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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. About the NetBackup relational database
  5. About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
  6. About NetBackup master server installed directories and files
  7. Relocating the NetBackup database
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Relocating the NetBackup database

The NetBackup database, NBDB, and its associated files, is created on the master server by default. For performance reasons, NBDB can be moved to another host.

On Windows: The NBDB database files can be moved from their default location in install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data.

On UNIX: The NBDB database files can be moved from their default location in /usr/openv/db/data.

Note:

NetBackup does not support saving the NetBackup relational database (NBDB, including NBAZDB and EMM) or the configuration files to a remote NFS share. CIFS is supported on some SAN or NAS storage.

See Parts of the NetBackup catalog.

Note:

If Bare Metal Restore is installed, BMRDB must be located on the master server.

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Moving NBDB database files after installation

Moving NBDB database files after installation

Moving the NetBackup database files

About the Move Database menu options

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