Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Features of NetBackup for SharePoint
- SharePoint Server backup operations
- About the contents of a SharePoint Server backup and a SharePoint Foundation backup
- SharePoint Server restore operations
- Limitations on SharePoint Server backups and restores
- NetBackup File System Daemon
- Installing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for SharePoint
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- SharePoint server software requirements
- Requirements for installing the SQL Server back-end servers in a cluster
- About the license for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Installing and configuring NFS for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Configurations that are supported for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About configuring NetBackup for SharePoint
- About a SharePoint non-granular backup vs. a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring SharePoint client host properties
- Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Performing a manual backup
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint backup policies
- About backup policies for granular backup and recovery of SharePoint Server
- About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
- About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server
- About VMware backup policies that protect SharePoint Server
- About configuring a backup policy for SharePoint
- Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About user-directed backups of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the General tab
- How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring the SharePoint Search Service Application
- About requirements for restores of individual SharePoint items using Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
- Recovering a SharePoint Web application in a farm with multiple front-end servers
- Restoring a deleted SharePoint list
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
- Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance
- Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path (SharePoint 2010)
- Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
- Disaster recovery
- Troubleshooting
- About NetBackup for SharePoint debug logging
- About NetBackup status reports
- Restores to different SharePoint service pack or different cumulative update levels
- Modified system files or ghost files are not cataloged or restored during a site collection restore
- Troubleshooting SharePoint jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- About troubleshooting SharePoint restore operations
- About NetBackup for SharePoint and client-side deduplication
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server
Adding clients to a policy
The clients list contains a list of the clients that are backed up during an automatic backup. A NetBackup client must be in at least one policy but can be in more than one.
The NetBackup client software must be installed on each of the following: the front-end web server, the SQL Server database host, and the Index Files or the Index database host. The client software does not need to be installed on the Search or the Job servers. If the SQL Server is clustered,
To add clients to a NetBackup for SharePoint policy
- Open the policy you want to edit or create a new policy.
To access the Policy dialog box, double-click the policy name in the Policies list in the NetBackup Administration Console.
- Click the Clients tab.
- Click New.
- Type the name of the client and select the hardware and operating system of the client.
Alternatively, you can also click the browse icon to browse for the clients available in the network
Only add the client that is the front-end web server and that runs the Central Administration Service to the policy list.
Note:
You must perform additional configuration if the SQL back-end servers are clustered and you installed NetBackup on more than one node in the cluster.
See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.
See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine .
- Select the Detect client operating system check box to automatically detect the client computer's operating system and hardware.
- Choose one of the following:
To add another client, click Add.
If this client is the last client you want to add, click OK.
- In the Policy dialog box, click OK.