Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for Informix
- Installing NetBackup for Informix
- Configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring a backup policy for Informix
- Adding a new NetBackup for Informix policy
- About policy attributes
- Configuring an application backup schedule
- Configuring automatic backup schedules
- About schedule properties
- Adding clients to a policy
- Adding NetBackup for Informix scripts to the backup selections list
- Rules for NetBackup for Informix scripts
- Configuring a Standard policy for backup of the $INFORMIXDIR/etc files
- About NetBackup for Informix scripts
- Configuring an additional bp.conf file
- About permissions for NetBackup for Informix log files
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client
- Performing a manual backup
- Performing backups and restores of Informix
- About using NetBackup for Informix
- About Informix ON-Bar backup types
- Example Informix backup strategy
- Automatic backup policy for Informix
- Manual backup policy for Informix
- Using the onbar command to perform a user-directed backup
- About browsing Informix backups
- Restoring files to the original client
- Redirecting an Informix restore to a different client
- Example restore of an Informix database
- Troubleshooting
- Verifying the NetBackup for Informix configuration
- Verifying NetBackup for Informix log files
- Enabling the debug logs manually
- About the NetBackup for Informix log files
- About NetBackup server reports
- Setting the debug level
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Deleting expired backups from the Informix backup database
- Delays in completion of backup jobs
- Appendix A. Register authorized locations
About permissions for NetBackup for Informix log files
NetBackup uses the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs directory tree not only for the recording of troubleshooting information, but for progress and communication updates to users and other NetBackup applications. Restrictive permissions on these directories can not only disable the collection of troubleshooting data, but also prevent the application itself from functioning correctly.
Back up and restore operations fail when permissions are too restrictive. We recommend that you make all of the usr/openv/netbackup/logs directories and subdirectories readable and writeable by all users (777 permissions). However, security requirements may prohibit global read-write access. If so, you can restrict permissions of specific directories to a single group or user. You can restrict permissions in this way if the processes the group or a user runs initiate all backup and restore operations for that directory.
Check that the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops directory tree has 777 permissions. The items in this directory need to be accessible for the applications to operate correctly.