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Veritas NetBackup™ Commands Reference Guide

Last Published: 2017-07-21

Product(s): NetBackup (8.0)

Introduction
Appendix A. NetBackup Commands
1. acsd
2. add_media_server_on_clients
3. backupdbtrace
4. backuptrace
5. bmrc
6. bmrconfig
7. bmrepadm
8. bmrprep
9. bmrs
10. bmrsrtadm
11. bp
12. bparchive
13. bpbackup
14. bpbackupdb
15. bpcatarc
16. bpcatlist
17. bpcatres
18. bpcatrm
19. bpcd
20. bpchangeprimary
21. bpclient
22. bpclimagelist
23. bpclntcmd
24. bpclusterutil
25. bpcompatd
26. bpconfig
27. bpdbjobs
28. bpdbm
29. bpdgclone
30. bpdown
31. bpduplicate
32. bperror
33. bpexpdate
34. bpfis
35. bpflist
36. bpgetconfig
37. bpgetdebuglog
38. bpimage
39. bpimagelist
40. bpimmedia
41. bpimport
42. bpinst
43. bpkeyfile
44. bpkeyutil
45. bplabel
46. bplist
47. bpmedia
48. bpmedialist
49. bpminlicense
50. bpnbat
51. bpnbaz
52. bppficorr
53. bpplcatdrinfo
54. bpplclients
55. bppldelete
56. bpplinclude
57. bpplinfo
58. bppllist
59. bpplsched
60. bpplschedrep
61. bppolicynew
62. bpps
63. bprd
64. bprecover
65. bprestore
66. bpretlevel
67. bpschedule
68. bpschedulerep
69. bpsetconfig
70. bpstsinfo
71. bpstuadd
72. bpstudel
73. bpstulist
74. bpsturep
75. bptestbpcd
76. bptestnetconn
77. bptpcinfo
78. bpup
79. bpverify
80. cat_convert
81. cat_export
82. cat_import
83. configurePorts
84. create_nbdb
85. csconfig
86. duplicatetrace
87. importtrace
88. jbpSA
89. jnbSA
90. ltid
91. mklogdir
92. nbauditreport
93. nbcatsync
94. NBCC
95. NBCCR
96. nbcertcmd
97. nbcertupdater
98. nbcomponentupdate
99. nbcplogs
100. nbdb_admin
101. nbdb_backup
102. nbdb_move
103. nbdb_ping
104. nbdb_restore
105. nbdb_unload
106. nbdbms_start_server
107. nbdbms_start_stop
108. nbdc
109. nbdecommission
110. nbdelete
111. nbdeployutil
112. nbdevconfig
113. nbdevquery
114. nbdiscover
115. nbdna
116. nbemm
117. nbemmcmd
118. nbexecute
119. nbfindfile
120. nbfirescan
121. nbftadm
122. nbftconfig
123. nbgetconfig
124. nbhba
125. nbholdutil
126. nbhypervtool
127. nbjm
128. nbkmsutil
129. nboraadm
130. nbpem
131. nbpemreq
132. nbperfchk
133. nbplupgrade
134. nbrb
135. nbrbutil
136. nbregopsc
137. nbreplicate
138. nbrestorevm
139. nbseccmd
140. nbsetconfig
141. nbsnapimport
142. nbsnapreplicate
143. nbsqladm
144. nbstl
145. nbstlutil
146. nbsu
147. nbsvrgrp
148. resilient_clients
149. restoretrace
150. stopltid
151. tl4d
152. tl8d
153. tl8cd
154. tldd
155. tldcd
156. tlhd
157. tlhcd
158. tlmd
159. tpautoconf
160. tpclean
161. tpconfig
162. tpext
163. tpreq
164. tpunmount
165. verifytrace
166. vltadm
167. vltcontainers
168. vlteject
169. vltinject
170. vltoffsitemedia
171. vltopmenu
172. vltrun
173. vmadd
174. vmchange
175. vmcheckxxx
176. vmd
177. vmdelete
178. vmoprcmd
179. vmphyinv
180. vmpool
181. vmquery
182. vmrule
183. vmupdate
184. vnetd
185. vxlogcfg
186. vxlogmgr
187. vxlogview
188. W2KOption

Name

bpfis — create or delete a snapshot, or return information about existing snapshots

SYNOPSIS

bpfis delete [-force] -id id -copy copynum

bpfis query [-fq] [-id id -copy copynum]

On UNIX systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/

On Windows systems, the directory path to this command is <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\

DESCRIPTION

The bpfis command can delete or query (discover) snapshots of a client system (file system or volume).

Note:

To store the image on tape or other media requires that you run a separate backup job.

For more information about the locale of your system, see "About specifying the locale of the NetBackup installation" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume II.

For detailed examples and procedures about using bpfis, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.

You must have administrator privileges to run this command.

OPTIONS

-copy copynum

Identifies the copy number. When used with the query function, -copy lists detailed information for the specified copy number of the snapshot. With the delete function, -copy specifies the copy number of the snapshot to be deleted.

delete

Deletes the snapshot that -id identifies.

-force

Forces the delete operation.

-fq

Generates a full query which includes a detailed description and information about a given snapshot.

-id

Returns the path of the original file system (snapshot source) and the path of the snapshot file system. The default ID is a timestamp that shows when the image was created.

For bpfis delete, this option designates the ID of the snapshot to be deleted.

For bpfis query, this option designates the ID of the snapshot for which to return information.

query

Retrieves detailed information on the specified snapshot of a client system.

EXAMPLES

Example 1 - Obtain information about a particular snapshot on the local host. The output shows the path of the snapshot source (UNIX: /mnt/ufscon) and the path of the snapshot file system (UNIX: /tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808/mnt/ufscon).

# bpfis query -id 1034037338
INF - BACKUP START 26838
INF - Frozen image host : ricochet
INF - Frozen image owner: GENERIC
INF - Time created      : Mon Oct  7 19:35:38 2011
INF - REMAP FILE BACKUP /mnt/ufscon USING (UNIX systems)
INF - REMAP FILE BACKUP E: USING <GUID> (Windows systems)
/tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808/mnt/ufscon (UNIX systems)
OPTIONS:ALT_PATH_PREFIX=/tmp/_vrts_frzn_img_26808,FITYPE=MIRROR,
MNTPOINT=/mnt/ufscon,FSTYPE=ufs (UNIX systems)
MNTPOINT=E:\,FSTYPE=NTFS (Windows systems)
INF - EXIT STATUS 0: the requested operation was successfully completed

Example 2 - Delete a snapshot on the local host:

# bpfis delete -id 1034037338
INF - BACKUP START 26839
INF - EXIT STATUS 0: the requested operation was successfully 
completed