time

Created: 18 Aug 2012 | Updated: 19 Aug 2012 | 1 comment

This issue has been solved. See solution.

For windows from the netbackup documentation ( NetBackup_AdminGuideI_WinServer):

Retaining Job Information in the Database
There may be times when it is desirable to keep jobs in the jobs database longer than three days. The default can be changed on a more permanent basis, or temporarily, lasting only until the next reboot or cycling of NetBackup services.
Changing the Default on a Permanent Basis
Since the bpdbjobs database resets to default conditions up ison reboot or cycling NetBackup Services, you may want a more permanent means of ok
To do so safely, from a command window, run:

What is the diff between temp and permamant basis and how to do both?

Discussion Filed Under:

Comments RSS Feed

Comments 1 Comment • Jump to latest comment

mph999 Symantec Employee

time - Comment:18 Aug 2012 : Link

Temporary - lasts until the next restart of the NBU services, as it says in the text you have posted,

Permanent - lasts 'forever'

To change (permanent)

To change the default values on a permanent basis, use the following method to

add new registry key(s) to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\

CurrentVersion\Config

To add the key(s) safely, run the following commands. For example:

install_path\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\

echo KEEP_JOBS_HOURS = 192 | bpsetconfig

Where 192 is the number of hours that unsuccessful jobs are kept in the jobs

database or Activity Monitor display.

For example, run:

echo KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 192 | bpsetconfig

Where 192 is the number of hours that successful jobs are kept in the jobs database

or Activity Monitor display.

Consider the following notes when changing the default values:

■ The default values for KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS and KEEP_JOBS_HOURS

is 78 hours.

■ The retention period values are measured against the time the job ended.

■ Information about successful jobs cannot be kept longer than information

about unsuccessful jobs. If KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS is greater than

KEEP_JOBS_HOURS, bpdbjobs sets KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS to equal

KEEP_JOBS_HOURS.

■ If KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS is set to 0, bpjobd uses the KEEP_JOBS_HOURS

bpdbjobs value instead for successful jobs.

If the KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS value is greater than 0 but less than

KEEP_JOBS_HOURS, KEEP_JOBS_HOURS is used for unsuccessful jobs only.

On Unix, you can change the values with these entries in bp.conf

KEEP_JOBS_HOURS and KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS

(The bit below is an educated guess )

The documentation does not seem to say how to do this on a tmp basis, and to be honest, I can't really image anyone nneding this on a tmp basis, I've only even seen people change it permanently.

I image that the bpdbjobs command would be used for a tmp change - reason being, that the registry / bp.conf file method is specifically mentioned for the permenant change, whereas the bpdbjobs command is mentioned later and references an enviroment variable. Environment variables are often not permanent unless reset.

Martin

Regards, Martin

Setting Logs in NetBackup:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH75805

SOLUTION

time

Comments 1 Comment • Jump to latest comment

Would you like to reply?

Links