Veritas NetBackup™ LiveUpdate Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1, 8.1)

About LiveUpdate logs

This section describes how to enable and use LiveUpdate logging on Windows and UNIX NetBackup systems.

The following describes the NetBackup LiveUpdate log directories:

nbliveup

nbliveup is the NetBackup client program that gets contacted by the NetBackup master server that runs the LiveUpdate policy. The program is responsible for the configuration and initialization of the LiveUpdate agent on each NetBackup server or client to be updated.

liveupdate

This log contains information about the LiveUpdate agent. For convenience, the log is copied from the system location and into the NetBackup logging directory.

patch

This log contains information about the NetBackup Release Update Installer. For convenience, the log is copied into the NetBackup logging directory.

On all NetBackup servers and clients, the nbliveup log directory is created when you install NetBackup LiveUpdate.

To enable the liveupdate and the patch logging features, you must first run the appropriate command or create the appropriate directories. These features must be enabled before you run any LiveUpdate policies.

The following describes the different methods you can use to enable these features:

Run the following command on servers and clients:

  • On Windows servers and clients:

    NetBackup\logs\mklogdir

  • On UNIX servers only:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/mklogdir

Create the following directories on servers and clients:

  • On Windows servers and clients:

    NetBackup\logs\liveupdate

    NetBackup\logs\patch

  • On UNIX servers and clients:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/liveupdate

    /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/patch

If you do not create these directories, you can only view the additional LiveUpdate logs from their original locations as follows:

liveupdate log

  • On Windows servers and clients:

    <LIVEUPDATE_INSTALL_DIR>\Veritas\LiveUpdate\Log.LiveUpdate

    Where LIVEUPDATE_INSTALL_DIR is typically found in the Program Files directory.

  • On UNIX servers and clients:

    /<SYMC_BASE_DIR>/LiveUpdate/liveupdt.log

    Where SYMC_BASE_DIR is defined in /etc/Veritas.conf.

patch log

  • On Windows servers and clients:

    NetBackup\Patch\History.Log

  • On UNIX servers and clients:

    /usr/openv/pack/pack.history