The nbdecommission command logs to the standard netbackup administrator commands log directory. Nondisruptive backup of vmware environments using veritas netbackup george winter technical product manager veritas netbackup. About using commandcentral storage to troubleshoot netbackup in a san environment. Client name selection determines how virtual machines are identified to netbackup. Nbu and vmware intelligent policies query builder use the query builder for ensuring the proper virtual machines are protected or excluded for backups. Symantec netbackup troubleshooting guide unix, windows, and linux release 7. Symantec netbackup cli troubleshooting migration king. Netbackup administration at the conclusion of this lesson the participant will be able to. The san option uses fibre channel or iscsi san note. Symantec netbackup for microsoft sharepoint server administrators guide for windows release 7. Msbackup is a later msdos application that enables users to back up the data on their computer. The nbcertcmd command is used to request and manage host idbased security certificates on each netbackup host. Media manager command line interface the vmquery command is used to query the volume database for volume information. Netbackup important commands and explanations welcome to.
This help address the vm sprawl issue customers are faced with making sure vms are added or removed from vmware policies. However, there are instances where portions or options within a command apply specifically to one product such as netbackup enterprise server. The nbreplicate command allows a copy of a backup to be replicated to a netbackup storage device in another domain. Run the following netbackup command to confirm the password change on the master server allows the master. This option is used to identify the latest netbackup product version the command is designed to run against. Netbackup latest backup status check by policy name.
This is a command line method to get details for all tapes or a specific tape. The backup process is offloaded from the esxi server to a vmware backup host. 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. Start, stop, and monitor the netbackup and media manager daemons and processes. Im trying to provide some simple summary information regarding several servers backup statusresults, through powershell. Once the date has been changed, save and exit the bios and either continue with the reimage process or boot into the normal clish.
See about mounting the netbackup software media on page 53. In addition, some commands contain notes and examples to help the user understand. Find the scratch tapes in a particular robot or in a particular site. Commands also work on linux, solaris and windows c. It sets the status to 0 and the assign time to 123198 15. Encrypt the data using aes256 encryption before writing the data to cloud storage. When a tape is loaded netbackup compares the barcode that the library says it put in the drive to the label written on the tape if it is first use netbackup. Another option to deal with limited disk space is to add more disk storage and move images to the new location, followed. Which command provides a list of disk pools required for restoring a client. Therefore, in this article we discuss how to restore vms because netbackup provides an powerfull interfacetool to perform restores.
This allows you have to a single pass backup of the vmdk, while providing you both full virtual machine level restores as well as individual file level restores, all from the same backup. Example 3 unassign volume a23456, which is in pool 2 storage migrator, with a status of 0. The netbackup backup image is sent to the cloud in raw format. Hi experts, if i run vmquery m media id command there is an option status i. You will then need to reboot, enter setup once more, and change the date back to the correct date and time. Example 2 assign volume a23456, which is in pool 1 netbackup. 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. Netbackup is an enterpriselevel distributed backup and recovery application. For the binaries of other clients, download the latest patches from the veritas website, note. What is the command line to show media in a certain media pool.
Technical support symantec technical support maintains support centers globally. Symantec netbackup for vmware provides backup and restore of the vmware virtual machines that run on vmware esxi servers. Insert the netbackup server dvd for the appropriate platform in the drive. This post intends to summarize them with few examples. Volume detail vmquery there is no netbackup gui equivalent for the volume detail report. 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. Could you pls let me know what is this and how many are.
Symantec netbackup for microsoft sharepoint server. Interpret the contents of the netbackup nf file on a unixbased system. Technical supports primary role is to respond to specific queries about product features. To download all addons for a supported operations manager version, click one of the operations manager links below. Use this option if you do not want to compress or encrypt data before sending to cloud storage. This document contains detailed information about each netbackup command pertinent to a windows system. Symantec netbackup offers several interesting command line tools. The nbcc command executes the nbcc utility that is used to confirm the integrity of portions of the netbackup catalog related to tape media. Included in this document are the netbackup server and netbackup enterprise server commands. Netbackup does this through the vstorage api for vmware as well as symantecs granular restore technology grt. I recently inherited the netbackup job and do not know a lot about command line switches within.
Veritas netbackup release notes unix, windows, and linux. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. The netbackup support web site see use the support web site on page the netbackup release notes see read the netbackup release notes on page the information in this guide supplements the manuals that the hardware and operating system vendors provide. I want to script the vmquery command so that it reads a list of tapes and then outputs that info to one long big text file. This also allows netbackup to enable accelerator technology for hyperv backups incremental forever, thereby eliminating 8090% of backup. A netbackup host can be a master server, media server, or client. Netbackup for vmware takes advantage of vmware vstorage apis for data protection. Netbackup netbackup clients clients configuring the volume database host. Lesson 12 command line interface backup free 30day.
Netbackup 7 configuration for vmware vstorage backups. Here is a tape from my library this is from the vmquery command media id. In my previous job, we used symantec netbackup to handle backups and restores. Beside the media management, the netbackup command lines tools can also help to check the configuration. You can check the latest backup status of netbackup policy in last 24 hours configurable. Use the command to enroll an external ca signed certificate with a netbackup host. Operations manager documentation and downloads sort veritas. Powershell netbackupps module for symantec netbackup. Netbackup expire images on disk gui second question. Netbackup tipseverything including robtest free download as pdf. Which two functions can be performed with a tpconfig command in symantec netbackup 7. Then you can then check the properties for a media. Download and extract the new mappings file package to a temporary directory.
This can be used as a complement to other media reports. To handle some of the reporting, the storage admins were using the symantec cli tools bunch of exe. This option is useful if utility was manually copied to a pre7. After i mount the cd drive and run the install command, it comes back with the following error. As described here, netbackup provides nice features to protect vmware. In most cases, a command pertains to both netbackup products. The version string also indicates special versions of the utility, such as engineering binaries. Scratch pool list command line data recovery general. Vm display name option matches the vm name as identified in vcenter transfer type determines how vm data is transfered to netbackup host.
Did you ever need to troubleshoot symantec netbackup from the command line. An administrator needs to restore an individual file that was accidentally deleted from a server. When selecting the backup images for a restore, the folders listed in the. Using the module after downloading the last version from the repo. Interpret the contents of the netbackup registry entries on a windowsbased. I am trying to run commands on my windows master server to see how many scratch tapes their are for a particular robot. Netbackup tipseverything including robtest backup directory.
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