NetBackup Commands – Quick reference

1. Policy & Schedule
   1. list – bppllist
   2. Create –
      1. Policy – bppolicynew
      2. Schedule – bpplsched
   3. List and Modify
      1. Attributes – bpplinfo
      2. Clients – bpplclients

• Backup selection – bpplinclude

1. Schedule – bpplschedrep

1. Delete – bppldelete & bpplsched
2. List and modify DR policy – bpplcatdrinfo

2. Image
   1. list – bpimagelist / bpclimagelist
   2. Info – bpimmedia
   3. Copy image in same NetBackup domain – bpduplicate
   4. Copy image between two different NetBackup domain – nbreplicate
   5. Expire – bpexpdate
   6. Change primary – bpchangeprimary
   7. Compress and remove – bpimage
   8. Verify backup image – bpverify
   9. legal holds on backup images – nbholdutil
   10. Import NetBackup expired image – bpimport
3. Tape
   1. list – vmcheckxxx / vmphyinv
   2. Add – vmadd
   3. Query – vmquery
   4. Change – vmchange
   5. Delete – vmdelete
   6. Update – vmupdate
   7. Freeze/Unfreeze – bpmedia
   8. Write or rewrite label – bplabel
   9. Manage tape pools – vmpool
   10. Tape drive configuration
       1. reconfigure the devices serial number change, verify and examine the tape drives connected to NDMP – tpautoconf
       2. cleaning of the tape drive – tpclean

• configures robots, drives, drive arrays, drive paths, and hosts – tpconfig

1. update EMM database device mappings – tpext
2. tape mount and un-mount – tpreq and tpunmount
3. perform operator functions on drives – vmoprcmd

4. BAR
   1. Backup – bpbackup
   2. Restore – bprestore
   3. Archive – bparchive
   4. List backed up/archived files – bplist
   5. search files or folders – nbfindfile
5. Connectivity
   1. Bpclntcmd
   2. test bpcd connections – bptestbpcd
   3. test and analyze various configurations and connections – bptestnetconn
   4. analyzes the NetBackup domain and its configurations – nbdna
6. Storage unit
   1. Info – bpstsinfo
   2. Add – bpstuadd
   3. Delete – bpstudel
   4. List – bpstulist
   5. Modify – bpsturep
   6. Disk Staging storage units
      1. Add, delete and list – bpschedule
      2. Modify – bpschedulerep
   7. NetBackup catalog database
      1. NBDB
         1. Create – create_nbdb
         2. Start/Stop – nbdb_admin

• Backup – nbdb_backup

1. Restore – nbdb_restore
2. Unload – nbdb_unload
3. Health check – nbdb_ping

1. Image DB
   1. Archive – bpcatarc
   2. List – bpcatlist

• Remove – bpcatrm

1. Restore – bpcatres
2. catalog format conversion – cat_convert
3. export image meta from NBDB to flat header files – cat_export

• import image meta from flat files to NBDB – cat_import

1. EMM DB
   1. update and view information – nbemmcmd
   2. start nbemm – nbemm
2. Jobs DB –
   1. Cancel, suspend and list jobs – bpdbjobs
   2. Find jobs due in near future – nbpemreq
3. start and stop database server – nbdbms_start_server
4. starts and stops the Sybase ASA daemon – nbdbms_start_stop
5. Error catalog – bperror
6. Recover selected NetBackup catalog components – bprecover

8. NetBackup logs
   1. Handling unified logs
      1. Configuration – vxlogcfg
      2. Managing log file generation – vxlogcmgr

• Viewing log files – vxlogview

1. Copy all logs – nbcplogs
2. Gathers a wide range of diagnostic information – nbsu

9. Disk pool
   1. Disk pool create, delete, import and modify – nbdevconfig
   2. Disk pool query – nbdevquery
   3. remove deleted fragments from disk volumes – nbdelete
10. BMR
    1. Configure – bmrconfig / bmrepadm
    2. Restore/discovery – bmrprep
    3. Manage resources in BMR DB – bmrs
    4. Manage SRT and Bootable CD – bmrsrtadm
11. Trace an operation
    1. Backup – backuptrace
    2. Restore – restoretrace
    3. Catalog DB backup – backupdbtrace
    4. Duplicate – duplicatetrace
    5. Import – importtrace
    6. Verify – verifytrace
12. NetBackup encryption
    1. Install and configure – bpinst
    2. creates or updates key file – bpkeyutil

 

13. SLP
    1. add, delete, modify, or list NetBackup storage lifecycle policies – nbstl
    2. Add, modify and list data classifications – nbdc
    3. Activate/deactivate, cancel, list and report SLP operations – nbstlutil
14. Decommission old server – nbdecommission
15. VM Backups –
    1. Test query rules for automatic selection – nbdiscover
    2. restore VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines – nbrestorevm
    3. Upgrade policy type from FlashBackup-Windows to VMware or Hyper-V – nbplupgrade
16. KMS Encryption – nbkmsutil
17. MSEO –
    1. List, convert and revert MSEO tape drives – cgconfig
    2. Export and import MSEO keys – cgadmin
18. Deal with NetBackup licenses
    1. List, Add and delete licenses – bpminlicense
    2. Measure license usage – nbdeployutil
19. NetBackup Access control(NBAC)
    1. Authentication tasks – bpnbat
    2. Authorization tasks – bpnbaz
20. NetBackup catalog consistency –
    1. Run NBCC – nbcc
    2. Repair inconsistencies – nbccr
21. Disk array –
    1. Lists attributes for plugins, storage servers, logical storage units (LSUs), and the images resides in disk – bpstsinfo
    2. Measures a disk array’s read and write speeds – nbperfchk
22. Modify HBA card device IDs – nbhba
23. Audit trail
    1. Actions that change the NetBackup configuration & NetBackup runtime objects. – nbauditreport
24. Resource allocation and deallocation – nbrbutil
25. NetBackup vault
    1. Vault menu interface for admins – vltadm
    2. Vault menu interface for operators – vltopmenu
    3. move volumes logically into containers – vltcontainers
    4. eject media and generate reports – vlteject
    5. inject volumes into a robot – vltinject
    6. Run a NetBackup Vault session – vltrun
26. Start NetBackup console
    1. Java console – jbpSA
    2. Administration console – jnbSA
27. NetBackup processes
    1. Stop and start NetBackup processes
       1. Windows – bpdown and bpup
       2. Linux/UNIX – “netbackup start” and “netbackup stop”
    2. List NetBackup processes – bpps
    3. List NB media manager process only – vmps
    4. stop the Media Manager device daemon – stopltid
    5. start the media manager device daemon(ltid,tldcd,tldd,vmd) – ltid
28. Menu driven interface commands –
    1. Configure and Monitor NetBackup operations – bpadm
    2. Backup, archive and restore for users – bp
    3. Manage fibre transport – nbftadm
    4. Configure tape devices and robots – tpconfig
    5. Vault menu interface – vltadm
    6. Vault menu interface for operators – vltopmenu
29. Set and get configurations –
    1. Client configuration – bpclient
    2. Global attributes configuration – bpconfig
    3. Master/Media and Client server configuration – bpsetconfig & bpgetconfig
    4. configuration info of a specified host in various formats – nbgetconfig & nbsetconfig
    5. Change resilient client configurations – resilient_clients
30. Cluster utilities –
    1. Modify and configure – bpclusterutil