Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- Exclude Disks tab
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using Backup, Archive, and Restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using NetBackup commands
- Restoring individual VMware virtual machine files
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
Logs for troubleshooting the nbrestorevm command
The following logs may contain helpful messages on nbrestorevm.
Table: Logs with messages on nbrestorevm
Log directory | Contains the messages on | Resides on |
---|---|---|
Windows install_path\NetBackup\logs\bprd Linux, UNIX /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bprd | The restore operation, such as for status code 2820. | Master server |
Windows install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpVMutil Linux, UNIX /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpVMutil | The restore operation, such as for status code 2820. | Recovery host |
Windows install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbrestorevm Linux, UNIX /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/nbrestorevm | Incorrect usage of the nbrestorevm command, such as omission of a required option. | Host where nbrestorevm is run |
If the restore job reaches the point of creating the virtual machine, the job's detailed status should contain a specific error message. vSphere Client shows an attempt to create the virtual machine and displays an associated failure message.
See Restoring a virtual machine with Instant Recovery for VMware.