inventory the Robot
 Inventory Robot --> /opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmcheckxxx -rt robot_type -rn

robot_number -list (where robot_type is tld, acs, . . .)
 Inventory Robot and Update Configuration -->
/opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rt robot_type -rn robot_number -list (where
robot_type is tld, acs, . . .)
Listing Properties of the Volume Pools
 vmpool -listall
Scratch Tapes
 Count scratch tapes: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn Scratch | grep -c

"robot slot"
 Moving tapes to the scratch pool
o If Needed - Expire the tape
 bpexpdate -ev <TAPE ID> -d 0 -force -host <Media Manager>
o Move the tape
 vmchange -p 2 -m <TAPE ID>
Checking Drive Usage
 /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd
Taking a drive down or up
 /usr/openv/volmgr/vmoprcmd -down <drive index>

 /usr/openv/volmgr/vmoprcmd -up <drive index>
Performing a Restore
 From the GUI

o user backup & restore --> configuration --> client
o user backup & restore --> configuration --> client to restore
o directory to search
o directory depth
o date range
o file --> browse backups for restore
Adding New Tapes to the Library
 Using the GUI

o Media Management --> Actions --> New --> Single Volume . . -->
o Media Type (ie DLT)
o Robot Type (ie TLD)
o Media ID (from Inventory)
o Slot Number (from Inventory)
o Robot Number (ie 0)
o Volume Group
o Volume Pool (ie Scratch)
 Using the CLI
o vmadd -m <media id> -mt <tape type> -verbose -rt <robot type> -b
<barcode> -rn <robot number> -rc1 <slot> -p <pool number> -mm
<max mounts>
 vmpool -listall --> lists all pools, both name and number
o For example: vmadd -m 000151 -mt dlt -verbose -rt tld -b 000151 -rn
0 -rc1 8 -p 2 -mm 0
Re-using Tapes from other systems or older Netbackups
 Expire the media

o bpexpdate -ev MEDIA_ID -d 0 -force -host HOST
 Deassign the media
o vmquery -deassignbyid MEDIA_ID 4 0
 Move to the scratch pool
o vmchange -m MEDIA_ID -p POOL#
 Relabel the media
o bplabel -ev CIM572 -d dlt -p Scratch
Changing the attributes of media
 Changing the barcode

o vmchange -barcode CYM100D -m CYM100
 Changing the Volume Pool
o vmchange -m MEDIA_ID -p POOL#
To expire media
 bpexpdate -ev <medai id> -d 0 -force -host <media server>
To unfreeze media
 List the frozen media

o /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media | grep -i FROZEN
 Unfreeze the media
o bpmedia -unfreeze -ev <media id> -h <media server>
To relabel a tape
 bplabel -ev <media id> -d <tape density> -p <pool name>

 bplabel -ev 000687 -d dlt -p TriVrgt_OFFSITE
To remove media from the Netbackup database
 Verify that there are no images on the tape

o bpimmedia -mediaid 000687 -L
 Expire the tape
o bpexpdate -ev 000687 -d 0 -host scorpius -force
 Get the status and pool number of the tape
o vmquery -m 000687
 Deassign the tape
o vmquery -deassignbyid <media id> <pool number> <status code from
vmquery -m>
o vmquery -deassignbyid 000687 4 0x0
 Delete the tape
o vmdelete -m 000687
Installing the Netbackup Client
 /update_clients -ForceInstall -ClientList /tmp/clients.lst

o requires that TMPDIR and TEMPDIR be set correctly
Excludng files from backup on a client
 Create /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list
 Put the file specifications of the files/directories to be excluded
o /mnt/directory/*
Displaying Information about a Tape
 vmquery -m <media id> --> Displays attributes about a particular tape

 bpmedialist -U -mcontents -ev 000687 --> Displays media contents
 bpmedialist -U -mlist --> List of all media
 bpmedialist -U -mlist -ev CYM966 --> Listing of a particular media id
 bpimmedia -mediaid 000687 -L --> Listing of images on a tape
Robtest Commands
 Starting robtest
o robtest
o 1 --> to select TLD 0
 Getting help
o ?
 Looking at contents of the tape drives
o sd
 Looking at the contents of the library
o ss
 Moving a tape from a drive to a library slot
o s d --> to identify drive number that has tape (Contains Cartridge = yes,
Barcode=XXXXXX)
o s s --> to identify an empty slot in the tape library (Netbackup will need
to be re-inventoried)
o m d# s# --> from from drive # to slot #
o s d --> verify the tape drive is empty
o s s --> verify the library slot has the tape
Configuration Files
/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf
 configuration file, sets backup server and backup clients

 force statement must be correct
 client to browse from
 client to restore to
/usr/openv/volmgr/vmconf
Logfiles
To utilize logfiles, create the corresponding directory in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs
Server Logfile directories:
 admin - adminstrative commands

 bpbrm - backup and restore manager
 bpcd - client daemon
 bpdbjobs - database manager program process
 bpdm - disk manager process
 bpjava-msvc - Java application server authentication service
 bpjava-usvc - process that services Java requests
 bprd - request daemon process
 bpsched - scheduler process that runs on master servers
 bptm - tape/optical media management process
 user-ops - required directory for use by Java programs
 xbpadm - X based administration utility
 xbpmon - X based job monitor process
Client Logfile directories:
 bp - client user interface process

 bparchive - archive program
 bpbackup - backup program
 bpbkar - program that generates golden images
 bpcd - client daemon
 bpjava-msvc - Java application server authentication service
 bpjava-usvc - process that services Java requests
 bplist - program that lists backed up and archived files
 bpmount - program that determines local mountpoints and wildcard expansion
for multiple streams
 bphdb - Oracle database backup program start process
 db_log - database specific extension log
 tar - tar process log during restores
 user_ops
Media Manager logging automatically goes to the system log using syslogd logging facility
.Logging will only occur if these directories are created. These directories will generate a lot of
data and should be deleted when no longer necessary.
To increase the amount of logging information set VERBOSE=2 in /usr/open/netbackup/bp.conf

(default is VERBOSE=1)
Processes
ltid
acsd
vmd
Useful Commands
bpcllist - list classes

bpclinfo <class> -L --> displays info about a class
vmpool - volume pools
vmpool -listall
vmpool -listscratch
bplabel -ev <media id> -d hcart
bpbackup db --> backs up the catalog
bpclclients <policy> --> lists the clients for a particular policy (class)
Troubleshooting
bperror -statuscode <-- displays information about the netbackup error.
No Backups are running:
 Check system log file for error messages

 Stop and restart all the netbackup processes
 Look for a downed drive
o /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd
o /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd -up 0 --> this will bring up drive 0 if
it's control shows as down
 Look for pending requests
o /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd or gui --> device management
o If there is a pending request either re-assign it to a drive, or deny the
request
Downed drive does not come back up or does not stay up
 Check for a hardware problem by looking for messages on the tape library
 Make sure there is not a tape stuck in the drive
o Use robtest (described above) to look at the drives
 If there is a tape stuck in the drive, try to remove it using robtest
 If robtest fails, then you must manually remove it.
Verify the Client is communicating properly:
 bpclncmd -ip <ip address> --> from both client and server
 bpclntcmd -hn <hostname> --> from both client and server
 bpclntcmd -pn --> from client only
Device Actions
Device Management --> info about tape drives
 dlt
 hcart (ultrium)
Media Actions
Media id must agree with # of the tape

Create a media id
 actions -->new-->single volume-->dlt cart (not dlt2)

 put it into the "netbackup" volume pool
Netbackup Client
To check things out do this:
It could be a couple things. Mostly DNS, bp.conf, or something stupid. On

the client run this command
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclntcmd -pn
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclntcmd -server "server name"
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclntcmd ip "ip_address"
One of these usually fails and your able to fix it right off
1074 ./bpclntcmd -hn corpbu1

1075 ./bpclntcmd -ip 10.194.1.129
1076 ping 10.194.1.129
1077 ./bpclntcmd -hn corpldv1
1078 ./bpclntcmd -hn corpbu1.corporate.vox.net
1079 ping corpldv1
1080 ./bpclntcmd -ip 10.194.1.120
Must be able to resolve correctly from the master server and the client or it will not work!!!
Examples :
Team,
FYI & Ref. – how to check backup client/server connection.
Regards
Santosh
From: Pathak, Santosh (TCS Consultant)

Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:22 PM
To: Gurumoorthy, Balaji (TCS)
Subject: RE: Seiadmwbs03
Backup is successfull 14th, 15th Jan 2011 – this weekend.
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ sudo bpimagelist -hoursago 48 -client seiadmwbs03-b -U

Backed Up Expires Files KB C Sched Type Policy
---------------- ---------- -------- -------- - ------------
------------
01/15/2011 07:48 01/27/2011 53470 4873709 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbs03
01/15/2011 03:00 01/27/2011 74145 38171730 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbs03
01/14/2011 23:55 01/26/2011 15 537944 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbs03

To: Gurumoorthy, Balaji (TCS)
Subject: RE: Seiadmwbs03
NetBackup can connect this hosts by both ways Namd and IP.
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ bpclntcmd -hn seiadmwbs03-b

host seiadmwbs03-b: seiadmwbs03-b at 10.10.182.133 (0xa0ab685)
aliases:
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ bpclntcmd -ip 10.10.182.133

checkhaddr: host : seiadmwbs03-b: seiadmwbs03-b at 10.10.182.133
(0xa0ab685)
checkhaddr: aliases:
Policy is also active.
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ sudo bppllist seiadmwbs03 -L|grep Act

Active: yes
Please check with network folks, if they need to enable anything on backup network?
Let me know still need any info.
Regards
Santosh
From: Gurumoorthy, Balaji (TCS)

To: Pathak, Santosh (TCS Consultant)
Subject: Seiadmwbs03
Backup ip 10.10.182.133

Check if backup connectivity is there to this server from backup server?
Thanks
Balaji
Team,
FYI and Ref. Below command is the way to confirm that specific mountpoint/filesystem is backed up or
not on NetBackup. It is NOT simple as NetWorker or CommVault.
Ram – Please let us know if you have figure out any other way from GUI. I checked that also. When we
browse the filesystem for restore job, it displays backup information and we need to select it and click
on ‘Preview’. So it will display volume information.
Thanks
Santosh

Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 6:52 PM
To: Krishnasamy, Rajeshwaran (TCS); Pandith, Nandan (TCS); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-Unix
Cc: TCS-Ashburn-Backup-Storage
Subject: (COMPLETED - INC 54144) RE: Daily status
Rajesh/Shambu and team,
Please inform to user that FULL backup is completed and confirm us, so I can resolve the ticket.
Backup Log for ref:-
saiadsdbq20
root@saiadslhp03 # bpimagelist -d 01/28/2011 -e 01/29/2011 -client
saiadsdbq20-b -U -policy saiadsdbq20 -L|grep -i "backup id:"|awk '{print $3}'|
while read bid; do bpflist -l -d 01/28/2011 -e 01/29/2011 -st FULL -policy
saiadsdbq20 -backupid $bid -client saiadsdbq20-b|egrep -i "SSQA|ORAUTL";done
no entity was found

1 0 6 50 1 1 0 0 30933130 /SSQA/ 16877 root root 0 1296269043 1295901244
1295901244
1 0 16 56 1 1 0 0 30933394 /SSQA_audit_log/ 16832 oracle oinstall 0 1296309711
1296309686 1296309686
no entity was found
no entity was found
no entity was found
no entity was found
145129 0 8 50 55581066 1 0 0 22282240 /ORAUTL/ 16877 root root 0 1296176517
1248994730 1248994730
154557 0 6 50 56972204 1 0 0 30933130 /SSQA/ 16877 root root 0 1296269043
1295901244 1295901244
164512 0 16 56 57185880 1 0 0 30933394 /SSQA_audit_log/ 16832 oracle oinstall
0 1296279586 1296279587 1296279587
saiadsdbq21
root@saiadslhp03 # bpimagelist -d 01/28/2011 -e 01/29/2011 -client
saiadsdbq21-b -U -policy saiadsdbq21 -L|grep -i "backup id:"|awk '{print $3}'|
while read bid; do bpflist -l -d 01/28/2011 -e 01/29/2011 -st FULL -policy
saiadsdbq21 -backupid $bid -client saiadsdbq21-b|egrep -i "SSQA|ORAUTL";done
1 0 16 56 1 1 0 0 30933394 /SSQA_audit_log/ 16832 oracle oinstall 0 1296285191

1296285158 1296285158
no entity was found
1 0 6 51 1 1 0 0 30933282 /SSQA/ 16877 oracrs dba 0 1296177304 1244226864
1244226864
no entity was found
no entity was found
145775 0 8 50 40235423 1 0 0 22282240 /ORAUTL/ 16877 root root 0 1296177284
1249011283 1249011283
155168 0 6 51 41607770 1 0 0 30933282 /SSQA/ 16877 oracrs dba 0 1296177304
1244226864 1244226864
165813 0 16 56 41826907 1 0 0 30933394 /SSQA_audit_log/ 16832 oracle oinstall
0 1296278599 1296278511 1296278511
Thanks
Santosh
From: Krishnasamy, Rajeshwaran (TCS)

Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:43 PM
To: Pathak, Santosh (TCS Consultant); Pandith, Nandan (TCS); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-
Unix
Subject: RE: (UPDATE and Need info - INC 54144) RE: Daily status
Santosh,
No, both are not same. /SSQA is mounted locally from Storage disk and /backup/SSQA is NAS share, not
local File system.
/dev/dsk/c1t5006016139A02500d3s2 15G 8.3G 6.4G 57% /SSQA

nas03:/ssqa 48G 27G 21G 56% /backup/SSQA
Best Regards,
Rajesh
Ashburn UNIX/LINUX Support
Work: (858)-942-5629
Mobile: (201)-783-9772

Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:26 AM
To: Pandith, Nandan (TCS); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-Unix
Subject: (UPDATE and Need info - INC 54144) RE: Daily status
Importance: High
Hi Nandan/Shambu,
FULL backups are completed for SAIADSDBQ20 and SAIADSDBQ21 this week on 29th Jan, 2011
(Saturday).
REQUESTED FILE SYSTEMS for FULL Backup  Can anyone confirm /SSQA = /backup/SSQA? As I see
/ORAUTL and /backup/SSQA are locally mounted filesystems, not /SSQA.
/SSQA
/ORAUTL/oraasm
/ORAUTL/oracrs
INCLUDED FILE SYSTEMS in backup:
saiadsdbq20
Include: ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES = this includes all locally mounted filesystems
Include: /backup/SSQA
Include: /backup/ENQA
saiadsdbq21
Include: ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES = this includes all locally mounted filesystems
Backup report for ref:-
Saiadsdbq20
01/29/2011 09:23 02/10/2011 73457 6661381 Y Full Backup saiadsdbq20
Saiadsdbq21
Thanks
Santosh

Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:24 PM
To: Pandith, Nandan (TCS); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-Unix; TCS-Ashburn-Backup-Storage
Subject: RE: Daily status
Nandan,
We have FULL backups available on 22nd Jan, 2011 for both the hosts last week. It will run FULL backup
again this Week.
Let us know on which date, these hosts needs to backed up FULL.
Saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:38 02/03/2011 3853 878857 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:33 02/03/2011 5174 991071 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:32 02/03/2011 58742 3946038 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:32 02/03/2011 1638 3759 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:32 02/03/2011 20151 8292232 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:31 02/03/2011 1 32 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 15:30 02/03/2011 1930 996 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 13:48 02/03/2011 72319 6425098 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 13:48 02/03/2011 4112 9059 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 13:28 02/03/2011 46977 7288471 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 13:21 02/03/2011 43331 6291360 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
01/22/2011 13:18 02/03/2011 165017 28255075 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq20
Saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 14:15 02/03/2011 26265 3912788 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 14:13 02/03/2011 35718 7034165 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 14:13 02/03/2011 1 32 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 09:15 02/03/2011 19767 6440518 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 09:01 02/03/2011 1930 996 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 08:25 02/03/2011 2781 5911 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 08:25 02/03/2011 58698 6628806 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 08:04 02/03/2011 58287 6235301 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 07:51 02/03/2011 2992 6232 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
01/22/2011 05:45 02/03/2011 165271 20547656 Y Full Backup
saiadsdbq21
Thanks
Santosh

Sorry typo..i will check..
From: Pandith, Nandan (TCS)

To: Pathak, Santosh (TCS Consultant); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-Unix; TCS-Ashburn-Backup-
Storage
Santosh,
The server name is saiadsdbq20 and saiadsdbq21. I guess you have not got the hostname correct. Please
check and let us know. Thanks!!

Hi Shambu/Nandan,
Following two hosts are not configured in backup policy. Please create a Netasthra SR and assign to
backup team to add into backups.
Also provide us backup network IP associated with those hosts.
root@saiadslhp03 # bppllist saidbsdbq20 -U

the specified policy does not exist in the configuration database (230)
root@saiadslhp03 # bppllist saidbsdbq21 -U
the specified policy does not exist in the configuration database (230)
Thanks
Santosh

Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:35 PM
Ticket has been already assigned to Santosh.
Backup team- please have a look into this below Service Request. If any questions please revert back to
the submitter.

Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 9:31 AM
To: Prasad, Shambu (TCS); TCS-Ashburn-Unix
This ticket should go to back team correct?
From: Prasad, Shambu (TCS)

To: TCS-Ashburn-Unix
Subject: FW: Daily status
Nandan/Rajesh,
Can you please look in to INC000000054144.
Thanks,
Shambu.
From: Pallanti,Madhukar (TCS)

To: Prasad, Shambu (TCS)
Cc: TCS-Ashburn-DBA; Srinivasan, Suresh (TCS); VenkatRaju, Rajesh (TCS Consultant)
Hi Team,
We completed scheduling in dbp21/22/23 for application monitoring.

Changed archive log backup scheduling time from 0-21 to 5-21 in the below servers .
Saiadsdbp20
seiadsdbp20
saiadsdbp26
Regarding PATCH:
since there is no space on the server saiadsdbq20 and 21,we raised an SR to backup team for taking
backup of ORACLE mount points.
Refer INC000000054144
Kindly confirm the retention period for the above SR.
Thanks,
Madhukar & Yusuf
SCA-DBA Support
1800-734-1493
Balaji,
We have FULL backups of both clients on last week as below. Please plan out your activity as per that.
seiadmwbp02 - 8th Jan, 2011 (Saturday 12:42 ET)  Full backup completes by 4:39 ET on Saturday
(early morning)
seiadmwbs03 – 8th Jan, 2011 (Saturday 14:57 ET)  Full backup completes after noon (around
3:00pm ET)
If want to kick-off keep on hold backups or kick-off later. Please open TV ticket as it handles by backup
server.
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ sudo bpimagelist -hoursago 168 -client

seiadmwbp02-b -U
---------------- ---------- -------- -------- - ------------
------------
01/13/2011 20:15 01/27/2011 18 4159 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/13/2011 20:14 01/27/2011 335 390231 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/13/2011 20:12 01/27/2011 15 528398 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/12/2011 20:22 01/26/2011 25 29447 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/12/2011 20:22 01/26/2011 333 379625 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/12/2011 20:22 01/26/2011 15 528398 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/11/2011 20:23 01/25/2011 20 4105 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/11/2011 20:23 01/25/2011 331 378079 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/11/2011 20:22 01/25/2011 15 528381 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/10/2011 20:13 01/24/2011 25 29283 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/10/2011 20:13 01/24/2011 401 514357 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/10/2011 20:12 01/24/2011 15 528385 Y Differential
seiadmwbp02
01/08/2011 12:42 01/20/2011 5912 781965 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbp02
01/08/2011 12:39 01/20/2011 55192 5174826 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbp02
01/08/2011 04:39 01/20/2011 15 528390 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbp02
pathaks@saiadsbkp01$ sudo bpimagelist -hoursago 168 -client

seiadmwbs03-b -U
---------------- ---------- -------- -------- - ------------
------------
01/13/2011 20:15 01/27/2011 1331 16864 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/13/2011 20:15 01/27/2011 994 409186 Y Differential
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01/13/2011 20:12 01/27/2011 15 537959 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/12/2011 20:23 01/26/2011 30 30583 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/12/2011 20:23 01/26/2011 326 388900 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/12/2011 20:22 01/26/2011 15 537980 Y Differential
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01/11/2011 20:23 01/25/2011 41 6637 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/11/2011 20:23 01/25/2011 323 388058 Y Differential
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01/11/2011 20:22 01/25/2011 15 537998 Y Differential
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01/10/2011 20:24 01/24/2011 35 30584 Y Differential
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01/10/2011 20:24 01/24/2011 356 521751 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/10/2011 20:24 01/24/2011 15 538023 Y Differential
seiadmwbs03
01/08/2011 14:57 01/20/2011 74100 38134671 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbs03
01/08/2011 14:55 01/20/2011 53414 4855695 Y Full Backup
seiadmwbs03
01/08/2011 14:52 01/20/2011 15 538074 Y Full Backup
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From: Gurumoorthy, Balaji (TCS)

Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:38 PM
To: TCS-Ashburn-Backup-Storage
Cc: TCS-Ashburn-Windows; Duchene, Denis (TCS); Veeraraghavan Govindaraj (TCS)
Subject: Reg backup for Seiadmwbs03 and Seiadmwbp02
Santosh/Backup team,
We are going to replace HP system board on below two windows servers tonight.
Seiadmwbs03
Seiadmwbp02
The schedule is between 11pm to 3am PST tonight (1/14/11). We want to know if the weekly full
backups will be completed tonight before 11pm tonight? If not can a full backup be triggered and get it
completed before 11pm tonight both the above servers?
Thanks
Balaji
Hi All,
Please go through attached Oracle instances information and RMAN Backup Schedules on Ashburn
Backup server.
Daily RMAN backups  CDL  14 Days retention (Onsite)

Daily job running through cron to do duplication of RMAN backup images from CDL to LTO4 tapes  8
Week Retention (offsite)
Monthend job runs through cron to do duplication of RMAN backup images from CDL to LTO4 tapes  1
Year Retention (offsite)
Let me know any questions.
Thanks
Santosh
From: Veeraraghavan Govindaraj (TCS)

Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 3:20 PM
To: 'Alcaraz, Mark L'
Cc: Pathak, Santosh (TCS Consultant); Prasad, Shambu (TCS); Muthusamy, Senthilmurugan(TCS)
Subject: RE: Retention policy of Oracle backup
Thanks Mark!.
Find attached the excel with the changes as you mentioned. Review and let know if the retention
policies are fine now.
Also on your comments, find below my understanding

 Firstly Every day, the Oracle RMAN backup job(bk_rman_10g.ksh) would run from user
ORACLE’s CRON job and the RMAN backup set would be generated on to the disk (cdl) -> This
RMAN backup at CDL will be retained for 14 days
 Then Every day, the Veritas Net backup would run a job that would duplicate(make a copy) of
the RMAN backupset stored in the CDL – and its backed up into the tape -> every day RMAN
tape backup will be retained for 8 weeks
 Every month , the Veritas Net backup would run a job that would duplicate(make a copy) of the
RMAN backupset stored in the CDL – and its backed up into the tape -> every month RMAN
tape backup will be retained for 1 year
Please let know if my understanding from your below comment is correct.
Thanks,
Veera
http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/veritas/veritas_netbackup_cs.htm#client
Netbackup Cheat Sheet
Master Daemons | Media Daemons | Catalog | Log Files | Server | Volume | Media | Tape/Robot |
Archive | Client
Master Server Daemons/Processes
Request daemon bprd
Scheduler bpsched (started with bprd)
Netbackup database manager bpdbm (started with bpsched)
Job Monitor bpjobd (started with bpdbm)
Media Server Daemons/Processes
Communications daemon bpcd
Backup and restore manager bpbrm (started with bpcd)
Tape Manager bptm (started with bpbrm)
Disk Manager bpdm (started with bpbrm)
Media Manager ltid

Bar code reader avrd (started with ltid)
Remote device management/ controls

vmd (started with ltid)
volume database
Roboticdaemon (one on each media

tldd (started with ltid)
server) talks to tldcd
Robotic control daemon talks to the

tldcd (started with ltid)
robot directl via scsi
Catalogs
Master Server
Information about backed-up files image - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
Storage Unit, Global Configuration,

config - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
Catalog backup configuration.
Backup Policy information class - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
Job status information jobs - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
Netbackup logs with error and status

error - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
information
Information on volumes, volume pools,

volume - /opt/openv/volmgr/database
scratch pool and volume groups
Media Server
Tracks assigned volumes (media that has

media - /opt/openv/netbackup/db
data them)
Information about devices managed by

device - /opt/openv/volmgr/database
the media server
Log and Information Files
Netbackup and Patch versions /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/version
Media Version /opt/openv/volmgr/version
Patch Level history /opt/openv/netbackup/patch/patch.history
Buffer size /
opt/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DAT
A_BUFFERS
/
Number of buffers opt/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_
DATA_BUFFERS
/opt/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ
Network Buffer Size
(default = 32)
Java GUI authorisation /opt/openv/java/auth.conf
/
Catalog type (binary or ASCII) opt/openv/netbackup/db/config/cat_forma
t.cfg
/opt/openv/netbackup/bp.conf
Netbackup and media manager parameter files
/opt/openv/volmgr/vm.conf
Corrupt Database image files (5.0 and above) /opt/openv/netbackup/db.corrupt
Server Commands
Check license details /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/get_license_key
netbackup start
Start Netbackup
/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd (master)
/opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmd (media)
netbackup stop
Stop Netbackup (does not disconnect GUI
sessions) /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate (master)
/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm -terminate (master)
Stop Netbackup and kill all GUI sessions /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/bp.kill_all
Start the GUI /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/jnbSA
sgscan (solaris)
Scan for tape devices
ioscan (HPUX)
Display all Netbackup processes bpps -a
bperror -U -problems -hoursago <number of hours>

lists servers errors
bperror -U -backstat -by_statcode -hoursago <number of hours>
display information on a error code bperror -statuscode <statuscode> [-recommendation]

Reread bp.conf file without stopping
bprdreq -rereadconfig
Netbackup
bpdbm -consistency 1
bpdbm -consistency 2
Check database consistency Check for the below lines:
Bad image header
Does not exist
Netbackup Recovery
bprecover -l -m <media ID> -d dlt (listing)

Device catalog is intact
bprecover -r -m <media ID> -d dlt (recovering)
bprecover -l -tpath <tape_path> (listing)

Device catalog is gone or corrupted
bprecover -r -tpath <tape_path> (recovering)
bprecover -l -dpath <disk_path> (listing)

Disk backups
bprecover -r -dpath <disk_path> (recovering)
Volume Commands
Tape Drive and Inventory Commands
List drive status, detail drive info and

vmoprcmd
pending requests
List the tape drive status vmoprcmd -d ds
List the pending requests vmoprcmd -d pr
Control a tape device vmoprcmd [-reset][-up][-down] <drive number>
List all changes in the robot(but do not vmupdate -recommend -rt tld -rn 0
update) vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 -recommend
Empty the robot and re-inventory (using vmupdate -rt tld -rn <robot number> -rh <silo slave> -vh <host>
barcodes) -nostderr -use_barcode_rules -use_seed -empty_ie
Tape Media Commands
List all pools vmpool -listall -bx
List tapes in pool vmquery -pn <pool name> -bx

List all tapes in the robot vmquery -rn 0 -bx |grep 'TLD' | sort +4
List cleaning tapes vmquery -mt dlt_clean -bx
List tape volume details vmquery -m <media ID>
Delete a volume from the catalog vmdelete -m <media ID>
Change a tapes expiry date vmchange -exp 12/31/06 23:59:58 -m <media ID>
Change a tape's media pool vmchange -p <pool number> -m <media ID>
Media commands
List the storage units bpstulist -U
Freeze or unfreeze media bpmedia [-freeze][-unfreeze] -ev <media ID>
List media details bpmedialist -ev <media ID>
List media contents bpmedialist -U mcontents -m <media ID>
List backup Image Information bpimagelist -backupid <image ID>
Expire client images bpimage -cleanup -allclients
Expire a tape bpexpdate -d 0 -ev <media ID> -force
List all netbackups jobs bpdbjobs -report [-hoursago]
Move media from one media server to

bpmedia -movedb -newserver <media server> -oldserver <media server>
another
Tape/Robot commands
List tape drives tpconfig -d
List cleaning times on drives tpclean -L
clean a drive tpclean -C <drive number>
change a drives cleaning frequency tpclean -F <drive> <frequency>
set a drives cleaning time to zero tpclean -M <drive>
Move tapes within robot using robtest robtest
commands that can be used are as follows:
s s (show slots)
s d (show drives)
s i (show load port)
m s250 d5 (move tape from slot 250 into drive 5)
uload d5 (unload tape from drive 5)
m d5 s250 (move tape from drive 5 to slot 250)
m s250 i1 (mov tape from slot 250 to load port 1)
List load port tapes echo "s i q" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t4l0
List all slot contents echo "s s q" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t4l0
List tape drive contents echo "s d q" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t4l0
Move a tape in s100 to drive 1 echo "m s100 d1" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t4l0
Move a tape to load port 1 echo "m s100 i1" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t4l0
Archiving Commands
bpcatlist -client all -before Jul 01 2006

list archive info
bpcatlist -client all -before Aug 01 2006
archive and remove images bpcatlist -before Jul 01 2006 | bpcatarc | bpcatrm
restore archive files bpcatlist -before Jul 01 2006 | bpcatres
Client commands
bpclntcmd [-ip <ip addres>]

bpclntcmd [-hn <hostname>]
test client connectivity
bpclntcmd [-pn]
bpclntcmd [-sv]

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Netbackup

Starting and Stopping Netbackup

 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/K77netbackup --> graceful shutdown

 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/S77netbackup --> after bp.kill_all, to restart

Starting the Administration GUI

 java from the windows client

Checking Backup Status

Cleaning a tape manually

 Identify the drive name to be cleaned

Determining what tapes were used for a backup

Listing the files in a backup

Find the tape(s) used (above procedure using bpimagelist)

For NBU > V3.4

 bpflist --help --> undocumented netbackup command to list files from a

Inventory the Robot

 Inventory Robot --> /opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmcheckxxx -rt robot_type -rn

Listing Properties of the Volume Pools

 Count scratch tapes: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn Scratch | grep -c

Checking Drive Usage

Taking a drive down or up

 /usr/openv/volmgr/vmoprcmd -down <drive index>

 From the GUI

Adding New Tapes to the Library

 Using the GUI

Re-using Tapes from other systems or older Netbackups

 Expire the media

Changing the attributes of media

 Changing the barcode

 bpexpdate -ev <medai id> -d 0 -force -host <media server>

 List the frozen media

 bplabel -ev <media id> -d <tape density> -p <pool name>

To remove media from the Netbackup database

 Verify that there are no images on the tape

Installing the Netbackup Client

 /update_clients -ForceInstall -ClientList /tmp/clients.lst

Excludng files from backup on a client

Displaying Information about a Tape

 vmquery -m <media id> --> Displays attributes about a particular tape

 configuration file, sets backup server and backup clients

To utilize logfiles, create the corresponding directory in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs

Server Logfile directories:

 admin - adminstrative commands

Client Logfile directories:

 bp - client user interface process

To increase the amount of logging information set VERBOSE=2 in /usr/open/netbackup/bp.conf

bpcllist - list classes

bperror -statuscode <-- displays information about the netbackup error.

No Backups are running:

 Check system log file for error messages

Downed drive does not come back up or does not stay up

Verify the Client is communicating properly:

Device Management --> info about tape drives

Media id must agree with # of the tape

 actions -->new-->single volume-->dlt cart (not dlt2)

To check things out do this:

It could be a couple things. Mostly DNS, bp.conf, or something stupid. On

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclntcmd -server "server name"

1074 ./bpclntcmd -hn corpbu1

FYI & Ref. – how to check backup client/server connection.