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  2. NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. About the NetBackup database
  5. Post-installation tasks
  6. Creating the NBDB database manually
  7. Additional create_nbdb options
NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Additional create_nbdb options

In addition to using the create_nbdb command to create the NBDB database, you also can use it to perform the following actions. In each command, NB_server_name matches the name in the following file: postgresql.conf

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and recreate it in the default location:

    create_nbdb -drop

    On UNIX, the location of the current NBDB data directory is retrieved automatically from the bp.conf file.

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and do not recreate it:

    create_nbdb -drop_only

  • Drop the existing NBDB database and recreate it in the data directory:

    create_nbdb -drop -data data_directory

If the NBDB database was moved from the default location by using nbdb_move, use this command to recreate it in the same location. Specify current_data_directory. BMRDB must also be recreated. The BMRDB database must reside in the same location as the NetBackup database.

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