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  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Protecting the NetBackup catalog
  5. Parts of the NetBackup catalog
  6. NetBackup databases and configuration files
NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

NetBackup databases and configuration files

The NetBackup catalog backup includes the NetBackup databases and the configuration files, as follows.

Databases

The NetBackup databases include the NBDB database and the NetBackup Authorization database (NBAZDB). If Bare Metal Restore is installed (optionally-licensed) there is also the BMRDB database.

The databases are located in the following directories:

install_path\NetBackupDB\data

/usr/openv/db/data/

 

These directories contain the following subdirectories:

\bmrdb\ or /bmrdb/ (if BMR is installed)

\nbazdb\ or /nbazdb/ (NetBackup authorization)

\nbdb\ or /nbdb/ (contains both the NBDB and the EMM databases)

 

Configuration files

Warning:

Do not edit the configuration files. NetBackup may not start if you change these files.

Note:

The catalog backup process copies this data to /usr/openv/db/staging and backs up the copy.

The following configuration files are created:

pgbouncer.ini          
pg_hba.conf            
pg_ident.conf          
postgresql.auto.conf
postgresql.conf        
userlist.txt           
vxdbms.conf
web.conf

Most of the configuration files are located in the following directories:

install_path\NetBackupDB\data\instance

/usr/openv/db/data/instance

 

web.conf is created in the following directories:

/usr/openv/var/global/wsl/config

install_path\NetBackup\var\global\wsl\config

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