Netbackup Cheat Sheet

Master Server Daemons/Processes Request daemonbprd Schedulerbpsched (started with bprd) Netbackup database managerbpdbm (started with bpsched) Job Monitorbpjobd (started with bpdbm) Media Server Daemons/Processes Communications daemonbpcd Backup and restore managerbpbrm...

NetBackup Tutorial: Steps to verify device configuration using "robtest"

NetBackup Tutorial: Steps to verify device configuration using "robtest" The process to absolutely verify that the drive path mapping is correct on all of the media servers is a bit time consuming, but will ensure that everything is correct.  Step 1  Please note...

Netbackup (CLI) Important Commands (Useful Commands) and Explanations

Being a NetBackup backup administrator we should know minimum commands to manage our regular tasks with a simple CLI commands, here I listed few which should know by every NetBackup administrator. Master Server 1) Check the license details/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/get_license_key 2)...

15 Must Know Windows Run Commands - Updated

On the Microsoft Windows operating system, the Run command is used to directly open an application or document whose path is known. We will show up you 15 awesome Run commands that’d helps you to bypass a series of clicks, thereby making things faster in your daily usage...

Upgrade from Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller to Windows Server 2008

Introduction I have been using Windows Server 2003 for years and I believe its time to shift and try using Windows Server 2008, I have downloaded RC0 and decided to Upgrade my Domain Controller, which is also a DNS & DHCP Server to Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition RC0. In this article, I will show you step by step how to perform an in-place upgrade for a Domain Controller...

Useful VMware Commands

Useful VMware Commands Restart management services:Service mgmt-vmware restart Find DNS servers:Cat /etc/resolv.conf Check ESX version:esxupdate query Restart vmware management:service vmware-vpxa restartservice mgmt- vmware restart vdf –hview partion info (disk space etc) ls –larthlist files in a directory in by GB, MB (easy to see file sizes) ls –larth *delta*as above but only...

Setup the vSphere Management Assistant

Setup the vSphere Management Assistant The below article describes the initial stpes in setting up a vSpehre Management Asssitant appliance. Step 1 – Download and Install Go to the Vmware website and download the latest version of the VMA appliance This comes as a .zip file. Extract...

Quick tip: Launching the Hidden Command Prompt while installing Windows

Quick tip: Launching the Hidden Command Prompt while installing Windows During the installation of Windows, its is possible to launch the command prompt after entering the username and password.Just press Shift + F10 and the command prompt will appear.By this you can enable the...

Creating a Batch to free up disc space

Creating a Batch to free up disc space You can free up spaces on your hard drive. Just follow these instructions: Open Notepad, copy and paste: CD\ CD %APPDATA% CD.. CD LOCAL\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\EXPLORER DEL *.db CD\ CD %Windir% CD SoftwareDistribution DEL /F /S /Q Download vsp1cln...

Command prompts for Windows

Command prompts for Windows Some of these command below can cause harmful an undesirable functions, leading to the formatting of your hard disk and data loss, while others will not run under Windows XP. As for Windows Vista the Run Tab is not visible in the start up menu. Windows...

Run Update.exe to Install Windows XP SP1

To install the service pack, follow these steps.NOTE: Windows XP must be installed on the computer to use this method. Disable any real-time antivirus programs that are running on the computer.Connect to the shared distribution folder that contains the service pack source files.In the Update folder, run Update.exe.For example, to install the service pack from the E:\XPSP1\I386...

Create and Prepare the I386 Distribution Folder

Connect to the network or computer on which you want to create the I386 distribution folder.In a shared folder, create an I386 folder from which to distribute the service pack. For example, to create the I386 folder in a folder named XPSP1, type the following at the command prompt (where drive is the drive of the network or computer where the distribution folder is located), and...

Debug a Windows XP batch file and output the current date and time to a log file

The Windows 2003 Resource Kit comes with a batch file command, logtime, that lets you output the current time, date, and a custom text message to a log file. This is great for benchmarking batch files and commands in that you can output when such a command starts and completes.To run logtime, first download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit using the instructions...

XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill

The ability to perform tasks from a system’s command line allows those tasks to be used in batch files. This recipe describes several uses of taskkill to terminate Windows processes. If you know the name of a process to kill, for example notepad.exe, use the following command from a command prompt to end it: taskkill /IM notepad.exe This will cause the program to terminate gracefully,...

WindowsXP: Using the Command prompt to see and kill processes

If you are a WindowsXP user then you must be already familiar with the life-saving graphical tool called “Task Manager” on Windows. Whenever the PC starts hanging and the processes start eating up a lot of memory (Sadly most of the time its Firefox for me), we press the alt+ctr+del key to bring up the the “Task Manager” and try to kill the memory eating processes and the ones which...