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The bpconfig command modifies or displays the NetBackup global configuration attributes. These attributes affect operations for all policies and clients. With the exception of the NetBackup administrator's email address, the default values for these attributes are adequate for most installations.
See the NetBackup Global Attributes section in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, which describes the implications of setting the attribute values.
The following describes the two forms of bpconfig:
The first form of bpconfig modifies one or more of the NetBackup global configuration attributes. At least one option that changes a NetBackup global configuration attribute must be on the command line.
The second form of bpconfig displays the current settings of the NetBackup global configuration attributes. See DISPLAY FORMATS for more detail.
Errors are sent to stderr. A log of the command's activity is sent to the NetBackup admin log file for the current day.
Specifies the number of seconds that is the Compress-image-Database time interval. When seconds is an integer, an image compresses after this number of seconds has elapsed since the creation of the image. The range of values is 86400 to 2147472000. On Windows, NetBackup uses NTFS file compression only if the database is in an NTFS partition. Otherwise, it is not compressed. The default is zero (0), which means no compression is done.
The effect of compression is that the image database needs less disk space. However, you need to decompress the images before you browse the image database for restoring. If you browse first, the compressed images are not found. To decompress the images, you must use the bpimage command.
Specifies the minimum period of time (in hours) that can elapse without a catalog cleanup. The default value is 12 (hours). Since cleanup cannot run during a catalog backup, large 24x7 environments that run long catalog backups may need a shorter cleanup interval (e.g., three hours). Regardless of the value of this option, the image database is automatically cleaned up at the end of a session of scheduled backups.
This option appears in the output display as Image DB Cleanup Interval (see examples).
Specifies the interval (in minutes) between image database catalog cleanup operations. The default value is 60 (minutes). If multiple backups occur during this cleanup wait interval, NetBackup only initiates one cleanup operation in this time period. The range of values is zero (0) to 720.
Specifies the number of hours ago that is the beginning of the time range for selecting NetBackup report entries. The end of the time range is the current time. For example, if hours ago is 24 and if you request a Backup Status report at 10:00 a.m., the report includes the following: All backups that ran from 10:00 a.m. yesterday until 10:00 a.m. today.
This value is used to calculate the time range for general reports and media reports. General reports include Backup Status, Client Backups, Problems, and All Log Entries. Media reports include Media List, Media Summary, Media Contents, Images on Media, and Media Log Entries.
Hours Ago is a positive integer in the range of 1 to 32767. The default value is 24 (hours).
The number of days to keep logs. This number determines how long the NetBackup master server keeps its Error database and debug logs.
NetBackup derives its Backup Status, Problems, All Log Entries, and Media Log Entries reports from the Error database.
This value limits the period that these reports can cover. The range of values is 1 to 32767. The default is 28 days. A value of zero (0) turns logs off.
The number of days to Keep True-image-recovery (TIR) data. This value determines how long to keep TIR information for those policies that specify the collection of TIR information. The default is one (1) day. A value of zero (0) turns off the TIR information.
The list type is long. See the section DISPLAY FORMATS for more detail.
The list type is short. This option is the default if the command line has no list-type option (for instance, if you enter bpconfig and a carriage return). See the section DISPLAY FORMATS for more detail.
The master server where the global configuration attributes reside.
The mail address for the NetBackup administrator. NetBackup sends notification of failed automatic backups, the manual backup operations that the administrator directs, and automatic database backups to this email address. The default is NULL (no email address).
If no address is provided, the current setting of the Admin Mail Address is cleared. Notification is no longer sent by email to the NetBackup administrator.
The maximum number of copies per backup. The range of values is 2 to 10. The default value is 2.
The multihosted-media-mount timeout. This timeout is the time in seconds that NetBackup waits for a shared medium to be mounted, positioned, and ready on backups and restores. Use this timeout to eliminate excessive waits if another server uses a shared medium. The default is 0, which means no timeout (unlimited wait time).
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide for details on multihosted drives.
Specifies the maximum jobs per client. This number is the maximum number of jobs that a client can perform concurrently. It must be a positive integer. The range values are 1 to 32767. The default value is 1.
The time interval that is associated with the configured number of tries for a backup (see -tries). This interval is the period in hours during which NetBackup tries a backup job for a client/policy/schedule combination for as many tries as configured. The hours must be a positive integer. The range values are 1 to 24. The default value is 12 hours.
Specifies the preprocessing interval. This interval is the minimum time in hours between client queries to discover new paths when NetBackup uses auto-discover-streaming mode.
The default Preprocess Interval value is four (4) hours. If the preprocessing interval changes, change it back to the default by specifying -prep -1. The preprocessing interval can be set to preprocess immediately by specifying 0 as the preprocess interval for auto discovery on the bpconfig command line. The maximum Preprocessing Interval is 48 hours.
For additional information, see the Policies chapter of the NetBackup Administrator's Guide.
Specifies the policy update interval, which is how often NetBackup policy updates are processed. The default value is 10 minutes. The range of values is 1 to 1440 (minutes).
Specifies the media-mount timeout. This timeout is the time in seconds that NetBackup waits for the requested media to be mounted, positioned, and ready on backups and restores. Use -to to eliminate excessive waits when you need to mount media manually (for example, when robotic media is out of the robot or off site).
The default is 0, which means no timeout (unlimited wait time). If seconds is not 0, its value range is 1 to 32,767 seconds.
The number of retries for a backup during the configured time period (see -period). For a given combination of client, policy, and schedule, NetBackup tries to run a backup job the specified number of times. This option limits the number of backup tries if repeated failures occur.
Values for -tries range from 1 to 32767. The default is two tries. If defaults are used for both -tries and -period, NetBackup tries the backup two times in 12 hours.
Selects verbose mode for logging. This option is meaningful only if it runs with the debug log function on. Therefore, the following directory must be defined:
Job Retry Delay. Specifies how often NetBackup retries a job. The default value is 10 minutes. The range of values is 1 to 1440 (minutes).
bpconfig uses the following three different formats to display the current values of the NetBackup global configuration attributes:
If the command line contains -U, the display format is user. The user display format is the format used by bpadm and the NetBackup graphical-user interfaces. This option produces a list with one global attribute per line. Each line has the form global attribute descriptor: value. This list is similar to the -L format, except that the global attribute descriptors are more explicit. The fields are as follows:
If the command line contains -L, the display format is long. This option produces a list with one global attribute per line, in the format global attribute descriptor: value. The fields are as follows:
If the bpconfig command line contains -l or contains no list-format option, the display format is short, which produces a terse listing. This option is useful for the scripts or the programs that rework the list into a customized report format. The list layout is a single line that contains the values for all global attributes. The time units follow the attributes in parentheses for the attributes that are expressed in units of time. The attributes appear in the following order with blanks between them:
NetBackup administrator email address.
Maximum simultaneous jobs per client.
Compress the image database interval (seconds; 0 denotes no compression).
Media mount timeout (seconds; 0 denotes unlimited).
Multihosted-media-mount timeout (seconds; 0 denotes unlimited).
Postprocess images flag (0 denotes deferred, otherwise immediately).
Display reports from <x> hours ago (hours).
Preprocessing interval (hours).
Example of how the display formats differ:
bpconfig runs with each of the three display formats on a NetBackup installation. The NetBackup global attributes are the same for the three displays.
The first display format, -U, looks like the following:
bpconfig -U Admin Mail Address: Job Retry Delay: 1 minutes Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 1 Backup Tries: 2 time(s) in 12 hour(s) Keep Error/Debug Logs: 28 days Max drives this master: 0 Keep TrueImageRecovery Info: 1 days Compress Image DB Files: (not enabled) Media Mount Timeout: 0 minutes (unlimited) Display Reports: 24 hours ago Preprocess Interval: 0 hours Maximum Backup Copies: 10 Image DB Cleanup Interval: 12 hours Image DB Cleanup Wait Time: 60 minutes Policy Update Interval: 10 minutes
The second display format, -L, looks like the following:
bpconfig -L Mail Admin: *NULL* Job Retry Delay: 1 minutes Max Jobs/Client: 1 Backup Tries: 2 in 12 hours Keep Logs: 28 days Max drives/master: 0 Compress DB Files: (not enabled) Media Int Timeout: 0 minutes (unlimited) Display Reports: 24 hours ago Keep TIR Info: 1 days Prep Interval: 0 hours Max Backup Copies: 10 DB Clean Interval: 12 hours DB Clean Wait Time: 60 minutes Policy Update Interval:10 minutes
The third display format, -l, looks like the following:
bpconfig -l *NULL* 1 12 1 2 28 0 0 0 0 1 24 1 0 2 10 60
The display fields for the -l display are interpreted as follows:
NetBackup administrator email address has not been set.
Maximum simultaneous jobs per client is 1.
Maximum drives this master is 0.
Compress image database interval is 0 seconds; 0 denotes no compression.
Media mount timeout is 0seconds; 0 denotes unlimited.
Multihosted-media-mount timeout is 0 seconds; 0 denotes unlimited.
Postprocess images flag is 1 (immediate).
Display reports from 24 hours ago.
Keep TIR information for one (1) day.
Preprocessing interval is zero (0) hours.
Catalog database cleanup interval is two (2) hours.
An exit status of zero (0) means that the command ran successfully.
Any exit status other than zero (0) means that an error occurred.
If the administrative log function is enabled, the exit status is logged in the administrative daily log under the log directory:
Windows: install_path\NetBackup\logs\admin
bpconfig: EXIT status = exit status
While the master server
kiwi runs, display the global
attribute settings on the master server plim:
bpconfig -U -M plim Admin Mail Address: ichabod@null.null.com Job Retry Delay: 10 minutes Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 1 Backup Tries: 1 time(s) in 8 hour(s) Keep Error/Debug Logs: 6 days Max drives this master: 0 Keep TrueImageRecovery Info: 1 days Compress Image DB Files: (not enabled) Media Mount Timeout: 30 minutes Display Reports: 24 hours ago Preprocess Interval: 0 hours Maximum Backup Copies: 10 Image DB Cleanup Interval: 12 hours Image DB Cleanup Wait Time: 60 minutes Policy Update Interval: 10 minutes
Set the Compress-image-database interval to 604800 seconds, so that NetBackup compresses images more than seven days old:
bpconfig -cd 604800 bpconfig -U Admin Mail Address: *NULL* Job Retry Delay: 10 minutes Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 1 Backup Tries: 2 time(s) in 12 hour(s) Keep Error/Debug Logs: 28 days Max drives this master: 0 Keep TrueImageRecovery Info: 2 days Compress Image DB Files: older than 7 day(s) Media Mount Timeout: 0 minutes (unlimited) Display Reports: 24 hours ago Preprocess Interval: 0 hours Maximum Backup Copies: 10 Image DB Cleanup Interval: 12 hours Image DB Cleanup Wait Time: 60 minutes Policy Update Interval: 10 minutes
Set the Media Mount Timeout to 1800 seconds.
bpconfig -to 1800 bpconfig -U Admin Mail Address: sasquatch@wapati.edu Job Retry Delay: 10 minutes Max Simultaneous Jobs/Client: 1 Backup Tries: 1 time(s) in 12 hour(s) Keep Error/Debug Logs: 3 days Max drives this master: 0 Keep TrueImageRecovery Info: 24 days Compress Image DB Files: (not enabled) Media Mount Timeout: 30 minutes Display Reports: 24 hours ago Preprocess Interval: 0 hours Maximum Backup Copies: 10 Image DB Cleanup Interval: 12 hours Policy Update Interval: 10 minutes