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Veritas NetBackup™ Commands Reference Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-19

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)

Introduction
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. configurePorts
85. configureTPCerts
86. create_nbdb
87. csconfig cldinstance
88. csconfig cldprovider
89. csconfig meter
90. csconfig throttle
91. duplicatetrace
92. importtrace
93. jbpSA
94. jnbSA
95. ltid
96. manageClientCerts
97. mklogdir
98. nbauditreport
99. nbcatsync
100. NBCC
101. NBCCR
102. nbcertcmd
103. nbcertupdater
104. nbcldutil
105. nbcloudrestore
106. nbcomponentupdate
107. nbcplogs
108. nbdb_admin
109. nbdb_backup
110. nbdb_move
111. nbdb_ping
112. nbdb_restore
113. nbdb_unload
114. nbdbms_start_server
115. nbdbms_start_stop
116. nbdc
117. nbdecommission
118. nbdelete
119. nbdeployutil
120. nbdevconfig
121. nbdevquery
122. nbdiscover
123. nbdna
124. nbemm
125. nbemmcmd
126. nbfindfile
127. nbfirescan
128. nbftadm
129. nbftconfig
130. nbgetconfig
131. nbhba
132. nbholdutil
133. nbhostidentity
134. nbhostmgmt
135. nbhypervtool
136. nbinstallcmd
137. nbjm
138. nbkmsutil
139. nboraadm
140. nborair
141. nbpem
142. nbpemreq
143. nbperfchk
144. nbplupgrade
145. nbrb
146. nbrbutil
147. nbregopsc
148. nbreplicate
149. nbrepo
150. nbrestorevm
151. nbseccmd
152. nbsetconfig
153. nbsnapimport
154. nbsnapreplicate
155. nbsqladm
156. nbstl
157. nbstlutil
158. nbstop
159. nbsu
160. nbsvrgrp
161. resilient_clients
162. restoretrace
163. stopltid
164. tl4d
165. tl8d
166. tl8cd
167. tldd
168. tldcd
169. tlhd
170. tlhcd
171. tlmd
172. tpautoconf
173. tpclean
174. tpconfig
175. tpext
176. tpreq
177. tpunmount
178. verifytrace
179. vltadm
180. vltcontainers
181. vlteject
182. vltinject
183. vltoffsitemedia
184. vltopmenu
185. vltrun
186. vmadd
187. vmchange
188. vmcheckxxx
189. vmd
190. vmdelete
191. vmoprcmd
192. vmphyinv
193. vmpool
194. vmquery
195. vmrule
196. vmupdate
197. vnetd
198. vssat
199. vwcp_manage
200. vxlogcfg
201. vxlogmgr
202. vxlogview
203. W2KOption

Name

bpfis — create or delete a snapshot, or return information about existing snapshots

SYNOPSIS

bpfis delete [-force] -id id -copy copynum

bpfis query [-fq] [-id id -copy copynum]

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

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

DESCRIPTION

The bpfis command can delete or query (discover) snapshots of a client system (file system or volume).

Note:

To store the image on tape or other media requires that you run a separate backup job.

For more information about the locale of your system, see "About specifying the locale of the NetBackup installation" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume II.

For detailed examples and procedures about using bpfis, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.

You must have administrator privileges to run this command.

OPTIONS

-copy copynum

Identifies the copy number. When used with the query function, -copy lists detailed information for the specified copy number of the snapshot. With the delete function, -copy specifies the copy number of the snapshot to be deleted.

delete

Deletes the snapshot that -id identifies.

-force

Forces the delete operation.

-fq

Generates a full query which includes a detailed description and information about a given snapshot.

-id

Returns the path of the original file system (snapshot source) and the path of the snapshot file system. The default ID is a timestamp that shows when the image was created.

For bpfis delete, this option designates the ID of the snapshot to be deleted.

For bpfis query, this option designates the ID of the snapshot for which to return information.

query

Retrieves detailed information on the specified snapshot of a client system.

EXAMPLES

Example 1 - Obtain information about a particular snapshot on the local host. The output shows the path of the snapshot source (UNIX: /mnt/ufscon) and the path of the snapshot file system (UNIX: /tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808/mnt/ufscon).

# bpfis query -id 1034037338
INF - BACKUP START 26838
INF - Frozen image host : ricochet
INF - Frozen image owner: GENERIC
INF - Time created      : Mon Oct  7 19:35:38 2011
INF - REMAP FILE BACKUP /mnt/ufscon USING (UNIX systems)
INF - REMAP FILE BACKUP E: USING GUID (Windows systems)
/tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808/mnt/ufscon (UNIX systems)
OPTIONS:ALT_PATH_PREFIX=/tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808,FITYPE=MIRROR,
MNTPOINT=/mnt/ufscon,FSTYPE=ufs (UNIX systems)
MNTPOINT=E:\,FSTYPE=NTFS (Windows systems)
INF - EXIT STATUS 0: the requested operation was successfully completed

Example 2 - Delete a snapshot on the local host:

# bpfis delete -id 1034037338
INF - BACKUP START 26839
INF - EXIT STATUS 0: the requested operation was successfully 
completed