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NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2025-08-12

Product(s): NetBackup (11.0.0.1)

Global attributes properties

To access this setting, in the web UI select Hosts > Host properties. Select the primary server. If necessary click Connect, then click Edit primary server. Click Global attributes.

The Global attributes properties apply to currently selected primary servers. These properties affect all operations for all policies and clients. The default values are adequate for most installations.

The Global attributes page contains the following properties.

Table: Global attributes properties

Property	Description
Job retry delay	This property specifies how often NetBackup retries a job. The default is 10 minutes. The maximum is 60 minutes; the minimum is 1 minute.
Maximum jobs per second	This property specifies the throttle on the maximum number of backup jobs that are allowed to go from the Queued to Active state per second. By default, the value of this property is 0, which means no throttling occurs. After the maximum number of jobs is reached in one second, subsequent jobs will remain in the Queued state. In the next second, jobs are released in a first-in-first-out order from the Queued state until the maximum jobs value is reached again or until all throttled jobs or new jobs have been made active. This property can be used to smooth out the resource utilization curve. It is particularly useful when backup windows open and a large number of jobs are scheduled to start within a short time period. This value supersedes the DBM_NEW_IMAGE_DELAY configuration value found here: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100047119 If DBM_NEW_IMAGE_DELAY is configured and the maximum jobs per second throttle is the default value, the DBM_NEW_IMAGE_DELAY will be converted to an equivalent jobs-per-second value. It will not modify the configuration. For example, if DBM_NEW_IMAGE_DELAY was set to 333ms, the NetBackup Job Manager will use a maximum jobs per second throttle of 3. If the user then configured the maximum jobs throttle to 2 per second, the configured DBM_NEW_IMAGE_DELAY would be ignored. Note: This throttle only affects the number of backup jobs that the NetBackup Job Manager allows to start in one second. It does not affect other job types like restores, archives, duplications, or replications. It does not affect the maximum number of concurrent jobs.
Maximum jobs per client	This property specifies the maximum number of backup and archive jobs that NetBackup clients can perform concurrently. The default is one job. NetBackup can process concurrent backup jobs from different policies on the same client only in the following situations: More than one storage unit available One of the available storage units can perform more than one backup at a time. See About constraints on the number of concurrent jobs.
Policy update interval	This property specifies how long NetBackup waits to process a policy after a policy is changed. The interval allows the NetBackup administrator time to make multiple changes to the policy. The default is 10 minutes. The maximum is 1440 minutes; the minimum is 1 minute.
Compress catalog interval	This property specifies how long NetBackup waits after a backup before it compresses the image catalog file.
Schedule backup attempts	NetBackup considers the failure history of a policy to determine whether or not to run a scheduled backup job. The Schedule backup attempts property sets the timeframe for NetBackup to examine. This property determines the following characteristics for each policy: How many preceding hours NetBackup examines to determine whether to allow another backup attempt (retry). By default, NetBackup examines the past 12 hours. How many times a backup can be retried within that timeframe. By default, NetBackup allows two attempts. Attempts include the scheduled backups that start automatically or the scheduled backups that are user-initiated. Consider the following example scenario using the default setting 2 tries every 12 hours: Policy_A runs at 6:00 P.M.; Schedule_1 fails. Policy_A is user-initiated at 8:00 P.M.; Schedule_2 fails. At 11:00 P.M., NetBackup looks at the previous 12 hours. NetBackup sees one attempt at 6:00 P.M. and one attempt at 8:00 P.M. The Schedule backup attempts setting of two has been met so NetBackup does not try again. At 6:30 A.M. the next morning, NetBackup looks at the previous 12 hours. NetBackup sees only one attempt at 8:00 P.M. The Schedule backup attempts setting of two has not been met so NetBackup tries again. If a schedule window is not open at this time, NetBackup waits until a window is open. Note: This attribute does not apply to user backups and archives.
Maximum vault jobs	This property specifies the maximum number of vault jobs that are allowed to be active on the primary server. The greater the maximum number of vault jobs, the more system resources are used. If the active vault jobs limit is reached, subsequent vault jobs are queued and their status is shown as Queued in the Activity monitor. If a duplication job or eject job waits, its status is shown as Active in the Activity monitor. See Job monitoring.
Administrator email address property	This property specifies the addresses where NetBackup sends notifications of scheduled backups or administrator-directed manual backups. To send the information to more than one administrator, separate multiple email addresses by using a comma, as follows: useraccount1@company.com,useraccount2@company.com More information is available on the configuration requirements for email notifications. See Send notifications to the backup administrator about failed backups.