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
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option 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 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. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. 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 VIII. 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 IX. 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
Logging in to the NetBackup Administration Console
Use the NetBackup Administration Console to administer and monitor NetBackup operations.
To log in to the NetBackup Administration Console
- On a Windows host where the NetBackup Administration Console is installed, select Start > Programs > Veritas NetBackup > NetBackup 8.1.2 Administration Console.
On a UNIX computer, use the jnbSA command:
/usr/openv/java/jnbSA &
- The login screen for the NetBackup Administration Console displays a name in the Host name field.
The default host name is the last host that you successfully logged in to. The drop-down list contains the names of other hosts that you logged in to.
To log in to a different host, type the name of another host.
If the server you enter is a media server or client, the media server or client must have a security certificate installed.
- In the login screen, type your user name and password. To log in to a Windows server, enter both the domain of the server and the user name as follows:
domain_name\user_name
The domain_name specifies the domain of the NetBackup host. If the host is not a member of a domain, the domain_name is not required.
- To log in to the application server using Windows Active Directory credentials, enable Use Active Directory login credentials. By enabling the option, you can bypass the authentication that is required using the user name and enable Single Sign-on (SSO).
Users with administrative as well as non-administrative privileges can use SSO. The user with administrative privileges needs to right-click and select the Run as administrator option while launching the NetBackup Administration Console. Selecting this option enables the user to view the console with administrative privileges.
Note the following about SSO:
The SSO option is available only when both the NetBackup master server and the NetBackup client are Windows hosts.
After the first successful login using SSO, the Use Active Directory login credentials check box remains in the enabled state for the next login attempt on the same server for the same client.
The NetBackup Administration Console on a UNIX master server does not show the check box to use the Active Directory credentials.
UNIX hosts can log in to the application server using the user name-based authentication.
- Click Login to log in to the NetBackup application server program on the specified server. The interface program continues to communicate through the server that is specified in the logon screen for the remainder of the current session.
The NetBackup Administration Console is best viewed at a screen resolution of 1280 X 1024 or higher. The minimum supported screen resolution to use the console is 1024 X 768.
The NetBackup Administration Console does not support user-defined characters (UDC) and vendor-defined characters (VDC) because of the implementation of Java's encoding converters.
On non-English versions of Windows and UNIX systems, the NetBackup Administration Console may display non-US ASCII characters incorrectly. This issue can lead to functional failures.
This issue results from a character encoding mismatch between the NetBackup server and the NetBackup Administration Console. For a detailed description of the configuration, refer to the following article on the Veritas Support website:
To use the NetBackup Administration Console on a Windows computer, the Microsoft Windows UAC (User Access Control) feature must be disabled. See the following link for instructions:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off#1TC=windows-7
If there is more than one NetBackup server, the NetBackup Administration Console can be run on more than one server at one time. However, if more than one administrator makes changes to the configuration, the results are unpredictable.
Figure: Selection on the installation panel to install only the NetBackup Administration Console shows the selection to install only the NetBackup Administration Console.