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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. NetBackup logs for Hyper-V and how to create them
  5. Format of the VxMS core.log and provider.log file names
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Format of the VxMS core.log and provider.log file names

For the log files core.log and provider.log created by default during VxMS logging, the NetBackup administrator's user name is inserted into the log file name.

Table: Format of VxMS core.log and provider.log file names describes the format of the log file names.

Table: Format of VxMS core.log and provider.log file names

Platform

VxMS log-file-name format

Windows

VxMS-thread_id-user_name.mmddyy_tag.log

For example:

VxMS-7456-ALL_ADMINS.070214_core.log

VxMS-7456-ALL_ADMINS.070214_provider.log

UNIX, Linux

VxMS-thread_id-user_name.log.mmddyy_tag

For example:

VxMS-27658-root.log.081314_core

VxMS-27658-root.log.081314_provider

See Configuring VxMS and vhd logging.

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