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Netbackup Installation on SUSE 10 Linux help

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 9 comments
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Hi Experts,

 

I am tryign to install the Netbackup 6.0 on SUSE 10 linux. I started installing the NB 6.0 with the following steps.

 

1)rpm -ivh VRTSicsco-1.2.3.18-18.i386.rpm

2)rpm -ivh VRTSpbx-1.2.2.41-1.i386.rpm

3)mount DVD and install from root user as # /mnt/cdrom/.install

and i installed NB server, MEdia server and applied license

4) i started the VRTSpbx service from /opt/VRTSpbx/bin/vxpbx_exchanged

5)then start netbackup service either from /etc/init.d or /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup start

Output:

 NetBackup Database Server started.
NetBackup Notification Service started.
NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager started.
NetBackup Resource Broker started.
NetBackup request daemon started.
NetBackup compatibility daemon started.
NetBackup Job Manager started.
NetBackup Policy Execution Manager started.
NetBackup Service Layer started.
NetBackup is not configured for clustering.
NetBackup Service Monitor started.

My problem here is when i connect from Netbackup java console client i can see only the client and i cannot see other stuff( i can see only backup,archive and restore) tab.

 

Please help me how to resolve this and please find the installation log below

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ERITAS Installation Script

Copyright 1993 - 2005 VERITAS Software Corporation, All Rights Reserved.

 

Installing NetBackup Server Software

NOTE: To install only NetBackup Client software locally on this machine

or to load additional UNIX client software on this server, insert

the NetBackup UNIX Clients cdrom.

Do you wish to continue? [y,n] (y) y

The NetBackup and Media Manager software is built for use on LINUX hardware.

NetBackup is currently at release level 6.0.

This package will install release level 6.0.

No server update is needed.

Do you want to reinstall NetBackup and Media Manager? [y,n] (y) y

NetBackup and Media Manager will be updated to release level 6.0.

Looking for NetBackup processes that need to be terminated.

Looking for Media Manager processes that need to be terminated.

Looking for VxDBMS processes that need to be terminated.

Reading NetBackup files from /mnt/iso/linux/anb

usr/openv/NB-Java.tar.Z.........................

Done executing NB.inst.

If you ran NB.inst instead of <cdrom_path>/install, you must

run /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_bp to initiate NetBackup.

Running /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_bp

Copying RedHat2.4 Client Binaries

openv/.......

Installing NB-Java.

/bin/tar: Read 2048 bytes from -

/bin/tar: Read 512 bytes from -

+ /bin/cp ./nbj.conf /usr/openv/java

 

A NetBackup Server or Enterprise Server license key is needed

for installation to continue.

Enter license key:

XXXX-XXXXX_XXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXX

Do you want to add additional license keys now? [y,n] (y) y

Enter license key: NetBackup Enterprise Server is the active NetBackup.

XXXX-XXXXX_XXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXX

NetBackup features enabled:

Oracle extension

has been registered.

 

 

If this machine will be using a different network interface than the

default (suselinux-NB), the name of the preferred interface should be used

as the configured server name. If this machine will be part of a

cluster, the virtual name should be used as the configured server name.

Would you like to use "suselinux-NB" as the configured

name of the NetBackup server? [y,n] (y) y

Is suselinux-NB the master server? [y,n] (y) n

What is the fully qualified name of the master server? wintest.dev.com

Checking /etc/services for the needed NetBackup and Media Manager services.

Copying original /etc/services file to /etc/services.NBU_101608.11:03:27

Editing /etc/services to update NetBackup and Media Manager services.

/etc/services will be updated to add the following entries for

Enter the Enterprise Media Manager server (default: wintest.dev.com):

Starting the NetBackup Notification Service.

Starting the NetBackup compatibility daemon.

Starting the Media Manager device daemon processes.

 

Starting the NetBackup Service Layer.

Starting the NetBackup Service Monitor.

 

Regards,

surya

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Manoj Siricilla's picture
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Just looking at the face of it, it has nothing to do with the installation.

 

By default, you will see only BAR window

 

on the Master server navigate to the directory

 

%install path%/openv/java which is usually /usr/openv/java

 

there should be a file called auth.conf

 

if your userid by which your are logging on to the java console is bkpadmin do the following

echo "bkpadmin  ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL" >> /usr/openv/java/auth.conf

 

Let me know, if this fixed.

Cheers!
Manoj
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Hi Manoj,

As you mentioned i can see the entries in auth.conf and right now i am trying with root. 

 

root ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL
* ADMIN=JBP JBP=ENDUSER+BU+ARC


And When i run this command i cannot see the bprd and bprdm services

#ps -ef |grep netbackup
root      9767     1  0 13:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbnos
root      9786     1  0 13:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpcompatd
root      9805     1  0 13:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsl
root      9813     1  0 13:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsvcmon
root      9943  3559  0 13:50 pts/0    00:00:00 grep netbackup

 

 But the installation shows it was successful.

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Can you stop all the services?

 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup stop

 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/bp.kill_all FORCEKILL

 

and make sure that nothing shows up when you do /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps -a

 

now lets restart the services

 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup start

Cheers!
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thanks Manoj it works now. I am new to NEtbackup and can i install Disk media devices to take backup's?

 

I installed Netbackup in Linux (media services+master services) and client on WINDOWS and now we need to add a new Storage device (HDD) to Media servers for backups If you can help me with this that would be great.

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Are you all set with the admin console?

 

Describe me in detail about your environment, we will try and get the DSTU's working.

Cheers!
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HI Manoj,

 

I am done with this Admin console but i dont have any tapes i want to add disk for backup's mostly the external HDD or USB HDD's.

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I am not sure what kind of filesystem is your box setup with


If its vxfs create a new volume and mount it to something like /teststorageunit or if its ufs create a new folder /teststorageunit

 

 Now create a new disk storage unit and use it in the policy.

 

 

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Hey manoj,

 

we had an EXT3 partition and Reiser partions do i need to add a new drive with VXfs partition?

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I suggest you create a new volume, if you have provision to do that.

 

But, since you want to test, we can create a folder /teststunit using mkdir /teststunit.

 

Now, we can create a basic disk storage unit using the following command

 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstuadd -label testdisk1 -host <hostname of media server> -path /teststunit

 

You can now view the newly create the storage unit as follows

 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstulist -U

 

Use this storage unit in a policy to test your backups.

 

Note: we create the storage unit at the "/" filesystem which is usually the root filesystem, do not backup large data as it might cause the root filesystem to fill up and create problems including system panic

 

Test backing up a small file such as /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf, you can mention these in the backup selection list of the policy.

Cheers!
Manoj
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