Dvd 1 installing netbackup client software about netbackup. Important the user that does the bplist must have rights to list the files of the target server. Custom netbackup daily report script for windows virtual. What i would like to do is create a list of active clients along with the policies that each client belongs to. Command line interface for netbackup reports asgaur. Netbackup important commands and explanations welcome to. List the backup of a file done with netbackup command line to list backuped files on a netbackup server. A netbackup host can be a master server, media server, or client. To use the gui, launch the netbackup client job tracker via the start menu.
For the add, delete, and modify options, bpplclients returns to the system prompt immediately after it submits the client change request to netbackup. To do this on a solaris master, you can use the following commands to achieve this. Migrating netbackup data to the commvault data platform. Netbackup clients are available for platforms such as linux, solaris, aix, hpux, and windows that have different deployment methods. Great scripts and just what i needed to automate this taskonly had one problem. Suspend scheduling of jobs 03092011 05292015 by eddiethiers you need to take down a media server and its close to the time when the nightly backups are to start. This can be used as a complement to other media reports. Install the extracted netbackup client package for solaris. My assumption is this is a concatenation of files, so i replaced the cat command with copy and the script worked great after that. If you try to include space, netbackup will neglect it. Netbackup storage lifecycle policy slp is a powerful feature used not only for image duplication but also for disaster recovery purpose. You may be required to restart the netbackup services on those servers so that the changes take effect. Included in this document are the netbackup server and netbackup enterprise.
Some of the windows servers that fail offten, also have wrong info in the above command. Here is a small script to get the list of policies configured against a list of clients using netbackup commandline. For detailed information about the commands and the command options, refer to the netbackup commands reference guide. Symantec netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide unix, windows, linux release 7. Netbackup advanced client system administrators guide. The bpclclients command will be completely replaced by bpplclients in a future release. Dear vmwarecv1, i will check the installed programs, or as root, i would run the command. It does not let you push client software to a remote client that is also a netbackup media or master server. The version string also indicates special versions of the utility, such as engineering binaries. For the command line tool, you can run the bpclimagelist command as follows c.
After i mount the cd drive and run the install command, it comes back with the following error. Veritasbu command line to list netbackup policy information does anyone know the command line to list the netbackup policy information on a windows platform. Nov 21, 2012 v usropenvnetbackupbinvmd starts the media server vi usropenvnetbackupbinjnbsa starts the gui sessions 3 scan the tape devices. Command line interface cli commands to be executed on the netbackup master server bpretlevel u bpplclients. Netbackup commands for unix and linux fuberlin zedat. It displays the configuration information of a specified server in various formats. Command line option to get client netbackup version, os, and hardware type solution to get client information, run the following command from the master server. For getting list of clients u should use bpplclient.
Some commands also contain notes, return values, examples, etc. From the netba ckup options cdrom, use the netbackup addon pr oduct software menu to install advanced client on the mastermedia server. To determine whether the change was successful, run bpplclients again to list the updated client information when the listing option is used, the list is ordered alphabetically by client name. Ran into an issue where our old backup server was no longer operational and we had to create a new netbackup server along with upgrading the version. Im trying to provide some simple summary information regarding several servers backup statusresults, through powershell. For example, run the ls command in directory usropenv netbackup client. Windows for f tokens3 %a in bpplclients allunique do echo %a clients. Total no of policies 48 total client 65 hostname,active,policy name, client,os,client name,policy type,residence,include,volume pool,schedule,calendar,daily windows,start time,type,retention level. The command name bpclclients is being changed to bpplclients. The complete uninstall command line for symantec netbackup is c. Table 11 supported versions of netbackup liveupdate for ibmpseries and ibmzseries systems supported in netbackup 7. This command is available for all netbackup server platforms. Command line option to get client netbackup version, os, and.
The actual developer of the software is symantec corporation. There is no netbackup gui equivalent for the volume detail report. You must have administrator privileges to run this command. But when you list the client the hostanme will show only windows. Unixlinuxbased netbackup servers does not contain windows binaries, therefore this operation is not possible. Ensure that the volume is in the netbackup volume pool. Netbackup script to get client vs policy list the geek diary. To decommission a media server a run the following command on the master server or on a media server that is not the object of this operation.
Symantec netbackup emergency engineering binary guide. Netbackup command conventions this document uses the following conventions when describing commands that are specific to netbackup. Chef, sccm and similar tools let customers use remote webservers, network shares, or local drives to deploy netbackup clients. The most frequent installation filenames for the program include. Netbackup commands bpclusterutilonline issues the online command to the netbackup group in the cluster. Only the client entries that are added explicitly using the bpclient command appear. Netbackup provides not only backup but also archiving as well sometimes it can be useful to create a folder or folders where users can copymove files and those files are archived copied and deleted from an original place and kept within specific time retention.
Each command contains a brief description of the primary function of the command, a synopsis, and descriptions of each of the options listed in the synopsis. Create file using the same format as that generated by bpplclients. Command line option to get client netbackup version, os. Verify that all netbackup daemons or services are running on the master server. This is a command line method to get details for all tapes or a specific tape. To upgrade windowsbased netbackup clients remotely, you should either use the netbackup for windows dvd for installing base package such as 7. To duplicate an image in the same netbackup domain, please see bpduplicate the nbreplicate command creates a copy of a specified backup based on the configuration on the supported replication targets of the storage server. For example, run the ls command in directory usropenvnetbackupclient. November 17, 2010 adminalley netbackup, server 2008r2 leave a comment netbackup 7, server 2008 r2.
Run the following commands in the command prompt to see the results. Some of the windows servers that fail offten, also have wrong info in. Symantec netbackup advanceddisk storage solutions guide. In the gui, when i go to job details, it does tell me the write time. These tools help to configure systems to deploy software, and to orchestrate more advanced it tasks such as continuous. If you do not prelabel the volume by using the bplabel command, netbackup automatically assigns a previously unused media id. Two totally different concepts that need different commands. Using managed backup client hybrid cloud and it solutions. For example, the command may make changes on the master server and on multiple media servers.
Netbackups customers have been requesting this and we have delivered. The nbcertcmd command is used to request and manage host idbased security certificates on each netbackup host. Veritas netbackup for nutanix acropolis hypervisor ahv. In this post you can find answers for questions related to slp that i received under some posts that i already wrote. Veritas netbackup is a software through which we are backing up important data in server environment. Import netbackup images via the command prompt admin alley. For the installation procedure, see the netbackup installation guide for unix. This will display a list of the successful backups that have occurred for the past 14 days, which correlates with the 2 weeks of retention on the backups. When the file is backed up using the default netbackup policy, use the following command line on the master server. The nbreplicate command allows a copy of a backup to be replicated to a netbackup storage device in another domain.
Windows offers both a gui client as well as information on the command line. Use the command to enroll an external ca signed certificate with a netbackup host. After the services are restarted, you can start the netbackup administration console and you should now start seeing additional days worth of jobs kept in the activity monitor. Netbackup client can be used to obtain the status of recent backups on both windows and linux machines. Custom netbackup daily report script for windows virtual dennis. Issues the offline command to the netbackup group in the cluster. If no clients have been configured in the netbackup database, file is empty. I am able to remote into a master server, but ive been unable to focus in on what i need to retrieverun to obtain this information. Does anyone know how to get the write time of a netbackup job from the command line or a log. This option is used to identify the latest netbackup product version the command is designed to run against. This option is useful if utility was manually copied to a pre7. Some days ago i got email from my reader with question about how to archive files in netbackup. Means clients that are listed in the master server client attributes list.
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