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Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2019-02-18

Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2)

Monitoring backup jobs

You can monitor the jobs that back up the protected clients by using the Jobs tab in the Activity Monitor of the NetBackup Administration Console.

You can see information about a job by double-clicking the job, which opens the Job Details dialog box.

The tabs display job information, as follows:

The Job Overview tab contains general information about the job.
The Detailed Status tab contains detailed information about the job and about the agent that runs on the client. It collects the client configuration information and sends it to the BMR master server. On the protected systems that have uncomplicated configurations (one or a few disks), the agent only takes a few seconds. The more complex systems that have disk or volume groups may take a few minutes. Complex storage area network environments may take up to an hour.

If the Allow Multiple Data Stream attribute is enabled in the backup policy, NetBackup may divide backups for each client into multiple jobs. Each job backs up only a part of the backup selection list. The jobs are in separate data streams and can occur concurrently. For each client, only one of the jobs initiates the agent that collects the client bare metal recovery required configuration (normally, the job with the lowest job ID).

Investigate nonzero status of a backup job and resolve problems so backups occur and the agent collects and sends the configuration to the master server.

Note:

In case BMR configuration backup job fails (normally, the job with the lowest job ID), the file system data backup completes successfully. In this case, after successful file system data backup, BMR configuration backup job is marked as Partially Completed highlighted in yellow.