Veritas Netbackup version

Find the Netbackup version
bash-3.00# /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpgetconfig | grep VERSIONINFOVERSIONINFO = “SunOS” “5.10″ “Unknown” “NetBackup” “6.5″ 650000
 
bash-3.00# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/versionHARDWARE SOLARISVERSION NetBackup 6.5.3RELEASEDATE Fri Oct 31 00:23:11 CDT 2008BUILDNUMBER 20081030
 
bash-3.00# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/versionNetBackup-Solaris10 6.5.3

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Veritas NetBackup scan Tape devices

Use /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan command for tape drive details. Check the output to determine if all the drives are being reported correctly.
bash-3.00# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan*********************************************************************************** SDT_TAPE    *********************************************** SDT_CHANGER *********************************************** SDT_OPTICAL ************************************************************************************————————————————————Device Name  : “/dev/rmt/1cbn”Passthru Name: “/dev/sg/c0tw500308c001611804l1″Volume Header: “”Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1Inquiry    : “IBM     ULTRIUM-TD2     5AT0″Vendor ID  : “IBM     “Product ID : “ULTRIUM-TD2     “Product Rev: “5AT0″Serial [...]

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How to rebuild the /dev/sg/* and /dev/rmt/* devices on a Solaris Master or Media server- Without rebooting

Here are the basic steps to rebuild the /dev/sg/* and /dev/rmt/* devices on a Solaris server without rebooting.
1.  Create a backup copy of the current st.conf file:# cp /kernel/drv/st.conf /kernel/drv/st.conf.bak
2.  Move the existing sg.conf to a backup (this must be a move, otherwise a later step will fail):# mv /kernel/drv/sg.conf /kernel/drv/sg.conf.bak
3.  Create a backup copy [...]

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Veritas NetBackup Error: bpcd libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 64bit Linux Server

Exact Error Messagebpcd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Details:
Overview:In Veritas NetBackup ™ Enterprise Server 5.x or 6.0, master servers may be unable to connect to the bpcd daemon on Linux clients using the administration console or may have backups failing with timeout errors.  This can [...]

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