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Has two parts, netbackup and volume manger.

Netbackup

Controls backup/restoring data

Interfaces (GUI)

• xbpadm - for configuring and managing (bpadm is the character based version)
• xbp - for backups/restores (bp is character based version)

daemons

• bprd - netbackup request daemon. Can be started from either xbpadm or from path/netbackup/bin/initbprd and stopped from xbpadm
• bpdbm - database daemon . Start using path/netbackup/bin/initbprd, stop using bpdbm -terminate

The database must be backed up using bpbackup and restored using bprestore

Volume Manager

Controls the volumes and devices

xvmadm - is the GUI for managing volumes and devices. It calls xdevadm for configuring devices. (tpconfig and vmadm are the character based versions).

Daemons

• ltid - device management daemon. Started with path/volmgr/bin/ltid . Stopped from xvmadm/xdevadm screens.
• avid - automatic volume recognition daemon. Started with path/volmgr/bin/vmd . Stopped from xvmadm/xdevadm screens.

Installation and Configuration steps

Server Install

1. Insert CD

2. cd /cdrom_path;pkgadd -d . SUNWmmgr SUNWnetbp

3. /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_bp (for Solaris, install for other Unix platforms)

4. update .profile adding netbackup directories to $PATH and $MANPATH

5. Copy /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/S77netbackup to appropriate start script location for Unix version

6. Copy /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/K77netbackup to appropriate start script location for Unix version

7. Apply any patches that come with the Netbackup media

Device/tape configuration

1. Configure drives using xdevadm
   1. Add robot (if applicable)
   2. Add tape drive

2. Add tape volumes using xvmadm
   1. Add new volume pool
   2. Add volumes to pool

Netbackup configuration

1. Add storage unit using xbpadm (must have been created by xdevadm first)

2. Define class (backup policy) with xbpadm
   1. Attributes (general settings)
   2. Clients (clients to backup)
   3. Schedules (when to backup)
   4. Files (files to backup)

3. Install client software (client must have been defined in the rpevious step first)
   1. From master server run /usr/openv/netbackup/install_client_files ftp client user
   2. On client run /tmp/bp/bin/client_config

Netbackup daemons/programs

• bbps -a - shows status of daemons

• xdevadm - configures devices

• xvmadm - configures tapes

• xbpadm - configures backups

• xbpmon - monitors backups

The text versions of the above programs tend to have the same name but without the leading x