NetVault Plug-in for SQL Server 12.2 - User Guide

About the NetVault Backup CLI

NetVault Backup offers a Command Line Interface (CLI) that you can use to configure and manage your NetVault Backup system from a command prompt or terminal session. You can use the NetVault Backup CLI to perform various tasks such as the following:

You can access the NetVault Backup CLI can be accessed from the NetVault Backup Server and Client machines. For more information about the command-line utilities, see the Quest NetVault Backup CLI Reference Guide.

Performing tasks using the CLI

You can use the job-specific CLI utilities to perform the following tasks:

Creating a selection set

You can create a selection set using the nvsetcreate CLI utility.

To create a Backup Selection Set called backup_set1 that uses the Backup Selections type, BS, on a NetVault Backup Client named SQL_Server_Client and include all instances from the plug-in, enter the following:

Creating an option set

You can create an option set using the nvsetcreate utility. Alternatively, you can specify job-specific options while running the nvjobcreate utility. You can specify options by using the -backupoption tag with the nvsetcreate or nvjobcreate utilities.

The following table shows some examples of using this tag with the nvsetcreate utility:

The following table shows the commonly used IDs for the -backupoption tag.