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  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. About the NetBackup relational database
  5. Post-installation tasks
  6. Creating the NBDB database manually
  7. Additional create_nbdb options
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Additional create_nbdb options

In addition to using the create_nbdb command to create the NBDB database, you also can use it to perform the following actions. In each command, NB_server_name matches the name in server.conf.

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and recreate it in the default location by typing the following command:

    • On Windows: create_nbdb -drop[current_data_directory]

      Provide the location of the current NBDB data directory, current_data_directory, if the default location is not used.

    • On UNIX: create_nbdb -drop

      The location of the current NBDB data directory is retrieved automatically from the bp.conf file.

    The -drop option instructs NetBackup to drop the existing NBDB database.

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and do not recreate by typing the following command:

    On Windows: create_nbdb -db_server NB_server_name -drop_only[current_data_directory]

    On UNIX: create_nbdb -drop_only

    Provide the location of the current NBDB data directory, current_data_directory, if the default location is not used.

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and recreate it in the directories as specified by typing the following command:

    • On Windows:

      create_nbdb -drop [current_data_directory] -data data_directory-index index_directory -tlog log_directory [-mloglog_mirror_directory]

    • On UNIX:

      create_nbdb -drop -data data_directory -index index_directory -tlog log_directory [-mloglog_mirror_directory]

If the NBDB database files were moved from the default location by using nbdb_move, use this command to recreate them in the same location. Specify current_data_directory.

If the location of NBDB.db changed from the default, BMRDB.db must also be recreated. The BMRDB.db files must reside in the same location as the NetBackup database files.

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