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
- 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 SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- 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. 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 VII. 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 VIII. 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
Collecting debug logs
The Collect Debug Logs Wizard helps you gather debug logs to a location on the master server. The debug logs are enabled using the Setup Debug Logging Wizard.
To collect debug logs
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, select the Logging Assistant node.
- The right pane of the NetBackup Administration Console displays the list of Logging Assistant records. Select the record whose debug logs you want to collect.
- In the Actions menu, select Collect Debug Logs. The Welcome panel for the Collect Debug Logs Wizard appears.
Click Next to continue.
- The Selected Host and Process panel appears. Use this panel to confirm the host problem categories and processes for all debug logs that you want to collect. The hosts can be the master server, one or more media servers, and one or more clients.
Click Next to continue.
- The Collect Debug Logs panel appears.
The following describes the parameters on this panel:
Specify Log Duration
In the Specify Log Duration area, click one of the following:
Collect available logs gathers all messages for the selected debug logs. Make sure that you want to collect this potentially large amount of data before you select this option.
Collect logs spanning this time period collects logs from one of three periods of time: The last 24 hours, the last 3 days, or the last week.
Collect logs for specific time period collects log messages that are generated within a precise time window. Specify the start date and time and the end date and time. The statement at the top of this panel indicates when the debug logs for this Logging Assistant Record were enabled. This date-time may affect the time window you select.
Collect nbsu output
Click Collect nbsu output to collect the NetBackup Support Utility (nbsu) information to be bundled. nbsu contains a wide range of diagnostic information that Technical Support can use to troubleshoot.
Calculate
Click Calculate to display the estimated available disk space and default log location for each selected host. Use this information to determine if an alternate temporary location is necessary.
If you click Calculate, go to step 6.
Otherwise, click Next and go to step 8.
- The Calculate Disk Space on Hosts panel appears.
This panel displays the free disk space information and the default temporary location for each of the selected hosts. Verify that the required disk space on the host for the debug logs does not exceed the available free space on that host. If it does, you can select the host entry, then click Change Temporary Location to change the log location on the host.
- The Change Temporary Location panel appears.
This panel lets you move debug logs to a different location on a host to avoid running out of disk space. Enter an alternate temporary directory path location for the logs in the text window, then click Check Free Disk Space. The Free disk space on temporary location entry changes from Unknown to the free space available on the alternate location. Compare that value with the Estimated required disk space for logs entry to determine if the space is sufficient. If necessary, repeat until you find an alternate log location with sufficient disk space.
Click OK to return to the Calculate Disk Space panel.
Click OK again to return to the Collect debug logs panel.
Finally, click Nextto continue.
- The Results panel displays the results of the collect operation. The progress of the operation is recorded in a file on the master server.
Monitor the progress of the collect operation by returning to the Logging Assistant main screen. The Progress column of the main screen changes as the operation progresses.
Click Finish to complete the Collect Debug Logs Wizard.
If you have a case ID provided by Technical Support in the form ########, rename the log files with the case ID number. Then manually upload the files to the Veritas Evidence Server. See the following article for more information: