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  3. NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section V. Configuring backups
  7. About the NetBackup database
  9. Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
  11. General tab of the NetBackup Database Administration utility
NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

General tab of the NetBackup Database Administration utility

The General tab contains information about database tablespaces. The tab contains tools to let the administrator reorganize fragmented database objects and validate and rebuild the database.

Table: General tab options

Option

Description

Refresh

Displays the most current information.

Reorganize All

This option defragments the tablespaces that are fragmented.

Validate

This option performs a database validation on all of the database tablespaces in the selected database.

  • Validates the indexes and keys on all of the tables in the database.

  • Scans each table. For each row, a check is made that it exists in the appropriate indexes. The number of rows in the table must match the number of entries in the index.

  • Ensures that every row that is referenced in each index exists in the corresponding table. For foreign key indexes, it also ensures that the corresponding row exists in the primary table.

After a validation check runs, the Results screen lists each database object. Each error is listed next to the database object where it was found. The total number of errors are listed at the end of the list of database objects. If no errors were found, that is indicated.

If any validation errors are reported, perform the following tasks:

  • Shut down NetBackup (all daemons and services).

  • Start only the NetBackup database server (vrtsdbsvc_psql).

  • Click Validate to repeat the validation check or use the nbdb_admin.exe command line utility.

If validation errors persist, contact Cohesity Technical Support. The administrator may be asked to rebuild the database using the Rebuild option or the nbdb_unload.exe command line utility.

Rebuild

This option unloads and reloads the database. A new database with all of the same options is built in its place.

A Database Rebuild may be required if validation errors are reported when you use the Validate option.

Note:

Before you rebuild the database, it is recommended that you create a copy of the database by performing a backup from the Tools tab.

To rebuild the database temporarily suspends NetBackup operations and can take a long time depending on the database size.

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