NetBackup is an enterprise-level distributed backup and recovery application. The environment consists of the master server, media server, storage library, networking hardware, and client agents. NetBackup supports a wide variety of Unix, Linux, VMS, and Windows systems. The original backup solution was developed by Control Data Corp., later acquired by Openvision, which gave the product its “NetBackup” name. NetBackup was then bought by Veritas and is currently owned and supported (poorly) by Symantec.

I am sure this will sound familiar: you are copying a large amount of data – either locally or over the network – and you are wondering how long it will take and if there is a way to make things go faster.You may be surprised, but it does matter what type of files you are copying: 1Gb-worth of many small files will take considerably longer to copy than two 500Mb files. The hardware you are using is an important consideration, but it’s not the only factor limiting data transfer speed.

This is a quick-and-dirty guide to recovering VxVM volumes and filesystems on a Solaris server. These instructions are not intended to be an in-depth troubleshooting guide for the Veritas Volume Manager. This is just something …

Veritas cluster server is a high availability server. This means that processes switch between servers when a server fails. All database processes are run through this server – and as such, this needs to run smoothly. Note that the oracle process should only actually be running on the server which is active.

When resizing a VXFS filesystem on a server that has HSM running, it is necessary to place HSM in maintenance mode for that particular filesystem. Failing to do so may cause the VFS resize operation …

Veritas Volume Manager GUI is more functional and intuitive that that of any other volume management application. However, once in a while the VEA GUI becomes corrupted and displays incorrect information. One of the symptoms …

Several Veritas VM and system logs can be used to monitor and diagnose problems with the Volume Manager. An automated script can be used to grab the last few lines from these logs whenever a …

The following is an overview of the GUI for Veritas Enterprise Administrator 3.2

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The following interactive Korn shell script can be used to make common changes to the configuration of Veritas HA Cluster resources. The script enables you to view the listing of available resources; view resource configuration; …

The following is a Korn shell script that can be used from command line or cron to bounce a Veritas HA Cluster resource. This can be useful to resolve certain problems with Oracle databases running …

This script uses the output of the script in the previous example to calculate yearly backup load for each Veritas NetBackup client.

#!/bin/ksh
 
WORKDIR=/var/adm/bin/bpstat
BACKUPS=$WORKDIR/backups
STATDIR=$WORKDIR/stats
PROCESS=1
gzip="/usr/local/bin/gzip"
 
if [ ! -d $WORKDIR ] || [ ! -d $BACKUPS ] || [ …

The following script will calculate total size of data backups for each Veritas NetBackup client over the past week (or as defined by the “daysago” variable in the script). The final output will be uploaded …

vx command to show vmsa commandline processes running:
date;vxtask list
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enable “Rename hard links”
disable “Rename soft links”
if root of destination drive is mounted as /destination/ then select “Restore to alternate path: from / to /destination/ , Restore search path
This is the alternate path for everything: …