Hot Adding Disk Shelves on NetApp controllers

Increasing storage capacity in a production or even a lab environment can be tricky. You need to make sure that all the stakeholders are aware of this effort, but more importantly, you need to make sure that you increase capacity in a non-disruptive manner. Over the past couple of weeks, I had to add extra disk … Continue reading Hot Adding Disk Shelves on NetApp controllers

Tested and Proven Useful NBU Command Line

Run when no backups or restores are running: # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup stop # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup start Command to find out the Active Backup Jobs #bpdbjobs -report | grep Active #bpdbjobs -report | grep Queue #bpdbjobs -report | grep $JOBID #bpdbjobs -report | grep -v Done  #bpdbjobs -report -all_columns To run NBU Java Console GUI  #/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/jnbSA To check … Continue reading Tested and Proven Useful NBU Command Line