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
Setting up debug logging
Use the Setup Debug Logging Wizard to enable selected NetBackup debug logging that Technical Support uses to troubleshoot NetBackup problems. The Logging Assistant automatically creates the necessary log folders and sets the verbosity of the pertinent logs to their highest level.
Note:
Ensure that each of the selected hosts contains enough available space for the selected debug logs.
To set up debug logging
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, select Logging Assistant in the left pane.
- In the right pane, select the Logging Assistant record for which you want to set up debug logging. Select Actions > Setup Debug Logging.
- Click Next on the Welcome panel.
- On the Job Selection panel, select one of the following:
Enable the Analyze job to identify relevant hosts and debug logging parameter, and then enter the Job ID. If you do not know the Job ID, go to the Activity Monitor to find the Job ID of the failed job. The Logging Assistant identifies the hosts and the pertinent debug logs related to the job.
Based on the Job ID that you enter, the Logging Assistant identifies and selects debug logs for hosts and processes that enable the most effective troubleshooting of this problem. The wizard panels that follow this panel show the processes that the Logging Assistant has selected.
For the following scenarios, skip this panel that sets up the logs based on a Job ID, and click Next:
The problem does not involve a particular NetBackup job.
You already know the hosts and debug logs that you want to enable.
You want to enable the logs that you previously set up for this record. Those log selections appear automatically in the panels that follow.
The following Host Selection panel appears:
- Do one or more of the following:
Click Setup debug logging on Master Server to set up debug logging on the master server. The Master Server text window displays the master server.
Click Setup debug logging on Media Server(s) to set up debug logging on the media servers. If the master server is also a media server, you may still want to select it again as a media server. Use the right arrow option (>>) to move a highlighted media server from the Available Media Servers window across to the Selected Media Servers window.
Click Setup debug logging on Client(s). Enter Client names. to set up debug logging on clients. In the text window under this parameter, enter the names of clients for which you want to set up debug logging. Separate the client names by commas. Do not use any spaces between the client names.
Click Next to display the panel.
Click Next to continue. Logging Assistant validates the specified hosts to establish connectivity and validates the NetBackup versions that are installed on the hosts.
- If you selected Setup debug logging on Master Server, the Setup Debug Logging on Master Server panel appears.
This panel contains a list of problem categories on the master server and the process names associated with each category of problem. Click the problem category or categories that apply to the failed job.
For example, for problems with synthetic backups on the failed job, select Backup - Synthetic. The debug logs for bpcd, bpdm, and bptm are enabled.
Click If required, specify additional components to set up debug logging to enter components to enable debug logging. For example, for if you have Java interface problems, but only want the debug logs for jnbSA, instead of all four of the processes lists, enter jnbSA in the text window. Enter multiple components separated by commas with no spaces between entries.
Technical Support publishes a list of valid components that you can specify in this text box.
http://www.veritas.com/docs/TECH204256
Click Next to continue.
- Perform the same actions for the media server (if selected in step 5) and the clients (if selected in step 5).
Click Next to continue.
- The Setup Debug Logging Summary panel confirms all the items you selected in the previous panels of the Setup Debug Logging Wizard. Review the information. The summary shows on which hosts of your NetBackup system that you chose to enable logs: master server, media servers, and clients or a combination of these items. It also shows the host names and the logs that are enabled on each.
Click Next to enable the debug logging. All pertinent logs are set to their highest (most verbose) level.
- The Setup Debug Logging Results panel displays the hosts and components that have been successfully enabled and unsuccessfully enabled.
Click Finish to return to the Logging Assistant Records panel of the NetBackup Administration Console.