VERITAS NETBACKUP - BEGINNERS WITH SIMPLE COMMANDS

VERITAS NETBACKUP - SIMPLE COMMANDS FOR WINDOWS

             Hi Friends, from my knowledge many beginners trying to do their daily tasks with GUI. But CLI is very powerful than GUI. For that here, i'm providing some simple commands which was daily used by all Backup & Restore Engineers. If i post anything wrongly, please inform me or post your commands. Because i'm not such person to teach all, just trying to share my knowledge.

- Samuel T

Inventory the Robot:

Run this command in : /program files/veritas/volmgr/bin
vmcheckxxx -rt -rn -list
vmupdate -rt <robot_type> -rn


Eg: robot type -- TLD


To expire media


Run this command in : /program files/veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd


bpexpdate -m -d 0(zero)


eg: media ID - 0014L4 (media id can't be greater than 6 characters)

Note: While expiring date of media, erase the reference data only, for that quick erase or long erase must to erase the data also.


To manual backup:


Run this command in : /program files/veritas/netbackup/bin


bpbackup -p  -i -s -h

Note:
If u didn't mention the host name of client, it 'll run on all clients.
-p (policy)

-s (schedule)

-h (host name of client)

-i (imediate manual backup)


To check status:

Run this command in : /program file/veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd/

bpdbjobs -report

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