How to know the install location of Netbackup Software on Linux

Netbackup on Linux default to /usr/openv as installation path.

If you are unsure of the installation path you can do a global search of bp.conf or you can query for installed packages. However there are difftent package manager across Linux distros.

This example is taken from a Red Hat installation.

rpm -qa | grep SYMCnbcl

Returns "SYMCnbclt-7.6.1.1-1" - we know Netbackup is installed.

Then 

rpm -ql SYMCnbclt-7.6.1.1-1 | head

Returns the follwing:

/usr/openv/lib
/usr/openv/lib/.vxms.rc

Netbackup is installed in /usr/openv

If you do not install it into /usr/openv (the default location) then a sym link is ALWAYS created.

So run: ls -ld /usr/openv

This will tell you if it's linked to an alternate location or not. Here's my example

ls -ld /usr/openv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 26 15:58 /usr/openv -> /software/openv/

This shows I have installed NetBackup into /software and I have symbolic link of /usr/openv pointing to /software/openv.

If you see no "->" followed by another directory, then it is simply installed into /usr/openv