Archive: November, 2009

BMC/Veritas Netbackup Daemon (bpcd bprd) Restart

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Here’s some tips in bouncing off NBU client daemon. BMC Netbackup (formerly with Veritas apparently) may have a number of ways to accomplish this (specially if you’re not the backup admin) and depending on the version of the Netbackup software.

The following general guidelines can be used to determine if a restart of NetBackup is required after making changes to the /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file on a system.

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Metastat Needs Maintenance Metareplace

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Guilty! Putting all those Metastat keywords on one subject, that’s me! ANyway, I don’t want to stale this blog so once in a while I’m going to be posting some bits and pieces of Unix tools/tips.. and here’s a new one about SVM… Responding to Disk Errors courtesy of BigAdmin!

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Send Break on XSCF – Sun M5000 Servers

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From our last post about XSCF Cheat sheet, we put there some commands on an XSCF management interface card. I thought that was the most common one, but we forgot to put in how to send ‘break’ to the host console! :)

Here’s how:

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