Veritas NetBackup

Administrators Guide, Volume II

for UNIX and Linux

Release 6.5

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Veritas NetBackup Administrators Guide, Volume II

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NetBackup 6.5

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Contents

Chapter 1 Additional configuration Multiplexing .........................................................................................................17

When to use multiplexing ...........................................................................18

How to configure multiplexing ..................................................................18

Maximum streams per drive for a storage unit ...............................19

Media multiplexing for a schedule ....................................................19

Other configuration settings to consider using multiplexing ......22

Demultiplexing .............................................................................................23

Using multiple NetBackup master servers ......................................................24

Using multiple media servers with one master server ..................................25

Software on each server ..............................................................................26

NetBackup catalogs .....................................................................................27

Adding a media server .........................................................................................27

Registering a media server .........................................................................29

NetBackup configuration options .....................................................................31

Syntax rules for bp.conf options ...............................................................31

bp.conf options for servers .........................................................................32

ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE ...........................................................32

ALLOW_MULTIPLE_RETENTIONS_PER_MEDIA ..........................33

ALLOW_NON_RESERVED_PORTS ....................................................33

AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN ...........................................................33

AUTHORIZATION_SERVICE ..............................................................34

BPBRM_VERBOSE ................................................................................35

BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS ...........................................................................36

BPDBM_VERBOSE ................................................................................38

BPRD_VERBOSE ...................................................................................39

BPTM_VERBOSE ..................................................................................39

BPEND_TIMEOUT ................................................................................40

BPSTART_TIMEOUT ...........................................................................41

CHECK_RESTORE_CLIENT ................................................................41

CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT ..........................................................41

CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW ...................................................................41

CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT ..................................................................42

CLIENT_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW .............................................43

CONNECT_OPTIONS ...........................................................................43

DEFAULT_CONNECT_OPTIONS ......................................................45

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DISABLE_JOB_LOGGING .................................................................... 46

DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS ............................ 46

DISALLOW_BACKUPS_SPANNING_MEDIA ................................... 46

DISALLOW_CLIENT_LIST_RESTORE .............................................. 47

DISALLOW_CLIENT_RESTORE ......................................................... 47

EMMSERVER ........................................................................................ 47

ENABLE_ROBUST_LOGGING ............................................................ 48

FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS ........................................ 48

FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER ................................................. 49

GENERATE_ENGLISH_LOGS ............................................................. 49

INCOMPLETE_JOB_CLEAN_INTERVAL ........................................... 50

INITIAL_BROWSE_SEARCH_LIMIT ................................................. 50

LIMIT_BANDWIDTH ........................................................................... 50

MEDIA_ID_PREFIX .............................................................................. 53

MEDIA_UNMOUNT_DELAY .............................................................. 54

MEDIA_REQUEST_DELAY ................................................................. 54

MEDIA_SERVER ................................................................................... 54

MPX_RESTORE_DELAY ...................................................................... 54

MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE ............................................................... 55

NBRB_CLEANUP_OBSOLETE_DBINFO ............................................ 55

NBRB_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATIONS .................................................... 55

NBRB_FORCE_FULL_EVAL ................................................................ 55

NBRB_REEVAL_PENDING ................................................................. 56

NBRB_REEVAL_PERIOD ..................................................................... 56

NBRB_RETRY_DELAY_AFTER_EMM_ERR ..................................... 56

NBRB_MPX_GROUP_UNLOAD_DELAY ........................................... 56

RANDOM_PORTS ................................................................................ 57

RE_READ_INTERVAL ......................................................................... 57

REQUIRED_INTERFACE ..................................................................... 57

REQUIRED_NETWORK ....................................................................... 59

SERVER ................................................................................................. 59

SERVER_PORT_WINDOW ................................................................. 61

SERVER_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW ........................................... 61

SKIP_RESTORE_TO_SYMLINK_DIR ................................................. 62

SERVER_CONNECT_TIMEOUT ......................................................... 62

UNLINK_ON_OVERWRITE ................................................................ 63

USE_VXSS ............................................................................................. 64

VERBOSE ............................................................................................... 64

VXSS_NETWORK ................................................................................. 64

bp.conf options for UNIX clients ............................................................... 66

ALLOW_NON_RESERVED_PORTS ................................................... 67

AUTHENTICATIO