Veritas NetBackup™ Commands Reference Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup commands
    2.  
      Navigating multiple menu levels
    3.  
      NetBackup command conventions
    4.  
      NetBackup Media Manager command notes
    5.  
      IPV6 updates
  2. Appendix A. NetBackup Commands
    1.  
      acsd
    2.  
      add_media_server_on_clients
    3.  
      backupdbtrace
    4.  
      backuptrace
    5.  
      bmrc
    6.  
      bmrconfig
    7.  
      bmrepadm
    8.  
      bmrprep
    9.  
      bmrs
    10.  
      bmrsrtadm
    11.  
      bp
    12.  
      bparchive
    13.  
      bpbackup
    14.  
      bpbackupdb
    15.  
      bpcatarc
    16.  
      bpcatlist
    17.  
      bpcatres
    18.  
      bpcatrm
    19.  
      bpcd
    20.  
      bpchangeprimary
    21.  
      bpclient
    22.  
      bpclimagelist
    23.  
      bpclntcmd
    24.  
      bpclusterutil
    25.  
      bpcompatd
    26.  
      bpconfig
    27.  
      bpdbjobs
    28.  
      bpdbm
    29.  
      bpdgclone
    30.  
      bpdown
    31.  
      bpduplicate
    32.  
      bperror
    33.  
      bpexpdate
    34.  
      bpfis
    35.  
      bpflist
    36.  
      bpgetconfig
    37.  
      bpgetdebuglog
    38.  
      bpimage
    39.  
      bpimagelist
    40.  
      bpimmedia
    41.  
      bpimport
    42.  
      bpinst
    43.  
      bpkeyfile
    44.  
      bpkeyutil
    45.  
      bplabel
    46.  
      bplist
    47.  
      bpmedia
    48.  
      bpmedialist
    49.  
      bpminlicense
    50.  
      bpnbat
    51.  
      bpnbaz
    52.  
      bppficorr
    53.  
      bpplcatdrinfo
    54.  
      bpplclients
    55.  
      bppldelete
    56.  
      bpplinclude
    57.  
      bpplinfo
    58.  
      bppllist
    59.  
      bpplsched
    60.  
      bpplschedrep
    61.  
      bpplschedwin
    62.  
      bppolicynew
    63.  
      bpps
    64.  
      bprd
    65.  
      bprecover
    66.  
      bprestore
    67.  
      bpretlevel
    68.  
      bpschedule
    69.  
      bpschedulerep
    70.  
      bpsetconfig
    71.  
      bpstsinfo
    72.  
      bpstuadd
    73.  
      bpstudel
    74.  
      bpstulist
    75.  
      bpsturep
    76.  
      bptestbpcd
    77.  
      bptestnetconn
    78.  
      bptpcinfo
    79.  
      bpup
    80.  
      bpverify
    81.  
      cat_convert
    82.  
      cat_export
    83.  
      cat_import
    84.  
      configureCertsForPlugins
    85.  
      configureMQ
    86.  
      configurePorts
    87.  
      configureWebServerCerts
    88.  
      create_nbdb
    89.  
      csconfig cldinstance
    90.  
      csconfig cldprovider
    91.  
      csconfig meter
    92.  
      csconfig throttle
    93.  
      csconfig reinitialize
    94.  
      duplicatetrace
    95.  
      importtrace
    96.  
      jbpSA
    97.  
      jnbSA
    98.  
      ltid
    99.  
      manageClientCerts
    100.  
      mklogdir
    101.  
      nbauditreport
    102.  
      nbcatsync
    103.  
      NBCC
    104.  
      NBCCR
    105.  
      nbcertcmd
    106.  
      nbcertupdater
    107.  
      nbcldutil
    108.  
      nbcloudrestore
    109.  
      nbcomponentupdate
    110.  
      nbcplogs
    111.  
      nbdb_admin
    112.  
      nbdb_backup
    113.  
      nbdb_move
    114.  
      nbdb_ping
    115.  
      nbdb_restore
    116.  
      nbdb_unload
    117.  
      nbdbms_start_server
    118.  
      nbdbms_start_stop
    119.  
      nbdc
    120.  
      nbdecommission
    121.  
      nbdelete
    122.  
      nbdeployutil
    123.  
      nbdevconfig
    124.  
      nbdevquery
    125.  
      nbdiscover
    126.  
      nbdna
    127.  
      nbemm
    128.  
      nbemmcmd
    129.  
      nbfindfile
    130.  
      nbfirescan
    131.  
      nbftadm
    132.  
      nbftconfig
    133.  
      nbgetconfig
    134.  
      nbhba
    135.  
      nbholdutil
    136.  
      nbhostidentity
    137.  
      nbhostmgmt
    138.  
      nbhypervtool
    139.  
      nbimageshare
    140.  
      nbinstallcmd
    141.  
      nbjm
    142.  
      nbkmsutil
    143.  
      nboraadm
    144.  
      nborair
    145.  
      nbpem
    146.  
      nbpemreq
    147.  
      nbperfchk
    148.  
      nbplupgrade
    149.  
      nbrb
    150.  
      nbrbutil
    151.  
      nbregopsc
    152.  
      nbreplicate
    153.  
      nbrepo
    154.  
      nbrestorevm
    155.  
      nbseccmd
    156.  
      nbsetconfig
    157.  
      nbsnapimport
    158.  
      nbsnapreplicate
    159.  
      nbsqladm
    160.  
      nbstl
    161.  
      nbstlutil
    162.  
      nbstop
    163.  
      nbsu
    164.  
      nbsvrgrp
    165.  
      resilient_clients
    166.  
      restoretrace
    167.  
      stopltid
    168.  
      tl4d
    169.  
      tl8d
    170.  
      tl8cd
    171.  
      tldd
    172.  
      tldcd
    173.  
      tlhd
    174.  
      tlhcd
    175.  
      tlmd
    176.  
      tpautoconf
    177.  
      tpclean
    178.  
      tpconfig
    179.  
      tpext
    180.  
      tpreq
    181.  
      tpunmount
    182.  
      verifytrace
    183.  
      vltadm
    184.  
      vltcontainers
    185.  
      vlteject
    186.  
      vltinject
    187.  
      vltoffsitemedia
    188.  
      vltopmenu
    189.  
      vltrun
    190.  
      vmadd
    191.  
      vmchange
    192.  
      vmcheckxxx
    193.  
      vmd
    194.  
      vmdelete
    195.  
      vmoprcmd
    196.  
      vmphyinv
    197.  
      vmpool
    198.  
      vmquery
    199.  
      vmrule
    200.  
      vmupdate
    201.  
      vnetd
    202.  
      vssat
    203.  
      vwcp_manage
    204.  
      vxlogcfg
    205.  
      vxlogmgr
    206.  
      vxlogview
    207.  
      W2KOption

Name

bppllist — list policy information

SYNOPSIS

bppllist [policyname] [-L | -l | -U] [-allpolicies] [-inventory] [-M master_server,...] [-hwos] [-byclient client] [-keyword "keyword phrase"] [-verbose] [generation -generation] [-include_automanaged] [-include_discovered]

On UNIX systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/

On Windows systems, the directory path to this command is install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\

DESCRIPTION

bppllist lists policies within the NetBackup database.

Any authorized users can initiate this command.

For more about NetBackup authorization, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

OPTIONS

-allpolicies

Lists all policies.

-hwos

Lists possible hardware and the operating system.

-include_discovered

This option lists the virtual machines that were discovered and selected the last time a VMware or Hyper-V intelligent policy ran. It also lists the host that performed the virtual machine discovery, such as the media server. This option is ignored if the intelligent policy has never been run.

Please be aware you cannot use this option with the -inventory option.

When the option is used with - byclient client, it lists information on the VMware and Hyper-V intelligent policies that discovered and selected the specified client (virtual machine) in the last policy run.

When the option is used with -allpolicies, it lists the virtual machines that were discovered and selected for all VMware and Hyper-V intelligent policies.

-L

Displays a full (long) listing. See the policyname option for details on the fields shown.

-l

Displays the information in raw output mode.

-M master_server,...

Lists the policy information for one or more specified masters.

-U

Displays information in user list mode. This listing is similar to the long-type list, but it has fewer entries.

-byclient client

Lists the policy information for all policies that contain the client indicated.

-include_automanaged

Lists all policies, including automanaged policies. Automanaged policies are generated when a workload administrator protects an asset by subscribing to a protection plan. Protection plans are created by using the NetBackup Service Level Objectives (SLO) technology. Automanaged policy names use the prefix SLO_ENGINE_MANAGED+.

-inventory

Creates an inventory of the current NetBackup policies and compares it to the previously created inventory. You can create touch file LOG_CLASS_QUERIES in /usr/openv/netbackup to log changes to policies.

The changes are logged in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/PolicyQueries.log. The customer is responsible for the administration of the log file (periodic truncation, etc.).

Please be aware you cannot use this option with the -include_discovered option.

-keyword "keyword phrase"

The value is associated with all backups created by using this policy. The keyword phrase can be used to link related policies. It can also be used during restores to search only for the backups that have the keyword phrase association.

policyname

Specifies the policy in the NetBackup database.

The following describes the fields in the output of a bppllist policyname command:

CLASS

  • Field 1 - Policy name

  • Field 2 - Name (internal)

  • Field 3 - Options

  • Field 4 - Protocol version

  • Field 5 - Time zone offset from GMT

  • Field 6 - Audit reason

INFO

  • Field 1 - Policy type

    0 = Standard (UNIX and Linux clients), 1 = Proxy, 4 = Oracle, 6 = Informix-On-BAR, 7 = Sybase, 8 = MS-SharePoint portal server, 11 = DataTools-SQL-BackTrack, 13 = MS-Windows, 15 = MS-SQL-Server, 16 = MS-Exchange-Server, 17 = SAP, 18 = DB2, 19 = NDMP, 20 = FlashBackup, 21=Splitmirror, 25 = Lotus Notes, 29 = FlashBackup-Windows, 35 = NBU-Catalog, 36 = Generic, 38 = PureDisk export, 39 = Enterprise_Vault, 40 = VMware, 41 = Hyper-V, 44 = BigData, 46 = Deployment

  • Field 2 - Follow NFS mounts. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 3 - Client compress. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 4 - Job priority. Valid values are 0-99999.

  • Field 5 - Proxy client.

  • Field 6 - Client encrypt. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 7 - Disaster recovery. Catalog use DR file option. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 8 - Maximum jobs allowed per client. Valid values are 0-999.

  • Field 9 - Cross mount points. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 10 - max frag size (deprecated)

  • Field 11 - Active. Specifies if the policy is active or not. 0 = yes, 1 = no

  • Field 12 - Collect TIR (true image restore) info. 0=do not collect TIR info, 1=collect TIR info without move detection, 2=collect TIR info with move detection

  • Field 13 - Enable block level incremental backups. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 14 - Ext_sec_info.

  • Field 15 - Individual file restore from raw

  • Field 16 - Streaming

  • Field 17 - Frozen image (internal use)

  • Field 18 - Backup copy (internal use)

  • Field 19 - Date when policy becomes effective

  • Field 20 - Class ID

  • Field 21 - Number of backup copies to create. Valid values are 1-4.

  • Field 22 - Enable checkpoints. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 23 - Checkpoint interval.

  • Field 24 - Unused.

  • Field 25 - Enable Instant Recovery. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 26 - Perform off-host backup. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 27 - Enable use alternate client for backup. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 28 - Enable data mover. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 29 - Data mover type

    -1 = Unknown data mover type, 1 = Third-party copy, 2 = Media server copy, 3 = Network attached storage, 5 = NDMP

  • Field 30- Collect BMR (Bare Metal Restore) information. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 31 - Storage service (lifecycle) is in use by residence. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 32 - Enable granular restore. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 33 - Job subtype (internal)

  • Field 34 - Use virtual machine. 0 = No virtual machine, 1 = VMware, 2 = Hyper-V, 3 = VxVI

  • Field 35 - Ignore the client side deduplication setting. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 36 - Enable Exchange Database backup source. String output.

  • Field 37 - Generation.

  • Field 38 - Application discovery. 0 = no, 1 = yes. Enabled intelligent policy processing.

  • Field 39- Discovery lifetime. Time in seconds for which application discovery is valid.

  • Field 40 - Enable fast backup. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 41 - Optimized backup. 0 = no, 1 = yes. Enables the backup of deduplicated data that some Microsoft Windows operating system versions provide. If a client has a deduplicated file system configured, NetBackup backs up the deduplicated data. If the client is not set up for deduplication or does not support it, then a normal file backup occurs.

  • Field 42 - client_list_type. This option is used for MS-SQL-Server policies. If 0, the type is HOST. This policy is the legacy MS-SQL-Server policy. The valid schedule types are FULL and USER. The types that are shown apply only to a SQL Server Intelligent Policy. The valid schedules types are FULL, INCR, and TLOG. If 1, the type is INSTANCE and you can add registered instances or databases in the instances to the policy. If 2, the type is INSTANCE_GROUP and you can add registered instance groups to the policy.

  • Field 43 - select_list_type. This option is used for MS-SQL-Server policies. The value determines the type of backup selections or file list items. If 0, the type is HOST. This type must be used with the legacy MS-SQL-Server policy. The only backup selection that is valid for this type is the path of the backup batch file. The types that are shown apply only to a SQL Server Intelligent Policy. If 1, the type is WHOLE_DATABASE. The only backup selection that is valid for this type is WHOLE_DATABASE. If 3, the type is DATAFILE. The only backup selection that is valid for this type is the name of the file. If 7, the type is FILEGROUP. The only backup selection that is valid for this type is the name of the filegroup.

  • Field 44 - Application consistent. Specifies that the virtual machine is quiesced before a persisted hardware snapshot is taken (1). Otherwise, the hardware snapshot does not quiesce the virtual machine (0 - default condition).

KEY

  • Field 1 - Policy keyword phrase (string).

RES

  • Field 1 - Residence or storage unit, one for each copy

POOL

  • Field 1 - volume pool name, one for each copy

FOE

  • Field 1 - Fail on error. 0 = continue, 1 = fail all copies

SHAREGROUP

  • Field 1 - Media share group (media owner), a value pair for each copy

DATACLASSIFICATION

  • Field 1 - Policy data classification. platinum = highest classification, gold = 2nd highest, silver = 3rd highest, bronze = lowest rank

HYPERVSERVER

  • Indicates that the policy is for a Hyper-V server

NAMES

  • Generic list of names defined by the query type

BCMD

  • This field is obsolete and is scheduled to be removed from NetBackup.

RCMD

  • This field is obsolete and is scheduled to be removed from NetBackup.

APPLICATIONDEFINED

  • Application or client defined multipurpose string

ORABKUPDATAFILEARGS

  • Lists the values used to override the default arguments for Oracle data files backup using RMAN

ORABKUPARCHLOGARGS

  • Lists the values used to override the default arguments for Oracle archived redo log backup using RMAN

CLIENT

  • Client in the policy

SCHED

  • Field 1 - Schedule name for the specified policy

  • Field 2 - Backup type for the schedule. 0 = Full schedule, 1 = Differential incremental schedule, 2 = User backup schedule, 3 = User archive schedule, 4 = Cumulative incremental schedule.

  • Field 3 - Number of multiplexing copies to run. Valid values are 1-32.

  • Field 4 - Frequency of the schedule in seconds. Valid values are 1-2147040000 (3550 weeks).

  • Field 5 - Retention level of the schedule. All retention levels except 9 and 25 are user editable. Valid values are 0-100. See the -rl retention_level option description for a complete list of default values and their retention levels.

    Note:

    If you run this command on a pre-NetBackup 8.0 media server, the output only displays the retention levels between 0 and 24.

  • Field 6 - u_wind/o/d. Reserved for future use

  • Fields 7-8 - Reserved for future use

  • Field 9 - Alternate read server

  • Field 10 - Maximum fragment size in megabytes

  • Field 11 - Calendar. 0 = Schedule is frequency-based, 1 = Schedule is calendar-based with no retries, 2 = Schedule is calendar-based with retries

  • Field 12 - Number of copies that are configured for a backup. Valid values are 2-4.

  • Field 13 - Fail on error setting for each copy

  • Field 14 - Synthetic backup. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 15 - PFI fast recover enable. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 16 - Priority of migration job

  • Field 17 - Storage service (lifecycle) used for residence. 0 = no, 1 = yes

  • Field 18 - Checksum change detection enable. 0 = no, 1 = yes

SCHEDCALEDATES

  • Exclude calendar dates in Epoch time. Example: To exclude dates of 06/04/2013, 06/07/2013 and 06/18/2013 (all at 05:00:00 GMT) is shown as follows: SCHEDCALEDATES 1346734800 1346994000 1347944400

SCHEDCALENDAR

  • If schedule type is CALENDAR, this field indicates whether retries are allowed after run day. 0 = no, 1 = yes

SCHEDCALDAYOWEEK

  • Include calendar days of week in day-week format, where day is 1-7 (Sunday is 1) and week is week number of the month. Example: To include days of the week Sunday, Week 1; Tuesday, Week 1; Wednesday, Week 4 is shown as follows: SCHEDCALDAYOFWEEK 1,1;3,1;4,4

SCHEDWIN

  • Seven pairs of the form start,duration, which expresses the start and duration of the window for each day of the week. The starting day is Sunday. Start value is the number of seconds past midnight. Duration is the number of seconds past start.

SCHEDRES

  • Residence or storage unit, a value pair for each copy (storage_unit storage_unit). Example: 2 copies are specified, with copy 1 going to stu_msdp_myhost1, and copy 2 going to stu_advdisk_myhost2: SCHEDRES stu_msdp_myhost1 stu_advdisk_myhost2 *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *

SCHEDPOOL

  • Pool, a value pair for each copy (volume_pool_name volume_pool_name). Example: 2 copies are specified, with copy 1 going to pool NetBackup, and copy 2 going to pool MediaPool_1: SCHEDRES NetBackup MediaPool_1 *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL*

SCHEDRL

  • Retention level of the schedule. All retention levels except 9 and 25 are user editable. Valid values are 0-100. See the -rl retention_level option description for a complete list of default values and their retention levels.

    Note:

    If you run this command on a pre-NetBackup 8.0 media server, the output only displays the retention levels between 0 and 24.

SCHEDFOE

  • Fail on error. A value pair for each copy. 0 = continue, 1 = fail all copies

SCHEDSG

  • Share group (media owner), a value pair for each copy. Example: Copies are defined, the first copy having a share group of NONE, the second copy have a share group of ANY. SCHEDSG *NONE* *ANY* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL* *NULL*

-verbose

Selects verbose mode for logging.