NetBackup™ Commands Reference Guide
- Introduction
- Appendix A. NetBackup Commands
Name
tiermover — start a move operation or display the status of a move operations
SYNOPSIS
--start [--client CLIENT] [--policy POLICY] [--backupid BACKUPID] [--lsu LSU] [--retrieval RETRIEVAL-MODE] [--ims] [--verbose] [--debug]
--status [--client CLIENT] [--policy POLICY] [--backupid BACKUPID] [--lsu LSU] [--sobins] [--active] [--lsulist] [--debug] [--verbose]
On UNIX systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/
DESCRIPTION
This command prepares the images that reside in the high-latency storage such as AWS Glacier, AWS Deep Archive, and Microsoft Azure Archive for import operations. This command is available only on UNIX.
OPTIONS
- --active
Instructs the command to only display backups currently being moved. Backups that were already moved are not displayed.
- --backupid
The ID of the individual backup. If not specified, all backups for the client or policy are processed.
- --client
The client the backups are from.
- --debug
Use this option to provide a more detailed log for debugging.
- -h or --help
Displays the help.
- --ims
Specifies that this client is an image sharing server.
- --lsu
The name of the target logical storage unit.
- --lsulist
Lists all LSUs referencing cloud archive storage. The internal ID also listed is sometimes used in the log messages for the LSU. No other options should be specified with this option except --status.
- --policy
The policy name of the backups.
- --retrieval
This option is the retrieval mode for warming objects in the cloud. This option is only applicable for AWS.
The following are the valid options: Bulk, Standard, Expedited.
- --sobins
Displays the cloud tier storage level for each metadata sobin in the backup. It also displays if the sobin has an outstanding warm request.
- --verbose
Output debugging information.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Start move operations for any backups that reside in the archive storage.
tiermover --start --lsu a --client computer.domain.com --policy p1
Example 2: Determine the status of the move operation for a particular backup or a group of backups.
tiermover --status --lsu a --client computer.domain.com --policy p1 --backupid computer.domain.com_1732044097