Important Netbackup Commands for Backup Management
Important Master Server Daemons/Processes
Request daemon
Scheduler
Netbackup database manager
Job Monitor
Important Media Server Daemons/Processes
Communications daemon
Backup and restore manager
Tape Manager
Disk Manager
Media Manager
Bar code reader
Remote device management/ controls volume vmd (started with ltid)
database
Robotic daemon (one on each media server)
talks to tldcd
Netbackup Catalog files and directories
Information about backed-up files
Storage Unit, Global Configuration, Catalog
backup configuration.
Backup Policy information
Job status information
Netbackup logs with error and status
information
Information on volumes, volume pools,
scratch pool and volume groups
Tracks assigned volumes (media that has data media - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
them)
Information about devices managed by the
media server
Log and Information Files
Netbackup and Patch versions
bprd
bpsched (started with bprd)
bpdbm (started with bpsched)
bpjobd (started with bpdbm)
bpcd
bpbrm (started with bpcd)
bptm (started with bpbrm)
bpdm (started with bpbrm)
ltid
avrd (started with ltid)
tldd (started with ltid)
Master Server
image - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
config - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
class - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
jobs - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
error - /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/db
volume - /Program files/Veritas/volmgr/database
Media Server
device - /Program files/Veritas/volmgr/database
/Program files/Veritas/netbackup/bin/version
Media Version /Program files/Veritas/volmgr/version
Patch Level history /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/patch/patch.history
/Program
Buffer size files/Veritas/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS
/Program
Number of buffers files/Veritas/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS
/Program files/Veritas/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ (default
Network Buffer Size = 32)
/Program
Catalog type (binary or ASCII) files/Veritas/netbackup/db/config/cat_format.cfg

Server Commands

Check license details /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd/get_license_key

bpup f v ( -v for verbose mode.it shows what all services are brought
up)
Start Netbackup

bpdown f -v
Stop Netbackup (does not
disconnect GUI sessions) /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate (master)
/Program files/Veritas/netbackup/bin/bpdbm -terminate (master)

Stop Netbackup and kill all GUI /Program files/Veritas/netbackup/bin/goodies/bp.kill_all

sessions
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 bperror -statuscode <statuscode> [-recommendation]

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Volume Commands

Tape Drive and Inventory Commands

List drive status, detail drive info and pending vmoprcmd
requests
List the tape drive status vmoprcmd -d ds
List the pending requests vmoprcmd -d pr
Control a tape device (up,down or reset) vmoprcmd [-reset][-up][-down] <drive number>
List all changes in the robot(but do not
update) vmupdate -recommend -rt tld -rn 0

Empty the robot and re-inventory (using
barcodes)
List all pools
List tapes in pool
List all tapes in the robot
List cleaning tapes
List tape volume details
Delete a volume from the catalog
Change a tapes expiry date
Change a tape's media pool
Media commands
List the storage units
Freeze or unfreeze media
List media details
List media contents
List backup Image Information
Expire client images
Expire a tape
List all netbackups jobs
Move media from one media server to
another
Tape/Robot commands
List tape drives
List cleaning times on drives
clean a drive
change a drives cleaning frequency
set a drives cleaning time to zero
Move tapes within robot using robtest
vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 -recommend
vmupdate -rt tld -rn <robot number> -rh <silo slave> -vh
<host> -nostderr -use_barcode_rules -use_seed -empty_ie
Tape Media Commands
vmpool -listall -bx
vmquery -pn <pool name> -bx
vmquery -rn 0 -bx |grep 'TLD' | sort +4
vmquery -mt dlt_clean -bx
vmquery -m <media ID>
vmdelete -m <media ID>
vmchange -exp 12/31/06 23:59:58 -m <media ID>
vmchange -p <pool number> -m <media ID>
bpstulist -U
bpmedia [-freeze][-unfreeze] -ev <media ID>
bpmedialist -ev <media ID>
bpmedialist -U mcontents -m <media ID>
bpimagelist -backupid <image ID>
bpimage -cleanup -allclients
bpexpdate -d 0 -ev <media ID> -force
bpdbjobs -report [-hoursago]
bpmedia -movedb -newserver <media server> -oldserver <media server>
tpconfig -d
tpclean -L
tpclean -C <drive number>
tpclean -F <drive> <frequency>
tpclean -M <drive>
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)

Client commands

bpclntcmd [-ip <ip addres>]

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