Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
  1. About using the Troubleshooting Guide
    1.  
      About this guide
    2.  
      About the intended audience
    3.  
      About contacting Technical Support
    4.  
      About troubleshooting the NetBackup Appliance
  2. Best practices
    1.  
      About best practices
    2.  
      Determining the NetBackup Appliance serial number
    3.  
      About Fibre Channel HBA card configuration verification
    4.  
      About Notification settings
    5.  
      About IPMI configuration
    6.  
      About password management and recovery
    7.  
      About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
    8.  
      About enabling BMR options
    9.  
      About deleting users
  3. About troubleshooting tools
    1.  
      Tools for troubleshooting the NetBackup Appliance
    2.  
      About hardware monitoring
    3.  
      Troubleshooting and tuning appliance from the Appliance Diagnostics Center
    4. About NetBackup support utilities
      1.  
        NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
      2.  
        NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
  4. Working with log files
    1.  
      About NetBackup Appliance log files
    2.  
      About the Collect Log files wizard
    3.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    4.  
      Where to find NetBackup Appliance log files using the Browse command
    5.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command
    6.  
      About gathering information for NetBackup-Java applications
    7.  
      Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
  5. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      About disaster recovery
    2.  
      Disaster recovery best practices
    3. Disaster recovery scenarios
      1. Appliance sustained power interruption
        1.  
          Restoring operation to a NetBackup Appliance following a power outage
        2.  
          Restoring operation to a NetBackup Appliance with external storage following a power outage
      2. Appliance hardware failure
        1.  
          Removing and replacing hardware components
        2.  
          Setting a NetBackup 5330 storage shelf component to the Service Allowed mode
      3.  
        Complete loss of appliance with recoverable operating system drives and attached storage disks
      4. Complete loss of appliance with recoverable attached storage disks
        1.  
          Reimaging a NetBackup appliance from the USB drive
        2.  
          Reconfiguring a 52xx master server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
        3.  
          Configuring a master server to communicate with an appliance media server
        4.  
          Reconfiguring a 52xx or 5330 media server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
        5.  
          About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on NetBackup appliances
      5.  
        Complete loss of appliance and attached storage disks
      6.  
        NetBackup Appliance software corruption
      7. NetBackup Appliance database corruption
        1.  
          Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
        2.  
          About appliance rollback validation
      8. NetBackup Appliance catalog corruption
        1.  
          Starting a factory reset from the appliance shell menu
      9.  
        NetBackup Appliance operating system corruption
  6. NetBackup Appliance error messages
    1.  
      About NetBackup Appliance error messages
    2.  
      Error messages displayed during initial configuration
    3.  
      Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
    4.  
      Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    5.  
      NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Appliance

Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu

The following procedure describes how to roll back an appliance to a checkpoint from the appliance shell menu.

To roll back to an existing checkpoint from the appliance shell menu

  1. Log on to the appliance as an administrator and open the appliance shell menu.
  2. Enter the following command:

    Main_Menu > Support > Checkpoint Rollback

    The following interactive process begins. The shell menu informs you of the components that are reverted during this process. It also lists all of the existing checkpoints.

    Rolling back to an Appliance Checkpoint will restore the
    system back to the checkpoint's point-in-time. This can help
    undo any misconfiguration or system failures that might have
    occured.
    
    Rolling back to an Appliance Checkpoint will revert the following
    components:
            1) Appliance Operating System
            2) Appliance Software
            3) NetBackup Software
            4) Networking Configuration
            5) Any previously applied patches
            6) Backup data is not reverted
    
    The existing Appliance Checkpoints in the system are:
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    (1) Checkpoint Name: User directed checkpoint
    Date Created: Fri Oct  5 09:27:32 2016
    Description: User checkpoint after configuring network
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Please enter the checkpoint to rollback to (Available 
    options: 1 only):
  3. Enter the number of the checkpoint that you want to use for the Rollback operation.
  4. Enter Yes, if you want to automatically restart all appliances after the rollback completes.
    A reboot of the appliance is required to complete the
    checkpoint rollback. Reboot automatically after rollback (yes/no)?
    
    Automatically rebooting the appliance after the rollback will not
    provide you with an opportunity to review the progress/final
    status of the rollback. Are you sure you would like to automatically
    reboot the appliance (yes/no) yes
  5. Enter Yes a second time to confirm that you want to restart the appliance automatically after the rollback operation completes.
    ----------------------------
    ROLLBACK OPTIONS AND SUMMARY
    ----------------------------
    Rollback to checkpoint name : [User directed checkpoint]
    Auto reboot after rollback? : [YES]
    
    The rollback reverts the entire system to the following versions:
    
    +------------------------------------------------------+
    |    Appliance    | Current Version | Reverted Version |
    |-----------------+-----------------+------------------|
    |app1.Veritas.com |NetBackup 8.0    |NetBackup 8.0     |
    |                 |Appliance 3.0    |Appliance 3.0     |
    |-----------------+-----------------+------------------|
    |app2.Veritas.com |NetBackup 8.0    |NetBackup 8.0     |
    |                 |Appliance 3.0    |Appliance 3.0     |
    +------------------------------------------------------+
  6. Enter Yes to begin the rollback to a checkpoint operation.

    The following status is provided once the rollback operation is started.

    Rollback to checkpoint? (yes/no) yes
    - [Info] Stopping NetBackup Services...please wait.
    - [Info] PERFORMING REVERT TO USER CHECKPOINT
    - [Info] This takes approx. 15 to 20 mins. Please wait...
    - [Info] Rollback to Appliance Checkpoint (User directed 
             checkpoint) successful.
    
    A reboot of the appliance is required to complete the
    checkpoint rollback. Reboot now? (Type REBOOT to continue) REBOOT
    Rebooting the appliance now...
    - [Info] Rebooting app2.Veritas.com 
    
    Please reconnect to the appliance shell menu to continue
    using this appliance.
    
    The system is going down for reboot NOW!