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How to restore directory archive made by Veritas Netbackup

Posted on January 27th, 2010

I’ve maid server’s /backup directory archive using veritas netbackup. Archive policy was executed at 01/01/2010 15:00. Command to restore the archive is:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprestore -A -w 0 -C server -D server\
-s 01/01/10 14:00:00 -e 01/01/10 23:59:00 -t 0 \
-L /var/tmp/server-restore.log /backup

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Find free cells within tape library with Veritas Netbackup

Posted on January 20th, 2010

Suppose you have to find out which cells in your library are empty. It would be easy task when you have not too many cells. If you have library with 100 cells and more, this little script can simplify the task.
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Monitoring Veritas Netbackup jobs with nagios and nrpe

Posted on January 20th, 2010

We need to be ensured that certain backup jobs finished at the time. Of cours we could run reports and read them, do you really waste 2-3 hours a day reading reports? It would be more practical only pay attention to that jobs which have not finished successfully and do not care about ones finished with error code 0.
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