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NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2024-06-20
Product(s):
NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4.0.1)
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Overview of host properties
- View or edit the host properties of a server or client
- Host information and settings in Host properties
- Reset a host's attributes
- Active Directory properties
- Backup pool host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Clean up properties
- Client name properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Cloud Storage properties
- Credential access properties
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Distributed application restore mapping properties
- Encryption properties
- Enterprise Vault properties
- Enterprise Vault hosts properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Lotus Notes properties
- Media properties
- Network properties
- Network settings properties
- Nutanix AHV access hosts
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Add or edit a Preferred network setting
- How NetBackup uses the directives to determine which network to use
- Configurations to use IPv6 networks
- Configurations to use IPv4 networks
- Order of directive processing in the Preferred network properties
- bptestnetconn utility to display Preferred network information
- Configuration to prohibit using a specified address
- Configuration to prefer a specified address
- Configuration that restricts NetBackup to one set of addresses
- Configuration that limits the addresses, but allows any interfaces
- Properties setting in host properties
- RHV access hosts properties
- Resilient network properties
- Resource limit properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Throttle bandwidth properties
- Timeouts properties
- Universal settings properties
- UNIX client properties
- UNIX Server properties
- User account settings properties
- VMware access hosts properties
- Windows client properties
- Configuration options not found in the host properties
- About using commands to change the configuration options on UNIX or Linux clients and servers
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- About configuring BasicDisk storage
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Create a disk pool
- Edit a disk pool
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP, MSDP Cloud) storage server
- Edit a storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
- Overview of universal shares
- Create a universal share
- View or edit a universal share
- Delete a universal share
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Managing tape drives
- Managing robots and tape drives
- Inventorying robots
- About robot inventory
- When to inventory a robot
- About showing a robot's contents
- Showing the media in a robot
- About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration
- Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration
- About previewing volume configuration changes
- Previewing volume configuration changes for a robot
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents
- Robot inventory options
- Advanced options for robot inventory settings
- Configure media ID generation rules
- Barcode rules settings
- Media ID generation options
- Configure media settings
- About media type mapping rules
- Configure media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About NetBackup tape volumes
- About adding volumes
- Add volumes
- Volume properties
- Edit volumes
- About moving volumes
- Move volumes
- Delete a volume
- About rules for moving volumes between groups
- Changing the volume group assignment
- Changing the media owner of a volume
- Rescanning and updating barcodes
- About barcode rules
- Freezing or unfreezing a volume
- Labeling a volume
- Erase a volume
- Suspending or unsuspending volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- Set the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disable multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multifactor authentication for all users
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multifactor authentication for a user
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- View the Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- Validate the disaster recovery package passphrase
- About trusted primary servers
- Configure the audit retention period
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Configure backup anomaly detection settings
- View backup anomalies
- Disable backup anomaly detection and computation of entropy and file attributes for a client
- About system anomaly detection
- Configure system anomaly detection settings
- Configure rules-based anomaly detection
- Configure risk engine-based anomaly detection
- View system anomalies
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About server-directed restores
- About client-redirected restores
- About restoring the files that have Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- About setting the original atime for files during restores on UNIX
- Restoring the System State
- About the backup and restore of compressed files on VxFS file systems
- About backups and restores on ReFS
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
About NetBackup image .f files
The binary catalog contains one or more image .f files. This type of file is also referred to as a "files" file. The image .f file may be large because it contains the detailed backup selection list for each file backup. Generally, image files range in size from 1 kilobyte to 10 gigabytes.
Note:
You can use intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) to reduce the number of catalog .f files based on a specified retention period or file size.
See Enabling intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) to reduce the number of .f files.
ICA applies only to servers running NetBackup 10.4.0.1 and later using MSDP or MSDP Cloud storage.
The .f files are found in the following location:
Windows: install_path\NetBackup\db\images\clientname\ctime
UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/clientname/ctime/
The file layout determines whether the catalog contains one .f file or many .f files. NetBackup configures the file layout automatically, based on the size of the binary catalog. NetBackup uses one of two layouts: single file layout or multiple file layout.
Image .f file single file layout
NetBackup stores file information in a single image.f file if the information for the catalog is less than 100 megabytes.
When the backup file of one catalog backup is less than 100 megabytes, NetBackup stores the information in a single image.f file. The image.f file is always greater than or equal to 72 bytes, but less than 100 megabytes.
The following is a UNIX example of an .f file in a single file layout:
-rw------- 1 root other 979483 Aug 29 12:23 test_1030638194_FULL.f
Image .f file multiple file layout
When the file information for one catalog backup is greater than 100 megabytes, the information is stored in multiple .f files: one main image .f file plus nine additional .f files.
Separating the additional .f files from the image .f file and storing the files in the catstore directory improves performance while writing to the catalog.
The main image.f file is always exactly 72 bytes.
-rw- 1 root other 72 Aug 30 00:40 test_1030680524_INCR.f -rw- 1 root other 804 Aug 30 00:08 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f-list -rw- 1 root other 1489728 Aug 30 00:39 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgDir0 -rw- 1 root other 0 Aug 30 00:40 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgExtraObj0 -rw- 1 root other 1280176 Aug 30 00:39 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgFile0 -rw- 1 root other 192 Aug 30 00:40 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgHeader0 -rw- 1 root other 0 Aug 30 00:40 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgNDMP0 -rw- 1 root other 9112680 Aug 30 00:39 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgRecord0 -rw- 1 root other 2111864 Aug 30 00:39 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgStrings0 -rw- 1 root other 11 Aug 30 00:40 catstore/test_1030680524_INCR.f_imgUserGroupNames0