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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Use Accelerator to back up Hyper-V
  4. Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output

You can configure the output of bpimagelist, bpdbjobs, and bpclimagelist to show the amount of Accelerator backup data that was transferred over the network instead of the backup image size.

The following is the default bpimagelist output that shows the Accelerator image size (see the circled value 7799632). The amount of network-transferred data appears farther down in the output (225792):

Note:

This example output is for a VMware backup, but the output formatting is the same for Hyper-V.

You can configure NetBackup command output to show the network-transferred data in the image size field. In the output, the image size value is replaced with the network-transferred data value (see the following example). A script that reads the image size from the command output now reads the amount of network-transferred data.

In the following bpimagelist output, the image size field shows the network-transferred data (225792):

Note:

The same change occurs in the labeled output of the commands (such as with the -L option of bpimagelist). For example, the Kilobytes field shows the transferred data value (225792 in the example) rather than the Accelerator backup image size.

To enable the reporting of network-transferred data in the Accelerator image size field of bpimagelist, bpdbjobs, and bpclimagelist

  • Use the bpsetconfig command to enable the output change.

    To enable this change for the bpclimagelist command, enter the bpsetconfig command on the master server. To enable this change for bpimagelist or bpdbjobs, enter the bpsetconfig command on the server where you intend to run bpimagelist or bpdbjobs.

    Refer to Table: To enable the reporting of network-transferred data in the Accelerator image size field of bpimagelist, bpclimagelist, or bpdbjobs output for the bpsetconfig command to use based on the type of Accelerator backup that you want to report on.

Table: To enable the reporting of network-transferred data in the Accelerator image size field of bpimagelist, bpclimagelist, or bpdbjobs output

Type of backup to report on

Enter this command

Incremental Hyper-V Accelerator backups

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_HYPERV | install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_HYPERV" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

All Hyper-V Accelerator backups (full and incremental)

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_HYPERV |  install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_HYPERV" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

Incremental Accelerator virtual machine backups (VMware and Hyper-V)

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_VIRTUAL |  install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_VIRTUAL" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

All Accelerator virtual machine backups (VMware and Hyper-V, full and incremental)

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_VIRTUAL |  install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_VIRTUAL" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

All incremental Accelerator backups (physical clients and virtual machines)

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_ALL |  install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_INC_ALL" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

All Accelerator backups (full and incremental, physical clients and virtual machines)

Windows

echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_ALL |  install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

UNIX, Linux

echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_
FOR_ACCL_ALL_ALL" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

To reset the command output to the default setting

  • To disable the reporting of network-transferred data in the Accelerator image size field (return to default), enter the following:

    Windows

    echo REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_DISABLED | install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpsetconfig

    UNIX, Linux

    echo "REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_WITH_DATA_TRANSFERRED = REPLACE_IMAGE_SIZE_DISABLED" | /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpsetconfig

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