Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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  1. Veritas Access integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
    2.  
      About Veritas Access as a NetBackup client
    3.  
      About Veritas Access as backup storage for NetBackup
    4.  
      Use cases for long-term data retention
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with CloudCatalyst
  3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Add-on license for using Veritas Data Deduplication
    3.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Veritas Access
    4.  
      Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
    5.  
      Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Veritas Access command-line interface (CLI)
    6.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    7.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
  4. Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
    1.  
      Migrating the NetBackup image from OpenDedup/CloudCatalyst/S3 to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
  5. Configuring Veritas Access as a cloud storage server with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
    1.  
      Creating an S3 bucket on Veritas Access for storing deduplicated backup data from NetBackup
    2.  
      Creating a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) for primary backup using NetBackup
    3.  
      Configure Veritas Access as a cloud storage server on NetBackup server using CloudCatalyst
    4.  
      Enabling SSL on Veritas Access
  6. Configuring backup and restore using NetBackup policies
    1.  
      Storage Lifecycle Policies
    2.  
      Backup and restore
    3.  
      Running a backup policy manually
    4.  
      Restoring backed up files
  7. Configuring Veritas Access with the NetBackup client
    1.  
      Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Snapshot Client
    3.  
      About NetBackup snapshot methods
    4.  
      Enabling or disabling the NetBackup SAN client
    5.  
      Workflow for configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup
    6.  
      Registering a NetBackup master server or adding an optional media server
    7.  
      Displaying the excluded files from backup
    8.  
      Displaying the included and excluded files for backups
    9.  
      Adding or deleting patterns to the list of files in backups
    10.  
      Configuring or resetting the virtual IP address used by NetBackup
    11.  
      Configuring the virtual name of NetBackup
    12.  
      Displaying the status of NetBackup services
    13.  
      Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
    14.  
      Performing a backup or restore of a Veritas Access file system over a NetBackup SAN client
    15.  
      Performing a backup or restore of a snapshot
    16.  
      Installing or uninstalling the NetBackup client
    17.  
      Configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup cloud storage
  8. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Unmounting the SDFS volume before restarting Veritas Access or the NetBackup media server
    2.  
      Upgrading SDFS from earlier versions to 7.4.2
    3.  
      Log locations for troubleshooting
    4.  
      Changing log levels
    5.  
      Additional resources
    6.  
      Generating Veritas Access S3 server keys using the helper script
    7.  
      OpenDedup tuning recommendations
  9.  
    Index

Installing or uninstalling the NetBackup client

The NetBackup master server version should be higher or equal to the NetBackup client version. To upgrade the NetBackup client, uninstall the currently installed version of the NetBackup client and then install the specified version of the NetBackup client. The uninstall command runs on all the nodes of the Veritas Access cluster.

Veritas Access supports two major versions of the NetBackup client, version 7.7 and 8.0. By default, Veritas Access comes with the 8.0 version of the NetBackup client.

See the backup(1) man page for detailed examples.

To install the NetBackup client

  1. Display the currently installed version of the NetBackup client.
    Backup> show
  2. Install the specified NetBackup client.
    Backup> install version [URL]

    You must specify the version of the NetBackup client that you want to install. If you do not specify a URL, the Backup> install command has the information on the file system for the location it needs. Specify the major release version (8.0 or 7.7) as the second parameter. You can specify the NetBackup package minor release or patches (7.7.1 for a 7.7 major release) as the third parameter to install.

    If the base NetBackup client version is 7.7.

    Backup> install 7.7 scp://support@192.168.2.10:/home/NetBackup_7.7_
    CLIENTS2.tar.gz

    If the base NetBackup client version is 8.0.

    Backup> install 8.0 scp://support@192.168.2.10:/home/NetBackup_8.0_
    CLIENTS2.tar.gz

    If there are minor releases or patches from the NetBackup client.

    Backup> install 7.7 scp://support@192.168.2.10:/home/NetBackup_7.7.1_
    CLIENTS2.tar.gz
    Backup> install 7.7 scp://support@192.168.2.10:/home/NetBackup_7.7.2_
    CLIENTS2.tar.gz

    For example, consider that the NetBackup client binaries are placed on the following host:

    192.168.2.10
    Backup> install 7.7 scp://support@192.168.2.10:/home/NetBackup_7.7.3_
    CLIENTS2.tar.gz

    Where 192.168.2.10 is the host IP address on which the NetBackup client packages are placed.

    NetBackup_7.7.3_CLIENTS2.tar.gz

    This is the NetBackup client package.

  3. Double check if the Red Hat compatible NetBackup client is available in this package.
    support: 
    system user and specify password when prompted.
  4. Verify that the specified NetBackup client is installed.
    Backup> show

To uninstall the NetBackup client

  1. Display the currently installed version of the NetBackup client.
    Backup> show
  2. Uninstall the existing version of the NetBackup client.
    Backup> uninstall
  3. Display the current running version of the NetBackup client.
    Backup> show
  4. Verify that the NetBackup client is not installed.
    Backup> show