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goSymantec
Level 3
17 years ago

Log file location

Hi all,
 
In the Netbackup 6.0 System Admin GUI (jnbSA) running on Solaris 9, when monitoring the running jobs, where on the file system are the log files for those running jobs? I mean if one job produce an error and you can see it from the GUI, where is the location of the log file that contains those error messages
 
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  • DavidParker's avatar
    DavidParker
    Level 6
    17 years ago
    Initiating a backup from the client can be done in several ways.
    You can use the Backup, Archive and Restore application.
    Or you can manually run the bpbackup program.

    Either of these depend upon 1 thing though:  On your master server, you have to have a "User" Schedule in an appropriate Policy that has the client listed.  If there is no User schedule in any policy that the client is in, the job will fail (because the client is not allowed to initiate a backup).

    Or did you mean: Command Line Interface?


    Message Edited by David Parker on 10-10-2007 12:15 PM
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    goSymantec
    Level 3
    17 years ago
    Yes I meant Command Line Interface, i.e. to initiate the backup from the server it self using command line interface for a spoecific policy
     
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    Stumpr2
    Level 6
    17 years ago

    goSymantec wrote:
    Yes I meant Command Line Interface, i.e. to initiate the backup from the server it self using command line interface for a spoecific policy
     
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    A user on a client can initiate an immediate backup of a full or incremental schedule using the bpbckup command. This is not explained in the man pages for bpbackup. In fact the man pages state that you must be root on the master server to use the -i option. It states that only "user" backups can be initiated from the client..not true!
     
    Steps for a user to initiate an -i "immediate" backup on the master.
    1. enter the clientname on the master server bp.conf as SERVER = clientname
    2. on master bprdreq -rereadconfig
    3. on the client as root or administrator or use sudo (unix)
     
    bpbackup -i -p $policyname -s $schedulename -h clientname -S masterservername
     
    Doing it this way allows the use of exclude_list and include_list and there does not have to be a "user" schedule.