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  2. NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. About the NetBackup database
  5. About the NetBackup database installation
  6. About NetBackup primary server installed directories and files
  7. About the contents of the NetBackupDB and db directories
NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About the contents of the NetBackupDB and db directories

The following table describes the contents of the following directories.

On Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackupDB\

On UNIX: /usr/openv/db/

Table: NetBackupDB and db directory contents

Directory

Description

bin

Contains the utilities and commands for administrating the NetBackup database service.

data

The default location of the NetBackup databases (NBDB, NBAZDB, and BMRDB) and certain configuration files.

lib

On UNIX: Contains all the shared libraries for the NetBackup Scale-Out Relational Database. The directory also includes ODBC libraries, used to connect to NBDB and BMRDB.

scripts

Warning:

Do not edit the scripts that are located in this directory.

Contains the scripts that are used to create the NetBackup database. It also contains the scripts that are used to create the EMM and other schemas.

share

Contains the PostgreSQL document and module files that are required by the NetBackup database server.

staging

Used as a temporary staging area during catalog backup and recovery.

WIN64

(Windows) Contains .dll files for the NetBackup Scale-Out Relational Database.

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