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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. About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
  6. About NetBackup master server installed directories and files
  7. About the contents of the NetBackup directories
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About the contents of the NetBackup directories

The following table describes the contents of the NetBackup directories.

Table: NetBackup directory contents

Directory

Description

charsets

The following directory contains SQL Anywhere-specific information.

On Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\charsets

On UNIX: /usr/openv/db/charsets

lib

On UNIX: The directory /usr/openv/db/lib contains all the SQL Anywhere shared libraries. The directory also includes ODBC libraries, used to connect to NBDB and BMRDB.

log

The following directory contains the SQL Anywhere server log file server.log that contains only Sybase logs.

On Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\log

On UNIX: /usr/openv/db/log

res

On UNIX: The directory /usr/openv/db/res contains SQL Anywhere-specific information.

scripts

The following directory contains the SQL Anywhere scripts that are used to create the database. The directory also contains NetBackup SQL scripts that are used to create the EMM and other schemas.

On Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\scripts

On UNIX: /usr/openv/db/scripts

Note:

Do not edit the scripts that are located in this directory.

staging

The directory that is used as a temporary staging area during catalog backup and recovery.

On Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\staging

On UNIX: /usr/openv/db/staging

tix

On UNIX: The directory /usr/openv/db/tix contains SQL Anywhere-specific information.

WIN32

On Windows: The directory install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\WIN32 contains SQL Anywhere commands and .dll files.

java

On Windows: The directory install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\java contains the components necessary to run the NetBackup Administration Console on a Windows computer.

shared

On Windows: The directory install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\shared is a directory used by Veritas NetBackup OpsCenter.

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