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  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 databases.conf file
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About the databases.conf file

The Windows install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\conf\databases.conf configuration file and the UNIX /usr/openv/var/global/databases.conf configuration file contain the locations of the main database files and the database names for automatic startup when the SQL Anywhere service is started. For example, if NBDB and BMRDB are both located on the master server in the default locations, databases.conf contains:

On Windows

"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\NBDB.db" -n NBDB

"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\NBAZDB.db" -n NBAZDB

"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\BMRDB.db" -n BMRDB

On UNIX

"/usr/openv/db/data/NBAZDB.db" -n NBAZDB

"/usr/openv/db/data/NBDB.db" -n NBDB

"/usr/openv/db/data/BMRDB.db" -n BMRDB

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