Veritas NetBackup™ Commands Reference Guide

NetBackup immediately runs the schedule that is associated with the disk staging storage unit. The -i option is the implied behavior and is not necessary.

Specifies a file (listfile) that contains a list of files to back up. You can use this option instead of the filenames option, but you cannot use it with the -i option. List each file on a separate line.

The format that is required for the file list depends on whether the files have spaces, newlines, or returns in the names.

To back up the files that do not have spaces, newlines, or returns in the names, use the following format:

filepath
			

Where filepath is the path to the file you want to back up.

On UNIX systems, examples are /home, /etc, and /var.

On Windows systems, examples are c:\Programs, c:\winnt, and c:\documents\old_memos

To back up the files that have spaces, newlines, or returns in the names, use the following format:

filepathlen filepath
			

Where filepath is the path to the file you want to back up and filepathlen is the number of characters in the file path.

Examples on UNIX systems are the following:

5 /home
4 /etc
4 /var
19 /home/abc/test file

Examples on Windows systems are the following:

11 c:\Programs
8 c:\winnt
22 c:\documents\old memos

Names one or more files to back up. You can use this option instead of the -f option, but you cannot use it with the -i option. You must list any files that you specify at the end, following all other options.

Names the client host on which to run the backup. If it is not specified, NetBackup runs the backup on all clients in the policy.

Starts an immediate manual backup. This operation is equivalent to starting a manual backup from the NetBackup administrator interface. You must be the administrator on the master server to use the -i option.

Specifies the name of an Oracle or SQL Server instance that you want to back up. The policy type (-t) must be set to 4 (Oracle) or 15 (SQL Server). You must use this option with the -h option, and you must be the administrator on the master server.

[-database database_name] specifies the name of a SQL Server database in an instance that you want to back up.

Specifies a keyword phrase that NetBackup associates with the image that this backup operation creates. You then can restore the image by specifying the keyword phrase with the -k option on the bprestore command.

If you use the -i option with -k, NetBackup establishes an association between the keyword phrase and the backup policy and image.

The keyword phrase is a textual description of the backup that is a maximum of 128 characters in length.

On UNIX systems, all printable characters are permitted including space (" ") and period ("."). Enclose the phrase in double quotes ("...") or single quotes ( '...') to avoid conflict with the UNIX shell.

On Windows systems, all printable characters are permitted including space (" ") and period ("."). Enclose the phrase in double quotes ("...") or single quotes ( '...').

The default keyword phrase is the null (empty) string.

Specifies the name of a file in which to write progress information. NetBackup creates the file if it does not exist.

On Windows systems, for example: NetBackup\logs\user_ops\proglog

On UNIX systems, for example: netbackup/logs/user_ops/proglog

The default is not to use a progress log.

The - L option is not supported for NDMP clients.

Include the -en option to generate a progress log that is in English. The name of the log contains the string _en. This option is useful to support personnel in a distributed environment where different locales may create logs of various languages.

Only default paths are allowed for this option and Veritas recommends to use the default paths. If you cannot use the NetBackup default path in your setup, you should add custom paths to the NetBackup configuration.

For more information on how to add a custom path, see the "BPCD_WHITELIST_PATH option for NetBackup servers and clients" topic in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Names the policy to use for the backup.

If this option is not specified, NetBackup uses the first policy it finds that includes the client and a user backup schedule.

This option is required for an immediate-manual backup (-i option).

Names the schedule to use for the backup. If it is not specified, the NetBackup server uses the first user backup schedule it finds for the client in the policy currently in use.

See the -p option.

On UNIX systems, -S specifies the name(s) of the NetBackup master server(s). The default is the first SERVER entry that is found in the /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file.

On Windows systems, -S specifies the name(s) of the NetBackup master server(s). The default is the server designated as current on the Servers tab of the Specify NetBackup Machines dialog box. To display this dialog box, start the Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface on the client. Then click Specify NetBackup Machines on the File menu.

Specifies one of the following numbers that correspond to the policy type. The default for Windows clients is 13, and the default for all others is 0:

0 = Standard

4 = Oracle

6 = Informix-On-BAR

7 = Sybase

8 = MS-SharePoint

13 = MS-Windows

15 = MS-SQL-Server

16 = MS-Exchange-Server

19 = NDMP

Note that the following policy types apply only to the NetBackup Enterprise Server.

11 = DataTools-SQL-BackTrack

17 = SAP

18 = DB2

20 = FlashBackup

21 = Split-Mirror

39 = Enterprise-Vault

44 = BigData

This option tells NetBackup that the file list that is provided is in UTF-8 format. With this option, NetBackup does not try to convert the path names. The option has no effect for non-Windows platforms or for other policy types.

For some policy types, NetBackup on Windows assumes that the input file list is formatted in the active code page (ACP). It converts each path specification from the ACP to UTF-8. The option applies to any backups that are initiated from the command line on Windows, for the following policy types:

DB2
MS-Exchange-Server
Lotus-Notes
Oracle
SAP
MS-SQL-Server
Sybase
MS-Windows

Causes NetBackup to wait for a completion status from the server before it returns you to the system prompt.

You can optionally specify a wait time in hours, minutes, and seconds. The maximum wait time you can specify is 23:59:59. If the wait time expires before the backup is complete, the command exits with a timeout status. The backup, however, still completes on the server.

The bpbackup -w option causes the shell to wait for a return code. The operating system shell can only return one return code. Therefore, if you use -w without specifying a wait time or you specify a value of 0, NetBackup waits indefinitely for the completion status.

You can start a manual or an administrative backup using bpbackup -i along with the -w function. This type of backup has the potential to start multiple jobs because it is based on policy attributes. If the manual backup starts multiple jobs, the -w function still only returns one return code to the shell.

If you use -i with -w and more than one job begins, NetBackup waits until all jobs complete before it returns a completion status. However, because NetBackup only returns one status code to the shell, the job ID that the status code belongs to is unknown.

If multiple jobs are due to multiple clients and Allow Multiple Data Streams is not selected, use -h to restrict the operation to one client. However, if Allow Multiple Data Streams is selected in the policy and the selected client has multiple jobs, the returned status code is again unknown.