2. Clean a tape drive manually
tpclean -C <drive name>

3. Find backup images of a client for spesific date range.
bpimagelist -U -client <CLIENT_NAME> -d <START_DATE> -e <END_DATE>

4.  Find tape media used for backup of a client for spesific date range.
bpimagelist -U -client <CLIENT_NAME> -d <START_DATE> -e <END_DATE> -media

5. Monitor backup jobs
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs -report

6. Howto re-use used tape media (That is: to re-use a tape media used by another system or older netbackup software)
“Expire that media”
bpexpdate -ev media_id -d 0 -force -host NBUHostname
“De-assign that media”
vmquery -deassignbyid media_id 4 0
“Move that media to a volume pool (preferably a Scratch pool)”
vmchange -m media_id -p Scratch_Pool_Number
“Re-label that media”
bplabel -ev media_id -d robot_type -p Pool_name

7. Check drive usage
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd

8. Take a drive down/up
/usr/openv/volmgr/vmoprcmd -down <drive_index>
/usr/openv/volmgr/vmoprcmd -up <drive_index>

9. Howto unfreeze a media
“Find the frozen media id’s”
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media | grep -i frozen
“Unfreeze the media according to the media id found above”
bpmedia -unfreeze -ev <media_id> -h <media_server>

10. Delete a tape media from NetBackup
“Make sure no images exist on the tape”
bpimmedia -mediaid media_id -L
“Expire the tape”
bpexpdate -ev media_id -d 0 -host NBUHostname -force
“Find the pool name of the tape and make sure the status of that tape”
vmquery -m media_id
“De-assign the tape”
vmquery -deassignbyid <media_id> <pool_number> <status from vmquery -m>
vmquery -deassignbyid media_id 4 0×0
“Delete the tape from NetBackup”
vmdelete -m media_id

12. Properties of a volume pool
vmpool -listall

Application connection failed for servername\. Please select a different SQL server host and instance, or press ‘cancel’ to exit the NetBackup for SQL Server Graphical User Interface.

According to this page, this error is caused by windows 2008′s “User Account Control”. You need to run”Netbackup Ms-Sql client” with “Run As Administrator” privilege.

Right click “Netbackup Ms-Sql client” and select “Run as Administrator” and “Apply”. Try to connect to ms-sql server again and you should be able to see databases now…