Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
About the NetBackup server.conf file
Veritas recommends that this file not be edited without assistance from technical support. NetBackup may not start if the server.conf file is edited.
The install_path\VERITAS\NetBackupDB\conf\server.conf file is read when the SQL Anywhere service is started. The SQL Anywhere service gets all configuration information from this file:
-n NB_server_name
-x tcpip(LocalOnly=YES;ServerPort=13785) -gd DBA -gk DBA -gl DBA -gp 4096 -ti 0 -c 200M -ch 1365M -cl 200M -wc- -gna 1 -k -os 1M -m -o "C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\log\server.log" -m
The /usr/openv/var/global/server.conf file is read when the SQL Anywhere daemon is started.
The SQL Anywhere daemon gets all configuration information from the server.conf file, as follows:
-n NB_server_name
-x tcpip(LocalOnly=YES;ServerPort=13785) -gp 4096 -gd DBA -gk DBA -gl DBA -ti 0 -c 200M -ch 1278M -cl 200M -wc- -ua -gna 1 -k -os 1M -m -o /usr/openv/db//log/server.log -ud
NB_server_name indicates the name of the SQL Anywhere server. Each Sybase server has a unique name. Use the same name that was used during installation. If a fully qualified name was used at that time, use a fully qualified name here.
Note:
If this name is changed, the Enterprise Media Manager cannot connect to the database.
Table: Commands used in the server.conf file
Command | Description |
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-c 200M | Indicates the initial memory that is reserved for caching database pages and other server information. The value may be changed for performance reasons. |
-ch 1316M | Indicates the maximum cache size, as a limit to automatic cache growth. The value is calculated automatically based on memory size of the computer. |
-cl 200M | Indicates the minimum cache size, as a limit to automatic cache resizing. The value may be changed for performance reasons. |
-gd DBA -gk DBA -gl DBA | Indicates that the DBA user is the account used to start, stop, load, and unload data. |
-gna 1 | Enable automatic tuning of the network database server multiprogramming level. |
-gp 4096 | Indicates the maximum page size (in bytes) for the database. This parameter is given during database creation. |
-k | If -k is specified when database server is started, the database server does not collect Performance Monitor statics. |
-m | Truncates the transaction log when a checkpoint is done. This option provides a way to automatically limit the growth of the transaction log. Disable it using NbDbAdmin.exe (Windows) or dbadm (UNIX) by changing the transaction mode option set to FULL from PARTIAL. |
-o install_path\Veritas\ NetBackupDB\log\server.log | On Windows: Indicates the location of server output messages. The messages include start and stop events, checkpoints, error conditions, and cache change size. This log is not managed, but growth is slow. |
-o /usr/openv/db/log/ server.log | On UNIX: Indicates the location of server output messages. The messages include start and stop events, checkpoints, error conditions, and cache change size. This log is not managed, but growth is slow. |
-os 1M | Specifies a maximum size for the database server message log file. |
-ti 0 | Indicates the client idle time that is allowed before shutdown. By default, no idle time is allowed, which prevents the database from shutting down. |
-ua | Turns off the use of asynchronous I/O. |
-ud | Indicates that the server should run as a daemon. |
-wc- | Control whether checksums are enabled on write operations for the database. By default all database pages have checksums, so the database server defaults to -wc-. |
-x tcpip(LocalOnly =YES;ServerPort=13785) | Indicates what kind of connections are allowed in addition to shared memory. For example, local TCP/IP connections that use port 13785. |
More Information
About NetBackup master server installed directories and files