
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting 141
Process Diagrams for Offhost Backup
1. The NetBackup master server or client initiates the backup, causing the NetBackup
request daemon bprd to start the scheduler, bpsched. bpsched processes the policy
configurations depending on the initiator of the backup (scheduled, immediate
manual, or user directed). Refer to Appendix A of the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide
for more information on this stage of the backup operation.
2. bpsched uses bpcd (client daemon) to start the backup/restore manager (bpbrm) on
the media server.
3. bpbrm starts the Media Manager process bptm (parent) and also starts the actual
backup by using bpcd on the client to start the client’s backup and archive program
bpbkar.
4. bpbkar sends information about files within the image to the backup/restore
manager bpbrm, which directs the file information to bpdbm for the NetBackup file
database on the master server.
5. bpbkar requests creation of a frozen image of the client’s active data. bpbkar uses
the frozen image method that was configured for the frozen image source.
6. bpbkar requests file/volume mapping information about the client data. bpbkar
uses one or more mapping services to decompose the client’s data into physical disk
addresses (also referred to as disk extents). The file/volume mapping information (list
of extents) comes from one of two places: the client’s active (primary) data, and from
the frozen image of the client data (cached).
7. On the media server, bptm creates a child process, which reads the mapping
information (extent list) from bpbkar.
8. Based on the extent list received from bpbkar, bptm reads the client data (backup
image) from two places: from the client’s active data (for those blocks that have not
changed since the backup was initiated), and from the frozen image cache (to obtain
the original contents of the blocks that have changed since the backup was initiated).
9. The bptm child stores the client data block-by-block in shared memory.
10. The parent bptm process then takes the backup image from shared memory and
sends it to the storage device. For information on how the tape request is issued, refer
to Appendix A of the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.
Comentarios a estos manuales