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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Restoring clients
  4. About external procedures
  5. About external procedure environment variables
  6. UNIX and Linux environment variables
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

UNIX and Linux environment variables

The following environment variables are exported on all UNIX and Linux systems:

Table: UNIX and Linux environment variables

Variable

Description

$BMRC

Path name to the bmrc executable file (/usr/openv/NetBackup/bin/bmrc)

$bootServerAddress

Boot server IP address

$clAddress

The IP address of the client

$clAddressHex

Client IP address that is converted to hex

$client_firstboot

Name of client-specific, first boot external procedure

$client_postrestore

Name of client-specific, post-restore external procedure

$client_prediscover

Name of client-specific discover external procedure

$client_preformat

Name of client-specific preformat external procedure

$client_prerestore

Name of client-specific prerestore external procedure

$clName

The name of the client.

$clOs

BMR abbreviated OS specification

$configName

The name of the configuration

$default_firstboot

Name of OS default first boot external procedure

$default_postrestore

Name of OS default postrestore external procedure

$default_prediscover

Name of OS default prediscover external procedure

$default_preformat

Name of OS default preformat external procedure

$default_prerestore

Name of OS default prerestore external procedure

$defaultGateway

The name of the default gateway

$extProcName

Current external procedure name

$importNonRootVgs

Import nonsystem volume and disk groups

$logging

Log restore; yes=yes, no=no

$newConfig

Name of the configuration to discover

$onEpError

Restore behavior on External Procedure Error:

0=cancel

1=prompt

2=ignore

$runEp

Start external procedures if found 0=no, 1=yes

$runMode

Mode of BMR process discover or restore

$serverAddress

NetBackup server IP address

$serverGateway

Gateway to the NetBackup server

$serverName

NetBackup server name

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