Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Mounting a remote NFS drive
This procedure describes how to mount your remote NFS drive.
To mount a remote NFS drive
- Log on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu using your administrator's credentials.
- Type the Main > Manage> MountPoints command.
The appliance lists all the commands under in the MountPoints menu.
- To mount your remote NFS drive, type the following command:
Mount RemotePath MountPoint [FileSystemType] [options]
This command includes the following parameters:
RemotePath
MountPoint
[FileSystemType]
[Options]
Description
Provide the address of a device or a directory to be mounted on to your appliance.
Provide the name of the local mount point. This appears as a subdirectory where the NFS drive is mounted. After the command runs successfully, this subdirectory is created under /mnt/remote.
Note:
An error may be displayed if the full directory path (example: '/tmp/garry') is specified instead of just a mount point name (example: garry).
Specify the type of the device to be mounted.
Specify any additional options to be passed to the appliance along with the Mount command.
Format
HOST:DIRECTORY
Note:
A short hostname is also supported. Ensure that the short hostname can be resolved.
A subdirectory name under /mnt/remote. The subdirectory may or may not exist and is created under /mnt/remote by default.
You can only use options specific for mounting the NFS drive.
Parameter type
Mandatory
Mandatory
Optional
Optional
Example
appesx5.
ros.
veritas.com
:/build1
garry
NFSv3 or any other supported type by the underlying Mount command.
ro is used to mount the device as read only.
- The appliance mounts your remote NFS drive.
Note:
If you mount a remote share and then restart the appliance, the mount is re-established when the appliance starts. The mount points are persistent across all the restart operations and there is no exception to this rule.
To list and view the mounted devices
- Log in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu using your administrator credentials.
- Type the Main > Manage > MountPoints command.
The appliance lists all the commands under the MountPoints menu.
- To view the list of mounted devices use the following command:
List [Type]
When you specify the value for the [Type] parameter as [All], the appliance displays all the available mount points along with the NFS drives. If this parameter is not provided, this command lists all the NFS mount points.
Note:
In certain circumstances, you may find that a NetBackup Virtual Appliance NFS share is not accessible. If this issue occurs, use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu to restart the NFS server.
Use the following command: Support > Service Restart nfsserver
Once you have restarted the server, try to access the NFS share again.