Veritas Netbackup Unix

Default Installation Directory:
/usr/openv/
Services file :
/etc/init.d/netbackup
Administration Console Binary:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/jnbSA
TLD Status: Media being handled by the robots/Tape Library.
Catalog:
DB which stores all the information about all the media and its contents.
Without Catalog Netbackup installation is as gud as new and cant recover anything from the media no matter how old or how new.

Shutdown Procedure:
service netbackup stop
If netbackup process still available on ps command:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.kill_all
The above given command helps in killing remainder bp processes gracefully.
If it still doesnt works all hail to kill -9 [:)].

Note: Kill -9 makes netbackup service unstable. Hence advisable to reboot the machine once kill -9 is used.

Media Information (CLI):
bpmedialist
Change Media Expiry List(CLI):
bpexpdate -m <media-id> -d expdate

Media Manager Service:

Sometimes due to some reason (generally disk space issue) Media Manager Service shuts it self down. In such a situation untill the point the problem is rectified and the service is restarted netbackup wont work properly as it wont know which media to load.

Following commands are used to start and stop media manager service efficiently (the commands can also be run with backup going on):

/usr/openv/db/bin/nbdb_admin -stop/start.