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MRinket's avatar
14 years ago

pd.conf file overwritten by upgrade NBU5200

Hi,

We have recently upgraded our NetBackup Appliance 5200 from version 1.2 to 2.0 to 2.0.1 and we noticed that de pd.conf file was overwritten, because of this the values in pd.conf has been returned to default. One parameter should be changed manually to enable compression.

Below I describe a guide to change it manually, but this has been written just to inform you how you can do it. If you have any doubts or don't know what your are doing, please talk the someone with knowlegde of the appliance (symantec engineering) and using the command below

- go to the commandline menu on the applaince using putty (or any other ssh shell tool):

- Support -> Maintenance

- enter admin password again

- elevate

- open the pd.conf file by using the following command

vi /usr/openv/lib/ost-plugins/pd.conf

- search for the following section:

# Enable compression
# COMPRESSION = 0
 

- changed it to

# Enable compression
COMPRESSION = 1
 

- save your changes and restart the netbackup processes (Support -> Processes -> Netbackup stop  and then Netbackup start)

Symentec Technical support knows about it and the will update the installation docs and prevent the overwrite in the future (i hope :)

  • There are also a lot of other cool and useful switches in there too!  Encryption, bandwidth throttling, and Dedupe segment sizes.  All are very important values to tweak and change based on your specific requirements.

    Now Symantec just needs to rid the software of the PDCONF and put it in the GUI for the masses