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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. How to enable debug logging
Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

How to enable debug logging

To enable debug logging for standard backup operations, you need to create directories on the client system. The following tables give information about the type of directories that are required.

Table: List of the directories to create and capture back up, restore, and snapshot data lists the directories to create and capture back up, restore, and snapshot data.

Table: Lists the directories to create and capture back up, restore, and snapshot data on the NetBackup media server lists the Windows Event Logs to create on the NetBackup media server.

Table: Lists the VxUL logs for NetBackup Policy Execution Manager and NetBackup Job Manager lists the Windows Event Logs to create on the NetBackup master server.

Table: List of the directories to create and capture back up, restore, and snapshot data

Directories to create

Data logged

install_path\Netbackup\logs\bpbkar

All backups

install_path\Netbackup\logs\tar

All restores

install_path\Netbackup\logs\bpresolver

Enterprise Vault configuration discovery, Enterprise Vault [un]quiescence

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpfis

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Veritas Shared\VxFI\4\Logs

Snapshot information

See the VxFI Administrator's Guide on the Veritas support site.

install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbwin

Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface information

install_path\NetBackup\logs\AltPath

Alternate restore information

Table: Lists the directories to create and capture back up, restore, and snapshot data on the NetBackup media server

Directories to create

Enterprise Vault operation information

install_path\Netbackup\logs\bpbrm (Windows)

Back up and Restore Manager

usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbrm(UNIX)

Back up and Restore Manager

Table: Lists the VxUL logs for NetBackup Policy Execution Manager and NetBackup Job Manager

Directories to create

Enterprise Vault operation information

install_path\Netbackup\logs (Windows)

NetBackup Job Manager

usr/openv/netbackup/logs(UNIX)

Refer to the "Unified logging" topic in the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.

NetBackup Policy Execution Manager

After you create these directories all debug logging information is placed in the separate files that are created on a date basis.

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