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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide
  3. Using logs
  4. About legacy logging
  5. File name format for legacy logging
Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide

File name format for legacy logging

NetBackup legacy logging creates debug log files in the following format:

user_name.mmddyy_nnnnn.log

The file names include the following elements:

user_name

The name of the user in whose context the process runs, as follows:

  • For UNIX root user, the user_name is root.

  • For UNIX user other than the root user, the user_name is the user's login ID.

  • For all users who are part of the Administrator group in Windows, the user_name is ALL_ADMINS.

  • For Windows user, the user_name is either username@domain_name or username@machine_name.

mmddyy

The month, day, and year on which NetBackup created the log file.

nnnnn

The counter or the rotation number for the log file. When the counter exceeds the setting for number of log files, the oldest log file is deleted.

The MAX_NUM_LOGFILES configuration parameter sets the maximum number of a legacy log file per process.

The new folder structure for non-root or non-admin invoked process logs is created under process log directory name.

For example,

/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/tar/root.031020_00001.log
/usr/openv/netbackup/log/tar/usr1/usr1.031020_00001.log

Here, for non-root user usr1, a non-root username directory is created under the respective NetBackup processes.

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