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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide
  3. Using logs
  4. About unified logging
  5. Gathering unified logs for NetBackup
Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide

Gathering unified logs for NetBackup

This topic uses an example to describe how to gather unified logs for NetBackup.

To gather unified logs for NetBackup

  1. Create a directory named /upload by using the following command.
    # mkdir /upload
  2. Copy unified logs (for NetBackup only) to the /upload directory by using the following command:
    # vxlogmgr -p NB -c --dir /upload

    Example output:

    Following are the files that were found: 
    /usr/openv/logs/bmrsetup/51216-157-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbemm/51216-111-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbrb/51216-118-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbjm/51216-117-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbpem/51216-116-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbsl/51216-132-2202872032-050125-0000000.log 
    Total 6 file(s) 
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/bmrsetup/51216-157-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ...
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbemm/51216-111-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ... 
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbrb/51216-118-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ... 
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbjm/51216-117-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ... 
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbpem/51216-116-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ... 
    Copying 
    /usr/openv/logs/nbsl/51216-132-2202872032-050125-0000000.log ...
  3. Change to the /upload directory and list its contents.
    # cd /upload 
      ls

    Example output:

    51216-111-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
    51216-116-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
    51216-117-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
    51216-118-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
    51216-132-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
    51216-157-2202872032-050125-0000000.log
  4. Tar the log files.
    # tar -cvf file_name.logs ./*

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