Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section VIII. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- 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
When to inventory a robot
The following table describes the criteria to use to determine when to inventory a robot and which options to use for the inventory.
Table: Robot inventory criteria
Action | Inventory option to use |
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To determine the contents of a robot | Use the option to determine the media in a robot and possibly their barcode numbers. |
To determine if volumes were moved physically within a robot | For the robots with barcode readers and the robots that contain media with barcodes, use the option.See Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration. |
To add new volumes to a robot (a new volume is one that does not have a NetBackup media ID) | For any robot NetBackup supports, use the option.The update creates media IDs (based on barcodes or a prefix that you specify). See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To determine whether new media have barcodes before you add them to NetBackup |
Use the option, which compares the contents of the robot with the NetBackup volume configuration information.After you examine the results, use the option to update the volume configuration if necessary.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To insert existing volumes into a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) | If the robot supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new robotic location. NetBackup also updates the robot host, robot type, robot number, and slot location. Specify the volume group to which the volume is assigned.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robot does not support barcodes or the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. See About moving volumes. |
To move existing volumes between robotic and standalone (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) | If the robotic library supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new robotic or standalone location.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To move existing volumes within a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) | If the robot supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new slot location.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robot does not support barcodes or if the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. See About moving volumes. |
To move existing volumes from one robot to another (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) | If the robotic library supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the NetBackup volume configuration information.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robots do not support barcodes or the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. See About moving volumes. See About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility. For either operation, perform the following updates:
If you do not perform both updates, NetBackup cannot update the entries and writes an "Update failed" error. |
To remove existing volumes from a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) | For any robot NetBackup supports, use the option to update the NetBackup volume configuration information.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |