on 03-11-2009 01:14 PM
Don’t you worry. Be happy. I’ve been down this road before. You have inherited an old lab or an older production environment with NetBackup 4.5 installed and running. You would like to upgrade NetBackup but unfortunately the SunOS and NT clients are not supported with the newer versions of NetBackup. You are the one who is now responsible to maintain this NetBackup legacy environment. What to do?
Don't let the name on this technote fool you. Most of the principles in the document are applicable to older Netbackup 5.x,4.x and 3.x versions
Veritas NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 6.0 Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide for UNIX, Windows, and Linux. This also covers tuning on NetBackup components such as NOM (NetBackup Operations Manager). Note: This guide is for 6.0 only.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281842.htm
And what about Netbackup commands?
The earlier versions of NetBackup used shell scripting and not executable binaries. This gives you the opportunity to look inside some of the commands to see what in the world of data backups that NetBackup was doing. You can simply view the command in your favorie text editor.
Also you can see the supported usage with:
bp$COMMAND -H
bp$COMMAND -h NOTE: you may get different usage with the different use of the case
bp$COMMAND -Q This will show additional usage of the command that backline engineering would sometimes use. NOTE: the "-Q" options were not supported nor documented.
This article is really resourceful in a way that it reminds the users to make use of the available product documentation. Check my Quick links thread (https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/quick-links) to access more of Symantec's product resources. Cheers Bob!
Also if you like to read forums instead of getting email, the Auburn alias listed above is also mirrored by Curtis Preston in a forum http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/symantec-netbackup-1...