How to know the install location of Netbackup Software on Linux

[Omkar_Prabhudes]

Hello All,

How to know the exact install location of Netbackup software on linux box? Does it get stored somewhere  a System wide location on Linux?

In windows we have registry key which tells us about install location for NBU.

Thanks,

Omkar

[Nicolai · Accepted solution]

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

[revarooo · Accepted solution]

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

[revarooo]

Personally I would never trust rpm output, customers move NetBackup from /usr/openv all the time after initially installing it there. I would check the /usr/openv directory to see if it is symlinked or not.

[Nicolai]

Works fine in-house for me, but again we don't do these type of work around :)

And since the user asked for a "system wide location", the package database was the best answer I could find.