NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- How to install NetBackup
- About storage device configuration
- Installation operational notes and limitations
- SORT information
- Veritas NetInsights Console information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Installing NetBackup media server software on Linux
- About pushing client software from a primary server to clients
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX and Linux
- Configuring NetBackup
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- Reference
Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
Table: NetBackup requirements for UNIX and Linux describes the requirements to prepare your UNIX and Linux systems for NetBackup installation. Use this table as a checklist to address each item.
For the most up-to-date information about installation requirements, Veritas recommends use of the SORT website. More information about SORT is available.
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Table: NetBackup requirements for UNIX and Linux
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Operating System |
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Memory |
Use the information that is shown to correctly size your server:
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Disk space |
If space is an issue, you can install NetBackup on an alternate file system. The installation lets you select an alternate install location, and creates the appropriate link from /usr/openv. Note: The value for disk space is for initial installation only. The NetBackup catalog requires considerably more space once the primary server is placed in a production environment. | |
General requirements |
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Clustered systems |
More information about cluster requirements is available. | |
NFS compatibility | Veritas does not support installation of NetBackup in an NFS-mounted directory. File locking in NFS-mounted file systems can be unreliable. | |
Kernel reconfiguration | For some peripherals and platforms, kernel reconfiguration is required. For more details, see the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide. | |
Linux | Before NetBackup installation, confirm the files that are shown are present and installed if necessary. If any file is not present, install the one provided by your operating system.
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Red Hat Linux | For Red Hat Linux, NetBackup requires server networking. | |
Other backup software | Veritas recommends that you remove any other vendor backup software currently configured on your system before you install this product. Other vendor backup software can negatively affect how NetBackup installs and functions. | |
Web Services | Beginning with NetBackup 8.0, the NetBackup primary server includes a configured Tomcat web server to support critical backup operations. This web server operates under user account elements with limited privileges. These user account elements must be available on each primary server (or each node of a clustered primary server). You must create these required account elements before installation. More information is available: See NetBackup primary server web server user and group creation. Note: Veritas recommends that you save the details of the user account that you use for the NetBackup Web Services. A primary server recovery requires the same NetBackup Web Services user account and credentials that were used when the NetBackup catalog was backed up. Note: If the NetBackup PBX is running in secure mode, please add the web service user as authorized user in PBX. More information about determining PBX mode and how to correctly add users is available. By default, the UNIX installation script attempts to associate the web server with user account nbwebsvc and group account nbwebgrp. You can override these default values with the NetBackup installation answer file. You must populate the NetBackup installation answer file on the target host before you start the UNIX installation script. Populate the NetBackup installation answer file with custom web server account names as shown.
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